Chapter 352: Secret Recipe for Having a Child (Page 1/2)
Ever since Tang Lihong told Wen Wan that Qiao Sijie didn't look like her and might not be her and Qiao Yan's child, she has been absent-minded since she got home from shopping.
Qiao Sitian looked at the pile of things her mother bought on the table and was very excited. "Mom, you can give the pillowcases to Song Jingjing, and leave the wool to me. I will knit a sweater for our Xingyu."
Wen Wan came to her senses and looked at Qiao Sitian, then at the child in her arms, and sure enough, she couldn't find any familiar figure.
Qiao Sitian doesn't look like her, nor like Qiao Yan, and even less like the elders on both sides. It is possible that she is not really her and Qiao Yan's child.
What should she do? What if they raise the wrong person's child? But she has raised the child for so many years and has developed feelings for him. How can she give up?
What's more, Sitian has already married into the Wang family, and a marriage between the two families is beneficial to the development of the family.
In the future, Wang Xingyu will take his father's position and be able to help her two sons.
She also wants to get that child back. Even though she didn't raise her for a single day, that was her first child that she gave birth to after a day and a night of hard work. She will compensate her well.
"Mom, what are you thinking about? Can you give me all these things?"
Wen Wan shook her head. "These two pounds of yarn and a pair of pillowcases are to help you repay the favor. Those candies, cookies, and fabrics are for you and the child."
Tiantian, you should go back early today and come back tomorrow. Tongtong is still at home and needs your care. "
"Mom, why don't you let me sleep at home today?"
"You still have to feed Tongtong when you go back, so bring Tongtong over some other day."
"Mom, Tongtong is one year old and ready to be weaned. My father-in-law and grandfather want me to give birth to two more sons for Xingyu.
I came back to ask my second aunt if she had any secret recipe for having children. Didn’t she give birth to four sons? Mom, did you also ask your second aunt for the secret recipe when you gave birth to your two younger brothers?
"Where's the secret recipe for having a baby? Who's talking nonsense? Having a son or a daughter is all luck."
"Is there really no secret recipe for having children? Isn't my second aunt's family a family of traditional Chinese medicine? If she didn't have a secret recipe, how could she have given birth to so many sons?
Mom, please ask my second aunt to give me a secret recipe for having a child."
Qiao Sitian didn't believe that her second aunt didn't have the secret recipe for having a child, because she was the only one among the three daughters-in-law of the Qiao family who hadn't given birth to a daughter.
Second aunt Fang Jie's great-grandfather was an imperial physician. Their Fang family must have secret imperial medicines and secret recipes for having children, but they just haven't shared them.
Wen Wan stood up and said, "Your second aunt should be taking care of her grandson right now. Let's go to the east courtyard and take a look."
The Qiao family's house has three courtyards, with two large suites in the main courtyard and two side rooms on each side.
Qiao Hongbin, his old wife, eldest son Qiao Liang, and eldest daughter-in-law Zhuang Jie lived in a large suite on the first floor. Qiao Liang's two sons each had two side rooms.
The three east wing rooms and the two empty back rooms in the front yard were divided among the family of Qiao Yun, the second son, while the third son Qiao Yan only got the three west wing rooms.
Before she got married, Qiao Sitian had her own room and her two younger brothers shared one room. After she got married, her room was given to her younger brother Qiao Siyu.
As long as she goes back to her parents' home, her younger brother Qiao Siyu will have to move back and sleep with his second brother Qiao Siyuan.
Although she is not her grandfather's only granddaughter, she is her parents' only daughter and the apple of their eye.
Qiao Sitian took her eldest daughter and followed Wen Wan to the second uncle's yard. Seeing the second aunt feeding her grandson rice porridge, she smiled and said, "Second aunt, why are you feeding Lele rice porridge? Isn't he only eight months old?"
Fang Jie said, "Tiantian, you're back. Your sister-in-law doesn't have much milk, so she needs some rice porridge."
"Oh, I see. I remember my second sister-in-law had plenty of milk when she gave birth to two children."
Fang Jie smiled and said, "Yes, your second sister-in-law has plenty of milk. Both of her children drank milk until they were one and a half years old."
The Qiao family's grandchildren are ranked separately for both genders. Qiao Liang and Wei Qiuyue's eldest daughter, Qiao Shuhua, is the eldest granddaughter, and their eldest son, Qiao Rui, is the eldest grandson of the Qiao family. Their second daughter, Qiao Yin, is the second young lady of the Qiao family, and their youngest son, Qiao Wei, is fourth.
Fang Jie and Qiao Yun have four sons. The eldest son, Qiao Yuanyi, is the second grandchild in the Qiao family. The second son, Qiao Junfeng, is the third. The third son, Qiao Haolin, was born in the same year as Qiao Sitian and is the fifth. The fourth son, Qiao Yuanhui, is the seventh.
Qiao Yan and Wen Wan's two sons, Qiao Siyuan and Qiao Siyu, are ranked sixth and eighth respectively. Although Qiao Sitian is the eldest daughter of the third wife, she is only ranked third in the Qiao family.
Wen Wan said, "Second sister-in-law, you have given birth to four sons. Yuan Yi and Hao Lin also gave birth to sons. Do you have any secret recipe for having children?"
Fang Jie was puzzled: "Sister-in-law, why do you say that?"
Wen Wan smiled awkwardly, "My Si Tian has given birth to two daughters, and Tong Tong is also one year old. The Wang family wants Tian Tian to have two more sons..."
Fang Jie finally figured it out. It turned out her third sister-in-law had come to ask for the secret recipe for fertility for her daughter. What a joke! A secret recipe for fertility? If the Fang family had it, they would have handed it over to the state long ago.
So, Fang Jie said to Wen Wan helplessly, "Sister-in-law, I really don't have this. If I did, I would have given it to Tiantian a long time ago.
Besides, our Yuanyi had a son as the first child and a daughter as the second; Haolin had a daughter as the first child and a son as the second, so they both have one son and one daughter."
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Hearing this, Qiao Sitian asked curiously, "Then how did Second Aunt give birth to four sons in one go?"
Fang Jie's face flushed red upon hearing this. She whispered, "That's because your second uncle is so capable. Tiantian, if you want to have a son, ask Xingyu to get some tonic. A man with good kidneys will have an easier time having a son with his wife."
Although Fang Jie did not have a secret recipe for having a child, she did know some tips on how to have a child. After all, her great-grandfather was once an imperial physician.
However, Qiao Sitian was a little discouraged, "Second Aunt, do you really not have a secret recipe for having a child?"
Fang Jie shook her head firmly, "No. If I had, I would have given it to you a long time ago. Listen to my advice and buy some kidney-tonifying medicine for your Xingyu."
Qiao Sitian said: "My Xingyu is quite powerful. He torments me three or four times in one night."
Seeing that Qiao Sitian wasn't embarrassed at all, Fang Jie smiled and said, "Your man is so amazing, he does it three or four times a night. How long does each time last?"
"Should it be about ten minutes?"
Fang Jie smiled awkwardly. Her man was fifty years old and still better than Qiao Sitian's man. Wang Xingyu was only twenty-four years old, and with this level, he really had no nerve to show off.
"Tiantian, you should go back and nourish your Xingyu's kidneys!"
When Wen Wan heard her second sister-in-law say this about her daughter, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
"Tiantian, let's not talk about this anymore. If you want to have a son, I'll take you to see a doctor."
Qiao Sitian thought that her second aunt must have a secret recipe for having a child, but she just didn't want to help her.
Forget it, if she doesn’t want to help, then she won’t help. She and her mother went to the countryside to see an old Chinese doctor.
Qiao Sitian did not ask her second aunt Fang Jie for the secret recipe for having a child. In the end, she asked her mother Wen Wan for three pieces of cloth, two kilograms of candies and biscuits, and fifty yuan in pocket money, and happily went home with her daughter.
When Qiao Yan got home from get off work, he asked as soon as he entered the house, "Wife, where is Tiantian?"
"Home."
"Oh, what is she doing here today?"
"The Wang family asked her to prepare for her third child, so she came back to ask her second sister-in-law for the secret recipe for having a child."
Qiao Yan sighed, "I told Tiantian to marry anyone she wanted in the agency, but she insisted on marrying the Wang family. Now she's being forced to have a son, right?"
"That's because Qiao Shuhua and Qiao Yin married into high-ranking officials' families. She would definitely not want to marry someone lower down."
"You know that there are many rules in the homes of high-ranking officials. It's hard to get a foothold without a son."
Wen Wan naturally understood this truth. She felt it when she gave birth to her first child. Fortunately, she gave birth to two more sons later.
It’s because my second sister-in-law has many sons that my father-in-law gave her family two more rooms on the back side.
Wen Wan suddenly remembered Tang Lihong's words, so she said to Qiao Yan, "Brother Yan, Lihua told me something today, and I'm a little nervous now."
"What's making you nervous?"
"Lihong said Tian doesn't look like me or you, and that she might not be our biological daughter. She asked me if I took the wrong baby in the delivery room."
Qiao Yan's eyes trembled. "What did you say? You said Tiantian is not our daughter. Why does she say that? There are many children who don't look like their parents."
"She said that Lieutenant General Huo's eldest granddaughter-in-law looks very similar to us and is about the same age as my daughter."
Qiao Yan stood there motionless, seemingly stunned by the news.
He remembered that when his daughter-in-law was pregnant, his mother-in-law sent her sister's little daughter to help because she had to take care of her.
That year, Li Zhen and his wife entered the delivery room together, while he waited anxiously at the door of the delivery room.
Could it be that Li Zhen secretly switched their daughters back then? Thinking of this, Qiao Yan couldn't help but feel a chill.
"Brother Yan, what should we do if Tiantian really isn't our daughter? We used to joke that Tiantian didn't look much like us, but we didn't take it too seriously.
But now Lihua says there's someone who looks just like us, and since Li Zhen hates us so much, it's very possible she really did swap our children," Wen Wan said worriedly.
Qiao Yan felt a splitting headache, his heart in turmoil. What if Qiao Sitian really wasn't their daughter?
Should they go and look for their biological daughter? But if so, what will happen to Tiantian?
After all, they had raised her for more than 20 years and had a deep relationship with her. Moreover, Qiao Sitian had just given birth to two daughters for Wang Xingyu, which made Minister Wang dissatisfied.
If the Wang family knew that she was not the real Miss Qiao, she would probably find it difficult to gain a foothold in the Wang family.
However, Qiao Yan knew that he had to find his biological daughter. How could he easily give up the blood relationship?
No matter what, he had to find a way to solve this difficult problem and find a proper solution.
"After the wedding tomorrow, go find Li Zhen and ask her if she stole the baby back then. Lieutenant General Huo's eldest grandson's wife, if she doesn't come to pick her up tomorrow, I'll go and see Song Jingjing off."
Qiao Yan decided to go to the Huo family tomorrow to see if the girl really looked like them.
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