The daughter she had been longing for for ten months turned out to be a son, so that none of the girl names Yan Jingwan had prepared in advance could be used. In the end, the name she used when registering her household registration was "Lang", which Qin Zheng had thought of in a flash of inspiration.
Lang means bright and it also implies a bright future. The two characters Qin Lang are easy to pronounce together and it is a very good name.
Yun Qiao took the camera at home and took pictures of little Qin Lang, who was only half a month old, in Hutong No. 9. He planned to develop the pictures and send them to Qin Lin so that he could also see what his grandson looked like.
Qin Lang's mother had a knack for absorbing nutrients in the womb, nurturing him to a plump, white, and chubby figure. He was nearly two taels tall when he was born, his body incredibly robust. After birth, he consumed both breast milk and formula, and he was a voracious eater, consuming 90 milliliters of milk in one sitting. In just two weeks, he'd already reached a double-digit weight.
You know, his little cousin He Yan, who was ten months older than him, only drank 30 to 60 milliliters of milk at a meal when she was half a month old, and weighed just over 9 kilograms when she was one month old.
As the child of Yan Jingwan and Qin Zheng, both his parents are handsome and beautiful. Qin Lang is naturally not ugly, but he eats too much and is fat.
The whole little face is chubby, and the cheeks are full of flesh, which squeezes the big eyes that were quite round when it was born into a slit. On top of that, the little boy has a strong temper and sweats a lot, and there is some vernix caseosa on his head, so the whole shape of the baby looks particularly... sloppy.
So every time Yan Jingwan saw him, she felt very complicated.
Of course, it’s not that she doesn’t love her own child, but... every time she sees him, she thinks of Yun Qiao’s fair, tender, cute, fragrant and soft daughter, and she feels a huge gap in her heart.
Looking at Yan Jingwan sighing, Qin Zheng tiptoed, afraid that he would accidentally make a sound and disturb Yan Jingwan, causing her to glance at him and dislike him for not living up to his expectations.
Qin Lang happened to cry twice, so he quickly picked up the child, walked out of the room, and coaxed the child back and forth in the living room.
Yun Qiao watched this scene with a smile in her eyes. She said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, don't worry. Look at how much my brother is doing with the child now. He is completely different from the clumsy look he showed a few days ago. When you two have a daughter in the future, he will already have the experience to take care of Xiao Lang. It seems that he will be even more adept at taking care of the child."
"That's true. This first child can be considered as a way to gain experience." Yan Jingwan also laughed and said, "If that's the case, having a son as the first child isn't bad either. He's tough."
Yun Qiao joked, "Don't let Xiao Lang know this. If he knew he was just an experience bar, he would be heartbroken."
Qin Zheng, who was in the living room, heard the noise and interjected, "This child is only half a month old now. His brain might not even be as big as a cat's. He doesn't know shit."
Although Qin Zheng's words were rough, his logic was sound.
A two-week-old baby eats and sleeps, sleeps and eats, and no one understands as much as a cat.
But Yan Jingwan still rolled her eyes at him without getting angry: "How can you talk like that? He's your son, and you're comparing him to a cat?"
Despite her dislike for him, Yan Jingwan still loved her son dearly. After all, he was the child she had painstakingly given birth to after a whole night of pain, a vaginal delivery followed by a cesarean section, and two painful experiences.
After being scolded by Yan Jingwan, Qin Zheng became obedient.
Yun Qiao raised the camera in his hand and said, "I've taken a picture of Xiaolang. I'll have two copies developed later, one to keep at home and one to send to Beijing. Do you and my brother want to take a family photo with Xiaolang in your arms?"
Qin Zheng: "Ah."
Yan Jingwan: "No."
The couple spoke almost at the same time.
Qin Zheng looked at Yan Jingwan and said, "Wife, why don't you take a picture? Let's take a family photo as a souvenir."
"But I look ugly now."
Yan Jingwan pointed at her face and said, "Dark circles, big eye bags, lack of energy and blood, my skin is dull and lifeless. It will look ugly in the photos. I don't want it."
Qin Zheng said: "Wife, you are not ugly, in my heart you are the most beautiful."
"Don't be so stingy." Yan Jingwan glared at him and said to Yun Qiao, "Let's take the family photo later. I need to take some rest first and get my body in better shape."
Yun Qiao knew Yan Jingwan loved to look beautiful. She was self-conscious about her appearance and didn't want her poor condition to be recorded by the camera, which was normal.
Yun Qiao nodded in understanding: "Well, then we can wait for a while before taking a family photo. After all, it's our own camera, so we can take it anytime."
After taking 56 days of maternity leave, Yan Jingwan returned to work.
Feng Juan also moved to the east wing of Qin Zheng's house with Yuanyuan so that she could help Yan Jingwan take care of the child.
Yun Qiao would send He Yan to Qin Zheng's house every morning before going to work and pick her up after get off work.
With Yuanyuan helping Feng Juan share the burden and look after the children together, it is not particularly hard for Feng Juan to take care of two children at the same time.
He Yan was also one year old and had started eating solid food. Yun Qiao officially stopped breastfeeding her and started feeding her half milk powder and half solid food, gradually increasing her intake until she could accept solid food as the main food and milk powder as the supplement.
In a blink of an eye, it was the end of 1972. Before New Year's Day of 1973, He Tingjun took a long vacation in advance. At the invitation of his child's grandmother, he took his wife and daughter to Spring City to celebrate the New Year.
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