“Since we’re going on a spring outing tomorrow, you should go back to your room and get some sleep tonight,” Chen Shichao instructed Chen Bing, adopting a fatherly tone.
"I haven't packed my things for tomorrow yet," Chen Bing said lazily, nuzzling his face against Liu Yue's shoulder. Liu Yue was delighted by this rare display of affection from her son, smiling as she touched his chin.
The only unhappy person among the three was Chen Shichao. He frowned repeatedly, and while imitating Chen Bing, he rubbed his face against Liu Yue's shoulder, and also put his arm around the shoulder of his wife, who was being used as a pillow by Chen Bing.
Chen Bing, who was resting comfortably with his head on the pillow, was shooed away by Old Chen's rough hands. He straightened up and turned his head to look at the other person with dissatisfaction.
"Then hurry up and pack. Do you need a fishing rod? I have a telescopic one in my study." Chen Shichao pressed his advantage, waving at Chen Bing and urging him to leave. His hostile gaze seemed to say, "This is my wife, you're not allowed to touch her."
How awful! What's yours is yours, but isn't she still my mom? What's wrong with leaning on her for a bit? You're such a cheapskate.
After glaring fiercely at the childish Chen Shichao, Chen Bing turned and left to pack her things for tomorrow.
On the way, he thought to himself that if his first child with Xiao Shang was a girl, he wouldn't have any more. Otherwise, if he had a boy, he was afraid that she would try to steal his wife away.
Daughters are the best; they are little angels and their fathers' sweet little angels.
Or you could have two children, a boy and a girl, so the older brother can have a little sister to play with, and he won't compete with him for the small business.
While packing, Chen Bing thought about these things, and her thoughts drifted a little far away, to the point that she wondered how many children she should have, whether they should be boys or girls, what to name a boy, and what to name a girl.
During this time, he suddenly had a very good idea. In order to prevent himself from forgetting this good idea, Chen Bing put down his work, edited the idea into a message and sent it to Shang Yunmiao.
At that moment, Shang Yunmiao, who was chopping vegetables and looking for a lunchbox in the kitchen, preparing for tomorrow morning, heard her phone ringing.
Generally speaking, Shang Yunmiao's phone is on silent or do-not-disturb mode, so any ringtones are sent to her by people who have specifically set them to ring.
Dad, Mom, Chen Bing...
When Shang Yunmiao picked up her phone, she knew it was Chen Bing who had sent her a message.
What could it be?
Curious, Xiao Shang opened her phone to take a look and saw a rather long message lying there abruptly in the chat interface, which used a photo of herself and Chen Bing as the chat background.
Chen Bing: If the first child is a girl, we won't have any more. We'll name her Chen Qingyin. If the first child is a boy, we'll name her Chen Youze. If the second child is a girl, we'll name her Shang Qingyin. If the second child is also a boy, we'll have another one to see if it's a boy or a girl. If it's a girl, we won't have any more. If it's a boy, we'll have one last child. We haven't decided on names for the second and third children yet. We'll have to discuss how many children to have with Shang Yunmiao. We can't decide on our own.
Upon reading these inexplicable words, Shang Yunmiao's face flushed red.
What is all this about? Is Chen Bing hinting at something to me?
After hesitating for a while, Shang Yunmiao finally replied with a simple "I understand," and then continued her work with a rosy complexion and a preoccupied expression.
When she replied to the message, Chen Bing's phone wasn't nearby, so he didn't notice Xiao Shang's reply to his "memo".
After preparing her things for tomorrow's picnic, the carefree Chen Bing washed up and went to bed. Meanwhile, the sensitive Shang Yunmiao lay in bed, thinking about the message Chen Bing had sent her, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep for a long time.
The next morning, when Mr. Chen, who was in high spirits, saw Shang Yunmiao looking tired at his neighbor's door, he felt a strange sensation.
"What's wrong? Didn't you sleep well last night?" As soon as she said this, Chen Bing figured out the "reason" herself.
Yes, Xiao Shang got up at some point to prepare her own lunchbox, no wonder she was sleepy.
Thinking of this, Chen Bing couldn't help but feel moved and went straight up to hug Shang Yunmiao.
"Thank you to my lovely and virtuous classmate, Xiao Shang, for getting up early to make me a bento box."
Shang Yunmiao, who had been overthinking things because of Chen Bing's news last night, was naturally flustered when Chen Bing suddenly hugged her, thinking that the other party was going to take her to prepare for having a baby. When she heard that the other party was just thanking her for making the bento, the girl was relieved a little.
"No, it's okay..." Before she could say "it's okay," Shang Yunmiao suddenly realized that preparing a lunchbox for Chen Bing was a surprise, so she quickly stopped talking and said that it was nothing.
Chen Bing grinned, looking like she understood.
Taking the girl's hand, Chen Bing led her onto the electric scooter, and then sped off towards the school.
At 6:20 a.m., right on time for their commute, Chen Bing and Shang Yunmiao entered the classroom. They found the classroom empty except for a few friendsless and withdrawn students. Everyone was chatting away in their seats, clearly looking forward to the upcoming spring outing.
A few minutes after Chen Bing sat down with Shang Yunmiao, she heard a teacher's voice coming over the loudspeaker, telling everyone to gather in the open space in front of the teaching building to prepare for a spring outing.
Everyone was excited, and the boys even grabbed their bags and rushed out of the classroom with shouts of excitement.
Chen Bing knew that it would take at least ten or twenty minutes to get someone in line like this, with thousands of people lining up. The sooner they went down, the sooner they'd be exposed to the cold, so she chatted with Shang Yunmiao for a while before picking up their bags and leaving the classroom downstairs.
As Chen Bing left the teaching building, looking at the densely packed queues in front of her, she nodded slightly in her heart, thinking that it seemed that because of the influence of her rebirth in this life, the epidemic had not accurately struck these past few days.
It was my first time participating in a school-organized spring outing, and it would be a lie to say I wasn't excited.
After all, they were only seventeen or eighteen years old, and their desire to explore the world was quite strong. Fueled by this excitement, the usual aloof atmosphere surrounding Chen Bing lessened considerably.
During the conversation with Shang Yunmiao, several students from other classes approached him and started talking to him. Chen Bing responded to them enthusiastically and chatted with them about the spring outing.
No need to think about studying, just looking forward to going out and having fun with classmates today so I can go home for the holidays. In this relaxed and happy atmosphere, time flew by, and soon it was time to leave.
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