Chapter 130: Studying Abroad

Xie Wantang stayed in the hospital for ten days before her body basically recovered.

The babies' lives were saved; the boy's indicators are all good—he can eat and sleep. The doctor said after another week of observation, he should be able to leave the incubator.

As for the girl, her indicators are not ideal; she eats little and is very sleepy. The doctor conservatively estimates she will need to stay at least another month.

The Qin family is not short of money; they directly paid one month's incubator fee for the girl.

Since the babies weren't by her side, Xie Wantang couldn't keep occupying the hospital bed, so she went to a postpartum center near the hospital to continue her confinement.

With the babies not beside her, she didn't need to breastfeed; when her breasts felt engorged, she used a breast pump to express milk herself.

Because Xie Ningmeng wanted her to properly observe the confinement, she wasn't given her phone, computer, or anything like that.

However, whenever the Qin family's three brothers and Xu Yanqiu came to keep her company, they would tell her outside news.

The salvage team searched the deep sea for twenty days; aside from Lu Chen's car wreckage, they found only some human tissue fragments, with no other news.

Since the human tissue fragments were few, the official verdict on Lu Chen's sea crash is currently missing.

Only if the human tissue fragments exceed a certain amount could the victim be judged dead.

In that perilous situation, Lu Chen was merely missing, not yet declared dead; Xu Yanqiu sincerely felt he had great luck.

This news should be good for Xie Wantang, right?

"Mm." Xie Wantang replied, "Besides Lu Chen's news, is there any other news?"

"Other? What do you want to know?"

"Can I borrow your phone for a moment?" Xie Wantang said.

"Oh."

Xie Wantang used Xu Yanqiu's phone to check the Sijiucheng official website and news about the Lu family in Sijiucheng.

She looked through it; there was no news.

Xie Wantang returned the phone to Xu Yanqiu.

Xu Yanqiu saw Xie Wantang's browsing history and said, "How come you're still following the Lu family's affairs? The Lu family's matter will probably become Sijiucheng's biggest case in recent years."

"Dear, you think the Lu family's business isn't over yet?" Xu Yanqiu raised an eyebrow.

Xie Wantang shook her head. "I don't know; I was just taking a casual look."

"Oh."

Xu Yanqiu didn't ask further.

At that moment, someone knocked on the door.

"Come in." Xie Wantang said.

The door opened; Professor Wu and Su Yang stood at the doorway, "Wantang, may we come in?"

"Sure, Professor Wu." Xie Wantang nodded.

She wasn't breastfeeding the babies.

Probably, after giving birth, she was the most idle mother.

"Okay."

Professor Wu entered with a cane, while Su Yang carried several nutrition gift boxes containing protein powder and various oral liquids for zinc and iron supplementation.

"Dear, Professor Wu, Mr. Su, I just remembered I have to finish an article today, so I'll leave first—you guys chat." Xu Yanqiu, being perceptive, got up to say goodbye.

"Take care." Xie Wantang didn't detain her.

"Mm."

After Xu Yanqiu left, Professor Wu's eyes reddened. "Wantang, I've made you suffer."

Xie Wantang shook her head. "No, Professor Wu, please don't say that."

"That Lu Chen jerk doesn't even know who he offended, dragging you and the babies into trouble."

"Professor Wu, the babies and I did escape disaster, but it's also my fault—I lacked psychological resilience and couldn't control my emotions back then; otherwise, it wouldn't have come to this."

After so many days, Xie Wantang's mood has improved greatly.

"How can you blame yourself, child? You're just too thoughtful and sensible." Professor Wu was thoroughly pleased with Xie Wantang. "Wantang, Grandfather now acknowledges you as his granddaughter-in-law."

Xie Wantang pursed her lips and smiled lightly. "Thank you, Professor Wu, but I never got a marriage certificate with Lu Chen. Still, when the babies grow up, they'll surely know you are their great-grandfather."

"Mm, good."

Professor Wu also gladly accepted; although he and Lu Chen had no blood relation, he still regarded Lu Chen as his own maternal grandson.

Whether or not there is blood relation, it's fundamentally not that important.

So Lu Chen and Xie Wantang's children should call him great-grandfather.

Last time he fainted in the hospital, it took him several days to recover; the Qin family's mindset is broad—even Qin San later came to him and apologized.

"I just went to see those two little ones; the boy can already open his eyes, the girl hasn't yet, but they're both adorable—just like Lu Chen when he was little."

"Right?"

Xie Wantang had never seen Lu Chen's childhood photos, but that boy really does resemble what Professor Wu said—his eyebrows and eyes are indeed very like Lu Chen's.

Professor Wu and Su Yang didn't stay long before they had to leave.

Before leaving, Xie Wantang entrusted the naming rights of the two children to Professor Wu: "Professor Wu, the babies both bear the surname Xie, but could you help pick a name for them?"

Additionally, Xie Wantang gave the naming rights for the girl to Qin Siyuan.

"Sure, thank you, Wantang." Professor Wu was moved and excited.

"I should be thanking you." Xie Wantang smiled.

Xie Wantang was eating the postpartum center's confinement meals; although she wasn't nursing, her body still needed recovery.

Xie Ningmeng brought the videos she had taken of the two babies at the hospital to the confinement center for Xie Wantang to watch.

During Xie Wantang's hospital stay, Xie Ningmeng reduced her work; usually she would register for appointments in the morning and not accept any in the afternoon.

In the afternoons, she would come over to keep Xie Wantang company.

Soon, the forty-day confinement period was over.

Lu Chen still had no news; the baby boy's indicators passed, he was allowed to be discharged; the name on his birth certificate was Xie Mingzhou, nickname Xiao Chengzi, because at birth he was wrinkled and tiny.

The dragon-phoenix twins' female baby, Qin Siyuan named her Xie Qingqian, nickname Qianqian.

Qianqian was only allowed to be discharged when Xiao Chengzi reached 100 days old, after all indicators passed.

The dragon-phoenix twins were born on the same day, but Xiao Chengzi could eat and sleep, grew quickly, and gradually became like a normal baby.

But Qianqian was different; because she ate little, after discharge she stayed at home sleeping all day, had little excretion, and grew very slowly.

The two children, Xiao Chengzi is one size larger than Qianqian.

Xie Ningmeng was very conscientious; the postpartum nurse she arranged was carefully selected, very professional.

The two babies never drank Xie Wantang's breast milk even for a day; on the day she finished her confinement, she directly weaned; the formula the Qin Family bought was the same as the hospital's.

They stocked up on half a year's worth of formula at once.

When Xiao Chengzi was six months old, Qianqian looked like she was still under three months.

That day, Xie Wantang again proactively proposed to hold a family meeting.

The theme of this family meeting was that she wanted to go abroad for further study.

Qin Lao San first objected: "Tang Bao, the kids are still so young, they already don't have a father, how can you bear to let them not have a mother?"

"What nonsense are you talking? Lao San, Tang Bao is going to further study, not never coming back; she'll return to see the kids when she has time." Qin Lao Er corrected Qin Lao San's wording.

"I know that, but the two little cuties are still too young."

"They have three uncles, what are you afraid of?" Qin Muyang spoke up.

In other words, except for Qin Lao San, the whole family supported every decision Xie Wantang made.