Chapter 716: People Make a Home

"Little Young Master, what did you call me?" Xiao Ya's tears fell with a 'splash'.

"Grandma."

"Grandma, Baobao is called Zichen."

"Baobao, my Baobao."

A glow appeared on Xiao Ya's face, and she suddenly wasn't uneasy anymore.

She pulled Zichen into her arms and kissed his forehead: "Baobao, my Baobao, you've finally come back..."

Shi Youxuan's heart was already in her throat; had the thing she worried about most finally happened?

She was afraid Xiao Ya would have an episode and mistake Zichen for her own child.

Just as Shi Youxuan was about to stand up to stop her, her husband pulled her down, telling her to wait and see.

So she sat back down.

"Grandma, this is my first time here, why did you say I came back?"

"Shouldn't it be that you came back? When I was little, I asked Mommy why everyone else had a grandma but I didn't, and Mommy said my grandma went to a very far place... So, have you come back?"

Xiao Ya was slightly stunned, then nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, it is I who have come back."

"Grandma went to a very far place, walked for so, so many years, walked for so long that I couldn't find the way home, it was Baobao, Zichen who helped Grandma find home."

Sheng Zichen didn't quite understand the meaning behind Grandma's words, but that didn't matter.

What mattered was that Grandma kept putting delicious food into his bowl; he was so happy!

"Grandma, eat."

At home, only the elders eat first, and the younger generation can pick up their chopsticks.

"Baobao, eat."

"Grandma, eat first."

"Good boy, Grandma won't eat, Grandma will watch Baobao eat, you eat."

"Grandma, eat."

The little guy was almost about to cry.

Shi Youxuan: "Godmother, if you don't eat, he can't eat."

Reminded, Xiao Ya finally remembered the rules of the Sheng Family.

She was very moved.

It turned out that acknowledging her as "Godmother" wasn't just empty talk; she was truly being respected as an elder.

During the meal, everyone ate in a harmonious atmosphere.

Xiao Ya relaxed a lot; she wasn't just good to Sheng Zichen, she was also exceptionally attentive to Shi Youxuan.

She had a feeling.

A feeling that Shi Youxuan was her daughter, that her daughter had been lost for many years and had come back after growing up!

After the meal, Shi Youxuan wanted to wash the dishes, but she refused no matter what.

"No need for you, you go back and rest, I'm used to doing this kind of thing, I'll just do it myself."

Shi Youxuan couldn't help, but she didn't go back either, staying in the kitchen to talk with Xiao Ya.

"Godmother, where do you sleep at night?"

Actually, this was a question Shi Youxuan had wanted to ask the whole time they were eating.

The big room had been given to them.

The small room was used as a dining room and didn't even have a bed; where would she rest at night?

Xiao Ya smiled: "I sleep here."

"Here?"

Shi Youxuan turned around in place.

The kitchen was so small that it was difficult for two people to even stand; how could she live here?

Xiao Ya pointed behind the door: "There's a bed there, at night I just take it out, open it up, and spread the bedding on it."

The kitchen door was that kind of old-fashioned wooden door, and there really was a small folding cot behind it.

It was made of two pieces of canvas supported by a few aluminum alloy frames; this kind of bed was fine for lying on for a while, but sleeping on it for a whole night would likely make one's back ache terribly.

And they were going to stay here for at least half a month, which meant Xiao Ya would have to sleep on this makeshift bed for half a month.

"No, you can't sleep on this."

As she said this, she went out and, together with her husband, carried the small bed back into the small room.

"No need, you won't fit..." Xiao Ya had worked for the Sheng Family, so she knew the Sheng Family's scale.

Any random master's bedroom was bigger than her entire house.

Letting their family of three squeeze into one room was already a grievance; how could they squeeze onto one bed?

Even ordinary families didn't do things like this.

But she was only one person and couldn't be more stubborn than the two of them.

As for how the adults were struggling, the child didn't care.

Sheng Zichen was very happy, jumping and bouncing on the big bed to his heart's content—"Bang!"

The bed collapsed.

"You destructive child, Grandma's house only has this one decent bed, and you broke it by jumping on it, what are we going to do?" Shi Youxuan was furious.

She was already exhausted, and this child just had to cause trouble.

Sheng Zichen was also straightforward: "Change it."

Shi Youxuan:...

Sheng Hanyu: "Hahahaha, my son is right, just replace it, why are you glaring?"

She was speechless once again.

What happened to the strict father?

If they were at home, replacing a bed would certainly be no problem.

But they came here to act as a "low-income household."

They had already been eye-catching enough by buying so many groceries with such extravagance during the day; replacing the furniture too?

Their cover would be blown way too fast.

Sheng Hanyu told his wife not to worry; he had someone send over a wooden board to lay on top of it.

Even if the child didn't break this big bed by jumping on it, it couldn't fit three people anyway.

The wooden board was delivered quickly.

The four corners had been rounded off to avoid bumping into anyone.

Nighttime.

Before going to sleep, washing up was also a problem.

The tiny bathroom didn't even have a water heater; to take a shower, one had to boil a bucket of hot water in the kitchen and carry it to the bathroom to take turns washing up.

After the three of them washed up and lay on the bed, the little one fell asleep quickly.

Shi Youxuan tossed and turned, unable to sleep, and Sheng Hanyu was much the same.

The wooden board was too hard and felt uncomfortable.

It couldn't compare to the memory foam mattress at home at all.

"Knock, knock, knock."

Xiao Ya said softly: "Are you asleep?"

"No."

Shi Youxuan opened the door, and the first things that caught her eyes were two new quilts.

Xiao Ya smiled shyly: "You must not be used to sleeping on a hard board bed. We don't have enough quilts at home, so I went out and borrowed two; if you spread them on the bed, it will be softer."

She was lying; they were clearly brand new.

The tags hadn't even been torn off.

"Thank you, Godmother."

Shi Youxuan took the quilts; she was very moved, but some things didn't need to be said out loud, just kept in her heart.

Sheng Hanyu picked up the child, and she spread the quilts out layer by layer.

After putting the child back into the quilt, the two of them crawled in; whether it was due to the moving gesture or not, they felt very comfortable.

Plus, they were truly exhausted from the day's tossing and turning, so the two of them quickly drifted off to sleep.

"Bang!"

Shi Youxuan had just fallen asleep when she was kicked.

"Ouch!"

She was almost kicked onto the floor.

The little one didn't sleep still and had turned sideways.

"Stinky son, this is for the three of us, it's shared, not just for you!" Shi Youxuan gave the son's bottom two light but firm pats.

It didn't do any good; the little one didn't even wake up!

Sheng Hanyu: "Don't bother the child, let's just turn sideways too."

Might as well go with the flow.

The two of them also turned sideways; they had thought the problem was solved, but the facts proved they were too naive!

"Bang!"

This time it was Sheng Hanyu who got kicked, and he was kicked straight off the bed.

To leave more room for the mother and child, he had been sleeping right against the edge of the bed.

The little one's kick was very accurate, landing right on the soft flesh of his waist.

The two of them didn't sleep well during the first half of the night.

Just as they were drifting off in the second half of the night, the sound of car horns and quiet talking came from outside.

It was very noisy.

And the light from a flashlight shone in through the curtains.

"Is someone peeping?"

Sheng Hanyu was very angry; to shine a flashlight into someone's home in the middle of the night, they were too bold.

But he pulled back the curtain to look outside—only then did he realize he had misunderstood.

There were people outside using flashlights, but it wasn't to peep.

It was because the vendors at the open-air market downstairs had already started their day's work; there were no streetlights downstairs, so they used flashlights to light the way.

He pulled the curtain shut and said to his wife: "Don't worry, it's just the people at the market setting up their stalls."

"Oh, let's sleep then." Since it wasn't directed at them, she felt relieved.

Although she was relieved, she still couldn't sleep.

As more and more people arrived at the market, the noise grew louder and louder.