Chapter 931: The Great Battle for the Children 2

"I am your father, not your uncle. When you were born, your mother and I didn't have time to take care of you, so we put you in Uncle Gu's home to be raised. Now that your mother and I have time, we've come to take you back..."

Such a complicated matter was something a child not yet two years old could not understand.

Yulong closed his eyes and wailed loudly: "Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah..."

"Daddy, I want Daddy."

"Grandpa, Grandpa..."

His voice was loud and resonant; his crying carried very, very far through the silent night.

Nianyin's head ached from the noise.

She had even less patience than Lao Qi; she glared at the child and commanded: "Stop crying, shut up!"

"Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah..."

The threat was useless; Yulong cried even more fiercely.

One child crying was already enough to leave the two of them frazzled, and just then, Meiyin woke up too!

"Wuu wuu wuu..."

The little girl's crying was quieter, but its lethality was no less.

The little girl's voice was soft and mournful, striking straight into the depths of the soul.

The boy's voice was resonant and had strong penetrating power, deafening and jarring.

The two of them were about to go crazy. Threats didn't work, so Nianyin uncharacteristically softened her approach, coaxing him with gentle words: "Yulong, be good. If you stop crying, Mommy will buy you toys tomorrow, okay? Whatever you want, I'll buy it!"

"I want Daddy, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah..."

"Ying ying ying, wuu wuu wuu..."

The two of them felt their heads buzzing.

Nianyin glared at Meiyin: "Why are you joining in the fun? He wants his daddy, do you want a daddy too?"

Meiyin had been without a father since she was small and had no concept of one.

"I want Mommy, a mommy who can play with me and hold me while I sleep."

The two of them looked at each other, feeling angry, annoyed, and helpless.

Although Meiyin had grown up in the Ji Family, Nianyin had never personally taken care of her for a single day, so calling Nianyin 'Mother' was just a title and not affectionate.

But it was different when she was with Shi Yuke.

After all, they were mother and daughter by blood, and there was a natural sense of closeness.

Shi Yuke also had the temperament of a child, and the two of them soon became inseparable.

Although Yulong was the biological son of Nianyin and Lao Qi, his foster father had taken excellent care of him, and during the time Nianyin and Lao Qi lived in the Shi Family, this care had not changed in the slightest.

Children are just that simple and pure; if you are good to me, I will be good to you.

Whoever takes care of me is my daddy!

They had tried both hard and soft tactics, but neither worked!

Just as the two of them were at their wit's end, a series of urgent knocks came from the front door.

Gu Zhihao shouted from outside: "Please, let me in. I don't want the children; I'll just coax them so they stop crying, is that alright?"

Lao Qi opened the door and let him in.

Seeing Gu Zhihao, Yulong immediately threw himself into his arms, his little head pressed tightly against his shoulder, motionless, and his crying stopped instantly.

Gu Zhihao, however, began to cry.

The grown man cried miserably, holding his son tightly: "Baby, Daddy is useless and let you suffer. Sleep well, Daddy is here with you. Even if they put a knife to my throat, they can't separate us."

"Mm."

Yulong fell asleep, his long eyelashes drooping, tears still on his chubby cheeks.

"Where is Mommy?" Meiyin asked, feeling aggrieved.

This infuriated Nianyin, who glared fiercely at her daughter: "Mother is right here."

"I don't want Mother, I want Mommy."

Nianyin:...

Gu Zhihao put Yulong down, carefully tucked the quilt around his son, and smoothed the corners.

Then he picked up his daughter and took a palm-sized rabbit doll out of his pocket, waving it in front of her: "Mommy is timid and afraid to go out at night, so she asked me to bring this doll to you. Mommy said that if you hold the doll while you sleep, it's the same as being by her side."

"Okay."

The little girl smiled sweetly, took the doll, crawled into the quilt, and soon fell asleep.

"Come out."

The three adults turned off the lights, gently closed the door, and left the room. Lao Qi and Nianyin both looked grim!

Lao Qi: "Why did you come?"

Gu Zhihao gave a sheepish smile and rubbed his hands nervously: "Well, um, I was worried Yulong would make a fuss at night, so I came to check."

In truth, he had been standing outside for a long time; if the child hadn't cried incessantly, he wouldn't have come in.

Lao Qi and Nianyin's expressions were already very ugly.

"Get out."

"Scram!"

It was a classic case of discarding the donkey once it had finished turning the mill. Gu Zhihao thanked them repeatedly for letting him in to coax the children, but he was still chased out the door.

Once the person was chased away, the two little ancestors upstairs were also asleep.

The two of them, exhausted from the day, had no desire to sleep.

Nianyin: "This won't do. We have to move. We can't let him find us again, otherwise, every time the children cry, he'll show up, and next time it will be even worse." She was very alert, and her analysis was completely correct.

But Lao Qi felt she had missed one extremely important point: "Moving is easy, but the key is, what do we do if the children cry again?"

Nianyin: "Lock them in the dark room."

Lao Qi:...

Locking them in the dark room was absolutely out of the question, and neither of them was good at coaxing children.

There were no suitable nannies available for the time being, so after much thought, the two decided—let's move back to the Sheng Family!

They would shamelessly sponge off them for a while; the Sheng Family had many children, and every one of them was outstanding.

With people there to help look after the two, Nianyin prepared to take the opportunity to learn how to take care of children from Sheng Old Madam, and how to deal with... educate children from Shi Youxuan!

It was dawn.

"Where is Daddy?"

Yulong rubbed his sleepy eyes, sat up, and looked left and right to see no one; his mouth turned down, and he was about to cry again!

"How about we go back to the Sheng Family to find the older brothers and sisters?" Lao Qi said hurriedly.

"Okay."

Yulong's mouth turned up, and he agreed happily.

He breathed a sigh of relief; fortunately, he hadn't cried out loud, otherwise if one cried, the other would cry too, and that would be another "disaster" scene.

Meiyin also woke up, and once awake, she wanted her mother.

She didn't care at all about the feelings of her mother, who was clumsily helping her get dressed!

Nianyin grumbled inwardly: "You heartless little thing, for your sake I was even struck from the family register by my mother, yet you only think of your mother, you little white-eyed wolf, an ungrateful little white-eyed wolf that can't be tamed."

She could think this way in her heart, but she couldn't say it out loud.

The little thing wasn't big, but she was very sensitive; if one word was said wrong, she would cry, and once she started crying, she wasn't easily coaxed.

She forced a smile: "Good baby, let's not look for Mommy for now, let's go to the Sheng Family to play with the older brothers and sisters, okay?"

"Okay."

Meiyin agreed happily.

The four of them returned once again, and Wang Yinghao laughed: "Xuanxuan is truly amazing. She said you two wouldn't be able to handle these two children and would have to move back in no more than three days, and it really is so."

Nianyin: "Did Big Sister really say that?"

Wang Yinghao: "Yes, I didn't believe it at first, but now I do."

The room hadn't been touched at all; everything was ready-made.

Shi Youxuan had said they wouldn't last more than three days taking care of the children alone, and as it turned out, they hadn't even lasted twenty-four hours before coming back. While the two admired her, they also realized that things couldn't go on like this, and they were determined to learn how to take care of the children alone, so that the two Baobao would also form a dependency on them and couldn't do without them!

The idea was good, but doing it was a different matter.

Lao Qi believed that to capture a Baobao's heart, one must first capture a Baobao's stomach!

He felt that it was because Gu Zhihao had such excellent culinary skills that the two children liked him, so Lao Qi decided to start with their diet.