Chapter 248: Nineties: Spring Water Family Chapter 248 Your Daughter's Head, We Can't Reach That High

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Protagonist:

Lin Xiyu

"Hahaha."

Sixth Grandpa was indeed listening very happily, his eyes crinkling with laughter.

"Then it's settled."

Guben continued black-belliedly: "When the four little brats are born, I'll just package them up and mail them to Sanya."

"You little rascal......"

Sixth Grandpa feigned displeasure: "Is that how you act as a father? The babies just born, and you can harden your heart to throw them to outsiders. If Xiyu finds out, she'll fight you to the death."

"Others I definitely wouldn't trust, but you're different....."

Guben was a master at coaxing people; every word hit the old man's sweet spot: "You're their closest kin, their dear, dear, dear Great-Great-Grandpa. With the kids in your hands, Xiyu will definitely agree and won't blame me....."

"Hahaha."

Sixth Grandpa was amused by his five consecutive 'dears', laughing until he couldn't close his mouth.

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Living room.

Guben was hosting; Li Liang wouldn't come until the afternoon. Wu Meng took advantage of the Training Class having no morning lessons to bring the child to the Old House for a stroll first.

Wu Meng gave her precious daughter a pleasant and ethereal-sounding name, Li Qingyan, nickname Nuan Nuan, hoping her daughter would grow up to be a pretty and warm-hearted little padded jacket.

Little Nuan Nuan was already five months old; her facial contours had lengthened and opened up compared to when she was born, and one could clearly tell her little face took after her father.

Even the bone structure was alike. Born at 7 jin 6 liang, she was heavier than other babies. Five months later, her growth was even more impressive — whether height or weight, she was a size larger than same-aged children.

The daughter didn't take after her, and Wu Meng felt quite depressed. Fortunately, the baby's skin was fair and pink, not tanned black like her father's, which gave her resentful little heart some psychological comfort.

"Nuan Nuan is so pretty, big eyes, high nose bridge, cherry mouth. She'll definitely be a great beauty when she grows up."

Lin Xiyu liked Nuan Nuan very much; every time she saw her, she would smile and tease her.

Little Nuan Nuan seemed to understand her words; she split her little mouth and returned a toothless smile.

"Nuan Nuan is five months old, how come she still hasn't grown teeth?"

Wu Meng was a bit anxious: "My mom's neighbor, Wang Daniang's granddaughter, grew teeth at four months. Now she already has two."

"Children growing teeth naturally varies in timing. What's the rush?"

Lin Xiyu smiled and chided: "My little cousin Nana didn't grow teeth until nearly one year old. Now isn't she fine too? Nothing delayed."

"I read in a book that not growing teeth means calcium deficiency."

Wu Meng still couldn't accept it: "Nana was raised on formula from childhood. Nuan Nuan isn't. I fed her myself, not missing a single feeding. By rights she should have teeth. Could it be that I didn't raise her well, so the child also lacks nutrition?"

"You raised her well......"

Lin Xiyu spoke the truth: "Your mom waited on you so well. You've gotten quite a bit fatter than before giving birth."

"Uh."

Wu Meng rubbed her own round cheeks, even more depressed: "That's exactly what I'm worried about. Why didn't the child grow teeth, but the meat all grew on my own body......."

"Getting fat means fortune."

Lin Xiyu smiled and comforted her: "Isn't it said 'rich and plump'? A woman needs to be a bit plump to have a fortunate look. Look at you now, skin white with a rosy glow, not a single acne mark, more moisturized than if you'd put on makeup. This is the benefit of carrying a daughter. A daughter pities her mother. Carrying a daughter, the mother's skin gets nourished, becoming more beautiful than before."

"That's true......"

Wu Meng touched her own smooth skin again, smiling delightedly: "My skin really is good now. Even Liangzi says it's like a layer of milk was applied. The feel is even better."

"Look how smug you are......"

Lin Xiyu laughed and teased her: "Just now you were frowning with worry. One mention of your Liangzi, and you instantly changed, beaming with joy, afraid others wouldn't know you two have a good relationship, that you have a doting husband......"

"Liangzi dotes not on me, but on his daughter."

Wu Meng laughed awkwardly: "You might not believe it, but with his big and rough appearance, when he holds his daughter, that carefulness, that gentleness — watching it, I find it amazing. Before the birth, I was afraid he wouldn't like it if it was a daughter. Now it seems I worried for nothing."

"His patience with his daughter, even I can't match. Sometimes the daughter fusses in the middle of the night, drinks milk but won't sleep. I get annoyed, but he doesn't get angry at all. He holds his precious lump in the room pacing around. One hold is half an hour. If she doesn't sleep, he won't put her down, can keep pacing until dawn."

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"How nice......"

Lin Xiyu smiled in agreement: "You can rest easy. With him helping watch the child, you can also sleep a peaceful sleep."

"Want to sleep a full uninterrupted sleep? Impossible. Still have to breastfeed."

Wu Meng still wasn't satisfied: "If only he could feed the milk too."

"Pfft."

Lin Xiyu couldn't hold back and laughed, spraying.

"Hahaha."

Wu Meng found it funny herself, covering her mouth and laughing nonstop.

"Heehee."

Little Nuan Nuan saw Mommy laughing and followed along, heehee laughing stupidly happy.

"What's so funny? So happy?"

Guben heard the laughter from the Yard and curiously peered through the door curtain.

"Mengmeng said......"

Lin Xiyu was about to answer when a certain Meng covered her mouth with one hand.

"Not allowed to tell him......"

Wu Meng's cheeks flushed bright red with embarrassment.

"Mm-hmm."

Lin Xiyu held back a smile and nodded.

"You're not allowed to tell......"

Wu Meng asked again uneasily, and seeing her agree, she finally let go with a sheepish grin.

"What's going on? Why so secretive?"

Guben took the chance to fetch boiling water, walking back from the yard carrying an empty teapot.

"We were saying you two are truly blessed......"

Wu Meng spoke up before Lin Xiyu: "The baby isn't even born yet, but the siheyuan is already secured."

"Just one house — how is that enough to divide?"

Guben rubbed his brow, feigning a worried look: "Four kids, one siheyuan each — how much would that cost? It worries me to death."

"You still want to give each one a siheyuan?"

Wu Meng's eyes widened in surprise: "Don't you forget, that's an Old Beijing siheyuan — you can't buy one even with money."

"That's exactly why it's worrying......"

Guben joked self-deprecatingly: "Sixth Grandpa gave me a real headache — this house can't be passed to just anyone later; one kid means no issue, but four is different — they haven't even been born and they're already fighting over the inheritance."

"Hehe......"

Wu Meng found it amusing, a touch smug: "Put that way, I'm relieved — one kid is best, fewer worries; with just me and Liangzi's money, having four would work us to death."

"That tests the father's ability."

Lin Xiyu gently stroked her belly, smiling as she glanced at a certain someone: "Anyway, once they're born, my mission is done — how to raise them, the head of household decides."

"Isn't our family run by you?"

Guben answered smoothly: "I'm under your control too — you say how to raise them, that's how we'll raise them."

Lin Xiyu laughed and scolded: "You're shirking responsibility......"

Guben cried out in mock grievance: "Since when does listening to your wife count as shirking? I've always prided myself on being henpecked — not only don't I find it shameful, I find it supremely honorable."

"Hey hey, you two are something else......"

Wu Meng couldn't take it anymore, interrupting with a cough: "PDA doesn't have to be like this — just pouring hot water and you're making eyes at each other, mutually flattering, aren't you afraid of burning your hands?"

"How did you hear that?"

Lin Xiyu was puzzled: "We were mutually flattering each other?"

"That's what it sounded like to me?"

Wu Meng rolled her eyes in disdain: "You just said I was showing off, that Liangzi and I have a good thing — you two are worse, the sourness makes my teeth ache."

Guben realized: "So you two were laughing so happily just now because you were talking about Liangzi?"

"Uh."

Wu Meng was embarrassed.

The awkward smile froze on her face, a feeling of lifting a stone only to drop it on her own foot.

"Hahaha, I can't take it, I'm dying of laughter."

Lin Xiyu clutched her belly, nearly laughing until she ran out of breath.

"Wife, take it easy, take it easy......"

She was pregnant with quadruplets; at three months her belly was already visibly bulging, looking about like five months for others.

Guben feared his wife might get too excited and the babies would come early, so he hurried over, rubbing her back to help her catch her breath.

"Mengmeng is too funny, I couldn't hold it in, still want to laugh."

Lin Xiyu covered her mouth with her hand, still laughing nonstop.

"I'm just your joy-bringer......"

Wu Meng chuckled, giving herself a way down.

"The girl is laughing at you......"

Guben teased jokingly: "Already a mom, yet still this adorably silly."

"You're the adorably silly one......"

Wu Meng was about to snap back "Your whole family is adorably silly," but from the corner of her eye she caught sight of Lin Xiyu's bulging belly and swallowed the words: "Forget it, for the sake of four little babies, I won't argue with you."

"Four is still better......"

Guben found it funny, boasting: "Parents of four kids — we walk with wind at our backs, no one dares mess with us anywhere."

"Brag, keep bragging......"

Wu Meng couldn't help rolling her eyes again: "I'm sitting right here, watching to see just how far you can show off."

"I just have four kids......"

Guben deliberately picked a fight: "So what? Got a problem? Basketball is four-on-one too, guaranteed win."

"Not necessarily......"

Wu Meng lifted her own daughter, declaring boldly: "Just with our Nuan Nuan's build, she'll be basketball material when she grows up — one takes out your four, don't believe me, just wait and see."

"Hey......"

Guben laughed in exasperation: "Your tone is too big — we have the numbers advantage, no way we'd lose......"

"What use is more people?"

Wu Meng argued confidently: "My Nuan Nuan's dad is taller than you — Nuan Nuan's future height will definitely tower over yours."

"Nuan Nuan can be tall but she's still a girl......"

Guben refused to accept: "Ours aren't necessarily all girls."

"Alright, alright, stop arguing......"

Lin Xiyu looked at the two's somewhat childish behavior with amusement and spoke up to interrupt: "The child hasn't even been born yet, what do you two have to argue about?"

"It's because your husband is too infuriating."

Wu Meng pouted and complained: "Bullying me just because I only gave birth to one."

"Don't be angry anymore."

Lin Xiyu smiled and smoothed things over: "When the children grow up, who knows, we might even become in-laws."

"This proposal is good."

Wu Meng's eyes lit up, and she indeed perked up: "You must have a son, then set up a childhood engagement between the two of them, let them grow up together as childhood sweethearts, just thinking about it is beautiful."

"That daughter of yours, we can't climb that high."

Guben coldly threw in another line.

Wu Meng's smile froze, and she angrily glared at him again.

"Alright already, you......"

Lin Xiyu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, feigned anger and hammered him once: "You're almost a father, yet still so childish. People say a pregnant woman gets stupid for three years, how did your IQ drop too, bickering like a child."

"I just can't stand someone eyeing my son......"

Guben had just wanted to show off his fatherly privileges again when he was interrupted by his wife.

"Alright, alright,."

Lin Xiyu, fearing the two would start sparring again, dragged and pulled him out the door.

"Xiyu, let us discuss, don't let the men meddle....."

Wu Meng giggled, lifted her eyelids, and made a face at a certain someone's back in a provocative manner.

"Okay."

Lin Xiyu sold off her son without any psychological burden: "As the mother, I've decided. Once a son is born, you can pick whoever, as long as Nuan Nuan likes him, we have no objections."

"It's settled then."

Wu Meng was satisfied, pinched her daughter's chubby little hand, and teased with a smile: "Good girl, come, touch Auntie's belly, guess which one is the little brother and which is the little sister?"

"Yiya ya......"

Little Nuan Nuan seemed to understand her words, and really reached out her little hand to touch Lin Xiyu's belly.

"My daughter says this one is the younger brother......"

Wu Meng translated for her own daughter: "From now on, this one will have a childhood engagement with her."

"Hahaha."

Lin Xiyu watched her talking to herself, laughing until she couldn't close her mouth.

"Hee hee."

Little Nuan Nuan saw Mommy laughing and laughed along.

The mother and daughter laughed happily, making the people in the yard quite speechless listening to them.

"Hehe."

Grandpa Fu picked up his tea, took a sip, and quite contentedly appreciated a certain father-to-be's rare flustered expression, letting out a pleased laugh from his throat.

——

After Lin Xiyu got pregnant, she easily got sleepy; chatting away, she covered her mouth and yawned. Wu Meng, very tactfully, got up to say goodbye, hugging her precious daughter and returning to her natal home.

Their ears were finally quiet. Guben comfortably exhaled, supporting his wife back to the room to rest.

Just after lying down for a short while, Hu Nainai came again, bringing the paper-cuttings she had meticulously cut — two pairs of chubby dolls hugging koi.

Lin Xiyu accepted them with uncontrollable joy, and took the opportunity to express her apology.

"Sorry, Hu Nainai. Now that I'm pregnant, the matter of drawing pictures for you has been delayed."

"It's fine, the drawing isn't urgent....."

Hu Nainai smiled kindly, and instead comforted her: "Right now the most important thing for you is to nurture the pregnancy. Don't think about anything else. Being able to see the babies born with my own eyes makes Grandma happier than anything."

"Hu Nainai, has your body improved? Are you still coughing?"

Hearing this, Lin Xiyu's heart skipped a beat, and for some reason an ominous feeling welled up again.

"Grandma's fine......"

Hu Nainai didn't want her to worry, casually brushing it off: "Just a minor cold, a few doses of traditional Chinese medicine and it'll be fine."

"Hu Nainai, a cough is no small matter. You mustn't not take it seriously......"

How could Lin Xiyu not worry: "If the traditional Chinese medicine doesn't work, go to the hospital early for a comprehensive check-up."