This conversation not only failed to comfort the old man, but even Qiao Xinwei herself fell into infinite grief.
She doesn't have the old man's cunningness, nor does he have the old man's ability to hide his emotions quietly. Everything is written on her face.
After a while, Xi Bao woke up, and Lin Caiyin got up to dress him, and also played with him to make him happy, but it was usually her who laughed at Xi Bao.
It's always better to have children with you at this time. Qiao Xinwei also knew this, so she was willing to let Xi Bao stay with the elderly.
The sound of Xi Bao humming came from the room. After not seeing each other for a few days, he learned a new children's song. Qiao Xinwei gently pushed the door open and revealed a head in the crack of the door.
"Mom!" Xi Bao saw her at a glance and jumped up from the bed with joy. Regardless of wearing half of his pants, he raised his hands to hug her, "Mom, hug, hug."
Lin Caiyin: "Xi Bao, put your pants on first."
Xi Bao refused to listen and walked to the edge of the bed and kept acting coquettishly towards Qiao Xinwei, "Mom, hug me, I miss you so much."
Qiao Xinwei couldn't hold it back for a moment, and rushed forward to pick up her son, tears streaming down her face, "Baby, mommy misses you too, are you well behaved at your grandparents' house?"
"Be good, I learned to play chess with my grandpa, and grandpa praised me for being smart. Grandma, you will testify for me, right? Please tell my mother quickly."
"Yes, yes, our Xibao is the best behaved." Lin Caiyin looked at Qiao Xinwei's unfulfilled look and couldn't help but talk, "Okay, okay, why are you crying? It's only been a few days.
See you, now that you are a mother, can you please stop being so pretentious?"
Xi Bao let go of her neck, saw the tears on her face, and laughed at her, "Mom is crying, Mom is crying."
Qiao Xinwei wiped the corners of her eyes and smiled twice, "Stop crying. Don't I miss my son too much? He has never been separated from me since he was born."
Lin Caiyin said with emotion: "I understand this feeling. Oh, don't cry. It's Chinese New Year. Why are you crying? Here, put on Xi Bao's pants and go play."
"good."
It is good to have a child at home. It is precisely because of the child that this dull home has joy and laughter. All the mother-in-law's attention will be on the child, so she will not cause trouble for her, even her father-in-law, who has been bored in the study.
, and walked down because of the children’s laughter.
The child didn't know anything. When he was having fun, he mentioned, "I wish my dad would play with me." Then everyone was silent for a long time. Only the child was still having fun.
Xi Bao is becoming more and more proficient in riding a bicycle. He can ride around in the living room and dining room without bumping into anything. He can even get out of the way when Sister-in-law Li walks in the middle.
Jiang Zhizhong looked at his increasingly agile grandson and said with a smile: "When the weather gets warmer, take off the small wheels at the back and go ride outside."
Lin Caiyin: "Old man, you are talking nonsense again. If the small wheel is removed, won't Xi Bao have to fall? No, no, no, please stop making bad ideas."
"You can ride after a few falls. How can anyone learn to ride without falling? Why are boys raised so carefully?"
"Xi Bao is still young now. When he gets older, he will be able to do it naturally."
"You're old enough. Hao also learned to ride a bicycle at this age."
When Lin Caiyin heard this, she became very angry and said, "Don't mention Ahao to me. When Ahao was this age, you would come back for less than five days a year. It was rare for you to teach him how to ride a bike when you came back.
You didn't learn how and you left again, but he always wanted to ride a bicycle. He fell all day and was covered in bruises when he went out. He came back and hid under the quilt to prevent me from finding out. Do you know this? "
Jiang Zhizhong took a deep breath and stopped talking. He felt too guilty about his son.
Lin Caiyin couldn't stop talking as soon as she started talking. She said: "Originally, it would be good for Ahao to inherit your mother's mantle. You insist that Ahao follow your path. You have not treated him as a human being since he was a child. Do you still remember him?
What happened during the summer vacation when he was ten years old? You took him to the military camp and locked him up for two months. When he came back, I couldn't even recognize him as my son. The little boy who was originally fair and white turned into a black coal when he came back.
He called me mom, and I realized that it was my son's voice. It would be better for you to scold him with a straight face for being so bad, which is embarrassing for you. He was only ten years old at that time, what could he do?!"
Xi Bao saw that grandma kept talking, so he ran over and sat on ***'s lap, put his little hands around ***'s neck, and asked coaxingly: "Grandma, what's wrong with you?"
Lin Caiyin hugged Xi Bao and said, "Grandma is fine, she just misses my son."
"Ah? ***Son, isn't he my dad? I miss my dad too. I haven't seen him for several days."
Jiang Zhizhong had a sullen face, feeling uncertain and ups and downs. Lin Caiyin didn't want to talk anymore, picked up Xi Bao and said, "Let's go, grandma will accompany you to build blocks."
"Okay, let's build a bridge that is higher and longer than yesterday."
Qiao Xinwei stood up silently, walked over and pushed Xi Bao's car to the side. This home was originally neat and slightly empty, but now it is full of Xi Bao's toys, cars, bicycles, scooters, and toys.
Cars, you can almost form a team.
She looked at Jiang Zhizhong and saw the guilt in her father-in-law's eyes. She knew that her father-in-law had pinned his unfinished career on Jiang Hao and transferred all the favor he had not given to Jiang Hao to Xi Bao.
"Dad, don't think too much, mom is just a mouthful."
Of course Jiang Zhizhong understood, so he changed the subject and said: "Yesterday, an old comrade of mine brought a ginseng stick over, and you can use it to replenish your father's health when you celebrate the New Year."
"No, you can keep it to yourself."
"I'm not lacking. There are too many of these things to eat. It won't be good if they are kept for a long time. You can take them."
Qiao Xinwei couldn't refuse, "Okay, thank you, Dad." Just as she was saying this, she suddenly felt sick in her stomach and wanted to vomit. She quickly stood up and said, "Dad, I want to go to the bathroom first."
She ran into the bathroom with her head lowered and vomited wildly into the toilet for a while, vomiting all the food she had eaten.
Sister-in-law Li heard the noise and came in to see her worriedly, "What's wrong?"
Qiao Xinwei felt better after vomiting and said, "I'm so full. Vomiting will make room for dinner."
"Don't be so hungry."
"No, don't worry, Sister-in-law Li, your dumplings won't be spoiled. I just ate too much, really."
Sister-in-law Li was someone who had been here before. She looked her up and down suspiciously, "Xinwei, aren't you pregnant again?"
By coincidence, Lin Caiyin, who had just come in, heard these words, "Yes?" Lin Caiyin's first reaction was, "Stop going to work, move back here, and take good care of her."
Qiao Xinwei couldn't laugh or cry, so she had to explain, "Mom, isn't it??" She pulled on Sister-in-law Li's sleeve and asked Sister-in-law Li to help prove it, "I just ate too many dumplings, I ate thirty.
It’s too overwhelming.”
Sister-in-law Li nodded and said, "Well, she can really eat. I probably won't have enough food tomorrow. I have to pack a few more. I'm going to go."
Sister-in-law Li took the opportunity to leave. Lin Caiyin said a little unwillingly: "Just in case, go check it out. If you are cheated or not, but you still go your own way, what should you do when you are tired?!"
Qiao Xinwei compromised, not wanting to argue endlessly with her mother-in-law on this aspect, so just check it out, and everyone can rest assured, "Okay, but don't rush this. When I go out one day, I will pass by the pharmacy and buy some test strips."
Just test it."
Lin Caiyin did not express her position and turned around to leave. However, she went directly to the kitchen and said, "Sister-in-law Li, when you go shopping tomorrow, buy a pregnancy test stick, two."
Qiao Xinwei's head was full of black lines, "Cough, cough, cough, cough??" She really wanted to cough up blood. Is it really okay to be so public about this kind of thing?
However, Lin Caiyin's mood improved obviously, and she pulled Xi Bao and kept asking, "Xi Bao, do you want a companion? Do you want a brother or a sister? Can you let your mother have another sister? Brother and sister together
Growing up, this is the best thing."
Qiao Xinwei was so embarrassed that she was too embarrassed to go out.
At night, the mother and son slept in the Jiang family mansion, and Xi Bao naturally slept with his mother. This was Jiang Hao's original room, which had been renovated. Except for the bookcases on the entire wall, everything else had been changed.
It used to be that there were photos of Xiao Tianai on the bedside here, but now they are gone. The European-style off-white bed is covered with colorful bedding, and it looks very comfortable. She thought, this is probably all
It was my mother-in-law who arranged it because Jiang Hao would never choose a mattress of this color because he thought it was too fancy.
Xi Bao had already finished washing, and was sitting on the bed, flipping through a fairy tale book, and asking from time to time, "Mom, when will you feel better? I want to listen to stories."
"Right now, aren't you already brushing your teeth?"
While Qiao Xinwei was brushing her teeth, she looked at herself in the mirror. The dark circles under her eyes had deepened due to insomnia over the past few days. She didn't know if it was because of the lighting or because of it, but she saw that her face looked a little yellow.
She told herself, Qiao Xinwei, it doesn't matter, no matter how difficult the days are, she can get through them, nothing can be worse than now, and it will only get better in the future.
But when she closed her eyes, she would still imagine the dilemma Jiang Hao was facing at this moment. Dark and blurry pictures kept flashing in front of her eyes. She thought that Jiang Hao might be suffering from hunger, might have been shot and bleeding, and the more he got injured, the worse he would be.
The more flow??
"Mom, you are so slow. Are you okay?"
Xi Bao's urging interrupted her thoughts. She speeded up, wiped her face, and hurried out, "Here you go, what story do Xi Bao want to hear?"
"This and this."
She picked it up and took a look, the Red Army's Long March, where did this little book come from? Aren't you reading a fairy tale book? The Red Army's Long March is a fairy tale? "Xi Bao, can I tell you a story about Little Red Riding Hood?"
"No, I want to listen to this. Yesterday, grandpa fell asleep halfway through what he said. I want to finish listening to it today."
"??" Qiao Xinwei had no idea. Her son was older and had his own opinions. It wasn't up to her to decide what he liked. It's just that this book is so thick that he couldn't finish it in three days and three nights.