January has passed in the blink of an eye, and the twins are one month old.
Jiang Sanlang held a full-moon banquet for his two children, and invited relatives and friends to come and have wine.
Most of the people who came to celebrate the occasion brought their young sons and grandsons, and there was no room for the six tables, so Jiang Sanlang built an open shed in the yard and set up a few more tables.
"Sanlang, congratulations."
The villagers brought a few eggs to celebrate the banquet, and teased: "I didn't expect you to have two sons in your life. What do you call it? You accumulate a lot of money and become a blockbuster, hahaha."
Jiang Sanlang chuckled innocently and cupped his hands towards the villagers, "Much like me, please take a seat in the room. The banquet will begin immediately."
"Okay, okay, you are busy, you are busy."
The villagers walked into the main room, brought the gifts to the account table, and asked Jiang Erlang, who wrote the account books, to register them.
At this time, several more guests came over, and Jiang Sanlang hurriedly greeted them...
In the kitchen, Jiang's sister-in-law, Chun Niang, and her natal sister-in-law were busy cooking and steaming rice. Several neighbor women were sitting on small horses, helping to sort and wash the vegetables, while chatting about household chores.
Children were running around in the yard, laughing and playing.
For a time, Jiang Sanlang's family was very busy with people coming and going.
Inside the house, Ying Bao stood by the cradle of her two younger brothers, spinning a rattle for them to see.
The little deer, Youyou, lay obediently at her feet, looking at this and that with big, ignorant eyes, silently regurgitating the food in his mouth.
Dani, Erni and Yuanbao also gathered around the cradle, stretching their necks to look at the two identical little cousins.
"This is the eldest brother, his name is Jiang Jie, and the round-faced one is the second brother Jiang Wu."
Yingbao took the trouble to introduce the twin brothers to everyone who came to see the children so that they could distinguish them clearly.
Yuan Bao blinked, still confused, "But their faces are all the same round."
Dani patted her brother and said, "Stupid! One has a round face and the other doesn't have a round face."
Erni giggled and helped: "That's right!"
Yuan Bao scratched the back of his head, feeling a little aggrieved.
After a while, Jiang Jie in the cradle became impatient, shook his head and cried, and then little Jiang Wu also cried.
When the two little ones started crying, the three siblings panicked and hurried to call the third aunt.
Ying Bao didn't panic, she patted and coaxed her brother slowly, and whispered softly: "Xiaojie Dawu must be hungry, don't worry, you will have something to eat when grandma comes."
Chun Niang hurried over, picked up one and sat down, lifting her clothes to breastfeed.
The other one cried louder, as if he was very dissatisfied.
There was no other way, so Chun Niang had no choice but to hold both sons at the same time and feed one at the same time.
After eating and drinking enough, the two little ones were sleeping soundly.
Old Mrs. Jiang walked in and said to the third daughter-in-law: "You can take the baby and rest. We have just given birth, so don't be tired. We don't need you for things outside. We have your elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law."
Chun Niang was indeed tired and nodded: "Okay, I'll just lie down for a while. I'll leave it to my elder sister-in-law and my second sister-in-law to take care of the kitchen."
Mrs. Jiang hummed, turned around and pulled Ying Bao up: "Ying Bao, please go out and play with your brothers and sisters. Your mother is taking care of your brother."
"good."
When Youyou saw her little master leaving, she quickly got up and followed him.
So, Yingbao was followed by a deer, accompanied by Dani, Erni and Yuanbao, and they went to play outside the yard together.
In fact, there is nothing fun outside. The weather has turned cold, even the leaves have fallen off, and the ants and bugs have long disappeared.
It is estimated that it will snow soon.
But children don't think so. They can run around happily all day long on bamboo poles.
Not long after leaving the yard, the children in the village crowded around and talked about it, and some even stretched out their hands to touch it.
Yingbao reminded them, "Don't touch its butt randomly, or you may get kicked by Youyou."
Now Yoyo is no longer the young deer she was back then. She has grown very tall, much larger than an ordinary mountain deer. With her four strong hooves, she is almost as tall as a foal.
If you attach a saddle and reins, it can be used as a horse for your children to ride.
Yingbao did have this idea, but it would cost a lot of money to customize a saddle, so she put it aside for the time being.
The children quickly retracted their hands and chattered around Youyou, with envious expressions on their faces.
This deer has become a famous deer in the village. Every child has watched it and most of them have touched it. Even the children from Xichen Village often come here just to catch a glimpse of Youyou’s beauty.
Yingbao had also seen the two daughters of Chen Changping's family coming over, but she had no trouble in her heart.
All the past lives have passed, and now she doesn't want to have anything to do with them.
"Are you Yingbao?"
A haggard-looking village woman stood not far away, staring directly at Ying Bao.
Ying Bao could tell who the woman was speaking without turning her head.
Her biological mother, Han Juniang, watched for an unknown amount of time.
Ying Bao was startled, but she quickly calmed down, pretended not to hear, turned around and said to Yuan Bao: "Brother Yuan Bao, is it okay if I go to your place to read?"
She has already learned the Three-Character Classic from Yuan Bao, and is currently reading the Thousand-Character Classic and Hundred Family Surnames. I believe that soon she will be able to write openly.
"Okay." Yuan Bao nodded without hesitation.
As soon as the little cousin goes to study, Yoyo will be in his charge.
Seeing Ying Bao about to leave, the woman took a few steps forward to stop her and said again: "You are Ying Bao, right? Do you know who your biological parents are?"
Ying Bao rolled her eyes, "My biological parents are Jiang Sanlang and Xu Chunniang. Who are you? Why are you stopping me?"
Han Juniang wiped away her non-existent tears and said excitedly: "No! They are not your biological parents..."
Yingbao didn't wait for her to finish speaking, picked up Yuanbao and ran towards her uncle's house. As she ran, she turned back and cursed: "Bad woman!"
Han Juniang was stunned on the spot.
Yingbao ran into her uncle's house in one breath. Seeing her cousins and cousins coming with her, she quickly asked them to close the courtyard door.
There is no one in the eldest uncle's house at the moment. The grandparents, eldest uncle and aunt have all gone to help at home, and the eldest and second cousins are not at home either.
Ying Bao was holding her chest and panting, her mind a little confused.
Why does this woman dare to come here so early?
This was not the case in my previous life. I remember that the first time Mr. Han came to visit me was when I was over four years old.
Ying Bao lowered her head and looked at her wrist.
The birthmark on it hasn't been removed yet, so we can't let the woman make it clear.
"Why did Yingbao scold her?" Erni wondered. She recognized that woman, she seemed to be from Xichen Village.
How old was Dani? She understood what the woman was talking about, so she glared at her sister: "She is a bad woman if she dares to sow discord!"
Everyone in the family knows that Yingbao is not the third uncle's biological child, but so what, as long as the third uncle and the third aunt treat her as their own.
When that woman said that, she was trying to sow discord between Ying Bao and her third uncle and third aunt.
"Oh." Erni was only six years old after all, and she was still a little ignorant, but she also knew that the whole family had to share the same hatred, so she nodded vigorously and said, "Then let's go tell Third Uncle." Beat that bad woman.
Dani also had this idea and asked Yingbao, "How about we go find Uncle San?"
Ying Bao shook her head, "I won't go for the time being."
Today, her younger brother is one month old and there are so many guests at home. She cannot give Mr. Han a chance to show off in front of everyone.
Presumably Han didn't have the shame to speak out on his own initiative, so he came to find himself, trying to find a breakthrough from the child.
"Then what if she is still outside?" Although Dani is sensible and only nine years old, she has never encountered such a situation before, and she feels a little uneasy.
Yuan Bao opened the crack of the door and whispered: "The bad woman is not outside."
He turned to look at his little cousin and patted his chest: "I'll go out and see if she's gone."
"Well, go ahead and don't talk to her or call anyone," Ying Bao warned.
"Okay, I'll just take a look from a distance." Yuan Bao led Youyou out.
