Chapter 060

Zhen Zhen sat up from the bed, and looked at the children in the cot next to her.

The two little ones have also woken up, eyes wide open, lying together and waving their little hands.

They are not crying or making noise, so they are not hungry yet.

But Zhen Zhen still reached out and picked up Dan Tong, holding her in her arms and feeding her some milk.

After feeding Dantong, she put her back on the cot, and then brought Xingyu over to feed her.

While she was feeding Xingyu, Dan Sui came in again.

She went to the bedside and flopped down on the edge of the bed, looking at Zhen Zhen and said, “Mom, you’re awake?”

Zhen Zhen looked at her gently and said, “Yes, Spike is up early, isn’t he?”

Dan Sui said in a milky voice, “I was up when Daddy elbowed me.”

Jen smiled and said, “Mommy gets up after she feeds her brother.”

She didn’t like to sleep in the past, and there was naturally a reason why she slept in now.

The reason is naturally that the child is small, and has to be fed and diapers changed at night, and this is two children, so she and Servant Huai Ming have to get up several times during the night, so of course she has to sleep a little more in the morning to make up for the sleep.

After feeding Xingyu, Zhen Zhen got up and went to wash up.

Dan Sui tugged on Dabai’s tail and followed him out into the yard to play.

She couldn’t even speak clearly, so she tried to boss people around, telling Dabai, “Sit down.”

Great White also listened to her, and sat down in front of her with a good behavior, and rushed to her with his tongue out.

Dan Sui was happy, and went a little further in front of him, extending his hand and saying, “Shake hands.”

Great White lifted his hand up and gently rested it on Dan Sui’s small hand.

After playing with Dabai for a while, Dan Sui excitedly ran back into the house and said to Zhen Zhen, “Mom, Dabai listens to me.”

Zhen Zhen, who had already finished washing up and was sitting at the table eating breakfast, smiled and said, “Big White likes you.”

Dan Sui’s voice was milky and bright, “Everyone likes me!”

Zhong Minfen pushed the little rocking bed out of Zhen Zhen’s room, in which lay Xing Yu and Dan Tong.

She heard what Dan Sui and Zhen Zhen were saying and picked up with a smile, “Who asked our Dan Sui to be so pretty.”

Zhong Minfen had just sat down as she spoke when she suddenly heard another knock on the courtyard door.

Turning her head to look out, she saw that the person knocking on the door was Ah Wen, who was still carrying one in her arms and one at her side.

She is still carrying one in her arms and one at her side. The one at her side has stretched her little head into the courtyard door and is looking towards the house.

Jen got up and waved at Shizuku, “Come in.”

As she finished waving, Doudou was the first to push through the door and rush in.

Rushing in front of Dan Sui, she looked at him and said in a serious tone, “Sister, I’ve come to play with you.”

There is no doll that doesn’t like people its own age, and Dan Sui grabbed Doudou’s small hand as she proposed, “Go out and play.”

Doudou nodded, and the two of them went out into the yard, hand in hand.

When Wen came in, she instructed Doudou, “Play nice with your sister.”

Doudou was very much the older sister and told Ah Wen, “Mom, I’ll take care of my sister.”

Wen smiled and went inside to greet Zhen Zhen and Zhong Minfen.

Since they didn’t know each other before, Zhong Minfen was naturally polite with her and was busy pulling a bench for her to sit on.

Shizuku hurriedly said thank you to Zhong Minfen.

After holding Mimi and sitting down, she smiled again and asked Zhen Zhen, “Which meal are you having?”

Zhen Zhen smiled a little embarrassed and replied, “Breakfast, just got up.”

Shizuku understood, “You don’t sleep well at night with a child, do you?”

Jen nodded, “Mainly two.”

Arwen put Mimi down and reached out to help her stand in front of her.

Pulling the child in her hand, she continued to talk to Zhen Zhen, “DouDou has been coming over to play with Spike for a long time, I just brought her over after I heard someone talking on your side of the house.”

Zhen Zhen ate her meal and said, “It’s fine, you can come over whenever you want.”

Wen said, “I’m not afraid of disturbing you and Auntie.”

Zhen Zhen: “You’re still so polite to me?”

Wen smiled, “Then I won’t be polite from now on.”

Zhong Minfen also said, “You’re welcome.”

The atmosphere in Zhen Zhen’s house was good, and Shizuku was in a good mood after talking to her and Zhong Minfen.

Not to mention that Doudou wanted to come and play with Dan Sui, she herself also wanted to come and play with Zhen Zhen.

It’s no fun being home alone with the kids every day.

Zhen Zhen ate her meal and chatted with Wen for a while.

After dinner, she didn’t stay idle either. She cleaned up the dishes and went straight to packing up the luggage that she had moved here.

Zhong Minfen came over to pack with her, but just as she reached out her hand, Zhen Zhen held it back.

Zhen Zhen told her, “Mother, you go look after the children, I’ll take care of these.”

Zhong Minfen said, “How long will you be doing this alone?”

Zhen Zhen: “Very soon.”

Seeing that Zhen Zhen did not want her to clean up, Zhong Min Fen also went to watch the child.

The dragon and phoenix babies were still small and could only lie in small rocking beds, so she didn’t need to do anything, so she took needlework in her hands and did it, and in the meantime also watched Dan Sui and DouDou in the yard.

While Zhen Zhen was packing, Wen brought Mimi to keep her company.

But since Mimi couldn’t play by herself yet, she couldn’t spare her hands to help Zhen Zhen, so she talked with her.

All three children in the house were still too young to sleep on their own, so Jen Jen didn’t pack the upstairs space.

She only packed up the downstairs space, intending to live downstairs for the time being and only use a few rooms downstairs.

Jen was in her room organizing her clothes.

Wen took Mimi’s arm and practiced walking with her.

Mimi was able to walk up so many steps on her own, but it was unsteady and she would fall down after two steps.

Jenny watched Shizuku teach Mimi how to walk while she folded the laundry.

Her heart was softened by the sight of the baby, and she subconsciously smiled at the corners of her mouth.

Jenny smiled and said to Shizuku, “You’ll be able to walk on your own in no time, and then you’ll be able to run all over the world.”

When she heard this, Shizuku smiled back and said, “That’s right, isn’t it? I can’t wait to get down and walk all the time.”

After walking Mimi a few times, Shizuku picked Mimi up and went to sit down next to Jen.

Taking a breath, she looked at Zhen Zhen and added, “Once you’re settled in, I’ll take you around to familiarize yourself.”

Zhen Zhen really did need to familiarize herself with the place.

She smiled and looked up at Wen as she answered, “Sure.”

Looking at the radiance in Zhen Zhen’s eyes, Shizuku’s heart subconsciously followed suit and brightened up.

Suddenly she was reminded of the time they spent together before they got married, drinking coffee and listening to music, and couldn’t help but feel nostalgic again.

Looking at Jen for a moment, Shizuku smiled and added, “You’re so strange, why do I feel like you’re getting younger and younger as you live.”

Of course they were still not young in real age, they were both mothers now, so she didn’t call Jen Jen little Cotton again after she saw her again yesterday, because it was just a bit of a mismatch.

Zhen Zhen didn’t feel how young she was, and only said, “I’m the mother of three children, where is young?”

Wen looked at her carefully for a while and added, “You are living a happy life, the whole person is happy, the mood affects the appearance, the mind is young and the essence is good, so the appearance also looks young.”

Zhen Zhen didn’t deny that, because she did live a happy life all these years.

She looked at Shizuku and said, “It’s nothing that bothers me.”

Eating well and wearing good clothes and being loved by someone, usually doing whatever she wanted to do, never having stress or aggravation on her body, no matter what was going on in her life, someone would take care of it without her needing to be annoyed or worried about it.

That person is her big umbrella, is her big tree, let her only see the sunshine and not see the wind and rain.

She said that she couldn’t help but feel envious in her heart.

Wen did not say further, smiled and took the topic back, said to Zhen Zhen: “Here and the military school side of life is almost the same, the family home has everything, usually life is very convenient, if you do not want to cook if you go to the cafeteria to eat, want to cook to go to the food store store or something to buy back to do it yourself at home.”

Listening to indeed almost, Zhen Zhen heart more bottom.

But when she heard about the food store, she remembered something else, and looked at Shizuku and asked, “Aren’t you working now?”

Shizuku laughed easily and said, “How can I go to work when I have two children to bring up?”

If there is no one to help with the children, it is indeed impossible to get away to work.

Zhen Zhen looked at Shizhen and asked, “So your mother-in-law didn’t come over to help you with the kids?”

Shizuku smiled and said, “She’s not used to living here, she can’t stay here.”

Zhen Zhen put the folded clothes into the closet, “I’m also going to stop working for a while, so I can wait until my two children are weaned and old enough to be sent to daycare, then I’ll find a job and go to work.”

Finding a job wasn’t that hard for them anyway.

Mimi had to come down again, and Arwen let her down to learn to walk again.

She followed alongside and watched Mimi, picking up on Jen’s words, “That’s what I had in mind, but I don’t know when I’ll be able to get my hands off her, it’s so hard to do anything with a child, especially one that can’t talk or walk.”

Zhen Zhen put her clothes in the closet, “Mimi is so big, isn’t it fast for you?”

Mimi almost fell over and Shizuku was quick to lift her up while saying, “I’ve got another one in this belly.”

Hearing this, Jen was surprised for a moment, not realizing she was still pregnant.

However, she quickly reacted, Zhen Zhen walked back to the bedside to continue folding the clothes, and asked Ah Wen again, “So are you reacting more to this baby and can’t eat?”

Knowing why Zhen Zhen asked this question, Wen helped Mimi to walk and said, “The reaction is not much, but I’m just tired and I don’t have the appetite to eat.”

Then she explained, “Actually, it’s not because I’m pregnant that I can’t eat, I’ve never been able to eat much, I don’t want to eat.”

Zhen Zhen seriously folded her clothes, “You can’t do this, your body will collapse.”

When she was pregnant with Dan Sui at the time, she also couldn’t eat greasy or sweet things, and her stomach looked small, but her body wasn’t dry and thin, instead it was hydrated, and her face was rosy and glowing.

And now Ah Wen was not only too dry and thin, her whole complexion was also very poor.

How could she do that if she didn’t nourish her body well and the child in her stomach was absorbing her nutrients?

Ah Wen didn’t have any problem with it and said in her usual tone, “It’s all customary, there’s nothing that can’t be done.”

Zhen Zhen turned her head to look at her for a moment, then retracted her gaze and continued folding the clothes, not continuing with the conversation.

Shizuku didn’t want to talk more about herself either.

She shifted the topic to Zhen Zhen and spoke out again, “Your mother-in-law is quite nice.”

Zhen Zhen let out a hmmm and responded with a smile, “My mother-in-law has always been quite nice.”

There was a slight sigh in Wen’s voice, “It’s not easy to meet a good mother-in-law ……”

***

Because Zhen Zhen got up late, it was almost noon just after she finished tidying up her room.

She put down the work in her hands for the time being, and grabbed her lunchbox to go to the cafeteria with Wen to get some food.

When she passed by the gate of her neighbor’s house on the other side of the street, she bumped into the woman from that house again.

As they were neighbors, they had to get to know each other, so Wen introduced herself to Zhen Zhen, “Zhen Zhen, this is Chen’s sister-in-law.”

After that, she introduced her to Mrs. Chen, “Mrs. Chen, this is my good friend, Lin Zhenzhen.”

After the introduction, they naturally called each other politely and exchanged pleasantries.

After saying polite words, Zhen Zhen and Ah Wen continued to the cafeteria to get their meals.

Zhen Zhen saw that Wen was holding Mimi, so she reached out to take Mimi from her arms and help her hold her.

But Shizuku didn’t give it, only telling Jen Jen, “She doesn’t want anyone else to hold her, she wants me.”

Since that was the case, Zhen Zhen didn’t ask for a hug.

If a child recognizes someone, she will cry if someone else holds her in their arms.

On the way to the cafeteria, Wen told Zhen Zhen a few more words about Chen’s wife, “She is a martyr’s family, her man died, and she has a son at home, in his teens, orphaned and widowed.”

Zhen Zhen nodded twice after listening to Wen’s words, and in her heart she had more respect for this Chen’s sister-in-law.

More families were able to be happy because of the suffering families like theirs endured.

After returning from the cafeteria, Wen came to call Doudou home for dinner.

Doudou was reluctant to leave, taking Dan Sui’s hand and saying, “I’ll come back to play with you after dinner.”

Dan Sui couldn’t let go of her only companion, “Then come after dinner.”

Doudou pulled the hook with her, “Okay, I’ll come find you after dinner.”

Not long after Doudou left, Mr. Huai Ming came back from work.

He had already gotten to know Liu Zhi from next door, and the two of them came back from work together.

As soon as Servant Huai Ming entered the courtyard gate, Dan Sui ran over and jumped into his lap, calling out in a milky voice, “Daddy!”

Serving Huai Ming bent down and picked her up, carrying her with him into the house to wash his hands and eat.

During dinner, Zhen Zhen asked him, “How’s it going? Are you still comfortable in your new position?”

Serving Huai Ming said easily, “It’s the same, there’s nothing I’m not used to.”

Zhen Zhen and Zhong Minfen didn’t know much about his work, so they didn’t ask too many questions.

In turn, Squire Huai Ming asked Zhong Min Fen and Zhen Zhen, “How are you adapting to the new environment?”

Zhen Zhen smiled, “It’s fine.”

Zhong Minfen also said, “I’m fine too.”

As the family ate together, it was only natural to talk about lighter topics.

After dinner, Mr. Huai Ming took a short break at home, and then left for work at the right time.

As soon as Servant Huai Ming left, Doudou came over right after.

She naturally went straight to Dan Sui and held hands with him as he played with himself.

The two little dolls were playing together and didn’t have time to stick to their mom, so Wen was quite relaxed.

When she came over with Mimi in her arms, she brought the baby chair from home with her.

First, she let Mimi sit in the baby chair, and she freed up her hands to help Zhen Zhen pack her bags together.

If Mimi cried out for her, she would pick her up and coax her for a while.

With Shizuku’s help, the packing went faster, and in half a day it was all packed.

Zhen Zhen washed her hands and came over to feed Xingyu and Dantong. Dantong was asleep, so she carefully picked up Xingyu.

After feeding Xingyu, Zhen Zhen held him in her arms for a while.

Wen held Mimi and teased Xingyu, saying, “These two of yours don’t cry and don’t make a fuss, so they’re really good to bring up, and I feel like they’re even more trouble-free than one another. My oldest is okay, but my second is especially abrasive, and I used to sleep in my arms at night.”

Zhen Zhen chimed in, “That’s pretty tiring.”

Shizuku: “It is, isn’t it? Every night, every night, I stayed up like this.”

Zhong Minfen was naturally able to speak on this topic, and she followed up with, “Every child is different. I’ve had three, and Huai Ming was the hardest to bring up. He slept during the day and didn’t sleep at night, but he was very energetic at night, so do you think it was tiring?”

Hearing this, Zhen Zhen smiled and said, “I didn’t realize that Third Brother was so full of energy when he was a child, fortunately Dan Sui Xing Yu and Dan Tong are not like him, they sleep when they should sleep, and play when they should play, otherwise it would be really tiring.”

Zhong Minfen then added, “Dan Sui Xing Yu and Dan Tong are much more carefree.”

Wen smiled and teased Xingyu in Zhen Zhen’s arms, “Your mom is so lucky.”

***

After Shizuku played around for a while longer, it was almost time for dinner.

Because they had just moved here, the kitchen was not complete enough to cook, so naturally Zhen Zhen still went to the cafeteria with Ah Wen to beat the meal back for dinner.

She came back from the cafeteria to get some food.

Shizuku had just put down her lunch box on the kitchen table when she suddenly heard Mrs. Chen calling her from outside.

She turned around and came out of the kitchen, looked at Sister-in-law Chen and asked, “Sister-in-law, what’s wrong?”

Sister-in-law Chen told her directly, “I was preparing to stir-fry at home and realized that I’m out of salt, so I came to borrow some from you.”

“You come and get it.” Ah Wen decisively led her into the house, letting her go to the salt altar is to get the salt herself.

Sister-in-law Chen used a small spoon to dig two spoons of salt out of the salt altar.

After digging, she put down the spoon and said, “That new friend of yours is really pretty, she doesn’t look too old, how old is her man? How old is her man? He lives in the same house as us.”

Ah Wen smiled and said, “She is a few years older than me, and she has three children.”

Mrs. Chen was slightly surprised to hear this, “Really? It’s really hard to tell that you’ve given birth to three children, looking at her like that, I thought she was younger than you.”

The corners of Ah Wen’s mouth stiffened slightly, but she still smiled.

She looked at Sister-in-law Chen in a relaxed tone and said, “She appears younger, I appear older.”

Sister-in-law Chen: “Don’t say that, women age quickly after giving birth to a child, she’s a special case.”

Ah Wen and Mrs. Chen talked and walked to the gate of the courtyard.

Mrs. Chen thanked Ah Wen again and rushed home with her bowl to fry vegetables.

When she sent Mrs. Chen away, Wen didn’t turn around and come back, she turned around and headed for Zhen Zhen’s house, shouting, “Doudou, let’s eat.”