Chapter 984: Chapter 984: Paying Respect to a Famous Teacher 1 Chapter 984: Chapter 984: Paying Respect to a Famous Teacher 1 Guo Ming finished speaking and hurried off, his pace brisk, yet he carried the soy sauce dish with remarkable steadiness.
In the living room, only Guo Yan and Feng Qingxue remained, along with the wide-eyed Wang Zhonghua at their side.
Guo Yan laughed and said, “My big brother has always listened to his wife. He probably forgot to buy soy sauce. He’s always forgetting things in his daily life, which is why he cos to borrow from .” Although it was more like borrowing without returning.
But she was clever and only poured a tiny bit into the dish, just enough for their noon stir-fry.
As she spoke, she looked at Feng Qingxue, “Big brother is an excellent doctor, and if he tells you to rest, you should really take it easy. Don’t overwork yourself. He must say so only when it’s absolutely necessary for you to rest.”
Feng Qingxue nodded, her hands still on her lower abdon—she was pregnant again.
Although the issue of family planning had been brought up, it hadn’t been implented; it wouldn’t be for another decade or so. She and Lu Jiang were still young. She knew she might get pregnant again, but she didn’t expect it to happen so soon.
Her pregnancy wasn’t very stable, probably because she had tired herself out recently with the antiques and relics, Feng Qingxue frowned.
“Auntie, are you going to have a little brother or little sister?” Wang Zhonghua ca up to Feng Qingxue, eyeing her stomach and suddenly said unhappily, “Xibao has a little sister, Fubao. Auntie, can you have a little sister for ? We don’t have any little sisters in my house. I’ll give her my leather ball and tin frog to play with and be a good big brother.”
Feng Qingxue smiled indulgently, “Aren’t Xibao and Fubao your siblings? The baby I’m carrying will also be your little brother or sister. Maybe it’ll be a little brother, or it could be a little sister. You can’t just like little sisters or the little brother will be sad.”
“If it’s a little brother, will he protect like Xibao does?” Wang Zhonghua asked.
Guo Yan found this very amusing, “Sha on you, you’re the older child. You should be protecting your little brother, not the other way around.”
Wang Zhonghua replied with a cheeky grin, “I’m very frail!”
As he spoke, he clutched at his chest and staggered back two steps, pretending to be dizzy and in pain. He moaned, “I feel so awful, really awful, dizzy, my chest hurts!”
Feng Qingxue’s eyes widened, “Auntie, who has Huahua learned this from?”
“Probably from Xibao? Don’t they write to each other often? Xibao has such good handwriting—sharp and strong—while Huahua’s is scratchy like chicken claws. Every ti he gets a letter from Xibao, he doesn’t let read it,” responded Guo Yan uncertainly, knowing that aside from Xibao, Wang Zhonghua didn’t have much of a relationship with other children, and she, as a grandmother, saw it all.
“Auntie, my Xibao will only turn five in May. Please don’t bla everything on him.”
A five-year-old teaching Wang Zhonghua how to feign illness through letters was preposterous, wasn’t it?
Xibao had started recognizing characters at three or four years old and could write so simple ones. He would ask her or Lu Jiang for help with words he didn’t know. The letters he sent out were reviewed by her, and she’d never seen any teaching Wang Zhonghua such things in them.
Lu Jiang’s reviews were a different matter, as father and son often huddled together discussing “n’s secrets.”
Guo Yan was undeterred, “What’s so strange about that? Xibao knew how to take revenge for Huahua when he was that young. Now that he’s a few years older, he’s even more capable. Jia Baoyu knew thousands of words by heart when he was three or four. Besides, our Xibao is already five, having parents like you to teach him, wouldn’t his wits have grown by another seventeen or eighteen holes? Not to ntion, Zhonghua faking illness whenever he argues or fights with other kids turns out to be pretty effective. No one dares to bully him anymore.”
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