Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After she finished speaking, she continued: “If Mochen is busy, no one will take care of you at home. Alternatively, I can move to your place for a few days to help take care of you. Ah, by the way, Qi Qi is young and not sensible, so be careful not to let him rush into you.”
When Yan Qingchi heard her saying that she would be moving in, he felt that he was really the Prince of the Pea now and needed to be covered with a glass cover. Otherwise, if there was a slight breeze or a light rain, he might die.
“It’s not necessary. I can take care of myself. Mom, you don’t have to worry.”
“How can I not worry? Pregnancy is a big deal, and you are still a boy. I am really worried to death. Can you really do this?”
Yan Qingchi nodded, “Okay, okay, Mochen has already taken me to the doctor. The doctor must be more professional than you, don’t worry.”
When he left Yan’s house, it was already dark, and Mother Yan gave him some couplets of blessing. “Did you buy it? I was afraid that you wouldn’t have time to buy it, so I bought a pair for you in advance. You can take it back and stick it on the door.”
“Okay.”
“Remember to take good care of yourself.”
“I understand.”
“These are the buns I made yesterday. I knew you were coming today, so I made some of your favorite flavors and you can take them home and heat them up before eating. I packed a few for you and you can go back and eat them.”
Yan Qingchi was a little moved and said, “Yeah.” Then he said, “Thank you, Mom.”
A few people chatted for a while, and then finally entered the elevator. Qi Qi shook his little hand and said, “Goodbye, grandma, grandpa and aunt.”
“Goodbye, Qi Qi, remember to come over and play often. Ah.”
Qi Qi nodded with a smile, “Yeah.”
On New Year’s Day, Yan Qingchi, Jiang Mochen and Qi Qi all got up very early. After breakfast, they were thinking about pasting Spring Festival couplets and the word “Fu[1]“.
Qi Qi held the word “Fu” and looked at it carefully. Yan Qingchi asked him, “Qi Qi, do you understand?”
Qi Qi showed him the word “Fu”, “I know how to post this. Our teacher said, if you stick it upside down, then you will be lucky.”
“Wow, Qi Qi is so smart.”
Yan Qingchi said and was about to hug him. Jiang Mochen was so frightened that he immediately put down the couplet in his hand and picked up Qi Qi.
“You tell me what you want to do. Don’t move.”
Yan Qingchi said helplessly, “I just want to hold Qi Qi and stick the word “Fu” on the door.”
“Then I’ll do it.” After Jiang Mochen finished speaking, he said to Qi Qi, “Come on, stick the word “Fu” on the door, just as you just said, stick it upside down.”
“Where to stick it on the door?” Qi Qi compared with the word “Fu”.
Jiang Mochen smiled and said, “Just stick it in the middle.”
“Here?” Qi Qi moved to the middle.
“A little further up.” Yan Qingchi said.
Qi Qi raised his arms, “Like this?”
“A little toward your father.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes.” Yan Qingchi said, “Don’t move. Dad will help you glue the word “Fu” on it.” Once you tear it off, you stick it again.”
Qi Qi nodded and remained motionless.
Yan Qingchi walked over and stretched out his hand to tear off the tape on the back of the word “Fu”. “Okay, you can stick it on.”
Qi Qi said “Hey” and stuck it on with force.
It was still a little crooked. Yan Qingchi looked at the blessing character he had pasted, but it didn’t matter. They were all a family after all, and it didn’t matter who the crooked blessing fell on.
He applauded Qi Qi enthusiastically, “Qi Qi’s posting is great.”
Qi Qi pulled Jiang Mochen, “Father, let me get down. Qi Qi has to stand on the ground and see.”
Jiang Mochen took advantage of the situation and put him down.
Qi Qi looked up for a while, took two steps back, looked for a while, and then ran back to them.
“Has Qi Qi posted well?” Yan Qingchi asked him.
Qi Qi smiled happily and shyly “hehehe”, looking at Yan Qingchi with his head tilted, without saying whether he posted it well or not.
After pasting the word “Fu”, Qi Qi saw Jiang Mochen preparing to paste the couplet, raising his hands and shouting, “I’ll do it, I’ll do it, Qi Qi will post it.”
“No, this is too high, Qi Qi can’t reach it.”
Qi Qi pouted.
Qi Qi nodded quickly and asked him, “How to stick it on?”
Jiang Mochen said, “Can you help dad stick it on the bottom?”
He showed him how to tear off the tape from the back of the couplet, stick it on the top, and then flatten it. Then he told Qi Qi, “Ask dad to help you tear off the tape at the bottom, and then flatten it.”
Qi Qi understands, that’s right. He wanted to ask Yan Qingchi for help, but Yan Qingchi had already come over and helped him tear off the tape. “Okay, it’s time for Qi Qi.”
Qi Qi squatted down, pressed his palms on the couplets carefully, and exerted force. He pressed it up, even if it was not firm enough, he patted it with his little hand, “Is this good?”
“Yes, that’s good.” Jiang Mochen said, “Come on, Qi Qi should help father put this side together.”
Qi Qi happily followed him to the other side, and successfully posted the second couplet with the help of Yan Qingchi.
Finally, Jiang Mochen posted the horizontal batch.
He clapped his hands and said, “Okay.”
Yan Qingchi looked at the couplets on the door: always happy all year round, everything is renewed and it is spring.
Jiang Mochen put his arms around his shoulders and asked him, “How is it?”
Qi Qi read word by word, but he couldn’t read a few words at all. He shook his hand and asked him, “Dad, how do you read it? Yeah?”
Yan Qingchi read it softly, looked down at his young face, and pinched his face.
It’s great, he thought, this year is also a very happy year.
In the afternoon, Jiang Mochen drove and the three of them headed to Jiang’s house.
Qi Qi looked out the window and asked Yan Qingchi, “Why didn’t it snow this year?”
“Qi Qi likes snow?”
Qi Qi nodded, “On snowy days, you can make snowmen and have snowball fights. Qi Qi wants to build a snowman.”
“Then just wait. It will happen in a few days. Then Dad will build a snowman with you.”
“Yes.” Qi Qi nodded at him and continued to look out the window.
It was already past four o’clock when they arrived at Jiang’s house. Auntie was preparing food, Jiang’s parents were sitting together chatting about the New Year, and Jiang Xingchen was looking at her mobile phone.
Jiang Mochen and Yan Qingchi took Qi Qi into the house and helped Qi Qi take off his down jacket and scarf. When Qi Qi turned around, he saw Mother Jiang looking at him.
He waved his hand and shouted, “Hello, grandma.”
“Hello, Qi Qi, has Qi Qi eaten?”
“Eaten.” Qi Qi replied crisply.
“What did you eat?”
Qi Qi thought for a while and gave her a list of dishes.
Yan Qingchi pulled Qi Qi and walked over. Seeing Qi Qi coming, Mother Jiang reached out to hug him, and Qi Qi cooperated and let her hug him.
Yan Qingchi and Jiang Mochen sat down on the sofa next to them.
“Have you posted Spring Festival couplets?” Jiang Xingchen asked Jiang Mochen.
Jiang Mochen nodded, but before he could say anything, he heard Qi Qi raise his hand and say, “It’s posted. Qi Qi posted it with his father and his Dad together. Qi Qi also posted the word “Fu”.”
“That Qi Qi is very powerful.” Jiang Xingchen praised him.
When Qi Qi was praised by her, he felt shy and snuggled back into Mother Jiang’s arms.
Mother Jiang took a candy from the table, peeled off the candy wrapper and fed it to him.
Due to work reasons, Jiang Mochen didn’t have much time to go home all year round. Yan Qingchi was on the set the rest of the time except when he and Jiang Mochen went back to Jiang’s house after they first got married. This time the two of them came home to celebrate the New Year together. Father Jiang and Mother Jiang couldn’t help but persuade them to film less and go home more. The family didn’t care about the money.
The two of them responded repeatedly, but neither agreed nor refuted. Seeing this, Mother Jiang simply stopped persuading and let them go.
At her age, she liked children. In addition, Jiang Mochen and Yan Qingchi were not at home on weekdays. So, according to Jiang Mochen’s words, Aunt Zhang would take Qi Qi to the Yan family and Jiang family from time to time, so both the Jiang family’s parents and the Yan family’s parents were very fond of the only child in the family, holding him in their arms, talking to him, and teasing him.
Because Yan Qingchi and Jiang Mochen were around, Qi Qi was more lively than usual. He started laughing while talking to Mother Jiang, and the whole room became lively and warm.
After dinner, Jiang Mochen asked Jiang’s parents to go upstairs with Jiang Xingchen, while Yan Qingchi and Qi Qi watched TV together on the first floor.
Qi Qi asked him, “Where are father and the others?”
Yan Qingchi said warmly, “They have some work to do, so they went upstairs to do it. When they are done, they will come down and watch cartoons with Qi Qi.”
Qi Qi stopped asking more questions, just waiting for them to finish their work and come downstairs.
The Jiang family’s parents were a little confused when Jiang Mochen suddenly said that he had something to tell them. They were even more confused when they saw that the four-party talk was held only for them surnamed Jiang and Yan Qingchi did not come up. Mother Jiang even secretly winked at Father Jiang and thought to herself, is there something wrong with the relationship between these two children?
When she thought about it, she remembered that she had heard someone say that Yuan Mingxu had returned to China, and she suddenly had a terrible suspicion. Could it be that they were getting divorced?
Mother Jiang felt that her heart was not in good condition. Her son had finally given up on that little white lotus. Why was he making a comeback now? Mother Jiang felt a little sad.
Before Jiang Mochen could speak, he saw that his mother had a sad look on her face, and he was a little puzzled for a moment, “Mom, what’s wrong with you?”
“It’s nothing, I just think the atmosphere is good today. The whole family is together, and you and your sister also have a successful career, you have a family, Xiao Chi is sensible and well-behaved, I think it’s not easy, it’s pretty good.”
“Then you should be happy.”
“Yes, you’re right, I should be happy.” Mother Jiang smiled and said, “What do you want to tell us?”
When Jiang Mochen was asked this question, he didn’t know what to say.
He had asked Yan Qingchi before how he had a showdown with his parents. Yan Qingchi said very simply, “I just used a few words to tell them that we wanted to have another child and lamented that it would be great if we could have a baby, and then just told them I’m pregnant.”
Jiang Mochen looked at his family in front of him, should he do the same?
He thought for a while, coughed, and said, “Qingchi and I want to have another child.”
Jiang Xingchen was stunned, and so were the Jiang family’s parents.
“Now?” Jiang Xingchen looked at him, “Are you planning to adopt another one?”
“It’s not adoption either.” Jiang Mochen said after considering it.
Mother Jiang looked at him, “Surrogacy?”
“It’s not surrogacy.”
“What is that?” Father Jiang asked him, “You two can’t have children, don’t adopt, don’t have surrogacy, what else are you going to do? Find someone to adopt from the family? Our family or the Yan family?”
Jiang Mochen looked at the three pairs of curious eyes in front of him, “…how should I say this.”
“You can say whatever you want. No matter what you want to do, as long as it does not violate the law and morality, we will all support it. But Xiao Mo, you and Qingchi are both actors and busy. Wouldn’t it be difficult to take care of another child at this time? Or should you wait until you have more time later?” Jiang Xingchen suggested.
Jiang Mochen was helpless. If he had known that Yan Qingchi could get pregnant and he was given a chance to choose, he would not have chosen this time. But the deal was done and things were already like this, so he could only continue on. “This, it’s too late.”
“What’s too late?”
Jiang Mochen exhaled and looked up at the person in front of him, “Let me tell you one thing, don’t be scared, and don’t think I’m lying to you.”
“What on earth do you want to say?” Mother Jiang looked at him.
Jiang Mochen took a breath and said in one breath: “Qingchi is pregnant. We two have a child. I’m not lying to you. I mean literally, we two have our own biological child.” After he finished speaking, he looked at his parents and sister and saw the three of them looking at him in surprise. Their expressions were as if they were copied and pasted.
Jiang Xingchen was the first to come to her senses. She couldn’t believe it, “What did you say? Qingchi is pregnant?”
“Wait a minute,” Mother Jiang was a little confused, “Qingchi is a boy, right? Although our family had an arrangement with Yans at the time because of the old man, the family decided to let you marry Qingxi. But later, because you liked a boy, after discussing with the Yan family, we changed Qingxi to Qingchi? Qingchi is a boy, right? Or is Qingchi actually a girl, but I don’t know it?”
Jiang Mochen was speechless, “Of course Qingchi is a boy. We have been together for so long, how can I not know whether he is a boy or a girl?”
“But how did a boy get pregnant? Since ancient times, girls have always been pregnant, how can boys get pregnant?”
“Although I don’t know what is going on, it is true.”
“Did you go to the hospital? Is there no diagnosis error?”
“Sister, am I such a confused person?” Jiang Mochen asked.
When Jiang Xingchen heard this, she also felt that according to Jiang Mochen’s character, he would not talk nonsense about such things. So, was he really pregnant? As a boy, Yan Qingchi was pregnant?
“Do the Yan family’s parents know?”
“Yes. We went to the Yan family yesterday and told his parents.”
“How did his parents react?” Father Jiang asked.
“His parents accepted it well and even gave us some advice on things to pay attention to during pregnancy.”
“Then our Jiang family can’t lose to them.” Father Jiang heard this and immediately said: “Isn’t it just a man getting pregnant? The world is so big, there are all kinds of surprises, his parents can accept it, there is no reason why we can’t accept it, we can accept it too.”
Father Jiang said, and patted Mother Jiang, “You also have experience. Please give them some advice on pregnancy precautions. We can’t fall back.”
After hearing this, Mother Jiang who was very competitive when she was young, her urge to never admit defeat also increased, “Okay, I will make a list for Xiao Mo to take back in a moment.”
“Xiao Mo,” Mother Jiang looked at him, “remember to do what I wrote on the list, don’t just read it and not take it seriously. I’ve been here and I have experience.”
“Yes,” Father Jiang said, “Just listen to your mother.”
Jiang Mochen never expected that things would turn out like this. His parents who had been missing their competitive spirit for more than ten years, their heart actually broke out again on this matter. But okay, this could be considered accepted.
“Okay.” He said.
Seeing that he agreed, Mother Jiang still had some doubts, “Is he really pregnant?”
The author has something to say:
Qingchi: I can lift things with my hands, carry it on my shoulders, and hit ten with one, so there is no need to raise me like a porcelain doll!
Jiang’s parents & Yan’s parents & Mr. Jiang: No, you can’t!
Qingchi: …I’m probably already a waste…
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[1] It means luck, blessings, happiness and good fortune.