Wealthy Beauty in the 60s

At the Gao family, Guoqiang and Xianghong were silent and didn’t know what to say.

Even Jiazhi and Yuhua could feel the oppressive atmosphere in the house, and Xia Xiao also didn’t know what to say. It wasn’t the time for the Gao family to be involved with Li Qinghong and her daughter, even if they wanted to help.

Over the years, everyone had been watching, and the matters of Li Qinghong and her daughter were different from those of Yang Xuehua, who had good luck to be accepted early as an educated youth, with high ideological awareness, familiar and well acknowledged by everyone.

Xia Jing was pregnant and Yan Hao was very happy. Xia Xiao told Yan Hao to take good care of Xia Jing, as the first three months required caution.

Turning three, sitting six, crawling nine, time flew by very fast. Now, Feiyang and Feiyue were already one year old, learning to walk. Xia Xiao had already weaned the children, leaving both kids miserably crying, wanting to claw Xia Xiao’s clothes every time they were hungry and refusing to eat normal food, just crying and fussing.

Finally, Xianghong took some herbal juice and smeared it on Xia Xiao’s breasts, making Feiyang and Feiyue’s faces sour and gradually they stopped fussing for milk.

And ever since the children started growing teeth, feeding them had been painful for Xia Xiao, hurt from the biting. Xia Xiao had thoughts of weaning them, but seeing how small they were, she couldn’t bring herself to do it, just feeling that being a mother wasn’t easy.

On Xianghong’s side, hers was an unease due to the affairs of the Li family, having been beholden to the Li family, and now that they were in trouble, Xianghong couldn’t lend a hand, which made her terribly upset.

In the yard, Xia Xiao was teaching the two children to walk, with Weilin watching too.

Suddenly, Feiyang threw himself into Xia Xiao’s arms, calling out "mama," albeit quite unclearly. Yet, this single word, ’mama,’ almost brought Xia Xiao to tears.

"Mommy’s darling," Xia Xiao couldn’t help but pick up Feiyang and kiss him.

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Feiyue, seeing Xia Xiao kiss Feiyang, became upset and also brought his face close, as if wanting a kiss.

Xia Xiao asked Feiyue, "Say mama?"

Feiyue couldn’t call out, he was a bit slower than Feiyang, but seeing that Xia Xiao wasn’t kissing him, he took the initiative to kiss her.

This display from her sons completely melted Xia Xiao’s heart; she hugged both sons, kissing them from one to the other.

Everyone laughed upon hearing Feiyang call out mama.

Then Weilin suddenly rushed toward her too, calling out "mama" and then planting a kiss on Xia Xiao’s face.

Xia Xiao was taken aback, and at this point, Xianghong also snapped back to reality, as did Guoqiang and Jiazhi, and Yuhua, and then they all started to laugh.

Xia Xiao rubbed Weilin’s head and hugged her, saying, "I am your aunt, not your mom."

"Mama," Weilin kept calling, seemingly imitating Feiyang.

Yuhua annoyed, said, "You’re even recognizing the wrong mom; seems like I raised this daughter for nothing."

Unable to resist, Xianghong replied, "You birthed your own daughter, but how many times have you taken care of her? It’s been me and Xia Xiao every time, no wonder Weilin doesn’t recognize her own mom."

"I could take care of the children too if I weren’t working. Do we really need two people to care for just a few children?" Yuhua retorted, currently working with the production team, while Xia Xiao had stayed idle at home since giving birth to the twins.

Moreover, the twins were already a year old and Xia Xiao still hadn’t started working again; Yuhua felt that this was improper, yet she observed that neither Guoqiang nor Xianghong had spoken a word about it.

In Sun Yuhua’s view, one person was enough to take care of three children at home; there was no need for two.

"Fine, I’ll go to work tomorrow, and you can stay home with the kids," Zheng Xianghong agreed, and then went back to her room.

Gao Guoqiang didn’t say anything, but Gao Jiazhi reproached Sun Yuhua and said, "You can’t even handle one, how can you handle three?"

"What’s so difficult about it? Just feed them," Sun Yuhua responded.

Xia Xiao really wanted to retort and let Sun Yuhua experience a day of taking care of several children, but she was not comfortable with the idea of Sun Yuhua looking after her son.

Besides, both her sons were learning to walk, and little Weilin was at the "naughty and mischievous" stage. If she didn’t keep an eye on them, what would happen if there were dangers?

She and Zheng Xianghong weren’t exactly idle at home either. Zheng Xianghong also had to help out at the big cafeteria, and all the housework like washing and cooking were chores too.

Of course, these chores were indeed lighter than going out to work, not as tiring as being outside, and perhaps that was one thing that dissatisfied Sun Yuhua.

It was then that Gao Guoqiang spoke up, "Alright, you stay home tomorrow and watch the kids, and everyone else goes to work."

With Gao Guoqiang saying that, Xia Xiao felt conflicted, but she nodded anyway.

So, the next day, Xia Xiao went to work with the rest, and Sun Yuhua stayed home to take care of the kids.

Once she left her children, Xia Xiao felt uneasy, and couldn’t focus on her work. Seeing this, Zheng Xianghong said, "If you’re worried, why don’t you go back and check on them?"

Xia Xiao nodded, "Thank you, Mom. I’ll head back now and come back shortly."

Saying this, Xia Xiao dropped her hoe and ran home. As soon as she arrived, she heard the loud cries and felt her heart tighten.

At that moment, Sun Yuhua was in the kitchen cooking porridge because she was unable to watch the kids, so she had locked them all in a room.

Little Weilin had crawled onto the bed and fallen off, bumping into Feiyang and Feiyue, causing all the children to start crying loudly.

Sun Yuhua rushed over as well, but she couldn’t console them and instead issued stern commands, yet the babies, being so young, didn’t stop crying, but cried even louder.

Xia Xiao ran out and encountered this scene and upon her arrival, Feiyang, Feiyue, and little Weilin all rushed towards her, crying and calling for their mom.

Enraged, Sun Yuhua watched as Xia Xiao consoled the children and said, "They’re small kids; you need to soothe them, not scare them with yelling."

Sun Yuhua sneered, "Sure, you know how to take care of kids. Even my own daughter calls you mom now, not recognizing her own mother."

Xia Xiao really couldn’t argue with that, it wasn’t she who taught Weilin, but it was true that Weilin was mostly raised by her "aunt," Xia Xiao.

Weilin had learned to address her grandparents, her parents, and her aunt quite early. Now, she only started calling her mom because Feiyang did so, and Xia Xiao figured it was something that could be corrected in young children.

But clearly, Sun Yuhua was bothered by this, and seeing the children cry so pitifully angered Xia Xiao even more. She retorted, "That’s why you locked them up in the room? That’s your way of childcare? I truly can’t agree with that."

Naturally, it was the first time Xia Xiao and Sun Yuhua had had an argument.