Chapter 321 - 310: Advancing the Changes
During the day, everyone was busy with their work, and during all the leisure time, they began to enter all the customers’ data by typing with both hands on the keyboard. Of course, Wubi typing system hadn’t appeared yet, only a combination of pinyin and numbers, and not all customers’ data was entered, only data from state-owned enterprises and some companies needed to be entered.
After a month of hard work, by early June Li Xianglu no longer needed to work overtime. Her weight had also reached 110 pounds, but she was still heavier than before her pregnancy, when she was only 94 pounds, despite being tall with a small frame.
In order to get back to her pre-pregnancy weight, Li Xianglu ate very little at night, while Qin Xi was valued by her leaders and had recently been taken to review work at the lower levels.
The twins were growing fast under the care of the newly arrived Aunt Ma. She was very good at looking after children and loved the two kids dearly, often humming songs to them and paying special attention to changes in the weather to add clothing accordingly.
The six-month-old twins now weighed nineteen pounds each, especially loving to make the motion of kicking their legs. Su Yan, who held them in her arms, would soon get quite tired.
As soon as Li Xianglu got home from work each day, the two boys would scramble to break free from whomever was holding them to be picked up by her, but Li Xianglu could only hold one child at a time. After holding Ba’er, Ba Yi would look on with pitiful eyes without getting upset. However, if she held Ba Yi first, then it would spell disaster. Ba’er would watch his mother holding his brother in a daze, then his mouth would slowly crack open and he’d cry as loud as thunder.
If someone then playfully teased, "Oh, you poor thing, mommy doesn’t want you anymore, huh?" it would make things even worse. The lad could understand, so he’d cry even more sadly, while Ba Yi, held by Li Xianglu, would tilt his head to look at Ba’er, not understanding why his brother was so upset.
Such scenes would repeat almost every two or three days, but everyone still found it amusing, especially Su Yan, who would laugh for quite a while at the sight of Ba’er feeling aggrieved, exactly like a mischievous great-grandma bullying her great-grandson.
Li Xianglu didn’t fuss over these little things; it was good for the children’s physical and mental health to cry and make a fuss every now and then.
In the middle of June, Qin Xi returned from the county-level work, tanned all over. Ba’er cried a lot when held in her arms, so Li Xianglu had no choice but to comfort him from the side: "It’s your daddy, Ba’er, it’s your daddy. Daddy, remember? Daddy."