After playing for a while, she couldn't resist and opened the long-dormant university class group chat, sending a message:
Shen Qiuqiu gave birth to quadruplets!
After the message was sent, there was no response.
Stephen Chow thought: Am I making a big fuss over nothing?
Just as they were preparing to withdraw.
The phone started ringing loudly:
[Quadruplets?]
Is it true or false?
Are you married? @沈梧秋
What? Wu Qiu got married?!
Wow, congratulations!
【Qiuqiu, you're so unfair! You already have a child, and you didn't even tell us about your happy event. @沈梧秋】
...
Initially, the group was filled with shock at Shen Wuqiu's quiet delivery of quadruplets.
Stephen Chow seemed to have a good time chatting with everyone.
As a result, after their roommate Lin Ting asked Zhou Xingxing in the group chat where Shen Wuqiu was holding her full moon celebration.
The atmosphere in the group changed.
The pressure to survive is quite high these days, and the cost of raising children is rather expensive.
Raising children is expensive in big cities, but not necessarily in remote mountain villages.
Therefore, big cities emphasize fewer births and better births, while remote mountain villages emphasize having as many children as possible.
[Wait a minute, when I went to the Haicheng branch to discuss business at the end of last year, she was the one who handled my case. How come she's gone back to this remote mountain village to have a baby this year?]
Life is unpredictable. Who would have thought that our aloof goddess would ultimately find her home deep in the mountains?
...
Such comments quickly went viral.
Zhou Xingxing was furious. After a barrage of criticism, he realized that he was outnumbered and outmatched. In addition, he didn't know much about the person's current situation or the person's family background. He had no idea how to stand up for them. He was extremely frustrated. He also thought about how Shen Wuqiu would feel when she saw this information and began to regret mentioning it in the group.
After lying listlessly on the bed for a while, Stephen Chow couldn't fall asleep at all, and finally left the room looking dejected.
Chapter 97 Full Moon
Shen Wuqiu didn't see the chat history in the university group in time.
It wasn't that she had muted the group messages. Their class group had always been quite harmonious, and it would only get lively when someone got married. Although she didn't actively join in the fun, she would occasionally check everyone's updates through the chat history.
Instead, as a new mother, she simply didn't have time to look at her phone.
In the end, it was Stephen Chow who took the initiative to tell her about it, and only then did she pick up her phone and open the group message.
There are 36 people in their class group chat, and everyone is chatting away, so the messages have piled up like a mountain.
Shen Wuqiu didn't have the patience to look at everything one by one. She quickly scrolled up, glanced at it casually, and considered it done.
Although she didn't like to publicize her affairs, she didn't blame Zhou Xingxing for being talkative. She just laughed and scolded her, "He's right, the cost of raising children is quite high these days. Besides, I think you brought this on yourself. Who told you to talk so much?"
Hearing her tone, Zhou Xingxing knew she wasn't really angry, and felt a little relieved. He said:
"I'm not being smug, just trying to show off. Last time, the class monitor's wife gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, and everyone was so enthusiastic. Besides, why should they meddle in the cost of raising children? We can raise them together. With a multi-millionaire woman right here, why should they care?"
Upon hearing this, Gu Lingyu's ears twitched, and she immediately glared at the person, saying coldly, "Why are you meddling in other people's business? Why should you raise my child?"
My good intentions were misunderstood.
Zhou Xingxing was so angry that her lungs ached. Thinking of the sarcastic remarks made by some people in the group, she had an idea and deliberately said, "I'm just worried about Chen Qiuqiu and the kids. If you can provide the kids with a good enough environment to grow up in, why would I bother with your business?"
Gu Lingyu held her chin up, looking extremely aloof: "Then you won't need to trouble yourself."
Undeterred by the lack of useful information, Zhou Xingxing took advantage of Shen Wuqiu's absence while breastfeeding Da Mao, and decided to be blunt: "Then tell me what you have to guarantee that Qiuqiu and her daughter will have a worry-free life in the future? Your profession, annual salary, family assets... etc., take this opportunity to explain clearly so I can see if I should bother with this."
Gu Lingyu looked at her: "I am the dignified mountain god of Yai Mountain and the patriarch of the Gu clan. Do you, a mere human, have the right to worry about my wife and daughters?"
Even though the person in front of him looked exactly the same, Zhou Xingxing felt as if the other person was a completely different person. The tone of his voice was very calm, but it carried an inexplicable sense of authority that was impossible to ignore.
She stood there stunned for a while before realizing what Gu Lingyu had just said, and stammered, "Mountain God? Clan Chief? What game are you playing?"
Gu Lingyu glanced at her, withdrew her aura, and, too lazy to engage in a pointless argument with the insignificant human race, picked up Shen Wuqiu's phone from the bedside table.
Shen Wuqiu had just logged out of the chat, and the screen still showed the chat history from the university group.
Gu Lingyu unlocked the chat and quickly scanned the chat history, then rapidly tapped on the screen.
Soon, Zhou Xingxing's phone kept beeping with new message notifications. Without thinking much, she instinctively took out her phone.
After opening the message notification bar, the new message that appears on the screen is from the university group:
[Chen Wuqiu: I have read everyone's blessings and concerns.]
[Shen Wuqiu: There's a family tradition of inheriting a divine position, so we've had quite a few children.]
[Chen Wuqiu: Also, thank you everyone for your blessings. All those who sincerely wish to send their blessings are welcome to attend the babies' one-month celebration.]
"..." Zhou Xingxing was a little flustered. Looking at the person who calmly put the phone back in the distance, he said with a complicated expression, "The godhood is to be inherited? Are you serious?"
Gu Lingyu asked earnestly, "Is there a problem?"
Her expression was so serious that Stephen Chow felt it would be blasphemous to say it was a joke.
Therefore, even though she knew such remarks were too childish, she couldn't bring herself to say anything more to question them. She could only ask, "Did you get Qiuqiu's permission before saying these things in Qiuqiu's classmate group?"
Gu Lingyu looked up: "When you spoke out of turn, did you get Qiuqiu's permission?"
Stephen Chow was speechless.
Gu Lingyu snorted: "My woman has no right to be cared for by others."
What kind of domineering CEO statement is this?
This is just too damn sweet.
In that instant, Stephen Chow felt as if he could sense the sweetness of other people's love.
Having inexplicably been fed a mouthful of dog food (a Chinese slang term for witnessing public displays of affection), Stephen Chow felt lonely and started eyeing the kittens.
"By the way, Shen Qiuqiu, where are the cats? Didn't you say the big cat had four kittens? I only saw Si Mao, where are the other kittens?"
Shen Wuqiu knew that once a lie was told, hundreds of lies would have to be told to cover it up.
However, she had no choice but to lie: "I'm not too sure either. Cats in the countryside aren't as pampered as those in the city; they're all free-range, so it's normal not to see them for a day or two."
Stephen Chow was taken aback: "Cats can be allowed to roam freely? If they run away, do you think they'll come back on their own?"
Shen Wuqiu remained calm: "I don't know about other people's cats, but mine does."
"...My heartless cat, I forgot to close the door, and he was tricked away by a brat with a sausage." Cats are truly infuriating.
Although Zhou Xingxing still found it unbelievable, she had always trusted Shen Wuqiu, so she didn't think much of it and went to play with Er Mao, who had just finished drinking milk.
After teasing him for a while, she secretly pinned the red envelope she had prepared to Er Mao's clothes and whispered, "It's not that Auntie is biased, it's just that your mom was too unexpected, so Auntie miscalculated."
Shen Wuqiu heard her mutterings clearly. Ever since she formed a bond with a certain cat, her five senses had become more acute. She didn't pretend not to hear and teased her directly: "If you don't have enough cash, I don't mind if you transfer money via WeChat."
"Get lost," Zhou Xingxing retorted. In their custom, the first gift given to a child must be a proper red envelope. Luckily, red envelopes were cheap. When she bought them, the seller was playing mahjong and thought it was too much trouble to sell one, so she bought five instead.
After playing for a while, Er Mao started yawning.
Zhou Xingxing handed the children to Shen Wuqiu, then pinned red envelopes on the already sleeping Sanmao and Simao before returning to his own room.
*****
Although it is called a full moon banquet, it does not necessarily have to be held on the day of the full moon. For such celebratory banquets, an auspicious day is preferred.
According to the Chinese almanac, November 1st is an auspicious day for all activities.
Shen Wuqiu booked the baby's one-month celebration for this day. The baby was born on the evening of September 30th, so this day marks a full month.
Compared to others, Shen Wuqiu was more looking forward to her child's one-month celebration.
Because postpartum confinement is really too difficult, even though she was able to take care of herself in all aspects of life less than a week after giving birth, her three elders in the family still treated her like a porcelain doll.
They said she couldn't be exposed to drafts during her postpartum period, so they made her stay cooped up in the room all day long, and they wouldn't even let her wash her hair or take a bath. Heaven knows how much sweat she sweated during childbirth, and yet she ended up smelling terrible for a whole month.
So, on the night before the full moon banquet, Shen Wuqiu was finally able to wash herself up without any worries.
That evening, Shen Wuqiu fed the babies early and filled the large wooden tub with water, thinking she would take a nice bath to relax.
To her surprise, the moment she stepped into the wooden tub, the cat started scratching at the door.
Scratching once every five minutes:
"Qiuqiu, are you done?"
"Qiuqiu, do you want me to wash you?"
"Qiuqiu, have you slept yet?"
"Qiuqiu..."
This is absolutely intolerable.
"Gu Lingyu, when will you ever stop?"
"...I just wanted to tell you that I'm waiting for you."
Did I keep you waiting?
"...It's a full moon today..."
"so what?"
"So... I can grant your wish now..."
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