By evening, Ni Jingxi finally understood the meaning of "好好好".
When Huo Shenyan brought the things in, he casually handed them to her, smiling and saying, "Grandpa asked me to give these to you."
Ni Jingxi was puzzled. She glanced at it, then quickly closed it again. When she looked at Huo Shenyan, he smiled and said, "Happy?"
He knew that Ni Jingxi's expression wasn't happy, but he still teased her on purpose.
Ni Jingxi opened the document again, looked down and counted the zeros on it. After the third time, she finally whispered, "One hundred million?"
This is a fund that the old man set up for the baby in her belly.
Not much, just one hundred million.
Huo Shenyan smiled and patted her head: "This is a gift from the baby's great-grandfather."
Ni Jingxi felt a little dazed and needed time to calm down. She didn't want to appear ignorant, but who would give a hundred million to an unborn child?
Huo Shenyan, on the other hand, was quite calm. He said, "When I was born, my grandfather gave my mother 100 million yuan. He said that he would give her this much reward for having one child."
Ni Jingxi looked at him, feeling a sense of wonder that there was still something to be gained in the world.
Huo Shenyan said, "However, my mother had a severe hemorrhage when she gave birth to me, and my father couldn't bear to let her give birth anymore."
What a spirit of disregarding money!
Huo Shenyan continued, "If you find it too difficult, we can just have one child."
"Do you prefer a boy or a girl?" Ni Jingxi asked him earnestly.
Huo Shenyan thought for a moment: "A girl."
Finally, he whispered, "Xiao Cheng always brags about his daughter to me."
Ni Jingxi thought of Jiang Jingcheng and Yan Yu's daughter, that sweet little girl named Tang Duo'er. Not only was she incredibly cute and beautiful, like a porcelain doll, but even her lips were as sweet as honey.
“Okay, let’s have a daughter then.” Ni Jingxi nodded.
Seeing her confident expression, Huo Shenyan smiled and said, "How about having two at once?"
Ni Jingxi looked at him: "Does your family have a history of twins?"
Huo Shenyan thought about it and realized that there didn't seem to be any.
Ni Jingxi also felt a little regretful. She didn't know much about their family history, but she didn't seem to have heard of any family that had twins. But she said seriously, "What if our wish comes true, and we have twins, or even a boy and a girl?"
Huo Shenyan found her inexplicable confidence quite amusing.
However, he didn't discourage Ni Jingxi. Instead, he encouraged her, saying, "That's good. What if your wish comes true?"
Chapter 82
Ni Jingxi didn't tell anyone about her pregnancy at first, since it was still early and there was no need to go around telling everyone. Besides, Zhong Lan was quite insistent on this matter, instructing Ni Jingxi not to tell anyone outside her family before the third month.
So Ni Jingxi told Ni Pingsen, but didn't tell anyone else.
Ni Pingsen learned about this over the phone because even though Ni Jingxi was married, she was still a little shy about telling her father that she was pregnant.
Sure enough, after a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone, Ni Pingsen stammered, "How many months?"
“Not several months, the doctor said it should be more than forty days,” Ni Jingxi said softly.
It was indeed just discovered.
Ni Pingsen opened his mouth as if to say something, but ultimately didn't. Logically, after a daughter becomes pregnant, certain things should be taught by the mother. After all, the mother has given birth, unlike the father who can only talk the talk.
Gu Mingzhu left too early; she didn't even get to see Ni Jingxi's wedding, so how could she have told her about having a child?
After thinking it over, Ni Pingsen still advised, "If there's anything you need to do, you must ask your mother-in-law, since she has experience."
Ni Jingxi smiled and agreed.
Although Ni Pingsen didn't say anything on the phone, he still came to the house the next day. When Ni Jingxi got off work, she saw him busy in the kitchen.
When Ni Pingsen wanted to move back to his old house, Ni Jingxi disagreed, since it was quite old.
However, Ni Pingsen said everything was fine.
In the end, Ni Jingxi couldn't persuade him otherwise, but she insisted on renovating the old house before allowing Ni Pingsen to live there. After all, Shanghai is inherently humid, and such an old house would be even more damp on rainy days.
Especially during the humid season, the floor is covered in water droplets.
Ni Pingsen occasionally comes to visit Ni Jingxi now, because she is very busy with work, and he feels sorry for her running around, so he always comes to see her himself.
“Dad, stay here tonight,” Ni Jingxi said immediately upon seeing him.
Seeing her clinging to his phone and acting coquettishly, Ni Pingsen couldn't help but tease her: "Why are you getting more and more clingy as you get older?"
Ni Jingxi looked at him expectantly: "Dad, you can stay here."
"OK."
Seeing that she really wanted him to stay, Ni Pingsen didn't want to disappoint her and nodded. Ni Jingxi was genuinely happy, her face beaming with smiles. After taking off her coat, she kept circling around the kitchen.
"Dad, are the New Year's goods ready at home?" Ni Jingxi took a bite of the ribs that Ni Pingsen handed her.
These are spare ribs that Ni Pingsen specially bought. They are perfect for making sweet and sour spare ribs. When you take a bite, the aroma lingers on your lips and teeth, and the meat on them is completely devoured.
After Ni Jingxi finished the first piece, she still wasn't satisfied.
When Huo Shenyan returned, he saw Ni Jingxi standing by the dining table, secretly eating spare ribs. He chuckled and walked over, tiptoeing until he was right in front of her before whispering, "What are you secretly eating?"
Ni Jingxi was clearly startled, and accidentally bit her own fingertip.
She let out a soft cry of pain, which startled Huo Shenyan, who quickly reached out and grabbed her fingers.
There was a very obvious tooth mark on the originally pink fingertip.
Huo Shenyan felt sorry for you: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have scared you."
As he spoke, he lowered his head and gently kissed her fingertip. Ni Jingxi was slightly taken aback until she looked up at Ni Pingsen, who was just coming out of the kitchen.
This scene was clearly witnessed by Ni Pingsen.
What was supposed to be a little romantic gesture between the young couple was witnessed by their elders, causing Ni Jingxi's cheeks to flush slightly.
Ni Pingsen, however, had a smile on his face.
His little girl has found the person she loves and is being pampered like this.
How could he not be happy?
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At first, Ni Jingxi felt that her pregnancy was particularly easy. The first three months should have been a time of severe morning sickness, but she actually had very mild symptoms.
Because her medical check-up results were consistently good, she didn't pay much attention to it and took it easy.
It wasn't until Tang Mi invited her out for dinner that she casually asked, "When are you and President Huo planning to have a child?"
Both of them are so good-looking that Tang Mi really can't wait to see what kind of divine-looking baby they will have.
Ni Jingxi, who was eating dessert across from her, suddenly looked up and said, "I'm pregnant."
"When?" Tang Mi looked at her in surprise.
After a moment of surprise, Ni Jingxi finally remembered that she hadn't told anyone before because Zhong Lan had instructed her not to tell anyone for the first three months.
Now that three months have passed, she still hasn't had a chance to tell Tang Mi.
When Ni Jingxi told Tang Mi that she was three months pregnant, Tang Mi stared blankly at her belly, opened her mouth, and finally said after a long while, "I feel like my belly is bigger than yours."
Since it was early spring, Ni Jingxi had her coat on the chair next to her and was wearing a loose beige sweater.
She remained slender and delicate.
Not to mention her lower abdomen, which doesn't look protruding at all.
Ni Jingxi said in a low voice, "Actually, if you lift up your clothes, you can still see the bulge."
Because she originally had no belly fat at all, when her lower abdomen started to bulge out a little, it was actually quite noticeable. It was just that it was covered up by her loose sweater at the moment.
"Boy or girl?" Tang Mi asked immediately, curious.
Ni Jingxi shook her head: "I don't know yet."
Although it's not allowed to determine the sex of a fetus beforehand, Ni Jingxi could go to Hong Kong if she really wanted to know. However, neither she nor Huo Shenyan was in a hurry; it felt like a gift from heaven.
So they wanted to open this precious gift at the last minute.
Whether it's a little boy or a little girl, they will be her most precious treasures.
When she went for her next prenatal checkup, the doctor who had been examining her looked at the ultrasound report and suddenly laughed, saying, "Mom's going to have a tough time from now on."
Ni Jingxi was slightly taken aback and was about to ask what was wrong.
Director Jiang: "Having twins is much more difficult than having a singleton."
These words stunned both Ni Jingxi and Zhong Lan. Huo Shenyan was too busy to come today, so he asked Zhong Lan to accompany Ni Jingxi to her prenatal checkup.
I never expected to receive this kind of news.
Although Ni Jingxi had joked with Huo Shenyan when she first became pregnant, she wanted to have two children at once, preferably twins, a boy and a girl, so that she could have both a son and a daughter and save time.
After all, the happiness of having two precious children at once should be twice that of having only one.
However, they also knew that twins were rare, let alone the even rarer case of fraternal twins (a boy and a girl).
Of course, modern technology allows for the birth of twins in one go, but Ni Jingxi conceived naturally and is simply waiting for God's blessing.
But to her surprise, her wish actually came true.
Zhong Lan was even more excited than her and quickly asked, "Really? Are they twins?"
"Yes, look over here." Director Jiang smiled and showed the ultrasound to Zhong Lan, who looked at it so intently that she didn't want to let go.
Afterwards, they got into the car and went home. Before they even got home, Zhong Lan called Huo Zhenzhong to share the good news. She said smugly, "Something happened at the hospital today. Do you want to guess what it is?"
Her tone was so joyful that Huo Zhenzhong probably thought it was a good thing, and he also remembered that Ni Jingxi was going for a prenatal checkup today.
After all, Zhong Lan had been talking about this to him for a long time last night, and even Huo Zhenzhong, who was extremely busy, remembered it.
Hearing Zhong Lan say that, he simply laughed and said, "I can't guess. Please tell me, beautiful Ms. Zhong."
Zhong Lan was amused by him: "Alright, I'll reluctantly tell you, Jing Xi is pregnant with twins, twins."