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Chapter 806 Xiao Xiao and Her Brother

Chapter 806: Chapter 806 Xiao Xiao and Her Brother

"Ying Zi, did you not sleep well last night? Why are the dark circles under your eyes so severe?"

They say that he who eats a man’s bread becomes his servant, and this saying applies to everyone, including Du Zhong.

Zhu Qianying had barely participated in any outdoor activities over the past year, and her skin was fair and translucent. Having slept poorly last night, her eye circles were so dark they could almost make her pass for a panda’s sibling.

"Yeah, my daughter was sick, so I didn’t get a good night’s sleep either."

This was no secret, and Zhu Qianying spoke about it openly and straightforwardly.

Even so, she didn’t use this as an excuse to slack off. She opened the fashion images sent by Du Zhong and diligently matched them with various pieces of jewelry.

She worked continuously until noon, at which point Du Zhong still remembered that Zhu Qianying’s daughter was sick.

"Ying Zi, why don’t you go home and check on your daughter? I’ll send the pictures to your email later. Do as much as you can from home, and just send them to me when you’re done."

Zhu Qianying felt somewhat guilty, but she was indeed worried about her little one all morning, and Yan Shao hadn’t called to say anything about it.

Seeing her hesitation, Du Zhong added, "How about this, bring some snacks tomorrow as an apology."

With Du Zhong putting it that way, Zhu Qianying accepted his kind offer, packed up her things, thanked him, and went out to hail a taxi.

After giving the address to the driver, Zhu Qianying took out her phone and made a call.

"Honey, how’s Xiao Xiao doing?"

As soon as the call connected, Zhu Qianying immediately asked.

"Nothing serious now, the siblings are playing together."

Over the phone, in addition to Yan Shao’s laughter-filled voice, faint sounds of baby boy and Little Baby laughing and playing could be heard.

"That’s good. What would you like to eat? I can stop by the supermarket and pick something up on the way, fruits, snacks, or something for tonight’s dinner."

"Don’t you have to work? Going to the supermarket?" Yan Shao seemed full of doubt.

"Mhm, Brother Du heard about Xiao Xiao being sick and let me take the work home. I’ll go buy some soup ingredients to make a nourishing soup for dinner."

Influenced by Chen Jing, Zhu Qianying usually paid close attention to dietary balance and knew much more about food therapy than the average housewife.

Even more, in fact, than the chef did now.

"In that case, I’ll ask the little ones what they’d like to eat and text you in a bit."

Dozens of minutes later, Zhu Qianying pushed a heavily loaded shopping cart out of the supermarket and was about to raise her hand to hail a taxi when a man got out of a black car parked by the road and ran towards her.

"Ying’er, over here."

This man was none other than Yan Shao.

"Why did you come here?" Zhu Qianying asked in surprise.

"The little boy and Little Baby went to sleep, and I thought you might be shopping here, so I had the driver bring me over to check."

Yan Shao said as he and the driver lifted the several heavy bags from the shopping cart.

"Little Baby is really okay now?"

"Yeah, she still had a slight cough this morning. After taking the medicine you gave her last night one more time, she seems to be all right now."

Little Baby’s constitution had always been quite strong, so her recovery was swift.

"That’s good."

Zhu Qianying got into the car, and Yan Shao’s gaze fell on her face.

"You definitely didn’t get much sleep last night, did you?"

The light was quite dim in the bedroom that morning, but now, Yan Shao could clearly see the dark circles she was sporting.

"It’s fine, I just need to sleep early tonight."

Zhu Qianying, who had already become a mother of two children, was used to such things and had no intention of complaining or acting spoiled.

Yan Shao wrapped his arms around her shoulders tenderly and let her lean into his embrace.

"Close your eyes and rest for a bit. I’ll wake you up when we get home."

Zhu Qianying murmured in agreement and without being pretentious, she nestled into his arms and found a comfortable position, then closed her eyes.

The supermarket was not far from where they lived, usually just about a ten-minute journey. Yan Shao instructed the driver to go slower, and it was almost twenty minutes later when the car entered the garden.

When the car stopped, Zhu Qianying opened her eyes.

She sat up straight, stretched lazily with a contented yawn, "Mmm... that’s really comfortable."

She had just finished speaking when she heard a gentle knock on the door, and faintly, a little voice, "Mommy..."

Zhu Qianying moved to the window, rolled down the glass, and poked her head out, sure enough, there stood her daughter by the car door, patting it. Her little face was rosy, and there was a haze of moisture in her eyes, looking like she had just woken up.

"Baby, where’s your brother?"

Zhu Qianying certainly didn’t dare to open the car door on her side but nudged Yan Shao with her foot, signaling for him to get out of the car quickly and pick up their daughter.

"Brother..." the little one pointed towards the not-too-distant lawn, "birdy..."

Zhu Qianying followed the direction of her finger and saw Ying Zi, the rambunctious little boy, hunched over, poking around in the flowerbeds, clearly searching for something.

Yan Shao got out of the car, scooped up Ying’er in one arm, and opened the car door with the other for Zhu Qianying to get out.

Ying’er showed no intention of going back inside the house, persistently pointing towards Ying Zi’s direction, "Brother... birdy..."

Zhu Qianying took the girl from him, "Husband, please help bring the things inside the house. I will carry Ying’er to see what’s going on."

After taking her daughter in her arms, she nibbled on her face several times before observing it closely, confirming that she looked no different from usual and seemed very lively. It appeared she really was fine.

Ying’er giggled as she was tickled, squirming into her mother’s embrace.

The mother and daughter duo laughed and frolicked their way over to Ying Zi. Hearing their voices, Ying Zi turned around and put his finger to his lips.

"Shush!"

Zhu Qianying tactfully covered the little girl’s mouth with her hand, and bent over with Ying’er in her arms to try and see what "birdy" the little girl was talking about.

Upon closer inspection, Zhu Qianying saw something fluttering in the flower bushes.

With a closer look, she could clearly see it was a little bird straining its wings.

Normally, a little bird would have flown away at the sight of people approaching so close, but it just kept fluttering its wings and didn’t fly away.

"Baby, is it possibly injured?"

Zhu Qianying asked softly, and Ying Zi turned to look at her, his eyes full of question marks, "It’s injured?"

"Yes... try reaching out to catch it. If it doesn’t fly away, it might be injured."

The little boy was skeptical, but he didn’t say anything else and cautiously extended his hand towards the little bird.

The little bird’s eyes were filled with panic, and it fluttered its wings even more fiercely, but it just wouldn’t fly.

Ying Zi managed to catch it smoothly, gently cradling it in both hands and carefully presenting it to Zhu Qianying.

Ying’er, with her bright, sparkling eyes, watched the little bird and touched its head with her chubby hands, mimicking the bird call, "Chirp chirp..."

The little bird huddled up in Ying Zi’s palm, and it was evident that it was truly injured.

"Baby, let’s take it back home and see where it is hurt."

Zhu Qianying, afraid that Ying’er, the somewhat clumsy girl, might scare the bird to death, held Ying’er and turned around first.

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