Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse-Chapter 377 - 373: Well, You’ve Made It Clear

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Zhang Shanni gently persuaded her in-laws for a few moments before watching Xie Tiesheng take his family away. After that, her husband carried her to the bathroom to clean up. She finally felt somewhat refreshed.

Although the bathing process troubled her greatly, she preferred to endure the pain and get dry first—besides, even if it was awkward and uncomfortable, being clean was necessary to prevent inflammation. This was something she couldn’t compromise on.

As soon as she came out, Little Baobao, Xiaojiu, and Xiao Shi, who smelled the scent of milk, started crying loudly with a "wah wah."

Xie Jingchen wanted to pick up the children as soon as he heard them.

But Zhang Shanni remembered what her mother-in-law had said: after bathing, one should rest for at least twenty minutes before breastfeeding the babies.

She didn’t understand the reasoning behind it, but since the elderly had said so, Zhang Shanni followed suit.

Although many customs might not need such attention, if something has been passed down by the older generation, there must be a reason for it.

The main thing was, Zhang Shanni was a tough mom. Ever since she heard a doctor say that babies crying more could increase their lung capacity, she was no longer afraid of Xiaojiu and Xiao Shi constantly performing their duet.

Treat it as practice for lung capacity, and she could ignore the soft-heartedness.

However, Xie Jingchen, who seemed absolutely cold-blooded in the eyes of outsiders as a soldier king, showed a look of sorrow and reluctance in his tiger-like eyes as he watched his twin son and daughter cry until their little faces turned red and purple, crying out loud "wah yah yah~".

Jiang Xiaoying saw this and wanted to pick up the children to comfort them, but was stopped by Zhang Shanni:

"Sister Jiang, don’t pick them up, let them cry for a while, it’s no big issue."

"..." Xie Jingchen, following Jiang Xiaoying’s move, stretched out his hands to pick them up but also stopped midway.

Zhang Shanni glanced sharply:

"You don’t need to be so delicate with them. Xiaojiu and Xiao Shi already cry less. They only cry a bit when they’re hungry and after a diaper change. This is not good for expanding their lung capacity. Let them cry for a bit to practice their lung capacity. If they’re too fierce, then pick them up and feed them some water, but don’t be soft-hearted."

Zhang Shanni said this while watching her husband. Sister Xiao Ying was employed, so of course, she would listen to her employers. But as for her husband, Zhang Shanni felt that he was spoiling Xiaojiu and Xiao Shi too much, and this way, the babies would be spoiled rotten.

Humph, her man should just spoil her alone.

In her eyes, whether it was a son or a daughter, they should be properly disciplined. Although a daughter should be cherished, it didn’t mean pampering her to a spoiled state.

In Zhang Shanni’s view, to cherish meant to enrich her material life a bit, but her character needed to be nurtured from an early age.

She didn’t want to raise another ’Yan Jinxian.’ If parents just went along with everything their children wanted from the start, it would be very difficult later to change those habitual ways of thinking.

It was better to start strict education from infancy. If they were stricter in their early years, their character would essentially be set by the time they were teenagers, and this would prevent parents from having ’lifelong regrets.’

The twins seemed to understand their mother’s firm stance and cried out even louder, "wah wah ah ah~"

Jiang Xiaoying’s heart softened, not to mention Xie Jingchen’s feelings.

"Wife..."

"No. Husband, you have to listen to me!"

Zhang Shanni spoke sternly, but her face also showed distress. Xie Jingchen had no choice but to send Sister Jiang out to watch and simply picked up his petite wife who was leaning out to look at the baby. Although they weren’t holding the infant, the two of them were tightly snuggled together, silently watching the twins ’practice their vocals’.

Fortunately, Xie Tiesheng and his wife had left. Otherwise, hearing the twins cry like this would definitely have softened their hearts.

They might even secretly blame Zhang Shanni, the daughter-in-law, for being too harsh on the little ones.

Zhang Shanni also felt very sad inside, but the twins, due to their spiritual power, might be more mature in intelligence than average infants. Just born, they already knew what looked good and paid attention to their image.

Usually, they seldom cried, not at all like normal infants who cried at the slightest discomfort — whimpering.

Just listening to this whimpering cry pains her heart more than anyone else’s.

But the twins were really too clever; if they start accommodating them now, what will happen in the future!

Just two days in, the twins only cried when they were hungry, thirsty, or needed a change, usually just whimpering when uncomfortable or hungry. It was just a token gesture, crying without real tears, which surprised Jiang Xiaoying immensely as she remarked on the twins’ high intelligence and how they would definitely be easy to raise in the future.

There’s completely no infant phase, unlike other children who are so noisy.

But although Zhang Shanni had not had children herself, her cousin married early and even had a second child; when the baby was just a month old, she had accompanied her mother there.

When she heard the child crying, she had specifically taken care of it, but her cousin said there was no need to fuss over the baby, that crying was needed for the lungs to develop fully. As long as it did not hurt the baby’s voice, a crying, fussy child would gradually improve both in physical and mental capacity.

Because she was surprised then, Zhang Shanni remembered it very clearly. Later, when the apocalypse came and she was left without any family members around, she could only rely on the memory of her relatives to get through the days, making these little dramas even more memorable.

"Wife, is it okay now?" Although Xie Jingchen had never opposed his little wife’s parenting methods, seeing the twins cry their hearts out, he definitely felt distressed.

"Husband, you’re just focusing on their sad crying, I feel even worse!" Zhang Shanni pouted.

Her husband’s eyes were now full entirely of the red-eyed twins, completely forgetting the discomfort she was experiencing.

"Silly, if you feed them milk, it will relieve some of the pressure." Xie Jingchen rubbed her hair soothingly, albeit helplessly.

Although he felt sorry for their twins, when he accidentally touched her breast and she involuntarily flinched and whimpered, could he not see that?

He just didn’t want to say it out loud to avoid making her feel embarrassed.

"Humph," Zhang Shanni grabbed his big hand, avoiding his almost healed wound on the back, and lightly bit it again, "you have a point."

"..." Xie Jingchen looked at the little teeth mark on the back of his hand, then turned it over to see the bite mark in his palm. His old wounds hadn’t healed, and now he has new ones?!

Xie Jingchen’s expression was very helpless, yet he looked at her affectionately again, then raised his hand to check his watch. Seeing it had been twenty minutes, he immediately carried his little wife back to her sickbed, letting Zhang Shanni properly clean her chest area.

After receiving a glare from his wife, Xie Jingchen touched his nose tip, turned around, and softly murmured, "Little Baobao, Daddy will hold you—"