I was reborn after my cousin stole my life.

Chapter 207: Jiang Zhou's Favoritism

"What a clever little devil!"

An Hui patted her younger sister, who had just finished eating, and patted her back to help her burp. "Just you wait and see," she said, "she'll definitely be a mischievous troublemaker when she grows up!"

Yuan Xiu laughed and said, "I wonder who she looks like."

Anyway, she's not naughty or mischievous.

"She looks like Xiao Jiang." Aunt Zhao brought in a bunch of dried diapers from the back and put them on the sofa. "Daughters look like their mothers, sons look like their fathers, and Zhizhi's personality is just like Xiao Yuan's."

An Hui nodded: "That's true. Jiang Zhou was quite mischievous when he was a child. Look at him now, he's a father, and he still disagrees with me."

"Who's contradicting you?" Jiang Zhou entered from the doorway, holding a telegram in his hand. "Your telegram."

He handed the telegram to An Hui.

An Hui took it, opened it, glanced at it, and then put it away. "Who in this family can go against me now? Well, your son is a real handful, isn't this karma?"

Jiang Zhou took his daughter from her arms. "Don't worry, I'll definitely teach the child better than you. You won't suffer the consequences. Right, honey?"

The younger sister blinked and reached out to grab the buttons on his uniform.

"Don't grab it, your hands will hurt." Jiang Zhou coaxed his daughter while glancing at the son in Yuan Xiu's arms. "Is he full or not?"

Her little mouth was full of it, and her eyes were rolling around.

"See for yourself." As soon as Yuan Xiu moved, her son in her arms quickly grabbed the bottle and took a few big gulps.

Jiang Zhou understood, handed his daughter to An Hui, and took his son from Yuan Xiu's arms.

The baby bottle suddenly disappeared, and the older brother was stunned for a moment. By the time he realized what was happening, the person holding him had changed. The little guy was unhappy and started wailing loudly!

Hearing her brother's cries, the younger sister quickly turned her eyes to look over.

"Don't cry," Jiang Zhou's stern son said, not caring whether the baby was even two months old and could understand.

"Look, your sister isn't crying. How can you, a boy, cry so easily?"

Brother: "Waaaaah..."

The younger sister started pouting, looking even more aggrieved than when she herself was scolded.

An Hui coaxed her younger sister, who was watching the commotion from the side, "Zhizhi, be good. Daddy didn't scold you, so let's not cry."

Yuan Xiu stretched out her hand: "Give me the child. He's still too young. He won't understand what you're saying to him now."

Jiang Zhou: "We can't spoil him."

"It's not that we're spoiling him. He's just having milk a little longer."

"Zhizhi is not like him at all."

"Every child has a different personality."

Yuan Xiu took her son from his arms. "He's actually very easy to take care of. I'm at work during the day, so I can only spend time with them when I get off work. You see, he's always well-behaved when I'm not home."

"Zhizhi is still the better behaved."

"Hello!"

Yuan Xiu glanced at him and said, "You, as a father, shouldn't be biased. Your bias is too obvious."

Jiang Zhou raised an eyebrow: "Am I being biased?"

An Hui scoffed, "Oh! You haven't noticed yet?"

Jiang Zhou looked at Aunt Zhao.

Aunt Zhao: "...A little."

Jiang Zhou truly didn't feel he was being biased; he felt the same way about both children. It was just that his sister was weaker than his brother, so he felt more sorry for her.

"Qiaoqiao is a boy, so I have higher expectations for him."

"They're so young, why distinguish between boys and girls? Even if you want to educate them, you have to wait until they grow up."

Yuan Xiu handed her son, who had stopped crying, to Jiang Zhou: "You should hold him more often. Every time you come back, you hold your daughter and won't let go. No wonder your son cries as soon as he's in your arms. And your expression, please make the same expression when you hold your son as when you hold your daughter. Don't make it sound like you're scolding your soldiers every time you hold him."

The older brother, who had been shoved into his father's arms by his mother, was about to pout again.

Jiang Zhou remained silent for a moment, then smiled lovingly at his son in his arms.

Brother: "...Wow!"

……

"Was the telegram Mom received today asking her to come back?"

Before going to sleep, Yuan Xiu asked Jiang Zhou.

In the two months since her mother-in-law came, they have been writing letters frequently, but this is the first time they have sent a telegram.

Jiang Zhou sat on the edge of the bed, looking at the two children who were already fast asleep. "If she wants to go back, no one can stop her; if she doesn't want to go back, no one can make her leave."

He then bent down and kissed the two children on the forehead twice. "But judging from her current state, I'm afraid she won't leave anytime soon. One reason is that she can't bear to leave the children, and another is that you have your exams coming up soon. She'll probably wait until after your exams before bringing up the topic of leaving."

"That's good." Hearing him say that, Yuan Xiu felt relieved. The family really couldn't do without her now. With her around, she could devote much less energy to the children.

An Hui did not mention leaving, but she went out the next day to send a telegram. Some time later, Yuan Xiu learned from Aunt Zhao that the telegram was sent by Uncle Chen's daughter, saying that Uncle Chen was ill.

"It's nothing serious, just a minor cold. Your Uncle Chen's daughter sent a telegram secretly, wanting your mother-in-law to go back. By the time your mother-in-law sent the telegram back to ask, she was already better."

This was the first time Yuan Xiu had heard anyone mention that her mother-in-law's second husband, Uncle Chen, had a daughter.

For some reason, she always felt that Aunt Zhao glanced at her a couple more times when she mentioned this person.

"Has Aunt Zhao met Uncle Chen's daughter?"

"I've met her. I met her once. I went home a couple of years ago and happened to run into her. She's a few years older than you. She got married a few years ago and her children are already quite grown up."

"oh."

Yuan Xiu didn't take the matter to heart; she heard about it once and then forgot about it.

Soon, her exam admission ticket arrived.

The admission ticket had the words "Yuan Xiu" written in the candidate section.

Her photo was pasted on it, and the photo was stamped.

The exam will be held from the 10th to the 12th of next month at a middle school in the city.

"The exam will last for three days. Doesn't that mean we have to rush to the city every day? And it's so cold in the morning. It's going to be so tough!" Aunt Zhao said with some concern.

Jiang Zhou glanced at the location of the test center. "It's not far. I'll take you there every morning."

"You don't need to take us. The hospital has arranged cars to pick us up and drop us off at the test centers in order. It'll probably be the same at the military base. With so many people going together, how could we possibly get lost?" Yuan Xiu said with a smile.

An Hui: "Don't the military also have schools for their employees' children? Why didn't you set up this place as an exam center? If the school were the exam venue, it would be much more convenient for you to take the exam."

"Even if there are test centers here, it doesn't necessarily mean we'll take the test here. They're all arranged randomly. There are more than a dozen candidates from our hospital who are divided into several test rooms. Fortunately, they are all in a few schools that are relatively concentrated in the city. If they were far away, it would be troublesome just to pick them up and drop them off."