Chapter 1781: Teach You to Spin Tops?
Chapter 1781: Chapter 1781: Teach You to Spin Tops?
“Really? Then you should try one too.” Xue Yang stood up excitedly, her eyes shining with anticipation as she looked at her little cousin.
Fu Bo, caring about his face, actually did it and then “Wow,” he cried out in pain, and his face finally changed, no longer pretending to be a miniature adult.
“What’s happened, what’s happened?” Xue Wufu heard the noise and was the first to rush over. He quickly picked up his son and asked.
Fu Bo was rubbing his eyes with his little hands, sniffling, and feeling utterly aggrieved. “It hurts… I did the splits…”
“Uncle Wu, my brother doesn’t know how to do splits.” Little Xue Yang was super happy, even jumping about.
“Wah—” Fu Bo cried even louder.
...“Hahaha,” Xue Wufu laughed so hard he thought he would die. He usually let this son put up a front, insisting on acting like a little adult. He picked up Little Xue Yang as well, placing her on his other arm, and coaxed, “Bo Bo, your elder sister Xue Yan is just teasing you. Does it still hurt?”
“It doesn’t hurt anymore.” Fu Bo sobbed as he spoke, sounding stuffy. He hadn’t really done the splits. As soon as he stood up, the pain was gone.
“Don’t cry, brother.” Little Xue Yang used her little hands to help wipe his tears.
Fu Bo felt unusually embarrassed, his little eyes darting around.
Afraid that he would burst out laughing again and make his son too embarrassed to join the others, Xue Wufu held back his laughter and said, “Your sister is wiping your tears for you, aren’t you going to thank her?”
“Thank you, elder sister.” Fu Bo said in a muffled voice.
“No need to thank me!” Little Xue Yang was thrilled. “Brother, let’s go out and play. I’ll teach you how to spin a top. I am really good at it now!”
“Um…” Fu Bo answered in his muffled voice but agreed.
After putting his two precious children down, Xue Wufu couldn’t help but warn them, “Just play at the doorway, don’t go too far.”
“We got it, Uncle Wu.” Little Xue Yang answered sweetly and shrewdly.
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan came over, and Xue Wufu, worried that his son would feel ashamed and refuse to play with Little Xue Yang, quickly signaled Jiang Yue and Xue Yan not to ask anything. Knowing that Little Xue Yang had taken Fu Bo out to play again, they played with spinning tops just at the entrance of the courtyard. Only then did Xue Wufu joyfully share how his son had cried over an attempted split without actually doing it.
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan also smiled.
Xue Wufu continued happily, “It’s also because his mother is strict with him, given the throne he has to inherit. When he comes here, he wouldn’t even know how to have fun if it weren’t for others leading him. He’s not like me at all, except in appearance. I was always the one leading others to have fun, not like him.”
Xue Yan laughed, “Wenwan, because there’s a throne for him to inherit, naturally has to be stricter.”
Xue Wufu said, “I know, and I don’t blame her. She’s actually very indulgent with Bo Bo. Besides having him start learning to read, write and study etiquette early, she gives him whatever he wants. She makes sure to arrange opportunities for me to take Bo Bo out to play. He says he’s afraid of his mother, but he also clings to her a lot.”
After talking a bit more, they each went back to their tasks.
Little Xue Yang was very well-behaved. Told to play at the doorway, she made sure to play only at the entrance of the courtyard, never going to any far-off places.
Even if the village kids called her, she wouldn’t take Fu Bo with her.
Occasionally, Xue Shi and the others could play with Little Xue Yang and Fu Bo, but Xue Bai, being the groom today, truly had no chance to sneak away and join Little Xue Yang and Fu Bo in their play.
After lunch, the wedding procession went off grandly to the county.
It wasn’t until the sky darkened that the bride was finally welcomed into the house.
During the ceremony when Xue Bai and Yang Wenwan bowed to each other, Little Xue Yang was extremely joyful. She ran over, hugged Yang Wenwan’s legs, and looking up with her little face, chuckled as she watched the veiled Yang Wenwan.