Chapter 169: Shit Smells Good

Chapter 169

After staying in the army for over a year, coming back here, Jia suddenly felt some unfamiliarity, especially for ZhiXia.

It was just past noon when the two returned home exhausted. At the door, they ran into Pei JianGuo who was just going out.

"Little uncle, you came back?" Pei JianGuo instantly revealed a delighted expression. But this delight dimmed slightly after he saw ZhiXia behind, "Auntie."

ZhiXia politely nodded and said to Pei Jing: "Let's go in first, my arms are sore."

ZhiXia was only holding her little daughter while Pei Jing not only held their son but also a large bag in his hand.

Hearing her say she was tired, he quickly nodded, "Okay, I called home earlier to let them know we'd be back so the room should be tidy. You go in and rest first. I'll go see dad."

Although Pei JianGuo didn't like this aunt ZhiXia, it didn't prevent him from being interested in meeting his new little nephew and niece who had just been born. He stretched his head to look at the child Pei Jing held, "Little uncle, let me hold..."

The eight month old kid was already very sturdy. He was sleeping soundly in his dad's arms now so there was no need to worry about holding him the wrong way and hurting him.

Seeing Pei JianGuo's longing look, Pei Jing handed over the child to him and even reminded: "Be gentle, didn't you go to work today?"

"I had a bit of a headache this afternoon so I took the day off and slept at home until I felt better," Pei JianGuo replied.

"Then where were you rushing off to just now?"

"No big deal, just felt dizzy after sleeping so wanted to go out for some air. Or I could've just stayed in. By the way, grandpa said you'd be back for New Year. He's been looking forward to it these days. Right now he must be pottering about his plot of land in the backyard."

As the two men talked, they headed inside. Pei Jing told him, "Then go show grandpa this little guy first. I'll put the things in the room then join you guys."

"Sure." Pei JianGuo had just responded when he suddenly felt the hand holding up the child's bottom grow warm. His body instantly stiffened, the smile also froze on his face.

"What's wrong?" Seeing him freeze up so abruptly, Pei Jing had just asked when he saw the hand Pei JianGuo used to hold up the kid's butt was dripping water.

He instantly understood what was going on and gave a helpless laugh. First he put down the bag in his hand then took his naughty son from Pei JianGuo. He opened up the diaper tucked in the split-crotch pants. His son peed again.

"Ah... Ah..."

While having his clothes changed, Pei ChenYe didn't cooperate at all. He flailed his arms and legs, kicking and writhing about so much that even ZhiXia couldn't control him. Only Pei Jing could handle him.

In just a few seconds, he got the clothes on, even tying the back for him so his fussy hands wouldn't undo them.

After tending to the child, Pei Jing turned and immediately frowned deeply when he saw Old Pei wearing just a sleeveless vest. "Dad, you're already so old yet can't even take care of yourself. Where's your padded jacket?"

"I was working in the backyard just now so took it off because of the heat," Old Pei said unconcernedly as he stretched out his hands. "Hurry and let me hold my grandson."

Only then did Pei Jing carry over the child to hand to him. "Be gentle. He just peed on JianGuo's hands earlier. Haven't pooped yet today."

"Even my grandson's crap smells fragrant." It was true that skipping a generation made affections deeper.

Back when his sons were born, other than feeling happy and aware that he had become a dad when his eldest was born, he didn't have much feeling for the later ones. Just found them noisy and annoying.

But now, having grown older and fonder of liveliness, he especially loved new additions to the family.

Although Pei Meng's wedding wasn't held at home, Old Pei had still been very upset upon hearing about it.

He felt his kids had all grown up and were daughters who would marry out eventually. Meanwhile there was a lack of men at home so numbers would only dwindle more in the future.

Hearing ZhiXia and Pei Jing had birthed boy-girl twins, Old Pei was so happy he grinned even in dreams.

He didn't actually think much about gender bias, but the traditional mindset of old folks was firmly ingrained - that girls all marry out while boys bring their wives into the family, developing the clan prosperously.

But Pei Jing didn't agree with such talk. If not for the family spoiling Pei JianGuo this way all along, he wouldn't have grown up to be so spineless when faced with problems, always shrinking back timidly.

The one relief was that this child wasn't ill-tempered.

Suddenly, he felt ZhiXia's insistence to follow the army back then was right. This gave him the chance to nurture the children himself without worrying about them being spoiled at home.