Soon, Li Wen and Li Wu helped to bring up the hot water, and Yang Chuxia handed Yangyang over to Ming Liu, then went to find clothes and brought them in for him.
"What, my dear wife, are you going to attend to me as I bathe?" Ye Ziāan asked with a smile as she entered.
Seeing his teasing smile, Yang Chuxia glared at him.
"Iāve placed your clothes here, hurry up and soak in the hot water. Even in summer, itās uncomfortable to have wet clothes sticking to oneās body."
"So youāre really not going to attend to me as I bathe?" Ye Ziāan called out again as she was about to leave.
Yang Chuxia pretended not to hear and went out.
Whatās with him and shouting so loudly?
Yet Ye Ziāan felt it was such a pity, what a great opportunity that was.
"Lele, are you hungry?" Seeing Little Lele still sitting motionless by the table, Yang Chuxia asked.
"Waiting for daddy!" Instead of saying whether he was hungry or not, he wanted to wait for Ye Ziāan to eat together, leaving Yang Chuxia feeling helpless. Look at this child, showing such affection for his father, with Yangyang eating so sweetly on the side, still unable to tempt him.
When Ye Ziāan had finished his bath and changed into clean clothes, he saw Lele sitting on the side while Yangyang was eating.
"Why isnāt Lele eating?"
Upon hearing his voice, Lele reached out his little hands to Ye Ziāan, acting all proud and aloof, refusing to move and wanting to be held.
"He insists on waiting for you to eat together."
Ye Ziāan laughed upon hearing this and picked him up in his arms.
"Indeed my own son, so affectionate towards daddy."
"Pfft, the way you say that, if Yangyang were a little bit more aware, heād be asking you if heās your son at all."
After her comment, Ye Ziāan realized there was something slightly amiss about his earlier remark and chuckled, "Of course theyāre both my sons. They clearly look like me; thereās no room for doubt." Thinking back to what Mu Shaoling had foolishly done in the past, he scoffed, "That idiot Mu Shaoling once even tampered with the dates in the letters regarding your pregnancy, trying to make me misunderstand. Just look at these two sons of ours, theyāre so obviously mine, thereās no questioning it."
Concerned that Yang Chuxia might misunderstand, he quickly added, "Of course, I have never doubted you, my dear wife!"
"You know? Initially, I didnāt think much of it, but by adding that last sentence, you gave me the impression of āthou doth protest too much,ā" Yang Chuxia said as she brought him the ginger tea she had prepared, "Drink this, you can easily catch a cold in the summer rain."
Ye Ziāan took it and drank it in one gulp, then said, "Indeed, nothing beats the care of my own wife."
Before Yang Chuxia had a chance to laugh, Little Lele said, "Just like my own father."
"Haha..."
"Pfft..."
That one comment had Yang Chuxia and Ye Ziāan laughing uncontrollably.
"This child of ours is quite capable of drawing his own conclusions, isnāt he?"
"Our son is simply the best, speaking nothing but extraordinary words," Ye Ziāan laughed as he stroked his sonās tiny head, then proceeded to feed him, bite by bite. He looked utterly content with his child by his side.
"Why did you come back so late today?" Yang Chuxia casually asked during the meal.
"Isnāt it because of a town below that, I donāt know what everyone was thinking, they dug a huge reservoir. Digging is one thing, but they didnāt consider the terrain while doing it. The reservoir is situated above, which wouldnāt normally be an issue, except that one side of the reservoir is right next to a village and the other side next to fertile fields, making drainage difficult when thereās an overflow of water. You know how rainy Jiangsu gets in the summer. This year, that reservoir accumulated a lot of water."