She remembered that her three children weren’t picky about food in the dream. They ate whatever that was provided to them and were very easy to provide for. Qiao Nan was wondering if she and Zhai Sheng were both no longer young when they gave birth to the triplets and that resulted in San Bao being ‘mutated’.

  As for the picky eating habit being inherited, Qiao Nan felt that this wasn’t reliable.

  Miao Jing said that in the past two years Qiao Nan had married over, she wasn’t picky about food at all. Qiao Nan wasn’t willing to reply to that.

  Why?

  When Qiao Nan was at the triplets’ age, how was she full? When she was just three months old, Ding Jiayi no longer wanted to breastfeed her as she found it too troublesome and always tried to find opportunities to wean her off. If not for discovering later that milk powder was too expensive, Ding Jiayi would have really weaned her.

  When she was ten months old, she could be fed solids. As such, the solids more or less became her staple food.

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  Picky about food?

  How was Ding Jiayi willing to give Qiao Nan such a chance?! She had to eat whatever that was fed to her. If not, she could go hungry. A growing child was easily hungry to begin with. If she couldn’t be full during mealtimes, she would just be very hungry. That didn’t feel good at all. It was impossible for whomever under Ding Jiayi for a living to be a picky eater.

  “Why? Our San Bao’s so pretty. If she wears a dress, she will definitely be the prettiest girl around here.” Miao Jing was anxious and wanted to find a folk remedy. San Bao was already more than a year old. However, her hair was always thin and soft. She also didn’t have a lot of hair and long hair. Miao Jing wanted to use some folk remedy so that San Bao would grow a lot of long black hair. That way, when San Bao grew up, with her pretty dress coupled with nice-looking plaits, whose daughter could win against her?

  Qiao Nan helplessly sat on the sofa to rest. Serving San Bao now was more tiring than any other chore. “Look at how wild she is. Does she look like a girl? She’s cheekier than Da Bao and Er Bao. When playing, I see Da Bao and Er Bao being quieter than her. Based on how she’s playing, I don’t feel at ease for her to wear a dress.”

  Qiao Nan always hoped to be more protective of her daughter. Even if there wouldn’t be people like that in the small district she lived in, Qiao Nan didn’t want anything to happen to San Bao.

  “Furthermore, based on San Bao’s wild character, won’t San Bao just shake her head if you give her a dress? She might even think that it means that you don’t like her performance since you give Da Bao and Er Bao pants but give her a dress.”

  San Bao liked to be aligned with Da Bao and Er Bao. She would follow suit and do whatever Da Bao and Er Bao did. Whatever Da Bao and Er Bao had, she wanted to have them as well. If hers was different from Da Bao and Er Bao, even if hers was actually better, she would throw tantrums and insist on changing it to something similar to that of Da Bao and Er Bao.

  Qiao Nan was quite happy about San Bao’s temper. The three children were born together. Indeed, Da Bao and Er Bao should take care of San Bao more. However, as the sister, San Bao should be more united with Da Bao and Er Bao. She shouldn’t request different treatment from Da Bao and Er Bao simply because she was a girl. This wasn’t a good habit, let alone a good thought.

  Upon hearing Qiao Nan say this, and upon thinking about San Bao’s usual performance, Miao Jing could only say that San Bao was Qiao Nan’s biological daughter, after all. Compared to her, the grandma, could she understand San Bao more than Qiao Nan did? No. “Alright. As long as San Bao’s comfortable and happy, it’s the same regardless of if she’s wearing a dress or pants.”

  She really didn’t believe that after a year or so, San Bao would be different from other daughters and not like to wear dresses.

  “Dad.” As San Bao chased after Da Bao and Er Bao, she heard a sound from the door. The little girl was quite bold as well. Of course, as the little bully at home, she didn’t know what fear was. She ran over and guarded the door. Within three seconds, the door was open. Upon seeing a familiar family member, San Bao shouted happily as she rushed toward Zhai Sheng and hugged his leg. “Dad. I want to be high. I want to fly.”

  There were so many people in their family, but only their father would accompany them to play this game.

  Of course, as the only capable executioner, Zhai Sheng’s position as a father rose bit by bit in the children’s hearts. However, the person they liked the most was naturally Qiao Nan, their mother.

  “Dad. Carry. Fly.” The bad-tempered San Bao pulled Zhai Sheng’s trousers forcefully with her chubby hands. If Zhai Sheng didn’t carry her, she was prepared to climb up herself.

  Thankfully, the resources distributed by the army, such as clothes, were made of sturdy fabric and weren’t easily torn by children like San Bao. If Zhai Sheng’s clothes were not sturdy enough, his reputation would most likely be ruined by his biological daughter, San Bao. As a spoiled brat, setting her father up was a must.

  After testing if the fabric was sturdy enough, San Bao started to test if the belt around Zhai Sheng’s waist was sturdy. If either of the two failed the quality inspection, Zhai Sheng would be sabotaged by San Bao.

  Looking at his daughter’s flushed face, Zhai Sheng couldn’t help but feel depressed. She was a short and fat little tuft of meat. How did she have so much strength? Were all children so strong? Anyway, every time San Bao pounced on him and wanted to climb up, Zhai Sheng would feel that his trousers were about to be torn off by San Bao.

  He wasn’t going to compete on strength with his daughter. Otherwise, the unlucky person would be himself. He would be lectured by his mom and wife, and his three children would look at him like watching a show… Zhai Sheng bent down and carried the chubby San Bao up. Then, he threw her up. San Bao immediately lost her anger and started to laugh. Her crisp laughter spread in the Zhai family, causing both Da Bao and Er Bao to find out about their father’s return. Then, they lined up so that it would be their turn after San Bao’s.

  “Brother Zhai, it’s fine to coax them just a little. They have just finished eating five minutes ago. I initially wanted them to play for a while before coaxing them to take an afternoon nap. With you playing with them, they are now so excited that they probably can’t sleep. They might be so sleepy later that they wouldn’t even want to have their dinner.” Qiao Nan understood the triplets’ situation the best. She had encountered such a situation before. Once they took an afternoon nap, they wouldn’t move. If they weren’t allowed to sleep, the three energetic babies would be in low spirits.

  “They haven’t slept?” Zhai Sheng looked up at the time. Didn’t his sons and daughter generally sleep during this time? He was back in a hurry and almost forgot about this situation.