1990, Reborn as a Beachcomber, From Rascal to Brilliant Guy

"Mom, let me do it! You sit down and eat, your sister-in-law made you seaweed rice balls!"

Lin Shuisheng turned and walked into the ward. He saw Chen Xiurong changing the baby's diaper and hurriedly went up to her and pulled her aside.

"Can you do it?"

Chen Xiurong turned her head and glanced at Lin Shuisheng, her eyes filled with suspicion.

Lin Shuisheng didn't say anything, but silently reached out and picked up the diaper, stood by the hospital bed, bent down and busied himself step by step.

Seeing how well he did it, Chen Xiurong's gaze slowly shifted from doubt to surprise.

This really is like the sun rising in the west!

She had initially thought that Lin Shuisheng was just putting on an act yesterday morning; a grown man like him wouldn't actually change the baby's diaper.

Unexpectedly, Lin Shuisheng actually took it seriously.

"Ah Shui, you..."

Ye Wanqing leaned against the headboard and watched as Lin Shuisheng took a rag and carefully wiped the child's bottom clean. She was momentarily startled.

You know, before, Lin Shuisheng wouldn't even lift a finger to wipe the child's bottom, let alone change the child's clothes.

What on earth is going on?

"Alright, look how well-behaved my second son is! He didn't cry at all, and he even smiled at me!"

After a while, Lin Shuisheng stood up, let out a long breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and smiled with great satisfaction.

In his past life, he never cared about his two daughters, always thinking that they would belong to someone else in the future. Only after he realized this did he feel deep regret.

He will never miss his two daughters growing up again in this lifetime.

"That's nonsense! This child is only a few days old; he doesn't even recognize people yet!"

Chen Xiurong rolled her eyes, walked to the cabinet, and divided the food she had bought into two portions.

One serving consisted entirely of vegetables, while the other consisted entirely of meat.

Seeing that she had left all the meat behind, Lin Shuisheng went over and picked up his chopsticks to serve it to her.

"That's enough, that's enough. I haven't done any work here, so just eat whatever you like. You've been running around these past few days, so eat more to replenish your energy."

Chen Xiurong used her hand to block the lunchbox, preventing Lin Shuisheng from picking up more meat.

"Who said you didn't do any work? You have to take care of both the older and the younger ones; you're the one who's had the hardest time."

Lin Shuisheng straightened his expression and retorted earnestly.

Upon hearing this, Chen Xiurong's expression froze, and she stared blankly at Lin Shuisheng.

After a while, she gently patted Lin Shuisheng and said with a playful laugh:

"You brat, all you do is try to make me happy."

In the end, she didn't eat much meat, but finished the meat that Lin Shuisheng had put on her plate earlier.

Besides that, she didn't even touch the food that Lin Shuisheng brought from home, saying that she was saving it for Ye Wanqing to eat that evening.

By the time Lin Shuisheng finished eating, it was already past 2 p.m.

Chen Xiurong finished cleaning up the dishes and lunchboxes, went to the window to hang up the diapers, and when she came back, she saw Cai Jinhua in the next bed staring intently at the door of the ward. She couldn't help but ask with some doubt:

"Ahua, didn't your mother-in-law say she was going back to get you some food? Why hasn't she come yet?"

"Um... I guess... I guess something must have been holding him up!"

Cai Jinhua's face flushed instantly, and she stammered.

Lin Shuisheng and Ye Wanqing exchanged a glance, then turned their heads away to cover their mouths, their shoulders trembling.

"Oh dear! What could be more important than your daughter-in-law giving birth? If you don't mind, there are still a few rice balls here, why don't you eat some first?"

Chen Xiurong frowned, glancing at Cai Jinhua's large belly with some reluctance.

"No need, no need, my mother-in-law should be here soon!"

When Cai Jinhua saw Chen Xiurong go to get the rice balls, she quickly waved her hand.

"It's nothing, just a few rice balls, it's not worth much."

Chen Xiurong didn't care whether Cai Jinhua wanted it or not, and directly stuffed the lunchbox into her hand.

"Th...thank you!"

Cai Jinhua looked at the lunchbox in her hand, her throat tightened slightly, and her face flushed a little.

Seeing her pick up the rice ball, turn her back, and eat it in big mouthfuls, Lin Shuisheng and Ye Wanqing stopped laughing and instead huddled together talking about their families.

As she was speaking, Ye Wanqing suddenly seemed to remember something, and her voice immediately became softer.

"Ah Shui, the nurse came this morning to help us get the birth certificate and said we need to name the baby. What do you think would be a good name?"

"Summer flowers!"

Without a second thought, Lin Shuisheng gave him a name.

This name was chosen by his second son in his previous life, derived from Tagore's "Stray Birds" and also from Pu Shu's song "Life is Like a Summer Flower".

She said that even if she was a worthless orphan, she would still live as brilliantly as a summer flower.

Moreover, her sister's name is Chun Jiao and her name is Xia Hua, which makes sense.

However, her family still habitually calls her Xia Di, which means she will have a younger brother next.

"Lin Xiahua?"

Upon hearing this name, Ye Wanqing murmured it several times, her eyes slowly brightening.

"This name is so nice. Her older sister was born in spring and is called Chun Jiao, and she was born in summer and is called Xia Hua. It matches perfectly. Ah Shui, you are so amazing. You can think of such a nice name."

"Cough cough! It's just so-so!"

Lin Shuisheng choked a little and glanced at his second son with some guilt.

"Xia Hua, A-Hua, you have a name now!"

Ye Wanqing gently stroked the little girl's cheek with her finger, revealing two small dimples at the corners of her mouth.

Seeing her like this, Lin Shuisheng couldn't help but think of her past life. When she first saw the good household registration of the second son and saw the name Lin Xiadi, her eyes immediately turned red.

Now, everything has changed.

After a while, Ye Wanqing saw Chen Xiurong come over after finishing her work, and immediately shared the name of the second child.

When Chen Xiurong heard the name Lin Xiaohua, she didn't react much, only nodding and saying it sounded nice.

Soon, it was past 5 p.m.

Lin Shuisheng went to get the birth certificate, checked the balance on the payment slip, and then prepared to go home first and come back to pick up the child the next morning.

Before leaving, he slipped Chen Xiurong 50 yuan as a living expense and a reserve fund, so that she wouldn't be short of money when she was discharged from the hospital.

When he rowed his small sampan back to Qinglan Bay, there was no one on Dongshan Aotou, only a row of dozens of fishing boats of all sizes moored at their berths.

What's even stranger is that when he returned to the village along the mountain road, he didn't encounter many people along the way.

It wasn't until he got home that he learned from the old lady, Huang Suzhen, that everyone had gone to the beach to catch the evening tide.

This was similar to what he had heard in his previous life, the only difference being that the old lady didn't go.

He walked to the front yard of his house, looked up at the horizon and found that the sun had already set and no one had returned yet. So he quickly ran into the house to tell the old lady what was going on, grabbed a bucket, a fork and a flashlight, and ran to Dongjiaowan on the other side of the back mountain.