“Our daughter’s awake! She’s looking at me! Mother of my children, look fast, our daughter is looking at me…”
Old Man Su was glowing with excitement, barely knowing what to say.
He wanted to touch his little daughter, but was afraid his hands were too rough and would hurt her skin.
Her skin was as tender as soft tofu; he didn’t even dare to touch it.
“Look at your age, still fussing and making a fuss over nothing!” Old Lady Su shook her head with a face full of smiles.
Yet, her own eyes didn’t stray for even a moment as she gazed at her little daughter.
When the little girl’s eyes turned toward her, her heart pounded with excitement.
She wished she could pull out her whole heart and give it to this soft, rosy little dumpling!
Little Tangbao tried hard to open her eyes wide to see the people in front of her clearly.
Unfortunately, everything before her was blurry.
Alright then, she opened them wider! Wider! Kept trying to open them!
“Mother of my children, look quick! Our daughter is wide-eyed… She—she’s glaring at me…”
Old Man Su rubbed his hands together in excitement.
Little Tangbao: “…”
This guy is a bit silly!
Although Little Tangbao couldn’t see clearly, she could hear clearly.
Was she glaring?
Well… maybe it counted?
But why was he so ridiculously happy about being glared at? It was hilarious!
Old Man Su had no idea he was being disdained by his own daughter.
His excitement made his blood boil with joy.
Ooh, he got glared at by his daughter!
What a glorious and magnificent event!
Turns out his little daughter even looked pretty when glaring at people.
As for his wife’s nagging about him making a fuss, it went completely in one ear and out the other.
With such a wonderful little daughter, how could he hear anything else?
Old Lady Su was also surprised.
“Aiyo, our little daughter really knows how to glare…?”
She had given birth to so many sons and held so many grandsons, but she had never seen a baby this small who could glare.
Look at those round, big eyes—staring wide like black gems, so full of spirit!
One look and you could tell she was smart and clever!
Sure enough, a little daughter was completely different from those stinky boys.
Old Lady Su had turned double-standard to the extreme as well.
Little Tangbao finally managed to see the two people in front of her clearly.
Huh, who are they?
Why doesn’t she recognize them?
Little Tangbao blinked her eyes.
Immediately, frame after frame of images flashed across her mind…
So that was it!
Tangbao let out a delicate little yawn and slowly closed her eyes.
“Why is our daughter asleep again?” Old Man Su grew anxious.
He hadn’t even had the chance to say more than a few words to her yet—how could she go to sleep?
“Daughter, Tangbao, hurry, glare at your dad a few more times! No, just once, even once will do…”
Old Man Su rubbed his hands together, wishing he could reach out and pry Tangbao’s eyelids open just to have her glare at him fiercely.
Unfortunately, Tangbao did not grant his wish.
“Our daughter is sleeping, stop your nagging! If you wake her up, I won’t hear the end of it from you!”
As Old Lady Su said this, she gave Old Man Su a fierce glare.
Now that she had a daughter, men could just go wherever it was cool and stay out of the way!
Old Man Su’s wish to be glared at was finally fulfilled.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t his little daughter who glared at him.
When it came to the Old Su family in Daliushu Village, they were absolutely famous.
First, this family was incredible at having sons.
Any woman who married into their family was bound to carry a boy in her belly.
This made all the households that couldn’t bear sons turn red with envy.
Second, this family was poor.
Simply way too poor!
Penniless and dirt-poor.
Bare walls and complete poverty.
They were so poor that all they had left was a bunch of boys.
It could be said that the Old Su family was the most populous family in Daliushu Village, but also the poorest.
At this time, as the Su brothers took several little kids out the front gate, they acted like the gossip compass of Daliushu Village, naturally surrounded by a halo of rumor-mongering.
“Dahu, did your mother really give you boys a little sister?”
“She did.”
A few steps later.
“Dahu, did your mother really give birth to a daughter?”
“She did.”
A few steps further.
“Dahu…”
“Second Uncle, don’t even ask, she gave birth to one!” Su Erhu, the second son, proactively answered for his elder brother.
“You brat, how do you know what I was going to ask before shouting ‘she did’?” Second Uncle glared at him.
“Alright, alright, go ahead and ask then.”
“Did your mother really give birth to a big, plump daughter?”
“See, see? Knew that’s what you were going to ask. She did.”
“You rascal…”
The Su brothers were stopped and questioned all along the way, right up until they reached the entrance of the village.
A large crowd was sitting under the big locust tree at the village entrance.
Seeing the Su brothers passing by, everyone turned their heads in unison to look at them.
After all, the fact that Old Lady Su had given birth to a big, plump daughter had to be confirmed again directly from the mouths of the Su family members, right?
Even if they already knew, they still had to chat about it to feel satisfied.
“Dahu, where are you off to?”
Eldest Su—that is, Su Dahu—breathed a sigh of relief.
Finally, someone with a different opening line.
“Just going to wander around the foot of the mountain,” Su Dahu replied.
And then—
“Did your mother really give you boys a little sister?”
Su Dahu: “…She did.”
Still couldn’t escape the exact same question.
“Are you absolutely sure it’s a girl? It’s not fake, is it?” someone asked in a tone full of skepticism.
Su Dahu: “…Absolutely sure.”
How could something like this be fake?
Su Dahu scratched his head.
“Dahu, your mother’s case is… what do you call it? Ah, right, a pearls from an old clam!” someone said enviously.
“Auntie Su really is impressive,” someone remarked with an ambiguous tone.
“I think Old Man Su is the impressive one—vigorous in his old age! Didn’t you see him walking with a swagger like wind blowing…”
“That’s true as well…”
The people under the big locust tree nearly strayed off-topic as they chatted.
Fortunately, someone soon pulled the conversation back.
“Dahu, your family has finally made it through the hard times.”
“That’s right, that’s right! Dahu, once your family hits it big, you mustn’t forget us fellow villagers.”
“Yes, yes! Dahu, remember when you were little? I even held you in my arms back then…”
“Dahu…”
In an instant, the onlookers under the big locust tree all flashed intimate, friendly smiles at Su Dahu.
Su Dahu: “…”
Su Dahu was getting a bit overwhelmed and couldn’t handle it.
He was naturally honest and simple-minded, so how could he know what these people were actually thinking in their hearts?
Author’s Note: Actually, the naming system of the Su family is very simple: the eldest is Su Dahu, the second is Su Erhu… and so on. As for the grandchildren’s generation, because they longed for a daughter, they used the word “Pan” (longing/hoping), resulting in Dapan, Erpan… following that same pattern.