Juhua smiled. "Qing'er is still little, so of course she has to go to bed early. By this time next year, you'll be able to bring her out to play."
Zhang Yang laughed. "It's a good thing you didn't bring her out. Otherwise, we'd spend the whole time cleaning up after her. She might even cry nonstop, and who would breastfeed her then?"
Little Shitou immediately started arguing with him, insisting his little sister was the most well-behaved and never cried without a reason.
The two began to bicker, shedding their usual scholarly demeanor from the classroom.
Meanwhile, Zhang Huai was talking and laughing softly with Qingmu about the things they had seen and heard in Qinghui County. He would occasionally glance over at Juhua, savoring the warmth of New Year's Eve.
'Once we move here next year, we won't have to travel so far,' he thought.
