In the evening, when Jiang Yan entered the room, he saw his wife Manman humming to their son and daughter without knowing what she was humming about. As he got closer, he caught the words of the Three Legged Stools story that she was chanting. He found it funny, could such small children understand the story? But when he looked back at the twins in the crib, they were both staring with round, attentive eyes, as if listening intently.
Soon, Little Xixi spotted him standing behind their mother, opened her little mouth, and blew a string of bubbles at him as if to say daddy was being sneaky for eavesdropping.
"Ayan, when did you get back?" Manman said, wiping the milk froth from her son's mouth with a handkerchief, without taking her eyes off her son as she echoed his accusation of dishonesty.
