1587 Careful Nurturing
When everyone heard what Liu Yun said, they all stuck their heads out to look at Qiao Mei. Even after interacting with Qiao Mei often for the past few days, none of them realized that Qiao Mei was pregnant. Qiao Mei maintained her figure very well!

Qiao Mei hurriedly pulled Xia Zhe into the house. She had already cleaned the pots and pans during the day and was all ready to cook a table full of delicious dishes for Xia Zhe tonight!

“Hello! Is there anyone in the house!” Xia Wen shouted outside the main door of Xia Zhe’s house.

“Eh? Do you hear Eldest Brother’s voice? Go outside and see who’s here?” Qiao Mei said as she looked at Xia Zhe curiously.

Qiao Mei was chopping up the pork ribs and had no time to go and see who was outside. Xia Zhe put down the firewood and went out of the house. He immediately saw Xia Wen standing at the door with bags of things, looking very disheveled.

“Don’t tell me you gave up politics and joined the army so that you can come and live with me? How did you manage to carry so many things here?” Xia Zhe said as he looked at Xia Wen in shock.

“You brat, come over here to help! Don’t just stand there and talk! There’s still more in the car behind me!” Xia Wen said as he pointed at the off-road vehicle behind him.

When Qiao Mei was making preparations to move here, she had instructed Xia Zhe to keep a low profile and not to bring too many things. In the end, Xia Wen had gone to buy all the things he felt that they lacked and sent them over.

“Oh my, look there. Why are there so many things outside Qiao Mei’s house! I’ve never seen some of these things before!” Zhang Cai said from a distance away.

“I heard Xia Zhe address that man as eldest brother. The two of them are probably biological brothers and they seem to be really close. I am not close to my siblings at all,” Wang Nuo said enviously.

“I wonder what his eldest brother does for a living. He’s rich if he can buy so many things at one go,” Zhang Cai said with a sigh.

“Alright, let’s go home to do our chores! We still have to cook dinner!” After saying that, Liu Yun returned to her house to cook for her children.

After Xia Zhe and Xia Wen moved everything into the house, Xia Wen quickly washed his hands and went to carry Xia Fan and Xia Xing. He missed them so much during this period of time!

He probably would not have his own children in this lifetime. It was not bad to be able to treat Xia Fan and Xia Xing as his children. He had thought that life would be quite tough here, but he did not expect Qiao Mei and Xia Zhe to have done up the place quite nicely.

“Qiao Mei, those books in the bag are the ones you ask me to buy. Take a look and see if they’re the right ones. Why are you suddenly so hardworking? However, those are elementary school books. I thought you had already studied those?” Xia Wen asked.

“Oh! It’s not for me! It’s for the children!” Qiao Mei replied as she continued cooking.

“What! Getting your children to read elementary school books? Are you crazy? Even if you’re looking forward to your children becoming successful, you can’t be in that much of a hurry!” Xia Wen said with a slight frown.

Xia Zhe looked at the children a little helplessly. Who said they were looking forward to their children becoming successful? It was his children who were too serious about their studies and they even looked down on fairy tales.

“Let me show you.” Xia Zhe took out the pile of small wooden sticks and the mathematics book and placed them in front of the two children.

He flipped to the same question regarding the sum of one plus one. Xia Fan picked up two wooden sticks effortlessly, but Xia Xing seemed a little annoyed and it took her some time to pick out two wooden sticks as well.

Perhaps this question was too simple for them and they did not want to answer it anymore.

“See, I’m not lying, am I?” Xia Zhe said.

Xia Wen found it unbelievable and randomly flipped through the pages, stopping at a question regarding the sum of two plus two. He did not expect them to give the right answer again. This was definitely not just a coincidence!

“This… Isn’t this a little strange… How can this be?” Xia Wen muttered to himself in a daze.

He wondered if he had educated Xia He and Xia Zhe using the wrong method back then, and that the approach that Qiao Mei and Xia Zhe were taking was actually the correct one.

Which other six-month-old child knew how to do sums! They could even understand what adults said! In that case, were they considered prodigies?

“Eldest Brother, no need to doubt it. It’s exactly what you see,” Xia Zhe said.

“When did you find out about this?” Xia Wen asked.

“It was when Qiao Yu tried to abduct the kid. Qiao Mei realized that the two children seemed to be very talented in mathematics, so she wanted to try and see if she could nurture them properly,” Xia Zhe explained.