I was reborn after my cousin stole my life.

Chapter 196: Brother and Sister

The matter that had been causing Jiang Zhou anxiety for more than half a month finally brought good news in late September!

"It's settled!"

Jiang Zhou rushed into the room, excitedly telling Yuan Xiu, "It's 100% certain! The college entrance examination is indeed being reinstated, and it will be 'voluntary registration, unified examination, and selection based on merit'! This means that the exam will no longer consider family background; the 'class background-only' approach is truly a thing of the past! We've finally embarked on the path of selecting officials based on their talents!"

Yuan Xiu was also very happy, even though she already knew the future path.

"Next, we just have to wait for the official documents to come down." Jiang Zhou put his hands on his hips, sometimes sighing and sometimes bursting into uncontrollable laughter, even happier than those young people who were desperately hoping to save themselves and the suffering youths sent down to the countryside through a fair exam!

The laughter drew An Hui downstairs. "What are you laughing about?"

She stood with her arms crossed against the doorway, cucumber slices still stuck to her face, which Jiang Zhou and Yuan Xiu were already used to.

Jiang Zhou was used to it; she had seen her mother stick to her clothes since she was a child.

Yuan Xiu had seen people apply cucumber slices like this in her previous life. She had always thought that using cucumber slices as face masks was a trend that only became popular later. But seeing her mother-in-law apply them made her realize that it had been popular for a long time, she just didn't know it.

"We were talking about the college entrance exam," Jiang Zhou said with a smile, telling Ms. An Hui the news he had received.

An Hui raised an eyebrow: "The policy has already been released?"

Jiang Zhou shook his head: "It should be soon. The documents will definitely be sent to the local authorities within a month."

"Where's Xiao Yuan?" An Hui asked Yuan Xiu, "The college entrance exam has been reinstated. Are you going to take it?"

Just as Yuan Xiu was about to nod, she felt a surge of heat. She looked down and saw that a small patch of ground where she was standing was wet.

Jiang Zhou followed Yuan Xiu's gaze downwards, "...!"

An Hui slapped him aside, "What are you standing there for! Your wife is about to give birth!"

She brushed the cucumber slices off her face and reached out to help Yuan Xiu.

The next moment, Jiang Zhou was already beside Yuan Xiu, and with a strong lift, he picked her up. "I'll take her to the hospital first. Pack your things and come over quickly!"

After saying that, he grabbed Yuan Xiu and rushed out!

……

Yuan Xiusheng was very quick.

After being admitted to the hospital, I lay in the maternity ward for more than two hours and my cervix was almost fully dilated. There were no other reactions, and the baby was in the correct position.

An hour after entering the delivery room, the first baby was born, and half an hour later, the second baby was born.

Yuan Xiu only had time to glance at the two children the nurse brought to her before she fell asleep from exhaustion, not even hearing whether the children were boys or girls.

Outside the delivery room, An Hui could sit and wait, but Jiang Zhou hadn't sat down since Yuan Xiu was wheeled into the delivery room. He was either pacing back and forth or standing at the door of the delivery room like a doorman.

Her eyes were fixed on the door of the delivery room. As soon as she heard a sound, she would lean over the door to listen, wishing she could burst in from the outside.

"Can you please stop walking around in front of me?" An Hui couldn't stand him; he was making her eyes blurry.

Jiang Zhou frowned. "Why is there no sound? Has something happened?"

During the time Jiang Zhou waited outside the delivery room, he had already imagined 108 different outcomes, good and bad. He couldn't help but think about the bad ones, but he just couldn't control his mind!

"Pah, pah, pah!" An Hui rolled her eyes at him. "What nonsense are you talking about? It's been so long already, the baby must have been born by now. Just wait patiently."

Although she said that, she was actually worried.

No sooner had he finished speaking than a loud cry rang out from the delivery room!

"She's given birth!"

"She's given birth!"

The mother and son looked at each other, their eyes overflowing with joy!

A short while later, two nurses came out, one carrying a child and the other carrying a baby.

Both children were crying; the one in front was crying the loudest, while the one behind was whimpering softly.

The crying they just heard wasn't the baby's cry at birth, but rather the crying as they were being carried out of the delivery room. They guessed the baby was crying because it knew it was leaving its mother.

Jiang Zhou's first question was, "Where is my lover?"

The nurse walking in front smiled and said, "Mother and baby are both safe! Little Yuan will be out soon. Congratulations to Chief of Staff Jiang on having both a son and a daughter! The one with the loud voice is the older brother, weighing 5.3 pounds, and the smaller one is the younger sister, weighing 4.2 pounds. She's a little lighter than her brother. The doctor checked her over, and her development is normal. As long as she eats well and gets enough nutrition, she'll definitely catch up with her brother soon."

The nurse holding the baby girl laughed and said, "Neither of them cried when they were born. They only whimpered a few times after their bottoms were patted. But as soon as we brought them out, the older brother started crying, which made the younger sister cry too."

When Jiang Zhou reached out, the nurse intended to hand him his brother, but Jiang Zhou turned his wrist towards his sister instead, and didn't hug his brother who was closest to him.

An Hui smiled and said, "Give it to me."

The mother and son each held one child, looking at the one in my arms and then at the one in yours, they loved them so much!

Jiang Zhou was biased and preferred his younger sister. He looked at her with such affection that it could melt your heart. "She's so small, I don't even dare to hug her tightly."

"Look, look, she's pursing her lips. Is she hungry?"

An Hui glanced at it and said, "Maybe. I'll feed her when Xiao Yuan comes out and goes back to the ward."

As soon as he finished speaking, the older brother in his arms started to cry. As soon as the older brother cried, Jiang Zhou looked at his younger sister and saw that her little mouth was pouting and she was whimpering sadly.

Jiang Zhou: "...This kid made his sister cry!"

An Hui almost laughed when she heard this: "Look at your tone. Anyone who didn't know better would think that your brother had done something terribly wrong. It's normal for children to cry. They're twins, so it's more fun when they cry and laugh together."

As she spoke, she gently patted the swaddled baby to soothe her brother, who quickly stopped crying.

As soon as her brother stopped crying, her sister stopped crying as well.

"This kid is just like you when you were a kid. He looks like you and has the same temper. He cries at the top of his lungs whenever he's unhappy, and someone has to coax and coax him."

An Hui looked at her younger sister. "Your sister seems to be a quiet person. You two are exactly the same, aren't you? Look at the little mole at the corner of your eye, it's exactly the same. Your brother has it on the left, and your sister has it on the right. How interesting."

Jiang Zhou looked at his daughter, then at his son, and said, "She looks like me, and also like Yuan Xiu."

"Yes, they inherited the best features of both of you. I've never seen a child prettier than them. They'll be amazing when they grow up."

Her son was already good-looking, and her daughter-in-law was a beauty. When they grow up, they're sure to break the hearts of many men and women.

Jiang Zhou nodded repeatedly: "It's very beautiful!"