315: Chapter 315 Three People Trying to Conceive

The days of the The Ark sailing through deep space were like a calm river, without ripples, without end.

The starry sky outside the window was always the same.

The black background was dotted with white points of light, motionless, as if painted onto the glass.

If it weren't for the numbers on the System panel jumping every day, Qin Lin would sometimes feel that he had stopped in place and had never moved at all.

But time does not lie.

One month, two months, three months, half a year.

The changes in the children were the most honest calendar.

Qin An could already run quite steadily; he ran from east to west and west to east in the corridors of the The Ark, his footsteps going "da-da-da," like a tireless little pony.

Su Yuran couldn't catch up to him, so she stopped trying. She stood at one end of the corridor and called out, " Qin An, come back to eat. " Qin An would stop, look back at her, and then continue running.

He knew his mother wouldn't truly be angry, so he acted without fear.

Su Yuran said his temper was like Qin Lin's; Qin Lin thought about it and didn't refute it, because it was indeed similar.

The number of words Qin Yuan could say grew more and more.

Daddy, Mommy, star, flower, eat, no.

She said that last word the most clearly: don't hold, don't eat, don't sleep, don't change diapers.

Lin Wanwan said she was the child with the most strong opinions on the The Ark. Wang Xiulan said, " That's not called having opinions, that's called stubborn. " Lin Wanwan smiled and didn't refute her.

Qin Yue learned to sing.

It wasn't a real song, but a tune she made up herself. There were no lyrics, just singing " Ah—ah—ah—, " the pitch rising and falling, the rhythm speeding up and slowing down, but it sounded very nice.

Han Yurou said she would definitely be a singer in the future. Han Qing said, " An eight-month-old baby singing? You heard wrong. " Han Yurou was unconvinced; she carried Qin Yue in front of Han Qing to let her perform on the spot.

Qin Yue looked at Han Qing, opened her mouth, made an " Ah " sound, then smiled, and drool ran down.

Han Qing looked at that smile; she didn't say whether it sounded good or not, but the corners of her mouth twitched upward.

Qin Xu was the most energetic of all the children.

He could run, jump, and climb high. He could climb onto the sofa in the The Ark's living room in three seconds, leap down from the armrest, and land as steadily as a cat.

Li Ying had stopped chasing him because she couldn't catch him.

She stood in the middle of the living room and called out, " Qin Xu, get down here! " Qin Xu lay on the sofa armrest looking at her, his eyes shining, then he jumped down with a " swoosh " and ran over to hug his mother's leg.

Li Ying looked down at him, wanting to get angry but unable to, so she reached out and patted his bottom, neither too hard nor too soft.

Qin Xu wasn't in pain, but he still pouted, then smiled, revealing his six little teeth.

Qin Xue learned to draw.

Not with a paintbrush, but by dipping her fingers in paint and making handprints on paper.

Xu Xue watched from the side without stopping her, only collecting the paper after Qin Xue finished a handprint, marking it with the date, and putting it into a folder.

Xia Qiuyan asked her why she was saving these, and Xu Xue said, " To show her when she grows up. "

Xia Qiuyan looked at that folder, remembered that not a single photo from her own childhood had been left behind, and fell silent.

The brothers Qin Yao and Qin Yang could already tell each other apart.

Not by the parting of their hair, because they had already cut their hair short; now they relied on the moles on their faces.

Qin Yao had a small mole at the corner of his left eye, while Qin Yang did not.

Zhou Lingling said, " It's a good thing there's this mole, otherwise I really couldn't tell them apart. "

Qin Xiaoxing and Qin Xiaoyue from Zhou Yueyue's family were becoming more and more different; Qin Xiaoxing looked like his mother, and Qin Xiaoyue looked like her father. Standing together, no one would think they were twins.

Qin Xia was still the quietest one.

She didn't run, jump, shout, or cry; most of the time she was just observing.

Watching the stars outside the window, watching the lights on the ceiling, watching Xia Qiuyan's face.

When Xia Qiuyan held her, she would press her face against her mother's chest, motionless, and could stay like that for a long time.

Qin Lin once passed by and saw Qin Xia asleep in Xia Qiuyan's arms, her little hand clutching her mother's clothes, clutching them very tightly.

He didn't go in; he stood at the door for a few seconds, then turned and left.

Qin Yi was still active, but the direction of his activity had changed.

He no longer ran around aimlessly, but instead began to take things apart.

There was a toy storage box in the The Ark's living room; he would dump all the toys out, then lie on the floor, looking at each toy over and over, putting them back after looking, then dumping them out again, repeating this over and over.

Lin Xiaoyue said he was studying the structure of the toys, while Lin Fang said, " He's just bored. "

Qin Tian could walk, and she walked even more steadily than Qin An.

She looked very serious when she walked, stepping firmly with every step, as if she were completing a very important task.

Lin Fang stood at this end of the living room waiting for her; Qin Tian walked over from the other end, step by step, unhurriedly, walked up to Lin Fang, reached out to grab her hem, and looked up at her.

Lin Fang squatted down and kissed her daughter on the forehead.

Qin Tian didn't smile, but she buried her face in her mother's shoulder, and her hand gripped even tighter.

Qin Zheng could run; he didn't run as fast as Qin Xu, but he had a better sense of direction than Qin Xu.

When he ran, his eyes were always fixed on his target, from point A to point B, in a straight line, never veering off course.

Wang Xiulan said he would definitely be an athlete in the future, and Lin Wanwan said, " Maybe. "

The days on the The Ark were just like this: plain, trivial, repetitive, but no one felt bored.

Because every day there were new changes, new laughter, new cries.

Qin Lin put most of his energy into three women.

Su Yuling, Li Ran, Han Qing.

The only women left on the The Ark who hadn't given birth yet.

Su Yuling's fertility window was clear at a glance under the System's monitoring.

Qin Lin went to her according to the frequency suggested by the System, not too much, not too little, every time just right.

Su Yuling was very cooperative on this point; she wasn't coy, she didn't delay, she came when she should come, and she left when she should leave.

" Brother Lin, do you think I'm pregnant? "

One night, she was lying on the bed, looking at Qin Lin on her side, her finger tracing circles on his chest.

Qin Lin thought for a moment: " I don't know, we have to wait for the System's notification. "

Su Yuling was silent for a while, then said: " I hope it's a girl. "

" Why? "

" Because my sister gave birth to a boy, and I want to give birth to a girl. "

Qin Lin looked at her; her eyes were very serious, not like she was joking.

" Okay, a girl. "

Su Yuling smiled and buried her face in his chest.

Li Ran was the quietest of the three.

She wasn't proactive, but she never refused either.

When Qin Lin came to her room, she would close the door; when Qin Lin took her hand, she would give him her hand; when Qin Lin kissed her, she would close her eyes.

She wouldn't say " I want more, " and she wouldn't say " You should go. " She just accepted, cooperated, and then fell into a deep sleep in his arms.

Qin Lin would sometimes open his eyes after she fell asleep, looking at her face.

Moonlight spilled down from the projection System, her eyelashes were long, and her expression in sleep was very quiet.

Qin Lin remembered what Su Yuling had said: " My mother suffered a lot. "

He pulled the blanket up to cover her shoulders.

Li Ran didn't wake up.