"Little Miss, Little Master, you are still growing, you can't skip meals." Aunt Wen hurried after them, only to be met with a closed door.
Duoduo locked the door from the inside, then took out the snacks she had just brought back from under the bed and threw a bag of chips to Yueyue. "Come, brother, eat until you're full, then you'll have the strength to fight them."
Aunt Wen knocked on the door for half an hour. Seeing that no one opened it, she thought they must not be hungry and that skipping one breakfast wouldn't hurt.
So she turned and went downstairs to start preparing lunch. Duoduo, this little foodie, would definitely come out to eat lunch if she didn't eat breakfast.
As a result, she made a table full of dishes that the two children liked, but neither of them was willing to come out to eat lunch.
She was anxious but didn't dare to cause trouble for Qin Beiting's side, so she found Qin Dunfan. He was Qin Xinhong's son and the person Duoduo and Yueyue had interacted with the most in the Qin family these past few days.
There were few children in the Qin family in the "Dun" generation after the "Xin" generation. Qin Dunfan was the first, so he had almost no playmates at home since he was young. Now that the Qin family had a pair of adorable twins, he was quite happy, thinking he was the older brother and could take care of his younger siblings.
However, Aunt Wen told him that these were the children of Seventh Master Qin, and he should call them Aunt and Uncle.
It was... quite absurd for a nine-year-old boy to have to call two four-year-olds Aunt and Uncle.
"Duoduo, Yueyue, open the door. I'm not going to school today, let's go play together," Qin Dunfan said, knocking on the door.
In the room, Duoduo faintly heard Qin Dunfan's voice. She happily opened a crack in the door and, seeing only Qin Dunfan, opened it fully.
"I want to play too, but I'm going on a hunger strike. Let my daddy bring my mommy back. When they come back, we'll go play then," Duoduo said.
"But Great-Uncle rarely comes back," Qin Dunfan said.
In his nine years of life, he had only seen Great-Uncle in person a handful of times.
"Yes, it's precisely because he doesn't come back that I want to force him to! If you didn't see your dad and mom for a few days, wouldn't you miss them?" Duoduo said.
Qin Dunfan found it quite reasonable. He lived with his parents, and sometimes when his dad was away on a business trip for two days, he would feel quite unaccustomed to it. If he couldn't see them for a long time, it would be even worse.
"Then you should force him. I'll go tell Aunt Wen not to disturb your hunger strike."
"Wait." Duoduo saw him about to leave and quickly called him to stop. "Go secretly bring me a portion of fried chicken."
"Aren't you going on a hunger strike?" Qin Dunfan was surprised.
Duoduo: "I need to eat to have the strength to hunger strike! Besides, my goal is to force my daddy back. As long as the goal is achieved, why worry about the process!"
Qin Dunfan suddenly seemed to have learned a new skill, and with a flash of enlightenment, he said, "That makes so much sense!"
So he happily went to get the fried chicken.
This hunger strike lasted for three days. Aunt Wen tried every method but couldn't get the two children to eat, making her frantic. Duoduo lay in the room, indulging in snacks and playing games without anyone bothering her. Yueyue could also get his wish of holding his computer and playing with code day and night without being urged to sleep.
The only downside was that the snacks they had stocked up on were finished today, and the snack bags and trash were a bit difficult to hide.
Aunt Wen was really worried that the children would starve, so she finally called Chen Dong and asked him to inform Qin Beiting that the two children had been on a hunger strike for three days.
Qin Beiting was guarding Yu He at the hospital and had almost forgotten about the existence of the two children.
As the seventy-two-hour deadline approached, Qin Beiting was reluctant to leave at this moment. But thinking that the children were born to him by Yu He risking her life, they were their flesh and blood, and Yu He cared about them deeply. If he brought the children to see her, perhaps she would wake up sooner.
He immediately returned to the Qin family. As soon as he entered the Four Seasons Courtyard, Aunt Wen was waiting in the living room.
"Where are they?" Qin Beiting asked.
"In Little Miss Duoduo's room. They've been there for three days, refusing to come out, and haven't even had a drop of water. I'm worried they won't be able to take it. Please go see them quickly," Aunt Wen said.
Qin Beiting went upstairs, and Aunt Wen quickly followed. When they reached Duoduo's door, she knocked first: "Little Miss, Little Master, hurry and open the door, Seventh Master is back."
In the room, Duoduo, who was lying on the bed gnawing on the last bag of chicken feet, immediately jumped up upon hearing this. She threw the half-eaten chicken feet and bones into the bathroom. Yueyue closed his computer, sniffed the lingering smell of snacks in the room, opened the window, and then took out an air freshener and sprayed the room.
After doing all this, Duoduo pretended to be weak and lay on the bed, letting Yueyue open the door.
Seeing only Qin Beiting and Aunt Wen, Yueyue frowned, "Where is my mother?"
Qin Beiting looked at the two children again, and his feelings had subtly changed. "She..."
"Handsome Uncle, you're finally back. If you hadn't come back, my brother and I would have starved to death. *Burp*," Duoduo said weakly from the bed, unable to help but let out a burp.
The moment the door opened, Qin Beiting smelled the undeniable strange odor in the room. He glanced at the open window and then at the corner of Duoduo's mouth that she hadn't wiped clean in time, and he instantly understood.
As expected, they were his own children. They were playing the same tricks their mother used to play.
He remembered that Yu He had also gone on a hunger strike once when she was little.
At that time, she seemed to have insisted on Sixth Brother taking her to the river to learn to swim. Sixth Brother, for safety reasons, disagreed, so Yu He went on a hunger strike in a huff. As a result, Sister-in-law Yun'er was so worried that she couldn't eat, and Yu He herself secretly ate snacks until she was full and even threw up.
Qin Beiting walked to the bedside, took out a wet wipe, and wiped the stains from Duoduo's mouth, correcting her: "Call me Daddy."
Duoduo was stunned, completely unaware that she had been exposed. "You admit we're yours?"
This statement made Qin Beiting feel a pang of guilt. "I'm sorry. Daddy didn't know about your existence before and made mistakes. Give Daddy a chance, and I'll make it up to you properly from now on, okay?"
"Then will you let me and my brother inherit your fortune in the future?" Duoduo asked innocently.
Qin Beiting smiled helplessly, "They're all yours."
"Daddy!" Duoduo jumped up happily from the bed and hugged Qin Beiting's neck.
Qin Beiting picked her up and turned to look at Yueyue, "And you."
Yueyue was not as easily fooled as Duoduo. He repeated his question, "Where is my mother?"
"Your mother had an accident and is in the hospital. She hasn't woken up yet," Qin Beiting said truthfully.
Hearing that their mother had truly had an accident, Yueyue's small eyebrows furrowed. "What did you do to her?"
Qin Beiting pursed his lips, his guilt preventing him from speaking.
"Hmm, so Mommy hasn't come back these past few days because she was sick? Can we go see her?" Duoduo asked with a pained little face.
Qin Beiting nodded and said to Yueyue, "Call me Daddy, and I'll take you to see her. Maybe she'll wake up sooner, okay?"
Yueyue was not very willing. His intuition told him that his mother's accident was not unrelated to him.