Kissing Wei Ying is a great thing to do with the emotions!!! His Lan Zhan is holding their A-Yuan and this is. This is absolutely too wonderful and aaaaaah. He is going to cope with this by making A-Yuan do adorable baby giggles by making ridiculous faces at him. 

That is very unhelpful for Wangji's ability to cope with this, but it is wonderful and Wangji loves him very much and so he will let it slide.

"You are a good father. I knew you would be."

Wow okay if he's just going to say things like that Wei Wuxian is going to have to extremely kiss him about it. 

"--We should get married," he says when he has to break away. "We should get married right the fuck now, children should have parents who are married." 

Back to kissing, immediately.

But then he says, "Marriage after we figure out how to care for the baby. I do not know how to feed him."

"Oh shit, you're right. How old is he? Does he need a wet nurse? How do you find a wet nurse. Um. Crap, he was way older than this last time."

"I do not know. He is... very small."

"...People at brothels have babies sometimes? And are good at exchanging money for goods and services. And probably wouldn't ask awkward questions we can't deflect." 

That feels like a really bad idea but Wangji does not have any better ones? He looks conflicted and vaguely alarmed. "People not at brothels have babies also."

"People not at brothels are more likely to be offended by random teenagers making requests involving their breasts. There's probably some non-offensive way to hire a wetnurse but I don't know what it is. Probably Madam Yu or Uncle Jiang would have any idea but we can't not feed him at all between here and Yunmeng, let alone Gusu." 

"We could ask the people at brothels about less offensive ways."

"That could work!" 

...

"Do you have any idea how to find a brothel." 

"Find a large enough town and... ask?"

"You know, I think asking random people where to find a brothel might be even more suspicious than asking random people how to hire a wetnurse. Maybe I should just go back to the orphanage and ask them." 

"Mn. Should I come?"

"No, you stay here with A-Yuan, or better yet keep heading back to Jiang Cheng and our stuff. If the orphanage people see us with A-Yuan again they might realize we're technically not supposed to have him and try to keep us from leaving with him, and I'm only mostly sure we wouldn't have to hurt any of them if that happened." 

Kiss. "Be careful."

Kiss. "I will." 

He bends slightly to kiss A-Yuan's forehead and heads back towards the orphanage. 

He catches up with Lan Zhan again a few minutes later. "They said they have any wetnurses on staff but not that many compared to the number of babies and he's old enough to be started on soft non-milk foods so they did." 

"How do we make soft non-milk foods?"

"There's...broth? Or congee? Shijie will probably know something, she's a genius at food."

"Mn. We'll try congee first."

"Okay." He beams at tiny little A-Yuan. "Hear that, radish? You are not going to go hungry, no you're not, we love you very much and would never ever allow it." 

"Never," he repeats very quietly, and kisses A-Yuan's forehead.

"Do we have enough blankets to keep him warm?" The nights haven't been very cold, but he thinks it's chilly enough to make a baby uncomfortable, maybe.

"I think so? Especially since he's so little, we can just wrap one around him several times. Or just cuddle him to keep him warm. What do you think, little radish? You're very very tiny but I bet if we mess up a little and let you get cold you'll yell at us before it gets too bad. That's what babies like you are best at, isn't it, yelling? Yelling and being precious and adorable." 

He pats the tiny baby. "I think he approves."

Are they getting close to the campsite yet? He is fretting in advance about how skilled any of them will be at making congee for small babies.

Here is the campsite, here is Jiang Cheng, please don't murder him for being in proximity to both of the people you love most in the world Lan-er-gongxi.