Traversing the good life of a peasant woman

Chapter 26

Mrs. Li walked in with a bowl of chicken soup, and she had already skimmed off the slick oil on it. She pushed Fang Dachuan, and Mrs. Li said helplessly, "Get out of the way, I have nothing to do with you for the time being." , let your daughter-in-law sleep for a while after drinking the soup, you go catch up, there is still so much work outside."

Fang Dachuan reluctantly withdrew the gaze that had been on the faces of Wen Yue's mother and daughter. Seeing him like that, Li smiled and said to Wen Yue: "It is said that having a child is a fool for three years. I don't think you have changed much, but Okawa is stupid."

Fang Dachuan blushed, touched the back of his head, took the bowl from Mrs. Li's hand and said, "Mother, I'll take care of Yueniang, go to bed with grandma, and I'll go out after you all sleep well."

Knowing that her son has become a new father, she loves her daughter and loves her daughter-in-law, so she was reluctant to leave so soon, so she didn't force her, handed the bowl to Fang Dachuan, and went out after a few words to Wen Yue up.

Fang Dachuan patiently fed the bowl of chicken soup to Wenyue spoonful by spoonful. After eating a bowl of hot soup, Wenyue also felt a little strength in her body that had been shed due to over-delivery, and recalled the process of giving birth. , she stroked the child's face lightly and said: "I never expected that grandma would deliver the baby. To be honest, I was really worried when I first started it, fearing that grandma would not do well."

Fang Dachuan pulled the quilt for Wen Yue, as if he was afraid of scaring his sleeping daughter, looked at Wen Yue gently and said: "The child delivered by grandma will be thirty if not fifty, she is not sure How dare you promise to come down. Go to sleep for a while, take good care of it, and I will accompany you here."

On the third day after the child was born, Wen Yue still had no milk. Watching her daughter sucking desperately but not being able to drink a sip of milk, she finally burst into tears. Wen Yue became more and more depressed, and she cried with her distressedly.

After Mrs. Zhao entered the room, she saw Wen Yue sitting on the bed holding the child and crying. Mrs. Zhao hurriedly put the bowl aside, carried the child from Wen Yue's arms and coaxed her, and said to Wen Yue, "Yue Yue Ah, why are you crying? There are too many women in the country who have no milk, and the children of poor families are fed, not to mention our family’s current conditions. Don’t talk about others, just say Dachuan. Your mother-in-law also had no milk back then. , don’t you think Dachuan is doing well now? Ouch, my precious granddaughter, are you hungry, come on, let’s drink rice soup.”

The hungry child quickly drank the thick rice soup at the bottom of a small bowl, Mrs. Zhao patted her on the back lightly, and the full child burped and fell asleep soon.Mrs. Zhao put the child on the kang, looked at Wen Yue who was still wiping tears, and persuaded: "Yue'e, you can't do this, you are confinement, crying like this will hurt your eyes. Look, the child Aren’t you full? Let me tell you, she is a lucky person. Although you have no milk, look, this rice porridge, millet porridge, which is not thick. Okawa was not so lucky when he was a child, confinement child He didn't drink too much brown rice porridge alone."

Wen Yue knew that Zhao's words made sense, but she just felt uncomfortable in her heart. A mother has no milk for her child. What's the matter?How important is breast milk, why doesn't she know?Those mothers who had no milk in the previous life at least had milk powder to supplement, but now this child can't eat anything except rice soup.

"Grandma, I feel sorry for the child. You said that when I was pregnant with her, I ate so many good things. I drank a lot of soup and water these days, but why is there no milk?" Wen Yue said, Eye circles turned red again.

"Hey! What's the matter!" Zhao said with a smile: "As the old saying goes, whether there is any milk here is the ration brought by the child herself. Our little padded jacket, she didn't bring the ration. What can we do?"

Seeing that Wen Yue still couldn't figure it out, Mrs. Zhao was afraid that she would get angry and fall ill again during the confinement period, so she slapped her thigh and said, "If it's not like this, if it doesn't work, let's follow the example of the big family in the city and hire a nanny!"

Wen Yue's face was still stained with tears, and she looked at Zhao with emotion in her eyes. She never thought that Zhao, who has always advocated low-key and extremely frugal life, would make such a proposal. Come on, she really loves her mother and daughter.

The idea of ​​hiring a nanny only lingered in Wen Yue's mind for a moment before being rejected by Wen Yue. If she really hired a nanny, it would not only cost a lot of money, but also face endless inquiries and rumors from the villagers.The sensation brought about by their building a new house had just faded away, and she didn't want to put her house under the eyes of everyone again because of this incident, so she couldn't be quiet.

Forget it, didn't she herself have never eaten a bite of breast milk and was raised by grandma's rice soup?As long as she takes good care of her, the nutrition she lacks now can still be replenished when she grows older.After calming down, Wen Yue said to Mrs. Zhao: "No need, Grandma, it's my fault. Don't blame me."

Seeing that Wen Yue's expression was no longer painful, Mrs. Zhao said with relief: "Good boy, grandma understands, who doesn't want to give the best to the child? No milk is not a big deal, as long as we give the child more good food, Children will also grow up healthy, and rice soup is also a good thing."

"En!" Wen Yue nodded heavily, and smiled at Mrs. Zhao.

As Mr. Zhao said, although the child has no breast milk to eat, the daily nutrient-rich thick rice soup never makes the child hungry. On the day of the full moon, the little person turned into a white, fat and strong baby.

Fang Dachuan, who had been collecting firewood in the mountains for a day, brought in the last load of firewood before dark, and after cleaning himself, Fang Dachuan entered the house, and confronted him because he would be confinement tomorrow. The extremely happy Wen Yue said: "Yue Niang, I got a pheasant and a rabbit today, it's incredible, isn't it?"

"Because our daughter will have a full moon tomorrow, she must have brought good luck to our family's full moon banquet." Wen Yue unceremoniously attributed all the credit to her daughter.Fang Dachuan even nodded repeatedly: "It's natural. If it wasn't for her blessing, how could I have caught the prey suddenly? It's really Daddy's little padded jacket."

Fang Dachuan said, and gently kissed the child on the head: "Daddy's little lucky star, so good."

On the day of confinement, although it was already late autumn, Wen Yue still washed herself from the inside out. The most painful thing about confinement is not that she can't wash her face and brush her teeth, or eat all delicious meals, but that It's the feeling of being bored with nothing to do and not being able to go out all day.

Although the child is good, what's the point of guarding a baby who can't talk and can only sleep all day long?Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Li also have a lot of things to do, except for chatting with her when delivering meals, which really suffocates her to death.For the past 30 days, she is really counting on her fingers.

Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Li have been busy in the kitchen early on. It is not a big deal for the child to be in the countryside for a full moon. If they act rashly, they will make the villagers think that their family wants to collect some gift money again.So today their family didn't invite anyone, they only invited Aunt Sun's family, who usually have a good relationship, to come and have fun.

Maybe it was really the blessing brought by his daughter. After Fang Dachuan caught the prey for the first time, he would harvest some prey every few days. Their family also lived a good life of eating meat and drinking soup every day.This time the full moon wine is also made of game from the mountains. Mrs. Zhao said that this is the result of the child knowing how to love others.

Aunt Sun and her two daughters-in-law were sitting around Wenyue's room, looking at the baby who had just woken up from a full sleep, and kept praising: "Yue'e, you are really blessed, your first child is born She gave birth to a little padded jacket, look at the eyebrows, how beautiful they are."

Well, how can a child who has just reached the full moon be able to tell whether it is beautiful or not, but Wen Yuemei, who is a new mother, is still bubbling for this obviously polite compliment.She looked at her infant daughter again, um, she was pretty, with double eyelids.

Mrs. Zhao took the freshly boiled rice soup and handed it to Wen Yue, proudly said to Aunt Sun: "My granddaughter is growing well! Didn't you see that when you bathe her, then The small arms and legs are as fleshy as the lotus root that the big family eats, that looks good. Sometimes I can't help but want to bite a few times, I really don't know how to love this child."

Fourth Aunt Sun was listening cheerfully, and kept nodding in agreement. This silent encouragement made Mrs. Zhao even more boastful.

Aunt Sun's two daughters-in-law looked at Wen Yue enviously. After Aunt Sun went out with Mrs. Zhao, her eldest daughter-in-law Dong Jin'e said with a bit of sourness: "Yue'e, you are so lucky to have a daughter." It’s also rare for the family members to be so rare, but they don’t know if the next one will be a girl, so their attitude will still be the same.”

Dong Jin'e married into the Sun family for five years and gave birth to three girls in a row. Although Fourth Aunt Sun didn't say much, compared to her sister-in-law who gave birth to two sons, she still obviously felt neglected.But even though I was very dissatisfied in my heart, I didn't have a son because I was not angry enough, so I could only hold back and bear it.Seeing that Wen Yue gave birth to a girl today, but she was treated completely differently from her, I felt unbalanced in my heart, and my words became a little bit mean under jealousy.

In fact, Fourth Aunt Sun is considered lenient, and there are a few of the farmers who are not patriarchal. Compared with Fourth Aunt Sun who only occasionally said a few words, she is much better than those mother-in-laws who are mean to their daughters-in-law.

Wen Yue can somewhat understand Dong Jin'e's feelings, and she also feels that she is indeed very blessed to be able to travel to such a family.As for whether to give birth to a boy or a girl, Dong Jin'e has no say. When she asked Fang Dachuan what she would do if she gave birth to a daughter in the next child, Fang Dachuan said, "It's okay if they are all daughters. Let's recruit a son-in-law." , I am not willing to let my daughter marry far away."

Fang Xiaocui, the second daughter-in-law of Aunt Sun's Fourth Aunt, was feeling uncomfortable because of her sister-in-law's untimely behavior. She was relieved to see Wen Yue not angry. The family is not sure how to deal with the two of them. "Daughter-in-law Dachuan, what are you thinking of, smiling so happily?" She asked.

How could the private words between husband and wife be told to outsiders? Besides, if she really said it, Dong Jin'e would be even angrier. Maybe she thought she was showing off on purpose, and patted her daughter Wen Yue who was about to fall asleep. He whispered, "It's okay, I just feel happy from the bottom of my heart when I see the child."

Seeing that Wen Yue didn't want to say more, Fang Xiaocui, who was winking, pulled Dong Jin'e, who was sitting in a daze, and said to Wen Yue with a smile: "Well, Yue'e, please coax the child, we will go out first."

Before they could go out, Mrs. Li pushed the door in hastily: "Yue'e, Da Chuan asked you to take the child out, there are guests at home."

(End of this chapter)