Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, the second child of the Sheng family has been born for almost a month.

With the winter production season about to begin at the forest farm, Sheng Xiping discussed with his family and decided to hold a full-month celebration on October 21st.

Otherwise, if it gets too late, most people will have to go up the mountain to work.

Sheng Liancheng and Zhang Shuzhen also felt that this arrangement was reasonable, so they set the date for the full moon celebration and notified their relatives and friends.

On October 20th, Sheng Xinyu celebrated his one-month birthday, and Zhou Qinglan also finished her postpartum confinement.

Zhou Mingyuan and his wife took leave to visit their daughter and grandson at the forest farm.

Just then, Zhang Shuzhen was busy preparing for tomorrow's banquet, so she asked Wang Chunxiu to accompany Zhou Qinglan to the bathhouse in the forest farm for a bath.

Women are not allowed to wash their hair or take a bath during postpartum confinement. However, women are weak after giving birth and often sweat profusely. On top of that, they are breastfeeding. Who can endure this for a whole month?

The mother and daughter soaked in the bathhouse for a long time, and then scrubbed themselves from head to toe, finally feeling refreshed.

After coming out, Wang Chunxiu dried her daughter's hair, put on her coat, and covered her up with a scarf and hat before hurrying home.

The Sheng family is quite lively right now; a large pot in the courtyard is simmering with meat.

Sheng Xiping started preparing for his son's one-month celebration several days in advance, leading Sheng Xi'an, Wang Jianshe, and others up the mountain for several days in a row.

They killed a sow, a pig that had been kept for a year, and also caught two roe deer, several pheasants and rabbits.

Pig's head and offal are simmering in the pot, and wild rabbit and pheasant are stewing inside. These dishes that require a lot of cooking time have all been prepared in advance. Tomorrow, with the addition of side dishes, they can be stewed briefly.

When the in-laws came to visit the children, Sheng Liancheng and his wife naturally had to treat them well. They prepared eight dishes for dinner and invited Wang Jiachuan and Liu Changde over as well. Everyone got together for a delicious meal.

In the evening, Wang Chunxiu and Zhang Shuzhen stayed in the west room to keep Zhou Qinglan company and help take care of Sheng Xinyu.

Sheng Xinyu, who was quite easy to take care of during her postpartum period, has been a bit fussy these past few days, probably due to intestinal bloating.

Wang Chunxiu took the opportunity to teach Zhou Qinglan how to take care of the child, help the child expel the gas in his stomach, and make the child more comfortable.

"My dear in-law, thank goodness you know all this. I thought the baby was just starting to make a fuss when the confinement period was over."

After Wang Chunxiu's actions, Xiao Xinyu let out a series of loud farts, and then he behaved himself, closing his eyes and going to sleep without crying or making a fuss.

Zhang Shuzhen was astonished and said with admiration.

In the past, when medicine was underdeveloped, most people did not understand and only thought that the baby was about to finish the postpartum period and was experiencing postpartum discomfort.

For mild postpartum fussiness, just soothe the baby. The baby may be fussy for ten days to half a month, but it will gradually get better.

If a new mother is in a difficult postpartum period, sleeping during the day and crying at night, the elders might come up with a solution: have someone write a note.

"Heavenly Emperor, Earthly Emperor, there is a child in my house who cries at night. If a gentleman passes by and recites this three times, he will sleep soundly until dawn."

Stick the note on a big tree by the roadside, and when passersby see it, they can read it aloud, and it is said that the child will stop crying.

Zhang Shuzhen was an uneducated woman who didn't know much about these things. When Sheng Xiping was a few years old, her mother-in-law and her own mother were not around, and she had to figure out how to raise the child on her own.

When it came to her grandson, Sheng Xinhua was only fussy for the first few days after he was born, but he got better after that and was very easy to soothe. Zhang Shuzhen didn't even know what intestinal gas was.

So seeing her grandson not crying or making a fuss in Wang Chunxiu's arms, Zhang Shuzhen was particularly impressed.

“Sister-in-law, who knew these things before? We just did whatever we could, and now the kids are all grown up. It’s all the same.”

Wang Chunxiu laughed when she heard this. She had learned these things through continuous learning and exploration.

When Zhou Qingyang and his friends were kids, who cared about these things?

The child has been crying at night these past few days. Although Zhang Shuzhen has been helping, Zhou Qinglan has no appetite for sleep because of the crying, so she looks a bit haggard.

With Wang Chunxiu's help and Zhang Shuzhen's presence, Zhou Qinglan only needs to breastfeed at night and sleeps the rest of the time, which makes things a bit more peaceful.

The next day was the day the Sheng family would hold their full-moon celebration.

Early in the morning, Sheng Xiping got up to fetch water, only to find two deer piled up at the door when he opened it.

Needless to say, this must have been delivered by Huahua in the middle of the night.

Over the past year, Hua Hua has not been sending back game as frequently. Sometimes it takes half a month or twenty days, and sometimes it takes about a month to send it back.

Sheng Xiping guessed that Hua Hua had grown up now and her territory had probably expanded.

The tiger patrols its territory almost every day, driving away any uninvited guests.

With the territory expanding, patrolling it takes more time, so returning less often is normal.

What a coincidence! We're having a feast at home today, and Huahua just happened to bring over a deer.

Sheng Xiping glanced at them and realized that they were a male and a female.

This is the season when deer are in their breeding season, so these two deer are probably a pair, and Hua Hua got them all mixed up.

I wonder how much effort Hua Hua put in to drag both deer to the forest farm.

It's quite interesting, really. The dogs in our house are all excellent hunters; they can smell prey from a great distance.

But every time Hua Hua brings her prey, the food is left outside the door, and the dog in the house doesn't make a sound.

Sheng Xiping guessed that the tiger's scent was so strong that the dog was too scared to make a sound.

Sheng Xiping dragged the two deer into the yard, then called Sheng Xi'an to fetch water. He quickly gutted and cleaned the deer to prevent them from becoming unpalatable.

The two deer are perfectly preserved. The male deer's antlers have become ossified and have several branches, making them look like small trees, which is particularly beautiful.

Although this stuff isn't as potent as deer antler, it still has its uses, so we can't throw it away.

Deer heart, deer penis, deer tail, and the like are all good things; I'll collect them one by one and put them away.

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