That night, Shi Meijun stayed at Qiao Qingqing's place.
With three children, the couple could not take care of them all, so Shi Meiyun had to stay.
However, the people in the cowshed still had to go to work every day. Although everyone knew about the relationship between Shi Meiyun and Qiao Qingqing, they could not openly ask her to take care of Qiao Qingqing during her confinement.
This means that Shi Meiyun will be busy day and night and it will be very hard.
But she was not reluctant at all, instead she looked like she was happy to do it.
Even Mr. Lu and Lu Zhenfeng forgot the hard work during the day, and took their tools late at night and tried to catch fish in the river.
However, without fish cages and fishing nets, they caught nothing.
Lu Heng also rode his bicycle into the city in the early morning to buy pig's trotters from Sun Zhong.
Not to mention how surprised Sun Zhong was when he saw the tall and strong Lu Heng at his doorstep early in the morning.
Shi Meiyun had prepared breakfast, took off her apron in a hurry, held the child, and said to Qiao Qingqing: "The time for the brigade to assemble is almost here, Mom has to go, Qingqing, can you do it alone?"
Without waiting for her answer, he sighed, his face full of worry, "Look at me asking such a stupid question... Oh, what should I do? It's the busy farming season, so we can't be lazy..."
Qiao Qingqing knew that the Lu family was helpless. As people sent down to the countryside, they had no freedom, let alone rights.
"Don't worry about me, come on, mom. Put the kids in bed and I'll feed them after I finish eating."
Shi Meiyun looked worried, but she had no choice but to go out.
She knew very well that the reason she had been able to persuade the team leader to give the two female educated youths a holiday and allow them to accompany Qingqing to the city was because of the four words "human life is of paramount importance".
Now, although it is difficult for Qingqing to take care of three children alone, given the environment and people's concepts in the fishing village, it is extremely tolerant to allow Qingqing to "confinement" after childbirth, and it is impossible for someone else to take care of her.
It is even more impossible for the Lu family to ask for money to hire someone to help. That would be like pulling hair from a tiger's butt. Once the news gets out, they will even be labeled as having "capitalist habits" and then be criticized.
There is no other way, Qiao Qingqing can only rely on herself.
However, as soon as she entered the yard, Shi Meiyun saw a woman standing outside the door, looking around curiously.
Shi Meijun and Liu Mei were not familiar with each other and did not recognize that the woman in front of them was Qiao Qingqing's biological mother.
She thought the other person was from the fishing village, so she smiled at him kindly, fearing that he would report her if he was unhappy.
Liu Mei knew that this woman was her son-in-law's mother, and the only lucky person in the world who was called "Mom" by Qingqing.
——Since her divorce, Liu Mei returned to her parents' village. Her parents had died and she had no brothers, so the house in her parents' village now belonged to her cousin.
Fortunately, her cousin was a nice man. Liu Mei paid some money and her cousin gave her a room.
But later, Qiao He also came and said that he would live with his mother and take care of her in her old age.
So now that the two of them were in Liujiazhuang, Liu Mei's cousin talked to the team leader and arranged a job for Qiao He as a cattle herder, and he also lived in the cowshed.
After settling down, Liu Mei would come to the fishing village from time to time.
Every time he would hide far away, secretly glance at his daughter, and dare not be discovered.
Last month, Liu Mei noticed that her daughter's door had not been opened for a long time. She asked privately and found out that her daughter had gone to the city to take care of her pregnancy.
After that, Liu Mei came more often.
She lived in Liujiazhuang and had to work to earn food, so she came here at night after finishing her work during the day.
The night before, Liu Mei happened to meet the two sons of the Lu family riding their bicycles out of the village.
The two were in a hurry and didn't notice her in the bushes by the roadside, but she vaguely heard a conversation between her father and son, saying that Qingqing had given birth!
So, after finishing work yesterday, Liu Mei called Qiao He and went to the creek overnight to catch a net bag of crucian carp.
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