Chapter 175 Good Luck
Seeing that this action was effective, Gu Mingda hurriedly sent Niu Niu to the carriage.
As soon as Niu Niu opened the curtain of the carriage, she saw Changshou turning his little face towards it.
His little nose moved, as if he smelled Niu Niu's scent, and he immediately stretched out a pair of hands towards him.
Niu Niu was only six years old, so she naturally couldn't hold him. She could only use one hand to hold his hand.
Changshou's fair and tender little face immediately wrinkled into a ball, making an expression of grievance.
Niuniu said softly, "Be good, little brother. Let's stop crying, okay?"
Changshou held Niu Niu's fingers tightly, as if he was afraid that she would run away. The aggrieved look on his face gradually disappeared as Niu Niu's gentle comforting words came to his mind.
"I don't know what's wrong with him. He keeps crying and won't let us wipe his tears. If we wipe them, he cries even harder." Mrs. Li looked puzzled.
As Changshou stopped crying, He Niangzi's daughter stopped crying.
Niu Niu took out the handkerchief from her arms and gently wiped the tears from Xiao Changshou's face.
Changshou, who used to make a fuss when touched, became unusually well-behaved when facing Niu Niu. However, when Niu Niu took a handkerchief to wipe the tears of He Niangzi's daughter beside her, Changshou seemed to be jealous, and his mouth kept drooping, as if he was going to cry again in the next second.
When Madam He saw this, she wanted to hug her daughter away. Although it was cold that day and the baby's face would easily become chapped if the tears were not wiped away, she was more afraid that the young master Changshou would be unhappy, and thus make Mrs. Li displeased.
Although Niu Niu is young, she already has the demeanor of an older sister, and she gently coaxes her brother: "Be good, we must be generous and good children."
Changshou's mouth drooped for a moment, and then Li saw with her own eyes her son, who was less than three months old, and forced a flattering smile on her young face.
"Your sister is really powerful. She has plenty of ways to deal with you, a little bad guy." Li reached out and tapped Changshou's nose.
Changshou turned his head away in dissatisfaction.
Li scolded, "I worked so hard to give birth to you, you little brat, and you don't feel sorry for me at all."
Little Changshou did not give any response to his mother.
Instead, Niuniu stuck close to Li and said sweetly, "Godmother, my brother is still young. When he is as old as me, he will be especially considerate."
Niu Niu actually praised two people with this sentence.
Adults’ boasting will only annoy people, but it’s different with children. When Niu Niu looks like this, Li feels that she is very lovable.
She couldn't help thinking in her heart that even if her third brother's wife's family offered her their twin daughters in exchange for Niu Niu, she would definitely not do it. Such a considerate and well-behaved daughter is truly hard to find anywhere in the world.
During the second half of the day, Niu Niu sat in Li's carriage.
In the Gu family's carriage, although Zhang Yunniang was happy that Changshou finally stopped crying, she couldn't help feeling empty in her heart without her daughter. However, she also knew that Li needed Niuniu more than she did, and would never let Niuniu suffer any grievances.
Gu Zhao suddenly said, "I also want to go to the carriage at the back."
Zhang Yunniang was stunned and asked directly, "You can't bear to leave your sister?"
Gu Zhao nodded, but didn't say what was in his heart.
He wanted to accompany Niu Niu and Li at the same time, because Li always had a lot of cakes and dried fruits in her car, and she didn't restrict how much the children ate.
But Gu Zhao has always been very cautious when it comes to eating, and he instinctively thought it would be better not to say this out loud.
Zhang Yunniang was also thinking of ways to deal with it. After she was separated from her daughter, she realized how difficult it was to bear the days of separation between mother and daughter.
Before dark, the carriage arrived at the next post station.
Perhaps because the journey was too bumpy and Xiao Changshou was too young, he did not sleep well at night.
She suddenly started crying in the middle of the night. Niu Niu, who was originally sleeping upstairs, was sent downstairs by Zhang Yunniang.
After all the hassle until the second half of the night, Niu Niu just slept with her brother.
The next morning, just after breakfast, Zhang Yuniang pulled Gu Zhao and ran to Li.
"Sister-in-law, A Zhao kept saying yesterday that he wanted to be with his sister. I thought that I have a lot of children to take care of, so why don't I take A Zhao with you so that I can take care of him." Zhang Yunniang said.
Compared to accompanying her husband, Zhang Yunniang would rather be with her daughter.
When Li heard that Zhang Yunniang wanted to help, she was naturally overjoyed and said, "Sister-in-law, I should have been polite, but the relationship between our two families is such that it would seem strange if I refused."
Li's carriage was spacious, so she sent the two maids to the back and replaced them with Gu Zhao and Zhang Yuniang.
Li was originally afraid that a boy of seven or eight years old like Gu Zhao would make noise and trouble, but she didn't expect that Gu Zhao, who had a stutter, would become quiet.
The Sun family was wealthy and powerful, and they never cared about food. After Gu Zhao finished eating, the servants would fill his bowl with food. Gu Zhao's mouth never stopped eating.
Zhang Yunniang's eyes were almost sharp, but Gu Zhao pretended not to see anything.
He had only been in the Sun family's carriage for half a day before Zhang Yuniang sent him away to keep Gu Mingda company.
The arrival of Zhang Yunniang did relieve Li's pressure. The older women around Li were not energetic enough, and the young and strong maids had no experience in raising children. Even Madam He had only given birth once. Zhang Yunniang was young and experienced, and she taught her all the little tricks of raising children.
"When he is six months old, you don't have to feed him milk all the time. You can add some rice porridge and slowly feed him some mashed meat and vegetables." Zhang Yunniang said.
Mrs. Li was surprised and said, "I was thinking of letting Changshou drink milk until he was three years old."
Zhang Yunniang said: "Many wealthy families raise their children the same way as you do. My method is the way of rural families, but from my observation, raising children this way can make people stronger."
Li was skeptical, so she asked again, "Sister-in-law, is this how you raised your children?"
Zhang Yuniang nodded.
Li looked at Zhang Yunniang with envy, not because she envied her for having many children, but because she envied how well-behaved Changshou was when he fell into her arms. It was obvious that Zhang Yunniang was very good at holding children, which made Changshou very comfortable.
"Sister-in-law, please teach me quickly. Every time I hold this child, he becomes unhappy after a while." Li said anxiously.
Zhang Yunniang shook her head gently and said, "I will teach you after you live for at least five months."
Li was puzzled.
"You just gave birth and your body hasn't fully recovered yet. You should hold the baby less."
Zhang Yunniang continued, "This is what my mother-in-law taught me. I gave birth to three children. In the first few months, my mother-in-law never let me hold the children except when I was breastfeeding. Even when I was breastfeeding, I always leaned against them like this. So until now, I rarely have back pain."
When Li heard this, he felt mixed emotions.
Both of them married into the families of the three brothers. The Sun family is wealthy, while the Gu family is just an ordinary peasant family in the countryside, and their life is hard.
But the Gu family's parents-in-law are kind and willing to take care of their daughter-in-law. Such a family atmosphere is far beyond the Sun family.
Li had always felt that she had a good life, but suddenly she felt that Zhang Yunniang had a truly good life. Her husband was promising, she was loved by her parents-in-law, and she had a good relationship with her children. Gu Yan was sensible, Gu Zhao was lively, and Niuniu was an excellent daughter. Except for her second son, she had almost no regrets in her life.
She even wondered vaguely, if she were the daughter-in-law of the Gu family, would she be the mother that Niu Niu loved the most now?
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