Chapter 134: Guo Xiangqian
Li Caiyun was so anxious that her eyes were blurred with tears. She rubbed the milk box, but not a drop of milk came out.
Zhou Yong looked at his young wife's miserable appearance and said, "It doesn't matter if there is no milk. The child can just eat milk powder."
Milk powder of this era no longer contains high-tech ingredients. After consumption by children, it will only benefit their bodies and will not cause any adverse effects.
There was really no other way, so Zhang Guifang allowed the baby to use formula instead of breast milk.
In fact, Zhang Guifang insists on breastfeeding her child for the child's own good.
Zhou Yong took the bottles to the outer room and rinsed the three bottles with boiling water before making milk powder for the children.
It was Zhou Yong’s first time making milk powder and as a new father, he had no experience and had to rely entirely on his own feelings to figure it out.
Even so, Zhou Yong still did things in an orderly manner, which stunned Li Caiyun and the other three.
He tested the temperature of the prepared milk powder and only distributed the bottles when he felt it was just right.
The three children were so weak when feeding that Zhou Yong felt heartbroken.
Zhao Chunhua and Miao Jinfeng sat for a while and then went back. They were unable to help in any way if they stayed.
After seeing them off, Zhang Guifang returned to the house and waited for the child to finish feeding. Zhou Yong and Li Caiyun each held a child in their arms.
This scene looks funny and ridiculous, but it is a helpless act.
What about the other child?
Zhang Guifang picked the child up, unbuttoned her clothes, held the child against her chest through her sweater, closed her cotton coat, and sat on the kang to warm the child.
Zhou Yong, lying on the kang, silently shifted his gaze away from his mother-in-law and looked down at the child lying on his chest.
The little guy was full and moved a few times on Zhou Yong. Listening to his heartbeat, the child fell asleep soon.
Li Baotian came back, but he did not go to the west room. He took the shoulder pole and bucket and limped out to fetch water.
That night, when Li Baotian went to see the midwife, he fell down on his bicycle. Zhang Guifang did not ask him what happened afterwards, and the couple has been in a cold war ever since.
Li Baotian knew he was wrong and wanted to be forgiven by his daughter, son-in-law and wife, but he didn't know what to do.
The water tank was full. Li Baotian looked at the time and clumsily started to make dinner.
Hearing the sound of ding-dong coming from the outer room, Zhang Guifang put her child down and came out to check. Li Baotian had blood dripping from his fingers and looked at her pitifully.
Zhang Guifang said nothing, left the outer room, went out to relieve herself, and then returned to the west room.
Li Baotian pursed his lips, feeling unhappy, but who could he blame?
Li Baotian prepared dinner, but Zhang Guifang didn't eat a single bite. Although Zhou Yong resented his father-in-law in his heart, he gave him the meal to give him face because of his good attitude in the past few days.
Li Baotian looked at Zhou Yong, and several times he seemed to want to say something but hesitated. In the end, he still didn't have the courage to ask for forgiveness.
Zhou Yong knew that Li Baotian was feeling upset. He wanted to comfort his father-in-law, but every time the words came to his lips he didn't know how to start.
After all, the three children were in very bad conditions. If they died, not to mention what a blow it would be to Zhou Yong, it would be another matter whether Li Caiyun could bear it.
So at the moment he can't say that he forgives Li Baotian. As for when he will forgive his father-in-law, he can only take it one step at a time.
Again, Li Baotian did it unintentionally.
Zhang Guifang cooked the meal herself, and Li Caiyun had chicken noodle soup with poached eggs as her confinement meal.
A few days later, it was New Year's Eve, and the Li family was very quiet that day.
Zhang Guifang brought the prepared food directly to the west room. Li Baotian saw that someone was heating up leftovers.
Zhou Yong felt a little bit sorry and wanted to invite Li Baotian to come over for a meal, but Zhang Guifang refused to agree.
If Li Baotian came, she would leave. In Zhang Guifang's words, it would be either me or him.
Seeing this, Zhou Yong didn't know how to persuade her anymore, and Li Caiyun swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
The next day was New Year's Day. In previous years, the younger generations of the Li family would come to Li Baotian's house to kowtow and wish a happy new year. However, this year the situation in his family was special. Everyone came, put down their gifts and left, and did not dare to stay at all.
As for Zhou Yong, he didn't visit anyone this year because he had to take care of three children.
Ma San and his wife came with four boxes of gifts, but they left before they even had their meal. The same thing happened to Cao Biao and his wife, Xing Laoqi and his wife, and Liu Dazhuang and his wife...
The days passed in depression, and in the blink of an eye, the baby was one month old.
The three children are in a slightly better condition than when they were just born, but still cannot compare with full-term babies.
Zhou Yong didn't go to work and stayed at home taking care of the children all day. Everyone knew what happened in his family. Plus it was not the spring planting season yet, so even if he didn't come to work, everyone turned a blind eye.
The children changed every day. After a hundred days, the three little ones weighed 15 to 20 kilograms.
It was now the spring sowing stage. Even if Zhou Yong didn't want to go to work, he had to go to the fields to check on them. Otherwise it would be a bit unreasonable.
Zhou Yong hadn't been around the village for several months, and he felt a little uncomfortable on his first day at work in the brigade.
Accustomed to a life with a wife and children and a warm bed, he always feels like something is missing when he suddenly returns to work.
Zhou Yong sat there thinking. He looked down at his arms and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
His daughter had been growing bigger and bigger in his belly over the past few months. Today, the child was not in his body, which made him feel uncomfortable.
Zhou Yong shook his head to dispel his thoughts about his child, took out the key and opened the drawer.
Li Caiyun could not come to work, but she worked as a timekeeper, so Zhou Yong had to pick up this job again.
In the next few days, Zhou Yong dealt with the backlog of affairs every day. It took him five busy days to finish the work at hand.
Crops were planted in the fields one by one, and explosions could be heard from Dongshan from time to time.
Ever since Guo Xiangqian returned to Huaixi Village after the Chinese New Year, he has been very quiet and hasn't caused any trouble.
He follows the rules every day, goes to work and comes home from get off work, and no one can find any fault with him.
But with the appearance of Zhou Yong, his silence became a follower to him.
At first Zhou Yong was not used to it, but gradually he got used to it.
After more contact with Guo Xiangqian, Zhou Yong finally understood why he had changed so much.
Zhou Yong felt that when Guo Xiangqian returned home to report on his work, the Guo family must have discovered something wrong with him and must have scolded him severely. Otherwise, he would not have changed so much.
It's no wonder that Zhou Yong's guess is basically close to the truth. The Guo family does not expect Guo Xiangqian to achieve any political achievements. They just hope that he can take away the current achievements of Huaixi Village. So he doesn't need to do anything extra. As long as he works hard for a period of time, the Guo family will reassign him a job.
It’s just that Guo Xiangqian didn’t see the problem clearly, and after he came here he did a lot of thankless things.
Later, his uncle told him to spend more time with Zhou Yong and see how he behaves in society!
The reason why his uncle could say such a thing was that his uncle had come into contact with Zhou Yong and had a high opinion of his words and deeds.
Guo Xiangqian was very obedient. When Zhou Yong was at home taking care of the children, he visited him several times. Later, he felt that it was not good for him to go to the Li family all the time, so he waited silently for Zhou Yong to show up.
Now that Zhou Yong is willing to leave home, there is no reason for Guo Xiangqian not to stick to him.
"Brother Zhou, are you going home?"
Zhou Yong secretly raised his eyebrows: "Well, it's time to get off work."
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