Chapter 213 Favors
Song Lao Er urged Chu Hong: "It's fine for you to stay here, so go back first and send the pot and bowls back."
He also told her: "Tell the family members not to come. Just wait until the day after tomorrow morning and ask your father to drive the bullock cart to pick up your aunt from the hospital."
Chu Hong didn't want to stay in the hospital, but she still had to say something nice: "Then I'll go ask the doctor first. If Second Aunt can eat meat, I'll send some pork trotter noodles over tomorrow morning."
"If Second Aunt still can't eat greasy food, then send some minced meat porridge over."
The main reason is that Second Aunt had a difficult birth. Even if grandma doesn’t come today, she will definitely come tomorrow. Otherwise, people will gossip about her and think that she is not valued by her in-laws because she gave birth to a daughter.
It's impossible to come here empty-handed, so let's say something nice first.
After Chu Hong left the ward, the aunt in the next bed was very envious: "Sister, your niece is great."
"My niece is nowhere to be seen."
The lady on the bed opposite also agreed: "That's really generous. Where do your family members work?"
Otherwise, how could ordinary people afford meat porridge and pig's trotters?
Even though his son was a worker, he couldn't afford to eat like this, mainly because he didn't have enough meat coupons.
Wu Qiaofang, who was exhausted and enduring the pain, felt her vanity satisfied after hearing their words, and pretended to be indifferent: "She is just an ordinary worker. The meat coupons were specially saved to be used after I give birth to a child."
“You don’t need a ticket to buy pig’s trotters. You can buy them as long as you go early.”
She hadn't completely lost her mind. When talking to strangers, it was best to be half-truthful.
After hearing this, Gu Lao Er looked at her helplessly, but he couldn't expose her lie, so he could only say, "Close your eyes and sleep for a while."
This woman just knows how to talk nonsense. She is suffering for the sake of saving face. The country people are still the glorious working people.
Why is it that she can't say it out loud and can't show it?
But thinking that she almost lost her life giving birth to a daughter, he still didn't show any displeasure to her.
For lunch, they had meat porridge brought by Chu Hong. At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Qiaofang heard her daughter's soft cry while half asleep. She struggled to open her eyes, endured the pain, changed the child's diaper, and fed her some water.
She was a little anxious: "I don't have milk yet, go buy me some tongcao to soak in water later."
Milk powder is a precious thing nowadays. Not to mention people in the countryside, even if the He family in the city wants to buy it, they have to spend a lot of effort.
If a country woman has no milk after giving birth, she can only feed the baby with rice soup, or find out if there is a young wife in a nearby village who has also given birth, and then take some eggs to ask her to help feed the baby for a few meals.
Therefore, Wu Qiaofang was most afraid that she would have no milk. No young wife had given birth recently in either Lingxia Village or Lingzhong Village.
Even if she was willing to sacrifice eggs to ask for help, she couldn't find a suitable candidate.
Although at the beginning, she also disliked that she gave birth to a daughter instead of a son.
But when he saw his daughter's red and wrinkled face, his heart softened.
It is so difficult to give birth to a child, but we must raise him well.
After all, it’s not easy for her to have another child at her age.
Song Lao Er agreed immediately: "Okay, what do you want to eat for dinner?"
Wu Qiaofang is also a very frugal person: "Just buy me a bowl of noodles later."
Just at this moment, Chu Dan came in with a basket: "Uncle, aunt, I'm here to bring you dinner."
"My sister told me before that she had consulted the doctor and she said that I can't eat greasy food now, so she made some Tongcao crucian carp soup."
Of course, this is just a nice way of saying it. The main reason is that chicken, duck and pork are not only expensive but also hard to buy, while the He family bought a lot of crucian carp and raised them, which is convenient to cook themselves.
After saying that, he took out the lunch box from the basket and opened it. Inside was milky white fish soup and a crucian carp the size of a palm.
The other two large lunch boxes were filled with noodles with beans, eggs and shredded pork.
However, one lunch box contained soup noodles, and the other contained greasy fried noodles.
Song Lao Er's eyes lit up: "Oh, I just like to eat fried noodles."
Wu Qiaofang also smiled: "Thank you for your trouble."
This way, her family can save money on dinner, and it will make her proud and make other people in the ward envious. How can she not smile?
Song Lao Er approached Chu Dan and whispered, "Don't send them off in the future, lest the He family have a problem with you."
He didn't know that He Zhigang was targeting Chu Dan. He just felt that Chu Dan was now working for the He family and was afraid that the He family would think she was betraying them.
Chu Dan also whispered: "The He family also eats fried noodles in the evening. Grandma He urged me to make more and send it to you."
And He Chunyan also wanted to drink the Tongcao crucian carp soup, it was just a matter of putting one more crucian carp in it.
Of course, Chu Dan is not so casual just because she is dating He Zhigang.
But ever since she went to work as a nanny in the He family, the eggs and rice that the He family eats are all sold to them at low prices. They are definitely cheaper than if they bought them outside, and they are delivered to their doorstep.
When the second sister went to return the dishes and chopsticks, she also told her that she would send a few rice dumplings to the He family the day after tomorrow.
Therefore, Chu Dan would not feel that his family had taken advantage of the He family.
Song Lao Er still reminded her: "Don't send it tomorrow. Xiaohong said that her family will send food over."
He knew that Chu Hong was not a person who liked to take advantage of others, and favors should be used wisely. He also knew that Chu Hong wanted He Zhigang to bring things back, and he was afraid that in order to repay the favor, he would have to sell the things he brought back to the He family at a low price.
Chu Dan nodded and spoke a few more words to his aunt.
Before, Chu Dan really believed that a woman should find a good family, have children, and enjoy life without having to work in the fields.
Now seeing Second Aunt's haggard appearance and asking the doctor to come and change the medicine, she happened to see and hear a little bit of it by accident.
Chu Dan was really scared. Oh my god, no wonder they say giving birth is like stepping one foot into the gate of hell.
She now thinks that if she can avoid having children, then she should not have them, and if she doesn't want a man, then she should not have one.
After they finished eating, Chu Dan packed up and prepared to leave.
He Chunhua's husband Zhou Ping'an also came over on his bike with Grandma He.
This made Wu Qiaofang, who originally wanted to sleep, feel very honored, and she struggled to get up and exchange a few words.
Grandma He was also a good talker. She praised Wu Qiaofang for having both a son and a daughter, saying that the children were well-behaved and looked blessed. She was looking forward to her daughter and son-in-law showing them filial piety by giving them a chicken in the left hand and a duck in the right hand.
After praising Wu Qiaofang, he praised Song Laoer, and even the silent baby in the cradle was almost praised.
Finally, he left some things for them, asked them to have a good rest, and called Chu Dan to go back with him.
Song Lao Er declined at first, but Grandma He had given it to him sincerely, so of course he would not take it back.
As soon as they left, not only the people in the ward, but also Wu Qiaofang felt that what the He family had given was truly a generous gift.
There was a tin can of malted milk, a tin can of milk biscuits, a bag of brown sugar, and a bag of dried longan.
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