He kept cursing this unreliable man, saying that his wife was about to give birth and he hadn't even been called to work in the fields, yet he had run off again.
"He's back! He's back! Big brother's back!"
The third brother kept looking eastward along the road, and finally spotted his eldest brother riding his bicycle back. He quickly called out to him.
"Oh, so the father's finally back," Wang Ailing said sarcastically.
"If you don't come back soon, our son will be old enough to run errands."
"Waaaaah..." A loud cry pierced the Li family's courtyard.
Li Chenyang had just jumped off his bicycle when he heard this sound, and he was so excited that he almost threw the bike away.
"Bring it out quickly so I can see it!" Li Jianguo was more anxious than anyone else, shouting from the doorway.
Grandma Zhang handed the little guy, who was wrapped up tightly, to Li Jianguo:
"Congratulations! It's a big, healthy boy, he looks like he weighs seven or eight pounds. I've never seen such a good-looking baby before."
Li Jianguo took his grandson, beaming with joy.
"Excellent, excellent! We've been waiting for the eldest grandson of the Li family!"
"Come here, let me hug you."
Liu Juan eagerly took the child from the old man's arms, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Her little face is so rosy, like a big apple."
As they were talking, the baby suddenly slapped Liu Juan across the face.
Liu Juan wasn't angry at all; in fact, she was overjoyed.
"Wow, this kid is really strong. He's only a newborn and his arms are already so strong."
Li Chenyang leaned closer to look, his face a mixture of joy and guilt: "Let me see too."
"What the hell are you looking at!" Li Jianguo kicked Li Chenyang in the butt.
"Where were you when your wife gave birth? Go inside and take care of her!"
"Hey hey hey..." Li Chenyang covered his butt and ran into the house.
Inside, Ye Xiaoxiao had just given birth and was lying on the kang (a heated brick bed), her face pale and her forehead covered in sweat. She was already asleep.
Li Chenyang quickly grabbed a new towel, soaked it in hot water, and used it to wipe his wife's body.
When Ye Xiaoxiao woke up from her nap, it was already dark.
The moment she opened her eyes, she saw Li Chenyang, and the anger she felt during childbirth immediately returned. She glared at him:
"You bastard, I think you're tired of living!"
"Wife, I was wrong..." Li Chenyang quickly went over to wipe his wife's sweat, "I just went to help Lei Dazhuang's family..."
"Help my ass!" Although Ye Xiaoxiao was too tired to move, she didn't let her verbal skills wane.
"I've told you not to go out for the next few days, are you deaf or have you lost your mind?"
"Yes, yes, it's all my fault," Li Chenyang quickly admitted.
"Don't be angry, it's not good for your health if you get angry."
[Ding! Congratulations, host, on completing the childbirth mission. Rewards: a complete set of baby care products and a postpartum care kit.]
Ye Xiaoxiao felt a surge of joy upon hearing the system notification. Even her anger towards Li Chenyang subsided considerably.
These things are rare items nowadays.
The main problem is that we don't even have toilet paper yet. Well, not exactly, we do have some, but the toilet paper we have now is like the kind you burn at a grave. It's unusable and expensive.
"Chief, this reward is pretty good. At least the suffering wasn't for nothing."
【Host, you've worked hard.】The system was unusually gentle for once.
Just then, Liu Juan came in carrying a bowl of fragrant millet porridge: "Xiaoxiao, drink it while it's hot, it'll help you recover."
Smelling the aroma, Ye Xiaoxiao's stomach rumbled: "Mom, is this egg and millet porridge?"
"That's right, I had the third and fourth brothers kill the chickens fresh and made soup especially for you." Liu Juan held up a spoon to feed Ye Xiaoxiao.
Li Chenyang quickly took the bowl: "I'll feed him, I'll feed him."
"You clumsy old man, you don't know your own strength, don't burn your wife." Liu Juan glared at her son.
"Mom, let him come," Ye Xiaoxiao suddenly said.
"Let him learn how to take care of people. We'll have to rely on him during this postpartum period."
Liu Juan was taken aback for a moment, then smiled:
"Alright, then you should teach him properly. As a father, you have to learn something."
Liu Juan dared not provoke Ye Xiaoxiao again, mainly because she had just given birth and if something else happened, she would have to go to the hospital.
Besides, having just had a grandson, Liu Juan, regardless of anything else, was willing to treat Ye Xiaoxiao even better for the sake of her grandson.
Li Chenyang carefully scooped up a spoonful of porridge, blew on it several times, and then fed it to Ye Xiaoxiao: "Here, wife, drink it while it's hot."
Ye Xiaoxiao took a sip, her eyes lighting up: "Mom, this porridge is really well cooked, so thick and soft!"
"That's right, I've been cooking it all afternoon."
Liu Juan said with a smile, "Take good care of yourself. During this postpartum period, I'll have your father look after these boys and do the chores."
The sound of a child crying came from inside the kang (a heated brick bed), so Liu Juan quickly went out to check.
Li Chenyang continued feeding the porridge, apologizing as he did so.
"Wife, I really know I was wrong. If it weren't for Fifth Brother coming to find me, I wouldn't have known you were about to give birth."
"Hmph, you know you're wrong?" Ye Xiaoxiao glared at him.
"You just wait, wait until I'm done with my postpartum confinement, then I'll see how I deal with you!"
While eating her millet porridge, Ye Xiaoxiao glanced at the crying baby, who was about to be picked up by her mother-in-law.
A strange smell wafted out. It turned out the child had pooped.
"Ugh, this taste!" Ye Xiaoxiao didn't find it as disgusting as she had imagined. It seems that becoming a mother naturally brings out some strange psychological changes.
"Hey, hey, don't get angry," Li Chenyang quickly coaxed.
"Look how handsome our son is! Doesn't he look just like me?"
"Like you, my foot!" Ye Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes at him.
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