"Be good, Niu Niu. Mommy is sleeping. Don't cry. Daddy will make you some milk powder. It smells so good."
The sounds of a baby crying, a man's gentle and slightly anxious coaxing voice, and a little girl shouting "catch me" outside the house came at the same time. Xu Xiangjuan was annoyed and opened her eyes.
The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was the beams on the roof... I haven't seen such beams for a long time.
The baby's crying was too piercing. Xu Xiangjuan felt weak and dizzy. She slowly sat up and said to the outside, "Give me the child."
This man is so incompetent at taking care of children that the child is crying like this.
She remembered that she was going on vacation with a tour group. She was clearly on the tour bus. When they were driving along a mountain road, the brakes of the bus failed and it kept rushing forward. She heard sharp shouts from everyone in the car... Was she rescued from the car accident?
Zhou Chengning came in holding the baby. The baby was so small, but his crying voice was loud. When the baby's mother woke up, he was relieved, "Juan, you're awake. Niu Niu has been crying non-stop. I saw that you were tired, so I didn't bother you."
When Xu Xiangjuan saw the person coming, she took the baby and opened its diaper without thinking too much. It was pooping. "Aning, did you boil some water? Bring me a basin of warm water and wash this diaper... What is that kid yelling about outside?"
Taking the smelly diaper, Zhou Chengning said, "A chicken flew out of the chicken coop. Guagua wanted to eat the chicken, so he chased after it. Niu Niu was crying so hard that I didn't pay attention to Guagua. I'll go stop Guagua now."
If the baby's crying was not so loud that it gave Xu Xiangjuan a headache, she would have thought she was dreaming. Zhou Chengning left and she lifted up her clothes.
The baby was also hungry, and he gradually stopped crying after having milk.
She was feeding the baby. The baby's father brought in a basin of water. She did not shy away and continued to feed the baby. "Put the water first. Aning, go kill the chicken that Guagua was chasing and pluck all its feathers."
Zhou Chengning stood there without moving, not being able to react for a moment. Did his lover want him to kill a chicken?
"What are you standing there for? If you want to eat one, just kill one."
Still remember the requirements Aunt Qian put forward when she introduced her to a date: he must have at least a high school degree, be able to kill chickens, and be clean.
There is another thing. She wants a betrothal gift of 800 yuan, but the prerequisite is that she must agree to manage the money at home and live in their Maodong Village. No matter how much the money is, it must be kept in her hands and not hidden.
Aunt Qian was worthy of being a matchmaker for thirty or forty years, and she actually found her current man.
Her husband knows how to kill a chicken, but he was stunned now, probably thinking it was unbelievable that she asked him to kill a chicken.
"Okay, I'll go right away." Zhou Chengning confirmed that his lover was talking about killing a chicken, so he went to the yard to catch a chicken.
There were several clean and soft diapers beside the bed. After the man left, Xu Xiangjuan saw the baby fell asleep while drinking milk. She took a diaper, soaked it in warm water, wrung it dry, and gently wiped the baby's butt.
The baby was full and sleepy, and he didn't cry or make any noises when his mother wiped his butt. After wiping the baby's butt and making sure that the baby fell asleep, Xu Xiangjuan put the baby aside. The baby had a small quilt, but babies of this age cannot use pillows, they can just lie flat.
After making sure that the baby would not wake up, Xu Xiangjuan got out of bed.
She remembered this incident, and when Guagua grew up, she used it to make fun of the child.
When Guagua was three years old and she had given birth to Niu Niu for two months, she was very tired. Her husband was a Chinese teacher in the town's middle school, and there was no such thing as a two-day weekend, so he only had one day off.
On the day her husband had a holiday, she was so sleepy that she fell asleep and overslept. Since her husband was at home, she felt at ease to sleep for a while. Then a chicken flew out from the chicken coop and ran all over the yard, but it couldn't fly out of the yard.
When Gua Gua heard the roosters crowing in the village, she started calling out "Cock-a-doodle-doo". If a rooster flew out, the little girl would chase the chicken around the yard, shouting "Cock-a-doo".
How could a three-year-old girl catch a chicken? She fell several times and her little face was covered with chicken droppings. When she woke up, she almost laughed to death. Her husband told her that it took a lot of effort to catch the chicken. He knew there were only four laying hens in the house and it was impossible to kill them and eat them, so he threw the chickens back into the chicken coop.
Gua Gua didn’t dare to tell his mother that he wanted to eat chicken, and originally planned to catch it and eat it himself while his mother was sleeping.
She doesn’t dare to pester her mother, asking for food, or her father, asking for food. Her father always tells her that she can’t eat if her mother doesn’t allow her to.
There is a follow-up to this matter. The hen didn't know what was wrong with her and kept trying to run out of the chicken coop. She ran away several times after being caught. Of course, she never escaped from the yard once. She was caught by her husband every time. The hen probably got sick from all the trouble and didn't lay eggs for a month.
Well, after Xu Xiangjuan laughed, she didn’t get angry to death and scolded me.
Guagua had never experienced his mother's temper before, so he got angry and started crying, saying that he didn't want his mother anymore.
This hen can't lay eggs. Can it be eaten?
Of course not. She sent it directly to her mother's house and exchanged it for a hen that could only lay eggs. Her mother stewed the chicken that couldn't lay eggs and sent a bowl of it to her family.
Gua Gua was scolded by his mother and didn't want her anymore, but he still ate the chicken that his mother brought home.
After feeding Niu Niu once, she finally understood everything. She came back in 1985.
Although her husband was not familiar with taking care of children, he had seen her do it before, and he was able to coax Niu Niu to stop crying. She did not blame the child's father for Niu Niu, but she was impressed by the fact that Gua Gua was too naughty.
This time I didn’t want to go to her mother’s house to exchange for a chicken, so I just stewed it and let the two of them have their fill.
In the yard.
"Dad, oh oh." Gua Gua squatted aside and watched his father plucking chicken feathers. His little face had been wiped clean.
Without having to feed the cow, Zhou Chengning felt a lot more relaxed. He wiped his daughter's face and caught and plucked the chicken.
Fortunately, he boiled a lot of water, enough to scald the chicken feathers.
When plucking the chicken feathers, she did not forget to tell her daughter, "Gua Gua, this is what mom asked dad to catch for you."
He felt it was unreal at the moment. Wasn't he asked to kill the chicken, pluck it and send it to his mother-in-law? Wasn't he supposed to kill it and give it to Guagua to eat?
It’s not that he is stingy with his daughter. His wife treats him and his daughter the same way. He is better to his daughter. It’s just that his daughter is young and ignorant. She wants this and that, but his wife won’t give her anything.
After a long time, I didn’t dare to ask my mother for anything and could only find a way myself.
"Good mother, eat it."
As long as there is food to eat, mom is a good mom.
Xu Xiangjuan got up and went to the kitchen. She had no other health problems, she was just exhausted from taking care of two children. Although she felt tired after a good sleep, she felt much better after that.
There were two iron pots on the stove. Xu Xiangjuan scooped water from the water tank into the hot water tank and scooped a bowl of rice from the rice jar.
This bowl of rice stew is enough for dinner at home, and can also be put into her husband's aluminum lunch box and taken to school as lunch.
When Xu Xiangjuan had washed the rice, Zhou Chengning came in carrying a clean chicken, with a little tail following it.
"I'll go boil the pot." Zhou Chengning went there consciously. Gua Gua didn't follow her father, but stared at the chicken on the chopping board. She was small, so she had to tilt her head back to stare at the chicken. Xu Xiangjuan felt tired for her daughter.
Gua Gua has been thinking about chicken since he ate it at his grandmother's house once.
How can you eat the chicken that laid the eggs? Although Xu Xiangjuan's family is considered to be one of the wealthier families in the village, they became rich because of their brothers and sisters. They suffered a lot when they were young. Let alone meat, they would have laughed in their dreams if they could have enough to eat.
According to her original idea, she would wake up laughing after eating, so why would she expect to eat meat?
After all, they have lived a good life, so they think differently and are not so stingy. Xu Xiangjuan specifically assigned a task to Guagua, "Guagua, wash your hands, peel this garlic, and wash this piece of ginger."
I filled a basin with some water and placed it on the ground to wash the ginger for Gua Gua.
The ginger and garlic were shriveled, and there was mud embedded in the ginger. Gua Gua took the garlic to his father and said, "Dad, peel the garlic."
Zhou Chengning was adding firewood to the stove. The flames in the stove were slowly burning. He took the garlic handed to him by his daughter and began to peel it.
Dad started peeling garlic, and Gua Gua started rubbing the mud off the ginger.
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