Lin Rui slept soundly, dreaming he was touring the vast landscape of his motherland from a helicopter. From mid-air, he spotted his parents and Lin Pingmao and his group standing on a mountaintop, waving at him to descend. The helicopter, seemingly uncontrollably, plummeted, its extreme eccentricity giving him a thrilling sensation.
Suddenly, I felt a sinking sensation in my arms, and a swaddling cloth filled with the scent of milk was stuffed into my arms by my eldest sister. In the dim light of the fire, I saw that it was my little niece Qingqing.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Lin Rui didn't understand the situation yet. He rubbed his eyes and tried to wake himself up. He didn't forget that it was still late at night, so he lowered his voice a lot.
Lin Susu also lowered her voice and said in a whisper, "What else can we do? You're the only one who can comfort this little girl, and you don't want everyone to be unable to sleep because of her crying, do you?"
"Sister, how can I, a grown man, coax a child!" Lin Rui felt as if his body was frozen. There was such a little thing in his arms, and he dared not move.
Lin Susu ignored him and straightened the swaddling clothes for little Qingqing: "You really should thank big sister for being so generous, otherwise Niu Niu would have been sent to you to take care of together. Qingqing would be your niece, but Niu Niu wouldn't be!"
Lin Rui's eyes widened in surprise. No? What the hell was going on? He had only taken a short nap, so how could he not understand what his elder sister said after waking up?
The eldest sister didn't look at Lin Rui again. She turned around, took off her shoes, and got on the wooden bed, covering her and Niu Niu beside her with thick clothes. On the other side, Lin had already fallen asleep early due to exhaustion. Giving birth is too energy-consuming for women, especially the tearing of the lower body during childbirth. Now she can only walk with difficulty. When she was holding Qingqing to coax her, she was in so much pain that she broke out in a cold sweat.
Handing Qingqing over to Lin Rui was the right thing to do, and it also allowed Lin Rui to experience what it was like to be a dad in advance. He will definitely be able to take care of his own children in the future.
During the day, Lin Susu, Feng Zhenniang and others were busy with other tasks. Only Lin Rui, the person in charge of the overall situation, had some free time. Or perhaps it was that the work that should have been done by Lin Rui was taken care of by others, so he had more time to take care of the children.
Yes, God knows why he has a good relationship with children. Qingqing spends the rest of her time in his arms except when she is breastfeeding. Sometimes she wakes up crying loudly after being hungry in the middle of the night, and Lin Rui, with sleepy eyes, skillfully picks up her soft little body and brings it to her second sister to feed.
After feeding, he would hold the baby back in his arms and take him to sleep. The baby needs to be fed every three or four hours, so he would wake up three or four times a night. During the day, when he held Qingqing in his arms to bask in the sun, he would fall asleep.
"Ah!" Lin Rui yawned, and turned Qingqing over to continue basking in the sun. Newborn jaundice needs more sun exposure to go away, and his cold white skin has also been tanned in the past two days.
Lin Zao Zao felt that she was a person with good fortune in the future. The Jiang family treated her badly, and she was pregnant with Qingqing. She thought she would be criticized again if she returned to her parents' home. People thought that the mother and daughter had no way to survive. Unexpectedly, her younger brother was so determined to take her back to the Lin family, avoiding the disaster of massacre in the village. Rui'er took good care of her all the way.
When she gave birth, it was rainy and she couldn't travel. She was able to barely sit through the confinement period. Now, apart from breastfeeding, Rui'er also takes good care of the baby without her having to do anything. From being clumsy at the beginning to being skilled in holding the baby now, Rui'er is really an impeccable uncle.
Lin Rui held Qingqing in his arms and followed his third uncle and eldest uncle to survey the road. After the rain stopped, the sun appeared again, and there were traces of prey in the forest again. Zhao Qing, Lin Zijun, Lin Zicheng and others took bows and arrows and wooden spears and began to search for prey, and prepared to loot some more to take with them when they left.
Lin Changhe poked the road with a wooden stick. It started to harden and it was difficult to penetrate the surface. It seemed that the ox cart could also move on the road.
"Let's set off in the next few days. The road surface is hard enough. It doesn't matter whether we leave early or late. If we delay any longer, our food can't keep up with the consumption." Lin Rui said. The heavy rain before was okay as it covered up the smell of many people. Now that the weather has cleared up, the woods have begun to dry up. I'm afraid that any smell of blood will attract the attention of large carnivores in the mountains.
"Okay." The two uncles nodded.
Lin Changhe still wanted to say something, but he didn't expect his wife Zhang Dacui to be at home, clutching her chest and crying out in pain: "Ouch, ouch!"
Zhao Qing and the others who had returned empty-handed came back. Lin Ziyang hurried forward to support his mother who had slumped on the ground: "Mom, what are you doing?"
Zhang Dacui didn't say anything, tears streaming down her face.
Lin Zicheng, who came up behind, took one look at the water vat used for pickling meat and his face suddenly darkened. He cried out in grief, "Mom, the wild boar meat has grown hair. How did you pickle it?"
Lin Changhe's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. He ran over to see that the wild boar meat in the water tank had indeed grown hair. After completely opening the wooden lid, the smell of rotting meat was still there. The smell was so pungent that it made him cry.
The commotion here attracted everyone to come and watch the fun. Lin Rui stood outside the crowd and took a look. He saw that the wild boar meat in the water tank had grown white hair, and some parts were covered with green mold. There were layers of white residue on the walls of the water tank where the meat was marinated, and the blood that seeped out emitted colorful oily luster under the sunlight.
"Ten pounds of meat! These are the ten pounds of wild boar meat that we were reluctant to eat. How could you pickle it bad?" Lin Changhe's lips were shaking with anger. He had already wasted a batch of food because of the leaking awning. Now, even the ten pounds of wild boar meat that he had saved from his teeth were gone.
Zhang Dacui was extremely upset. If she had not saved half of the salt, the meat would not have spoiled. Now that the salt was gone, the meat was inedible, making the already scarce food in her family even worse.
She couldn't defend herself now. As the mistress of the family, she had always been in charge of the food in the house. Her two daughters-in-law couldn't even touch it. At most, they could only help her burn firewood.
"If you don't know how to take care of it, then forget it. From now on, the food at home will be handed over to Lu Hua and Tan Ying. Let them discuss it." Lin Changhe made the decision.
Zhang Dacui glared and said, "How can this be possible!" She is the mother-in-law. Such an important matter as food is in the hands of her daughter-in-law. How can she control her daughter-in-law in the future?
Lin Changhe's eyes widened even more than hers, and he must have been furious: "If it works, then we'll pass. If not, then we'll break up and go back to your Zhangjiawa!"
Whether Zhangjiawa still exists or not is another matter. Zhangjiawa is called Zhangjiawa because of its low terrain. With such heavy rainfall this year, it is hard to guarantee that the river embankment at Qinghe will not be washed away. If the river embankment is washed away, Zhangjiawa will become Zhangjiahe.
They all walked together into the mountains, so wild beasts didn't dare to hunt them. If she went back alone, the wild beasts would eat her alive. Not everyone is as lucky as Shuanzi.
Zhang Dacui was scared and didn't dare to challenge Lin Changhe, so she had to hand over the housekeeping power to her two wives.
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