The donkey cart was covered with a mattress and a quilt, and the three children were simply placed on it, which made it easier for me to carry them than keeping them awake.
There was nothing good to bring when visiting relatives at this time. There was a room full of people to eat, so Li Qingmei put five pounds of flour in a small bag, a mixture of fine flour and corn flour, a basket of winter vegetables from the cellar, and the piece of pork that Qiu Dashan brought.
Apart from the three children, there was still one empty seat, so Qiu Yuling squeezed in without hesitation. The key point was that if she didn't sit, others would push and shove her.
They arrived at the destination and the kids’ sleepiness disappeared.
Being in a new place, he was not unfamiliar with it. As soon as he put down the donkey cart, he rushed into the crowd with a roar.
The people who came out to greet the guests saw that the three of them looked exactly the same and praised them for being adorable. If they didn't praise them, it would have been fine. But once they did, they became like stage frightened people, bowing and kowtowing even more, making endless fools of themselves.
"Come quickly to Grandma and ask her to take a good look at these little Doubaos."
They didn't know who their great-grandmother was, so they just went to whoever spoke.
"Oh my, these chubby little guys, how can I tell who is who?" Great-grandmother touched their little heads, took out three yellow rock candies from her handkerchief, and stuffed one into their little mouths.
When there is candy to eat, the little mouth is like a game console that has swallowed gold coins, and it spouts golden sentences.
"I wish my great-grandmother to be plump and white~" This is red beans.
"I wish my great-grandmother grows tall and strong~" This is Orange Bean.
"I wish grandma can eat meat every meal~" This is soybean.
"Oh my, what a good talker! These are all given to us little babes. I hope we little babes can have meat every meal and grow up tall, strong, white and plump."
Not only did the old lady enjoy listening to it, but the onlookers were also touched by the cuteness of the childish words.
In fact, Qiu Yuling had taught them to say auspicious words several days ago. Who knew that when they arrived at the examination room, they changed it into words that others used to praise them.
Although it sounds weird, it sounds cute.
"Oh my, how do these little guys look like? Their little mouths are chattering. Come over here quickly, let me take a look. They are made from the same mold, how can there be any difference?"
When someone calls them, it means there will be candy. The three beans are very smart and will go to find the person who is talking to them.
Maybe my aunt was too old, and they didn’t take it seriously, so they just bowed when they arrived.
"Oh, how come I'm so smart, my little doubaos, who am I?" Zhou Hongfang teased them deliberately.
Xiaodouzi's six eyes gurgled happily, seeking help from outside the field. Huang Duoer immediately received the signal and said, "Call aunt."
"Aunt grandma~~~"
"Oh, that's good."
The beans have been waiting for a long time, why haven't you shown any response?
"Aunt~ ~ ~" she called again in a baby voice.
"Hey, hey, hey, good boy, so good." Zhou Hongfang responded without saying anything.
The beans got anxious and shouted again, which made everyone laugh so hard that they fell forward and backward.
"You naughty boy, give it to the kids quickly." The old lady saw that they were getting anxious and came to the rescue.
"Look at you, are you afraid that I will make your great-grandchildren cry? I want to hear them call me aunt again." Zhou Hongfang put the candy into Zhang Cheng's fork-holding little hand and teased the old lady with a smile.
Everyone laughed, and they laughed too, although they didn't know what they were laughing at. Anyway, having candy to eat was the best thing.
"Duo'er, when will you come back?"
The men went to the main room to drink tea, and the women went into the kitchen, busying themselves with cooking while chatting about family matters.
"We will be back on the sixth day of the New Year and ask the kids to stay home and play for two more days." Huang Duoer was the fireman. She replied to her two aunts while adding firewood.
When Zhou Hongfang heard this, she thought that this was quite a lot of holidays. Workers nowadays don’t have holidays and are still working on New Year’s Eve. The farm can also be used as a place for her to visit relatives. It’s really wonderful.
"How are those kids over there? Can they be managed?"
"Of course I can. I send them to the nursery when I'm at work. When the weather is good, I take turns taking one of them out to herd sheep." They were all sent together, and the teachers in the daycare center would chase her and Qiu Dashan behind them and complain every day.
If one is missing, the destructive power will be greatly reduced.
"You guys have been busy doing the work that others have done for three to five years. Just do this once, and you can relax later."
"Well, I might be pregnant again."
Li Qingmei, who was cutting vegetables, was stunned and almost cut her hand. When Wang Xiaomai put the vegetables into the bamboo basket, she quickly glanced at her elder sister-in-law, and it seemed that she also just realized it.
"Oh my God, are you guys going to die?" After chatting for a while, although she enjoyed it, she was also tired. If she had a few more children, she really couldn't imagine what the situation would be like.
"When did it happen?" Li Qingmei asked in a deep voice.
"It's been less than three months since I wrote to you."
Li Qingmei held her anger, this was not the place to preach.
Qiu Yuling was not in the kitchen. She and several of her cousins were playing in her grandmother's room. To be exact, she was watching her cousins playing with small beans.
The child was very active, somersaulting on the kang again and again, and soon his forehead was covered with sweat.
The square tofu-shaped quilt that grandma had folded was messed up by them. Grandma didn't say anything, but just stood at the edge of the kang to prevent them from falling to the ground.
"Look, grandma, having too many kids is a hazard. Three kids always have more bad ideas than one. Plus, there's strength in numbers. One kid might be afraid of others, but when three kids get together, they won't even be afraid of one another."
Grandma just smiled and said nothing, stroking her granddaughter's thick braids. "How many children to have depends on her belly."
"These three are the same and so fun. I wish I had one like this at home." Li Yingfen was not reading today to keep her brain occupied. Now she was like a king among children, having a lot of fun playing with the little ones.
"Then you have no intention of taking care of the child all the time. If you wanted to do it all the time, you would have given up long ago."
Li Yingfen clearly didn't believe what Qiu Yuling said. "There's nothing difficult about raising these kids. Just take care of their mouths and eat. By the time they're three, they'll be grown up and able to work behind the older kids."
After that, he even looked for help, "Grandma, what do you think? Didn't we get through this when we were kids?"
Li Yingfen stiffened her neck, waiting for her grandmother to suppress her cousin's twisted logic.
"It depends on the person. If you plant a seedling in the ground and wait for it to survive the wind and rain, it will survive. If you carefully prune it, it will also survive. If you really want to say which one is better, you have to see which tree can bear fruit and will bear fruit."
These words were not biased towards anyone, and the two of them stopped arguing about it for a while.
In the evening, everyone packed up and went home, but Qiu Yuling stayed on her grandmother's kang, planning to stay there until the New Year before returning to Qiu Village.
"Grandma, what kind of tree do you think has the most fruit?"
"What do you think?"
"Trees that are watered, fertilized, and pruned grow well and bear sweet fruit. There are also crooked trees that bear sweet fruit, but their yields are definitely not as good as those that are cared for."
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