"Hey, this little guy has a sensor on his body." Qiu Yuling took the bowl, sat on the edge of the kang with half of her buttocks, sipped a mouthful of milk, raised her chin and nodded to her eldest nephew.
She didn't know what the little guy understood. She didn't say anything or tease him, but just laughed along with her.
"He's so small, he shouldn't be able to see anything, right?" I've seen popular science before, which says that babies under one month old can only see twenty centimeters. What is he so happy about?
"Yuling, move aside. I'll put the second child in. It's time for our little eldest child to take his place." Li Qingmei replaced the second child who was sleeping soundly on the kang.
Seeing the sleeping baby with fluffy eyelashes, fair and tender face, and sparse bald head, Qiu Yuling actually found the baby quite cute.
"Mom, grandma, Yuling, Duoer, you haven't gone to bed yet?" Qiu Dashan came into the house with a gust of cold air, and Qiu Yuling shivered because of the wind brought in.
I instinctively closed the curtain that was opened to see the baby, and fortunately it did not disturb the sleeping little one.
"Mom, I brought two baskets of charcoal. Where should I unload them?"
"Did you go to fetch charcoal today? Did you go to fetch sand?"
"Well, Dad said we won't do it this year. The soil is frozen. We have to go buy coal tomorrow. I heard from other teams that in some places, even with a coal purchase certificate, you can't buy coal at a fair price."
After talking for a while, he felt warm. He stretched out his hands and wanted to hug the eldest child in his wife's arms.
"Be careful, don't wake him up." Huang Duoer was straightening her clothes and was about to hand the baby to the man, but her mother-in-law intervened and slapped Qiu Dashan's hand away.
"Go away. From now on, you can hold me as much as you want. He's obviously asleep now, why are you moving around? If he wakes up, you'll wake up three of them if he cries." Isn't this just asking for trouble?
Since the children were all asleep, Mother Qiu lowered her voice and told Qiu Dashan all the next arrangements, including what time and what actions he should take when he heard the noise.
The more Qiu Dashan listened, the wider his eyes became. "Mom, this is too difficult. I can't do it!"
"There is no time when a man is weak, so you better put in your best effort!" Let me take a break. Li Qingmei really felt tired, and she was willing to hand over the baton without any reluctance.
"Brother, be a good father. Being a parent is never easy. Besides, you have three of us coming at once. If you don't go now, do you want to wait until our mother is exhausted before you go?"
"That's not the case. I'm doing it. I'm happy to do it. Aren't you the ones who won't let me get close to it?" Qiu Dashan rubbed his hands after being provoked, looking eager to try.
"Son, your father is here!"
"You naughty boy, keep your voice down. Once we're out of here, you can make as much noise as you want." Mother Qiu slapped her naughty son in annoyance and helped the old lady to the west room.
This house is left to their family of five today.
Mrs. Qiu had a good idea. Even if there was thunder and daggers today, she would not get up.
But who knew that in the second half of the night, the humming of the little babies would be heard, getting louder and louder, until finally all three of them were howling at the top of their lungs.
She could no longer pretend to be deaf, so she put on her coat and resigned herself to going to work.
"What's wrong? The crying is getting louder and louder. What are you doing here? You're so big, but you're useless." Usually at this time, after changing the diaper and feeding, the baby would hum twice at most and then fall asleep again.
It had only been in his hands for one night, and it was like poking a New Year pig, with the sounds getting louder and louder.
"Get out of the way, don't block my way, you are nothing to me!" Mother Qiu and her daughter-in-law joined hands and they skillfully changed the diaper and the small mattress underneath.
She hurriedly gave breast milk to her mother for the baby who needed it, and goat's milk to her father for the baby who needed it. She rinsed the bottle and poured the milk herself, all in one go.
The evil sound finally stopped, and Mother Qiu closed the door and left without saying a word.
"Oh, mother... mother just left like that?" Qiu Dashan was at a loss at the moment. All his sleepiness had gone away, but he had no confidence in the next process.
"What are you doing standing there? Come up and sleep." For the first time, Huang Duoer complained that this man was useless. If she had known earlier, she would not have let him come. Now, her mother-in-law was freed, and she was the only one who was tired.
Qiu Dashan didn't miss the resentment in his wife's eyes. "You go to sleep first. I'll wait until they are all soundly asleep before I get on the kang. In case you need me to pick up something, I'll be there."
She had something for him to do late at night. At first, she asked him to change the diaper and mix the milk quickly, but he was clumsy and couldn't do it properly. As a result, as soon as he opened his mouth, the assembly call was sounded.
For the rest of the night, Qiu Dashan had no chance to sleep soundly. If the kid whimpered a little, he would jump up and change his urine ring. He simply never blew out the kerosene lamp because he didn't have the ability to do such delicate work in the dark.
The next morning, Qiu Dashan said he was good at working in the village.
"Isn't this job more important than your other jobs? Besides, you said yesterday that your father said he couldn't poop anymore, so why did you run back?" Qiu Yuling ruthlessly burst the bubble of his hope.
This time even Li Qingmei didn't join in, "It's easy to be my mother!"
Finally, he went back to Qiuzhuang, firstly to send a message to Qiu's father, and secondly, he had to buy coal today. His mother said yesterday that there was no cheap coal, so he had to buy any kind of coal. There was a baby at home this year, and if there was not enough coal, the baby would be frozen.
Qiu Dashan tied on his Lei Feng hat, rode his bicycle into the cold wind and ran away.
"Yuling'er, winter vacation is coming soon, right?" Grandma got up early and made two fried eggs for her.
"Grandma, you have to eat too, you know? I have a place to buy these things, don't learn from my mother to save money, ah!"
"Grandma knows, eat quickly, and then tie your clothes tightly to avoid being blown by the wind."
"It should be less than two weeks before we can have a holiday. Grandma, why don't you spend the New Year at my house this year? When I'm on holiday, I'll have my hands free to make you something delicious."
"I'm here to discuss this with your uncle. You should stop talking and eat quickly so you don't get late. That girl from the Zhou family next door got up late the other day. She's such a grown-up girl, but she still cried to go to school..."
Qiu Yuling knew about that.
She told herself that she would stop howling after she ran out of the alley, and ran to school, just catching up at the last second, escaping danger!
"Grandma, I'm full. I'm going to school now. Remember to eat well!"
Grandma said she understood and urged her to go out.
"Mom, that girl treats you much better than me. She never told me to eat well." Li Qingmei said sourly.
"You just love to embarrass others. Whatever your baby does, you never say anything good. You talk about thriftiness but never about waste. You behave better when Yuling is around, but once she's away, you want to save everything and hide it in a rat hole."
She has experienced the situation of not having enough food or water several times, and she is scared.
The old lady didn't listen. Could it be that I have less experience than her? This is a problem of a person's way of thinking. If I can't figure it out myself, it's useless no matter how good my children are at trying to persuade me!
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