Chapter 152 Daughter
Zhang Hongying helped Lu Dongcai cook a large bowl of egg noodle soup for Li Laiying. Li Laiying rarely had such a treat. Even though her stomach was aching, she still endured it and quickly ate the bowl of rice. Soon after the meal was in her stomach, the pain became even worse. She just wanted to scream in pain, and she couldn't even cry.
Lu Dongcai was wandering around in the main room, and Zhang Hongying was there too. No one noticed that Lu Donglin had not gone to school yet and was looking into the house through the window.
Although I can't see clearly what it is.
Giving birth is a long and torturous process. Lu Donglin felt his neck was stiff while he was lying outside. Every time Li Laiying called out from inside, he shivered until the last call as if he had used up all his strength. His legs softened and he sat down on the ground. Then he reacted and crawled and rolled away while Zhang Hongying was not noticing.
As expected, I was late for school.
He was late for two classes, and had to stand for the last two. After the last class, Hu Gaoquan went into the office and called Wen Wan, "Teacher Wen, Lu Donglin from our class was late for two classes this afternoon. He said something happened at home. Is it true?"
Wen Wan was packing her things. Hearing this, her hands paused slightly before she looked up. "Ah, yes, something really happened." Tsk tsk, she, a teacher, actually started lying. Something happened, what was it? How could she not know? But no matter what, she would just keep it to herself and ask about it later. "Teacher Zhou, I'm sorry. I should have told you when I got here, but I forgot. Did you make him do homework? I'll supervise him when we get back this afternoon."
Hu Gaoquan shoved the notebook in his hand on the table, straightened it out, and put it in his pocket. He replied to her while busying himself: "Of course he should be punished, otherwise everyone in the class will follow suit and become wild horses without bridles. What will happen then? The homework will be doubled this afternoon. I was afraid that this kid might not be honest, so I specially copied it again." After that, he handed the homework slip to Wen Wan and reminded her: "Double it!"
Okay, double it. That's really cruel. But Lu Donglin really deserves to be punished.
Wen Wan quickly packed up her things and finally was not the last one to leave the office.
She went to the classroom and took a look. The door was locked and there was no one there. The same was true for the person next to her. Lu Donglin didn't even wait for her and ran away first. His guilty conscience was too obvious.
Wen Wan left the school with a bag on her shoulder and a bamboo basket on her back. Along the way, she shoveled up any grass that pigs could eat and threw it into the basket. She even stayed by the river near the production team for a while until the basket was full and her shoulders ached, then she carried the basket back.
The door was locked, and no one was home yet. After putting the basket down, she fed the chickens and pigs first, and without cooking, she went straight to her room to get busy.
After correcting two homework books, she put down her pen and thought about whether Li Laiying had given birth or not. She wondered whether she should go and see.
I got up and went outside. Just as I reached the entrance of the yard, I saw Lu Chun'e coming back with a bamboo basket on her back.
The two mouths to feed at home have recently relied on the three of them to bring back grass after school.
Walking up the hill below the yard, Lu Chun'e was a little out of breath carrying the pig feed. After a long while, she finally reached the front and called out, "Sister-in-law."
"I'm back!"
Lu Chun'e hummed and carried the bamboo basket into the yard, then rested it against the wall on the eaves. "Sister-in-law, are you going to the fields?"
"No, I want to go to my uncle's house to check. Sister-in-law Laiying had a seizure at noon, and I don't know if she's given birth yet."
Lu Chun'e's eyes lit up: "Sister-in-law Laiying gave birth? Sister-in-law, wait a minute, I'll wash my hands and go take a look."
Wen Wan waited for her for two minutes, then she shook her hands, splashed the water in the basin, and followed Wen Wan to the next room.
Gao Xiulan didn't go to work after she came back in the afternoon, but Lu Dongcai went, and Lu Dongfu also went to the fields after school.
When she passed by, Gao Xiulan was chopping pig grass and greeted her gently, "Auntie."
Lu Chun'e also called out, "Aunt, I heard that sister-in-law Laiying gave birth. Congratulations! You're going to be a mother-in-law now."
Gao Xiulan smiled happily: "The little girl is so sweet."
Lu Chun'e asked again: "Can I go in and take a look?"
Gao Xiulan nodded: "Go ahead, go ahead, he might be asleep."
"Then I'll keep my voice down." Lu Chun'e looked back at Wen Wan, who said, "You go, I won't go."
Lu Chun'e nodded and walked into the main room.
Gao Xiulan brought a stool to Wen Wan: "Sit down, sit down and let's talk."
Wen Wan thanked him, sat down on the small stool, looked at Gao Xiulan with a smile and said, "Congratulations, auntie, you're going to be a grandmother."
It took Gao Xiulan a long time to realize that the grandmother she was referring to was her mother-in-law in Lujiazui.
Wen Wan asked her again: "Is it a boy or a girl?"
Gao Xiulan answered her while chopping pig grass: "She's a girl, chubby and pretty. She's even prettier than Dongcai was when he was a child."
Wen Wan saw that the smile on her face didn't look fake, and she felt a slight sense of relief. It was good that she didn't favor boys over girls. She had heard that many people in the mountains only liked boys and not girls, and Jian Zhaodi was a living example. Gao Xiulan's performance really changed her mind. They were all family, and if Gao Xiulan was like this, then her family shouldn't be much different, right?
Gao Xiulan really didn't think there was anything wrong with having a daughter. It was perfectly normal for her to blossom first and then bear fruit. It was only her first child, and there were still many years to go. If the birth went smoothly, wouldn't it be only a matter of time before her granddaughters had grandsons? Her first and second children were both daughters, and she only gave birth to Lu Dongcheng as her third.
But Li Laiying didn't think so. There was only one word to describe her face at this moment: as pale as death.
She had suffered enough from being a girl back home. Not only was she born in the ground, but her life was worse than that of pigs and dogs. It was only when she came to the Lu family that she finally escaped and began to live a normal life. She had always wanted to have a son, and she was sure she was pregnant with a boy. Sour food makes a boy, spicy food makes a girl. She had always been able to eat sour food, so how could she end up with a girl?
After giving birth, Lu Dongcai cleaned her, and Gao Xiulan wrapped the baby and placed it next to her, but she was too lazy to even look at it.
Close your eyes and pretend to be asleep.
After the child drank some warm water and fell asleep, she hid in the quilt and sobbed.
She was awake when Lu Chun'e went in, but when she heard the noise she immediately closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep.
The child next to him probably wanted to pee, so he moved and started crying loudly.
Lu Chun'e was startled and quickly retreated without seeing anything, shouting Gao Xiulan: "Aunt, the child, the child is awake and crying." She barely made any sound when she walked, so how could she wake up?
Gao Xiulan hadn't finished chopping the pig grass yet, and her hands were still stained with grass leaves. She stood up and rubbed them on her body before quickly walking into the house.
The child was crying, but the person sleeping next to him didn't react at all.
The joy of having a granddaughter disappeared at this moment. He stood by the bed for a while to make sure that Li Laiying would not move, then picked up the child and stood up. Sure enough, the diaper was wet.
Wen Wan didn't stay long after Gao Xiulan entered the house, and called Lu Chun'e to go home together.
Lu Chun'e felt a little regretful: "I haven't seen what the child looks like yet!"
Wen Wan said: "It's just a wall between us. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future."
"That's true. Hey, sister-in-law, what are you cooking for dinner?"
Wen Wan didn't know either. Anyway, those were the only things they had at home. It was the lean season between harvest and harvest, and there weren't many vegetables in the fields to eat with the food.
Without being asked, Lu Chun'e had no idea herself, so she simply continued to cook the residue porridge. As long as it could fill her stomach, it was fine.
Lu Donglin came back with Lu Dongping. It was almost dark when they got back. He looked at Wen Wan with evasive eyes, as if Wen Wan was a devil who could eat him alive.
Wen Wan said nothing and handed Hu Gaoquan the copied homework to him: "Homework, your teacher gave you, double the amount on the note!"
Lu Donglin felt like he was going to collapse. Hu Gaoquan was such a sly person, even copying the note to his sister-in-law. Now he couldn't play both sides anymore.
Lu Dongping raised his eyebrows and looked at him, his face full of gloating. Lu Donglin had honestly explained the reason for his punishment to him in the fields that afternoon, but he had no intention of protecting this little bastard at this moment.
First he was late, then he lied, and now he wants to cheat on his homework. He really deserves a beating.
So when the whole family was eating, Lu Donglin was like a little cabbage without a father or a mother. He lay there crying and pouting while continuing to do his homework.
After dinner, it was almost dark when Lu Donglin took the notebook to show Wen Wan: "Sister-in-law, I've finished writing."
Wen Wan took it and read it. The first half was quite good, but the second half was extremely sloppy. She didn't know whether Hu Gaoquan would be able to recognize what he wrote tomorrow.
"My suggestion is that you light a lamp tonight and rewrite the last two pages. Otherwise, when Teacher Hu checks your homework tomorrow, it's probably not just a punishment. I don't think your teacher rarely uses the cane in your class. Don't let him use it on you tomorrow. How would you save face in front of so many classmates? Oh, of course, you don't have to. After all, you can't eat face."
After saying that, Zhang Hongying came out of the kitchen: "What's the matter? You haven't finished writing yet? Lu Donglin, have you put your heart into it? You've been writing by the field all afternoon, and you're still writing when you come back. What the hell have you been writing?"
Wen Wan wasn't going to cover up for him anymore. Lu Donglin was a child who couldn't change despite repeated warnings. She stuffed the notebook into Lu Donglin's arms and said to Zhang Hongying, "I don't know where he went after lunch. He was late for two classes. The teacher made him stand for the last two classes and told him to come back and do his homework twice to make up for the first two classes."
After saying that, he turned and looked at Lu Donglin: "You ran away after school. Teacher Hu told you to do your homework twice, right? You did it on the edge of the field only once? If your teacher Hu hadn't warned me, would you have fooled me again? Tomorrow, keep telling the teacher that you're busy at home and don't even have time to do your homework?"
Zhang Hongying was stunned for a moment when she heard that, then she picked up the broom by the wall and hit Lu Donglin with it. Lu Donglin was hit without any pain, but he cried out as if his leg was broken, and then he ran away.
Wen Wan didn't care about him. This child usually looked quite sensible, but when he did something stupid, it was really annoying. The most annoying thing about him was his lying habit, which was really unacceptable. What on earth was he doing at noon?
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