Chapter 231: Quarrel
On the first day of the new year, Li Laiying was unwilling to be fed. But Wen Wan's situation was different. She hated the pain, but Lu Dongping was reluctant to let her suffer any more. But it was a different story for Zhang Hongying. When Lu Dongping said he wanted to feed her malted milk instead of milk, she immediately refused.
The chicken in the pot had just begun to simmer when she threw the fire tongs in her hand. "What? No milk? Malted milk? Our Lu family really buried their ancestors in the wrong place. All the people who come in are demons? Now that Li Laiying is gone, she's trying this again, right? How can you not feed your child milk right after birth? What kind of mother is that?"
Lu Dongping had no idea that she was usually a very easy-going person, but now she would make such a fuss as soon as he opened his mouth. He frowned and said, "Why are you so excited? Why do you start talking about Li Laiying right away? You compare Wen Wan with that woman, but how can you compare them? What do you think of her? Why do you compare her with Li Laiying? Not breastfeeding will not starve the child to death, why do you act like the sky is falling when it comes to you? How can I feed my son? Do I have to ask you for approval? I'm talking to you and you yell at me like the rooftops? After her confinement, it will be August, and she will have to go to school in the blink of an eye. How will she feed the baby now when school starts? Should I get a strap to carry the baby to school and feed the baby while she's in class? So what should we do if there's no one left at home? Even if there's no one left, that's fine."
He had a bad reputation in the team, but at home, he was always cheerful and smirking, rarely getting angry like this, which actually stunned Zhang Hongying. Then she came to her senses and tears started to fall: "So it's my fault now. Who am I doing this for? Do you think raising a child is that easy? Breastfeeding is different from adults. A baby gets hungry after peeing, and when hungry, he has to eat. You don't feed milk, but malted milk. How much time do you have to feed it if you have money to buy it? You don't just live your life after having a baby, but revolve around your baby's wife? You're grown up now, you're independent, and you always complain about everything I say and do. I told you not to go into the delivery room. It's the most unlucky thing for a woman to not clean up after giving birth, and men shouldn't touch it. But you're so good, you didn't even look at your own son, and you rushed to clean him up. Is that something you can do? You know that when you say you have a city wife, people who don't know would think she's some kind of ancestor."
"Giving birth to a child, who hasn't? I gave birth to all three of you, don't I know how painful it is? She's so precious! Do you think I don't know your situation? You just complain about the pain of breastfeeding. We all started as girls, and we all have flesh. If I sucked all the flesh out when I was feeding you, wouldn't I still have to feed you? You're using school work as an excuse, your mother must be a fool!"
Lu Dongping didn't really want to argue with her. Firstly, he knew it was incredibly difficult for her to raise three siblings, and secondly, he was truly exhausted. Ever since the students from school ran to the armed forces department and told him Wen Wan was about to give birth, his nerves had been on edge. He'd never been this nervous before, terrified of anything going wrong. By the time the baby was born and he'd brought her back, his hands and feet were a bit weak, and he still hadn't fully recovered.
But when he thought of the blood under Wen Wan's body, her torn body, her sweating from the pain as if she had been fished out of a river, and how delicate she was and didn't even scream in pain, he felt as if he was being stabbed by a knife. He became impatient to listen to Zhang Hongying nagging.
"I'm too lazy to argue with you. You gave birth to the three of us, and that's our business. If you have any grievances, go find my dad and ask him to make the decision for you. If not, you can hit me or scold me. It has nothing to do with Wanwan. The child is mine and hers. What we want to do with it is our own business. If you are willing, help take care of it. If you don't want to, just pretend you didn't see it. At worst, I can take it to the commune for work. A living person can die of urination. She is in confinement, so even if you have any objections, just hold it in. If you are unhappy, come to me. If you give her a bad look during her confinement, I will be unhappy, and our whole family will be unhappy!"
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The mother and daughter were making quite a bit of noise in the kitchen, but they were some distance away. Wen Wan was in confinement after giving birth, so the doors and windows were closed, so she couldn't hear the noise clearly. She didn't know that the house was already noisy just because the child was born.
I had just given birth and was feeling very weak. I ate something and soon fell into a drowsy sleep.
When I woke up again, I was still woken up by the crying of a child.
The room was pitch black and she couldn't see anything. She groped around for a long time before she found a flashlight nearby.
Lu Dongping put the child at her feet, and she had to get up if she wanted to coax the child.
But I can’t get up. My stomach hurts, and it hurts everywhere. It’s painful to move.
She didn't even know how she gave birth to the child. It was incredible to think about it.
Just as she sat up and moved to the foot of the bed to pick up the child, the door opened and Lu Dongping came in with a bowl.
"Where's your flashlight? It's dark out here, so be careful."
Lu Dongping said: "In my own room, I can tell which is high and which is low even if I squint my eyes."
As she spoke, she placed the bowl on the bedside sewing machine in the light of the flashlight in the room, lit the kerosene lamp, and took the child over. "He peed again. I'll get him something to drink. You can eat it while it's hot."
Wen Wan held the hot bowl and said, "Otherwise, he still has to be fed. This way, I feel it's quite troublesome. He has to eat every time he pees. I haven't been very well these past few days, and you can't stay at home all the time. Everyone at home is very busy."
Lu Dongping said, "I'm not busy. The second weed in the field is almost finished. I'm going to the commune early tomorrow morning to ask Minister Lin for a few days off."
He definitely couldn't do it without asking for leave during the first few days. His mother was looking very upset about him going into the delivery room and not breastfeeding, so she might not be willing to leave work and stay home to take care of him. He was also worried because of what he had said before.
Wen Wan glanced at him and said, "Want to ask for leave? Can you do that? Or when you leave, bring the kettle and other things into the house, and I'll slowly prepare it for him."
"No, I just need a break and stay home with you." She was only thinking about preparing for the child, but what about herself? She couldn't eat too much these past few days, only soups and water. She couldn't eat two meals a day like a normal person, or she would starve herself to death.
After the diaper was changed and the baby ate, he stopped crying.
Lu Dongping put the child back and Wen Wan called him, "Don't put it under your feet, put it next to me. It will be easier to comfort it when it cries."
Lu Dongping said, "The bed is too narrow. It's too crowded for three of us to sleep on one end."
"Then you sleep at the foot."
Lu Dongping raised his eyebrows: "It's only the first day, and you're already planning to just have a son and not your man?"
Wen Wan couldn't help laughing: "Yes, I don't want you anymore, I just want my son."
After laughing enough, she said, "I want to go to the bathroom and wash." She felt that the toilet paper under her body had been soaked through.
"Wait a minute, you can't go out now, I'll go get you a basin."
There is a urine bucket at home, but the smell made Lu Dongping think it was better to forget it!
Wen Wan also knew that she couldn't be exposed to the wind during the confinement period, especially in the first half month. She had to be more careful. So she just stayed in the room. She could urinate in the room and fall down at any time, and she could still bear it.
Lu Dongping helped her get down from the bed. She felt so painful that she couldn't even move her legs. She took off her clothes and squatted down beside the bed. As soon as she came out a little, she grabbed Lu Dongping's hand in pain. Her fingernails, which were not many to begin with, scratched Lu Dongping fiercely and cried out, "It hurts, Lu Dongping, it hurts!"
It hurts, but I can’t help but hold my pee!
Lu Dongping could not feel her pain or comfort her.
"Hold it, pee quickly, I'll get you some clean water to wash, and the pain will go away slowly."
Wen Wan just urinated a little and almost passed out from the pain.
Lu Dongping went to add water with a stern face and took a towel to wipe her.
After tossing and turning for a long time, she was sweating again, and the key point was that she couldn't take a shower at the moment.
She lay on the bed hugging the quilt and then said, "Is there any hot water? Please wring out the towel for me. I want to wipe my body. Just wipe it. I am all sweaty."
Lu Dongping responded and went outside to fetch water.
After tidying up a bit, he blew out the oil lamp and lay down.
The child was finally placed in the innermost layer and wrapped up, so there was no need to worry about him getting cold in this season.
Lu Dongping slept beside her, still close to her as before.
Originally, they wanted to put the child in the middle, but Lu Dongping didn't want to. He was used to holding Wen Wan, and he was afraid that in the middle of the night, he would fall asleep, forget that he had a son, and roll over and crush the little thing to death.
Wen Wan had almost slept during the day, but she felt unwell again, with a stuffy and painful stomach, and couldn't sleep at the moment.
"Lu Dongping." she called out.
Lu Dongping closed his eyes and opened them again: "Huh? Does it hurt a lot?"
Wen Wan responded softly: "Yeah, it hurts so much that I can't sleep."
Lu Dongping turned sideways and put his hand into her clothes: "Let me rub it for you, it won't hurt so much if you rub it." It was like he was coaxing a three-year-old child.
Wen Wan nuzzled into his arms and said, "You don't know how much pain I'm in. I don't even dare ask you to stay with me. In fact, I really want you to be with me. But if you were here, I would definitely feel very uncomfortable. I would cry and tell you that I don't want to have a baby anymore."
Lu Dongping kissed her forehead and said, "Yes, I know. We want this one and we won't have any more children. We won't let you suffer like this anymore."
"I don't believe it. You said before that you didn't want children, but now you have one."
Lu Dongping rubbed her belly and was speechless.
"Do they have a generation name? My father wrote me a letter last time saying that if it's a boy, he should be named 'Kang', hoping that he can grow up healthy. Do you think we should change it?"
Lu Dongping said, "No need to change it. Kang is good enough. Our next generation should be the Hong generation, so we can call him Lu Hongkang. That's good enough. As for the nickname, should we call him Kang Kang or should we choose a new one? I've heard from the older generation that children should be given unpleasant nicknames after they are born. A humble name makes them easier to raise."
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