Chapter 233: This is Good
After he finished eating, Wen Wan said, "Why don't you ask for leave? I'm fine at home. He's having diarrhea now, and I'll give him a hand later. He doesn't need to get out of bed and walk around, and he doesn't need someone to watch over him all the time. I just have a stomachache, and even if you stay at home, you can't help me with the pain."
At most, I would pinch him a few times when it hurt when I went to the toilet.
Lu Dongping sighed softly: "Don't be stubborn, I'll delay it for today. Once you have a day to rest and the pain is gone, I'll go do my own thing."
Wen Wan thought that this was fine.
Lu Dongping reached out and pinched her face before leaving.
She was the only one left at home, no, it was just her and her mother.
The child was asleep, and she had nothing to do while awake. She had just started knitting the wool that Lu Dongping had bought her, but now she felt too exhausted to continue. She slumped over and closed her eyes.
She was half asleep when she heard a noise outside. She was startled and opened her eyes, sat up and shouted, "Dongping!"
Lu Dongping responded: "It's me!"
Wen Wan finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the time. It was already past ten o'clock.
The child was still asleep, and he slept for a long time.
As soon as Lu Dongping opened the door, he woke up at the slightest sound.
With a couple of grunts, Wen Wan, who already had some experience, hurried to the edge of the bed and took off the diaper from his butt. Before she could hook the basin over to her, the little sparrow lifted up and the water splashed out, splattering everywhere.
"Hey, little puppy, you're holding your pee."
Wen Wan breathed a sigh of relief: "If it peed on me, it would be completely wet. If I didn't put it in the basin, it would be everywhere, and the house would smell."
It was perfectly normal for a house to have a smell when raising a child, especially one that peed and peed at any time. Knowing she was particular, Lu Dongping didn't say much.
He peed a lot and was hungry, so he started crying again before his diaper was even put on.
After being fed this time, Dandan stopped sleeping and looked around with his big eyes like black grapes.
Lu Dongping said he couldn't see yet, but Wen Wan felt that he seemed to be able to see, looking here and there.
Wen Wan hummed a song for him, and he seemed to understand, grinning. Wen Wan was so surprised that she called out to Lu Dongping, "Dongping Dongping, come and see, he's laughing! He can even laugh!"
Lu Dongping came over and saw nothing. He reached out and rubbed her: "How old is he? He just saw the day. How could he smile? Why did he become so silly?"
Wen Wan was very unhappy. She clearly saw Dandan smiling!
Zhang Hongying, worried about her family, rushed home after work, even having Lu Mingjiang carry the hoe. This made everyone on the team laugh: "People with grandchildren are different. They walk with the wind under their feet."
"You're talking about having grandchildren, but you walk without any wind."
A few women were whispering and laughing, and Lu Mingjiang was so happy that he grinned from ear to ear, because he was going to have a grandson.
Zhang Hongying felt something was wrong the moment she arrived at the house. Why was there smoke coming out of the chimney? Was someone cooking?
When I got home and saw the quilts, clothes and diapers hanging in the yard, what was there to understand? It was like he had never been to the commune and was just staying at home to take care of his wife.
She didn't know that the Lu family had such an infatuated man who really treated his wife as his life.
Then he sighed again.
Okay, if you want to serve me, just do it yourself. It will save me a lot of trouble.
The whole family was reluctant to eat the chicken we stewed the day before. Wen Wan didn't eat much, so two legs were enough for her for two meals. It would definitely not work in this hot weather.
Lu Dongping simply added water to fill half a pot, cut half a basin of potatoes and poured them in to cook, then put some mixed flour pancakes on it.
After the paste is done, take out the soaked red dates, put them in the pot with millet, and simmer over a little fire at the bottom of the pot.
After Zhang Hongying came back, she washed her hands and went straight into the house to serve her daughter-in-law and grandson without even going into the kitchen. Lu Mingjiang wanted to see his grandson, but it was not convenient for him to go into his daughter-in-law's room, so he went into the kitchen first.
She sat down on a stool by the door and jerked her head towards the kitchen: "You've given up your proper duties and come back to take care of me during my confinement?"
Lu Dongping shook the water off his hands and came out of the house. He sat down opposite him and said, "You're right. I'm doing my job, okay? The Armed Forces Department hasn't had much to do recently. Minister Lin asked us to read the newspaper and study, and a few of us took turns yawning over there. It's different for me to read the newspaper at home. If I don't understand something, I can ask Wanwan. It's good."
What a bullshit!
Lu Mingjiang just wanted to roll his eyes.
"As a father, you should have a plan in mind for what to do."
"I know. It'll be just these two days. I'll go to the commune as soon as she feels better."
Inside the room, Dandan was awake and in good spirits. Wen Wan checked the time on her watch and realized that she had sex with him once an hour, but he didn't pee on her.
Zhang Hongying was sitting beside him teasing him, and he looked around quickly when he heard the voice.
"What name did you say last time?"
Wen Wan said, "Kang, the healthy Kang. Dongping said their generation is the Hong generation, so their full name is Lu Hongkang."
"Very good, very good. What about your nickname? Should I call you by your full name?"
Wen Wan asked her, "What does mother mean? Dongping said that humble names are easier to raise, and calling her Gou Dan is too ugly, right? Should we call her Dan Dan?"
Zhang Hongying scolded with a smile: "Goudan, he really thought of that. Why didn't I call him Goudan when he was little? Just call him Dandan. When he grows up and becomes more sensible, he will definitely not be happy to be called that. He should be called by his real name." After saying that, she lay on the edge of the bed, and with her rough hands pulled down the small quilt, she was as happy as a child: "How long have you been awake? He looks quite energetic."
"It's been almost two hours. He woke up when Dongping came back. I sang to him and he grinned. Dongping didn't believe it. He said a child of his age couldn't laugh and called me stupid."
"He's the fool! He's small, but smart, he doesn't understand anything!"
"Dongping asked for leave and came back?"
Wen Wan responded: "I told him not to ask for leave, put the diaper away for me, I can change it, and you ran back again. What's the point of coming back? You can't feel pain for me."
Zhang Hongying took a long time to speak again: "He will feel uneasy in the commune if he doesn't come back. It's good for him to come back and take care of you for a few days. He will also know how difficult it is for women to give birth. When you feel better, he will feel more at ease at work."
Wen Wan just smiled and didn't say anything.
Lu Dongping called out from outside: "Mom, it's time for dinner!"
Only then did Zhang Hongying get up and go outside.
"Where's Donglin? Did he disappear again?"
Lu Dongping had no idea: "I went to the fields with you guys, but I haven't seen you yet."
As he said this, he carried the bowl into the house.
At noon, it was stewed in a pot of chicken soup with a light salt content. Wen Wan also ate this.
The stewed potatoes are soft and sweet, and a little soup is enough to make them taste good.
Lu Dongping sighed as he saw this: "People always said you ate cat food, but now even cats eat more than you. You eat all of it by yourself, but you want to support two people? How are you going to manage in the long run?" Others would definitely gain weight after giving birth, but after giving birth to this child, except for her fuller breasts and her belly which had not yet shrunk, she was thinner in every way than before.
"I'm lying still now, so I can't digest it. After I'm out of confinement, I'm sure I'll eat more than I do now."
Just as I put down the bowl, Gao Xiulan came. But she didn't come empty-handed like she usually did when visiting someone. She brought twenty eggs and half a pound of brown sugar.
Zhang Hongying couldn't take it all at once. These days, every household here can only feed two chickens. As the weather gets warmer, the chickens aren't laying as many eggs. She still has the first day of the new year to feed, and it's not easy to save up those twenty eggs.
"Look at you, you're at home, why are you bringing things here? I won't say anything about that, just express my gratitude. Why did you bring so much here? Shouldn't you eat on the first day of the new year?"
Gao Xiulan said, "Chuyi is almost two years old now, she can eat anything. Besides, the chickens at home lay every day, so how can there not be enough for her? Don't push it back and forth with me when you give it to Wanwan. If you keep pushing me, I'll get angry. Am I the kind of person who would care about face? If you understand what you brought, you can take it back yourself."
Zhang Hongying had no choice but to accept it, but she didn't take it into her room. Instead, she took it to Wen Wan's room and placed it on the table outside. This was someone visiting someone who was in confinement, and she wasn't the kind of mother-in-law who would be so short-sighted as to be greedy for a few brown sugar and eggs. Anyway, there was no such thing, and the family didn't take it out to give her less to eat. Gao Xiulan followed her into the room and went to see Wen Wan.
The child played all morning and fell asleep again. Wen Wan was also sleeping. She had just dozed off when she sat up again when she heard the voices.
Gao Xiulan took a look and waved her hands hurriedly: "Don't get up, don't get up, just lie down and get some more sleep. You will get better soon." Then she left the house.
Wen Wan curled up again before she could get up, closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Gao Xiulan went outside and then chatted with Zhang Hongying: "She's looking really good. It's only the second day, and she's clean and tidy like a grown-up child. She has inherited the good qualities of Wanwan and Dongping."
Zhang Hongying raised the corners of her mouth, but she said, "What? It's only the second day, I can't tell. I'll know when I'm out of confinement and have grown up."
"Anyway, it won't be ugly. My parents' looks are there."
"You're here now, where's Chuyi?"
Gao Xiulan said, "Qingqing spread a mat and got the quilt out of the house, and the two of them rolled around under the eaves! Otherwise, how could I leave her?" Because she raised him, Chuyi was leaving now, but he still clung to her. He had to sleep with her at night, and if he couldn't see her during the day, he would definitely cry and follow her wherever she went.
Zhang Hongying smiled and said, "Qingqing, that girl, they can get the marriage certificate by the end of the year, and they're still like children."
"Then what should we do? Just teach her slowly. The good thing is that she's obedient, and she's not bad to Chuyi. My requirements are not high. We'll get the marriage by the end of the year, and if we have our own child in a year or two, Chuyi will be old enough. I don't ask her to treat the child as her own, it's good enough as it is now."
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