Chapter 423: The Child Was Sent Back
This description really made Lu Dongcai not know how to respond.
Hu Qingqing didn't know who he was talking about, but Lu Dongcai knew it was Li Laiying. He hadn't remembered that person for a long time, but when he talked about confinement, it just slipped out.
At this moment, when he thought of that person again, his heart was calm without any ripples. Even if he mentioned him, he would just chat about him, just like all those insignificant people.
"Alright! I know you're diligent and clean. I'll go boil some water for you. Just be quiet and stop messing with him. Let him sleep for a while. How are you going to take a bath if he doesn't sleep?"
Hu Qingqing nodded, watched him leave the house, and lay on the bed, staring outside.
Outside, the voices of Lu Dongfu and Lu Donglin could be heard. It was unclear whether they were teasing Chuyi or Dandan, but they were extremely happy. Hu Qingqing was lying alone in the room, feeling so bored that she was about to grow grass.
Lu Dongcai didn't bring her the big wooden basin from home, but used the enamel basin he bought when they got married. He filled two basins with water and placed them behind the door, then bolted the door himself.
Hu Qingqing said, "Why don't you get out? How can I wash if you're watching me here?"
Lu Dongcai was not at all reassured about her: "Why can't I wash here? I'm not looking at you. Besides, we are a couple, so what if he looked at you?"
Hu Qingqing glared at him angrily: "How can looking at it that way be the same as looking at it this way?"
Lu Dongcai smiled and asked her, "What's the difference? Aren't you still you? Okay, go take a shower. I won't look at you. I'll sleep with Doudou for a while."
Taking a hot bath in hot weather is a torture for Hu Qingqing, but not taking a bath is even more torture. After wiping herself from head to toe with two basins of water, her entire face is hot, without any sense of coolness, which makes her very uncomfortable.
While taking a shower, she subconsciously looked at herself. She felt a little different from before. She had some weight on her belly and chest. She looked ugly.
Now she is almost twenty years old. No matter how lively her personality is, she is an adult after getting married and having children, and she has begun to care about her own beauty.
After realizing that she looked a little ugly, she secretly turned around and glanced at Lu Dongcai. Lu Dongcai was really coaxing Doudou and didn't look at her.
She quickly changed into clean clothes.
After changing clothes, he unconsciously picked up the palm-leaf fan on the table, but just as he got it in his hand, it was snatched away by a big hand.
"Brother Dongcai, what are you doing?" He was lying down just now, when did you get up? He's so elusive.
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he was pulled over and pressed onto the bed.
"Okay, I've finished washing, now it's time to go to sleep! Get some sleep."
The bed was not very spacious. Lu Dongcai slept in the middle, Doudou was on the innermost side, and Hu Qingqing was on the outer side. There was a little child on the right and a big child on the left, both of whom needed his comfort.
The full moon means liberation for Hu Qingqing. She can finally go out. Although she still can't run around, it's okay to be able to go out!
I haven’t seen the sun for a month, and now I feel like the wind outside is fragrant.
She followed Lu Dongcai just like that. Gao Xiulan meant that they should hold a full-moon banquet to make up for the regret that they didn't have a wedding banquet when they got married.
After two years of relief, the family is not as poor as before. At least there is enough food.
She discussed it with Lu Minghai, who had no objections. "Just one thing. You have to talk to him about it. Their wedding back then was a big deal, but Dongcai's is his second marriage, and he just lives at home. But whether it's his first or second marriage, he's still part of the family. As parents, we can only try not to let anyone down."
"We need to speak frankly, so that the eldest brother's wife won't feel uncomfortable later."
Gao Xiulan agreed.
Start preparing early.
By August 21st, the house becomes busy.
A full moon banquet is different from a wedding. In addition to Hu Qingqing’s family members, the guests invited were also those who had visited her during her confinement period.
There weren't many people, just a few tables full of them, and they had two tables at home.
There is no shortage of vegetables in the fields at this time of summer, so the table is still very rich.
Lu Dongcheng and Shengxia had to work, so they couldn't come back.
Hu Qingqing looked thin, but she had a good appetite. Gao Xiulan was not the kind of person who would mistreat her daughter-in-law, so she fed her according to the family's conditions during the confinement period, and her milk supply was plenty.
So when Doudou came out of confinement, she looked like a lucky doll, with her little arms and legs broken into pieces like lotus roots, which made people love her so much.
She held this one and that one all day long. Except when the baby fell asleep after feeding, Hu Qingqing didn't touch the baby at all.
She had been strolling outside that morning, picking vegetables with her sixth sister, Lu Chun'e, and the others. When the sun shone on the doorstep, Gao Xiulan called her, "Hurry up, go inside and look after Doudou. You haven't seen the sun for a month, you can't be exposed to it all of a sudden. It's the beginning of autumn and the dog days are still here, the sun is very scorching."
Hu Qingqing was still very obedient when Gao Xiulan spoke. She responded, washed her hands and went into the house.
Lu Chunyan and her sisters were laughing: "Mom loves her daughter-in-law even more than she loves her own daughter."
Gao Xiulan smiled and said, "It hurts all the same. I'll hurt whoever listens to me."
It was lively all afternoon, and by the afternoon when the sun was setting, almost everyone had dispersed. Hu Qingqing came out with her child in her arms to see the guests off, and after she left, the yard suddenly became quiet.
Summer vacation hadn't ended yet, Lu Dongfu was still at home, and Lu Chun'e had graduated and was staying home for a few days before heading back to the city. As soon as my nephew could go out, he loved it, and he'd just start wandering around in his arms.
There was a little tail named Chuyi following behind, and then he turned around and slipped away to the next door.
Lu Dongcai still detained Hu Qingqing and did not allow her to go to the dam, but this time he moved the big wooden basin into the house, filled it with water, and asked her to wash herself from head to toe.
After washing, while drying her hair with Hu Qingqing, Hu Qingqing said, "Don't pour out the bath water later. I'll take apart the mattress and wash it, and then change the mat. It's been a month, and I've been sweating all day long. The mattress and quilt are all covered with sweat. They smell so bad."
Lu Dongcai reminded her: "It's the beginning of autumn."
"I don't care. It's still hot outside!"
Lu Dongcai tugged at her ear and said, "Stubborn little donkey, you are a mother after all. You have to set a good example for Chuyi and Doudou."
"If you insist on doing whatever you want, what will happen if they follow your lead and become like you?"
Hu Qingqing snorted: "Isn't it good to be like me? Can't you live a good life?"
Lu Dongcai thought for a while and said, "Well, that's good too. It's good to be like you. It's better than being like me." His family members said that he had a good temper, and outsiders said that he was kind and righteous. But in fact, he didn't know how many people said he was a coward behind his back.
Hu Qingqing is different, she lives a simple and transparent life.
Lu Dongcai hopes that his children will have the same personality as Hu Qingqing in the future, not caring about trivial matters, not being confused about big things, and living a happy life.
"But I have to be better than you. You are really too naughty. You are a mother, but you are not obedient at all."
"Where did I disobey?"
Just as Lu Dongcai was about to speak, Hu Qingqing turned around and covered his mouth: "Don't say it, don't say it. Why are you taking it so seriously?"
"As a human being, it's better to be ignorant and happy. Why should you take things so seriously? Life is so tiring, and you have to work all the time. There's nothing you can do about it. But for other things, you should just go with your heart. No matter what others do, you should try not to let yourself down." This was what her cousin said, and she thought it made a lot of sense.
Lu Dongcai bit her lightly, and Hu Qingqing blinked: "You——"
Before she could finish her words, Lu Dongfu came back and held Doudou in his arms since he was asleep. But besides Chuyi, there was also a little boy named Dandan and two little tails.
In the end, he was unable to persuade Hu Qingqing, so Lu Dongcai took advantage of his free time to take apart the bedding himself, washed it at home, and then rinsed it again in the pond in the bamboo forest.
After another half-month of rest, the team suddenly became busy. The first thing they had to do was carry the early corn back.
After the confinement period, Hu Qingqing naturally would not stay idle at home, but would also go to work.
The first day of the new year must be taken to the field, and Doudou must also be taken to the field.
The weather was extremely hot, and it was really annoying to carry the child on your back while working. All morning, Hu Qingqing and Gao Xiulan, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, took turns carrying the child. Their bodies were still soaked with sweat. Not to mention the adults, the child was also covered with prickly heat.
The corn stalks are too tall. I can't see the other side when I stand on this side, and I don't dare to put the children on the ground at will. It's really annoying.
Doudou got prickly heat from covering himself up, which was itchy and painful. He felt uncomfortable and started to make a fuss, crying loudly.
But now is the time to earn work points, so it is impossible not to work.
Gao Xiulan went to Lu Mingqing to find a new job for Hu Qingqing, but Lu Mingqing did not agree.
There are many young wives in the team, and they are not the only ones who bring their children to work. If this precedent is set, what will he do if everyone comes to him later? Didn't everyone get through this in the past?
Sad? No matter how sad you are, you have to get through it.
After finally making it to the cool autumn air, Hu Qingqing lost all the little weight she had gained during her confinement. She had to work and feed her child, so she lost weight very quickly.
Lu Jiahua was sent back at this time.
I don't know what Shengxia was thinking. She weaned the child early, and Lu Dongcheng sent the child back to Lujiazui. It was just after work, and Gao Xiulan carried Doudou back, put him down, and let Lu Minghai hold him in the kitchen to cook. Hu Qingqing and Lu Dongcai were racing against time to cut grass for the pigs in the fields, and that's when Lu Dongcheng returned. He had the child on his back, pushing a bicycle with a lot of bags on it.
Lu Minghai and Gao Xiulan were shocked: "What's going on? Why didn't Shengxia come back with you?"
Lu Dongcheng took a breath and said, "She was very busy, so she didn't come back. She was too busy with work to take care of the child, so she had to wean the child and asked me to bring him back."
"Why are you weaning so early? Isn't there enough milk in the middle of summer?"
Lu Dongcheng's face showed nothing, and he said the same thing: "It's okay, she was very busy over there in the second half of the year, and her milk supply was indeed not enough. She couldn't work with the child, so she had to wean her and send her back." As he spoke, he looked at the elderly couple with gray hair on their temples apologetically: "It's my fault for making you suffer with me." As he spoke, he took out all the money and bills on his body and gave them to Gao Xiulan: "Mom, take this. Jia Jia is still young now. Just feed her the same way you did on Chuyi. If you are too busy, you don't have to go to work. There are three children at home who need someone to take care of them. Just stay at home and look after the children. Don't go to work. I will take back the rest of my salary except for living expenses."
Gao Xiulan held Lu Jiahua, who was only a few months old, and looked at him: "I have no objection to taking care of the child. I just want to ask you one thing, what happened between you and Shengxia? Did you have a fight?"
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