Chapter 424: New Bed
"We didn't really have a fight, it's just that she hasn't been feeling well lately."
Lu Dongcheng didn't know how to tell this to his parents. After his wife gave birth to Jiahua, they paid attention to it, but somehow she got pregnant again.
The couple had been married for so many years but had no children. They wanted one, but the first one was barely old when the second one came along. No matter how they thought about it, it didn't seem like a big deal. Shengxia herself didn't want to give up her job to spend all day around the kids.
So it flowed.
But he didn't dare tell this to his family, for he would be scolded if he did.
Gao Xiulan was stunned for a moment and didn't think much about it: "Well, will it affect your work? If you are angry, just send him back home. It will be more convenient to take care of the whole family at home. You also have to work in the city. What will you do if you can't take care of him?"
Lu Dongcheng waved his hand: "It's okay, it's more convenient in the city. If anything happens, it's easier to find a doctor. Mom, I'll be tired. Please help take care of the child. I have to rush back now. As I said, there are too many children at home. If you really can't, don't go to work. I'll make up for it at the end of the year."
Gao Xiulan glanced at him without saying anything. Although she was not as annoyed as she was a few years ago, she had to focus on production. She couldn't work while standing, but had to work while sitting. How could she stay at home to take care of the children?
Lu Dongcheng didn't stay any longer. He said goodbye and left with the cart.
Jiahua is a little shy and will chase after people who are just a little older. As soon as Lu Dongcheng left, she started crying, and Gao Xiulan could only pick her up and comfort her.
It was only when Lu Minghai, Lu Dongcai and others came back that they found out that Lu Dongcheng had sent the child back.
Clothes, diapers, malted milk, everything was brought back.
Gao Xiulan said with a worried look on her face: "He said his wife is not in good health and can't take care of him. I can't get any details."
Lu Minghai looked at his granddaughter for a long time and sighed: "What should we do? Just bring her back with you. What else can we do?"
"The team is still busy, and Doudou is still very young. They are two little babies. What do you think Doudou will do if I take this with me?"
"We can only take it one step at a time. What else can we do?"
Gao Xiulan thought about it for a long time, and after much deliberation, she decided to have a good talk with Hu Qingqing.
After finally coaxing Jiahua to sleep, she went to hold Doudou, so that Hu Qingqing could eat quickly.
After Hu Qingqing finished her meal and took the child over to feed her, she brought the bowl to him before saying, "Qingqing, your eldest brother came back at that time and said that your eldest sister-in-law was not in good health and could not take care of Jiahua, so he sent the child back."
Hu Qingqing said, "What should we do now that it's already been sent back? Just take it with you! But then it will be more difficult for you, mother."
She was not a fool, and she knew clearly that once the child from the old family was sent back, her mother would definitely be troubled and it would be difficult for her to help.
She is not one, but two.
Although children can run around on the first day of the new year, they are not too old. A four-year-old child is at the age of looking for gods.
Doudou is only three months old and I have to carry him on my back wherever I go.
But life has to go on.
They are all grandsons, they have all been sent back, it is impossible to send them back again.
She is open-minded. Life has to go on anyway, and there is nothing she can do if she is not open-minded.
"If you want to take Jiajia with you, let Chuyi sleep with us later!"
Gao Xiulan hesitated: "She has been with me since she was a child. I don't know if she will make a fuss if we suddenly move to a new place."
Hu Qingqing smiled and said, "No, he's already four years old and can understand what I say. Just coax him and he'll be fine."
Chuyi heard them talking about him. He was originally sitting on a small stool eating rice with a small ladle, but now he turned his head to look at this and that.
Then he called out to Hu Qingqing, "Mom, what are you talking about with your mother-in-law?"
Hu Qingqing smiled and said, "I'm praising you, saying that Chuyi has grown up and is very capable, and can help mother take care of her younger brother."
Chuyi grinned, turned around and lay there, continuing to put rice into his mouth.
Hu Qingqing fed Doudou and coaxed him to sleep. While there was still some light, she quickly cleaned the kitchen and boiled a pot of hot water.
After taking Chuyi to wash, she coaxed her: "Chuyi, can you sleep with mom tonight? Please help mom take care of Doudou. He is disobedient and always cries at night."
Chuyi hesitated for a moment, then glanced at Gao Xiulan's room several times, pursed his lips and nodded: "Okay!"
Hu Qingqing smiled and wiped the water off her face: "Chuyi is so good."
After wiping her clean, she carried her to the bed.
She slept in the middle, Doudou slept at the innermost bed next to the wall, and Chuyi slept outside.
Lu Dongcai finished packing, came in to take a look, and lay down next to the bed.
It was already cold and even a quilt couldn't cover it, so Gao Xiulan saved some cotton and made a new one for the bed.
The two children were still small, but they also took up space. Lu Dongcai was used to sleeping with his wife in his arms, and now he felt very lonely sleeping alone. After lying down, he said to Hu Qingqing, "I'll ask someone to help make another bed. I can't sleep like this. I don't even dare to turn over."
Hu Qingqing asked, "Can we put another bed in this room?"
Lu Dongcai hummed, "Don't make it so wide, more than three feet will be enough. Chuyi is getting older, and sooner or later we will have to sleep separately."
Chuyi rested his head on Hu Qingqing's armpit and blinked his eyes: "Mom, Jiajia is back, doesn't my mother-in-law want me anymore?"
Hu Qingqing was stunned for a moment: "Nonsense, mother-in-law didn't abandon Chuyi, our Chuyi is so well-behaved. It's just that mother is too busy and needs Chuyi's help."
Chuyi snuggled into her arms. The room was dark, and no one knew that the little girl was secretly wiping away her tears.
Children are very sleepy. They will feel drowsy after being sad for a while and fall asleep quickly.
When the work on the field was almost done, Lu Dongcai asked Lu Dongping for help. He borrowed some tools and started to modify the board when he had some free time.
He originally wanted to find a carpenter, but after thinking about it, he decided that a bed was not worth it.
Just make one according to your own bed. It doesn’t look too complicated and you can figure it out when you have time.
We have saws and plumb lines at home, but what we lack is a planer, which I can borrow.
The bed for Chuyi must not be as high as theirs, and the head of the bed does not need to face the wall.
It's just a shelf with a layer of wooden boards on top and a fence around the edges.
It looked simple, but by the time he found the time to work on it bit by bit, the bed was already well into the new year.
The newly made bed he modified was quite different from what he had originally envisioned.
I originally wanted to make it lower, but Lu Minghai said it couldn’t be too low because it would easily attract moisture.
Originally we said we didn’t want a headboard, but Gao Xiulan said it would be ugly without one and it would be a waste of time, so why not just make it better?
Originally, we planned to get a small bed about one meter wide for Chuyi, but it turned out to be too narrow, so we widened it little by little, again and again.
Finally, Gao Xiulan told Hu Qingqing, "This bed is wide enough for sleeping sideways. It can even accommodate two more people."
In the end, the old bed had to be moved out and the new bed moved in.
The original location was not suitable for placement, so Lu Dongcai took a look and said: "Then put it horizontally, the end of the bed can just touch the wall. There is a headboard here, the box can be placed behind the headboard, and the table can be placed by the door."
A bed takes up half the room——
The palm mat is not wide enough, so I can only use some wheat straw to dry the food inside.
The mattress and blanket were not wide enough, so Gao Xiulan could only collect cotton and cloth to make up for them.
"Your bed is made just like the kang in the north."
Lu Dongcai felt very satisfied.
"The original bed was too crowded for four people, and too small for Chuyi to sleep alone. Now this is just right. She can roll around however she wants."
Gao Xiulan said, "Then let's see what you do when you grow up in a few years."
"Then wait a few years."
The bed is spacious, more than enough for two quilts.
Chuyi was freezing cold after jumping around on the new bed, so Hu Qingqing stuffed him into the quilt.
Lu Jiahua stayed in her hometown. Lu Dongcheng came back every week to visit her, and Shengxia would come back occasionally. Because of the miscarriage, her complexion had not been very good.
After she got the child, Lu Dongcheng still wanted it, but she insisted on not having it, and Lu Dongcheng didn't force her. But after the abortion, she regretted it. She was never a very cheerful person, and now she is even more silent than before.
Every time she came back, Gao Xiulan would remind her, "You have to eat well. If you have a poor appetite, you have to go see a doctor. How can you just eat that little food? Find out where there is a good herbalist and ask Dongcheng to take you to get some medicine to take care of yourself. It's not good for you not to take care of your health at such a young age. It will be even more annoying when you are my age."
"I'll take care of the child at home for you, don't worry. I'll take care of you two first."
Really, I have so much to worry about, one by one.
Come to think of it, it is the youngest second daughter-in-law who is the least worrying at this moment.
After such a period of time, her two children have almost gotten along well.
I followed her day and night on the first day of the new year, and on weekends I would go next door and sit with Wen Wan to learn to read.
She carried Dandan on her back whenever she walked, and she never missed going up the mountain to pick grass for pigs, or raking leaves or collecting firewood.
He is also thin and small, but he looks very energetic at first glance, not like in the middle of summer, when he looks so thin that he seems like he will fly away with a gust of wind.
Lu Dongcai feels that although life is difficult and tiring, it is also very fulfilling.
These days, life is hard for everyone.
Take his third aunt's family next door for example. Chun'e went to the city to work as a worker, and Lu Dongping and his wife both have jobs. Their family is one of the best in the team, but they still have their troubles.
Especially after the college entrance examination was resumed in 1997, there was a lot of trouble because my cousin-in-law Wen Wan was going to take the exam.
Lu Dongcai felt that he didn't have much of a future, and since he already had a wife and children, there was nothing wrong with living an ordinary life.
The next time I saw Li Laiying was when I took the first-year student to the county town to register.
In 1987, he was admitted to the county high school in the first grade of junior high school. That year, Lu Dongcai was already 38 years old.
Life in the house was not as difficult as before. In addition to Chuyi and Doudou, a little girl, Yuanyuan, was born later.
The child is still young at this time, and Hu Qingqing can't come, so he comes to send Chuyi off.
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