Chapter 38 Returning to My Mother's Home 1
"Huh? Isn't your second sister pregnant?" Chen Cui'e looked at Jiang Xinbai suspiciously, as if she was telling a lie.
"Oh, why would I lie to you? It's really me. It's been two months." Jiang Xinbai said happily.
Although Chen Cui'e was very happy about her youngest daughter's pregnancy, she was more worried about her second daughter!
"Xiaolan, are you feeling unwell somewhere? Or is there something wrong with Yitai?" If there is really a hidden illness, then you must go see a doctor as soon as possible. If it can be cured, that would be great. If not, then you have to make plans early.
Jiang Xinlan finally reacted after seeing the expression on her mother's face. She said with a smile: "No, Mom, we are all fine, don't worry about it."
"If everything is fine, then your younger sister is pregnant. You got married a month earlier than her, so why is there no news yet? Is it Yi Taixu?" Chen Cui'e lowered her voice at the end, fearing that outsiders would hear.
"Puchi," Jiang Xinbai couldn't help laughing, "Mom, don't let your brother-in-law hear this, or he'll be mad."
Chen Cui'e glared at her and said, "If you don't say it, no one will."
"Mom, no, it's me. I've been taking medicine to regulate my body recently. My menstruation is not very regular, and the doctor said it's best to adjust it." Jiang Xinlan was not so anxious about getting pregnant. It would happen sooner or later anyway.
Speaking of irregular menstruation, Chen Cui'e reacted and slapped her forehead, "Oh, yes, I remember now, you have always had this problem after your menstruation. Do you still have stomach pain after your menstruation after marriage?"
Jiang Xinlan shook her head. "It doesn't hurt as much as before, but it still hurts sometimes."
"That's okay. Wait until you've recovered and get pregnant. Everything will be fine after you give birth to the child. I was like that back then. When I was a girl, I always had pain during my periods. But it was fine after I gave birth to your eldest brother." Chen Cui'e felt that a woman's menstrual stomach pain was not a big deal and it could be solved by having a child.
Jiang Xinbai was unhappy when she heard this and curled her lips, "Mom, you make it sound like having a baby is as easy as laying an egg."
"It's not as easy as laying an egg. When I gave birth to you, except for the first one which was a little difficult, the later ones were really as easy as laying an egg." Chen Cui'e gave birth to six children in total. The later ones went more and more smoothly, and the babies came out with a "pop".
"Oh, Mom, stop talking. It's weird."
"What's so strange about that? You're the only one who's always bothering yourself. Speaking of eggs, when are you going back? I'll bring you some eggs when you go back."
Chen Cui'e was thinking about the eggs that her family had saved. They had a total of four chickens, of course two of which were raised secretly. At one egg a day, that meant four eggs. With four children in the family, half an egg each, there would be two left. In this way, they saved and saved, and finally had saved about fifty eggs.
Jiang Xinbai likes eggs. She said with a smile, "Then I won't be polite. I really want eggs."
"You are so polite. How about this? Xiaobai is pregnant now. I will take thirty-five of the fifty eggs and give the remaining fifteen to Xiaolan. Is that okay?"
Jiang Xinlan shook her head, "Mom, I don't want it. Give it all to Xiaobai."
"No, it doesn't matter if I take it all. We live in the same building. It would be embarrassing if I have it but you don't."
"Okay, just listen to mom. I'll take it for you. Also, your elder sister received a package a few days ago, which contains some dry goods. If you hadn't come, I would have wanted to ask someone to bring it to you." As she said that, Chen Cui'e went to the inner room and pulled out a bag of fertilizer.
When Jiang Xinbai heard that it was dried food sent by her elder sister, her eyes lit up and she asked hurriedly, "Mom, did my elder sister send any dried shrimps? I've been thinking about that."
Chen Cui'e took out an oil-paper bag from the bag and handed it over. "Here, this is it. How could your elder sister forget your favorite food?"
"Ah, big sister is so nice," Jiang Xinbai couldn't wait to untie the oil paper bag, took out a dried shrimp from it and started eating.
"Hmm, so fresh and delicious." Jiang Xinbai could eat more than ten or twenty shrimps in one bite without stopping.
"I knew you liked it. Your eldest sister said in the letter that she would give you an extra bag of dried shrimps. You can keep them as snacks." Chen Cui'e said as she took out several oil paper bags from the bag.
"Look, it's written here: dried shrimp, dried scallops, dried shrimp skin, dried cuttlefish, dried red fish, dried abalone. Take a bag of each." Chen Cui'e quickly divided the things and then took another bag of dried shrimp and stuffed it into the younger daughter's portion.
"Mom, will my elder sister come back this year?" Jiang Xinbai's elder sister Jiang Xinhong has been with the army for five years, and she has never come back once in these five years. Chen Cui'e didn't say it, but she missed her very much in her heart.
"No, your brother-in-law is on a mission, and your sister can't come back with the three children."
"Oh, I haven't seen my eldest sister for several years. I miss her so much. Shixin is already nine years old. I don't know if she still recognizes me, her second aunt." Before Jiang Xinhong joined the army, she lived in her mother's house. Jiang Xinlan also helped take care of her little nephew for several years, so the relationship is naturally different.
Chen Cui'e squinted her eyes and thought for a while, "After the Chinese New Year, Shixin will be ten years old, half an adult. Your sister wrote that he has grown very tall, about 1.6 meters tall."
"She's 1.6 meters tall now. That means she's caught up with me." Jiang Xinbai gestured at her own height. She couldn't believe that the little kid back then had grown to be as tall as her. Time passed so quickly.
"Others are taller than you. Are you 1.6 meters tall?" Chen Cui'e teased her youngest daughter. She didn't know what was going on. Several children in the family were tall. The second daughter was 1.62 meters tall. Only the youngest daughter didn't grow no matter how much she ate. Now she is only about 1.56 meters tall, 5 centimeters away from 1.6 meters.
"Mom, I'm still growing. Maybe I can grow to 1.6 meters." 1.6 meters is the height standard that Jiang Xinbai dreams of. She has always believed that she can grow to this height.
"It's still growing. You're already a mother. You should just take a break and let the baby grow. Eat more nutritious food. It will be well nourished in the womb and will be strong when it comes out. Also, I think Shixin can grow so fast because he eats a lot of fish and shrimp. You know, there is nothing else where your sister and her family are staying, but there are a lot of fish and shrimp. So Xiaobai, take these back and ask your mother-in-law to make porridge for you from time to time. Add a little to it, it will be very delicious."
"Then I have to eat more. By the way, Mom, can you give me my eldest sister's address? I'll ask her to buy some for me later." Jiang Xinbai thought that he would finish all these sooner or later, and he couldn't ask his eldest sister for more every time.
"I have the address, I'll give it to you later. But the weather is getting cold, so there probably won't be many seafood products left. Even if there are, the prices are quite high, so it's not worth it."
"It's okay, I'll ask next year. It's enough for now." Jiang Xinbai didn't want to buy so many things for the house. It was really inconvenient to live together.
Wu Hehua didn't like these seafoods very much, so she didn't care even though her mother-in-law gave so much to her two sisters-in-law.
"Well, Xiaolan and Xiaobai, you know it's not easy for people in our village to save up some cloth coupons. We exchange them for food. Can you see if you can get some for us? Our two children are grown up, especially Hongyan, who doesn't have a complete set of good clothes."
Although Wu Hehua said that her daughter was a money-loser, she still cared about her daughter in her heart. Seeing that her daughter was about to go to school, she also wanted to make a new set of clothes for her. She had no cloth coupons, so she could only ask her two sisters-in-law.
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