Chapter 214: Our Family Is Protective

Xia Juanjuan had told them before that they should not fight casually.

But today Li Qiang was too much. Beibei didn't provoke him, so why did he push Beibei?

Beibei ran over to protect her two brothers, tears still on her face. She said with twitching shoulders, "Mom, don't hit my brothers. It's... it's Beibei's fault..."

Xia Juanjuan was helpless.

In their eyes, is she really that fierce? Except for the time when Xiaowen secretly went to the river to touch the wild duck eggs, she got angry once, but usually she should be considered gentle, right?

However, she then remembered that after all, she adopted these three siblings after they were old enough to remember things, so it was normal for them to be afraid of making her angry.

Xia Juanjuan sighed, wiped Beibei's tears, pulled them into the house, and said, "Let's go in first."

Seeing that nothing happened, Li Jie said goodbye and went back to his home.

Lin Yuru was also afraid that Xia Juanjuan would scold the children, so she explained the whole story as she walked.

"That Lisheng deserves a beating too. I gave him rice dumplings, but he was so mean as to push our Beibei down. How mean!"

When Xia Juanjuan came back, Wang Guixiang had already come on stage. She didn't know the reason, but she guessed that it was probably not Xiaowen and Xiaowu's fault.

Now that it was confirmed, she nodded, took out the medicine box from the inner room, took out Yunnan Baiyao and applied it to the broken skin on Xiaowen and Xiaowu's arms and faces, saying

"Who said I was going to beat you up? You did nothing wrong, why would I beat you up?"

Xiaowen and Xiaowu both looked up at Xia Juanjuan in surprise.

"But... we fought..."

Xia Juanjuan said: "When your sister is bullied, you, as her brothers, should be the first to stand up and support her. Otherwise, what are you two brothers for? There is no other principle in our family, just one, to protect the weak. Family members are the most important! If you are bullied, you must bully back twice as much!"

When Xiaowen and Xiaowu heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other, and a little pride rose in their eyes.

It seems like mom is praising them?

It’s a pity that the pride didn’t last for a second. The next second, both of their faces were wrinkled like bitter gourds.

“Ouch… it hurts…”

"Won't it be painful to apply the medicine?" Xia Juanjuan said with a smile, "Just bear with it. Who told you to fight and injure the enemy by 1,000 and your own by 800?"

Xiao Wen looked up and said, "Mom, I'll wait for my fourth uncle to come back next time and let him teach me how to fight. Next time we fight, I promise I won't get hurt!"

When Xiao Wu heard this, he immediately said, "I want to learn too! When I grow up, I want to be as awesome as my fourth uncle!"

Although I have never seen how powerful my fourth uncle is, he has many subordinates in the army. If he is not powerful, it will definitely not work!

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Okay! When Fourth Uncle comes back next time, you can worship him as your master."

Then, he looked up and said to Lin Yuru, "Mom, let's make dumplings today. We caught a little rabbit in the trap we set last time, so we can make rabbit meat stuffing. We can also get a few eggs and make leek and egg stuffing as a reward for these two kids for protecting their sister."

When Lin Yuru heard this, she immediately said, "Oh! As I should. I'll go and knead the dough right away! Juan'er's father, go to the vegetable garden and cut some chives and pick some cowpeas."

After hearing this, Xia Shuangshan agreed and went out.

The cowpeas are naturally used as stuffing together with the rabbit meat, and some sour beans pickled some time ago are also mixed in. It is the best food to go with rice in summer.

Xia Juanjuan went into the house to play with the triplets and fed them milk. The triplets are now six months old, and breast milk alone is not enough for them to get enough nutrition, so they need to start adding complementary food.

After a while, Xia Shuangshan came back. Xia Juanjuan and Lin Yuru worked together and quickly prepared the fillings and dumpling skins. Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Beibei, the whole family worked together and quickly made a lot of dumplings.

Xia Juanjuan cooked some in the pot and steamed some more.

After the meal, Xia Juanjuan asked Xiaowen to deliver a dozen steamed dumplings to Shen Wanxue and Yang Qiushi respectively, and asked Xiaowu to deliver a dozen to Zhou Qiuhe.

Just now, Li Jieken stood in front of her and confronted Li Qiang head-on, so she naturally had to repay his kindness.

Zhou Qiuhe is two months pregnant and has been suffering from severe morning sickness these days. It just so happens that she should be able to eat dumplings stuffed with sauerkraut.

After Xiaowen and Xiaowu came back, the family gathered together to have dinner.

Xia Juanjuan peeled an egg, crushed the egg yolk, and put a little bit of it into the mouths of Yanyan, Yeye and Yaoyao, and let them eat it.

I don’t dare to feed them anything else now. If they are not allergic to eggs, I can feed them egg custard in a month.

The three little guys were not picky. They opened their mouths and let Xia Juanjuan feed them. After feeding, they smacked their lips for a long time, wanting to see more, which made Xia Juanjuan laugh.

The wheat harvest season, which lasted nearly twenty days, finally came to an end. The wheat was gathered on the threshing floor and dried for two days. Then, the commune's oxen dragged stone rollers and crushed the wheat over and over again. This was called threshing.

Thanks to the help of Xia Shuangshan and her comrade Li Zhan, Xia Juanjuan only worked for seven or eight days during the wheat harvest season. Half of the time, she worked for half a day and then rested.

Who in the village is not jealous?

But there is no way to be jealous. Who asked the man to pamper his wife? He couldn't go back and asked his comrades to come and help. Besides, there were so many subsidies, and the wife didn't have to work hard in the fields to earn work points.

Some women are not happy about this and complain to their men, asking them to learn from others and fight like others. That is what real men are like, they will not let their women suffer!

The men of these women are not easy to deal with either, so they retorted, "Are you prettier than the wife of Lizhan? Or are you more pregnant than the wife of Lizhan? If you are one of them, I will spoil you to the sky. With your looks, even a blind bear in the mountains would mistake you for his wife, and you still have the nerve to complain to me! Hurry up and cook for me!"

The women were speechless.

It’s not that they don’t want to have a baby, but is it possible for everyone to have three babies in one pregnancy?

When Aunt Wu came to visit and told Xia Juanjuan the gossips of the families in the village, Xia Juanjuan couldn't help laughing.

She never expected to have triplets.

All I can say is... it's still a great fight...

She suddenly remembered something and asked, "Auntie Wu, your daughter-in-law is about to give birth, right?"

Aunt Wu couldn't help laughing when she heard this and said, "That's right. It's only been a day or two. The village midwife checked it out and said the fetus is in a normal position and there shouldn't be any major danger. I... am looking forward to having another big fat grandson! My little daughter-in-law looks like she has the body to give birth to a son."

Xia Juanjuan was also very happy to hear this. Aunt Wu's daughter-in-law Chen Qi's grandmother was Shen Wanxue's former nanny, so she had always liked Chen Qi.

When Aunt Wu was about to leave, Xia Juanjuan took out some longans, angelica and other fruits and asked her to take them back. She could boil them and drink them after her daughter-in-law gave birth. They were all good for replenishing qi and blood and were good for the mother's health.

In addition, red dates were also supplemented, but there were only a few date trees in the village, and every household had some, so they were not rare, so Xia Juanjuan did not give them out specifically.

Aunt Wu did not refuse and accepted it.

Two days later, in the middle of the night, there was a sudden knock on Xia Juanjuan's door.

Xia Juanjuan hurried to open the door, only to see that it was Aunt Wu.

When Aunt Wu saw Xia Juanjuan, she sat down on the ground and couldn't help crying sadly.

"Juanjuan...what should I do? Qiqi...she's having a difficult labor and she's starting to bleed! The commune doctor happened to be visiting relatives in another commune and isn't at home. I really don't know who to contact..."