Chapter 516 Another Qixi Festival
Regardless of how alarmed Song Zhenzhu was upon hearing that Li Sanniang would come to the Song family, Li Sanniang left the restaurant satisfied and went back to her shift at the clinic.
And when Li San Niang returned home after finishing her shift today, she received even better news.
Little Yellow gave birth!
"I heard it whimpering around noon, and I thought it was about to give birth."
They laid out straw mats and cushions, and even found a basket to cover it up.
Sure enough, Little Yellow was clever; after eating the food with bone broth added, it lay down in its nest and strained.
"You just gave birth a little while before you came back."
Listening to what Li's mother said, Li San Niang, along with Lu Zhu'er and Xiao Si Lang, squatted in a row in front of Xiao Huang's doghouse, looking at the three chubby puppies under Xiao Huang's belly whose eyes were not yet open.
"It seems that Xiao Huang is with a black dog."
Li San Niang looked at the three puppies and saw that two of them had four eyebrows with iron-coated gold markings, while only one of them, like Little Yellow, had yellow fur.
Mother Li nodded, agreeing with Third Sister Li's words.
Dewdrop asked Li San Niang, "Mother, is Little Yellow's husband a black dog?"
Li San Niang nodded and pointed to the two still-closed puppies nursing under Xiao Huang, showing them to Lu Zhu'er, "Look, Zhu'er, these two are black-haired. It must be because their father was a black dog."
Dewdrop nodded like a little adult, indicating that she understood what Li San Niang meant.
The Li family is no longer the stingy family it once was. Besides, even the most stingy family would give a good meal to a dog that has given birth to puppies.
Sister-in-law Li directed Xiao Silang to bring a bowl of thick porridge with bone broth and minced meat from the kitchen. Xiao Silang carefully placed it on the side where Xiao Huang could easily reach it with his tongue.
Smelling the aroma, Little Yellow began to lick and gnaw at it with gusto.
Seeing this scene made Li San Niang burst out laughing.
Li San Niang didn't find it funny that Xiao Huang was eating porridge; rather, she remembered a news story she had seen in modern times before she time-traveled.
The story goes that the daughter-in-law ate twelve pumpkins from her husband's family's field during her postpartum confinement period. The heartbroken mother-in-law cried bitterly and even complained in front of the media, blaming her daughter-in-law for eating twelve large pumpkins during her confinement period.
Haha, when Li San Niang saw this news, she couldn't stop laughing. She thought it was unbelievable that such a thing could still happen in the 21st century.
But afterwards, when Li San Niang thought about the news again, she felt a mix of helplessness, anger, and heartache.
Back then, in the doctor's office, the doctors talked about this and even joked about it.
"Haha, if people knew that when I gave birth to my first child, I stayed in a postpartum care center for more than a month and spent more than 20,000 yuan, the old lady in this video would be furious."
"You can't really say for sure."
When I gave birth to my second child, I hired a postpartum nanny for two months, which cost less than 20,000 yuan.
Their service was really good. Not only did they cook for me and put me to bed at night, but they also chatted with me during the day about raising children, which was very interesting.
I'm not lying, their methods are so professional, I feel they're better than those of us who learned in a formal academic program.
Listening to the married and motherly women in the department discussing the matter animatedly, Li Sanniang couldn't help but feel even more sorry for the woman in the news.
However, at this moment, Li San Niang felt a little happier when she saw Xiao Huang slurping down a whole bowl of thick porridge.
After watching Xiao Huang finish his meal, Li's mother announced that dinner would be served at the Li family's house that evening.
After the family had finished eating and were chatting in the main hall, Li San Niang learned that Li Da Lang, who was at the border, had sent a letter that day.
"It was delivered by soldiers from the post station."
Sister-in-law Li took out the letter; of all the family members, only Third Sister Li hadn't read it.
At that time, there was no such thing as privacy, and besides, Li Dalang's letter really was a greeting to the whole family.
Li San Niang took it and read it. Inside, not only were there words of advice to the elders not to worry about him, but Xiao Si Lang, Lu Zhu Er, and Xiao Wu Lang were also mentioned.
He said he would wait until he returned home next year to see if they had grown taller and if they were still obedient.
"The soldier asked when he would come to collect the letter."
Could it be delivered along with the package?
Sister-in-law Li shook her head: "I can only help deliver letters for free, not parcels, but I did say to come back in seven days to pick up the mail."
If you want to send a package, you'll probably have to find a caravan heading west to carry it for you.
"Alas, the fact that they can write here means they must be safe now."
Didn't people on the streets say there was a great victory at the border in the first half of the month?
There shouldn't be any fighting on the border anymore, or if there is, it's probably just small-scale skirmishes. Tiger Head's safety should be assured.
Although Li's sister-in-law was worried as her own mother, she came from a family of warriors and understood that joining the army meant going to the battlefield to risk one's life for the sake of one's future. She was quite open-minded about it.
Seeing that Li Dasao was in a peaceful state of mind, Li San Niang was relieved. After all, Li Dasao was pregnant, and a pregnant woman's state of mind is closely related to the fetus in her womb.
After discussing the letter that Li Dalang had sent home, Li's mother brought up the matter of the Qixi Festival, which was in two days.
Thinking back on the Qixi Festival last year, Li San Niang realized that all she did that day was eat some Qiaoguo (a type of pastry) in the courtyard and worship the moon.
(Chapter 20 plot)
"Mother, what do you want this year?"
How about we take Dewdrop and the others out for a stroll this year?
After Li San Niang finished speaking, she slapped her forehead and said, "If my mother hadn't mentioned the Qixi Festival, I wouldn't have remembered it at all."
A few days ago, Xing Yu sent me a message saying that his family's supermarket in Xishi was having a promotion on Qixi Festival. Not only were items discounted, but they also had acrobatics in front of the store and a needle-threading competition. He suggested that I take Luzhu to see it. I thought it would be quite interesting.
If Mother and Sister-in-law agree, shall we go for a stroll that day?
Sister-in-law Li thought it was all fine, but she was worried about whether Third Sister Li would be on duty that day.
"Haha, it must be because I'm a girl that Japan arranged for me to have a day off."
Manager Gao also said that there wouldn't be many women coming to see him that day, so he suggested I take a day off and rest.
"That's easy. We'll see when the time comes. If Dalang is also on leave, then our whole family will go to the West Market to take a look."
The kids haven't been taken out to play in a while; they deserve some fun.
When Li's mother made the decision, everyone agreed.
Li San Niang also thought of the young boy from Shaoyang who lived in the backyard, and thought she would go back and ask him if he wanted to come along.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of Physician Liang and the young boy from Shaoyang, the Sleeping Beauty poison that Princess Taiping suffered from has finally been cured, and Princess Taiping is now just like a normal person.
However, when Li San Niang went to listen to the old doctor Liang's teachings a couple of days ago, the young boy from Shaoyang said this: "The emperor is worried that the princess may still have some aftereffects, so he said that the master should still go to the palace every month to check on Princess Taiping's pulse to ensure her safety."
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