When Zong Shao returned to the room after finishing his work, Lin Wei was sitting with her back to the door, holding her daughter and feeding her.
"Baby is awake?" Zong Shao leaned over and asked.
Lin Wei turned sideways, put her finger to her lips and hushed, then lowered her voice and said, "I just coaxed her."
The little one has a very bad temper. When she wakes up and no one is taking care of her, she will cry. When someone is taking care of her, she will cry depending on her mood. She is only a little better when she is feeding.
But now she sleeps more and wakes up less, and each time she wakes up it’s only for a short while. She becomes quiet after feeding, so she is relatively easy to coax.
Children are most difficult to take care of when they are between six months and one year old. They are awake more often, their voices become louder, and their crying makes people's heads hurt.
When a child is two or three years old, it depends on the situation. Well-behaved ones are easier to take care of. Take Mingming and Ruirui for example. Although they make trouble during the day and give mother Lin a headache, they rarely cry at night. But if the child is not so well-behaved, he or she will be more difficult to take care of than a one-year-old child, mainly because his or her voice is loud and his or her crying can be a lethal weapon.
After the little girl had eaten and drunk her fill, she closed her eyes and fell asleep again. Lin Wei put her on the bed and stretched out her hand to Zong Shao: "Give me a handkerchief."
Zong Shao opened the top drawer of the bedside table, took out a handkerchief and handed it over.
On the first day after Lin Wei was discharged from the hospital with her child, there were significant changes in the master bedroom. The originally neat single bed bedding was uncovered, and a large pile of things were placed on the bed board, including the child's milk powder, bottles, washbasins, towels, kettles, etc. There was also a bottle on the bedside table, but it was for the baby to drink water, and there was still half a bottle of water left in it.
The drawer of the bedside table was originally quite empty, but now the lower layer was filled with washed diapers, and the upper layer was filled with clean handkerchiefs. However, there were not as many handkerchiefs as diapers, only five or six in total, all white, without embroidery, and only slightly locked at the bottom.
After getting the handkerchief, Lin Wei first wiped the child's mouth, then said to Zong Shao: "Turn your head away."
Zong Shao knew what she was going to do, and he also knew that she was embarrassed, but he still asked: "Do you want me to help you?"
Lin Wei's face turned red and she glared at him.
Zong Shao originally just wanted to tease her, but now he was a little moved. He leaned over, put his hand on her left ear, and turned her towards him.
Because she was feeding the baby, she unbuttoned a few buttons of her shirt. Although she pulled her clothes slightly to cover it up after feeding the baby, a gap was revealed in the middle of the shirt because of her sideways movement. Through the gap, you can see her rising and falling chest.
Generally speaking, breasts are proportional to body shape. Fat people's breasts are usually not too small, and no matter how plump a thin person is, their breasts are limited. Lin Wei has a slim figure, not too plump, and her bust... at least it's not very noticeable when she wears loose clothes, but after giving birth, her chest has become much more noticeable.
Zong Shao didn't stare at her breasts, but leaned over to kiss her slender white neck.
Ever since Lin Wei found out she was pregnant, the two hadn't been very intimate. Occasionally, she would help him with it, so she quickly got the hang of it and began to respond by hugging Zong Shao's neck.
The fire quickly started.
But at the critical moment, Zong Shao remembered the doctor's instructions, left Lin Wei, turned over and sat up.
Lin Wei was a little confused and opened her mouth to ask "What's wrong with you?", but she stopped after saying one word, bit her lip and said no more.
Zong Shao dared to turn around and look at her only after he had calmed down his breathing. Her face was red, and she stared at him with big eyes, which made his throat dry. She explained, "The doctor said it's best not to have sex for six months after giving birth."
Lin Wei was both embarrassed and annoyed: "Then you just now..." She was too embarrassed to finish the rest of the words.
Zong Shaoze touched his nose. He really just wanted to tease Lin Wei at first.
Although it was clear that Ruirui drank a mixture of breast milk and formula when he was just born, and Lin Wei fed him a lot, she was always a little embarrassed in front of Zong Shao. She would turn her back when feeding the child, and always turn her back to him when wiping him afterwards, and the tips of her ears would turn red.
The more embarrassed she was, the more Zong Shao wanted to tease her, but he failed to stop in time and nearly had the car go off the road.
Zong Shao apologized sincerely: "I was wrong."
Lin Wei snorted, glanced at him sideways, and said, "You solve it yourself."
"Then shall I go downstairs and take a shower?" Zong Shao asked.
Lin Wei said coldly, "You can rush in if you want."
Seeing that his wife had made up her mind, Zong Shao stopped struggling, sighed deeply and left the master bedroom.
He was gone for more than half an hour, and when he returned to the master bedroom, Lin Wei was already drowsy. Zong Shao had just taken a cold shower and his body was still cold. He didn't go to bed immediately. Instead, he sat aside and watched the mother and daughter.
Today, people who come to visit our home always discuss who the baby looks more like between the couple, and they are equally divided into two groups.
But he always felt that his daughter looked more like her mother. Their eyebrows, eyes and mouth were very similar, but it was hard to tell the face shape. The little girl had a chubby face and it was hard to tell whether it was an oval face or not.
Lin Wei was half asleep and felt someone was watching her. She opened her eyes and saw someone watching her. She asked in a sleepy tone, "Aren't you sleeping?"
"Go to sleep." Zong Shao said, lying down beside Lin Wei and hugging her.
Lin Wei snuggled into his arms and fell asleep with her eyes closed.
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In the middle of the night, the baby woke up and opened his mouth to cry.
Zong Shao opened his eyes first, and without calling Lin Wei, he half-knelt on the bed and picked up the child through his wife, coaxing the child while getting out of bed to prepare milk powder.
During the days of staying with the child in the hospital, he has mastered the skills of holding and coaxing the child. He walks back and forth while holding his daughter, and from time to time he can free up one hand to make milk powder.
These days milk powder comes in small bags, basically one bag for one meal, so after tearing open the bag with his teeth, he poured all the milk powder inside into the bottle, then opened the lid of the kettle and added an appropriate amount of hot water.
At this time, Lin Wei also woke up. Because the room was a little bright, she raised her hand to cover her eyes, turned her head and asked, "Baby is awake?"
"I just woke up. I'm making milk powder." Zong Shao said.
Lin Wei let out a long "oh", sat up and said, "Let me feed the baby, you continue to sleep, you have to get up early tomorrow."
Zong Shao handed the child to Lin Wei, but did not go back to bed. Instead, he picked up the bottle, screwed the lid on tightly, and shook it while saying, "I can't sleep now either. Let's coax her into a good sleep first."
The milk powder cannot be given to the baby directly after it is made, as it is too hot. It needs to be cooled to warm temperature before drinking. The baby couldn't stop crying because she couldn't drink milk. Zong Shao took out a rattle from the bag on the single bed and turned it in front of his daughter.
The "dong dong dong" sound of the rattle quickly attracted the little girl's attention. She opened her tear-filled eyes, stared at the rattle in front of her, and soon began to giggle.
The child stopped crying and the couple breathed a sigh of relief, but they did not relax. One of them held the child while the other kept turning the rattle until the prepared milk powder cooled down.
Compared to formula milk, the little one prefers breast milk, so every time she is fed with formula milk, she will have a tantrum for a while, which is the same as Mingming and Ruirui when they were children.
Lin Wei would try her best to satisfy her children in other aspects, but she would never spoil them in this aspect. Even if she wanted to spoil them, she couldn't because she didn't have much milk to begin with. Besides, Ruirui was a twin, and it was not enough to feed two mouths with milk, so she could only feed them mixedly.
She is not so short of milk now, but Lin Wei has read in the original book that feeding too much milk may cause sagging breasts, so when it comes to her daughter, she still plans to feed her a mixture of breast milk and formula.
Because of the training she had with her first two children, Lin Wei is still able to be ruthless in this regard.
Although the little one was just born and didn't know anything, she had the instinct of a baby. After crying for a while and realizing that what was brought to her mouth was still milk powder, she started to suck it with tears in her eyes.
She felt aggrieved at first, but as she drank, she felt better, her tears dried, and her face was no longer wrinkled.
While his daughter was feeding, Zong Shao thought of the full moon banquet and mentioned it to Lin Wei, asking her when she wanted to hold it.
Lin Wei had never really thought about this. After all, the child was only a week old and there was still some time before the full moon. However, if you want to do it, you really have to consider it now, after all, it takes time to prepare the banquet.
Lin Wei thought for a moment and asked, "Who do you plan to ask for approval?"
Zong Shao said, "We must invite Sister Zhao and the others who are close to you, as well as Lao Zhou and Lao Qin from my camp, and the neighbors who live nearby."
"Then we have to set up three or four tables? We don't have enough tickets, right?" Lin Wei asked. The biggest problem with setting a wedding banquet is not anything else but the dishes.
It might seem inappropriate to have only vegetarian dishes at the banquet, but there were too many meat dishes and meat coupons were in short supply.
There are five people in their family now. If they host two tables of wine, it will be almost enough to fill their belts. Three or four tables will be a bit of a stretch.
Zong Shao said, "At that time, we will have one sea fish per table, one plate of chicken and one plate of duck, and mixed vegetables and radishes. I will also call the person in charge of the vegetable market in advance and ask him to reserve some pork shanks and offal for us, so that we can have a pot of soup and a few meat dishes."
Their family of five can buy about ten kilograms of seafood every month. They only choose sea fish weighing more than one kilogram. Four tables will use up five or six kilograms of seafood tickets. Although the supply of chickens and ducks was limited, he could buy more from members of the surrounding brigades after he had eaten them all, so it was not too bad.
As for pork shanks and pig offal, you can buy them without a ticket, but they are very popular and you won’t be able to get them if you go too late. However, if someone in the family quarters wants to hold a banquet and asks the leader of the vegetable market to help, the other party will be willing to give this face.
In this way, there will be five or six meat dishes on the table, eggs at home, and a few dishes of fried vegetables. The banquet will be quite decent. What's more important is that they don't have to live frugally after the banquet.
Lin Wei thought about it and thought it was feasible. She said, "Then let's do it this way. But should we choose a Sunday as the date?"
It must be Sunday. It is impossible for others to take leave on weekdays to come to his house for a drink.
Not only does the traditional shígGdujia date have to be a Sunday, but it also has to be an auspicious Sunday. Zong Shao thought about it and said, "I'll look at the calendar tomorrow to see which day is suitable."
"OK."
After discussing the full-month banquet, the couple turned off the lights and went to bed.
After breakfast the next day, Lin Wei also looked through the calendar at home. The calendar they hang in their house is the kind that has a piece of paper torn off after a day passes, and it clearly states what should and should not be done.
Although Lin Wei went to bed early every day after giving birth, she still couldn't get up in the morning because she was often woken up at night. She was the last one in the family to get up and have breakfast.
When Lin Wei was having breakfast, her mother had nothing to do, so she held her daughter in her arms and walked around the living room. She walked over to the dining table and saw her flipping through the calendar. She asked, "What are you doing looking at the calendar?"
"Last night, Zong Shao talked to me about the baby's full-month banquet. We've discussed everything else except the time. I'll look at the calendar to see which day is good." Lin Wei said as she looked at the calendar.
Her daughter's full moon day was on a weekday, and the two Sundays before and after were both auspicious, so she looked up and asked her mother: "Mom, which of these two days do you think is good?"
Although Mother Lin was surprised that they were going to hold a full-month banquet, she didn't say much after hearing Lin Wei say that they had discussed it with each other. She said, "Choose the latter one. You are just coming out of confinement."
Lin's mother has old-fashioned ideas. She thinks that during the confinement period, one should stay at home if possible and avoid being exposed to the wind if possible. It would be best if her daughter could stay in bed for a month.
This is how Lin Wei got through the birth of Mingming Ruirui, but this time she just couldn't stay in bed and insisted on eating breakfast by herself. She was just scolded for this.
Although her daughter was not very obedient, Lin's mother had the same idea, so she chose a later date without hesitation.
Although Lin Wei was not very obedient when it came to confinement, she was still willing to listen to her mother's opinions on other matters. She said, "Then I'll discuss it with Zong Shao when he comes back in the evening to see if he has any problems. If not, we'll set the date."
Mother Lin nodded: "Yes."
After confirming the date, Lin Wei said, "Since we are going to hold a full-month banquet, would you like to stay a few more days and wait until the banquet is over before going back?"
After being away from home for more than a month, Lin's mother still missed home very much and was worried about the people and things at home, so she originally planned to leave as soon as Lin Wei finished her confinement. But now her granddaughter is going to hold a full-month banquet, and as an elder, she naturally wants to stay and attend. When she heard her daughter's request to stay, she said, "Then I will stay a few more days."
When Zong Shao came back in the evening, Lin Wei told him about the good day she was looking forward to.
He also looked at the calendar in the camp during the day and chose these two days. As for the exact date, he also wanted to come back and discuss it with Lin Wei.
Now that she was sure, he nodded and said, "Let's do it this day."
After the date for the full moon banquet was set, they began to prepare. Lin Wei prepared the menu, while Zong Shao notified his friends and neighbors one by one, and found the person in charge of the vegetable market, asking him to reserve some pork shanks and offal for his family on that day.
Holding a banquet for Zong Shao's daughter's full moon is a happy event. Everyone lives in the family quarters and there are no grudges or hatred between them in the past or present. The person in charge of the vegetable market is naturally willing to provide this convenience and readily agreed.
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When Zong Shao announced the time of the full-month banquet and notified everyone one by one, Zong Ping who was far away in the capital also received the news.
Although they had separated long before their son got married, and his ex-wife had obstructed their efforts, so he was not informed of his son's marriage or the birth of his grandson, he still suffered a heart attack when he received the news, and his face was sour for several days.
Wu Shujuan saw it but didn't ask any more questions.
When she first got married to Zong Ping, she thought that after waiting for so many years, she had finally achieved her goal with him, and that her life would be filled with only sweetness and no bitterness.
But after her daughter fell ill and was hospitalized, and she saw her daughter suffer disappointment and pain again and again because of Zong Shao's cold-bloodedness, she realized that she was wrong.
During the years when she and her daughter depended on each other, her daughter's position in her heart had long surpassed Zong Ping. However, what she didn't get was always the best, so she would make mistakes one after another.
After her daughter's death, Wu Shujuan felt only regret. Now when she looks at Zong Ping again, there is no ripple in her heart anymore. And because of Zong Shao's existence, they are already at odds with each other.
At least now, seeing Zong Ping's sullen face, she didn't even think of asking what happened.
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