Chapter 48 Chapter 48 (1 update) Blocking the child's fart...
Wen Xiaohua yawned, sounding rather listless as he spoke. "Maybe it's the changing seasons. I can't sleep well at night, tossing and turning, feeling either too hot or too cold."
"Why don't you open the windows? The night temperatures aren't too cold lately, so I always keep them open at night to ventilate the room. Otherwise, the temperature would be high in the morning, making it hard to sleep and I'd wake up easily from the heat."
"Thank you for the reminder, sister-in-law." Wen Xiaohua said, pulling out a small plastic mirror from the side. "Are my dark circles obvious?"
"There's a little bit. At noon, apply some cucumber slices to it and see if that helps."
"Well, I'll definitely try it when I get back."
After Lu Qinghe left, Wen Xiaohua yawned loudly again, turned around and threw the account book aside in annoyance, folded his arms, buried his head and fell asleep.
The bus only runs every half an hour. Lu Qinghe waited for twenty minutes, but the bus didn't come. Instead, he waited for Political Commissar Guo who was moving.
"Political Commissar Guo?"
"Xiao Lu?" Guo Yingshi was directing people to load things onto a military pickup truck. When he saw Lu Qinghe, he walked straight over.
"Political Commissar Guo is moving out today?" Lu Qinghe asked in surprise as she saw that even the sheets had been put on.
Guo Yingshi smiled and said, "Actually, I should have moved out a long time ago. The political commissar who was supposed to take over from me hasn't arrived yet, so I've been holding off for a while."
"Political Commissar Guo is moving out suddenly. If he had told me a day in advance, we could have dinner together. If my husband, Zhao, had known about this, he would have definitely invited you over."
"I didn't think to inform anyone. Two months ago, my old comrades sat together and had dinner with me. We just couldn't move. From now on, just call me by my name, and don't call me political commissar. From now on, I'll just be an ordinary worker in the workshop of the Third Line Factory. Nothing special."
Lu Qinghe thought about it and changed his way of addressing him: "Then I'll call you Brother Guo."
"That's fine. Zhao Zhanming used to call me that. By the way, where are you going? I can give you a ride in my pickup truck." Guo Yingshi asked, looking at the bamboo basket on Lu Qinghe's arm.
"I'm going to the Armed Police Hospital to visit a friend. I'm waiting for the bus. I've been waiting for a long time but it hasn't come. The pickup truck can't fit two of us. Brother Guo, please go first."
"I'm waiting for the bus too. These guys are here to help. There's only one seat up front, and there's no room to stand in the back. How about this, since you're a lesbian, I'll have the passenger seat get off and take the bus with me, and then I'll take you there first."
"I'm so sorry, you still have to move. You'll definitely have to spend a lot of time cleaning up when you get there."
"It's a small problem. I'm a grown man, and I only have a few things. There's nothing much to pack. Let's go. We're in a remote area, and the bus doesn't pass by on time. You just wait."
As we were talking, the bus arrived.
Lu Qinghe didn't want to compete with the orderly soldiers who were helping out for space on the pickup truck, so he hurriedly said "don't" and got in the car first.
When Guo Yingshi saw her leave, he told the orderly on the pickup truck the location and then got on the bus.
Lu Qinghe found a seat and was about to sit down when the man sitting by the window frowned.
"This position is occupied."
"I don't see anyone coming." Lu Qinghe looked around. The car had already started, so how could anyone come?
"I saved a seat for the friend I was waiting for. Didn't you hear..." The man raised his head halfway through his words. When he saw the appearance of the woman in front of him, his originally fierce tone paused and relaxed a little.
"Since there are people here, you can sit somewhere else."
Lu Qinghe frowned, feeling a little unhappy, but since the other person said so, he could only look back.
"Xiao Lu, there's room here."
Guo Qiushi stood up directly and gave up his seat.
Lu Qinghe was about to wave his hand, but after thinking for a moment, he decided to sit down. "I have eggs in this basket. If I stand, I'm afraid I might lose my balance and bump into something. That would be bad. Brother Guo, it's only about ten minutes away, I'll be there soon."
Guo Yingshi smiled and said it was okay, then he found a place with a handrail and stood there.
After one stop, more people got on the bus. A female comrade looked around and sat down in the seat that Lu Qinghe had found for the first time.
It seems that the man just now was waiting for her.
Lu Qinghe took a careful look and saw through the gap that the two people's hands were intertwined.
Couple?
But the man seems to be quite old. If they are a couple, their relationship is pretty good, except that the man has a bad temper. But if you look closely, their relationship doesn't seem as close as that of a couple.
Never mind, it has nothing to do with her.
When they arrived at the stop, Lu Qinghe stood up, said goodbye to Guo Yingshi, and got off the bus.
"How's the recovery going? Boy or girl?"
As soon as he entered the ward, Lu Qinghe leaned over to take a look at Liu Yanru's bed.
Newborn babies are wrinkled and look no different from monkeys, and their gender cannot be identified at all.
Liu Yanru caressed the child's cheek lovingly. "It's a boy. The name has been chosen. My father-in-law chose it at home. It's Wei Zhe. He found the character in a book. It's the Zhe that means philosophy and contemplation."
"Very good, congratulations."
Lu Qinghe took out the things she brought and placed them on the table. "Is your mother-in-law here?"
"I just came here half a month ago, and now I'm washing the baby's diapers."
"Is your mother-in-law satisfied now?"
Liu Yanru wasn't as happy as Lu Qinghe thought, but her expression was indeed much more relaxed. She stared at the ceiling in a daze, "I'm quite satisfied too. This way the pressure isn't so great. You don't know how stressed I was a few years ago when it was just Wei Yue."
Lu Qinghe shrugged. Although she didn't quite agree with what he said, Liu Yanru had just given birth the day before yesterday, so she continued, "Now that you have both a son and a daughter, your relationship will gradually improve. You've always wanted your mother-in-law to come and take care of you, and now she can't refuse. You've finally gotten what you wanted."
"fart!"
Liu Yanru suddenly lowered her head, her eyes burning: "I understand what you said when we met in the hospital that time. Sometimes having your mother-in-law around is not necessarily a good thing."
"...What's wrong? She's still urging you to have a child? If that's the case, then you can discuss it with your old man Wei and let him talk to his mother."
"That's not it."
Liu Yanru looked speechless and choked for a long time before she slowly said, "You know, my old Wei is the only child in the family, so my mother-in-law has always kept a close eye on him. She only stopped being so strict after he came to the third-line factory this year. Now that I gave birth to Wei Zhe, my mother-in-law is like possessed. She keeps nagging about how this is the only child in the old Wei family and how it's been three generations of only one son. It's really annoying!"
Lu Qinghe: "Then she will take care of Wei Zhe for you, so you can save some energy."
"Well, that's what I said, but the problem is that she has a lot of requirements for me when it comes to taking care of Wei Zhe, such as how to hold him to sleep at night, how to be careful when speaking, and how to be careful when changing his diaper."
"That's easy." Lu Qinghe smiled. "If she asks, just let her take him. You can take a rest. It might not be convenient in the hospital right now. When you get home, just send Wei Zhe to her place to take care of him. You can also take good care of yourself during the confinement period."
"It's easy to say, but she even controls how I feed my baby. She says she's worried I won't have enough milk and needs to keep me fed. She feeds me on the left side in the morning and on the right side in the afternoon. I can't let her do that. It's really annoying me!"
Lu Qinghe stopped talking.
This is indeed a bit crazy.
"If that doesn't work, why don't you find someone to exchange some goat's milk for her and feed her with it every day?"
Liu Yanru snorted coldly, "Goat's milk? She complains about human milk because I eat too much meat and have a pungent temper. She's definitely going to complain about goat's milk because it has a strong smell and is cold in nature. She'll always find fault with it."
"Then I really have no choice."
Lu Qinghe looked at her helplessly: "To be honest, this matter needs your Old Wei to come forward."
"He just said one thing: if his mother comes, I have to listen to her. If I don't like it, I can ask her to return it, but..."
Liu Yanru lowered her head and touched her son's little head. "Sometimes I worry that I won't be able to raise Wei Zhe well, so I don't want to chase my mother-in-law away."
"Then why are you talking so much nonsense to me?"
Lu Qinghe glanced over and said, "I am happy with it, who can say anything?"
"Oh... tell me, if only I could have your conditions, with children, a successful husband, a big house, control of his salary, and not having to look at the in-laws' faces, it would be a good life. Oh, by the way, what did you bring me?"
Lu Qinghe glanced at him and said, "That's all. I don't know if you guys will celebrate your full moon yet, but you're so anxious to call me over."
"I called you because I was feeling suffocated. You're the only one who could talk. Brown sugar eggs are a good thing. My mother-in-law will definitely be jealous when she comes back."
As we were talking, people arrived.
Kong Guifen had just walked in, and without even bothering to greet Lu Qinghe, she approached Wei Zhe, carefully glanced at him, and asked nervously, "How are you? Didn't you wake up just now?"
Liu Yanru: "Not awake yet."
"If you wake up, you can't be lazy. You have to hold and comfort him, otherwise your throat will be damaged from crying."
"I know, Mom. This is Lu Qinghe, the friend from the same village I mentioned to you."
"Hey! This is Qinghe!"
Kong Guifen was a thin old lady, a little hunched over, but her eyes were very shrewd.
"Hello, Auntie."
"Don't be polite, hey, you're here now, what are you bringing... Oh, by the way, how long have you been here? Have you seen my grandson? Come on, Wei Zhe, come and ask your Aunt Qinghe to take a look."
As she spoke, Kong Guifen held the child in her arms and without saying a word, began to lift the mattress and clothes.
Kong Guifen: "Look at our Wei Zhe's small body, it's so solid, and this fart..."
"Mom, mom, mom!"
Before Lu Qinghe became completely embarrassed, Liu Yanru managed to take the child back and pulled up the mattress to cover the child's butt.
"This is in the provincial capital. Lu Qinghe is an intellectual. You can't come up here and show this to others!" Liu Yanru was quite helpless. She turned around and apologized to Lu Qinghe.
Kong Guifen: "You are not a grown-up girl anymore. You are just happy to have a boy! What kind of cultured person is he? He is from the same village as you."
Liu Yanru frowned. "Don't say that. Qinghe is striving for progress and has even been featured in magazines and pictorials. Have you forgotten what I told you?"
Kong Guifen then curled her lips and no longer thought about showing Lu Qinghe her grandson's vitals.
Kong Guifen turned around and said, "I heard Yanru mention that your husband is an officer?"
Lu Qinghe nodded awkwardly.
"Oh, I wonder if my grandson will be able to join the army in the future. By then, with your relationship with Yanru, you'll definitely be able to get Wei Zhe some kind of official position. You guys should work hard..."
"Mom!!" Liu Yanru was so anxious that she didn't even care about Wei Zhe in her arms. She put him on the bed and pulled Kong Guifen.
"Mom, the child is so young, what's the point of mentioning it now?"
"What do you know?" Kong Guifen snorted coldly.
Seeing that it was useless for her to say anything, Liu Yanru winked at Lu Qinghe and said quickly, "Qinghe, I'll talk to you another day. My family won't hold a full-month celebration anymore. Next time you come, please don't bring anything. I remember you just said you had something to do. Go back. I feel much better talking to you today."
Lu Qinghe nodded, and without being polite to Liu Yanru and Kong Guifen, he hurried out of the ward.
As soon as he reached the corridor and breathed in the fresh air, Lu Qinghe instantly felt his mind become much clearer.
No wonder Liu Yanru said she couldn't stand it. If she had to look at such a person's face, she wouldn't be able to hold it in for a whole day. She would just forget about the son or the other thing and live her life to the fullest.
"Ye Yulian, I asked you to deliver the medicine bottle, why haven't you done anything yet?"
Ye Yulian?
Lu Qinghe stopped and looked across the corridor.
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