Chapter 5 Corn Cob
When it was time to go to bed, Han Jianwu watched coldly. He wanted to see what Huo Qingqing was going to do.
The two children had fallen asleep in the middle of the kang. They didn't know since when, the two kids had become the 38th parallel between them.
Huo Qingqing still couldn't take the initiative to get into Han Jianwu's bed, so she turned off the light and got into her own bed, just like before.
In the middle of the night, Huo Qingqing's crying woke Han Jianwu up. He turned on the flashlight, crawled over and shook Huo Qingqing awake, "What's wrong?"
Huo Qingqing cried with tears all over her face, "Niuniu is lost."
Han Jianwu took a photo of the two children and said, "Here they are! Look."
Huo Qingqing cried even more sadly when she saw her daughter's well-behaved sleeping face. She picked up the child, held her tightly in her arms, and kept kissing her face and forehead.
Niu Niu was woken up quickly, and the child started crying when she woke up.
Han Jianwu held his daughter in his arms and rolled around on the ground until the baby fell asleep.
After settling her daughter, Huo Qingqing was still in a daze.
Han Jianwu said, "Go to sleep! They say dreams are the opposite of reality. We have to get up early to go to the city tomorrow morning!"
Huo Qingqing threw herself into Han Jianwu's arms, hugged the man's firm waist tightly, and murmured: "Han Jianwu, thank you! I'm sorry!"
Han Jianwu, "..."
The man raised his hands above Huo Qingqing's head, not daring to hug her back. After a long while, Han Jianwu gently touched Huo Qingqing's head and said, "It's okay, go to sleep!"
Huo Qingqing nodded and said, "Okay!"
The next day, as soon as he heard the rooster crowing, Han Jianwu got up to make breakfast for them.
When Huo Qingqing got up, two large bowls of dumpling soup had been brought in. Han Jianwu used a small spoon to scoop the batter into the two children's small bowls.
Han Jianwu said, "Go wash up first, I'll dress the baby."
Zhuangzhuang can speak and express his needs, but Niu Niu cannot speak and has to rely on crying to get his needs met, making her very difficult to take care of.
Everyone in the village said that Han Laosi's daughter was a mute, and Huo Qingqing also thought so in her previous life.
Huo Qingqing had checked her daughter yesterday and found that there was nothing wrong with her. She was just a late speaker.
With her professional and rich experience in pediatrics, she has seen many three-year-old children who cannot speak, and their parents were very anxious, but in the end they all learn to speak on their own.
It is not easy to go to the county town, not to mention that they are bringing two children with them!
I hurried to catch the second bus, and it was already 11 o'clock in the morning when I arrived at the county town. I went to the state-owned canteen to eat, then checked into a state-owned hotel. After a short rest, I went to the photo studio to take pictures.
The most popular clothing now is the green military uniform. Huo Qingqing and Han Jianwu both happened to have green military uniforms, so they put them on when they went out in the morning.
The two took a photo holding the children, and then took another photo of the two children separately.
The master said, "Let's take a photo of the two of you!"
Han Jianwu didn't say anything, Huo Qingqing said, "Okay!"
The earliest they could get the photos was the next day during working hours, so the two of them took their child to the largest state-owned department store in the county to shop.
Both of them were wearing military uniforms, and their child was clean and good-looking. As soon as the large-denomination national banknotes were taken out, the salespersons' eyes lit up. Each one was more enthusiastic than the other, praising their child for being good-looking and that they were a good match.
The department stores in the county town cover a large area and have a complete range of products. After all, most of the city youths nowadays go to the countryside, and the supply and marketing cooperatives in each commune and the department stores in the county do the best business. People who work in these places are very enviable.
Huo Qingqing stuffed the things into the sack as if they were free, and told Han Jianwu to just take good care of the child.
Most of the things I bought were for the two kids. I bought some necessities for her, but Han Jianwu refused to accept anything I bought him. In the end, I insisted on buying him a pair of rain boots, a pair of Liberation shoes and two pairs of socks.
After sending the things and the baby back to the hotel, Huo Qingqing said, "You take care of the baby. I'll go to the herbal medicine sales station to buy some things and will be back soon."
Huo Qingqing bought some common medicines at the herbal medicine sales station, and also bought a thermometer and a stethoscope. Finally, I went to the county hospital for a gynecological examination and had an IUD inserted.
We had dumplings for dinner in the cafeteria downstairs. There is no nightlife in the county town nowadays, so after dinner I took the children upstairs to wash up and go to bed.
Normally at this time, the children are playing happily in the yard with their older brothers and sisters, so how could they feel sleepy? Huo Qingqing played with the two children, guiding her daughter to speak and play various games.
Han Jianwu felt that she really wanted to stay?
Huo Qingqing bought Hongying brand crayons and sketchbooks, drew on them, and then taught the two children to recognize what she drew.
My son can basically say anything right, but my daughter won't open her mouth no matter how I teach her.
Huo Qingqing continued to draw patiently. This time, she drew a doll and said to her daughter, "Niuniu, who is this?"
Niuniu tilted her head and said in a baby voice, "Wow~"
Han Jianwu and Huo Qingqing were so surprised that they were speechless for a long time. Their son jumped up and said, "My sister can talk!"
Huo Qingqing drew another picture of herself and showed it to her daughter, "Niuniu, who is this?"
"Mom~"
Huo Qingqing's eyes turned red as she held her daughter in her arms and bit her madly, "Call me mom again?"
The little guy stopped talking again.
It didn’t work anymore. No matter who Huo Qingqing drew, Niu Niu would say it was “Mama” or “Wawa”.
Anyway it was a beautiful day and my daughter could speak now.
At night, the two of them each held a baby to sleep. The son insisted on sleeping with his mother, but fortunately the daughter could sleep with anyone.
Not long after sleeping, his son wanted to poop, so Han Jianwu got up and carried his son to the bathroom to do it. Huo Qingqing took two pieces of toilet paper she bought today and gave them to Han Jianwu, saying, "Don't use corn cobs to wipe them from now on."
Han Jianwu chuckled and said, "How are they better than the other kids in the village? The corn cobs we give them are carefully selected with pointed ribs. Not bad, you little brat." Then he bent down and kissed his son on the face.
Huo Qingqing said, "That won't work either. This paper doesn't cost much."
Han Jianwu said, "Okay, if you don't want to use it, just put some toilet paper in their pockets when you go out next time."
The son said, "My brother uses a lump of earth to poop."
Han Jianwu, "You have used it too."
Anyway, people in Hanjiagou used corn cobs and taro leaves, so Huo Qingqing was not surprised at all.
Han Jianwu glanced at Huo Qingqing and said, "My mother would definitely use corn cobs when she takes care of the baby. She would never use toilet paper to wipe the baby's butt."
Huo Qingqing said, "It's okay to use it occasionally, as long as you don't use clods of earth."
Huo Qingqing could barely accept corn cobs, but she really couldn't accept clods of earth.
Han Jianwu said, "I'll go back and tell her about this."
Huo Qingqing said, "No need to tell me specifically, it's okay to use it occasionally."
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