Chapter 152

Confinement

If Chen Lina gave birth to a son, Chen Lili would probably be devastated.

After all, she had been looking forward to a son for a long time.

Now that Chen Lina has given birth to a daughter, Chen Lili immediately becomes enthusiastic again.

Although Nie Gong has four parents, he cannot rely on any of them.

After the little sister was born, Nie Gong wrote a letter to announce the good news. Huang Guilan said everything, but his fourth sister came from afar to send a box of snacks to Chen Lina, which was also a favor.

Confinement is really boring.

Isn’t it Chen Lili who is taking care of Chen Lina during her confinement? She can’t control her every day. Every night, she insists on taking a bath and also bathing the child.

"I'm telling you, I caught a cold and now I'm sick all over. If you don't take a shower, you'll end up paralyzed."

"Sister, can you please stop talking? I'm fine. You don't let me take a shower in this weather in July and August. Do you want to kill me with the heat?"

She gave birth to her baby on July 4th, and now it is July 24th. I don’t know whether the grand blueprint of the labor plan has been realized.

See, she listens to the news every day. She thinks, it has been more than 20 days since Nie Gong left, and there is no news at all. What is going on?

As a result, at night, she heard the radio start to broadcast: "Evacuate, this is an emergency evacuation order. Now, the higher-ups are calling for people in Tangshan, Fengnan and other places to evacuate urgently because a very large-scale earthquake is predicted to occur soon. Please put down your work and evacuate from now on. Wait until the alarm is lifted before returning home."

Chen Lili was changing her sister's diaper when she said, "This is really new. This is the first time I've heard a broadcast saying there will be an earthquake. Is this thing accurate?"

Chen Lina shook her head and said, "I don't know."

In fact, after the Tangshan earthquake last year, residents throughout the Republic had a habit of placing a glass bottle upright on the table before going to bed at night.

Why? Because the Tangshan earthquake occurred at night and caused extremely heavy casualties. The tragic casualties gave people a very painful lesson.

Even Chen Lina, who was quarreling with Nie Guozhu every day at that time, was so sad that she would not forget to put a glass bottle upright before going to bed, for fear that she would be shaken to death in the middle of the night.

"It's really new. We haven't experienced an earthquake since we came into being, don't you think?" Chen Lili said.

From that day on, there would be a broadcast on the radio every half hour.

Chen Lina thought to herself, how strange! Originally, I thought Nie Gong was really going to go astray and rob nuclear materials to create a Chernobyl.

It seems that he has found a great and correct method to make the Earthquake Bureau willing to issue earthquake warning information in advance.

It seemed that many difficult problems that she thought were impossible to solve became easy tasks once they fell into the hands of the skilled worker.

However, there are many things that seem easy to Chen Lina, for example, Nie Weijiang, the kid, Chen Lina thinks he is a very well-behaved child, but Nie Bozhao just can't handle him.

Look, little Dandan has just finished school now.

He jumped up and down and went to the junior high school to find his brother.

Carrying a small green schoolbag, he staggered out of the campus. After walking a few steps, he saw Chen Tiantian and two little hooligans standing in the alley between the primary school and the middle school.

Moreover, Chen Tiantian didn’t seem to be afraid at all of the gangsters from the mining area, and followed them into the woods.

Sandan stood there waiting for a long time before he saw Chen Tiantian coming out of the small woods behind the school alone. Her hair was messy and her face was gloomy. She was carrying a schoolbag and walking very slowly.

"Sister Tiantian, why don't you go wait for the bus?" Sandan walked up and asked, which scared Chen Tiantian.

She quickly said, "No problem, I'll go right now, right away."

As she said that, she pulled Sandan's hand and said, "It's very dangerous outside. Try not to run around, okay?"

"I didn't run around." said Sandan.

As a result, they had just walked a short distance when Liu Xiaohong came over and said, "Tiantian, have you met those two little hooligans again? I want to ask you, you don't really want them to find you a job, do you? They are all hooligans. What if they sell you out?"

Chen Tiantian hurriedly said, "Sandan is here, stop talking."

"I'm telling you, don't hang out with those hooligans. We are students. If you don't do well in school, you can work hard. Even if you really can't do well, you can still do it.

What's the big deal? There must be a last-place student in every class. The teacher didn't tell you to drop out, so why do you keep thinking about dropping out? You're only 13, and if you drop out like this, how can you find a job? "

Kids nowadays either have connections and work in factories, or they just stay out in society. Over time, there are a group of hooligans in the mining area who wait at the school gates all day, extorting male students and bullying female students.

"Okay, Xiaohong, stop talking. I know what to do about my own business." Chen Tiantian said, and took Liu Xiaohong's hand.

Now we have green buses that run exclusively to the base. They are more punctual than oil tankers and not as smelly, so everyone just gets on board.

Lv Fangfang also came to the mining area and saw the three Nie brothers all got on the bus and squeezed together. She asked Sandan, "Are you happy that your mother gave birth to a daughter?"

Sandan stuck out his tongue and said, "Happy."

"Is it fun?" Lu Fangfang asked again.

"It's fun, but not fun at the same time." Sandan didn't know what to say.

"Nie Weimin, tell me, is it fun to have a younger sister? Has your mother ever been angry with you?" No matter how good a stepmother is, that was when you didn't have your own children. When you really have your own people, you have a lot more to consider.

Who will own the house on the base in the future? The salary of two people is used for one child, and he can dress up like a peacock. If it is used for four children, the youngest can only pick up what everyone else has left. Isn’t this treatment heaven and earth?

Everyone in the base wanted to know whether Chen Lina abused the children raised by her stepmothers after she had her own children.

Nie Weimin found it very strange. "My mother is not having any conflicts. She has just been listening to the radio every day recently."

"Is it fun to be your sister?" Lu Fangfang asked.

Nie Weimin didn't say anything, but before, whenever he got on the bus, he would always tease Liu Xiaohong. But recently, he didn't chat with anyone and just watched the road go by. When they saw the bus stop, the three brothers jumped off the bus and ran away.

The three brothers ran to the door of their home. Sandan walked in first. Erdan stopped, thinking about how his aunt had said several times that the child woke up because of his heavy footsteps. He did not dare to shout loudly, and walked in on tiptoe like a chicken stepping on a hot pot.

"Mom, she is so well behaved, but when will she wake up?" Nie Weijiang asked.

The wrinkled little baby, almost one month old, is sleeping with one hand on his ear.

Chen Lina was also pressed on the kang by Chen Lili, unable to go anywhere. She was holding a radio, feeling hot and irritated. She said, "I don't know. I was very happy before she was born. Now I wish I had never given birth to her. Or, she could be like you when she was born, at least she could walk. Look, now you've dragged me onto the bed. I'm so anxious."

"Then why don't you feed her more milk? Will she grow faster?"

"But she doesn't want to drink my milk, what should I do?"

At the beginning, Chen Lina also wanted to breastfeed, but the nurse made her some milk powder and gave her a bottle, but the little girl was suffocating while eating, so she refused to drink her milk anymore.

As for Chen Lina herself, although the baby was born, the milk did not come as expected, so she could only feed the baby with milk powder.

As he was speaking, the kid groaned and woke up.

To be honest, even though the three Nie Weimin brothers always said that she was pretty, Chen Lina really didn't see what was so pretty about this little sister. Anyway, all she did was sleep and ask for milk powder.

Well, it's pretty similar to the rabbit I raised before.

"Come on, Mom, let me feed her." Sandan volunteered. He was already good at holding a baby. He also advised Chen Lina earnestly, "Don't worry. Don't be afraid that she will affect your career. When you went to work on the farm, you always brought me with you. My sister will be very good too."

Look, there has been no sound in the radio, but now it is beeping, calling on residents in the Tangshan area to evacuate, urgently, and warning of an earthquake.

"Evacuate again, evacuate. We've been evacuating for several days. Why are we still evacuating? Let me tell you, there probably isn't an earthquake at all. Do you believe it?" Chen Lili said after she finished cooking.

Chen Lina has experienced it personally and can only say that when an event does not happen, people always tend to be lucky.

"Chen Lina, this is a registered letter for your family." The mail deliveryman Xiao Wang has become Lao Wang, but he still rides that same old rickshaw, and the bell hardly rings at all.

"Why, is it a registered letter from dad?" Sandan said.

Nie Weimin had already read the letter he went to pick up. "No, it was from the Party School notifying my mother to go to study. Oh, there's another one, also from Beijing, but it's addressed to my father. I won't read it. I'll put it in his study."

"No, please show it to me." said Chen Lina.

She was just worried about having nothing to do, so she took the letter and opened it.

The Party School came to her several times and informed her that after she had the baby, she should report to the school and study after she started working. This is also one of the necessary steps for promotion.

The other letter was more interesting. It was sent directly from the People's Court. It was just a written ruling on a lawsuit. The ruling clearly stated that there was insufficient evidence to prove the mother-son relationship between Nie Bozhao and Qiao Shu. Nie Bozhao had not gone to the court since the lawsuit from Qin Shu's second sister Qiao Hui was served. The court regarded him as having voluntarily given up the appeal, so it directly sentenced him.

So, while he was still working as a laborer and dreaming of having a place to live in Beijing with his sons if they could be admitted to Tsinghua University or Peking University, Qiao Shu's sisters simply filed a lawsuit and stripped him of all his inheritance rights.

"Mom, is there any problem with this letter?" Sandan looked at Chen Lina and asked.

Chen Lina said, "It's for your father. We'll talk about it when he comes back."

You know, it hasn't been long since the People's Court resumed its professional inspection. After all, people who are under the emperor's feet have many means. Look, he is very calm and said nothing, but he destroyed two courtyards whose future value is unknown.

Chen Lina had lived in one of the apartments in her previous life.

Of course, the heating in the courtyard house is not easy to heat, and the toilet is often blocked, so it is not as comfortable as the building.

But living in a courtyard house is a matter of sentiment. Besides, it is impossible that a lawsuit can be filed and someone's house can be occupied directly.

Miss Chen was angry for several days. If the little girl hadn't been so well-behaved, she would have eaten and then slept, then slept and then ate.

If it weren't for the fact that Chen Lili took good care of her during the confinement period and cooked delicious meals because she gave birth to a daughter-in-law, and if it weren't for the fact that the three children were also well-behaved and even took the initiative to do their homework, Miss Chen really wanted to pick up her sister, take the train, and go to Beijing to sue.

On the morning of the 28th, before Chen Lina got up, she heard Wang, her neighbor, calling out through the wall, "Lina, did you hear that there was an earthquake somewhere?"

Chen Lili woke up early and was sweeping the yard, so she asked, "Really? Was the earthquake serious? Is it Tangshan?"

"Yes, the radio said there was an earthquake last night. I heard it was pretty serious."

Chen Lina also got down from the kang. Finally, she put on her most hated and ugliest headscarf. "Did you hear what the radio said? How many people died?"

Chen Lina remembered that there were particularly many casualties in this earthquake, so she sent the laborers away during her confinement period.

"According to the radio, there are probably at least several hundred people. Some people did not believe there was an earthquake and refused to evacuate. Some people, after evacuating, turned back and buried their heads in the water."

Chen Lina said "oh" and didn't know what to say. In short, for many things, you have tried your best and done what you should do before they happen. It's like raising a child. Once he grows up, the path he takes after that is no longer in your control.

From now on, what she should worry about is when the laborer will come back.

As for the laborer, it was not until August 4th that he returned from outside with a scruffy beard and a travel bag.

As soon as he entered the house, he saw Xiao Chen working in the kitchen. He was stunned. "Didn't I give Chen Lili 300 yuan and ask her to take care of you for a month? Why are you working in the kitchen after only one month?"

"She has children at home, so I sent her away," said Chen Lina.

Actually, it’s because Chen Lili is too talkative. She always likes to go out to visit friends and it would take her one or two hours to go out for a visit. She can’t have a meal every day.

Chen Lina is such a skillful person, she can't stand it after just a few days. It's already been a month since her little sister was born. She is very well behaved, and hardly cries except for peeing and humming a few times when feeding. She also has several sons to take care of her.

It's comfortable to eat the food you cook yourself, so she just took charge of it.

When Nie Gong smelled it, he said, "Damn it, I haven't eaten this for a long time."

"Well, do you know why I'm not a lazy bum anymore?" Chen Lina said this on purpose, in a very loud voice. After all, the older ones are deaf now, and just like a dog that will only run away if praised, they also need to be praised from time to time so that they will work harder.

"Now, our defenders of the people, the country and the border are no longer lazy, they are extremely diligent. If you don't believe me, go in and take a look." Chen Lina said with a smile.

She kneaded cooked carrot juice, spinach juice and tomato juice into the dough, pressed a piece of dough onto the colander, and the dumplings of different colors slid into the pot.

The fillings for the dumplings can be made with either mutton sauce or broth.

She had just given birth and was afraid to eat sour food, but her children could eat it.

Not to mention fruits, vegetables are also abundant in the border areas. She was lazy and didn't cook much, so she just fried a plate of big red bell peppers, and fried them together with the braised meat that Nie Weimin got from He Lan'er on a special trip to the farm. It was not spicy but also had a sweet taste. It was so delicious when eaten with lazy dumplings.

Nie Gong entered the bedroom and saw Sandan sitting on the kang with a baby in his arms, feeding the baby with a bottle. After all, this son was a troublemaker, and he would retort ten times for every word he said.

The worker did not dare to get excited and stepped back, asking Miss Chen, "How dare you let him hold such a small baby?"

"He holds the baby better than me, and he can even pat her breasts. Why don't you let him hold her?" Miss Chen herself has barely held her sister.

When Nie Gong looked out the window, he saw Nie Weimin squatting beside the vegetable garden, washing something. The wire rack on the wall was full of diapers.

"You actually let Nie Weimin wash diapers for the child. Aren't you afraid that he won't wash them cleanly?" Nie Gong then said.

"Nie Weimin doesn't like the way I wash. He always says I don't rub it clean enough." said Chen Lina.

Nie Gong thought to himself, how come this family is so upside down?

Chen Lina seems to be fine after giving birth to a child, but her sons are very hardworking.

"How strong can a child be to scrub a diaper clean? Besides, detergent is a chemical product. If it is not cleaned thoroughly, it will leave residue. Weimin, leave it there and I will wash the diaper."

The worker didn't even bother to eat, he rolled up his sleeves and went out, turning back and pointing at Chen Lina, "How can a mother like you rely on a few children for their own affairs? Let me tell you, Chen Lina, I really suspect that my daughter is raised by a stepmother, or that she was replaced with Anna in the hospital. Otherwise, how come you don't know how to love her at all?"