The premature baby was in poor health and often cried in the middle of the night. Xiang Ling used to accompany her to sleep with the child. When the child cried at night, Xiang Ling would pick up the child and coax him/her before the crying woke her up. Cui Xuezhi often slept until dawn. When she chatted with Xiang Ling the next day, she found out that the child had cried again at night.
Now that Xiang Ling is not with her, and the Cui family's nanny sleeps soundly at night, it is Cui Xuezhi who suffers.
She doesn't know how to coax the child, and often after trying for a long time, the child still cries and makes a fuss, and it's all useless.
She endured it for two days and felt like her head was about to explode.
Cui Xuezhi urged Dong Dingbang to help her find a full-time nanny who could live at home, but Dong Dingbang was a grown man and usually did not interact with the women in the family compound, so how would he know what kind of nanny was suitable?
Even Cui Jing couldn't find a particularly suitable candidate, let alone Dong Dingbang.
Dong Dingbang wandered around like a headless fly for two days. Under the frequent pressure from Cui Xuezhi, he finally found Xiao Yang, the nanny who had taken care of Xiong Qingqing before, through the introduction of Xiong Xiangzhong.
Xiao Yang is also a military wife in the family compound. Gao Qian and Xiong Xiangzhong can call her Xiao Yang because they are both in their thirties, and Xiao Yang is not yet thirty. However, Cui Xuezhi cannot call her Xiao Yang because she is too young. Calling a woman who is older than herself Xiao Yang seems too condescending and exploitative, and it is easy for people to accuse her of having petty-bourgeois ideas.
So either call her by her full name, Yang Liu, or just politely call her Sister Yang.
After Dong Dingbang arrived home, he told Cui Xuezhi about Yang Liu's situation. "She used to help Captain Xiong take care of his daughter Qingqing for over two years. She has a lot of experience in looking after children. If you're okay with her, I'll go to her house and talk to her about it. I'll have her come over tomorrow to start her job."
"Yes." Cui Xuezhi nodded and didn't ask any other questions.
Cui Xuezhi has been driven to nervous breakdown by the crying of the baby who is less than two months old. Now she wants to find a full-time nanny to take over her job as soon as possible. Anyone who is willing to live at home with the whole family is welcome!
Dong Dingbang said, "Then, let her sleep with you in the master bedroom. I will sleep in the guest bedroom on the west side."
After getting Cui Xuezhi's approval, Dong Dingbang went to Xiong Xiangzhong's house, and was led by Xiong Xiangzhong to Yang Liu's house. They finalized the employment terms, agreed on the work to be done, and the monthly salary. After the negotiation, he gave her two yuan as a deposit and asked her to go home at eight o'clock the next morning.
Yang Liu accepted the deposit and readily agreed, "I'll be there on time tomorrow."
After leaving Yang Liu's house, Dong Dingbang thanked Xiong Xiangzhong and said he would treat him to dinner another day.
Xiong Xiangzhong agreed and told Dong Dingbang a little thing: "Xiao Yang doesn't have any children at home. When she goes to your house, you and your wife should try not to mention this when chatting with her."
Dong Dingbang understood immediately and said, "I understand, I definitely won't mention it."
Back home, Dong Dingbang naturally told Cui Xuezhi about this.
Cui Xuezhi didn't understand: "Why can't I mention it?"
"There must be a reason why we can't bring it up. Sister Yang is older than all of us and has been married for so many years without a child. Either they had a child but lost it in an accident, or one of them couldn't have the child. Whatever the reason, it's heartbreaking for them. How much would it affect their mood if I brought it up?"
Cui Xuezhi was slow to react, so Dong Dingbang could only break the truth down and explain it to her.
Cui Xuezhi finally understood: "Okay, I understand. I won't mention it anymore."
After suffering some hardships, Cui Xuezhi is no longer as arrogant and outspoken as before. She gradually knows what to say and what not to say.
The next morning, Yang Liu came to Cui Xuezhi's house early with her daily necessities and spare clothes.
The nanny arranged by Cui Jing to help Cui Xuezhi was in her fifties. Although she was also a full-time live-in nanny, she usually did cooking, mopping the floor, and washing clothes at Teacher Liang's house. She went to her own nanny room at around eight or nine in the evening, and had no work to do until 10 o'clock the next morning.
But following Cui Xuezhi and helping her look after the child meant that there was no good time at all during the dark nights. Sometimes she slept so soundly at night that she didn't hear the child crying, and she still had to endure Cui Xuezhi's scolding. She had endured it for five days and her body could no longer bear it, so when Yang Liu came, she immediately packed up her things and went to Commander Liang's house.
Seeing her rush so impatient, Cui Xuezhi felt a little angry. She thought, is it necessary to run so fast? It's as if she has done something to me.
Fortunately, the nanny Yang Liu who came here is really capable and good at coaxing children. The baby who was crying non-stop was put into her hands, patted and shaken, and stopped crying after a while.
She works efficiently, but is a little careless. She likes to leave things around and not put them away. She has to be reminded before she puts them away.
Cui Xuezhi was not satisfied with her for this, but since she was really good at coaxing children and she might not be able to find someone she liked, she reluctantly endured it.
After some time, the baby was two months old, and Cui Xuezhi finally finished her two-month confinement and was able to go out and move around. The first thing she did after she finished her confinement was to go to the army restaurant and book a table for a "full moon banquet" for her baby.
Because of the accident that happened when grandpa was born, his body was much weaker than that of a normal healthy baby. He was a small ball lying on the bed like a kitten. They were afraid that they couldn't keep him alive, so when he was just one month old, both the Cui family and the Dong family tacitly agreed not to mention holding a full-month banquet.
The child is now two months old. He has grown a lot in height and weight, his face has become rounder, and he has gained a lot of flesh which is visibly visible to the naked eye. Cui Xuezhi feels that the child is well, so she arranges for someone to hold a full-moon banquet, and the time is set for Sunday.
A double full moon is also a full moon, and the neighbors in the housing estate are all very supportive.
As neighbors living in the same alley, Yun Qiao and He Tingjun naturally went too. Feng Juan couldn't make it, so she didn't go and cooked and ate at home.
There weren't many people at the restaurant, so Yun Qiao and He Tingjun gave their gifts and found an empty table with few people, and sat down together.
A table can seat ten people, and this table is already occupied by a family of three, a deputy battalion commander from He Tingjun's regiment and his family, who also brought a boy who was over five years old.
Yun Qiao was sitting next to the deputy battalion commander's family. Later, Han Rou came over and took advantage of Yun Qiao going to the bathroom to make an excuse and told people that she and Yun Qiao were educated youth from the same company and had a good relationship. She wanted to sit and talk with Yun Qiao, so she insisted on changing seats with someone.
When Yun Qiao came out of the bathroom, there was someone else sitting next to him.
Han Rou sat on her right, to her right was Xiong Qingqing, to Xiong Qingqing's right was Xiong Xiangzhong, and the deputy battalion commander's family sat to Xiong Xiangzhong's right.
"Come on." Seeing Yun Qiao not moving, Han Rou waved to him with a smile. After Yun Qiao sat down, she acted as if no one was around. She took a handful of sunflower seeds from her pocket and placed them on the table in front of Yun Qiao. She said, "We're here early, so we have to wait a while for dinner. I brought some sunflower seeds. Let's eat them together to kill time."
"Thank you, but I don't like eating melon seeds. You can eat them yourself." Yun Qiao declined.
But it wasn't a lie. She really didn't like eating melon seeds. Eating too many melon seeds would cause a sore throat, and eating too many of them would leave small gaps on the front teeth, which was unsightly.
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