Chapter 390 Pregnancy
The clothes on the bed were made from fabric that Song Lubai had bought from the shoemaking class.
Both shirts were made of good fabric; the larger one was Wei Yang's, and the smaller one was Song Lubai's.
Besides the shirt, there was also a pair of pants and a skirt.
Song Lubai unfolded the pants and skirt and found that both were actually her size; Wei Yang couldn't fit into the pants at all.
Both garments were made of defective fabric, and the trousers had two patches made of different colored fabric, which were then used to create pockets.
As for that dress, it was even stranger; Song Lubai had never seen a dress with such a peculiar design.
The skirt reached above her ankles, but the hem, almost a hand's length long, was made of strips of fabric.
She remembered that the fabric wasn't this big in the silky parts.
The hem was made of very thin strips, and a large pocket was sewn onto the skirt to cover up the flaws in the fabric.
Although the design looked rather peculiar, Song Lubai inexplicably found it quite stylish.
Fortunately, the fabric is dark in color, and the pockets are also dark, so the colors of the dress look particularly harmonious.
Even if she wore patched skirts and pants out, no one would think her family was well-off.
It's not flashy but still quite pretty; Song Lubai couldn't be more satisfied.
She quickly changed into the new dress, then put on the new shirt but felt it didn't quite match, so she put on her own white shirt instead.
As she was leaving, Wei Zhao was just about to come in when she noticed Song Lubai's dress. She pulled Song Lubai around and said, "This tailor is quite interesting. He turned the tattered parts of the fabric into tassels. They look pretty good."
Song Lubai is tall and thin with a slender waist. Her shirt is tucked into her skirt, making her look very tall.
The skirt was very long, so Song Lubai only showed a little bit of her ankle, but it looked very stylish.
Song Lubai turned around and asked, "Does it look good?"
Wei Yang coughed lightly and said it looked good.
His wife looks good in everything.
Although he had asked the tailor to make a dress for Song Lubai from that piece of cloth, he did not expect the tailor to make such a strange dress. He thought it was strange when he received it, but Song Lubai thought it looked very good when she wore it.
With three new outfits all at once, I won't need to make any more clothes next year.
Everyone in the family, including Chen Yu, had a new outfit. They hadn't even had the fish soup yet, but everyone was as happy as if it were Chinese New Year.
The fish soup was very delicious. The group of people were sweating profusely from drinking the soup at midday. Song Lubai felt both nauseous and regretful at the smell.
Wei Yang quickly made time and took Song Lubai to the city on his bicycle early in the morning.
After entering the city, the two went straight to the hospital, where there were traditional Chinese medicine doctors who could take pulses.
Song Lubai's pulse clearly indicated pregnancy, and the doctor determined that she was more than three months pregnant.
Song Lubai was surprised.
She had her period last month, though it was light, but it did come.
She told the doctor about the situation, and the doctor said, "Your situation is not good, but after taking your pulse, I think your physical condition is not bad. Don't overwork yourself in the future, pay more attention to rest, and come back to see me in a month or two. If you are still bleeding, come here immediately."
After explaining everything, the doctor asked Song Lubai to wait outside and asked Wei Yang and his wife privately whether their sex life was very frequent.
This was too private, and Wei Yang felt a little embarrassed. His ears were burning, so he coughed and nodded as if to admit it.
After hearing the doctor's instructions, Wei Yang's face turned bright red.
After leaving the hospital, Song Lubai asked, "What did the doctor say? Is there something wrong with the child?"
Remembering what the doctor said, Wei Yang coughed and said, "It's nothing, just that pregnant women should eat more nutritious foods, like fish, meat, eggs, milk powder, etc. Eating more of these is good for their health."
Wei Yang's words made Song Lubai's mouth water.
She also wanted to eat more meat, but the number of times the troupe slaughtered pigs was limited, so she couldn't buy any even if she wanted to.
After finishing their business, the two of them took a bag of biscuits and went to find Song Hai.
At noon, Song Hai and his wife took the two of them out to a restaurant, and Song Lubai got a free bowl of meat dumplings.
Song Lubai and Wei Yang had a strange feeling about being pregnant.
The next day, Wei Yang went to the villager's house and brought back some goat milk for Song Lubai to drink. The goat milk had a very strong smell, and Song Lubai forced herself to drink it while holding her nose.
In just one month, she saw her belly slowly gain some weight.
Wei Yang didn't want to take advantage of Song Lubai's health, so he sent a message to his older sister to send her nutritional supplements via telegram.
I just sent the money over, and the nutritional supplements my older sister sent arrived.
Two cans of malted milk powder, one can of milk powder, a small can of cod liver oil, and a box of biscuits in a tin box.
In addition to the nutritional supplements, the older sister also packed them a lot of dried goods, including dried kelp, dried yellow croaker, dried small shrimp, and dried seaweed.
Looking at these things, Song Lubai felt that the money the two of them had sent back was simply not enough.
After discussing it, the two decided to send back another fifty yuan, so that they would have more money on hand if they needed anything else in the future.
Seeing the two cans of malted milk powder, Song Lubai suggested taking one can to Wei Zhao's side.
The three children haven't eaten anything good here.
Seeing Wei Yang's hesitant expression, she pinched him, "That's your nephew, why are you being so stingy?"
Wei Yang touched her belly and said, "That's not as important as you."
Upon hearing this, Song Lubai's mind stirred, and she wanted to do something.
Wei Yang's Adam's apple bobbed as he grabbed her hand. "No, the doctor said it's not possible when you're pregnant."
Song Lubai gave an "Oh" and lay back down on the bed, looking rather listless.
Malted milk powder tastes very sweet. Song Lubai had rarely drunk it before, but since she got a can at home, she can make a cup every two days.
Before harvesting the sweet potatoes, Song Lubai asked her aunt to send her an old mold specifically for making sweet potatoes from her hometown.
Cabbage and radishes are harvested later than sweet potatoes, so the food workshop's first task is to make sweet potato flour.
Because of the large profit margin, the shoemaking team has been making good profits in the past few months. A portion of the profits was used to build a large courtyard, which is divided into two parts: a small part is for the shoemaking team, and the large part is for the food workshop.
After the sweet potatoes were shaped, they needed to be dried. Song Lubai had a wooden frame built in the yard and ropes strung up specifically for drying the sweet potatoes.
The mold that my aunt sent wasn't enough, so the group found a craftsman to make a few more based on this mold.
The craftsman studied it for half a month and only after understanding the principle was he able to replicate this somewhat complex mold.
Everything is ready, except for the sweet potatoes to be unearthed.
When some of the larger sweet potatoes were ready to be harvested, Song Lubai went to the field and brought back a few kilograms. Then she had Lao Wang, a worker hired by the food workshop, smash the sweet potatoes with a hammer.
Once the food workshop officially starts operating, one worker will definitely not be enough, but since it hasn't officially started yet and the food workshop needs people to work, we've only hired one for now.
The liquid needs to settle overnight; she made it in advance to try the method Wei Zhao had mentioned.
If you don't need to wait for the syrup to dry, you can make it by steaming it and then drying it, which would save a lot of trouble.
After dinner, while the neighbors were chatting together, Song Lubai heard that Zhao Dongmei had given birth to a baby girl in the fields.
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