Chapter 67
Whether there was postpartum care or not, Deputy Director Gu did not want to pursue the matter. Anyway,
it was his little ancestor who changed his name.
Not to mention this, even if the little ancestor wanted to put a tight ring on him, he would be willing.
There were books on the bed, one on the left and one on the right, and there was another under Lin Yao's feet. These books were usually Deputy Director Gu's treasures, and family members could not easily touch them. But this time, they were thrown away by someone.
If the books were as conscious as the people in the paintings in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, they would probably jump up and scold Gu, a "heartless man".
In March, spring came back to the earth. As the weather warmed up, Lin Yao's temper returned, especially now that she was pregnant. She felt like something was missing if she didn't take a bath for two or three days.
Zhang Cuilan also spoiled her. After all, there was a heated kang at home, so she didn't have to take a bath every day. When she was in the city, the factory issued bathing tickets every month, and she could go to the bathhouse whenever she wanted to take a bath.
Now in the peaceful and quiet countryside, it is not so convenient to take a bath, but it is not difficult either. There is a bathtub at home, and a pot of hot water is heated in the kitchen. Yaoyao can take it into the house, and take it out after taking a bath in the house. It just costs more firewood.
Lin Yao washed herself and smelled delicious. In order to prevent stretch marks on her belly, she applied lotion every day. Her skin was moisturized and soft like tofu. It felt especially good to hold her.
The candles in the house were shining. In the middle of the night, the wild cats in the mountains started to call. Perhaps a weasel ran out to steal food. The chickens raised at home were frightened and flapped their wings and clucked in the nest.
Daju jumped onto the chicken coop, bent over, panting and meowing.
A black shadow flashed past the fence.
Lin Hongwu, who was hiding in the dark, cursed in his heart, why did the Gu family have to raise a cat?
He was nagged by a cat when he was a child, and he was most afraid of cats, especially fat orange cats!
The cat that nagged him was an orange cat!
In the room, Gu Shian opened his dark eyes, and a cold look appeared in his eyes. Lin Yao climbed up while mumbling, and crawled out of his arms.
Gu Shian's face softened, and he hugged her, "What's wrong?"
What else can she do? Go to the toilet.
Since Lin Yao was pregnant, she used to sleep all night, but now she has to get up once or twice a day. It was all someone's fault.
Gu Shian felt very distressed and insisted on going with her.
Lin Yao wondered why this guy was so clingy. They were an old married couple and were going to have a baby in a few months.
Forget it, forget it. If he wanted to follow, then he could follow.
The night in the mountains of Gujiaao was cold and dark with mist all around. Lin Yao was wearing thin pajamas. As soon as the door was opened, the mountain breeze rushed into the house. Gu Shian immediately took a cotton quilt and wrapped Lin Yao like a silkworm baby, and carried her out of the door. When
Lin Yao came out of the toilet, the warm water for washing hands was already prepared, with a scented soap on the side and a towel on the basin. With such service, what else could she be dissatisfied with?
Lin Yao washed her hands and applied some vanishing cream. She felt very comfortable being served. Gu Shian warmed her cotton padded jacket and came over to massage her calves. It was so comfortable to have someone’s big hands massage her legs warmly and forcefully.
After a few seconds, Lin Yao gradually became sleepy and fell asleep again.
When Lin Yao woke up, there was nothing beside the bed except the square tofu-shaped quilt on the bed.
Well, the baby’s father was like a dragon that disappeared without a trace. He treated the house as a hotel and disappeared after sleeping all night.
In fact, there is nothing to complain about. They are just busy with work and not fooling around outside. Men, especially police officers who have retired from the military, have one case after another in the county. In Xu Xiangqian's words, they are so busy that they don't even have time to drink water. The People's Liberation Army, like the police, truly serves the people. This is a responsibility and an obligation.
Lin Yao's logic is self-consistent. After figuring it out, he felt less depressed.
In the yard, Zhang Cuilan sat on a small stool and twisted hemp rope. In the yard, there were sheets, quilts, sweaters and other things hanging out in the sun. The mountain people who passed by carried hoes to work, and they had to look back after passing by, as if they were watching a foreign spectacle.
My goodness, how generous the old Gu family is!
The village captain's family only had two thick sheets. The city people were different. The old ladies with bound feet in the village came to see them and some even brought their horses to chat.
Among them, Huaihua Niang was the most active. Her eldest daughter was engaged to a man. The man gave 50 kilograms of food and 10 yuan as a gift. In the countryside, if you can afford such a gift, your family must be well off.
Huaihua Niang also wanted to prepare a decent dowry for her daughter. The mountain people were ignorant, and she couldn't find anyone to discuss it with.
After all, the old Gu family came back from the city. The city people have seen the world and know more than the country people. Huaihua Niang came to learn from them.
Huaihua's mother wanted to prepare a three-jin quilt, a straw mat, a ceramic washbasin, a piece of soap, and a bundle for her daughter.
Such a dowry was not too thin.
Huaihua's mother always felt that something was missing. Zhang Cuilan tactfully reminded her that a bucket for children and grandchildren was also necessary.
Huaihua's mother hurried home to prepare it.
In the morning, the house was crowded. The old lady from the captain's family also came to visit. This old lady was not an ordinary person. She was 88 years old, but her eyesight and hearing were not blurry. She worked at home every day to sew shoe soles.
The old lady was angry because her family didn't allow her to do it. When she was young, she made soles for the Red Army, making more than 20 pairs of shoes a night. The Red Army soldiers wore the cloth shoes she made to fight the Japanese invaders. How come they are useless now that they are older?
The team leader could only keep his mouth shut.
What could he say? She has been the boss all her life.
The old ladies in the mountains all made their daughters and granddaughters have their feet bound, but the old lady in the team leader's family didn't do that. The old lady's father was a private school teacher with open-minded ideas. After the Xinhai Revolution, the Nationalist Government ordered the abolition of the old habit of foot binding.
No ordinary people in the old society would listen to her, but the old lady's father listened.
The old lady never had any troubles in her life, and she walked smoothly. She didn't want her children to suffer the hardships she didn't have to endure, so the daughters and granddaughters of the old branch secretary's family enjoyed the same happiness.
Zhang Cuilan sent the old lady away, and Lin Yao just came out of the house and asked curiously, "Mom, who washed so many clothes so early in the morning?"
Zhang Cuilan smiled and said, "The eldest brother washed them early in the morning, but he didn't listen. He had something to do in the Public Security Bureau, so he left after washing the clothes. Look, the beef jerky I left for you is in the house, go and eat it."
Lin Yao went to the eight-immortal table to take a look, and sure enough, there was a package, with an oil paper package inside, and two bottles of Pechoin Snow Cream. It was obvious that Gu Shian prepared it for his mother and daughter-in-law.
Lin Yao opened the oil paper package and saw that inside was beef jerky as thick as fingers, grilled over charcoal and dry. She shook it in her palm and felt that it weighed more than a pound. She had been clamoring for beef jerky before.
In fact, she was just saying it. She also had beef jerky in her space, but it was vacuum-packed and did not taste authentic.
Who would have thought that Gu Shian would remember it. It was so difficult to get meat outside.
I wonder how many connections this guy had to use to get it.
A ray of morning light appeared in the sky, and Lin Yao felt sour and sweet in her heart, "This big fool, it's okay if I don't eat it."
Lin Yao took the cloth bag to give to Zhang Cuilan.
Zhang Cuilan took it. Oh, there was beef jerky and some Pechoin in it. It was obviously bought from the county by her eldest son.
"Mom, you have used up the cream in your room. Keep it in the room for cleaning."
Dongzi was holding a small shovel and shoveling shit from the rabbit nest. He also threw something over.
"What are you cleaning? I am an old-fashioned person. Yaoyao, your face is tender. It is good for your skin to clean it more."
Lin Yao was eating candied eggs in the room. When she heard this, she waved her hands.
"Goodbye, Mom, I still have the can in my room, I can't use it."
In fact, it's not that she can't use it, but these days, snow cream is packaged in iron boxes. When you peel off the tin foil, you will find a cream-like texture inside, which is thick and not easy to spread. It is moisturizing but too oily.
Lin Yao didn't use much, so Zhang Cuilan laughed.
"Okay, I'll keep one can of snow cream, and Yaoyao won't use the remaining one, so it's just right for Chunmei."
This is a good idea, Lin Yao clapped her hands, "Comrade Cuilan is wise."
Gu Shidong agreed, "Comrade Cuilan is great."
The two of them were funny and made Zhang Cuilan smile.
Gu Mancang came back from raking grass in the back hills. He rushed into the rabbit nest to check if the mother rabbit had dug the soil. Then, like a magic trick, he took out a few bird eggs, a bundle of Chinese toon buds, and finally a fat gray-brown pheasant from his backpack.
The whole family was shocked.
"Old man, where did you get the pheasant?"
"Dad, did you catch it?"
Gu Shidong's eyes were full of stars. His father was really amazing. The pheasants in the mountains were fierce. They could fly and dare to peck people with their wings. Ordinary country men could only look at them stupidly.
Gu Mancang was walking fast on the mountain road and was very thirsty. His family brought him a bowl of boiled water. He was not afraid of the hot water and drank a big bowl of it like an old cow.
"How can I do this? It was just a coincidence today. This pheasant had a fight with another one and its wings were broken and it couldn't fly. It was squatting in the reeds on the river beach. I ran into it and caught it."
Lin Yao looked down and saw that there were few hairs on the pheasant's gorgeous long tail. It looked miserable. It can be seen how fierce the pheasant that fought with it was.
No matter what, it's better to take the pheasant that came to the door by itself.
The day after tomorrow, the eldest grandson of Uncle Zhang will hold a hundred-day celebration. Gu Mancang slaughtered the pheasants and bled them, and hung them on the roof beams. The beautiful tails were put into iron rings and roasted on the stove to make chicken feather shuttlecocks.
The children in the mountains have a better material life than those in the city, but their spiritual food is no less than that of the children in the city.
In summer, the children go to the river to catch fish, in autumn they roast sweet potatoes and potatoes, and in winter they make snowmen and roll iron rings in the snow, kick keys and hit sandbags, and they are also happy to scream.
At the end of March, the ice on the river beach broke, and fishing became easier. Vegetable seedlings emerged in the Gu family's vegetable garden, and the bean vines wanted to climb the wall. Gu Shian came back at night to cut bamboo to build a vegetable rack and pulled the bean vines over. I don't know if this guy has obsessive-compulsive disorder, but the rows of bean vines are horizontal and vertical, just like they were drawn with a ruler.
Lin Yao has been pregnant for more than three months. As the old saying goes, if you don't show your pregnancy in March, you can't hide it in April. In the village, pregnant bellies are almost visible at this time. Lin Yao
still has a small waist, and her waist is slender. You can only see the slightly undulating curve from the side when she wears a tight sweater.
Zhang Cuilan said that her daughter-in-law's pregnancy was not nutritious enough, but Jin'er brought soup and meat to Lin Yao, and Lin Yao wanted to vomit when she heard the meat soup.
Deputy Director Gu's return home can also help her share the pressure of motherly love.
In the evening, Zhang Cuilan stewed a bowl of crucian carp soup as usual and brought it to Lin Yao with the soup and meat.
"Yaoyao, crucian carp soup is nutritious, drink it while it's hot."
Comrade Cuilan was very kind.
Lin Yao also nodded obediently. What a picture of a loving mother and a filial daughter.
As soon as Comrade Cuilan left, Lin Yao, who was drinking fish soup with puffed cheeks, showed her true colors. She didn't have a big appetite, and she was full after just a few sips of a bowl of fish soup.
Lin Yao said that the fish soup should not be wasted, so she sweetly called Deputy Director Gu over and pushed the fish soup in front of him.
"I can't drink the fish soup that my mother made for me. You've worked hard these days, drink it to replenish your body."
Gu Shi'an's mouth curled up. This was just a little trick played by the little girl. Apart from anything else, this excuse made people feel comfortable.
He had a big appetite and drank up the fish in three or five mouthfuls.
Daju came over and meowed, rubbing against Lin Yao's feet, and wanted to let the hostess hold him, touch him and kiss him like when he was a child.
Lin Yao looked helpless, "Daju, you are not a kitten anymore. Look how fat you are, like our little Weng. I can't hold you." If
he couldn't hold her, he couldn't kiss her either.
There was a big jealous cat watching from the side.
She kissed Daju a few times, and she would kiss Daju a few more times.
Daju meowed a few times, but couldn't win the favor of the male owner. He jumped on the table in anger and knocked over the military books on the table. Then he walked away with his tail wagging.
Lin Yao complained to Gu Shian, "It's all your fault. You made Daju angry. You should give Daju a bath tonight."
Deputy Director Gu, who was wrongly accused: "......."
The next day, Gu Shian's face was covered with marks from the kitten's paws, and he took his wife to the health hospital for a check-up.
Pregnant women generally don't do prenatal check-ups these days.
Lin Yao didn't want anything to go wrong with the baby in her belly, so she went to the county health hospital once a month.
The old doctor at the county health center calmly and gently asked about the situation, picked up the stethoscope and tried to listen.
The old doctor smiled and said, "The fetal heartbeat is very strong. Congratulations, this is a healthy baby."
As soon as these words came out, the new parents smiled at the same time.
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On the Sun family side, ever since Sun's father collapsed due to the shock, the family has been filled with sorrow.
Sun's father was hit so hard this time that he is still lying in the town hospital and unable to get out of bed.
Lin Hongna asked for kindness and got kindness. The Sun family members are all useless and cannot take care of themselves. Sun's mother never touches water and can't even cook a bowl of plain noodles. The eldest daughter of the Sun family has moved back to her parents' home.
When she thought of the scene of her husband cheating, she cried and wailed heartbreakingly, swearing at home, and rolling on the ground from time to time. It was really unbearable to watch.
Sun's mother also lay down and wiped her tears. The second daughter of the Sun family looked at this one and tried to persuade that one, but neither of them paid any attention to her and sat at home crying with a grin.
As for Sun Jialiang, he finally showed up.
The Sun family had lost face in the town, and Sun Jialiang had to go home.
Sun's father was lying in the hospital, and Lin Hongna ran around, wiping his body, delivering meals and medicines, and taking care of him meticulously.
Sun's father saw it all and felt more and more that he had found a good daughter-in-law. No matter what her background was or how she behaved in the past, Lin Hongna's performance was good now, which made him very happy.
Lin Hongna had an excuse not to work at home, and the Sun family had no rules. Sun's mother cried for a long time, and with red eyes she got up and wanted to go to eat.
But she forgot that Lin Hongna was in the hospital, and Sun's mother had the audacity to let the eldest daughter cook.
The eldest daughter of the Sun family cried so hard that she hiccuped when she spoke, "Mom, I don't have a man anymore, why should I eat!"
Sun's mother was so angry that she scolded her, "Useless thing, what kind of reputation does our Sun family have? The daughter of the Sun family is dying for a man! What will it say if it gets out!" The
eldest daughter of the Sun family cried even more miserably, "What should I do, can I find another man to marry?!"
Sun's mother was so choked by her that she held the door frame and touched her chest for a long time and couldn't catch her breath.
—— She was pretending before, but now she is really angry to death with the useless daughter.
The second daughter of the Sun family was timid and ran back to the daughter's room, closed the door, and peeked through the crack of the door to observe outside.
The mother of the Sun family could not rely on the daughters, so she had to cook noodles by herself. She finally cooked the noodles and was about to eat with the bowl in her hand, when the eldest daughter of the Sun family ran over, holding the bowl and eating noodles without washing her hands.
This is her own daughter, but she brought trouble to the family after marrying off. If Lin Hongna was such a rotten person, she would definitely divorce her and marry someone she liked!
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