Chapter 78
Lin Hongna thought about the future and felt happy. She washed her face and brushed her teeth with water. She sat in front of the mirror and combed her hair with a horn comb. Her hair was dry and frizzy, and it was very troublesome to take care of it. If she wanted to have long, black and shiny hair like the girls in the town, she had to apply osmanthus hair oil.
A bottle of osmanthus hair oil cost three cents. Lin Hongna's money was taken away by her parents. If she wanted to buy a bottle of hair oil, she had to ask her grandson's mother for
money. Her grandson's father stipulated that if the daughter-in-law did not work and stayed at home to breastfeed the child, her grandson's mother would give her twenty yuan a month for living expenses.
Her grandson's mother was a stingy old woman. She only gave her ten yuan a month, and she even said that the remaining money would be saved for Tianyou to marry a wife.
Fuck your grandfather!
Yuanyou is only one month old. By the time he grows up and gets married, Sun's mother will be old and have a pigtail.
Besides, Lin Hongna's skin is not very fair. Before she married into Sun's family, she worked and went home, and her hands and neck were tanned a lot. She used one bottle of vanishing cream after another, and the money was like thrown into the water, and it could not be seen.
She planned to use her living expenses to buy two more bottles tomorrow. As for Sun Jialiang's thing, the money she earned was not enough for him to fool around.
Lin Hongna was thinking about it when Sun Tianyou, who was sleeping soundly in the living room, suddenly started crying. His mother rushed over to see him. His face was pale and he was crying weakly. His hands were shaking uncomfortably. His mother was so distressed that she held him and rocked him to comfort him. After a long while, Sun Tianyou was still crying like a kitten.
His father also put down the newspaper in his hand, and the old couple circled around him.
"Grandpa, where is Tianyou's medicine? Bring it here."
"Here it is. Our Tianyou is so young. He should not take medicine if he can."
"I know that too. Look at Tianyou's little face. How can he not take medicine?"
"Alas, Tianyou has suffered so much. He will be fine in the future."
Grandpa Sun brought warm boiled water, washed the medicine, and fed it to Sun Tianyou one spoonful at a time. Sun Tianyou licked the medicine and drank it all at once.
Nowadays, medicine for babies is generally sweet to make it easier for children to take medicine.
No matter how sweet the medicine is, it is still medicine, and it also has a bitter taste.
Although Sun Tianyou is a weak little kid, he is obedient and docile. No matter what medicine he is given, he will not cry. After taking the medicine, he will stare at people with a pair of clear eyes.
The grandson's mother was relieved when she saw that her grandson had taken the medicine and calmed down.
Her son was crying outside, and Lin Hongna, as a mother, was like a deaf person, not making any noise.
The grandson's mother was furious when she thought of it. She wanted to scold him, but she was afraid of scaring Sun Tianyou, so she suppressed her anger, put Sun Tianyou on the crib, and complained to his father in a suppressed voice.
"Look at this mother. The child is in so much pain that he can hardly cry, but she doesn't even react. What a sin! We are so unlucky to have such a heartless mother!"
Grandfather Sun's face was not looking good either. He pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and his tone was full of disappointment. "Okay, let's not talk about this. Maybe the child's mother was tired and went to bed early and didn't hear it."
Grandmother Sun snorted, "Look, the lights in the room are still on. Why are you sleeping? In order to marry such a woman, our family spent 88 yuan on the bride price and 50 kilograms of food!"
Such a generous bride price, let alone in the years of famine when people were hungry, even in peaceful times, it would be more than enough to marry a good girl from a clean family in the town.
It just happened this time!
The grandson's mother was upset and sat on the sofa with a long face. The grandson's father sighed and the newspaper in his hand was tasteless. He took out a cigarette, but remembered that his grandson couldn't smoke, so he put the cigarette on the tea table.
Lin Hongna came out humming a little song to pour water for washing feet. As soon as she appeared, the anger in the grandson's mother's stomach was burned up, and she came over like a gust of wind and slapped Lin Hongna hard in the face.
"You vicious woman, Tianyou is not feeling well but you are still humming, who are you cursing! I'll beat you to death, you ungrateful bastard!"
Lin Hongna, whose face was swollen on one side: "......."
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A thunderstorm in August, one after another, the branches of the albizzia at the entrance of the alley of the big compound were in full bloom.
In a blink of an eye, little Gu Doudou was one month old, from a red little monkey to a chubby gas tank.
Lin Yao was cooped up in the house for a month. In order to avoid the wind during the confinement period, the window of the east wing was only opened a crack in the summer. Lin Yao was very hot, so Gu Shian fanned her. The most troublesome thing was taking a bath. She wanted to take a bath, but Comrade Cuilan had a lot of reasons to stop her, so she could only ask Deputy Director Gu to fetch a basin of water every day, bring it to the house, and wipe it.
Every time Gu Doudou was carried to his grandmother for a bath, the little boy would dance happily in the bathtub.
Lin Yao was so envious that she bit her hand.
Now that she was out of confinement, Lin Yao immediately ordered Gu Shian to boil a pot of hot water and took a good bath.
Zhang Cuilan knew that her daughter-in-law loved cleanliness, so she had moved the fat boy and the cradle to the big house.
Without the little boy making noises around, Lin Yao took a bath leisurely, sitting in the room to comb her hair, while Gu Shian picked up the bucket, poured water, cleaned the bathtub, and went to his parents' room to check on the fat son.
Little Gu Doudou has a very good temper as long as he is well taken care of. He is now babbling and blowing bubbles in the cradle.
When his old father came, the kid blew a few bubbles to greet him.
"Ah."
Dongzi was translating on the side.
"Brother, Doudou is saying hello to you."
Gu Shian's face softened coldly, and he turned over the quilt to cover his son's fat belly. He was about to speak.
Gu Doudou didn't know what he remembered. He pouted his little mouth, grabbed his father's big hand with his little chubby hand and put it in his mouth to chew.
Gu Shidong cried out "Oh", "Doudou can't eat it, it's not a pig's hoof, you can't chew it!"
Gu Shian: "......."
The kid grabbed his old father's hand and chewed it twice, and felt that the taste was not right, so he immediately let go of his fat paw.
After a while, the fat boy pooped again, and the stench filled the house. Zhang Cuilan was changing her grandson's diaper with a smile on her
face. When she saw the golden poop, she was so proud, "It's really grandma's good Doudou, he poops so well." Gu Shidong was also flattering her, "That's right, that's right, our Doudou is the best."
Gu Shian raised his eyebrows and looked outside. There was a big bag of the fat boy's diapers on the steps outside the house. He rolled up his sleeves to wash his son's diapers and hung them out to dry one by one.
Uncle Dafu and his family next door just came back from their hometown in Shanxi a few days ago. Uncle Dafu's ancestors made vinegar in their hometown. With this craft, Uncle Dafu lived well during the famine years.
But in his hometown in Shanxi, people lived in caves, and the Loess Plateau was bare and full of yellow sand, which was nothing like the colorful flowers and convenient life in Yunshui County.
Uncle Dafu was very bored in the Loess Plateau, so as soon as he returned to Yunshui County, he strolled outside every day.
In the words of Aunt Dafu, this old man never comes home until dark.
It was dark in the evening, and it started raining outside.
Uncle Dafu quickly sneaked back, and in the dark, he saw a tall and straight figure standing on the steps in the yard, reaching out to hang diapers. After squinting his eyes for a while, he finally recognized him.
It turned out to be the eldest son of the Gu family.
Uncle Dafu went back and complained to Aunt Dafu.
"People's eyesight has become worse as they get older. I almost didn't recognize the eldest son of the Gu family when he was outside."
Aunt Dafu took out dry clothes from the closet.
"The Gu family just had a little grandson. His little hands and arms are like lotus roots, white and plump, so cute."
"Don't they say that sons take after their mothers and daughters take after their fathers? If the mother is good-looking, the son will also be good-looking."
"I heard that several provinces in the north suffered droughts in the spring and floods in the south, flooding many good paddy fields. Our county has a good harvest of grain this year. Will we send grain to disaster relief again?"
"It's hard for me to say. The county leaders can't just watch us ordinary people go hungry."
"It was like this last year. We just came back from our hometown in Shanxi. Don't go back again."
"Okay, stop wasting time. Change your clothes and eat. The rice is cold."
"......."
At Gu's house, Lin Yao was comfortable, lying on the bed reading a book. At this moment, the wind and rain outside were hitting the windows, and the cool breeze was blowing through the hall. There were several jasmine plants in the house.
The front room was fumigated with mugwort, so there was no need to worry about mosquitoes and flies.
Little Gu Doudou wore a big red bellyband, took a bath, and drank his mother's milk. His little belly was bulging, and he fell asleep while sucking his hands.
Gu Shi'an went to take his son back to the house.
Gu Mancang couldn't bear to leave the fat boy. He was busy at work during the day, and his grandson was asleep when he came back at night. His grandson was in his daughter-in-law's room, so it was not good to disturb him.
As a grandfather, he didn't have many opportunities to see his grandson.
Zhang Cuilan also said, Doudou slept soundly. He didn't sleep much during the day today. If he ate too much at night, he might not wake up all night. He can stay in the big house and sleep. Since
the two elders said so, Gu Shi'an agreed.
Lin Yao put the kid in a diaper and sent the cloth tiger and wave drum he usually played with over, so that the little guy could be soothed when he got noisy.
Gu Doudou didn't sleep in the east room anymore. Daju came back from playing outside, wagging his tail and meowing in the house looking for someone.
Lin Yao pinched Daju's cat ears, "The fat boy is in the next room."
Daju seemed to understand, meowed at Lin Yao, and went to the next room with his little nest in his mouth to find his little friend.
Deputy Director Gu was taking a shower in the shower room. Lin Yao read a book for a while and felt sleepy. She was about to fall asleep. When the door opened, the cold wind and the chilly rain blew on her face, waking her up instantly.
Lin Yao rubbed her eyes and muttered that someone didn't close the door properly, which made her unable to sleep well.
Unexpectedly, when she looked up, she saw Deputy Director Gu, who was covered in moisture and had wet black hair. He was wearing the shorts that Lin Yao made for him, revealing his strong waist and abdominal muscles, and a pair of deep eyes looked at her.
Lin Yao blinked, couldn't help but look down, and then swallowed.
Oh my god, this guy has no moral principles and tried to seduce her with his beauty!
Humph, don't try to fool her!
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