Chapter 196 Mother-in-law

Nowadays, most people don’t go to the commune health hospital to give birth, but call a midwife to help deliver the baby at home.

Most working women are safe, but from time to time there are heavy bleeding, malposition of the fetus, difficult labor, etc. Anyway, whoever gets involved is 100% disaster.

So when Lu Hehuan became pregnant, Lin Shu brainwashed her that she must go to the hospital to give birth, and if she doesn’t go to the county hospital, she must go to the commune health hospital.

Now the commune health hospital is also equipped with an operating room, which can perform some operations such as sterilization on its own, and in case of emergency, it can also ask doctors from the county or city to come down to perform caesarean sections.

In the end, Fang Dihua, Lin Shu, Lu Shaotang, and Xu Xiaoyou went together. The others had to work the next day and could not stay up late. Lu Shaotang would rest the next day, but Xu Xiaoyou insisted on going with them.

Lu Hehuan had been working during her pregnancy, had enough exercise, and had enough food and drink. She had eggs, meat, and snacks to supplement her nutrition from time to time. She was young and fertile, so she did not suffer. From the onset to the breaking of the water and the birth, it took only a few hours. At 10:30 pm, she gave birth to a 6.82 kg baby boy in the commune health center.

The commune clinic was only slightly larger than the brigade clinic, with four or five rooms in a small courtyard, and no proper ward. So after observing Lu Hehuan for an hour after the birth and seeing that she was in good spirits and had no other unexpected conditions, Fang Dihua asked Lu Shaotang to hurry home by donkey.

To prevent the wind from blowing on the mother and child, Fang Dihua wrapped them in a quilt and covered their heads with a sheet.

When they were sent to Xu's home in Houtun, Xu Shihua and his mother were sleeping soundly with the door closed, as if they had nothing to do with her.

The door was bolted from the inside and could not be opened from the outside.

Lu Shaotang climbed over the wall and opened the gate, wanting to carry his little sister in. However, Fang Dihua was quicker than him and had already picked up the young lady with the quilt, and asked him to hold the child. Lu

Shaotang then carried the child in the quilt, while Lin Shu and Xu Xiaoyou were holding flashlights in front.

The door was still closed.

Xu Xiaoyou was furious, and ran to the west window and banged on it, "Grandma, open the door!"

Grandma knew that mom was going to the hospital to give birth to the baby tonight, but she didn't stay at home to make brown sugar millet porridge for her, didn't leave the door open, and was sleeping soundly. What

a great person! And Xu Shihua, your wife gave birth to a child, but you didn't go to the hospital to deliver brown sugar eggs, but slept at home!

In fact, Xu's mother had not slept well and was worried about it, but Fang Dihua didn't give her face, so she wanted to teach her a lesson.

Okay, if you don't listen to me, I don't care. Then you'd better not bother me. You can handle it yourself.

When she came back, she didn't tell Xu Shihua that Lu Hehuan was going to have a baby. Xu Shihua thought Lu Hehuan was living with Xu Xiaoyou at her mother's house.

Xu Shihua was awakened by the sound of someone smashing the window. "Who?"

Fang Dihua said unhappily, "Your wife is back from giving birth!"

Xu Shihua was startled and hurriedly got up and put on his pants. He put on his coat and went downstairs to open the door. He was surprised and embarrassed and said, "Hehuan? You gave birth? Why didn't you tell me?"

Lu Hehuan was really tired from giving birth. She fell into a deep sleep while staggering on the way and had no reaction at all to Xu Shihua's news.

Xu Shihua hurried into the house to turn on the lights, feeling embarrassed and awkward. In order to ease his embarrassment and reduce his irresponsible guilt, he turned his head to the east room and asked, "Mom? Didn't you know Hehuan was going to give birth?"

Xu's mother also slowly got up, dressed and went to bed, rubbing her eyes and said, "I have a severe headache today. I wanted to tell you, but I forgot it in a daze."

She glanced at Lin Shu who was standing in the main hall. Seeing Lin Shu's mocking face, she felt even more unhappy, but still squeezed out a smile and said, "His little aunt, it seems that everything is going well."

Lin Shu hummed coldly.

Xu's mother: "Then I'll make something to eat."

Lin Shu: "No, I'll make it tomorrow morning."

Lu Hehuan ate a lot of rabbit meat at night and was very full. She was not hungry after giving birth and went to sleep directly.

Xu's mother felt that she was deliberately humiliating her, and she felt wronged and uncomfortable. She was just talking and didn't really want to cook, so she turned around and said with a choked voice: "Hua Zi, I feel dizzy and flustered. I'll go lie down for a while, you can entertain them."

Xu Shihua ignored her and went into the house to see Lu Hehuan and the newborn son.

The son's face was red and wrinkled, and the newborn was still frowning, looking very unhappy.

He wanted to say something to Fang Dihua and Lu Shaotang, but he didn't know how to open his mouth. It seemed that the two of them had a lot of opinions about him, especially Lu Shaotang.

He and Lu Hehuan had been married for so long, and he had met Lu Shaotang several times, but every time he didn't talk seriously.

He felt that Lu Shaotang didn't like him. He was always very cold and looked at him with a cold look. He didn't look like an uncle looking at his brother-in-law, but more like... hostility.

He had a preconceived idea and thought that he had been blinded by Lin Shu first. Although it didn't work out, he was ahead of Lu Shaotang. Later, he married Lu Hehuan. Lu Shaotang must be unhappy with him.

He was a proud person. He suspected that Lu Shaotang was ignoring him on purpose, so he naturally didn't catch up with the enthusiasm.

The atmosphere in the room was very awkward.

Fang Dihua helped her daughter and grandson to clean up, and reminded Xu Xiaoyou and Xu Shihua of some precautions. In the end, it was really late, so she said, "If there is anything, go home and tell me, don't hold it in."

No matter how ignorant and irritating Lu Hehuan was, she was still her daughter, and she naturally loved her.

Especially for women, giving birth and confinement are major events in life, and they must be taken care of.

Xu Xiaoyou was also very sleepy, and she forced herself to agree one by one, "Grandma, I remember, I will get up in the morning to make brown sugar, egg and millet porridge for my mother."

An eight-year-old girl had to help her stepmother take care of the confinement. Fang Dihua sighed, but this was good for both of them. In this family, it is more beneficial for them to support each other.

She didn't say much, just nodded, "Okay."

She didn't bother to look at Xu Shihua any more, so she left with her son and daughter-in-law.

Seeing that she had a gloomy face and didn't say a word the whole way, Lin Shu knew that she was angry and upset, mainly because she was dissatisfied with Xu Shihua.

But Lu Hehuan was happy, and everyone already knew Xu Shihua's character, so why should we have expectations of him?

She comforted him, "Mom, Xiaoyou is a careful child and will take good care of Hehuan. If you are worried, we can take turns to come and see every day." She

knew that if it weren't for the fact that there was no room at home, Fang Dihua would have wanted Lu Hehuan to recuperate at her parents' home.

Now, seeing that there are many houses and a large family, there is no empty room for Lu Hehuan to have confinement after childbirth. Unless men and women go from one room to another, it will be too troublesome to mobilize a large number

of people. Fang Dihua is not the type to bother others for one person.

Fang Dihua: "Let her have confinement after childbirth by herself. We are all busy. How can we have time to see her every day? She can choose the day and suffer by herself."

Lin Shu smiled and said: "Mom, we think Xu Shihua is not good from our perspective, but Hehuan actually has a different view from us. As long as she likes it, it's fine." Lin Shu

felt that Lu Hehuan's liking for Xu Shihua seemed to have nothing to do with Xu Shihua. As long as she is not deprived of her basic needs in life, she can live a very happy life.

She perfectly confirmed that point of view: there are two sides to a problem. Whether you are pessimistic or optimistic depends on which side you value.

Lu Hehuan only cares about the aspects that are good for her. For example, is Xu Shihua not good to her? Xu Shihua sneers at her and oppresses her?

It doesn't matter. Anyway, she just needs to be with Xu Shihua and he is her husband.

For example, if you want money and want to be with the God of Wealth, and the God of Wealth looks down on you and oppresses you, would you care?

Lu Hehuan is like this. She doesn't care. She only cares about the aspects that can satisfy her by being with Xu Shihua. The rest?

It doesn't matter.

She has already gotten rid of vulgar tastes.

Lin Shu also guessed from Lu Hehuan's daily life. Lu Hehuan never complained that Xu Shihua treated her badly or didn't love her. In the past, Xu's mother treated her badly for food, and she was a little sad. Now Xu Xiaoyou is the one who cooks, and she eats and drinks enough, and is as happy as a chicken every day.

It is enough to explain this problem. As long as Lu Hehuan meets the basic needs of food, clothing, housing and transportation, she will not care so much about material things?

Fang Dihua found it new. Although she didn't understand it very well, she felt much better.

Just like the third daughter-in-law said, everything has two sides. City people dislike it, but country people treat it as a treasure and are busy picking up manure.

They dislike Xu Shihua, but the lady treats him as a treasure. Maybe he is useful to her?

All right.

The third daughter-in-law is worthy of being the one who took classes with Teacher Ma!

Lu Hehuan originally thought that it was easy to take care of a child, just like Tiantian and Panpan, Xiu would grow up, Xiu would be sensible, and be well-behaved and adorable every day. Only when

she raised a child by herself did she find that it was not the case at all!

Why does such a small thing have such a loud voice?

My mother and sister-in-law clearly said that the child eats and sleeps, and at most needs to change diapers frequently for peeing, but why is she so troubled?

She started crying at the top of her voice before dawn, and her crying was so loud, overwhelming, and deafening!

Lu Hehuan was sleeping soundly when she was suddenly awakened from a deep sleep.

She didn't even understand what was going on.

Xu Shihua was also awakened. She was startled and very irritable. "The child is hungry. You feed him."

Lu Hehuan then remembered that she had gone to the health hospital to give birth last night. She was so tired that she fell asleep after giving birth.

But what happened next?

She had no idea what happened next.

She started to feed the child in a daze, but she cried out in pain.

Her mother didn't tell her that feeding the child would hurt so much!

The beautiful wish of having a lovely, beautiful, and well-behaved child with the man she loved was instantly disillusioned.

Along with the pain, the maternal love that had arisen spontaneously in her heart for the child seemed to be fading.

She was in so much pain that she couldn't help crying. Poems and novels couldn't comfort her at this time. She needed practical comfort. She hoped Xu Shihua could help her, or accompany her, understand her efforts and difficulties, so that she wouldn't feel so uncomfortable.

But Xu Shihua was sleeping beside her with his

arms and legs spread out. She immediately got angry. He didn't look as loving as before, and he didn't look as elegant and noble as before. She couldn't help but kick him.

Xu Shihua was kicked awake by her. He was dazed and in a bad mood. "What are you doing? One or two, can't you let me sleep?"

He was sleeping soundly, but was woken up by Fang Dihua and others. Now he was kicked awake by Lu Hehuan just after he fell asleep. Naturally, he was furious.

Lu Hehuan: "Your son wants milk!"

Xu Shihua: "Then just feed him, I don't have milk."

Lu Hehuan: "Isn't that your son? He's mine alone?"

Xu Shihua muttered: "If you don't feed your own child, who will?"

I didn't force you to give birth.

He was annoyed, dragged the mattress away from Lu Hehuan, and continued to sleep soundly.

Lu Hehuan was instantly angry, and suddenly felt unhappy.

She finally endured the pain and fed the child, then fell asleep.

Just as she fell asleep, she heard rustling sounds beside her, the sound of something struggling, and a quick, weak cry.

She was startled awake, it was already dawn, she looked to the side, and was scared to death!

The baby sleeping next to her was snorting milk from his nose and mouth, his face was purple!

Lu Hehuan was so scared that she screamed, she had no experience and didn't know what to do.

Over there, Xu's mother couldn't sleep, so she was lying down to rest. When she heard the noise, she hurried down to take a look.

She quickly picked up the child, patted the milk out of his mouth and nose, and stretched out her hand to pinch it, complaining: "Is there a mother like you? What mother sleeps like a pig after giving birth and doesn't care about the child?"

Lu Hehuan felt wronged and uncomfortable, "Your son sleeps even more like a pig!"

Xu's mother also got angry when she heard it. She was already dissatisfied at first. She didn't give face to the electrician, and she had to go to the hospital to give birth. She didn't go back to her parents' home in the middle of the night and ran back to make trouble for her son's sleep. Now she scolded her son again! Is

there a daughter-in-law as ignorant as Lu Hehuan in the world?

She sarcastically said: "I have seen so many women, and you are the worst daughter-in-law and the worst mother. You are not qualified at all!"

Lu Hehuan was already feeling uncomfortable after giving birth. Not only was she unable to adapt to the huge hormone fluctuations, but she was also neglected by Xu Shihua. With the crying of the child, she complained that the crying of the child made her unable to sleep well. On the other hand, she felt guilty that she was an unqualified child and actually abandoned the child. She also almost made him choke to death because of her neglect of taking care of him. Now Xu's mother's accusations made her even more devastated, and tears flowed.

Xu Xiaoyou was also very tired last night. After all, children sleep very deeply and are not easy to wake up. Now she was also woken up.

She jumped down, slipped on her shoes and went to the west room. She rubbed her eyes and saw Lu Hehuan crying. Her grandmother was holding the child and scolding people with a sullen face. She immediately became angry.

Xu Xiaoyou: "Grandma, I used to think you were just a sly and ignorant girl, but I didn't expect you to be so vicious and bad!"

Xu's mother was shocked, "Silly girl, what are you talking about? When did I become vicious?"

Xu Xiaoyou: "Of course not! I've heard from many aunties that no matter how much a mother-in-law doesn't get along with her daughter-in-law, she will take good care of her daughter-in-law during the confinement period, because people say that if a woman doesn't take good care of herself during the confinement period, she will suffer from confinement diseases that will last a lifetime, which is almost like intentionally harming someone. You want to make an enemy! When she gets old and sick, her daughter-in-law won't have to take care of her!"

She was so angry that her face trembled, and she stamped her feet and roared, "My mother just gave birth to my brother, and you are here to abuse her and make her cry. Do you want to blind her eyes? How can you be so vicious!"

Xu's mother was also so angry that her eyes turned black, and she threw the child on the kang, "She wants to cry herself, and blames me for everything?" She sneered, "Humph, okay, I don't care, it's thankless, you can do it yourself, whoever gave birth to the child, whoever takes care of it!"

After that, she went to the west room.

Xu Xiaoyou climbed onto the kang, carefully rubbed her brother's belly, and gently hummed a lullaby for him, which she learned from Lin Shu.

The crying child slowly fell asleep again. When

the child fell asleep, Lu Hehuan calmed down and fell asleep too.

Xu Xiaoyou took a nap, then got up to cook millet porridge. The sweet potatoes stored in the winter had been eaten up long ago, but there were still dried sweet potatoes. She threw two handfuls in, which was for her and Xu's mother. She also made some thin noodles and poured them in, which was for Xu Shihua and Xu Yaoyao. However, now that her mother had given birth to a baby, she needed nutrition, so she also had to eat thin noodles.

Xu Xiaoyou also put two eggs in, to give boiled eggs to Lu Hehuan.

Originally, she thought she should eat more like others, but her aunt said not to eat too many eggs at once, but to eat them slowly, every day, and try to eat them for a month.

She decided to give Lu Hehuan two eggs every day.

Xu Shihua didn't care, and Xu Yaoyao reduced it to one every two days.

After cooking, she immediately took it out and hid it, not letting Xu's mother take it to Xu Yaoyao.

Although Xu Yaoyao is her biological brother with the same father and mother, he is spoiled by his grandmother and does not take her as his sister seriously at all.

Xu Xiaoyou thinks that she will be nice to whoever is nice to her. If you only consider blood relationship and not feelings, then you are a fool.

You are unconditionally nice to a person because of blood relationship, but he is not nice to you at all and will exploit you. If you are not a fool, what are you?

She doesn't want to be that kind of fool.

Although others gossip about her behind her back, laugh at her for currying favor with her stepmother and step-grandmother's family, and accuse her of not getting close to her biological grandmother's family, do they know?

She hangs out with her biological grandmother, but her biological grandmother doesn't want to benefit her. Instead, she instigates her to quarrel with her stepmother, and guards against her stepmother, so that she can't get on the same page with her stepmother, and tries to get her to send good things from home to her paternal grandmother's house.

She sends things to her paternal grandmother's house, but when she goes there, they are reluctant to give her a meal!

Her stepmother doesn't beat or scold her, and gives her money to spend, eats the same food as her, and takes her to her stepmother's house for meals. Everyone treats her well.

Especially her aunt-in-law, Panpan Tiantian Fang's grandmother, who are especially good to her.

People are good to her, but she doesn't treat them well, but treats them badly?

Isn't that an ungrateful person?

If she becomes an ungrateful person, those gossipers will probably scold her for being an ungrateful person again.

Xu Xiaoyou understood a truth at a young age: people should not live for others, and should not care about the comments and looks of those boring people, because they are not worth it.

They have nothing to do except gossiping in their lives, and they have no other future.

She can't do it!

She still has to study!

She still has a lot of things to do!

She and Panpan Tiantian have made an appointment to go out and see the outside world in the future!

For the distant future, she is willing to endure these dirty presents.

Her grandmother, brother, father, gossiping neighbors...

She served Lu Hehuan a big bowl of millet white flour dumplings and two eggs early, and the rest was not enough for the whole family, so Xu Shihua had to eat some dried sweet potatoes.

Xu Shihua frowned, but didn't say anything, just chewed the unpalatable dried sweet potatoes without any taste.

Xu's mother started to scold, "You silly girl, why are you so harsh to your father and brother?"

Xu Xiaoyou: "Xu Yaoyao used to be the youngest in the family, and you favored him. Now my younger brother is the youngest in the family, and we should favor him a little. As an elder brother, if you don't give in to your younger brother, what's the difference between you and a pig dog?"

"You are the pig dog!" Xu Yaoyao was so angry that she wanted to hit her, but she didn't dare.

Xu Xiaoyou: "If you give in to your younger brother, you are a good child, you are Sun Wukong, a giant panda, a golden monkey, and a Northeast Tiger! If you don't give in to your younger brother, you are Zhu Bajie, an ugly monster, a scabby dog, and a blind bear!"

Xu Yaoyao started to cry, "I don't want to be Zhu Bajie, I want to be Sun Wukong."

Xu Xiaoyou: "Then don't eat your eggs, or you will be Zhu Bajie."

Xu's mother was so angry that she hit Xu Xiaoyou with chopsticks.

Xu Xiaoyou's face turned cold, and he stared at her murderously, "You hit me again and try? Do you believe that I will smash the pot and starve my whole family?"

She was a year older and more capable than last year, mainly because she was getting more and more powerful. Sometimes when she glared at Xu Yaoyao with her dark eyes, Xu Shihua was so scared that she didn't want to fight her.

Xu's mother was crying and wiping her tears again, and Xu Shihua scolded her daughter.

Xu Xiaoyou scolded, "Why are you pretending? You're old but you still act every day. If you love acting so much, why don't you perform for the members in the first month of the year? You can earn some food that way!"

She glared at Xu Shihua and said, "You are all waiting for me to cook for you, so just behave yourself and eat whatever I cook. If you keep complaining, make something for yourself!"

Xu Shihua drank up the porridge, put down the bowl and quickly fled the battlefield.

Although he can beat his daughter in terms of force, so what?

Xu Xiaoyou has control over public opinion and external support. No matter what he does, he will not be pleasing. Therefore, the wisest choice is to avoid her and not confront her. Whatever she says is what she means.

Xu Shihua flashed away, and Xu's mother was even less of a match. She could only cry and complain about herself, and was ruthlessly exposed by Xu Xiaoyou.

Ever since Xu Xiaoyou started to criticize her father and grandmother, she has been on the road of being venomous and merciless and never looked back.

What family affection, what respect for the elderly and love for the young?

It's all bullshit!

Whoever doesn't listen, I will tear him apart!

She had seen clearly a long time ago that if she didn't get fierce and didn't suppress her grandmother and brother, then she and her mother would not have a good life in the future.

Especially she also saw clearly what happened last night. Her father is unreliable! Don't count on her grandmother!

She had to take care of her brother.

She didn't sleep well either, and when she didn't sleep well, she got bad temper and was especially fierce!

Xu Yaoyao originally thought that he would have no eggs to eat, but Xu Xiaoyou gave him half an egg.

Half an egg is better than nothing, and he was quite happy.

Xu Xiaoyou began to arrange work for Xu's mother and Xu Yaoyao, "After dinner, you two go cut grass and dig wild vegetables. You want tender ones, and come back to feed the rabbits."

Xu's mother snorted coldly, "Do you think you are a princess? Are you ordering me around?"

Xu Yaoyao didn't want to work either.

Xu Xiaoyou glared at Xu Yaoyao, "We have two rabbits at home. If you don't feed them, they will starve to death. If you feed them and give birth to little rabbits, you can make spicy rabbit meat when they grow up. It's your choice."

Xu Yaoyao: "I'll feed them. I want to eat spicy rabbit."

It was mainly because the spicy rabbit meat made by Lin Shu was so delicious. He dreamed of eating spicy rabbit meat at night. He knew that Lin Shu also salted a few rabbit heads. He wondered if he could get some.

He dragged Xu's mother to cut grass to feed the rabbits.

Xu's mother was so angry.

Xu Xiaoyou sent Xu's mother and Xu Yaoyao away. The house was quiet. They waited for Lu Hehuan to sleep until he woke up naturally and get up to eat.

Xu Xiaoyou also helped change and wash his brother's diapers.

The weather was warmer, and it was comfortable to have confinement after childbirth.

Lu Hehuan had no experience. She was either in class or pursuing her literary dream all day long. She seldom paid attention to these things. Xu's mother ignored her on purpose, and Xu Shihua didn't care at all. So everything was prepared by Xu Xiaoyou.

Some were used by Xu Yaoyao, some were torn clothes that couldn't be mended, and some were from Fang Dihua.

When Lu Hehuan was eating, she saw Xu Xiaoyou busying around, and her heart was very moved. She took out half of the white flour lumps in the big bowl and said to Xu Xiaoyou: "Come and eat together. I can't finish so much."

Xu Xiaoyou was washing diapers, and said without raising his head: "It's okay, save it for lunch."

There was limited fine flour at home, and Xu Shihua worked in the commune, and could only exchange fine grains with food coupons.

Lu Hehuan asked her to eat eggs again, but Xu Xiaoyou refused to eat them.

Her small figure shuttled around the house, busying around, reminding Lu Hehuan: "Mom, my grandma said that you can't be exposed to drafts during confinement. If you get bored lying on the kang, just take a walk in the house, but don't go out, it's windy outside."

Not only did she remind Lu Hehuan not to go out to get some fresh air, she also had to remind Lu Hehuan not to cry, read or write, or do this or that, lest she develop a disease and cause trouble.

Originally, Lu Hehuan felt annoyed by her mother's nagging, and later she was also annoyed by her stepdaughter's nagging, but now she feels that this is concern.

When she gave birth and was in confinement, Xu Shihua was indifferent, and her mother-in-law was sarcastic.

It was as if the child was her own.

What is she trying to do?

The rapid changes in hormones caused by childbirth made her think of some angles that she would never think of normally.

In the past, she felt that she loved Xu Shihua enough, and the child was the fruit of love. As long as she had love, it was enough. Now she felt that he should also have love. It didn’t matter whether he loved her or not, but he had to love the baby.

But soon, she found that raising a baby was so tiring and annoying.

After giving birth to the baby, she couldn’t take a bath or wash her hair, couldn’t go out for a walk, couldn’t read or write, couldn’t go out for gatherings and exchanges, couldn’t...

She felt that she was tied up and imprisoned at home.

But Xu Shihua was not affected at all.

And when the baby started crying without any warning, no matter how she held, coaxed, or fed him, it didn't work. He just cried hard, cried so hard that his lungs were broken, and his face turned purple and blue. She felt distressed, blamed herself for not taking good care of the baby, and felt annoyed.

This feeling kept coming back, irritating her nerves and making her collapse.

For three consecutive days, she and Xu Xiaoyou's sleep was fragmented.

She had just fed the child and lay down for a while, but the child woke up again, either crying, peeing, or asking for milk, which made the mother and daughter exhausted. Just after falling

asleep in the middle of the night, the child started crying loudly, and would not stop crying for half an hour.

Xu Shihua couldn't sleep because of the noise, so she ran directly to Xu's mother and Xu Yaoyao's room to sleep, leaving Xu Xiaoyou and Lu Hehuan on the same kang.

The child had been tossing and turning all night, and at least

he slept for a while during the day, and Lu Hehuan could also take the opportunity to make up for his sleep. But it was very noisy outside during the day, and Xu's mother, Xu Yaoyao, or other people's homes were all noisy, so she would be woken up after a short nap, and the child couldn't fall asleep, and she had to feed him.

The worst thing was that the child started crying madly again in the evening, crying and struggling, and crying as if he was going to die.

Xu Xiaoyou was so scared that she said she would go to the infirmary to ask Grandpa Lu to take a look, and then she said she would go to the health center to see him, but before they could clean up and ask for help, the child fell asleep again.

Xu's mother and other aunts also said that this was normal, and some children just love to cry.

If someone has a child who cries at night, they can write a formula and post it on the road, and let passers-by recite it, and the child will get better.

They also found that the baby was fine at other times. Lin Shu came to see him the next day and gave him a bottle of maltose and a few diapers. The child slept soundly and didn't cry at all.

But in the evening and midnight, he started crying like crazy, and it would take half an hour to stop.

Although he would get better, during that time, Lu Hehuan felt distressed, anxious, guilty and self-blaming.

He cried in the evening and midnight two days ago, but today, for some reason, he started crying all morning.

Lu Hehuan was so sleepy that she couldn't even open her eyes. She couldn't help but yell, "How can I stop crying? If he's uncomfortable, let me feel uncomfortable for him!"

No matter how she coaxed the child, he kept crying. She refused to feed him. He cried until his face turned purple, but he didn't seem to stop. Lu Hehuan was completely devastated. She put the child on the kang, covered his ears and yelled, "Throw him aside and let him cry! Don't worry about him! Throw him out if he cries again!"

Xu Xiaoyou was at a loss and could only coax the child over again and again.

After Lu Hehuan yelled, she blamed herself and quickly took the child over to coax him herself.

Xu Xiaoyou: "I'll ask grandma and aunt to come over and take a look."

Just as she was about to go out, Lu Hehuan called her again, "Xiaoyou, he's pooping again! Ahhh, it's so annoying, why is he peeing and pooping at the same time?"

The two were busy with their work when Fang Dihua and Lin Shu came to see Lu Hehuan with a group of children.

According to local customs, children should be washed on the third day of their birth.

Nowadays, everyone works in the production team, and the family is not rich, so these etiquettes are basically omitted.

However, the grandmother and aunt must wash the newborn baby on the third day of their birth, give the mother some nutritious products such as eggs and brown sugar, and give the child a small rake, a rattle, a small bellyband, a small hat, etc.

Before they even entered the door, they heard the baby crying, it was so heartbreaking, it was not a good way to cry.

Fang Dihua immediately quickened her pace and rushed in.

Lin Shu had no experience in parenting in her previous life, but she liked to raise children online, so she had seen a lot of parenting videos posted by people on the Internet.

However, most of the parenting videos are about the good old days, cute babies, well-behaved and sensible, just like Panpan and Tiantian. After all, the purpose of posting videos is to earn traffic, and everyone likes to watch such videos.

There are also videos of new mothers breaking down, with their children crying heartbreakingly, and below there are many professionals, pretending to be professionals, giving advice and teaching new mothers how to do this and that.

Lin Shu, an outsider, did read some of the information. One of the things she read was that newborns basically only eat and sleep. If they cry, it's usually because they're hungry or have defecated or urinated. If they keep crying and it's not a normal cry, then you have to consider colic.

Colic is because the baby is not fully developed yet and needs to grow up slowly after birth, so it's inevitable that they'll have pain.

The best way is to give him as much caress as possible to help relieve the pain.

I don't know if it works, I can only try it.

Panpan, Tiantian and Hou Wei were so scared by the crazy crying of the baby that they didn't dare to move forward.

The child was so scary!

They felt like they were going deaf.

Panpan and the other two didn't go into the house, but leaned on the door frame to look inside.

Hou Wei's face turned pale, and he whispered, "It's a monster. Its mouth is so big, bigger than its face."

He also imitated the crying baby, opened his mouth so wide that his eyes were squeezed out, and it felt like he was stretching his mouth behind his ears.

He was scared!

Panpan Tiantian was also a little scared, and looked at Hou Wei, "You were like this when you were a child."

Hou Wei denied it flatly, "Impossible!"

Fang Dihua and Lin Shu went in, and Lu Hehuan was collapsing. Not only was his hair disheveled, but his face was pale and yellow, his eye sockets were sunken, and his eyes were dark. Where was the fair and tender complexion before he was born?

Xu Xiaoyou's eyes were also sunken, his eyes were lifeless, and his steps were very weak.

Lu Hehuan collapsed and said, "Doesn't he cry in the middle of the night and when it's dark? Why is he crying so early in the morning now?"

"Ahhhhh, I can't stand it anymore, just throw him away!"

She burst into tears.

Panpan and the other two were frightened by Lu Hehuan and hid away immediately.

Children are afraid of adults crying. It's okay if they cry silently, but they will feel very scared if they cry loudly.

Watching other people's wives crying unruly and seeing your own family crying loudly are two completely different concepts.

Watching people crying outside is like watching a play, but watching your own family cry is fear.

Fang Dihua scolded in a low voice: "What are you crazy about?"

She walked forward and took the child from Xu Xiaoyou's arms, and asked her: "Where is your milk?"

Xu Xiaoyou was dazed, "Did she go to cut grass?"

Lin Shu went to get warm water to wipe Lu Hehuan's face, and then wiped Xu Xiaoyou's face.

The child must be very tired. She didn't sleep at night, and had to cook and do housework during the day. She has lost weight in just a few days.

Xu Xiaoyou wanted to thank her, but she relaxed and fell on the edge of the kang and fainted.

She hasn't had a good sleep in the past few days.

Lin Shu was startled, and Fang Dihua took a look, "She must be tired. Let her sleep for a while."

She carried Xu Xiaoyou to the kang and lay down to sleep.

Lin Shu went to the kitchen to check, and found some sesame oil, and asked Fang Dihua to rub the baby's belly.

The child was crying non-stop, and must have a stomachache. Normal children would not be like this.

Fang Dihua put the child down. Because he was always peeing and defecating, Lu Hehuan and Xu Xiaoyou did not dress the child, not even a bellyband, and just wrapped him with a sheet.

Lin Shu and the others brought two bellybands for the child today, one was Tiantian's old one, and the other was newly made by Xiuxiu.

Fang Dihua's big hands were very powerful and warm, but the old coop made the child's delicate skin uncomfortable.

Lin Shu applied sesame oil and massaged the child herself.

She was not professional, she just made circles and kneaded the way she saw others do it on the Internet in her previous life.

The child's body is very small, only fifty centimeters long at most, and it doesn't take much time to massage every part of his body from head to toe.

Fang Dihua massaged his palms and soles.

Slowly, he stopped crying, and he fell asleep because he was too tired from crying.

Lu Hehuan: "Is he pretending? Why doesn't he cry after you massaged him? And the day before yesterday, when my third sister-in-law came, he was fine and slept soundly. After my third sister-in-law left, he cried heartbreakingly in the evening as if I abused him."

Fang Dihua: "How can a child pretend to be sick? He cries when he is uncomfortable, and sleeps when he is not uncomfortable or hungry."

Lu Hehuan wiped his tears, "Why is this child so difficult to take care of? Can't he be as obedient as Tiantian and Panpan?"

Fang Dihua glared at her, "You only see them when they are well-behaved and sensible. Don't you think about it? A newborn baby can't speak except crying. If he is hungry, poops, pees, or in pain, he will cry, right?"

Lu Hehuan was not convinced, "Why don't I remember them crying?"

Fang Dihua: "When they cried, your father and I held them and rubbed them all night long. They are twins, not very big when they were born, and more fragile, how could they not cry?"

Seeing that the little brother stopped crying, the three children came in.

Tiantian said to Lu Hehuan: "Aunt, I hear my heartbeat. If someone touches me again, I will feel comfortable and stop crying."

She didn't remember much, but she had such a feeling.

When she was sick, she liked to lie in her mother's arms, listen to her mother's heartbeat, and let her mother touch her all the time, whether it was her head or her body, she would feel comfortable and not feel so painful.

At this time, Xu's mother brought Xu Yaoyao back from outside leisurely, as if nothing had happened.

She listened to the child crying, but deliberately ignored it, just wanting to see Lu Hehuan and Xu Xiaoyou collapse, to see them laugh, and wait for them to beg her for help. Then she would be the boss again and step on Lu Hehuan and Xu Xiaoyou.

Who knew that before they could ask for help, Fang Dihua and Lin Shu came.

Hearing that the child had stopped crying, Xu's mother came back to take a look.

Fang Dihua glanced at her and said, "Mother-in-law, I have an old saying that I must make clear to you."

Xu's mother felt a little guilty, but she acted righteously and said, "I am busy every day. I have to take care of my grandson, grind the mill, cut grass and feed rabbits."

It's not that I don't serve her, it's that I'm busy.

Fang Dihua didn't care what she said, but just said, "The old saying goes that you served me when I was young, and I will serve you when you are old. If you don't serve your daughter-in-law during the confinement period, when you are old and sick and paralyzed on the kang, don't expect your daughter-in-law to serve you."

Xu's mother could choose not to serve Lu Hehuan, but when she thought that Lu Hehuan didn't serve her when she was sick, she immediately stopped.

"Only what grounds? It's the daughter-in-law's duty to serve her

mother-in-law." She began to scold Xu Xiaoyou again: "How can a little girl serve during the confinement period? I said I would, but she insisted that she asked me to mow the grass. Don't be angry, mother-in-law, from now on I will serve your daughter-in-law during the confinement period."

But Fang Dihua didn't give her face, "Don't trouble you, your dear mother will take care of her."

She said to Lin Shu, "Go back and help me pack some clothes for changing."

Seeing that Fang Dihua was willing to serve her during the confinement period, Lu Hehuan threw herself into Fang Dihua's arms and sobbed, "Mom, you are still the best, sob, I knew you wouldn't ignore me."

Fang Dihua pushed her away, "Go away, don't bother me."

She asked Lu Hehuan to go to sleep for a while.

Lin Shu helped to clean up. Fortunately, the weather was warm, and the diapers were easy to dry after washing, unlike in winter when they had to be hung all over the house but were useless.

Xu Xiaoyou was also caring, and he found a piece of felt cloth to put under the child's diaper to prevent the bedding from getting wet.

As long as you change and wash the bedding frequently and don't pee on it, the whole house will not be filled with foul odors.

Some families are not diligent, especially in winter. If they don't change and wash the bedding frequently, the whole family will stink after raising a child, not to mention the house, which is disgusting.

When Fang Dihua moved in to take care of the daughter during the confinement period, Xu's mother and Xu Shihua realized that this was another trouble for them!

Originally, the good meals at home were given to Xu Shihua and Xu Yaoyao. Although Xu Xiaoyou said that Lu Hehuan should eat more, Xu Shihua and Xu Yaoyao could still eat.

Now Fang Dihua is cooking with Xu Xiaoyou, Xu Yaoyao can still eat a bite or two, but Xu Shihua is completely out of luck!

Xu Shihua can only eat cornmeal cakes or sorghum flour pancakes like everyone else, or the unpalatable boiled melon. What

if Xu's mother has any objections? Fang Dihua will simply not cook for her and Xu Shihua.

Xu's mother had to apologize quickly, saying that she didn't mean that and had to let her son eat coarse grains.

Not only that, Fang Dihua also assigned Xu Shihua to wash diapers for the children and clothes for Lu Hehuan.

Not washing?

Xu Shihua said she dared not not wash, fearing her mother-in-law.

Xu's mother was reluctant to see her son suffer, so she washed for him. The more she washed, the more aggrieved she felt. It turned out that she was not treated well for taking care of her daughter-in-law during the confinement period, because Fang Dihua said that you were washing for your son, not for your daughter-in-law, so why should your daughter-in-law appreciate it?

Xu's mother wanted to complain to the neighbors, but she had no chance. Xu Xiaoyou now had his grandmother to support him, and he was well fed and well rested. He was busy like a little bee all day long, and he boasted to everyone he met: "My mother gave birth to a little brother, and my grandmother couldn't take care of him during the confinement period, so my grandmother came to take care of him. Oh, my grandmother was so hard-working. Not only did she have to take care of my mother during the confinement period, but she also had to cook and wash clothes for our family. It was so hard!"

Xu's mother was so angry that she cried in the middle of the night.

Well, I can only hope that Lu Hehuan will be out of confinement soon and Fang Dihua will leave soon!