The twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Brothers Guo Jianping and Guo Jianjun came back carrying large and small bags of things.
Li Chunyan was carrying her youngest son Guo Haojie on her back.
Zhou Jiahua is only about twenty days older than Guo Haojie.
At that time, Liang Xueying was still in Guangzhou taking care of Guo Yu during his confinement, when Li Chunyan gave birth prematurely.
On the day he received the news, Guo Yu asked Liang Xueying to return to the countryside to serve her second sister-in-law.
She also said that she could spend money to find an aunt or sister-in-law in the staff housing complex to help.
But she was worried about letting Liang Xueying leave her daughter and grandson behind and go back to the countryside.
But it would be unreasonable for her not to go back for such a big thing as her daughter-in-law giving birth and confinement.
In addition, if she takes care of her daughter during her confinement but ignores her second daughter-in-law, I am afraid there will be a rift between them.
After all, for Guo Jianjun, his sister is a daughter who married out, and his nephew is ultimately a person of a different surname.
If your own mother leaves her own wife and children alone to take care of someone else's daughter-in-law and grandchildren.
What do Guo Jianjun and his wife think about this?
When Liang Xueying heard Guo Yu talk about paying someone for help, Liang Xueying suddenly had an idea.
She thought of Li Chunyan's sister-in-law.
Li Chunyan's sister-in-law is taking care of the child at home, so it would be better for the family to pay Li Chunyan's sister-in-law to take care of Li Chunyan during her confinement.
The more Liang Xueying thought about it, the more she felt it was a good idea, so she called Guo Jianjun that day and told him about her idea.
Guo Jianjun thought this was a good idea. After all, it would be troublesome to ask his mother to come back immediately to take care of his wife during her confinement.
I guess my sister's children will be left to my mother to take care of in the future. My mother definitely won't be able to take care of two babies at once.
It would be better to ask your wife's sister-in-law to help take care of the child.
What's more, they live in the same building, so it would be much more convenient if my sister-in-law could help take care of the baby.
It would be great if I could just drop my child off at work during the day and pick him up after get off work.
So Guo Haojie has always been with them.
This time when he brought his children back to celebrate the New Year, Guo Jianjun did not plan to take them out again.
Because Li Chunyan's sister-in-law is pregnant with her third child, and this pregnancy is particularly difficult. She can't eat and vomits everything she eats, so Guo Haojie can only stay in the countryside from now on.
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When they got home, it was already late.
Deng Qingling chatted with them for a few minutes and then went to the kitchen to cook dinner.
After she washed the rice and put it in the pot, she asked Guo Haochen to come in and help light the fire.
Then Deng Qingling took out the pickled meat she had made earlier and cut it into small slices, which were just right for stir-frying cabbage.
A pot of stir-fried meat and cabbage plus a plate of egg custard is enough for everyone to eat.
After dinner, Guo Haochen and his friends would clean up the dishes and wash them without being called by adults.
After putting Guo Haojie in Guo Jianjun's arms, Li Chunyan went back to the room to make the bed.
Guo Jianjun said, "Mom and Dad, I plan to leave Haojie at home from now on."
Hearing this, Liang Xueying and the others were stunned for a moment. They didn't expect Guo Jianjun to say this suddenly.
Because when Guo Haojie was six months old, Liang Xueying told Guo Jianjun that the couple should send Guo Haojie back.
Unexpectedly, Li Chunyan disagreed, saying that the child was too young and she was reluctant to let the child go back to the countryside, so she didn't agree.
"Have you discussed this with Chunyan?" Liang Xueying asked.
Guo Jianjun: "Yes, Chunyan's sister-in-law is pregnant and it's not convenient for her to help us take care of the baby. I'll have to trouble Mom and sister-in-law from now on."
"They are all our own children, so why should we cause any trouble?" Liang Xueying said with a smile.
Deng Qingling, who was standing next to him, smiled but said nothing. She would lend a hand when she had time.
Anyway, there is not much entertainment at home, unlike modern times, where people either go out shopping or stay at home watching TV and playing with their phones.
In fact, babies who are just learning to speak are the cutest.
Before, there was only one cute baby, Zhou Jiahua, in the family, and there was a group of children who often snatched the baby away, making it impossible for Deng Qingling to kiss Zhou Jiahua more.
It would be good to have another baby in the future, as it would distract the other children and prevent them from always fighting over the baby.
"By the way, will Haojie still need to drink milk powder in the future?" Liang Xueying suddenly remembered and asked.
"He has stopped drinking milk a long time ago. We usually feed him rice porridge and rice paste," said Guo Jianjun.
Liang Xueying smiled and said, "Eating porridge and rice porridge is very good. You haven't even eaten rice porridge many times before."
I remember that during the Great Famine, several brothers from my mother's side gathered some millet and sweet potatoes and sent them to me.
At that time, our family simply crushed the millet and cooked the rice together with rice bran and sweet potatoes, which allowed us to survive that period.
Otherwise I'll be really hungry...
Fortunately, the children grew up safely.
As Liang Xueying thought about it, her eyes became red.
Seeing his mother like this, Guo Jianjun quickly changed the subject, "Mom, how many teeth does Jiazhen have? Our Haojie already has four teeth."
Hearing her son's words, Liang Xueying put away her sadness and said to him with a smile: "Jiazhen already has eight teeth."
"Ah! Why is there such a big difference? Isn't he only twenty days older?" Guo Jianjun had just said it casually, but when he heard that there was such a big difference between him and his youngest son, he became worried.
How come my youngest son is not getting enough nutrition?
Can you still lack nutrition by eating rice porridge and rice paste every day?
Impossible?
Seeing the expression on her second son's face, how could Liang Xueying not know what he was thinking?
"You don't think just feeding your child is enough, do you?" Liang Xueying said, "Don't the books say we need a balanced diet? We should eat more fruits, vegetables, meat, and eggs. Fruit and meat are hard to find, but eggs are always available, right? Don't you usually feed your child?"
Everyone who heard this was stunned.
However, Guo Jianjun shook his head and said that he had never given the child anything else to eat.
The others were extremely confused. Didn’t their own mother (their own wife) only know a few words?
How do you know so much?
It’s also nutritionally balanced!
Others do not include Deng Qingling, because she was the one who told Liang Xueying this.
In fact, no matter what era we live in, people will have some nutritional deficiencies.
What's more, in this age of material scarcity, children lack various vitamins and trace elements, so their development will naturally be slower.
So it is normal for teeth to erupt late.
As for why Zhou Jiahua's teeth grew so fast, it was of course thanks to the food in the space.
The things produced in the space are very nutritious and much better than the ordinary things outside.
Deng Qingling often cooks the food in the space together with the food at home, so people in the family rarely catch colds or fevers.
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