"How is it? Did your daughter vomit?" Father Lu asked hurriedly when he saw the old woman coming out.
"I didn't vomit. I even ate all the food." Mother Lu gestured to the old man to look at the empty bowl in her hand.
"That's good, as long as you didn't vomit. Eating more will keep your body healthy." Father Lu said with a smile while looking at the empty bowl.
"Well, I told her to let her cry out when she's hungry at night. She needs to eat more to keep healthy." Mother Lu put the empty plates and bowls in the kitchen before going back to the living room to eat.
"Mom, eat quickly, the food will get cold soon." Mrs. Lu was almost impatient waiting, and now when she saw someone coming, she hurriedly shouted
"Eat quickly, the child is so hungry." After Mother Lu and Father Lu sat on the stool, they took a bite of food, which meant they could eat.
"Mom, our team has harvested the sweet potatoes, and the rest have been soaked by water. If the rain continues, autumn will probably be over." While eating, Mrs. Lu talked about the topic that was interrupted in the kitchen just now.
"How much food did you buy recently? Is it enough to eat?" Mother Lu asked hurriedly.
"We've been given some more sweet potatoes, which should last us two or three months." Mrs. Lu originally thought that since her parents-in-law were not at home, they could last a little longer.
But now not only my parents-in-law have returned, but my sister-in-law has also come back. So all this food will be more than enough for two or three months.
"Don't let Xiaoyan know about this. Wait two days and see how things go." Mother Lu was afraid her daughter would get angry if she knew about the situation, so she decided to keep it a secret.
"We know, don't worry, mother." Mrs. Lu nodded to show that she understood.
"By the way, eldest son, when the rain stops, go to your younger sister's in-laws' house and tell them that your younger sister is back, but she's not feeling well, so she won't be going back to see them for now." Mother Lu suddenly remembered something, slapped her forehead, and said to her eldest son.
"I understand, mother." Brother Lu nodded and agreed.
"Your father and I will go to work tomorrow and earn as much as we can. We can exchange it for more food during the autumn harvest." Mother Lu sighed and said, "I don't know if we will have food during the autumn harvest these days. It's really worrying."
"Mom, you and Dad should take a rest for two days. In this weather, there is no work for you to do in the fields. You should stay at home." Mrs. Lu had been at home for several days. When she heard her mother-in-law say that she was going out to work, she hurriedly said
"Let's talk about it tomorrow." After finishing her meal, Mother Lu was about to clean up the table, but was stopped by her eldest daughter-in-law. She simply didn't intervene and directly told her two grandsons to go back to their rooms.
"Here, this is what your aunt bought. You two can take it home and eat it." Mother Lu returned to the house and took out a handful of White Rabbit milk candies from her pocket and handed them to her two grandchildren.
"Thank you, grandma." Gangzi and Shitou took the candy and thanked her happily.
"Go back to your room. I want to sleep." After giving the candy, Mother Lu started to chase people away.
Gangzi and Shitou were not unhappy about being chased away by their grandmother. They skipped back to their room with the candies in their pockets.
"It's raining heavily, and I can't buy anything for my daughter. How about talking to my eldest son's wife tomorrow and asking them to kill the hen that lays eggs for my daughter to nourish her body?" When Mother Lu saw that her two grandsons had gone out, she went up to the kang and looked at the old man and said,
"Let's go out and see who to exchange one with tomorrow. I'm afraid the eldest son's wife won't be happy if we kill a chicken right after our daughter comes back!" Father Lu thought that it would take him a long time to stay, so it would be a bit inappropriate to kill a chicken right after she comes back.
"Okay, go to sleep." Mother Lu also knew the temperament of the eldest daughter-in-law, so she nodded and went to sleep.
When I woke up the next morning, I found that the rain outside had stopped and the sun was beginning to rise in the sky, which made several surrounding teams very happy.
"Mom, let's work quickly. If we work harder now, we will definitely get a lot of food in the autumn harvest." Brother Lu Qingshan got up in the morning and said while eating.
"Okay, got it." Mother Lu nodded and turned to go to the kitchen to bring the meal she had prepared for her daughter back into the house.
"Mom, why are you up so early today?" Lu Qingyan woke up in a daze and asked when she saw her mother coming into the room.
"It's sunny outside. We have to go to work soon, so we'll bring you food early. If we come back late at noon, you can drink some malted milk to replenish your energy." Mother Lu placed the food on the kang and reminded her worriedly.
"I understand. Mom, go eat quickly. It will be cold soon." Lu Qingyan nodded and urged her mother to go out and eat.
"Wash your face and brush your teeth first, then eat." Mother Lu went out and brought in a basin of warm water and said
"Mom, put it there quickly. I can do it myself." When Lu Qingyan saw her mother coming in with a washbasin, she hurriedly got up and went to the ground.
"Just stay on the kang quietly and don't move around." Seeing Lu Qingyan like this, Mother Lu was so scared that she waved her hands.
"Mom, go eat quickly." After Lu Qingyan washed her face and brushed her teeth, she urged her mother to go eat quickly.
"Okay, just leave it there after you finish eating. I'll come and clean it up later." Mother Lu said and turned around to go out to eat.
After Lu's mother left, Lu Qingyan picked up the bowl and started eating in small bites. After finishing, she lay down in the quilt and fell asleep again in a daze.
When Lu's mother came in to clean up the dishes after dinner, she saw her daughter had fallen asleep. She hurriedly and quietly took the dishes out, closed the door, went to the kitchen to wash them, then gave a few instructions to her two grandsons and hurried off to work.
"Mom and Dad, you two are back? Why didn't you stay at my younger sister's place for a few more days?" As soon as Lu's second wife Zhao Xiaohua went out, she saw her parents-in-law coming over and asked in confusion.
"Your little sister is back too." Mother Lu glared at the second son's wife and snorted.
"Ah? This little sister has only been gone for more than a month, right? How come she's back so soon? Did she have a fight with her brother-in-law?" Zhao Xiaohua asked in surprise.
"If you can't talk, just shut up. Your brother-in-law has been transferred to another place, so let your younger sister come back and stay for a few days. When your brother-in-law is done with his work, he can come back to pick up your younger sister." Mother Lu didn't like her second daughter-in-law. She rolled her eyes and strode to her workplace.
"Look at what mother is doing. Is she displeased with me or something?" Zhao Xiaohua waited until her mother-in-law was far away before she dared to shout at her second brother Lu Qinglin.
"No, isn't mother in a hurry to go to work? Stop being angry, let's go quickly, it will be late soon." Lu Qinglin also knew that his wife had a bad mouth, so he ran away without waiting for anyone to say anything else.
"What kind of people are these? They just said a few words about her daughter. Why are they so angry?" Seeing her husband running away, Zhao Xiaohua stamped her feet in anger, muttered a few words, and hurried to work, fearing that if she was late, the scorekeeper would deduct work points.
When it was almost noon, Lu Qingshan straightened up, looked at his mother and said, "Mom, I'm going to leave a little earlier and go to the Majia Brigade to tell them."
"Okay, go quickly and come back soon. Don't keep me here even if I ask you to eat there. You still have to go to work in the afternoon." Mother Lu instructed without even raising her head.
"Got it, mother." Lu Qingshan said, said hello to the scorekeeper, and walked towards the Ma family team.
"Ahem, ahem, who are you looking for?"