Lin Dacui had not recovered from her cold yet. Seeing the sun coming out, she took a small stool to sit in the yard to bask in the sun. When she saw a man coming to the door, she asked while scratching her cough:
"Young man, who are you looking for?"
"Auntie, I'm Lu Qingyan's elder brother, Lu Qingshan." Lu Qingshan heard the voice and walked into the yard with a smile and said
"Hey, her elder brother, come in quickly, come in quickly." Upon hearing this, Lin Dacui stood up and pulled the man into the house.
"Auntie, I won't go in. I just came to tell you that Xiaoyan came back yesterday." Lu Qingshan grabbed Lin Dacui's arm and told her the purpose of his visit.
"What? The fourth son's wife is back? Why didn't she go home?" Lin Dacui asked in surprise.
"My parents went to see Xiaoyan a few days ago, and then Mingze was suddenly transferred away. What's more coincidental is that Xiaoyan is pregnant, but the pregnancy symptoms are not good. My parents were worried, so they took her home to raise her." Lu Qingshan said what his mother taught him
"It's good that she's pregnant, it's good." When Lin Dacui heard that the fourth son's wife was pregnant, she was happy at first, but then she asked worriedly: "This pregnancy doesn't look good, is it serious? Let's go and have a look later, okay?"
"I came back yesterday and was examined by the barefoot doctor of our brigade. He said that I can't go out and need to be recuperated for a while. Otherwise, Xiaoyan will come back and I can't stay at my parents' home." Lu Qingshan explained why Lu Qingyan didn't go back to her husband's house, but stayed at her parents' home.
"Why is it so serious? No, her elder brother, wait for me for a while, I will pack up and go see Xiaoyan with you." After saying this, Lin Dacui turned around and went into the house to pack up. In fact, there was nothing to pack, just some fine grains.
He gritted his teeth again, grabbed an old hen he had raised for two years, walked out and said, "Brother, let's go."
"Auntie, you don't need to take so many things. I have everything at home. Please put them back." Lu Qingshan saw that the old lady actually caught an old hen and quickly refused.
"What's yours is yours. I'm giving this to my daughter-in-law." Lin Dacui waved her hand and walked out of the yard with her things in her hand.
"Mom, mom, what are you doing?" Niu Lili and her friends came back from work and saw Lin Dacui walking away with an old hen in her hand. They shouted,
"The fourth daughter-in-law is back. I'm going to visit her parents." Lin Dacui said, pointing to Lu Qingshan next to her and said, "The fourth daughter-in-law's eldest brother came over and said that she is pregnant, but the pregnancy is not going well. Now she can't even go to the fields. I thought of catching an old hen to nourish her."
"Why did you come back so suddenly? Didn't you just leave not long ago?" Liu Xiaocao said with a pout when she heard her mother-in-law say that she would catch an old hen to feed the fourth daughter-in-law.
"What do you care how I came back? Okay, I won't say any more to you. Eldest daughter-in-law, your father had lunch at your place at noon. I'll come back and bring you some food. I'm leaving now." Lin Dacui got angry when she saw the third daughter-in-law doing this, so she said impatiently, turned around, called Lu Qingshan and left.
"This is really hypocritical. If you have a child, you eat the old hen. If you have another son, you have to eat swan meat, right?" Liu Xiaocao couldn't control her temper when she saw her mother-in-law leave.
"What do you care about eating? It's my mother's chicken. She can give it to whoever wants to eat it. What does it have to do with you?" Niu Lili had been looking at the third daughter-in-law with displeasure since her parents-in-law were ill. Now she heard her mumbling and said unhappily
"Sister-in-law, don't forget that we didn't eat any chicken when we gave birth to our children. Now the fourth daughter-in-law hasn't given birth yet, but we're eating old hens. If she gives birth to a son, won't it be a disaster?" Liu Xiaocao was even more angry after being told by her sister-in-law.
"Ahem, eldest daughter-in-law, hurry up and cook. You have to go to work soon." When old man Gu heard the third daughter-in-law talking more and more outrageously, he interrupted them.
"Okay, Dad, I'll go right away." Niu Lili rolled her eyes at Liu Xiaocao and turned to go to the kitchen to cook.
"Second sister-in-law, mother is so partial to you, don't you have anything to say?" After her eldest sister-in-law entered the room, Liu Xiaocao looked at her second sister-in-law Xu Lihua and said
"I'm going to cook too. I'll leave first." Xu Lihua didn't want to get involved in this matter. Seeing Liu Xiaocao looking at her, she turned around and left.
"What kind of people are these? They don't take the old lady's partiality seriously, they will cry sooner or later." After Liu Xiaocao finished nagging her husband who was standing silently beside her, she felt bored and went into the yard to cook.
After the team left, Lin Dacui looked at Lu Qingshan and sighed, "Brother, why is it that the fourth son's wife is pregnant and can't get out of bed?"
Section 26
"My mother said that Xiaoyan caught a cold after being caught in the rain while in the army. She didn't know she was pregnant. One day she suddenly fainted. She went to the hospital for a check-up, and the doctor said this." Lu Qingshan thought about what his mother said, and said it exactly.
"What did the fourth son do? Why didn't he take good care of me?" Lin Dacui now regretted letting the fourth son's wife join the army. Otherwise, how could a healthy person go with the army for a month and then come back?
"I don't know either." Lu Qingshan was confused by the question and scratched his head with his hand and said embarrassedly
"That's right, you haven't been there, so how can you know anything?" Seeing him like this, Lin Dacui knew that he really didn't know anything, so she stopped talking and quickened her pace to the Dongfeng Brigade.
About an hour later, the two men, covered in mud, entered the Lu family yard.
After entering the yard, Lu Qingshan began to shout with his loud voice: "Dad, Mom, Juanzi, look who's here? Hurry up and prepare two delicious dishes."
"No, no, stop preparing the dishes. I'll go back after seeing the fourth son's wife." Lin Dacui waved her hands and said
"Oh, is your mother-in-law here? Come in, come in." Mother Lin heard the noise and came out. Seeing the newcomer, she said happily.
"Mother-in-law, I heard from her eldest brother that the fourth son's wife is pregnant. I'm coming to see her. Which room is she in?" Lin Dacui handed over the things in her hand and asked.
"It's in this room. You can come if you want. What do you want to take? This is your home. Don't be so polite. Take the things back when you leave." Mother Lu didn't take the things from Lin Dacui's hand. She pulled her towards Lu Qingyan's room and said
"This is for the fourth son's wife to nourish her body. You can't take it back." Lin Dacui heard this and hurriedly shook her head.
"Xiaoyan, get up quickly and see who's here." Seeing this, Mother Lu just smiled, pushed open Lu Qingyan's door, and said with a smile
"Mom, why are you here? Come and sit down. This road is not easy to walk on. Wait until I get better and then I'll go home to see you." Lu Qingyan heard the noise, sat up and looked at the person who came, and hurriedly patted the kang and said
"You don't have to go back. Don't go back and forth. Just stay at your mother's house and take good care of yourself. I'm sorry to bother you, mother-in-law." Lin Dacui said, looking at Lu's mother with an embarrassed look on her face.
"Hey, what's the problem? She's my own daughter. I have nothing to say even if she stays here for a lifetime, let alone a few days." Mother Lu waved her hand and said casually.
"Hehe." Lin Dacui smiled awkwardly, then looked at Lu Qingyan and asked with concern: "How are you? Are you feeling uncomfortable? Do you want to eat something sour or spicy?"