Chapter 36 Full Moon Party
After returning home from the hospital, Qiao Qinglu began her painful confinement life.
Although it is already October, the autumn heat in Yanjing City is too severe. The sun is scorching and the heat is unbearable.
What’s more, during the confinement period, you can’t use a fan, wash your hair or take a bath, it’s so hard to endure.
Well, Qiao Qinglu can occasionally throw the three babies to Aunt Qiu and the busy Wang Xiaoying and Miao Jinfeng, and hide in the space to wash up and eat some fruits and vegetables.
What’s more, if you eat these foods after giving birth, your body will excrete a lot of dirty things.
Fortunately, with the help of these mysterious products, she recovered soon. The scar on her belly was almost shallow and invisible, and the children she fed were also very healthy.
The three babies had big appetites, and fortunately Qiao Qinglu had stockpiled a lot of baby milk powder in her space, which came in handy.
The two older brothers are easy to raise, and I can switch between breast milk and formula at will.
The little girl is a bit spoiled. She fights for her mother's breast milk every day. If she can't get it, she will whimper. She only takes a sip of the bottle occasionally. She also fights to sleep with her mother and cries as soon as her mother is taken away.
Fortunately, Qiao Qinglu recovered well, so the little girl slept with Qiao Qinglu, and the two brothers were left to Aunt Qiu.
The babies grew up and became white and tender little lotus roots. Mr. and Mrs. Qiao urged their two younger parents to give them names.
Logically speaking, this is the business of the Xiao family's patriarch - Xiao's father, but Xiao's father said that the children are the fruits of the love between Xiao Qinyun and Qiao Qinglu, and he cannot snatch the naming rights.
Well, that makes sense. The parents can only bite the bullet and go ahead with it.
In order to come up with names, Xiao Qinyun and Qiao Qinglu almost tore up dictionaries and poems. Their hard work paid off, and the three babies finally had official names.
The eldest is Xiao Yishan, named after the line “The hermit’s journey home is long, and his disciples come out of the mountains to greet him”, and his nickname is Mantou; the youngest is Xiao Yize, named after the line “The lay scholar is old and foolish, and he is unrestrained in the mountains and swamps”, and his nickname is Doubao; the third is Xiao Yiyu, named after the line “Flying low from the ink, his lofty ambition soars to the blue sky”, and his nickname is Tangyuan.
On November 1, Xiao Qinyun and Qiao Qinglu's three babies were one month old, and Qiao Qinglu also left the confinement period. Xiao Qinyun invited Xiao's father, the Qiao family, Mr. and Mrs. Jiang, Professor Yan, Mr. and Mrs. Wu Jun, and Cao Liming's family to come and celebrate.
The weather was nice today, with the sun shining brightly, so Xiao Qinyun set up three tables of banquets under the ceiling of the inner courtyard.
In order to entertain relatives and friends well, Xiao Qinyun went to Quanjude to order three roast ducks, and bought two boxes of Moutai liquor and two boxes of orange soda from the supply and marketing cooperative. He also took some fish, shrimp and vegetables from Qiao Qinglu's space to cook.
Today is a weekday, and it was almost 12:20 when everyone arrived. Father Xiao came out with steamed buns, Father Qiao came out with bean buns, and Xiao Qinyun came out with glutinous rice balls.
Seeing these three chubby and cuddly babies, everyone's hearts were melted. Red envelopes and silver locks kept being stuffed into Qiao Qinglu's hands. Fortunately, Qiao's mother prepared a big red bag and followed her. Qiao Qinglu quickly put all these into the red bag and thanked everyone one by one.
The babies were not afraid of strangers and did not cry or make a fuss when being held by others, which made everyone love them even more, especially Wu Jun and his wife.
They had been married for several years but had no children. Seeing the three babies, they were so adorable that they wanted to become Xiao Qinyun's godparents on the spot.
Qiao Qinglu asked Xiao Qinyun to make the decision. Xiao Qinyun thought that this godparenting was a good idea, and Wu Jun's wife was not the kind of person who would meddle in other people's business, so he agreed to the godparenting.
When Wu Jun and his lover Yan Xinyue saw that the other party agreed, Yan Xinyue immediately took out two jade Guanyins and a jade Buddha that she had prepared long ago from her pocket and handed them to Qiao Qinglu, saying that this was a marriage gift.
Qiao Qinglu did not refuse and accepted the gift directly. She held her hand and said that they should visit each other more often in the future.
The two women smiled at each other, showing a tacit understanding.
The banquet officially began. With the blessing of delicious food and fine wine, today's full moon banquet was lively and sumptuous. Everyone ate their fill and praised Aunt Qiu's cooking skills.
After dinner, Qiao's mother and Xia Ling's wife went to help Aunt Qiu clean the table and wash the dishes, while the men sat there chatting.
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