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Chapter 48
Zhao Wenduo was somewhat guilty of these compliments. After all, he is not really 11 years old. He looks like a child, but his heart is a real adult.

Li Cuizhen has given birth to so many children, and is an older mother. She eats gruel and pickles on weekdays, can't eat meat a few times throughout the year, suffers from long-term malnutrition, and has just finished giving birth. Come drip milk.

Newborn babies have incomplete gastrointestinal function, so they just drink rice soup to satisfy their hunger, which can easily lead to constipation and diarrhea.Such a small child can't stand the slightest trouble.

Of course, there are ways to adapt to the times in this era.When the mother has no milk and cannot buy or buy milk powder, she can borrow some milk from the neighbors in the village who have the milk doll as an emergency.

If it is in the same village, it will be better, if not, you have to look farther away.At this time, unlike later generations, household refrigerators were popular, and all the supplies for storage should be available.

Running for three or five miles to get some milk, at most three or two meals, this must be the case that the person who gives the milk is generous and the milk is rich enough.Otherwise, just going door to door to ask for a loan would be troublesome enough, not to mention running back and forth a few times a day, the legs would become thinner.

This is also the reason why the three women did not hesitate to praise Zhao Wenduo. You have to know how much trouble will be saved with these packs of milk powder. For a newborn baby who is still in the seat without milk Maternity, there is nothing more appropriate than this.

"It's nothing, I just heard people say it's good to drink, so I got it back." Zhao Wenduo was not used to being surrounded by fancy praises, so he replied in a tone suitable for his age.

I don't want to, it's just this slightly ignorant and humble statement that makes people take advantage of the loopholes.

"It's still young and not smart enough. I bought it when I heard it was good. I didn't even think about it. As long as your family can afford milk powder, don't raise a child. It's a waste of money. The whole family can't live. gone."

Wang Ping, who was standing behind, curled her lips in disdain, forgetting about the embarrassment just now.From her point of view, the Zhao family just had their faces swollen to pretend to be fat. Without the diamonds, they insisted on doing porcelain work.I don't even think about how much it will cost, what to do in the future, let the whole family follow suit.

It was a very happy thing, but someone made trouble for you. Li Cuizhen was so angry that she forgot that she was a pregnant woman. She grabbed the square scarf on her forehead and threw it at the unsightly woman standing there: "Your family is the only one who sells iron, and your family can't survive—"

"Wang Ping, what are you talking about?" Cui Yuzhen accused loudly.

Wang Ping squatted down, picked up the square cloth that fell on the ground, patted the floating dust with her hand, and said indifferently: "Why are you so impatient? What I said is the truth. Your third child carries so much pork Go out and bring back these three packs of milk powder, let’s talk about whether it’s worth it, so how long can the whole family eat the old meat.”

Up to now, she still misunderstood, thinking that those were freshly slaughtered pork, and Zhao Wenduo took them out not to give away, but to find a place to sell them, and a lot of meat was exchanged for such a little thing, and people would be surprised if they came back. Got caught.

What big things can children do, no matter how capable they are, wouldn't they be fooled by others?

Li Cuizhen, who was feeling flustered, was slightly taken aback by what she said.

When Zhao Wenduo went out with her things on her back, she was falling asleep in a daze, and she woke up when the meal preparations were almost exhausted.Then came Wu Dakui and his wife, and Li Cuie came to the door one after another, sat and chatted for a while, and no one told her about it.

Unexpectedly, Wang Ping was asked to say this, but she didn't react for a while, and looked at Zhao Wenduo suspiciously, with the words "what's going on" in her eyes?
But no matter how doubtful it is, it’s hard to ask at this time, especially in front of outsiders, even if you insist on it, you have to hold on, let alone if you don’t know if it’s right?

"You don't need to worry about how to use the things in our house. Take care of yourself. Don't act like you haven't eaten in 800 years. I will call you later. There are no more chopsticks and bowls left."

"you--"

Wang Ping was exposed, and remembered the embarrassment she had just lost, and was at a loss for words for a while, unable to find anything to say back.He hummed resentfully, and pulled the youngest son next to him: "Go, go back."

"What are you doing, I'm not full yet—" Jiang Shun shouted, scratching his neck, dragging himself on the ground and refusing to leave.

"I'm not full, go home and eat." Zhao Wenduo leaned in front of him, raised his foot and kicked the boy in the back, and sent him away.

Because of the quarrel between Jiang's mother and son, they ate this meal twice at noon.There is no spoiler, and everyone is in harmony, which is extraordinarily harmonious.

It took more than two hours to eat a meal, and it was nearly three o'clock in the afternoon before the banquet was over.

All the guests left, only the family members were left, so Li Cuizhen asked the doubt in her heart: "Third brother, you really took the pork and sold it?"

Wang Ping's mouth stinks into a cesspool, but she is right about one thing, milk powder is indeed quite expensive, and there is nothing that cannot be bought for three or five yuan.

Three packs of milk powder cost more than 20 yuan and [-] yuan, which is so much money that Zhao Wenduo couldn't afford it.

"Mom, those aren't pork. The third child is not that stupid." Before Zhao Wenduo could answer, Zhao Wenying said for her while cleaning up the dishes.

Li Cuizhen gave birth to a child, and people who are confinement must eat something good, but those who have clear soup and little water are not allowed.This New Year pig was killed a few days earlier for this reason.

One hundred catties of piglets are not enough to eat at home, so why would they take out dozens of catties.

"It's not pork, what is that?" But there was nothing valuable in this house, Li Cuizhen scratched and fumbled in her mind, went through everything she could think of, but didn't get an answer.

Zhao Wenduo didn't hold back, and said directly: "The roe deer, the one that was beaten on Nanshan yesterday." Everyone said that she was pregnant for three years, gave birth to a child, and her head was rusted. .

"Oh, no, that's also a few kilograms. Look at my head, it's so blunt, it's hard to handle." Li Cuizhen patted her forehead.

Immediately, Zhao Wenduo explained in a few words the process of sending off the roe deer twice in the morning.

Li Cuizhen suddenly realized "Oh": "I said, why did Dakui and the others bring so many things over here? It turned out that you, the third child, sent all the roe deer there. But that's right, we eat a lot of things from others, so this time I will give you a piece of food." The big ones are also given in return.”

Between relatives and friends, we must also pay attention to reciprocity.Always let one party pay, and the other party takes advantage, and this relationship will not last long.

This trip to Nanshan has yielded a lot, and it is right to give more.

Zhao Mingyu came back after seeing off the guests, and when she entered the door, she heard her mother chattering, she didn't say she wasn't happy, she just prolonged her voice and said slowly: "You can eat as much as you want, and adding one piece will only cost you ten catties." It’s enough to get a roe deer leg, instead of sending the whole one.”

To say that most people are men's hands loose, women will be more careful.But these two couples are upside down, Li Cuizhen is more masculine and open-minded, while Zhao Mingyu is more stingy.

"Don't search for it. It's not that there are too few things to divide. There are two whole roe deer. It's nothing to divide one. Dakui and the others are very interesting to our family. Look at these older things. Add them together There is a small 20 yuan."

They all came to visit and give gifts, and the one in the next room took six eggs, which was really one in the sky and one in the ground.

Zhao Mingyu didn't really complain, but just because of his temperament, he felt uncomfortable when he gave more things, so he just said it.

For others, it's a different matter when it comes to family members.Especially the youngest son who was just born, he was treated absolutely differently.

Looking at the little guy wrapped in the quilt, his wrinkled red face turned into a handsome face in his eyes, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

The milk powder on the cabinet seemed to have pink bubbles, and the beauty softened the heart of a loving father.

A roe deer can only be exchanged for three packs. Such an expensive thing, I didn't say a word, acquiescing to Zhao Wenduo's "prodigal" behavior.

The little baby woke up from hunger, closed his eyes and opened his mouth to cry, Zhao Mingyu rushed to make milk powder.I didn't know many words and couldn't understand the instructions above, so I urged Zhao Wen to read to him more, and carefully poured water and milk powder according to the exchange ratio above.

Babies who have just been born on the first day can drink [-]-[-]ml of milk powder.

The glass baby bottle was bought by Zhao Wenduo at the supply and marketing agency when he came back. There are volume scales printed on the bottle body, and the water is filled according to the number on the bottle, and a level scoop of milk powder is added.

Not only Zhao Mingyu figured it out, but the whole family also knew the ratio.Even the little girl Zhao Wennan knows how much milk powder her little brother needs to drink.

Whether it is water or milk powder, there are graduated containers, and it is quite simple to mix and dissolve, and you can remember it after just going through it once.

Making [-] to [-] milliliters of milk powder is something that such a child can do twice after seeing it twice. No one thought that something would happen to it.

On the second day after Xiao Wu was born, which was also the second day after the pig was slaughtered, an unexpected guest came to the Zhao family——Zhao Mingyu's stepmother Bao Dongmei visited the door.

Ever since Zhao Mingyu's white-eyed scumbag father passed away, he had no contact with this stepmother and those two brothers.Even if the four major festivals go to the grave and bump into each other head-on, it's only a sentence or two at most, and sometimes you don't even bother to say hello.

This kind of relationship is only a thin line away from not being in contact with each other until old age and death, and it really can't be called the slightest enthusiasm.

It's such a strange existence, and it's just a giggle when you enter the door.Not only did it not make people feel close, on the contrary, the embarrassing goosebumps could fall to the ground.

"I heard that Mingyu has a son. This is a great news. How can I, a mother, come to see it?"

Bao Dongmei, who is not tall, has a sub-pitched voice, even though she is over 60 years old, her voice is quite loud.This is talking in the house, and it is easy to hear it outside.

The daughter-in-law gave birth to a grandson, and the mother-in-law wants to confine her.This can be regarded as a custom in the local area, but the premise is that the family is a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship, which is much easier to get along with than the stepmother and stepmother-in-law.

Before Li Cuizhen married Zhao Mingyu, she had heard about the mess in his family.It can be said that the mother-in-law was tortured to death, and it is impossible to get close to the step-mother-in-law just because of this.

What's more, the treatment Zhao Mingyu received in those years was only a little better than a beggar, with a piece of tile covering her head.

But if you say it's an enemy, it hasn't reached that point after all.In a clear sense, he is still an elder, and if he stretches out his hand and doesn't hit the smiling person, it's not easy to turn his face away when he comes to the door.

Zhao Mingyu frowned, and let people into the room, he squatted on the small bench in front of the kang, stretched his neck to look at the youngest son on the kang.

The little milk baby in confinement looks different every day.Today I look better than when I was born, the skin is wrinkled a lot, and the face is not so red.

Li Cuizhen stretched the quilt outside to the side, revealing more places to show others, and greeted the stepmother in disguise.

"Daughter-in-law Mingyu, what's the matter with you, you just smile and don't talk, and you shouted loudly after giving birth, and your throat is tired and cracked, right? It's okay, just stop your throat, and mom can't pick you, we are all a family People." Bao Dongmei said and waved her hands, and put her ass on the kang with a familiar face.

Li Cuizhen: "..." You just split your throat, and your whole family split!
There is always such a kind of person, no matter how embarrassing the occasion is, how indifferent the treatment is, even if he has the ability, he can save face by talking to himself, and even fight back by hitting him.

Zhao Mingyu knew how powerful this stepmother was. If she hadn't been thick-skinned, able to eat, resist and fight, how could his father have told her to fight her to death? A little woman raised from outside jumped into the door He took over as the second bedroom, and later became the second wife.

Li Cuizhen's hardliners, against her kind, are hitting the cotton with an iron fist, and it's useless to use force, and it doesn't hurt.She didn't look at the door and didn't say hello. Not only didn't she lose her face, but she even called a counter-general, and said something about her bad voice.

Fearing that she would be angry with her daughter-in-law again, Zhao Mingyu quickly took over the conversation and said, "Cuizhen has just woken up for a while, she hasn't eaten yet, and she doesn't have much strength in her body, she will be fine after a while. Second Mom, you sit down first. I'll go see if the meal is ready." Got up and went to the outhouse.

For this explanation, Bao Dongmei didn't believe it or not, she just said 'Yo': "What time is it, haven't you had breakfast yet? The big girl's hands and feet are slow enough, and she can slow down cooking a meal." At this time, it's not okay to let her serve confinement."

Li Cuizhen woke up late at night to watch the baby, and she was weak after giving birth, so she woke up later.

Zhao Wenying was afraid that the breakfast would be cold if it was too early, and it would not be good to steam it, so she didn't make it in advance.Everyone else has already eaten breakfast. For Li Cuizhen, I just wait for her to wake up before washing the rice and putting it in the pot. I cook millet porridge for one person, and then boil a few eggs. It will be ready in about ten minutes. , it doesn't take much time.

When Zhao Mingyu made an excuse to come out to watch the meal, Zhao Wenying had just cooked the eggs and put them into the boiled millet porridge, and when she entered the room with a large bowl, she heard Zheng Dongling talking about herself, paused for two seconds, and fell silent for two seconds Zhong finally chose to ignore it and said in a muffled voice: "Second Grandma, have you eaten breakfast? If you haven't eaten, there is still some porridge in the pot."

From the moment I entered the door, this was a serious and polite remark. Bao Dongmei expressed her satisfaction, and immediately changed her tone: "Then give me a bowl, and by the way, add a spoonful of brown sugar and two eggs. I have heard that The big girl is good at crafting, and I just have this opportunity to try it."

Thin porridge with boiled chicken, which can reflect the craftsmanship. Just now, she arranged for her, but the wind changed in the blink of an eye. This is really faster than turning over the book.

Zhao Wenying couldn't complain, put down the large bowl in her hand, set the chopsticks and spoons for Li Cuizhen, watched her start eating, and then went back to the kitchen in the outhouse.

Li Cuizhen could have cooked the meal by herself, but there was only a bottom left in the pot, and even the pot was filled with a flat bowl.There were still boiled eggs left, so I peeled two of them and put them in together.

Looking at the rice bowl brought in, Zhao Mingyu sat there without saying a word, pulling on the brazier. The room was too cold, and the fire in the pot could still keep it warm.

Li Cuizhen drank the porridge, glanced at the two eggs in the bowl, and muttered in her heart, this boss is really kind, just scrape the bottom of the pot and give it to her, even the eggs If you want two, you will really put two, but you are obedient.

Bao Dongmei didn't care who was happy or not, took the job bowl, took a big sip of the porridge along the side of the bowl, and praised: "This millet porridge is really sticky, it tastes delicious after a bite. And this egg, ouch, the egg yolk Red, eating this is nutritious."

The eggs were eaten in two or three bites, and it took only 2 minutes for a bowl of porridge. They were all eaten in a flash, and at the end they wiped their mouths neatly, not looking like the person who ate a bowl of rice just now.

Li Cuizhen, who just took the second bite of the egg, was speechless. She couldn't help admiring the step-mother-in-law. How did she manage to eat such a big bite without looking rude and ugly? arrive.

After the adults have eaten, it's time for the children.

Zhao Wenying turned off the hot water, just as Xiao Wu also woke up, crying softly.

"The child is hungry, let's breastfeed it quickly." Bao Dongmei sat close, raised her hand to pick up the child, and was about to give it to Li Cuizhen.

In her eyes, eating for an adult is far less important than breastfeeding a child. Even if you are still hungry after only two bites, as long as the child wakes up, the first priority is to feed the child.

Not only her, many people have this kind of thinking, especially mothers, who put their children first in everything.Mothers in confinement have almost formed an instinct.The moment he opened his eyes, all he looked at were children.

Bao Dongmei is an old-school thinker. If a woman doesn't have a baby, it doesn't matter that much if she does.Especially if the child is a son, it is even more important to treat it with care, not to mention holding it in the palm of your hand for fear of falling, and holding it in your mouth for fear of melting, no matter what you have to do, you have to put it first.

So much so that when she saw that Li Cuizhen just paused and didn't reach out to pick up the child, she was very surprised when the porridge in the spoon was still put into her mouth.I just wanted to say, don’t eat it, and feed the baby first.

Zhao Wenying opened her mouth and said, "Second Grandma, give me Xiao Wu, let my mother eat well, she hasn't eaten a few bites yet."

Bao Dongmei turned her head instinctively, and saw that Zhao Wenying had already prepared the milk powder, shaking the bottle in her hand a few times.

"Hey, is this milk powder? Mingyu, your youngest son is blessed. He even eats milk powder. This is a rare thing."

(End of this chapter)