Wanghai County, Changping Village.

"What's going on these days? The street across from here suddenly has two households gone. It's so deserted!"

On this day, Mrs. Liu came to see Mrs. Sun for a visit, and Yang Ruoqing happened to be there with her two children.

Yang Ruoqing hugged one, and Sun held another. After Mrs. Liu came up, she played with the two children for a while, then went to the table and poured tea from the teapot on the table. She sighed like this while drinking.

"And third sister-in-law, the old man and third brother in your yard have also gone to the county seat. Why do I feel that our old Yang family has suddenly lost a lot of people, and it is no longer lively at all?"

Mrs. Sun glanced at Mrs. Liu and smiled gently: "Everyone is here, no less. It's just that everyone has gone to do some business."

"When everyone is done and everyone comes back, won't it become lively again?"

Mrs. Liu nodded, "That's true."

Holding the tea bowl, she walked leisurely to the door of the main hall with her feet clattering. She looked at a man talking to himself on the road opposite, and seemed to be asking Sun and Yang Ruoqing:

"The fifth younger sister and Mianmian went to the county town because Mianmian got tired of living in the village and wanted to change places. I can understand this."

"But Yongjin and Bamei took Xiuxiu to the county town for three days, leaving the second girl and the third son behind. I can't understand this."

Sun couldn't understand this either.

Because the insiders of this matter are Tan and Yang Ruoqing.

Mrs. Sun also followed Mrs. Liu and turned to look outside, but unlike Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Sun did not gossip.

She just looked at the white sun in the yard. Even the chickens and ducks that usually liked to chase and play were no longer here. They all ran to the base of the wall or somewhere with trees to take shelter in the shade.

"Yongjin and the others must be in an emergency, otherwise they wouldn't be able to run out on such a hot day," said Sun.

Mrs. Liu's eyes rolled, "What's the emergency? I don't believe what the eighth sister said. Why don't you go and see the old man! The old man is not a flower, what's so good about him?"

Sun and Yang Ruoqing were both laughed at and angered by Liu's words.

Mrs. Sun said helplessly: "Fourth brother and sister, please don't talk about our old man like that. There is no one big or small."

Mrs. Liu chuckled, clinging to Mrs. Sun's words like a piece of meat on a hob: "Third sister-in-law, don't I have no taboos in front of you? I can say whatever I want and speak openly, because I know you are a good person. Outside, don’t worry, I’m very tight-lipped!”

tight?

Mrs. Sun smiled again. This smile was very deep.

"Qing'er, I've been here for a long time, why haven't I listened to a word you said?" After Mrs. Liu looked around, she returned to the table to refill her tea, focusing her eyes on Yang Ruoqing.

Yang Ruoqing smiled and said, "I have used up all my strength to practice walking with my children. How can I be as cool as my fourth aunt?"

Mrs. Liu waved her hand: "I also survived like you. It's not my fault for having four children..."

Yang Ruoqing was happy, "Fourth Aunt, if you say this, I will have to say something to you!"

"Except for He'er, who is the eldest daughter, and you and my fourth uncle may have put some effort into it, haven't the other children all grown up in a makeshift manner?"

Ms. Liu's eyes widened and her waist straightened: "Hey, all of you said that the next few children grew up in a makeshift manner. I just laughed and said nothing every time. I really want this one."

Let’s talk about it properly last time.”

"When the little babies are born, no one will care about their affairs. Will they be able to grow up?"

"You need to feed her at least once or twice a day and change her diapers two or three times, right?"

"You need to get up in the middle of the night to urinate for them, right?"

"Your fourth uncle won't help you at all. I'm doing all these things. As for your milk, you can't even count on it. He almost killed me when he saw me giving birth to three girls in a row!"

When Yang Ruoqing and Sun heard what Liu said, they looked at each other.

Mrs. Sun said: "Don't say it yet, what your fourth aunt said makes some sense."

"Children can't grow against a wall, they have to be taken care of. Your fourth aunt has had several children born one after another in those years, and your fourth aunt has been tortured to the point of becoming sallow and thin!"

Yang Ruoqing nodded in agreement. It's true that usually women who take care of children really don't have time to take care of themselves.

For someone like me, I'm lucky to have many people around me to help take care of the kids. Otherwise, if I were just sloppy, I wouldn't be able to keep the kids so comfortable and clean. I'd take two or three baths a day, change several clothes, and put on diapers.

Hundreds of them, change them at will.

Small bowls that children have eaten from, small bottles and small spoons from which they drank water should be cleaned at any time and disinfected by scalding them with boiling water.

But back then, the fourth aunt was not in a position to do that.

Therefore, thinking of this, Yang Ruoqing also said sincerely: "Fourth Aunt, what I said before was a bit exaggerated. You have indeed suffered."

"But once the children can walk, you will be relaxed."

Although Mrs. Liu suffered a lot in raising her children, Mrs. Liu is also quite macho.

Other people's children are still held in their arms when they are two or three years old, but they are left here by Liu. Once they are weaned and can walk, the children are allowed to play on their own.

Or maybe the older children take care of the younger ones, while she herself resumes her lazy attitude of being a hands-off shopkeeper, asking around for gossips, saying this and that...

But it is precisely because of this that, except for He'er, other children, such as Ju'er, Sanyatou, and Kang Xiaozi, all become sensible earlier than other children of the same age, and their ability to manage life is also stronger than other children.

Therefore, everything is a double-edged sword, with disadvantages and advantages.

After everyone sighed for a while, Mrs. Tan came over again.

"Oh my, it's such a hot day, old lady, why are you running so far if you don't sleep in the house? Are you afraid that the sun will heat you up?"

Mrs. Liu looked at the old lady in front of her who was wearing a green and black long-sleeved cardigan, black trousers, and black open-top old cloth shoes, and couldn't help but click her tongue.

Mrs. Tan shook the big cattail leaf fan in her hand, looked at Mrs. Liu as if she were an idiot, and said, "Didn't you see me coming here with the fan to shade me?"

Mrs. Liu touched the fan and was immediately slapped away by Mrs. Tan.

"What are you touching?"

"Oh my, your fan has been burned by the sun and is about to break. How can you provide shade?"

"I want you to take care of it? I don't want you to pay for it if it gets damaged by the sun. It's just you talking too much!"

Come on, the above is the content of the conversation between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. At first glance, they look like two ignorant children who start arguing when they meet.

But both Sun and Yang Ruoqing are used to it.

No, Mrs. Sun temporarily put Tuantuan in a small cart aside, went to the backyard, and picked up a hanging basket from the well with half a watermelon in it.

Mrs. Sun cut the watermelon into pieces, put them in a big basin and brought them to the main room.
Chapter completed!