It was time for every family to cook dinner, and white smoke was rising above the chimneys of each house.

Yingfang's family is no exception.

Sister-in-law Fu is making noodles, and Jiang Xinrou is beating eggs.

Yingfang is playing with the baby in the room.

The triplets are five months old, and they can turn over freely, and occasionally they will move forward a few inches with their heads held high and their little faces flushed. Although they can't climb yet, being able to do so shows that the children's hand and foot coordination is very good.

Yingfang fixed a time every day for them to lie on the bed, turn over, hold their heads high, and move. It's a workout.

In this way, the shallow and narrow cradle is obviously not enough for them to lie down. So she returned the cradle to the person who borrowed her from her, and replaced it with a new three wooden beds with guardrails.

Three small beds 1 meter wide and 1 meter 2 meters long are lined up to form a super queen bed with a width of 1 meter and a length of 3 meters.

Ying Fang sewed a long cover with broken steps, stuffed some loose old cotton wool inside, and made the hard bed soft and soft. I sewed a few brightly colored cloth tigers and rag dolls, and tied them with cotton thread to the head of the bed, the foot of the bed, and the guardrail. The cotton thread is relatively long, so that it is convenient for children to pull to play with them and will not be lost.

Because it is inevitable that there will be mosquitoes when the weather is hot, when I asked someone to make a small bed, I specially made a mosquito net rack. The silver-coated tents were bought, but the supply and marketing cooperatives in the small county town did not have mosquito nets suitable for small beds, so Yingfang had to put the money and cloth tickets in the letter, and asked her sister-in-law in Haicheng to buy three mosquito nets with small beds.

It would be better if Haicheng Department Store had mosquito net cloth to sell, just pull a few zhang of tent cloth back and make it yourself, and make it as big as you want.

If the credible pieces come and go, it will take at least ten days and a half months.

Fortunately, it is not yet the rainy season, and there are not many mosquitoes.

Ying Fang planted some common mosquito repellent grasses in front of and behind the house, such as wormwood, peppermint, and bumper incense. The first two can also be boiled and drunk to prevent heat stroke. The sun-dried wormwood was stuffed into a sachet by Yingfang and hung in a circle around the small bed. At night, a little more moxa velvet can have the effect of preventing mosquitoes.

Sister-in-law Fu is also a clean-loving person, and she wipes it inside and out with a rag when she is empty, so Yingfang's mosquitoes are much less than others' homes.

But as long as there is one, the delicate-skinned treasures will suffer.

So in the middle of summer, mosquito nets still have to be hung.

Before hanging the mosquito net, Yingfang wrapped the bullet shell that the man was holding around a few times with red thread, covered the roughness of the shell surface, made a festive wind chime, and hung it on the top of the bed.

When there is wind, it will make a pleasant tinkling sound, and even if there is no wind, it can create some fun for triplets who are waving their arms and kicking their legs on their backs on the bed.

As soon as there are too many toys on the bed, the children will lie on the bed and entertain themselves when they are full of sleep. Look up at the pleasant wind chimes wrapped in red thread, and stretch out your arms to reach cute puppets.

As long as the three little ones are awake, they will babble non-stop and take the trouble to play for a long time.

I teased them for a while after lunch, and then put them on the bed to practice turning over. When you are tired, you will lie on the bed with your back to the sky, stare at your feet and look at the wind chimes, babbling, humming and shouting words that adults don't understand, and sometimes give you a high pitch.

Ying Fang sat on the edge of the big bed opposite her as soon as the babies turned over, paying attention to the movements of the three babies from time to time, whispering something softly, and occasionally humming a piece of Dongfang red to them.

Regardless of whether the babies understand it or not, they know that their mother is by their side and can play happily for a long time.

Ying Fang still took time out to hold the upper of the shoe in her hand.

When the weather is hot, the children are able to roll over freely, and the next step is to climb, and then to walk.

Now a pair of socks hooked with cotton thread can still cope, and when you start to learn to walk, you have to put on shoes. Otherwise, the little feet are easy to get hurt.

Fortunately, the shoes worn during the toddler period do not need to contain sturdy insoles, just cut a few pieces of cloth and fold them together to get on the road. The key is the upper - it's uncomfortable to have narrow feet, and it's easy to fall off if you're fat.

Yingfang took a soft leather measure to measure the three children one by one, and then wrote it down in a small book, marked the date, and looked at the date when making shoes.

Not only shoes, but also making small clothes for children, every time you buy new shoes and sew new clothes, you will write down the size. On the one hand, a good memory is not as good as a bad pen, and on the other hand, you can understand the development of children.

The four mothers interacted warmly for more than two hours. Seeing that the girl yawned delicately, knowing that the time was almost up, she put down the work at hand, got up and mixed it with warm water, and brewed a bottle of milk powder.

Yingfang picked up her daughter, and before she could open her clothes, the little girl had automatically and spontaneously arched into her arms, found the milk source and swallowed it in a big gulp.

While raising her thighs to let her daughter lean on the milk, she held the big baby to feed the milk powder.

Fortunately, after five months, the triplets seem to get used to it.

As soon as the tip of the baby's tongue touched the pacifier, he knew what it was, and spontaneously held the bottle that was still heavy for him with both hands, and sucked it.

Feed the girl and then feed the younger son.

The three babies were all fed and asleep, and Yingfang was already tired and sweating.

In the late fourth month of the lunar calendar, the solar calendar is nearly June, and if the sun is fierce, it is not uncommon for the temperature to rise to 30 degrees.

The house is deep and long, and the house is still quite cool, especially after falling asleep quietly, it is easy to catch a cold without a thin quilt and blanket. But in the same way, at such a temperature, it is easy to sweat even if you move a little.

Ying Fang mixed a basin of warm water, squatted in the back half of the room, wiped herself, changed into clean shirts and trousers, and saw that the children were sleeping soundly, and planned to go to the river port to scrub the dirty clothes and the children's diapers.

Her mother's laughter came from the yard: "Ouch! The harvest is not small! There is meat to eat now!"

Yingfang walked out with the laundry tub in one hand and the curtain in the other.

"Mom, are they coming back?"

"Yes, I came back, I didn't sweat, and I went to bathe in the river. Seeing her daughter come out, Jiang Xinrou excitedly pointed to a pile of game at the corner of the eaves and said, "Look, your father and Xiao Li have gained a lot of money, right? Five pheasants and three rabbits, I checked the rabbits, each of which weighs six pounds of hair, which is enough for us to eat for a while." Oh, I'm going to boil the pot water, why don't I just make a roast chicken tonight? Just stew it whole, drizzle soy sauce and sesame oil, and fill the chicken belly with shiitake mushrooms and green onions, and I'm going to drool just thinking about it......"

Jiang Xinrou walked briskly towards the stove room, shouting as she walked: "Sister-in-law Fu, let's make roast chicken tonight, I'll boil water first, and we'll cut the chicken in a while." ”

Sister-in-law Fu answered, and said in wonder by the way: "Yesterday, I obviously brought a new box of matches out, because there were still two or three in the old box, so I put the new one in the Buddhist shrine, and I couldn't find it when I wanted to use it, which of you saw it?"

Jiang Xinrou and Yingfang both said they didn't see it.

"Could it be that I remembered that I took it out and put it in again? Or I would like to look for it later, and I will unpack a new one first when I am in a hurry." Jiang Xinrou proposed.

"That's all there is to it. ”

Sister-in-law Fu came out with a new box of matches, and Mali had to kill the chicken neck and bleed. Wait for the hot water to boil and remove the chicken feathers.

I thought repeatedly in my heart, could it be true, did I remember it, I thought that when I ran out of matches, I had to take a new box and put it in front of the Buddhist shrine, but I didn't take it yet......

Yingfang waited for her father and Xiao Li to take a bath and go ashore, squatted at the head of the river port to wash the clothes and diaper pulp, and after drying the tripod, she also came to the stove room to help.

"What are you doing, go back to the room and see the child. I'm asleep at this time, but what if I wake up? I'll roll over and crawl, and I'm not worried that no one is watching. Jiang Xinrou didn't let her daughter touch her hands, and drove her back to the house in a daze.

Yingfang is helpless, since she gave birth to a baby, her family doesn't let her work. But think about her mother's words are not unreasonable, there was a new daughter-in-law in Jiangkou Port before, because the baby who was asleep at ease was in the vegetable field behind the house, but the baby woke up and stood up with the head of the bed, and could not walk, and fell out of bed like a green onion, and the head was swollen with a bag, crying for several days, and the doctor of the county hospital also asked them to pay attention to the development of the child, and they were afraid of falling stupid.

So he moved a small chair and sat at the door facing south, so that out of the corner of his eye he could always pay attention to the triplets on the small bed, and he could find it immediately when he woke up; with a sewing kit on his knees, he listened to his father, who was drinking tea in the hall, talk about what he had seen and heard about going up the mountain today.

Xiao Sanye was afraid that his family would be worried, so he didn't say that he had walked to the hinterland of the deep forest, but only said that he had walked a little way into the forest. Because the focus was on the strange forest, Yingfang didn't notice the inconsistency in her father's words.

"Dad, so you're going to go tomorrow?"

"Go!" Xiao Sanye took a sip of the white dog intestine herbal tea prepared by Dr. Zhang, leaned back comfortably on the back of the chair and said, "Xiao Li and I found a forest, and it always feels a little weird. ”

Ying Fang heard him say this, and admonished: "Then Dad, you have to be careful, withdraw immediately when you encounter danger, and don't make any mistakes." ”

Ying Fang thought that her father was bored at home, so let's go out for a walk, recently the farming has been busy, the people in the village are busy going to the field, and the uncles and uncles who are friends with her father are also so busy that they hit the back of their heads with their heels, isn't it hatred for her father to wander around with his hands behind his back?

It's rare to think of a way out of changing rations, so let him try it. There is a small gold horizontally and vertically. What fierce beast on Yanqi Mountain can be more fierce than Xiaojin?

So, Yingfang asked Xiaojin to tell her again, that is, let it take care of it more and don't let them get hurt.

What can Xiao Jin say? Just drive all the animals in the forest to the deep mountain pass, vacate the forest, and use it as an adventure paradise for the two big men who are kept in the dark.

The next day, Xiao Sanye and Xiao Li set off again.

This time, I made more thorough preparations, not only carrying hemp rope and baskets, but also carrying sickles, short hoes, and iron hooks. It was covered with a clean cloth bag, which contained the dry food and water bladders that Sister-in-law Fu had prepared for them.