Chapter 7: The Coming of the Daughter
The departure of my sister hit my mother very hard, my mother's weight dropped by more than ten pounds all of a sudden, Xia Wei also blamed herself, there was always a layer between her and Xiao Lu, and she often made awkward troubles over a little thing.
It's hard to spend time at night, since getting married, as long as it's on the day shift, Xiao Lu will take Xia Wei home by bicycle. After dinner, the family disappeared without a trace, and the eldest brother and sister-in-law, as well as the father-in-law and Xiao Lu, all went to the neighbor's house to chat. Xia Wei was not familiar with the people in the village, so she stayed at home with her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law lives in the room next door to the front of the hall, the westernmost end is the room of the eldest brother and sister-in-law, next door is a large living room, which is also in front of the hall, there is a big hanging bell on the incense table, Xia Wei and Xiao Lu live in the last room at the east end of the house, and there is a small living room between the parents' room.
My mother-in-law suffers from chronic bronchitis and coughs and spits all day long. After dinner, my mother-in-law was in her room, and occasionally there was a coughing sound. Xia Wei was sitting in her room, and when she heard her mother-in-law's cough, she sometimes went to greet her and wanted to talk to her mother-in-law for a while, but her mother-in-law always said, "Go back to your room, I don't need you to accompany me." Xia Wei didn't know much about her family, and she didn't dare to disturb her mother-in-law, every night she was alone in the room looking at the old magazines brought back in the unit, all the magazines were finished, and Xiao Lu didn't come back, Xiao Lu always went home at eleven or twelve o'clock, and Xia Wei went to bed by herself.
In the blink of an eye, the harvest season has arrived, and the growth of rapeseed at home is very gratifying, and the fruitful fruits are another bumper harvest year. Xia Wei, Xiao Lu and her eldest brother and sister-in-law harvested the ripe rapeseed, put it in the ground to dry, and waited for it to dry before laying the rapeseed.
The rapeseed had been drying in the ground for several days, and that morning, Xia Wei turned on the radio and heard the weather forecast that there would be a strong typhoon and heavy rain that night. Xia Wei was anxious, so she hurriedly negotiated with other colleagues to change the rest to harvest rapeseeds, and then went to let Xiao Lu also change shifts and go home to collect rapeseeds. However, Xiao Lu refused to go home to collect rapeseeds, and said disdainfully: "If you want to go, you can go by yourself, I won't go." ”
Xia Wei was anxious: "The rapeseed has been dried for several days, and if you don't harvest it, it will be blown down by the strong wind, so won't it be in vain?" There are so many people in your department working today, you can rest, I just told your section chief, he agreed to let you rest. ”
"I've got something to do." Xiao Lu looked at a girl about Xia Wei's age sitting next to her.
Xia Wei followed Xiao Lu's line of sight and saw that the girl was sitting at Xiao Lu's desk reading a book. Xia Wei suddenly remembered, isn't this Xiao Lu's sister's classmate? When she was admitted to the hospital, she looked for Xiao Lu, she was touched by someone else's bicycle, she had to rely on someone else's house, and she had to find Xiao Lu to help do all the tests that could be done, Xia Wei couldn't get used to the girl's deceptive behavior. The food during the hospitalization was all prepared by herself, and Xiao Lu sent it to the ward for her to eat. Now that the girl saw that she didn't even say hello, Xia Wei felt a little unhappy, but it was inconvenient for her to speak, so she smiled at the girl and nodded, which could be regarded as a hello.
Xiao Lu looked at the girl and continued: "Today I will accompany Zhou Xue to prescribe medicine, you can go back alone." ”
Xia Wei's face was flushed with anger, this Zhou Xue can eat, sleep and walk, why do you have to be accompanied? All the tests are normal, and you still want to deceive others? What a bummer. Thinking about it these days, Zhou Xue has been sitting in Xiao Lu's office to accompany her to work, Xia Wei was also panicked when she thought of this, and she didn't want to argue in front of others, so she left with her mouth crossed.
When I got home, my eldest brother didn't come back from work, and my sister-in-law didn't know that there was a strong wind and heavy rain, so when Xia Wei said this, my sister-in-law and Xia Wei went to the field to harvest rapeseeds. The weather was very hot, Xia Wei and her sister-in-law desperately beat rapeseeds, Xia Wei only felt that her eyes were black for a while, her heart began to feel sad, sweating profusely, she knew that she was suffering from heat stroke, she hurriedly sat in the field, let her sister-in-law go to the field and pour a bowl of cold boiled water, Xia Wei drank a big bowl of water, her heart slowly relaxed a lot, rested for a while, and continued to work.
Xia Wei and her sister-in-law couldn't finish harvesting a few acres of rapeseed, and the sky darkened after only half of the harvest, and the two hurriedly picked up the harvested rapeseed and rushed home.
In the evening, strong winds and thunderstorms rained for many days. When the rain passed, I went to the ground to see that the rapeseed that had not been knocked had sprouted in the ground, seeing such a scene, Xia Wei felt extremely uncomfortable, and calculated that she would lose at least about 1,000 catties of rapeseed. If little Rucan went home with him...... Thinking of this, Xia Wei felt uncomfortable, and tears would flow down her cheeks.
One night, a friend came to look for Xiao Lu and had something, Xiao Lu was not at home, and the friend asked Xia Wei to help find Xiao Lu back. Xia Wei is in trouble, where to find Xiao Lu? She inquired several times before she learned that Xiao Lu was playing at a fellow student, so Xia Wei followed the place guided by her neighbor to find Xiao Lu. At this time, Xiao Lu was sitting on the bamboo bed in the courtyard with his classmate Ah Fen chatting, only to see Ah Fen wearing a pair of floral shorts, revealing a pair of snow-white thighs, wearing a suspender shirt, sitting cross-legged on the bamboo bed, Xiao Lu and her sat opposite each other in the courtyard to enjoy the cool, and their laughter could be heard from a distance. When Xia Wei saw this scene, she felt a little unhappy in her heart, came to the courtyard, and said faintly: "Ah Fen is here, Xiao Lu, someone at home is looking for you." ”
"Oh, Xia Wei, come and sit down." Ah Fen greeted warmly, and then looked at Xiao Lu, who saw this and said, "Okay, then we'll go first." ”
"Yes, I don't want to sit down, there are still guests at home." Xia Wei also chimed in.
"Okay, go slowly, then I won't send it." Ah Fen stood up and followed Xia Wei and Xiao Lu to the gate of the courtyard.
This Ah Fen, Xia Wei knows, and Xiao Lu's classmate, and Xiao Lu's former colleague, and often comes to the hospital to ask Xiao Lu to help prescribe medicine. I remember the first Dragon Boat Festival after marriage, Xia Wei and Xiao Lu were preparing to go to Xia Wei's parents' house for the holiday. At the station, she met Ah Fen and her brother who came back from the army, Xiao Lu said that she would not go to her parents' house with Xia Wei for the holiday, the reason was to accompany Ah Fen's brother, and said that her brother would rarely come back. Xia Wei was confused: What does this Ah Fen's brother have to do with Xiao Lu?
Later, Xia Wei learned that this Ah Fen was Xiao Lu's first girlfriend.
Xiao Lu has always lived in his heart with this first girlfriend, Xiao Lu's parents thought that Ah Fen's father was very powerful, and resolutely opposed this marriage, so they had to break up. Items left behind by Ah Fen can be seen everywhere in the house.
One day, Xiao Lusai gave Xia Wei a note, which read: "Xia Wei, I'm tired, let's get a divorce." Xia Wei was very sad after seeing it, she didn't think about divorce, so she pretended that nothing had happened.
In the autumn of the following year, her daughter Qinqin was born. This little guy, when she was born, Xia Wei suffered from gestational hypertension syndrome, which almost cost Xia Wei her life.
After the birth of their daughter, Xia Wei and Xiao Lu shared a house in the unit, and because her mother-in-law suffered from chronic bronchitis, Xia Wei was confined in the family area of the unit, and her grandmother was taking care of her.
Xia Wei was very excited about her daughter's arrival, and when she was in confinement, she slept on the bed alone, staring intently at her daughter's pink little face and admiring it. One moment to pull my daughter's little nose, and another time to wash my daughter's face with my own milk. Just because I heard the old people say that milk washes the baby's face, the child's facial skin will be very fair when he grows up, and if he pulls his nose often, his nose will be more straight. Whether this statement is right or not, Xia Wei doesn't want to let go of such an opportunity. My grandmother made a jar of rice wine, and she said that a woman in confinement can warm up her body by eating rice wine, force out the cold in her body, and nourish her stomach. Grandma had to cook a bowl of rice wine and beat eggs for Xia Wei to eat every day.
Xiao Lu occasionally helped take care of Xia Wei's confinement, and when her daughter cried at night, Xia Wei was afraid that it would affect Xiao Lu's sleep, because he still had to go to work during the day, so he let Xiao Lu sleep in the outer room. I live in a room with my grandmother and take care of my daughter with my grandmother.