Chapter 4 The Zhou Family
After finishing these, Zhou Wanwan flashed out of the space, listened to Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen's sweet little snoring, and after confirming that they were sleeping soundly, she used her consciousness to take out a pillow from the space, the size, shape and touch were exactly the same as her own small body, let it replace herself for Zhou Chen to hold, and the body entered the space.
I first gave myself medicine, drank spiritual spring water and spiritual liquid, and then brewed a bottle of milk powder rich in various nutrients and drank it. Yes, the bottle, Zhou Wanwan held the bottle and sucked the pacifier with a black line, because of malnutrition, she had not grown teeth for eleven months, so she could only suck the pacifier......
Although the medicine of the space, the spiritual spring water, and the spiritual fluid can provide all the materials needed for the growth of the body and daily life, it cannot make people feel full. Zhou Wanwan sucked on the pacifier and sighed with satisfaction, it still feels good that there is food in the stomach.
Eleven months is the age at which complementary food should be increased, but because this little body has just experienced severe hunger and has not yet recovered, it can't eat too much at one time, so it can only give up every night. Lying in the space, Zhou Wanwan touched her little belly and hummed comfortably.
After eating and drinking, Zhou Wanwan left the space, put the pillow into the space, lay back in Zhou Chen's arms, waited quietly for a while, confirmed that Zhou Chen did not notice, and then took out his medicine and stuffed it into his mouth, and let the spiritual liquid flow into Zhou Chen's mouth along his fingers, the medicine melted instantly, and the spiritual liquid was immediately absorbed by the body silently, Zhou Chen did not feel anything, and quickly fell asleep.
As for Zhou Yang's share, Zhou Wanwan could only look at the eldest brother who was close at hand with regret and sighed, she had been eleven months, but she couldn't even sit, let alone crawl and walk, so even if she moved a distance of ten centimeters, it was impossible for her. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to figure it out.
With her eyes closed, Zhou Wanwan had a confident smile on her lips, everything had just begun, and every day in the future, she would let herself and her brothers live well and be happy. They will have a healthy body, abundant materials, each other's company, a bright future, pure love, a happy family and lovely children......
The next morning, just after dawn, Zhou Wanwan was woken up by Zhou Chen wiping his face with a towel.
"Wake up!" Zhou Chen smiled at Zhou Wanwan with his bright black eyes. The four brothers and sisters of the Zhou family all look like their mothers, especially Zhou Chen and Zhou Wanwan, who have completely inherited their mother Li Xiuhua's fair skin and big apricot eyes, and they were particularly good-looking children when they were children.
Zhou Wanwan's memory of Zhou Chen was already very vague, but when she saw him for the first time, Zhou Wanwan felt very close to her second brother, and when she looked at his smiling eyes, she was full of joy, and couldn't help but smile at him.
"We're so happy today, do you know there's something delicious?" Zhou Chen pinched Zhou Wanwan's little nose, and took out the cotton jacket and cotton pants that had been warm in the quilt for Zhou Wanwan to wear. Zhou Wanwan looked around, there was no Zhou Yang in the house, it was estimated that he had gone to the infrastructure construction site, and there was no brazier under the table, so he must have been put back by the eldest brother.
Zhou Wanwan softly let Zhou Chen dress her, this body is still very weak, in the next month, her main goal is to go from weak to healthy, first of all, at least to be a healthy baby, and then, find a way to take out the food in the space, so that the brothers can fill their stomachs.
Zhou Chen helped Zhou Wanwan get dressed, put an old but still clean towel around her neck, brought a small bowl and began to feed her malt milk essence spoonful by spoonful.
Zhou Wanwan found out that the spoon she had used twice was a wooden spoon, although the edges were carefully polished and would not hurt the child's mouth, but the volume was still too large for her eleven-month-old small mouth, and because of the carving problem, the recessed part of the spoon was very small, and every time Zhou Chen had to carefully feed it to her mouth, and it might leak out because her mouth was too small. At this time, Zhou Chen patiently and gently scraped back the malt milk essence on the edge of her mouth with the edge of the spoon, and then fed it into her mouth. The whole process was skillful and his expression was soft, and the boy's careful and meticulous strength was not at all like that of a ten-year-old boy, and the mother who took care of several children was nothing more than that.
Zhou Wanwan greedily looked at Zhou Chen, who was taking care of herself with all his heart and gentleness, although he had a vegetable face, he was so thin that the green tendons on his neck were bulging, but his eyes were black, his nose was straight, his smile was bright, his teeth were white, and he was a handsome and intelligent little boy.
Zhou Wanwan reached out to touch the second brother's face, but because of weakness and trembling, she didn't control her head properly, she didn't touch her face and touched her mouth directly, she quickly took out Zhou Chen's medicine from the space, and at the same time that her fingers were stuffed into his mouth, the medicine also entered his mouth, and Zhou Wanwan's fingers were messing around, and Zhou Chen didn't notice that he had eaten something in his mouth for a moment.
After Zhou Chen fed Zhou Wanwan, he cleaned up the house very quickly, wrapped her in a small quilt, and walked out of the Xili room where they lived.
The Zhou family is a four-room mud and straw house facing south, made of yellow mud and made of mud to form a wall, and the roof is covered with thatch. The middle door is a half-room kitchen, there is a stove on the left and right, originally there were two cauldrons on each stove, and later the people's commune canteen, there is no need to cook at home, the pots are handed over to the brigade, and they are used to make iron. Later, the big canteen was disbanded, and the Zhou family spent a lot of effort to buy a pot, and the other three stoves were empty, and the black holes were open there, like three mouths that could never be satisfied.
On the right hand side of the kitchen are two east houses, the east house is separated by a hairy pole (the straw part of the sunflower), and the south kang (kang built against the south wall) in the outer room lives Zhou Wanwan's grandfather Zhou Futang, grandmother Zhao Mantable, sister-in-law Zhou Hongying, sister Zhou Xia, and the north kang (kang built on the north wall) lives the fourth uncle Zhou Chunlai. In the east house lived Zhou Wanwan's uncle's family, in Nankang lived the eldest uncle Zhou Chunfa, the eldest aunt Wang Fengying, the second cousin Zhou Juan, the fourth cousin Zhou Ling, and the north kang lived the lobby brother Zhou Fu and the second cousin Zhou Jun. The remaining one and a half west houses on the left hand side of the kitchen are also divided into two, and the second uncle's family lives in the outer room, Nan Kang is the second uncle Zhou Chunxi, the second uncle Li Guizhi and the sixth cousin Zhou Lan, who was born ten days later than Zhou Wan, and the lobby sister Zhou Ping lives in the north kang. In the west house lived Zhou Wanwan's family, the south kang is his father Zhou Chunliang, and the north kang is Zhou Wanwan and his two elder brothers.
This way of living in a room divided into north and south kang was very common in the northeast countryside at that time, some families even lived in the south kang in-laws, and the north kang lived in sons and daughters-in-law, the only thing that can guarantee ** is to pull a cloth curtain, several generations have been accustomed to this way of life, and they still eat, work, and have children without delay.
Zhou Chen walked out of the West Room with Zhou Wanwan in his arms, and the second uncle's family in the West Outer Room was not there, so it was estimated that they all got up early to go to the East House. In the kitchen, the Zhou family was preparing breakfast, the fog was rising, Zhou Chen did not stay, it was still early outside, and there was still no light in the kitchen, so Zhou Wanwan only saw a few figures in a fog.
When he came to the East House, most of the family sat in the east room waiting for breakfast, and the thin and dark old man Zhou sat in the kang against the earthen wall of the kang and smoked his cigarette pouch, and the two-foot-long brass tobacco pouch was sucked by him. On the edge of the kang next to Old Man Zhou sat the eldest son Zhou Chunfa, also black and thin, wearing black cotton pants, the black cotton jacket was covered with a blue card cloth tunics that was a large circle smaller than the cotton jacket, and the shoulders, elbows, and placket were patched with several patches of different colors, and a pen cap was exposed in the conspicuous place of the jacket pocket, and the hem of the cotton jacket was worn to reveal the black and gray old cotton, and the blue cloth liberation hat on the head had been worn for several years, and it would be worn for many more years. Zhou Chunfa was smoking a dry cigarette rolled in newspaper, and the father and son swallowed the clouds and mist, and the entire east and outer rooms were shrouded in a thin cloud of green smoke.
The second, third, and fourth sons of the Zhou family all went to work at the Gancha River water conservancy infrastructure construction site 200 miles away. You don't have to do heavy farm work, you can still get a first-class job, and most importantly, you can talk to the leader, which is a very face-saving job in the countryside. Zhou Chunfa's work has always been the capital that the eldest aunt Wang Fengying repeatedly bragged about in front of everyone, and it made her feel that she was the most powerful daughter-in-law in the Zhou family.
Zhou Chen put Zhou Wanwan and the quilt on the kang, and placed them side by side with his sixth cousin Zhou Lan, who was also wrapped in a thin quilt.
Mrs. Zhou sat on the kang and leaned on the windowsill to patch a piece of clothing by the bright light outside the window, and when she saw the two brothers and sisters coming in, her face squeaked, and she turned around and gave them the back of the head.
Zhou Wanwan doesn't know how yesterday's conflict ended, and I don't know what grievances the two brothers suffered from Mrs. Zhou, but today Mrs. Zhou saw that they just ignored their faces, so she must have found her back yesterday, otherwise with Mrs. Zhou's temper, it would be impossible for their brothers and sisters to enter the door of the East House today.
"Tsk! Wuya, is this really alive? Yesterday, I only had one breath left in the breath there, so why did I throw it out and refresh myself? Wang Fengying sat on the edge of the kang on the top of the Nankang kang, holding her six-year-old daughter Zhou Ling in her arms, and looked at Zhou Wanwan, who was staring at everyone in the room with big eyes.
"My sister is okay!" Zhou Chen tidied up the thin quilt for his sister, didn't look at Wang Fengying, and said coldly.
"Yo! And that's not to make people say! Adults can't support them these days, so what's the point of throwing out a dead child? The sixth team of Liu Dahe's family, throw out the two at once, and there is nothing wrong with them! Wang Fengying pursed her lips and glanced at Zhou Chen with her eyelids.
"Who dares to throw my sister again?!" Zhou Chen's fire came up, his eyes were red and he stared at Wang Fengying, his face was red, and the green tendons on his neck and forehead jumped up and down.
Wang Fengying was stunned by Zhou Chen's sudden anger, and before she could react, Zhou Chen scanned the room with his fists clenched, and asked again through gritted teeth: "Who dares to throw my sister again?!" ”