Zhou Yunmeng sat sideways in the back seat, holding Lin Jinping's waist with both hands through his padded jacket and military coat.

The bike rode smoothly, and there were no bumps in the dirt road through the bamboo forest.

The wind in the cold winter was blowing fiercely, and it was blowing head-on, Zhou Yunmeng sat in the back seat but was not very affected, she was wearing a cotton jacket and hat to cover her head and cheeks on both sides, and Lin Jinping was in front of her to help her block the wind.

This way of travel is really a long time ago, and it is not pleasant.

The two talked on the way.

Zhou Yunmeng: "Jinping, Xiaoying is estimated to have just given birth and is in confinement, I'll go see her." You don't know their family well, so why don't you send me to Xiaoying's house first, and then you go to the department store to buy something, and then come and pick me up to Xiaoqing's house after you finish buying. ”

Xiaomeng visited a friend who was in confinement, and at most she sat in the hall with her husband, so it was better to use the time to go shopping first.

Lin Jinping responded, and asked again: "Then Xiaomeng, do you have enough things, do you want to buy something later?" ”

Zhou Yunmeng: "That's enough, didn't my friends in Shanghai send a lot of things over, I kept some to bring back this time, just thinking about giving them to them." ”

Lin Jinping: "That's good. ”

Thinking of the energy when Lin Jinping and himself went to the department store to buy gifts for his mother's family in the past, Zhou Yunmeng explained: "You will watch and buy later, don't buy too much." ”

With his temperament, he wants to buy anything good and go back to her mother's family.

Lin Jinping laughed sullenly: "I know, I know it in my heart." ”

Zhou Yunmeng reminded: "By the way, you buy a box of alabaster and clam oil for your mother." My mother doesn't have to buy it, I just bought it for her not long ago. If we buy it again, she will definitely scold us for spending money arbitrarily. ”

Anyway, we will live together in the future, and you can buy it at any time when you run out.

Lin Jinping smiled: "Okay, I remember." ”

The couple laughed and soon rode their bikes into the county seat.

Zhou Yunmeng said the direction, rode straight to where and then turned left into the alley, there is a chemical factory family courtyard, which alley and which building door.

She had eaten Xu Xiaoying's warm house banquet before, and she still remembered the location.

When he arrived at the door of the building, Zhou Yunmeng got out of the car.

Lin Jinping looked at her and asked, "You really don't need me to accompany you up?" ”

Zhou Yunmeng pushed his thin and powerful arm: "You really don't need to, you go to the department store to buy something." ”

Lin Jinping held the front of the bicycle with both hands and smiled: "Okay, then I'll see you go up and go." ”

"Then I'll go up first."

Zhou Yunmeng couldn't help him, turned around and went up the stairs, Xu Xiaoying's house was on the fourth floor.

Lin Jinping sat on the bicycle, one foot on the pedal, the other on the ground. When Xiaomeng went up, he couldn't see anyone, and he didn't leave immediately.

When the family building talks in the corridor, it can be transmitted downstairs.

"Bang bang."

"Who? You are? ”

"Hello auntie, I'm Xiaoying's friend Zhou Yunmeng, I came here for the Chinese New Year and wanted to come and see her."

"Yunmeng, I've heard Xiaoying say that you still write often, right? Come in, come in, come in. ”

"Bang." The sound of the door closing.

Lin Jinping was relieved and rode his bicycle to the department store.

On the fourth floor, Zhou Yunmeng entered Xu Xiaoying's house, and the slightly chubby aunt went to the room to say something, so she invited her into the room.

"Okay, thank you, auntie."

Zhou Yunmeng entered the room, and the aunt also closed the door.

She looked over the bed and saw Xu Xiaoying sitting at the head of the bed with her hair scattered, looking at her with a smile: "Yunmeng, are you back?" Come and sit. ”

"Xiaoying, I came back yesterday, and today I entered the county town thinking that you should have given birth and are in confinement, so I came to see you."

Zhou Yunmeng walked over and sat down on the chair next to the bed.

Xu Xiaoying was happy: "It's good to come back, I also think that you should come back in the next few days." I was glad you came to see me the next day after you came back. ”

Zhou Yunmeng glanced inside and smiled: "What about the child, how many days have you been born?" ”

Like many people, or like her at the beginning, when she talked about the child, Xu Xiaoying also showed a soft smile: "It's been a week, and I just came home from the hospital a few days ago. ”

She spent three days in the hospital after giving birth.

The child slept inside, and Xu Xiaoying slightly ripped open the swaddling clothes that wrapped the child, revealing the child's face: "Yunmeng, take a look." ”

Zhou Yunmeng leaned forward slightly and looked inside, she had just heard the aunt say that Xiaoying had given birth to a son. A one-week-old child's face has grown, the skin is smooth, and the small nose and eyes look so cute.

She smiled: "This kid looks strong, he must be more than seven pounds, right?" The mouth and eyebrows are quite like yours. ”

No matter what year it is, the newborn child is praised for being strong, which is something that can make the father and mother happy.

In this era, it is also a matter of pride for a child to be born with more than seven pounds, which shows that she eats well and raises well when she is pregnant.

Xu Xiaoying said: "The boy is stronger, with seven catties and four taels. Yunmeng, don't I often write letters to you, and I learned from you to go to the doctor and ask a lot of things to pay attention to, and I kept it when I was pregnant. ”

She lowered her voice, "And we live as a couple, we can spend the money and tickets of the dual-income workers as much as we want, eat well during pregnancy, and the child will be naturally strong." ”

Xu Xiaoying said this with a smile on her face.

Zhou Yunmeng understood: "I see that you have a good complexion in confinement, and your mother-in-law takes care of you very closely, right?" ”

Xu Xiaoying: "She's okay, she has come here to take care of me since I didn't go to work for eight months." Although I muttered a little, I only took it as a deaf ear. gave birth to a grandson, and she was quite happy. ”

Mother-in-law takes care of her mother-in-law, Xu Xiaoying also knows that it is impossible for her mother to come over to take care of her, and her mother-in-law has taken care of her during this time, she is very satisfied.

Zhou Yunmeng: "It's best if you think like this, anyway, she just takes good care of you and the child, don't care what she says." ”

Xu Xiaoying should be, and asked again: "Hey Yunmeng, you have been at home for two months, how are you okay to come back this time?" It's such a long train ride in winter. ”

Zhou Yunmeng: "I wrapped it tightly, and I wasn't afraid of the wind, and when I came back, my mother and Jinping took care of it, so it's okay." My in-laws haven't seen their granddaughter for a long time, and they are all rushing to hug her. ”

Xu Xiaoying laughed when she heard it: "That's good, it's rare for you to go home for the New Year, have a good time." ”

Zhou Yunmeng nodded: "Well, we will go back on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and this vacation is considered long, and we can live for about seven days." ”

She counted the day she came back on the 27th of the year, but she didn't count the day she returned to the army on the fifth day of the new year.

Xu Xiaoying also expressed understanding.

Zhou Yunmeng opened the package and took out a few pieces of oiled paper stacked and wrapped pig's trotters: "Xiaoying, I'll come over this time to give you a pig's trotters, and you can ask your aunt to go to the grain and oil shop to buy some black beans and sesame seeds, and cook a black bean sesame pig's trotter soup, which is very good for our confinement." ”

As soon as she went upstairs, she moved the pig's trotters from the supermarket to the package by thought.

Pig's trotters are a good thing for mothers to milk, how many people want to buy it but can't buy it, after all, a pig has four hooves, or it has been set in the slaughterhouse, and what can be sold is just out of the news.

The kind that you can't necessarily buy if you go to the queue in the early hours of the morning.

Xu Xiaoying's family has not bought it yet.

So she was very surprised, and her voice unconsciously rose a little higher: "Yunmeng, you are too interesting, you actually brought me a pig's trotter!" ”

Xu Xiaoying, who saw her farewell, may have refused politely, and she couldn't refuse the pig's trotters at all: "Yunmeng, thank you, my man can't buy the pig's trotters several times, and I'm worried that I don't know what to do." ”

Just when the two of them spoke, they lowered their voices, which made Xu Xiaoying's voice louder when she was excited, and the little doll sleeping on the inside had a wrinkled face, and her hands hanging down next to her head moved, showing signs of waking up.

Xu Xiaoying hurriedly silenced, the two quietly looked at each other and smiled for a while, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that the child was about to wake up and finally fell asleep.

Xu Xiaoyingle said: "I was so happy that I didn't notice the voice, and I felt uncomfortable when I woke up the child, and I had to coax it." ”

Zhou Yunmeng smiled with crooked eyebrows: "My family is like this." ”

She placed the trotters on the cabinet next to her and pulled out a piece of baby clothes from the package.

"Xiaoying, I asked my classmate in Shanghai to help buy a piece of clothing for your son to wear. I also wear this dress at home, made of cotton fabric, soft and comfortable to the touch, and very comfortable for children to wear. ”

Before she came, she didn't know that Xu Xiaoying gave birth to a boy and a girl, so she chose a neutral yellow baby clothes.

A small bright yellow dress, you don't need to touch it, just by looking at it with your eyes, you can see that it is a good material, it must be soft and comfortable. What's more, this is still bought in Shanghai.

Xu Xiaoying looked like it, but still refused: "I can't accept Yunmeng's clothes, it's already good that you give me such valuable pig's trotters, you should take the clothes back and give them to Yiyi to wear." ”

Zhou Yunmeng directly stuffed the clothes into her hands: "I bought all the baby clothes, and I bought them specifically for your son to wear." We good friends don't have to be so polite, I can be regarded as watching him be born. ”

The two corresponded from time to time during their pregnancy, telling each other about their own situation, about when Xu Xiaoying had morning sickness, when the fetus moved, and when her feet began to cramp...... She knows it all.

The clothes in his hand were soft, and when Yun Meng's words came to this, Xu Xiaoying was no longer polite.

"Then I thank you for the child's aunt. Whoever comes to visit a friend in confinement and sends pig's trotters and clothes, it's only you. To be honest, my mother's family didn't bring such a heavy gift to visit. ”

Yun Meng said that she would come to see her casually after she came back, but whether it was the rare pig's trotters or the clothes that her classmates bought in Shanghai, they must have been prepared earlier, Xu Xiaoying's heart was clear.

Zhou Yunmeng smiled: "That's different, your mother's side is the affection between family members, and the friendship between me and you is a good friend, it's all good." ”

Xu Xiaoying: "Yes, anyway, Yunmeng really thanks you." You see, I don't have anything for you and Yiyi. ”

Zhou Yunmeng: "Ready, you see that when I was just pregnant, you directly bought a piece of fabric and gave it to me, but it was enough for me to make four clothes to wear." Don't think too much, rest assured that when I return to the army, just write to me often. ”

came to such a trip during the Chinese New Year, and she estimated that she would not have time to come to see Xu Xiaoying again after that.

Xu Xiaoying also knows this truth, so she cherishes the time she spends with her good friends.

The two talked a lot, some about taking care of children, some during pregnancy, some at work, all of which were topics that were talked about in correspondence, which will go deeper.

In the end, it was Zhou Yunmeng who said: "Xiaoying, I'll go first, Jinping just went shopping, this will probably wait for me downstairs." ”

Xu Xiaoying nodded in response, with a little reluctance: "Okay, then you go back and be careful, let's write back and contact." ”

Zhou Yunmeng: "Okay, you have a good confinement, remember to cook that black bean sesame pig's trotter soup to drink, I hope you and the child can be well raised." ”

Xu Xiaoying thanked with a smile.

After Zhou Yunmeng said goodbye to her, he left the room.

The aunt in the hall saw her come out and asked with a smile: "I'm leaving, why don't you sit for a while?" ”

Zhou Yunmeng: "I've been chatting with Xiaoying for a long time, my man just went shopping, this should be waiting for me downstairs, auntie, I'll go first." ”

The aunt sent her out of the house with a smile, and after closing the door, she entered her daughter-in-law's room and said with a smile: "Your friend is very good, and he came to visit you as soon as he came back." ”

When she changed pork before, Xu Xiaoying never told her mother-in-law that this way was Yunmeng's business.

My mother-in-law only knew that she had a friend who went to the army to join the army. It was eight months after she was pregnant, her mother-in-law came to take care of her, she wrote to Yunmeng, and she needed her mother-in-law to go to the post office to receive letters, so she gradually became familiar with Yunmeng's friend.

Knowing what she wanted to ask, Xu Xiaoying pointed to a piece of oilskin paper wrapped in oilskin paper on the cabinet next to the bed: "Mother, Yunmeng specially found someone to buy a pig's trotter for me, saying that boiling black bean sesame pig's trotter soup to drink, I can not only give milk, but also make up for it." ”