The next day, Cao Bamei brought her second daughter to the hospital to visit Baby Luo again.
"I'm worried that the medical clinic's conditions are poor and the food it makes won't taste good, so I brought some vegetable and pork liver porridge from the restaurant to supplement the baby's health," Cao Bamei said.
Yang Ruoqing said: "You are interested. It just so happens that I am planning to go out today to buy some fresh pork liver and come back to make porridge for her."
Cao Bamei said: "Your own restaurant is located in the county town. You can just give orders for what you want to eat. Why do you need to go and buy it yourself?"
Yang Ruoqing smiled, glanced at the two little girls playing beside the bed in the room, and said to Cao Bamei, "I always want to make something for her with my own hands."
Cao Bamei could understand Yang Ruoqing's mood and said: "The days are still long. You can do it by yourself when you are free. When you are busy, I just give you instructions."
Yang Ruoqing nodded.
Mrs. Sun came over and took the food box.
"I'll take it to the small kitchen next door and give it to her when it's hot at noon. She had vegetable buns in the morning," the woman said.
"Qing'er, please chat with Bamei."
Yang Ruoqing curled her lips.
Cao Bamei said: "Third Aunt is so polite, I am not an outsider."
After Sun left, Yang Ruoqing took Cao Bamei and sat down on the other side of the bed, and the two of them started making housework.
Since it was a commonplace conversation, it was natural to go around in circles and return to Changping Village and Lao Yang’s house.
"Qing'er, during the period when you were not in the village, a lot of things happened in our old Yang family. To use a sentence in the play, it is: one wave is over, another wave is rising again!" Cao Bamei said.
Yang Ruoqing raised her eyebrows, "When I came back yesterday, I came to the county hospital without even bothering to eat. I didn't even have time to go to my mother's house to have a family dinner."
"What's going on? Tell me."
Cao Bamei started talking about the second time Yang Huaming fell ill and was sent to the county hospital. Then she talked about the morning of the heavy rain, when Tan fell into the ditch in the backyard and broke his bones...
"Oh, let me go. This is a second injury to my mother. She was hit and injured by her fourth uncle when I was at home a while ago," Yang Ruoqing said.
"It seems that this year is unlucky. God is specifically trying to get in trouble with my grandma!"
The humorous tone made Cao Bamei laugh.
"Qing'er, you are a poor talker. You don't know how much trouble our grandma's fracture caused in our old Yang family. The first ones to suffer were your mother and your fifth aunt!" Cao Bamei said.
This time, Yang Ruoqing couldn't laugh anymore.
"No need to guess, my mother and my fifth aunt must be the ones to step up and shoulder the burden of taking care of me once my baby falls, right?" she asked.
Cao Bamei nodded, "That's true. Aunt Mei'er, Liu'er and Aunt Xiaojuan take turns serving each other."
Yang Ruoqing said: "I came back in such a hurry yesterday that I didn't even go into the village to see my grandparents, and they didn't come over either. They probably didn't know I was back."
"I don't know what's going on right now?"
Cao Bamei said: "Yongjin and I went back for a visit some time ago. He has been injured for a hundred days. The doctor said that his leg bones were broken and he will have to lie in bed for at least three months."
Yang Ruoqing nodded. An average adult would have to recuperate for such a long time after breaking a bone, let alone Tan, an old lady in her sixties?
At this age, the elderly already have osteoporosis, so the recovery period is probably longer.
"I find that the older my grandma gets, the more childish she becomes." Cao Bamei said in a low voice.
Yang Ruoqing raised her lips: "How do you say this?"
Cao Bamei thought for a moment and said, "For example, it's like the last time we went back to see her, right? She had already returned to the village from the medical center, and the doctor said she could go home and take care of herself."
"It stands to reason that your mother, your fifth aunt, and others have agreed to take turns to serve her,"
"However, she is unhappy, loses her temper at every turn, and refuses to drink water or eat."
"When I was dressing her, I really didn't use much force, but she just cried out in pain."
"Master, your father shouldn't shout when they are not around. When they are around, they shout very fiercely."
"There are obviously so many people at home serving her, but she still thinks it's not enough. She wishes she could have her fifth uncle and your second brother put down everything they were doing and go to her. She even asked someone to send you a message asking you to come back. Make up your mind and say you are the backbone..."
Hearing this, Yang Ruoqing couldn't help but smile.
"How could I, Yang Ruoqing, be so virtuous and talented that I can still make her old man think about me at a moment like this!" she joked.
Cao Bamei also laughed, and continued: "My father and my third uncle told me a lot, saying that someone in this family must make money outside, so I let your second brother go."
After hearing what Cao Bamei said, Yang Ruoqing didn't know what to say.
When an old man is sick, it is natural for the younger generation to take care of him.
But there has always been a tradition in the village. If an old man has a son or daughter-in-law, it is usually the son-in-law who fulfills his filial piety.
The grandchildren stay behind.
But if the son and wife are gone, it will definitely fall on the shoulders of the grandchildren.
Therefore, in the situation of the old Yang family, with Yang Huazhong, Sun family Bao Suyun, Liu family Xiaojuan and the others at home, Yang Yongjin and Cao Bamei do not need to take special leave to come back to serve.
Because the family really has enough manpower.
But Tan couldn't understand it, and there was nothing he could do about it.
As he spoke, Mrs. Sun came back.
Yang Ruoqing then asked Mrs. Sun, "Mom, I just heard about what happened at the old house with my eighth sister. What's going on with my mother now?"
Mrs. Sun was startled for a moment, then smiled and said, "What else could happen? Everyone takes turns waiting on you. A while ago, it was me and your fifth aunt who waited on you."
"I can't even take care of the baby when he's sick. Fortunately, your mother-in-law and your aunt are here to take good care of the baby."
"Now that I'm in the county town, it should be your fifth aunt and your fourth aunt who take turns serving your milk. When we return to the village, I will take over."
Yang Ruoqing nodded and said, "What about fourth uncle? I heard he got sick again and beat people up? So what's going on right now?"
"When your fourth uncle got sick the second time, he hit someone and swollen the face of everyone in the village."
"Your father and your father were both frightened at the time. On the one hand, they hurriedly sent your fourth uncle to the hospital in the county for treatment. On the other hand, the man who bought gifts from the area came to apologize."
"You broke your leg after less than two days of treatment at the county hospital. Then you sent the news to the county,"
"Your father quickly went back to take care of your milk, so your father and your third brother were left in the county."
"Your fourth uncle was treated in the county town for a few days. After his condition became more stable, he was able to recognize his family members, and then he was brought back to the village."
"The current situation is that your father was afraid that he would go out and run around again, and that he would suddenly go crazy again and hurt the children at home, so he cleared out the house in the backyard where Ju'er and Chen Biao once lived, and dedicated it to your fourth uncle. "
"And your father doesn't go anywhere now. He stays in the backyard every day, watching your fourth uncle!"
"Things have been relatively stable during this period, and I haven't gone crazy."
