Li Xiuxin was helped to the wedding room, but the child was intercepted by Tan and other women on the way.
"There are many guests in front of us today. Drinking and talking are too noisy, which will scare the children. Let the children go to my room first!" said Tan.
So he carried the cradle to the east room where Tan was, laid out the cradle, and put the child in the cradle.
Yang Ruoqing and the others all came to the east room and gathered around the cradle to look at the child.
The child was awake, neither crying nor fussing. He was lying quietly in the cradle with his big eyes open and moving slowly. The thin down on his forehead made him look so petite, soft and fragile. .
"Please help me take a look. What does this child look like? Does he look exactly like my Yongxian?"
Mrs. Tan stood by the cradle, leaning slightly, holding the handrails beside the cradle with both hands, and asked the other people around her eagerly.
"This child is good-looking, with straight eyebrows, fair complexion, big eyes, small nose and small mouth. He is very rare!" Bao Suyun praised while looking at him.
Mrs. Sun also said: "Yes, this hair is black. Li Xiuxin took good care of the child. It is clean, there is no fetal casing, and the body smells like milk."
Tan said: "How can this be attributed to Li Xiuxin? This is clearly like our Yongxian. When we were young, our Yongxian was also very clean and didn't wet the bed."
Yang Huamei smiled and said: "Mom, you are such a rare Yongxian, even your words are biased. Such a young child, even if he follows Yongxian to clean up, he still has to rely on adults to take a bath and change clothes. Take care of it, right? Is it possible that he can still get up from the cradle and clean it up by himself? "
Being so squeezed by Yang Huamei, Tan became silent.
The guys then looked at the child, and Mrs. Liu said: "This child is good at everything, but there is one thing that isn't so good about him. He is too thin."
Cao Bamei said: "She was born prematurely for more than a month. It's pretty good to grow like this."
Zhao Liu'er also nodded and said: "It will be good now that we have returned to our old Yang's family. With careful conditioning over time, our body bones will definitely grow stronger and stronger."
Everyone gathered around the cradle and said auspicious words, and the child suddenly started to cry with his mouth flat.
"Are you hungry or peeing?" asked Sun.
Bao Suyun then reached into the quilt and touched it, "No urine."
"Then it's probably because he's hungry, so he needs to be carried to Li Xiuxin so that he can breastfeed the child." Mrs. Tan was anxious and urged.
Sun said: "Mom, please wait a moment. Li Xiuxin has just walked in. In the front yard, they should be preparing to serve tea to sister-in-law and Mei Ying."
Hearing this, Mrs. Tan fell silent, and everyone else understood.
Li Xiuxin is a concubine. When a concubine enters the house, the marriage ceremony will be different from that of a real wife.
According to the customs in Mianniushan, a concubine is not qualified to worship the heaven, earth and high hall with her husband when she enters the house, let alone getting married.
Therefore, Li Xiuxin's etiquette was to wait for Yang Yongxian to remove her hijab in the wedding room, and then come over to kowtow to her mother-in-law and his wife Liao and serve tea.
"Should we also go to the front yard and have a look?" Ms. Liu asked.
Yang Huamei said: "I definitely have to go see it, Qing'er, let's go together!"
Mrs. Sun said: "The kitchen cannot be separated from people. You go ahead and I will guard the kitchen."
Bao Suyun glanced at the nieces and nephews who were about to make a move, and said with a smile: "My third sister-in-law and I will guard the kitchen. If you want to see it, go and see it. After you finish it, come back and cook."
So, Yang Huamei and Mrs. Liu took the lead and quickly ran to the front yard to watch the fun.
Mrs. Tan said: "You want to come together, but when you want to leave, everyone disperses. What are you doing by handing a crying baby to me, a blind old woman?"
Mrs. Sun stopped and smiled and said to Ms. Tan: "Mom, logically speaking, this child should have been fed when he came here. Li Xiuxin should have thought that she would be busy for a while after arriving. The child should not be hungry. It is a change. We arrived in a strange place, and just now we surprised him with the large number of people."
"We are all leaving now. If you rock the cradle a few times, you may fall asleep. If not, we can call Li Xiuxin later."
Sun's words made Tan feel a little more at ease.
"Where's Xiaojuan?" she asked suddenly.
Mrs. Sun was startled for a moment and said, "I didn't see him. Maybe he was watching the fun in the front yard with Goudan."
Tan said: "I follow Goudan around all day long. Goudan is over two years old and just plays by himself. This woman is just lazy, otherwise she would be here to help me!"
Sun and Bao Suyun looked at each other and ignored Tan's muttering. The two sisters quickly went to the kitchen to take care of things.
In the front yard, when Yang Ruoqing and the others arrived, they happened to catch up with Li Xiuxin kowtowing to Jin and Liao and serving tea.
"Ah, how come Li Xiuxin looks more delicate and prettier after giving birth than when she first married into our old Yang family? What's going on?"
Ms. Liu was a talkative person, so she asked in surprise when she saw him at first sight.
Cao Bamei glanced at Mrs. Liu and said in a low voice: "Fourth Aunt, it's better not to say anything about this first marriage."
Ms. Liu rolled her eyes, realizing that she had let slip, so she quickly changed her mind and said, "Eight Sister, do you also feel that Li Xiuxin's complexion has improved and she has become more energetic?"
Cao Bamei narrowed her eyes and said, "Well, she's not ugly to begin with, and after undergoing confinement care, she deserves to have a good complexion."
"This look really overwhelms Mei Ying. Hey, with such a beloved son as a bargaining chip, Li Xiuxin might turn over and ride on Mei Ying's head tomorrow!" Mrs. Liu whispered again.
These conversations continued to reach Yang Ruoqing's ears.
She frowned and was about to say a few words to remind Mrs. Liu to be careful, but someone had already spoken out first.
"Fourth sister-in-law, just look at this. You are talking endlessly with your mouth open? If you keep making noise, don't stay with us anymore. It makes my head hurt and I can't hear them clearly over there. What are you talking about!"
That's right, the one who dared to be so direct without giving Liu any face was naturally Yang Huamei.
Mrs. Liu was dissatisfied with Yang Huamei in her heart, but due to Yang Huamei's weight in Mr. Tan's position, Mrs. Liu was not able to confront Yang Huamei head-on.
He curled his lips, snorted and took two steps away, standing next to Zhao Liu'er.
Yang Huamei also rolled her eyes, turned around and continued to watch with Yang Ruoqing, pricking up her ears to listen.
Over there, Jin is deaf and mute, so naturally he can't speak. He can only sit there and laugh stupidly.
Beside, Liao Meiying, who was dressed in formal attire, looked at the tea that Li Xiuxin brought to her with both hands, and did not rush to take it.
Instead, in a calm and energetic voice, she said to Li Xiuxin very gently: "We have entered Lao Yang's house, and we have married and raised children together. This is also fate."
"I hope you can abide by your duties in the future, serve your husband well, and contribute to the success of the Yang family!"
