"The wind has picked up and it's a bit cold. Let's go downstairs and drink some hot tea in my room."
Guessing the time, Yang Ruoqing stood up and greeted Xiaoduo and He Lianer.
"OK."
The three of them were about to come down. Xiaoduo, with sharp eyes, suddenly pointed at a place and said loudly, "Look, our mother and Aunt He are there?"
Yang Ruoqing and He Lian'er both stopped and looked around. It was indeed Sun and He's mother.
The two women walked side by side to the vegetable garden on the east side of the village, with Mrs. Sun carrying a basket in her arms.
"It looks like I'm picking vegetables."
"Picking vegetables? You can't. The pile of vegetables at noon hasn't been finished yet."
"It's possible to dig wild vegetables. There are two small shovels in my mother's basket." Yang Ruoqing said.
"Ah, sister, can you even see this? Are these the eyes of an eagle?" Xiaoduo asked.
Everyone in the village knows that the eagle's eyes are very powerful. When it flies so high in the sky, it can see a few chicks hiding on the ground beside the piles of firewood. If it pounces down with a sudden thrust, the pair of eagle's talons that look like iron hooks will be visible. Can catch a chick in the air.
Yang Ruoqing chuckled, "My eyes are so powerful, aren't you envious?"
Xiaoduo also laughed, "I can't help but envy you!"
"You are no longer poor, let Lian'er see the joke." Yang Ruoqing said.
He Lian'er kept watching the two sisters-in-law bickering with a smile on her face. When she heard this, she quickly shook her head: "How could that be? I like hearing it very much."
This is true. She likes this close and cheerful atmosphere very much. This is the way real sisters get along with their families!
Xiaoduo said: "As long as you like it, my sister, me, and Hua'er who went to the capital, we were all like this when we were together, and then there was another one like you, and we all said that three women are one." For Taiwanese opera, there are four of us, so we have to sing a big opera."
He Lian'er smiled shyly.
Yang Ruoqing took He Lian'er's hand and said, "It doesn't matter what kind of opera we sing, let's go down first and talk about it later."
Although it is February and the earth is getting warmer, it is still a bit chilly in the morning and evening.
This is the so-called late spring cold.
Every year in the late spring, many frail people in the village fall ill, and the elderly and children almost cross the threshold of Fu Bo's house.
Back in the warm room in the backyard, Yang Ruoqing took two bowls and brewed a bowl of something fragrant and bitter for Xiao Duo and He Lian'er respectively.
"Sister, what is this? It looks like black tea, but it tastes bitter and sweet, like medicine."
Xiaoduo took a sip, and her beautiful eyebrows suddenly frowned.
He Lian'er also tilted her head, her delicate face slightly confused.
Yang Ruoqing said: "This is isatis root, it is medicine, but it is medicine for health care. Drinking it can drive away the cold and prevent you from catching cold and getting sick."
He Lian'er smiled tenderly, "Since it's my sister's kindness, then Lian'er will drink it."
He Lianer drank happily, but Xiaoduo was a little hesitant.
"Sister, no matter what kind of medicine it is, I have disliked taking medicine the most since I was a child. Can I not drink it... Ah sneeze!"
Before she could finish her words, she sneezed loudly.
"Look, you were slapped in the face just after you said that, right?"
"Drink quickly, drink quickly, even if you don't think about yourself, you still have to think about Jiaojiao, right?"
"Okay, I'll drink, I'll drink."
Xiaoduo pinched her nose and drank it all in one breath.
After finishing the drink, I burped loudly, pinched a gummy on the plate and ate it.
She originally thought the candy was sweet, but she didn't expect it to be soft in her mouth, like apricots in May. She shivered unexpectedly.
Looking at Yang Ruoqing again, she also twisted two gummies in her hand and put them into her mouth without even frowning.
Xiaoduo suddenly felt that something was wrong.
"Sister, why don't you drink? Aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"
He Lian'er suddenly said something.
This is what Xiaoduo wants to ask, but it is not what she wants to ask the most.
Yang Ruoqing raised her hand and wiped her forehead, "I'm not cold at all. I was sweating a little just now."
In fact, I am embarrassed to say that since she became pregnant, someone has kept her like a pet.
Even though her outer clothes were about the same thickness as the clothes they both wore, she was 'forcibly' stuffed with two cotton-padded clothes inside. Except for the cloak and cloak, the rest were all winter attire.
cold?
Just kidding.
"Sister, your health is really good. My hands were a little cold just now, but after drinking a bowl of isatis root, I felt much warmer."
He Lian'er smiled, her eyes calm and well-behaved.
Yang Ruoqing liked this simple girl very much, and pushed the gummies on the plate in front of He Lian'er.
"Here, eat some candy. This candy has a sour and sweet taste."
"OK."
"Ah, I remembered what I wanted to say!"
Xiaoduo suddenly slapped his head and exhaled.
Two sets of eyes fell on her, full of question marks.
“Sister, this sugar is so sour that you’ll lose your teeth, how can you still eat it so happily?”
"And during today's banquet, I found that your food was several times bigger."
"In the past, you were most afraid of getting fat. What's going on? Could it be that you, you..."
Yang Ruoqing held her chin with her hands and looked at Xiaoduo with a smile, waiting for her to peel off the cocoons layer by layer.
He Lian'er's mouth was slightly open and she continued to look at Xiao Duo in confusion.
She was just a young girl, she had never experienced many things, and she couldn't understand them.
"Sister, tell me honestly, how many months has it been? Does your brother-in-law know? Do your parents know?"
How many months?
No matter how naive He Lian'er was, she could still guess what was going on.
Her surprised gaze also turned to Yang Ruoqing's abdomen.
My sister’s belly is still flat.
But there was starlight in my sister's curved eyes, and there was a sweet smile at the corners of her eyes and eyebrows.
"Your brother-in-law knew it before I did."
Speaking of this, Yang Ruoqing covered her face in embarrassment.
She herself, Madaha, didn't pay much attention to the changes in her body, but he discovered it first.
"My parents also know that, now we have you and Lian'er added to the family, well, that's all."
Xiaoduo suddenly became excited, fluttering like a duck and ran to Yang Ruoqing, squatting there to touch Yang Ruoqing's belly.
Her reaction was a bit loud and her movements were a bit exaggerated, which made He Lian'er embarrassed to sit down and stood up.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm going to be an aunt again, it's great, great, great."
"Sister, this doesn't show off your pregnancy at all. You are so young!"
"Well, let's take it as a month."
"Oh? I have to keep it a secret for now, and wait until the fetal phase is stable after three months before announcing it to everyone."
"Sister, will it be twins again this time?"
"Don't be too talkative." Yang Ruoqing said.
"Why are you talking about crow's mouth? How good are twins? If you give birth to two, you will make a lot of money."
"It's good to make money, but people also suffer. When I was pregnant with Chen'er and the baby, my waist almost broke."
"It was difficult to give birth to two babies at once. That fear has sustained me for more than ten years."
"If you're so scared, why are you pregnant again?"
"You really don't want to pick up the pot." Yang Ruoqing rolled her eyes at Xiaoduo.
