Changping Village.
At noon, someone came to Luo's house again to visit Yang Ruoqing, a pregnant woman.
"Sister, it's true that you only tell them such a huge happy event and don't tell me. Does this mean you don't regard me as your sister? Or is it that our Xiang family's eggs are not delicious?"
Yang Ruoqing scolded Yang Ruoqing in front of her if he dared to come in. However, Yang Ruoqing was one of the few people in the world who could only smile.
The Duo'er in front of me counts as one.
"My dear sister, you are not angry with your elder sister anymore. Isn't that because we are inviting you to dinner? Seeing that you brought your children over so late at night and causing trouble, I didn't ask your brother-in-law to call you."
Yang Ruoqing held Duo'er's hand and explained with a smile.
Duo'er wasn't really angry in the first place. She was acting deliberately just now. This can be regarded as a kind of coquettish behavior between a younger sister and an elder sister.
"Sister, let me see your belly quickly."
My own sisters are so good. One second they were bickering, but the next second their attention can return to more important things.
"Okay, look." Yang Ruoqing stood up straight and put her hands behind her back.
Xiaoduo bent down to look at it, and even stretched out his hand to touch it.
As if she was concerned about something, she raised her head and glanced at her brother-in-law Luo Fengtang.
She seemed to be asking her brother-in-law if she, the sister-in-law, could touch her sister's big belly.
Luo Fengtang was stunned for a moment, a little surprised.
He raised his hand and stroked the tip of his tall nose, and said to Yang Ruoqing: "Qing'er, you sisters speak first. I'll go to the front room."
"Well, go ahead."
When Luo Fengtang walked into the yard, Xiaoduo's voice in the room reached his ears and was clearly audible.
"Sister, I want to touch my two nephews, please quickly lift up your clothes and expose your belly!"
Luo Fengtang almost staggered.
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In the room, Yang Ruoqing rearranged her clothes.
Xiaoduo stood aside, the joy on his face could not be contained.
"Sister, this is incredible. When I heard my mother say it before, I couldn't believe it."
"How can our dolls grow so long? I thought they were just one baby for several months."
"Don't tell me it's you, even I didn't notice it." Yang Ruoqing caressed her belly and leaned lazily on the imperial concubine's couch.
"Sister, it's hard to tell that you are twins because of the size of your belly. I strongly suspect that the two babies this time are not too big, so you need to eat more. It doesn't matter whether you like to eat or not. I can’t choose. I have to think more about our nephews.”
Yang Ruoqing looked at Xiaoduo with a smile and said jokingly: "The tone of your words is both sophisticated and familiar. No need to guess, this is what my mother asked you to tell me, right?"
Being exposed at once, Xiaoduo didn't feel guilty at all, but smiled playfully.
She came to Yang Ruoqing and squatted down, making fists with both hands and gently beating Yang Ruoqing's legs.
"My mother and I both mean the same thing. You were a bit picky about food before, but you can't anymore now, do you understand?"
"I know, I know, my mother keeps nagging in my ears every day. She knows I'm annoying her, so I'll let you speak now."
"Hey, it doesn't matter who says it, it's all for your own good anyway, you know it yourself."
"Yeah, I understand."
"So, from now on, I will ask Katsuo to bring you a jug of milk every morning, and you have to drink it for me. You are not allowed to stop drinking it!"
Yang Ruoqing looked at Xiaoduo and knew that this was her main purpose.
"No, it's too much trouble to ask him to deliver her every day. There are so many things going on in the pasture. Don't bother him. I'll just get pregnant!" Yang Ruoqing quickly refused.
But my heart was very touched.
Because my sister is so considerate and considerate of herself, milk is a rare thing in this era.
At the beginning, the purpose of raising dairy cows was mainly to keep Jiaojiao in good health. One cow could only produce so much milk, especially since the hot season was coming, the milk production had decreased, and the storage conditions were not suitable...
"Sister, your pregnancy this time is different from the past. You are thirty years old. How can you compare with someone younger in body and bones?"
"What? I dislike your sister because I am old?"
In modern times, thirty years old is the time when a woman is full of charm.
When the youthfulness fades away and the femininity fully blooms, the sister who rides the wind and waves is still in bloom.
Of course, it was different in ancient times. Houses with good conditions were naturally well maintained, but women from farmers' houses and traffickers' and servants' houses were in misery.
Take Yang Huamei, for example. She is thirty-three years old. Not only is she a mother-in-law in terms of status, but she also looks old and haggard in appearance, which matches her status as a mother-in-law.
What a sad match this is!
"Sister, you are not old, not at all." Xiaoduo quickly changed her words.
"Anyway, I'll just pack the milk for my step sister and my two nephews."
Yang Ruoqing smiled and did not object, and asked Xiaoduo: "How is Jiaojiao's body now? Last time you went to your parents' home during the Dragon Boat Festival, you didn't bring the child back for us to see."
"I'm too busy, I'm too lazy to take care of her. Besides, now that Lingling helps me take care of Jiaojiao, the two sisters are having fun together." Xiaoduo said with a smile.
"She hasn't gotten sick at all in the past six months. In the past, every spring, she would get sick whenever the wind blew or she broke out in a sweat."
"As for the cough, it hasn't stopped. It's much better this year. Katsuo and I are having fun!"
"That's good, but we can't take it lightly."
"Well, that's necessary."
"Is it because you didn't bring Jiaojiao here today?"
"Haha, my sister has guessed this. It's hot, so I can just go for a run alone. I don't want to take her out."
"Hey, I haven't seen Jiaojiao for a few days. I wonder if you can take Jiaojiao back to your mother's house to stay for two days on a rainy day. Mom must miss Jiaojiao too."
"Okay, if my sister and mother are free, we can also go to the pasture for a meal."
The two sisters talked about themselves for a while, and then Xiaoduo got up to say goodbye.
Yang Ruoqing left her alone: "You've already gone down the mountain, why don't you go back without having lunch? Just eat here. I'll call my mother over later to eat together."
But Xiaoduo was thinking about the pasture and refused.
Yang Ruoqing had no choice but to ask Luo Fengtang to drive a carriage to see her off.
In order to avoid suspicion, Xiaoduo refused to give him away alive or dead.
Yang Ruoqing wanted to say that she would give it away together, but Sun got the upper hand.
"It just so happens that your father is not at home today, and it's boring for me to be home alone. I'll go to the grassland with Tang Yazi to see Jiaojiao, and we'll follow the car back later."
If Sun wants to go, Xiaoduo will naturally not refuse.
Yang Ruoqing also thought this was a good idea. While Sun and Xiaoduo were chatting under the shade of the trees at the entrance of the yard and waiting for Luo Fengtang, Yang Ruoqing and Luo Fengtang were tying a carriage in the yard.
Hitching the carriage was an excuse. The carriage had already been hitched, and now the couple was just moving things into the carriage.
A round basket containing two boxes of palace peach blossom cakes.
