Yu Xiangnian hugged Cheng Jingmo back and said, "Cheng Jingmo, you are actually better than me. You have experienced so many hardships since childhood, but you are not negative and gloomy. You have been working hard to make progress, and you have always been tolerant towards everyone."
"For a person like you who has a stable and strong core, you can succeed even without me. You will become a more powerful person than my dad in the future!"
Cheng Jingmo said: "Without your company, success will be less enjoyable."
The two hugged each other and whispered their hearts out.
While chatting, Yu Xiangnian said without warning, "Cheng Jingmo, my stomach hurts a little."
Cheng Jingmo sounded worried, "Did you eat something bad or something happened?"
"I'm here to be my aunt."
"I never heard you say it hurt when you come here."
"Maybe it's just acclimatization."
Cheng Jingmo stood up and lit the kerosene lamp, "I'm going to cook brown sugar-boiled eggs for you."
"Put more brown sugar."
While Cheng Jingmo was boiling eggs in the kitchen, Cheng Huazi came in wearing a cotton-padded jacket and holding cotton-padded shoes.
"Dad, why aren't you sleeping yet?"
"I'm too old to sleep." Cheng Huazi gathered her cotton-padded jacket, "What are you doing?"
Cheng Jingmo said: "Yu Xiangnian is not feeling well, so make her a bowl of brown sugar and egg water."
Cheng Huazi walked to the stove and took a look, then sat on the low stool at the door of the stove.
He took out the dry cigarette from his pocket, picked up the poker, took out a burning firewood from the stove hole, lit the dry cigarette, and took a puff.
Then he said slowly: "Zhouba, you have been married for more than a year, and your wife's belly has not moved?"
The water in the pot boiled. Cheng Jingmo held two eggs in his hand. When he touched them, the eggshells cracked.
He put the eggs into the pot and said calmly, "We don't plan to have children for the time being."
Before Yu Xiangnian proposed the idea of not having children for the time being, Cheng Jingmo had always believed that having children was a matter of course.
If you have it, just wait. If you don’t have it, wait.
But Yu Xiangnian didn't want it, and he respected Yu Xiangnian. Except for the first time, the two of them used contraception every time.
Cheng Huazi had never heard of this statement and said in a dissatisfied tone: "Why don't you marry a daughter-in-law just because she will have children?"
After a pause, he said in a gentle tone, "You kid have had ideas since you were a child. If you don't want it, just don't want it."
"Dad, I have something to entrust to you. It's not a big deal. If you can't make up your mind, go and discuss it with your wife."
Cheng Jingmo's eyes were as cold as ever, "Dad, please tell me."
Cheng Huazi took another puff of dry cigarette and said, "Look, there are so many children at home. Dad is thinking about it and asks you to take one with you. Just choose one from Lao Liu and Da Mao. They are older and obedient. Of course, if there are two If you can bring them all, even better!"
"It's not like you don't know that the children here have a hard life! They can only be farmers all their lives. Now you are promising and have the ability to help your family. They will be as promising as you. Our old Cheng family will remember this Your credit.”
"Besides, Xiaojie has nothing to do with you, and you are willing to raise him. They are your own children, and the family has to help. Your wife looks arrogant, so you should talk to her first. She was mentally prepared."
What Cheng Huazi said seemed to imply that Cheng Jingmo would agree to take the child.
Cheng Jingmo's eyes fell on the eggs rolling in the pot, and he listened quietly. It wasn't until Cheng Huazi finished speaking that Cheng Jingmo said, "Dad, this can't work."
Cheng Huazi's tobacco stick stopped in mid-air, "Why not?"
Cheng Jingmo said: "Xiaojie has no father or mother, so we will adopt him."
In other words, since Lao Liu and Da Mao's parents are still here, it is impossible for him to raise them.
"That's what you said!" Cheng Huazi said in a cold tone, "Raising one is just a matter of raising, raising two is just a matter of adding a pair of chopsticks! Your wife is idle anyway, so it won't be hard for her to raise two children!"
Cheng Jingmo said: "She is not idle, she does a lot of things."
Cheng Huazi asked: "What can she do? Even clothes and cooking are all done by you!"
The eggs in the pot were already cooked. Cheng Jingmo used a spatula to shovel the eggs and sugar water into the bowl.
"What she does is more meaningful than these. She can translate foreign words into Chinese words, she can also cure diseases and save people, and she also knows a lot of knowledge that we don't understand!"
"Dad, I don't agree with this, please don't mention it again."
Cheng Jingmo put out the fire in the stove, walked out of the kitchen with a kerosene lamp in one hand and eggs in the other.
Cheng Huazi was left sitting on a low stool, the smoke flickering in the darkness.
Cheng Jingmo opened the door to the room, put the bowl on the bedside table, "Eat while it's hot."
Yu Xiangnian sat up from the bed and pouted, "You put ginger in."
She smelled it, and she didn't like the smell of ginger.
"I only put two small pieces so that my stomach will be warm after drinking it." Cheng Jingmo said as if coaxing a child, "I'll feed you. Don't pant when you drink, and you won't be able to smell it."
Zhang Hongli and Cheng Shuansuo in the next room had just finished their work.
Zhang Hongli wiped it with paper and said in a low voice: "Listen! This vixen is bossing her man around in the middle of the night!"
Cheng Shuansuo half-closed his eyes and said lazily, "If you want to grow up like her, I'll be at your mercy."
Zhang Hongli twisted his arm heavily, "I knew you were attracted to her! The night she came, your eyes were straight!"
Cheng Shuansuo pushed her away, "Go away! Stop talking nonsense here!"
Zhang Hongli became even more angry and twisted her hands even harder, "Am I talking nonsense?! You used to come here only once every three to five days. Since she came, you have come every night. You think I am her!"
Cheng Shuansuo turned his back to her and stopped answering.
I don’t know if it’s because I’m tired, or because I’ve been told what I meant.
Another room.
Li Cuihua covered Da Mao who was kicking the quilt, turned around and said, "Tie him down, Brother Picker is so kind to his wife!"
Cheng Shuanshuo fell into a drowsy sleep, "Yeah."
Li Cuihua approached him and said, "Tie them down, I'm telling you. They'll be at home for a month. If there's anything we don't like, keep it to yourself and don't offend them."
"Brother Zhaiwa supports half of our family! Besides, Brother Zhaiwa is so promising now, maybe we will have something to ask of him in the future! We can't offend them, do you hear me?"
Cheng Shuansu said half-awake: "Brother Zhaiwa and I were very happy when we were young. We went up mountains and rivers together to find food. When others bullied him, I helped him. Besides, he doted on his wife and didn't use my money. , he didn’t let me contribute, why should I offend him!”
"As long as you know this!" Li Cuihua also lay down, "Go to sleep, we will go to work early tomorrow morning."
After Yu Xiangnian drank the brown sugar water, he lay down and fell asleep, but his stomach hurt and he couldn't sleep.
When Cheng Jingmo lay down, a pair of warm hands covered Yu Xiangnian's abdomen.
"Close your eyes and I'll rub them for you."
"Cheng Jingmo, how do you know this?"
If Yu Xiangnian hadn't known that Cheng Jingmo had never been in love, she would have thought that it was his ex-girlfriend who trained him.
Cheng Jingmo replied: "I heard it from my comrades who got married."
Yu Xiangnian didn't know when he fell asleep.
