1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 92: I became so fat during confinement (please follow up)

 In the countryside of this era.

 Preferring sons over daughters is a common phenomenon. Although Li Duoyu likes little cotton-padded jackets, everyone would be happy if they gave birth to a son.

The child is small, weighing just over six pounds.

 Wrapped in cotton cloth, she sleeps with her eyes closed most of the time, but as soon as she wakes up, she starts crying for milk.

 After finishing drinking, I started to say um um.

 Wake up four or five times a night.

 It’s a toss-up!

But Li Duoyu didn't feel annoyed, maybe because he felt that he was indebted. After all, at this time in his previous life, he was still squatting.

 In this life, Zhou Xiaoying was able to give birth so smoothly. Li Duoyu felt that it might have something to do with nutrition, body, and mental state.

 In his previous life, although his parents helped him, the man was imprisoned, which was a bit desolate when he thought about it.

 In this life, Zhou Xiaoying did not show the tiredness of a pregnant woman even after giving birth.

He couldn't bear to look away from the child for a moment, his eyes were full of love, and Li Duoyu felt a little jealous when he looked at her.

 After having this child.

Li Duoyu found that the 1.5-meter bed was a little too small. These days he could only sleep on the floor.

Unable to sleep in the middle of the night, he carefully observed this home and found that it had not changed much from the later generations.

The stone house is short, only more than two meters high. It has only three rooms: a bedroom, a small living room and a kitchen. Even the furniture has not been changed much.

 It’s just such a small house.

 Zhou Xiaoying lived there for more than thirty years.

The only time he added a new building was when his son got married. He was afraid that his daughter-in-law would have no land to live in when she returned to her hometown, so Li Duoyu added an extra layer to the original one.

  It can be stamped on.

 The daughter-in-law never came back.

Possibly because of the familiarity, Li Duoyu found that he had been living in this small house very comfortably for so long since he was reborn, and he actually had no idea of ​​changing to a bigger house.

 But now the child is born.

In addition to what he said, the house and bed are indeed a bit small. To be honest, if Li Duoyu can't help but want to come at night, he probably has to do it secretly and not too violently, otherwise he might wake up the child. Braking halfway.

For the sake of everyone's happiness, Li Duoyu silently put the plan to build a new house on the agenda.

 And here at Dandan Island.

There are many rules for visiting newborns. First of all, during the week after the birth, relatives are not allowed to visit. Those with conflicting zodiac signs cannot visit, and those born in the year of Tiger are not allowed to visit the newborn.

Li Haoran is a tiger.

 I tried to peek at my cousin several times, but Chen Huiying caught me and gave me a hard lesson.

 About the second week.

Relatives on the island came to visit one after another, some bringing dry goods and some bringing red envelopes.

Having a new child is a big event for the Li family. What Li Duoyu didn't expect was that his third uncle brought a longevity lock and a pair of silver bracelets.

Li Duoyu knew who sent it without even guessing. His third uncle said that the old lady was not doing well recently and her appetite had been greatly reduced.

 Sometimes awake, sometimes confused.

Two days ago, after I learned that the Li family had a new baby, I finally woke up for a long time, so I quickly had all my silverware melted, and made new longevity locks and silver bracelets.

Chen Huiying sighed and accepted the gift from her third uncle. She was no longer angry with the old lady.

There is an old saying:

 Whether the parents-in-law treat their daughter-in-law well or not can be seen as soon as she is in confinement.

 As for Zhou Xiaoying, who is both a daughter and a daughter-in-law, she is naturally cared for like a national treasure. In addition, Li Duoyu rescued people some time ago, and others gave her a lot of goodies.

 Plus, these days, relatives sent me. Zhou Xiaoying felt like she was being fed like a pig during these days of confinement. She kept eating and eating every day, but she still couldn't finish it.

 Squid sow stewed pig tail bone, red sturgeon oil rice.

 But Li Duoyu suffered because he destroyed half of the confinement meals.

 Whenever Zhou Xiaoying couldn't eat and was afraid of being scolded by her mother, she would ask Li Duoyu to help her eat it.

Zhou Xiaoying has been in confinement for more than ten days. She has not gained weight, but Li Duoyu has become plump first. He touched the layer of fat on his belly and felt a little helpless. All the fat had grown on him.

 And the most terrifying thing is.

Since the tenth day, Aniang said that Xiaoying’s milk supply was too little.

 Children don’t drink enough.

So, we started to kill the chickens. In the following days, it was all hard vegetables, such as sesame oil chicken, stewed stone Jiugong soup, and cuttlefish soup.

During this period, Li Duoyu found that eating too much was a real torture. Apart from him, the little fat man and the two hundred and five on the fishing raft were also visibly rounder.

 During Li Duoyu's confinement period, Chen Dongqing went to the kelp field every day, measuring the seawater temperature from time to time to see how the kelp was growing.

Seeing that the kelp looks the same every day, he is very happy, but what he is most worried about now is the problem of drying the kelp.

Due to insufficient space on Dandan Island, if we harvest all at once, we may not have anywhere to dry the crops. In the end, we have no choice but to dry them on the beach.

After seeing the drying issue raised by Chen Dongqing, Li Duoyu was not anxious at all, because Chen Wenchao had already set off for Dazhu Village in Gushan in the past few days.

Furthermore, Lao Li also negotiated a price with Uncle San, Uncle Zhuang and the others and rented all the vacant tidal flats.

Chen Dongqing still felt that something was wrong with Li Duoyu's use of bamboo racks to dry kelp.

“Isn’t it too much of an investment to build so many moso bamboos just to dry kelp once?”

“I also felt that the cost was a bit high, so I decided to tie some ropes to the bamboo frame and raise oysters to restore health.”

 After hearing this, Chen Dongqing suddenly realized.

Facing Li Duoyu’s endless thoughts, Chen Dongqing became somewhat numb. Now he even began to suspect that if Duoyu had studied seriously back then, he might not have been the first university student on the island.

“By the way, if you want to raise sea oysters, the institute has recently launched a new variety. After the kelp harvest is over, would you like to try it?”

“Take me as a guinea pig and give me a subsidy?”

“If you are an old customer, the seedlings will be free, and I will also give you a new brand.”

The two looked at each other and smiled, then started smoking on the fishing raft. Then, Li Duoyu said seriously: "By the way, Dongqing, I have something to trouble you about."

 “Just say it,” Chen Dongqing replied.

"Can you go to the county and get me a document? The superiors require that the production brigade be disbanded and the restructuring completed before the middle of the year."

After hearing this, Chen Dongqing frowned: "Do you want to run for election?"

 Li Duoyu shook his head: "I am too young and not qualified. Just these days, I found that there is something wrong with Wang Dapao and his two brothers. They seem to be giving gifts to people all the time."

“I think a good development environment must have a reliable person in charge. If their brothers are elected, it will not be a good thing for our Dandan Island.”

Chen Dongqing glanced at Li Duoyu and couldn't help sighing. He found that he was only looking at what was in front of him, but Duoyu was already looking further than him.

"Okay, I'll help you do it. There happens to be a classmate who works in the county office. I'll treat him to a meal another day."

 “I’ll pay for the meal.”

“You just need to show me the kelp. Our director has already predicted your bumper kelp harvest. Whether I can harvest the kelp depends entirely on your thirty acres of kelp fields.”

 “Damn, you can actually do it. No wonder you are more interested in it than me.”

"I'm not a fool. There's no good in it. I will run to your kelp field every day. Hurry up and give me a knot of my wages for these days."

 “No money.”

 “Then take two loads of dried kelp to offset one load.”

 (End of this chapter)