When the pears are green

Chapter 236: Tie the Heart Together

Wu Mingde drove the ox cart slowly into the Wu family's home. Yang Yu jumped off the ox cart and explained to the surprised Wu Wei and Wu Li: "Dad, Mom, Minghui is going to the city again soon, and Mingshu wants to spend more time with her. Mingshu and I will stay here for a few days. I am sorry to bother you during this time."

Mrs. Wu Li glared calmly at Wu Mingshu who was walking out of the backyard with her bag, then smiled and told Yang Yu not to be polite and to just treat this place as her own home.

Wu Wei led Wu Mingde and Yang Yu to the main hall, and said to Yang Yu as they walked, "It's rare for you to come here. I have a jar of good wine here. Let's drink some later."

Yang Yu agreed readily.

Wu Wei turned around and asked Wu Li to prepare the meal, and specifically told Wu Li not to forget to bring the wine cups to the main room.

Mrs. Wu Li quickly agreed, and then asked Wu Mingshu to put the bag in the room first.

After Wu Mingshu walked away, Wu Li took Wu Minghui's hand and asked softly, "Minghui, did your elder sister have a fight with your brother-in-law? Why did she come back so suddenly?"

Wu Minghui briefly recounted what happened at the Yang family today, and Mrs. Wu Li sighed continuously after listening.

"I understand. Don't talk nonsense when you go out. Your elder sister has a bad fate. I will go to the temple another day to pray to Guanyin for a child for your elder sister." Mrs. Wu Li said while staring at the kitchen door. When she saw Wu Mingshu, she quickly shut up.

Mrs. Wu Li handed the cleaned wine cup to Wu Mingshu and asked Wu Mingshu to take it to the main room.

Wu Mingshu placed the wine cups in front of Wu Wei and Yang Yu respectively, and gently reminded Yang Yu to drink less. Then she motioned to Wu Mingde, who was sitting nearby, and herself to go to the kitchen to serve the food.

"Yang Yu, I didn't know that you and Mingshu were coming back, so I didn't prepare so much. Just have a simple meal first. I'll ask your father to slaughter a goose for you tomorrow." After Wu Li finished speaking, she pushed the four dishes on the table towards Yang Yu.

Yang Yu quickly pushed it back, saying that this was enough.

As Wu Wei picked up the chopsticks to pick up the food, the others followed suit.

In the main room, except for the voices of Yang Yu and Wu Wei, everyone else was eating quietly.

Wu Mingshu looked at Yang Yu from time to time. The smell of alcohol on Yang Yu's body became stronger and stronger, and his cheeks became redder and redder.

Wu Mingshu stood up, snatched the wine cup from Yang Yu's hand, picked up a piece of fried tofu and stuffed it into Yang Yu's slightly open mouth.

Wu Wei looked at Wu Mingshu with some dissatisfaction, asking Wu Mingshu not to disturb his and Yang Yu's interest.

"Why are you still drinking? Your son-in-law is already drunk before he even eats anything. Is there any father-in-law like you? Aren't you afraid of being embarrassed if you tell others about it?"

Wu Li snatched Wu Wei's wine glass as if she had been struck by a firecracker, then went to the kitchen and poured some vinegar for Wu Wei and Yang Yu to drink.

Wu Mingshu fed Yang Yu some food. Yang Yu held his head and said that he felt uncomfortable and wanted to go back to his room to rest.

Wu Mingde wanted to help Yang Yu, but Yang Yu pushed him away. Yang Yu staggered and pointed at Wu Mingde and complained to Wu Li: "Mom, I don't want him to help me. He always wants to beat me."

Wu Li was furious and slapped Wu Mingde on the back. Wu Mingde quickly explained himself aggrievedly: "Mother, he was bullying my elder sister."

"You're talking nonsense. How did I bully Mingshu? She is my moon in the sky, my..."

Wu Mingshu didn't dare let Yang Yu continue speaking, so she quickly covered Yang Yu's mouth, stumbled back to the room, and the two of them fell on the soft bedding together.

Wu Mingshu struggled to stand up, but was held tightly by Yang Yu.

"Yang Yu, let go, I'll go light the oil lamp."

"I don't want to. I want to lie with Mingshu."

"Be good and listen. You are drunk. I will get you some water to clean you up. This will make you feel better."

"Then will you come back?"

"This is my home, of course I will come back. It's dark now, where can I go? Besides, you are my husband, I can't possibly abandon you."

Yang Yu was pleased by these words. He slowly loosened his arms around Wu Mingshu, and a cheerful laugh escaped from his throat.

After Wu Mingshu stood up, she found the fire starter on the table according to her memory and lit the oil lamp beside her.

Yang Yu turned his head to look at Wu Mingshu standing by the window, as if he saw a fairy standing in the light. He smiled foolishly and whispered to Wu Mingshu, "My wife."

Wu Mingshu walked quickly towards Yang Yu, leaned over and stared into Yang Yu's tender eyes and said, "Yang Yu, wait for me to come back. I'll go get you some water."

Yang Yu blinked and stared at Wu Mingshu's departing back with reluctance.

After a simple wash, Wu Mingshu ran some warm water to clean Yang Yu's face and hands, and even considerately let Yang Yu chew a willow branch.

After finishing a glass of warm water, Wu Mingshu asked Yang Yu if she felt better.

Yang Yu automatically gave up half of his seat and looked expectantly at Wu Mingshu who was standing beside the bed. Under Yang Yu's straightforward gaze, Wu Mingshu took off her clothes and lay on the side to coax Yang Yu to sleep.

Yang Yu held Wu Mingshu's hand and confessed to her dizzily, "Mingshu, I don't care about the child, I only care about you. We are married and we love each other. The silk belt ties our hearts together, and we live together and fly together. I will draw a circle, Yang Yu is in it, Mingshu is in it too, and we will never be separated, okay?"

"it is good!"

"If there is an afterlife, skip Yang Cheng and marry me directly, okay?"

"it is good!"

"Then let's both try harder to have a child, okay?"

"it is good!"

Wu Mingshu, who was trapped, had no choice but to let the half-drunk and half-awake Yang Yu do whatever he wanted.

The gibbous moon outside the window slowly moved westward, and a few shooting stars quietly glided across the night sky.

Jiang Huan woke up crying. Song Li, who was awakened, quickly sat up and checked on Jiang Huan's condition.

Song Li put her finger to Jiang Huan's mouth. Jiang Huan cried and wanted to hold her finger and suck it. Song Li quickly took back her finger and picked up Jiang Huan to feed him.

Because Zhang lived in Jiang's house, Song Li had an easy life every day. She slept a lot during the day and didn't feel tired even if she stayed up a little at night. Whenever Song Li rested during the day, Zhang would take Jiang Huan away. She would only wake Song Li up when Jiang Huan was hungry.

Zhang was responsible for taking care of the children and cooking, while Jiang Qingzhou was responsible for washing diapers and clothes, as well as doing farm work in the fields.

On the seventh day after Jiang Huan was born, Song Changhe brought Song Yue to Jiang's house. Song Yue gave the longevity lock with a long red rope to Song Li.

Song Li looked at Song Yue in surprise and asked her in a low voice who bought it.

"Sister, dad and I pooled our money to buy it. Dad even used his own private money. Please don't tell mom." Song Yue whispered in Song Li's ear.

Seeing Zhang looking over here, Song Yue cleared her throat and told Song Li loudly: "Sister, I made this red string myself, with a diamond knot."

Song Li didn't understand the meaning of the Vajra Knot, but since the word Vajra was in his name, it must have a beautiful meaning.

Song Changhe liked Jiang Huan very much and even wanted to hold him when he fell asleep. Zhang grabbed his ear and scolded him: "When the child falls asleep, you have to put him down. If he develops the habit of holding him while sleeping, it will make Xiaoli and Qingzhou embarrassed."

Song Changhe had no choice but to put Jiang Huan down and lay beside the bed, waiting patiently for Jiang Huan to wake up.

A few days later, Jiang and Ruyi came to visit Song Li. Jiang hugged Jiang Huan excitedly and exclaimed that the Jiang family had a successor.

When the confinement period was almost over, Lingling, Hu Zhimin, Kai Xin and Zhang Er came to Jiang's house together. Lingling poked Jiang Huan's soft face curiously and asked, "Sister Song, is the baby easy to take care of?"

"Huan'er is fine. He just eats and sleeps, and usually doesn't wake up at night." Song Li said as she stretched out her finger in front of Jiang Huan, who held her finger firmly in his palm.

On the day of Jiang Huan's full moon, Jiang Qingzhou and Song Li held a simple baby baptism for Jiang Huan, and only invited Song Changhe, Song Yue, the Zhang family, Jiang Heng, Jiang Ji's family, as well as Chen Yuan and Ruyi to attend.

Song Yue poured the fragrant soup boiled with pepper and cardamom into the basin, then threw red dates, copper coins, onions and garlic into the basin, and wrapped a two-foot-long colorful thread around the basin.

Song Li asked Zhang quietly: "Mother, what are you doing?"

Zhang smiled and replied, "This is called a basin. Take out your silver hairpin and I'll go stir the basin."

Song Li quickly handed the prepared silver hairpin to Zhang, who walked to the basin and used the silver hairpin to stir the fragrant soup in the basin.

After Zhang stopped stirring, the onlookers took out copper coins and threw them into the basin. Along with the crisp sound of the copper coins colliding, water kept splashing out of the basin.

Zhang took Jiang Huan from Song Changhe's arms and explained to Song Li, who was full of confusion, with a smile: "This is to add to the basin."

There were a few red dates standing upright in the basin, and Jiang Heng's wife quickly snatched them away, and happily let her daughter-in-law who was standing beside her eat them.

Jiang rubbed her arm that was hurt by Jiang Heng's wife when she was snatching the dates and whispered, "Eat it, eat it. Even if you eat it, you may not give birth to a son. If you take away so many, even a sow can't give birth to so many."

Ruyi and Xia Lin quickly pulled Jiang aside and whispered to her not to take it too seriously.

Jiang snorted twice and turned to tease Jiang Huan in Zhang's arms.

Because the weather was cold, Zhang symbolically wiped Jiang Huan's body and did not shave his hair. Afterwards, Zhang carried Jiang Huan into the west room, which was originally Jiang Qingye's room, and the move was completed.

In the afternoon, before they parted, Zhang, Song Changhe and Song Yue hugged Jiang Huan respectively. Zhang said to Jiang Qingzhou with red eyes: "Qingzhou, raising a child is a laborious task. It's okay on weekdays, but if the child gets sick or has a disaster, any mother will be anxious and angry. You should be more considerate of Xiaoli and don't be too picky with her."

"Mom, don't worry, I will." Jiang Qingzhou said, and pulled out the donkey cart to send Song Changhe and the other two back.

Song Changhe waved his hand and refused: "No, let's walk back. It's getting dark early now, so don't go back and forth anymore. Just take good care of them."

Jiang Qingzhou handed the cloth bag containing sesame seeds to Song Changhe and sent the three of them to the village entrance.