Chapter 1466: Preparations
Zheng Lihong still hasn’t come out of her confinement period. Sister-in-law Wu hasn’t met Xiang Dong yet.
Lu Fengzhen had just entered the house wanting to take a nap when she heard Sister-in-law Wu’s call, tidied up a bit, and came out.
"Xiang Dong is here? Have you eaten? I’ll make you some food."
"Aunt, I’ve eaten. When will Uncle be back? I’m here to take you back to the village."
"Your uncle and brother have to wait until they finish work to come back. You can go rest in the Red Army’s room."
"Sure." It doesn’t matter where he stays.
Xiang Dong lay down on the bed, and after a while, he fell asleep. By the time he woke up, it was already past four. He woke because of a child’s cry.
In a daze, he went downstairs. He didn’t realize that the young aunt had given birth again, so he was stunned for a moment when he saw her come out holding a child in red clothes.
"Is this my sister?"
"Yes, your little sister."
The little girl was quite shy and buried herself into Lu Fengzhen’s arms when she saw Xiang Dong.
Before he could say anything, the cry of another child was heard.
Lu Fengzhen didn’t wait for him to ask, "This is your brother’s second child, your little niece."
Xiang Dong felt a bit embarrassed for not knowing about family matters.
Sister-in-law Wu came over at this time, "Fengzhen, what are we making for dinner?"
"Vegetable buns." If Li Yunqiao and the others don’t eat after work, it’ll be too late by the time they reach home, so it’s better to eat before heading out.
Xiang Dong was quite bored, sitting on the sofa, picking up the newspaper on the coffee table. Just waiting.
After Xiang Dong left, Li Yunqiang locked the door and went to the brigade office to continue working. He still had a lot of work to do.
Yue Lanfeng went to Erzhu’s house, leaving her child on the kang to play while she worked on clothes there.
"Why are you at my house?"
"Xiang Dong brought someone back, and I don’t want to get involved, so I took Hong Jie out. These clothes need to be ready by tomorrow, haven’t finished making them yet."
"I’ll help sew the pants." Erzhu’s wife picked up cut pants to help sew them.
"It’s a good thing not to get involved. Whether it turns out well or not, avoid blame."
"Yeah, I think so too." Although she was close with Erzhu’s wife, she wouldn’t speak about not liking the girl Xiang Dong brought back.
"How’s the girl Xiang Dong brought back?"
"Quite pretty, I didn’t ask anything else."
"Lanfeng, you didn’t know, I saw Yun Qiang’s ex-wife in the county a few days ago. She’s aged a lot, looking completely downcast."
"What does that have to do with me? I’m not interested in her business. As long as Li Yunqiang is good to us mother and daughter, it’s fine."
Erzhu’s wife nodded. "True, as long as he’s good to you. Li Yunqiang is quite good to you."
"Yes, I can feel it. I’m his second wife, and I won’t compare myself to anyone else. I know what’s in my heart."
A few gossiping women have told her how good Li Yunqiang used to be to his previous wife, but she wouldn’t get mad over that.
"Are you having lunch at your second brother-in-law’s house?"
"Yes, I planned to help out, but my second sister-in-law said no. She said there’s no one to look after Hong Jie."
"For village celebrations, it’s usually the same few people, they probably don’t need you.
Lanfeng, are you thinking of having another child?"
"If it happens, it happens."
Li Yunqiang wants it every day, but he takes precautions himself. She doesn’t mind, but if it accidentally happens, she’ll keep it.
Midday meals were just for Li Yunqiang’s family and a few cooks.
The Lv Family had lunch at the Wei Family’s today. Lv Beiguang didn’t go to the distillery, but Yang Xiuqin didn’t come over for lunch.
Pregnant women shouldn’t meet the bride.
So, when lunchtime was ready, Lv Beiguang took Yang Xiuqin her meal.
Jing Chu’s clothes were made by Zhao Xiaoli, and her sewing machine worked quite quickly.
The outer clothes were just an ordinary blue, but inside Zhao Xiaoli made her a set of red linge
"Tomorrow, our Jing Chu will belong to someone else." Zhao Xiaoli sighed as she ate.
"How could that be? I’m still Lv Jingchu, just with an additional husband."
"Jing Chu, you must ensure Chaoyang listens to you."
Jiang Xinyu smiled and gave Zhao Xiaoli a sidelong glance, "Chaoyang will definitely listen without being told."
"Yes, given how much he cares about Jing Chu, he’ll surely listen.
Take care when living in the Capital."
Jiang Xinyu agreed with Zhao Xiaoli’s words, "Jing Chu, you’re too beautiful. Even if you’re married, it doesn’t mean safety. I know you’re a low-key girl, but at any time when you go out, make sure Chaoyang accompanies you.
The most important thing is that there are many important people in the Capital; running into just one may not be an ordinary person, so you need to be careful."
Jing Chu sighed, "I know. I’ll be more careful in the future."
Zhao Xiaoli also sighed, being too beautiful can also be a problem.
That night, Jing Chu lay in bed but couldn’t sleep, not thinking about anything in particular, just feeling very chaotic inside.
Lv Beiguang wasn’t in a good mood today either, as his daughter was about to get married. Of course, he was reluctant.
Yang Xiuqin watched him, not knowing how to comfort him. She couldn’t show up tomorrow anyway, so she went next door to bathe.
Returning, she saw Lv Beiguang staring at the two children.
"Alright, let’s sleep." Yang Xiuqin was over six months pregnant now. She knew there was only one child this time; her belly was much smaller than last time.
Lv Beiguang got up to help her dry her hair, "Daughters become someone else’s."
Yang Xiuqin felt helpless, "With thoughts like that, there won’t be any daughters left, and the boys will struggle to find wives. What kind of thinking is this? Even if Jing Chu gets married, she’s still your daughter, even at seventy or eighty."
Lv Beiguang didn’t say anything, but his mood was still bad. Yang Xiuqin had no way to deal with him. She finished drying her hair, took off her coat, and lay in bed.
Lv Beiguang crawled in as well. "Let’s not have daughters anymore, I don’t want to feel them marrying someone else again."
"Ruoyan will have her own family in the future too."
Lv Beiguang’s hand caressed Yang Xiuqin’s belly, "I like daughters but don’t like them becoming part of someone else’s family."
"Then just keep them at home."
"But I wouldn’t want them not to have their own families either."
Yang Xiuqin stopped talking, letting him go off on his own tangent, and really didn’t bother with him anymore.
Lv Beiguang’s hand slowly moved upwards.
Yang Xiuqin let him have his way, not wanting him to feel sad.
Early next day, Lv Beiguang went home. Actually, there wasn’t much to prepare. Guodong had already swept the yard clean, and Li Xue was cooking.
Lv Beiguang looked at his daughter, who was dressed as usual, "Jing Chu, why haven’t you changed your clothes?"
"I’ll change after eating. Chaoyang said he’d come to pick me up at nine, still a few hours to go."