Chapter 1350: Preparations
Lu Tiezhu happily sent the two out of the door, immediately running back.
"Fengying, how are you?"
"I’m alright, it doesn’t hurt anymore now. Doctor Xie is skillful. I don’t think it’s as life-threatening as childbirth seemed before.
Look at our big chubby son, he weighs six pounds. He’s really quite sturdy."
"Indeed, we’ll certainly have to raise him strong and healthy in the future."
The couple just looked at the still-eyes-closed baby and foolishly smiled.
Both felt this was a blessing from heaven for them.
Lu Tiezhu carefully tended to Du Fengying. The chicken soup was ready, so he quickly ladled a bowl. On top was a thick layer of oil.
They’d been through hard times, so Du Fengying didn’t mind such chicken soup.
"Back when Xiao Jiang gave birth to Shi Xian, she wouldn’t drink this oily soup, but I think it’s okay."
"Wife, you should drink more, our son’s food supply depends entirely on you."
"Mmm, I will. I definitely won’t let our son go hungry.
Before, this was something I couldn’t even imagine."
"Who says otherwise? I used to think I’d live my whole life alone. Since meeting you and marrying you, I’ve been extremely happy already, never thought I’d have a son."
The two new parents just looked at the baby and smiled foolishly.
In the evening, Xie Chunfen and Liu Xuefa came over.
Nowadays, there’s no such thing as strict separation of genders, so Liu Xuefa came in to check Du Fengying’s pulse.
"Not bad. The body is okay, just getting older, must have a good postpartum recovery."
Xie Chunfen asked Lu Tiezhu to bring in hot water and fetch a new towel, "You two go out."
Xie Chunfen was extremely experienced in gynecology.
Especially in maternal care. So she helped Du Fengying unblock the milk ducts, and the little one finally got milk.
"Really good. Take good care of yourself."
"Thank you so much, Doctor Xie."
"Haha, no need to be so polite. That’s my job."
Du Fengying held the baby nursing, watching the little one eat so contentedly, she felt emotional.
Truly heaven’s blessing, she felt lucky.
Lu Tiezhu came in, seeing his wife sitting there.
"What’s wrong? Feeling uncomfortable?"
"No, just seeing him. In the future, we both must live well, we must watch him get married and have children."
"Yes, definitely." Lu Tiezhu meticulously took care of Du Fengying.
The baby opened his eyes the next day, he looked particularly like Lu Tiezhu, but his mouth and eyes resembled Du Fengying.
"Though not looking better than Shi Xian, he’s no worse than Ah Bao."
Hearing Lu Tiezhu’s words, Du Fengying burst into laughter, he really dared to say that.
"Wonder when Xiao Jiang and they will return?"
"Should be soon. Li Yungui is more anxious than us."
"Isn’t it true? The house next to Xiao Jiang has already had its foundation laid. Just waiting for complete thaw for landfill. This is to build a house for Mr. Lv’s family.
This means Guodong’s dad will also come to live here."
"Haha, that’s good."
Li Yungui also heard that Du Fengying gave birth, so Qu Xiaoli brought two hens, fifty eggs, and two bags of brown sugar over.
"Sister-in-law, thank you for coming."
"Why be so polite? It’s really a big happy occasion, congratulations to both of you."
"It is a big happy occasion. Never thought I, Du Fengying, could give birth."
"What nonsense are you saying? Your good days with Master Lu are still to come."
Finally, when Qu Xiaoli left, she gave five yuan as a gift, which was quite a lot.
Then families who learned corn machine skills from Lu Tiezhu also came over to give gifts.
When only the couple was left, "Looks like we’ll still have to host a full moon banquet, Xiao Wei and the others can’t make it."
"Exactly, let’s make a few tables and have everyone celebrate happily."
There were too many eggs at home, they couldn’t finish them. Du Fengying said, while Lu Tiezhu was at work, to pickle two hundred eggs.
"When Xiao Jiang and the others can come, send them half, they have more people and consume more."
People from the village came over one after another. Lu Tiezhu was smiling at everyone he met.
Everyone could feel his good mood. They all understood him, having a child at this age is certainly a joyous occasion. They all gave their sincere wishes.
Li Yunqiang also came, bringing twenty eggs and two yuan.
"Master Lu, congratulations."
"Thank you, Accountant Li."
"This is a big happy occasion, should we host a few tables?"
"Yes, let everyone know I’m happy. But Old Yang isn’t home. Getting meat is quite troublesome."
"Isn’t it? They should be back in the next few days, but still might not make it."
"If not, just stew more chicken."
"I don’t have any connections either."
"I know, let’s ask Village Chief Li tomorrow. Don’t know if he has any way?"
"I haven’t heard my second brother has those connections. Wait, our relation with the supply and marketing cooperative is good? I’ll go to the county tomorrow to deliver eggs, ask around for you, then go to the city’s supply and marketing cooperative and the township’s.
These three places should be able to give something, right?"
"That would be great, sorry to trouble Accountant Li."
"It’s nothing, Master Lu has made a tremendous contribution to our village. As long as I can do it, I won’t refuse."
With this, Lu Tiezhu was reassured, yes. Supplying eggs and roosters to the supply and marketing cooperative, buying pork should be possible.
In the end, it turned into all the households in the village coming over.
Lu Tiezhu was jotting down accounts while smiling. He wasn’t well-educated. The accounts were only understandable to him. Li Yunqiang also brought the meat.
"Master Lu, didn’t use coupons, the city provided ten jin, the county provided ten jin. The township provided five jin, and one set of offal."
"Not much, Accountant Li, I’ll order ten roosters from the chicken farm.
We still have a lot of cabbage at home, Xiao Wei’s family has noodles, seaweed and stuff, I’ll check with her, use them first, when Xiao Wei comes back, I’ll settle with Xiao Jiang.
Accountant Li, also need you to help find women from our village to help with cooking."
"Sure, no problem, all the women in our village will come, there will definitely be enough help."
"Exactly, I’ve kept a good account. I remember everyone’s kindness."
Both of them were outsiders, especially since Lu Tiezhu’s household registration wasn’t here. But this small village had unity and warmth. There was genuine respect for Lu Tiezhu. Being able to earn money was largely thanks to him.
There was genuine respect towards him. Because of this, Lu Tiezhu didn’t want to leave here anymore.
That day, Lu Tiezhu went to the Wei Family, brought back a bag of rice from the warehouse. A big pack of seaweed. Seeing there were shrimp shells, he took some too, along with noodles and pickled cabbage.
There were also radishes in the cellar, which he also brought over.