Is there any difference
Ye Yaodong touched his face. He looked as old as his daughter's grandfather? That wouldn't do. Wouldn't it embarrass her in the future
"Is there anything I can use to whiten my skin? Otherwise, I'll get darker and darker. What should I do if my daughter is embarrassed when she grows up?"
"Don't worry about it. Has your father embarrassed you?"
"I don't go to school, and everyone's father is the same. Why should I be ashamed to earn a living by my own labor? But my daughter is different. She will leave the fishing village and go to a big city to study. I can't let her down. It doesn't matter if she is poor. It's glorious to have eight generations of poor peasants. But if people see me and ask who is your grandfather, my daughter will be embarrassed to death. I can't let her down."
Lin Xiuqing was so upset, "She's only one month old, and you're already thinking about her going to college?"
"Isn't this just preparation for a rainy day? It's been less than a year and I'm already tanned like this. Will it be ruined if I tan for another ten or twenty years? No, I have to do something. Look at how fair and handsome my skin was before... You were attracted to my face before..."
Ye Yaodong was rummaging on the table while talking, and found only a shell of clam oil and a box of vanishing cream, which he bought for her.
"That's all, nothing else?"
"What else do you want?" Lin Xiuqing was speechless, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. A grown man, is he afraid of getting tanned and old
"Alas~"
Women nowadays are really too simple.
"There are pros and cons to this. I used to be whiter than you, but now only my butt is whiter than yours." As he said this, he pulled up his shorts to take a look. His shorts and waist were completely different colors.
"I'm going to take off my pants and cover the front. I don't know if people will think I'm wearing white shorts. My body is divided into three parts: top, middle and bottom."
"Why don't you take off your pants so that they can be dried more evenly?"
"It's not good for big birds to swing around."
"No one saw it at sea."
“What if a ship passes by and sees them and they feel inferior
Lin Xiuqing: “…”
What's in your mind
The weather was getting hot, and the quilt they were covering themselves with was thin. Ye Yaodong saw Ye Xiaoxi kicking off the quilt in her sleep, and wanted to pull the quilt over her, but his eyes accidentally glanced at Lin Xiuqing's chest.
That place was swollen and wet with milk, and the watermark was particularly obvious. He couldn't help but roll his Adam's apple.
Come to think of it, it seems he has been holding it in for a long time. Thanks to the high-intensity work during this period, he has no time or energy to think about it.
Lin Xiuqing also noticed his eyes, which were staring at her chest. She lowered her head and saw that her clothes were wet with milk. She immediately pulled at her clothes in an unnatural manner.
In order to facilitate breastfeeding, she did not wear a vest, but only a long-sleeved autumn shirt. Unexpectedly, it got wet and the clothes showed through.
"What are you looking at?"
"Why are you hiding it? It's not like you haven't seen it before. You're already so embarrassed, but you're still hiding it..."
When Lin Xiuqing heard his description, her eyes widened, she grabbed a pillow from behind and hit him, angrily saying: "What are you talking about, you rotten mouth? If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb, get out!"
"Hey, hey, hey~ I was wrong, I was wrong~ Shush, shush~ Stop hitting, stop hitting, don't wake the child up."
Lin Xiuqing still stared at him with eyes wide open, "Shut your mouth, go out and sleep, don't show up in front of me, I will get angry when I see you."
"I was just saying it casually. Those shameless old perverts in the village say it every day and pollute me."
"You're not much better."
"No, I'm a serious person..."
Ye Yaodong looked at her chest rising and falling because of her anger, and suddenly an idea came to him, "Hey, why don't you give me your milk?"
"ah?"
Lin Xiuqing crossed her arms over her chest and glared at him angrily, "I'm still in confinement after childbirth, what do you want to do?"
"What are you thinking about? Where's the milk you squeezed out? Use it to wash my face."
"ah?"
Why do you feel a little perverted
"I heard that washing your face with milk can whiten and protect your skin. Your milk should work as well, right?"
"You're crazy. I've used it to water the vegetables. What kind of weird, messed-up stuff is in your head?"
"Isn't it because I want to avoid getting too tanned or too old? Look at my dad's face, which is all weathered and wrinkled by the wind and sun, just like tree bark."
"It's not always the case with older people."
"Not always!"
People are getting younger and younger. People in their 50s look like they are in their 40s, especially men. They don’t look as old as women.
His father is only in his 50s now, but his weather-beaten, wrinkled face will make him look older than someone in his 60s.
"Wait until you're old, don't worry about it. If you don't go out to sea for a while, won't it be in vain?"
"You won't be as white as before, you're already sunburned, forget it... I'll wear a hat and a mask, it should be better. I'll cut two holes for the nostrils on the mask tomorrow, otherwise I'll always feel like I can't breathe smoothly..."
Lin Xiuqing listened to his mumbling, too lazy to pay attention to him. Seeing that the child seemed to be a little woken up by the two of them talking and was twisting and turning, she reached out and patted her chest to comfort her, and she fell asleep again instantly without moving.
"Why don't you go back to bed?"
"I took the money, and now you're kicking me out? I took a nap this afternoon, and now I'm not sleepy anymore."
"Then go out and listen to the radio for a while, so as not to disturb your daughter's sleep here."
"All right."
Ye Yaodong looked at his daughter's rosy face, gazed at it a few more times curiously, touched it twice before leaving.
The next morning, the sky was still gray, but the house was already busy. Ye Yaodong also got up early and rode his bicycle to the town to buy vegetables.
Although there was no full-month banquet, two tables had to be prepared properly, one for his family and one for Aqing's family.
Children were not counted as they ate a few bites and then left the table to play. Not all of her family members would come, saying that only her brother and sister-in-law and Lin Guangyuan would come, and the other children had gone to school. Her sisters lived far away and were not available either. Anyway, she was the third child.
Lin's father and mother came early in the morning to prepare tiger-head clothes, tiger-head shoes, tiger-head hats for their child. They also made gold and silver necklaces and gold and silver bracelets for him.
In addition, since it didn't rain yesterday morning, they picked a large basket of bayberries and made a jar of bayberry wine, which they sent over today.
Originally, I didn’t plan to make gold, I only made a silver necklace and bracelet. After all, she was the third one, and it was a girl.
But after living in the Ye family for a few days, Lin's father and mother also realized that the Ye family did not favor sons over daughters. On the contrary, the son-in-law loved his granddaughter very much. Moreover, they had also made some money, so the two elders decided to give her a gold necklace and bracelet as well.
They did not prepare a cradle and a standing cage because they had been given to them before, and they are made of bamboo and will not break, so they can be taken out and washed and used again.
Seeing that her in-laws even gave gold, Ye's mother couldn't stop laughing. "Why are you so polite? Ah Qing is already the third child, and she's still a girl, why are you still preparing so much? Just prepare tiger-pattern clothes, shoes and socks, but you see how much you've spent, all this silver and gold..."
Lin Xiuqing also said distressedly: "Yes, the eldest brother only needs to earn one share. The second brother hasn't earned any. How can the third brother earn gold? How much money does it cost? You guys still owe a lot of money for planting trees and tea in the past few years..."
"Don't talk about irrelevant things. I called my granddaughter, not you." Mother Lin was also dressed happily today and said with a smile.
"It's too expensive. You guys don't have any money, so why are you still farming? We didn't even have a wedding..."
"It's my duty. How can it be called a waste? I'm just a grandmother again. It has nothing to do with whether you hold a wedding or not."
Father Lin also said, "This is for the child, not for you. It will be festive when she wears it after she takes a bath. This child looks better than her brothers and is very popular. It is her blessing to be able to give birth to this child."
Father Ye smiled and continued, "You've already been beaten, so forget it. Don't say anything more. This is also the intention of grandpa and grandma."
"Yes, yes, yes~ You guys sit down and take a rest first. I'll go make you some snacks. The mugwort soup I just made is cooling down. I'll make it for the child after Ah Xi finishes bathing him. You guys sit down and talk first."
"Don't worry...we've already had breakfast..."
“Breakfast is breakfast, and snacks are snacks… They are different. You wait for me to cook. The mugwort has just been burned, so I will pour out the soup in the pot and then cook the snacks.” Mother Ye said as she walked out and silently counted the heads.
My experience here is that each person cooks a pair of eggs and adds a few longans. Fortunately, I picked up a lot of bird eggs some time ago, so I saved a lot of chicken eggs.
Normally, when guests come to our house, we cook longevity noodles with poached eggs for snacks. But for the full month of marriage, we cook double-cooked snacks for snacks. When guests come, we eat snacks first and then have the main meal at noon.
When Ye Yaodong came back from buying groceries, he saw his father-in-law, mother-in-law, and A Qing's brother and sister-in-law all eating snacks. He greeted them with a smile.
"Why are you here so early? There seems to be no cars this early? It rained yesterday and the roads must be difficult to travel on."
"No, no, we all wore rain boots on purpose, so we don't have to worry about the water splashing everywhere. It's very easy to walk. Come earlier, and we can send the tiger-head clothes, shoes and socks to the children earlier."
He nodded casually, but suddenly he saw a large basket of black bayberries in the corner of the main room. He drooled at the sight of them.
He picked up two and put them in his mouth. His eyes lit up instantly. They were not sour at all but very sweet.
"These bayberries are so sweet. They must have been picked yesterday morning. It rained yesterday afternoon. Bayberries picked on rainy days are not as sweet."
"Yes, luckily I went up the mountain yesterday morning to pick some that were already black, otherwise they would have fallen off after the rain yesterday."
"It's picked just in time." He looked at his mother again, "Has the child finished his bath?"
"Not yet. Ah Qing is taking a bath. Go call the village barber and ask him to give the child a full-month haircut. When Ah Qing is done, you can give her a bath from head to toe."
"Okay, I'll go call now."
Ye Yaodong got on the bicycle standing at the door and rode faster. He didn't want to ride on the rural dirt road after the rain.
The road was muddy everywhere. Other people were reluctant to ride their bicycles out because they loved them, but some people had ridden their bicycles for two or three years and still polished them to a shine, like new ones. They took good care of them, but he didn't care at all.
I went to the town to buy some vegetables. My bicycle looked like it had been fished out of the mud, with yellow spots of mud splattered everywhere. I didn't even think to wipe it off and just rode out again.
The villagers saw him riding his bicycle and splashing mud and water, and they were heartbroken. They kept complaining that he didn't know how to cherish and take care of his bicycle. He rode a good bicycle like this. If they had a bicycle, they would definitely do something wrong...