At the end of the twelfth lunar month, Lao Zhao and Li Xijin took their children back to their hometown for vacation.
Lao Zhao is the deputy battalion commander of the third battalion and Wei Jianwei's subordinate. As the commander of the third battalion, they naturally cannot take vacations at the same time. Wei Jianwei has chosen to go home during spring sowing for many years.
Although it was approaching the end of the year, the family building was not as lively as before because several cadres were on vacation. Fortunately, Lao Wang's family is not going to leave, otherwise He Xiaoyun feels that she will definitely be bored.
This was her first year in the army, and it was also the first time for their family of three to celebrate the New Year alone, so it shouldn't be too sloppy anyway. Even though the snow had not melted outside, He Xiaoyun chose a sunny day and went to the street with Xu Lanxiang to buy new year's goods.
The two of them wrapped themselves up tightly, neither brought children, and strived for a quick settlement.
"Are you and Lao Wang planning to wait until the beginning of spring before going back to visit relatives?" He Xiaoyun asked Xu Lanxiang.
It was too cold, and the exhaled breath turned into white mist, which was blown by the wind and hung behind him like a scarf.
Xu Lanxiang shook her head, shrunk her neck, and buried half of her face under the scarf, "Old Wang's family has many brothers, and they separated a few years ago. The room that was originally allocated to us was set aside by them because we were not at home. Things, put some things here, and it became their common warehouse, and we had no place to stay after we went back, so we simply didn’t go back for the past two years.”
He Xiaoyun guessed that there might be too many trivial things in it, otherwise, she and Lao Wang are both good-tempered people, if it wasn't for the excessive family members, they wouldn't have no contact with each other now.
He Xiaoyun would not naively think that all families in the world are respectful brothers and sisters, and their parents are loving. Even if they had a good relationship when they were young, when they get married, they will gradually focus on their own small family and gradually become alienated.
"What about you?" Xu Lanxiang asked her, "Don't feel unhappy when I say this. I remember that there are several brothers in Wei's family. Do they all live together?"
"They all live together, the more people there are, the more lively it is." He Xiaoyun said.
Xu Lanxiang smiled and said, "That's because your family gets along well, so it's lively. If you don't get along, and quarrel every day, it's better to separate and be quiet."
He Xiaoyun recalled the contents of the book. She remembered that the Wei family was also separated, and the instigator was the original body. Because she saw Feng Qiuyue gave birth to a daughter, she thought she couldn't compare with her own son, so she was full of confidence and made a split. .
Now that she has become the original body, as long as she doesn't make trouble, the family will naturally be harmonious.
Thinking of this, He Xiaoyun suddenly felt a little funny. Others time travel and fight wits and courage with the best all day long, but she is fine.
It was her first New Year's shopping experience, so she followed Xu Lanxiang's example and bought a few catties of pork, a chicken, a plate of tofu, two fish, some dried shiitake mushrooms, dried fungus and other dry goods, as well as melon seeds, peanuts, and pine nuts. I bought some dried fruit, candies and biscuits for snacks, and bought two bottles of canned fruit generously. I also carried a lot of miscellaneous things.
Originally, it was too cold to wear a lot of clothes, and it was not convenient to move around. With so many things to carry, He Xiaoyun was so tired that she said straightly: "I knew that Jianwei and Lao Wang would come out to buy, and we would be lazy."
Xu Lanxiang said without thinking: "Don't, let him buy me, it's better to come by yourself. You don't know, when I saw Lao Wei go out to buy vegetables, he volunteered to help me, but in the end, when I said to buy two radishes, he said I really only bought two, told him to buy a few eggs, and he bought five back. He was ashamed to argue in front of me, saying that I was talking about a few, not a dozen or a few catties, and he strictly enforced it. My orders made me want to beat him."
"Isn't this very obedient." He Xiaoyun was very happy.
"Be obedient, I think he has no brains." Xu Lanxiang snorted.
Back home, He Xiaoyun put down her things and quickly lit up the stove to keep warm.
Wei Yuanhang was playing next door. When he saw Xu Lanxiang coming home, he knew she had returned, so he rushed over immediately, "Mom, you're back."
He Xiaoyun touched a newly bought toffee to him, "Did you make any trouble at Auntie's house?"
"No, I'm so good." Wei Yuanhang stuffed the toffee into his mouth, saw the booty on the ground, wowed, and said vaguely, "Mom bought a lot of things!"
"These will be eaten until the Chinese New Year." He Xiaoyun warmed up her hands before pinching his cheek, and said with a smile, "After the Chinese New Year, you will not be a three-year-old child, but a four-year-old."
The child didn't understand the joke in her words, so he puffed out his small chest and said proudly: "I will grow up soon!"
"Yeah, yeah, it's grown up." Feeling that her hands and feet are slowly warming up, instead of being frozen like before, He Xiaoyun got up to sort out the items she bought.
Halfway through the treatment, I felt a little pain in my stomach. I went to the bathroom and found out that it was menstruation.
Her menstruation has been irregular, sometimes for 20 days, sometimes 30 or 40 days, and there are no gynecologists to see these days, and besides the uncertain time, there is no other uncomfortable place, so He Xiaoyun didn't pay much attention to it. .
If she knew that these two days would come, she would definitely not run out in such a cold day today. I don't know if it was because of the cold. In the past, when my aunt came here, she didn't feel pain, but this time she did.
The pain was not severe, but it was stuffy in the lower abdomen and sore in the lower back, not to the point of making people feel restless, but it couldn't be ignored.
He Xiaoyun remembers that when she was in high school in her previous life, there was a girl in the dormitory who fainted in the middle of the night because of the pain of her aunt, which frightened them all.
She was so uncomfortable with only a little pain, and she fainted from the pain, how painful it must be.
When Wei Jianwei came back in the evening, knowing that she was out shopping today, he disagreed, "Why didn't you wait for me to go shopping?"
He Xiaoyun pursed her lips, and said a little listlessly: "Stop talking, I've already regretted it."
Seeing that something was wrong with her face, Wei Jianwei took two steps forward, put his palm on her forehead to test the temperature, "I don't feel well? Do you have a fever?"
"No," He Xiaoyun shook her head, not ashamed to explain the reason to him, she just said, "My stomach hurts a little, it will be fine tomorrow."
Wei Jianwei was not fooled, "What did you eat today? Is it nausea or colic?"
"It's not that reason." He Xiaoyun was a little helpless, not knowing where to start.
Now is not her time, there is no physiology class at all, she doesn't know how much Wei Jianwei knows about women's physiology, is it possible, he doesn't even know that girls will come to the aunt
The more she didn't explain clearly, the more Wei Jianwei couldn't rest assured, his brows were already wrinkled, and he even planned to put on his coat again and go out, "I'll take you to the hospital."
He Xiaoyun became anxious, "No need, I am, I am—"
She stomped her feet, "Oh, I am the great aunt!"
Wei Jianwei paused in dressing, his frown did not loosen, and he rarely asked in confusion, "Auntie?"
He Xiaoyun expected that he didn't understand, so she said bravely: "It's menstruation... that once a month, women will have it..."
What she said was vague, and Wei Jianwei finally understood that it was their girls' business. He was a little uncomfortable, but quickly covered it up.
"...will it hurt?"
"Well," He Xiaoyun nodded with her head down, "I never knew it before."
Wei Jianwei didn't know what he could do for her, so he stood there at a loss. Fortunately, after a while, he thought of a solution and walked out the door quickly.
He Xiaoyun was wondering what he was doing, but after a few minutes, he came back, picked her up, took off her shoes, and stuffed her into the bed.
"What are you doing?" He Xiaoyun wanted to sit up.
Wei Jianwei pressed her and said, "Lie down and don't move, keep warm, I'll make brown sugar water for you."
After speaking, he entered the kitchen.
He Xiaoyun looked at his back, confused, just now he didn't even know what a big aunt was, and he became a friend of women in a blink of an eye
Seeing his father carrying his mother to the bed, Wei Yuanhang ran over and lay down beside the bed with a worried face, "Mom, are you sick?"
"No, mom just has a little pain in her stomach, and it will be fine tomorrow."
The child frowned and said, "Then I will give mother a whir."
He really blew hard on He Xiaoyun's stomach through the quilt.
She laughed and said, "It's okay, do you want to come in and lie down with mom?"
Wei Yuanhang nodded, lifted the quilt and crawled into her bed.
It just so happened that Wei Jianwei walked in with a water glass. Seeing this scene, he took the child's clothes, put him on the inside of the bed, and said, "You sleep in the bed tonight, and mom sleeps in the middle."
Wei Yuanhanghang looked at the wall on the inner side of the bed, and then saw that his mother had taken up the place that belonged to him. He also wanted to lie between his parents, but his mother was sick. He was a man, and he wanted to protect his mother with his father!
Thinking of this, he patted He Xiaoyun's hand generously, "Mom needs to get better soon."
"Yes." He Xiaoyun smiled, and she sat up, intending to take Wei Jianwei's water glass.
But he didn't let her take over. Instead, he put his arms around her shoulders from behind, pulled her into his arms, and handed the glass of water to her mouth, "Just drink like this."
"It's just a stomachache, there's no need to do this." He Xiaoyun muttered.
But Wei Jianwei insisted, so she had no choice but to take his hand and drink most of the warm brown sugar water.
Wei Jianwei put the water glass on the bedside table, reached into the quilt, pulled off her outermost clothes, and covered her belly through the underwear.
His hands were very warm, maybe it was a psychological effect, He Xiaoyun felt that her stomach really didn't feel so uncomfortable.
Then she remembered a question: "How do you know to drink brown sugar water?"
"Sister-in-law said it." Wei Jianwei said, still hugging her.
His tone was flat, and he didn't feel that he had said anything serious.
"What?!" He Xiaoyun wailed in her heart until her face was cracked.
When Wei Jianwei asked people this kind of question, she could already imagine what posture Xu Lanxiang would use to make fun of her tomorrow!