bayedsolid Chapter 582: Picking Watermelons
Chapter 582: Picking Watermelons
Lin Yihui spent little time at home, so Mother Lin did not take care of the children for them. Instead, she let Lin Yihui take care of the children while she was responsible for taking care of Cao Jianyu.
Every morning, noon and evening, I prepare meals and deliver them to Cao Jianyu. I also deliver soup to him once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Now the weather is too hot, and I also have to take care of Cao Jianyu and wipe his body. Although he can't take a bath, he can definitely wipe his body with hot water.
As for the child's poop and pee, and bathing, Lin Yihui is asked to do it personally, so that there will be a relationship between father and daughter. Many people don't like their own children, neither sons nor daughters, because there is no affection, so children are dispensable in their eyes.
Lin Yihui had to leave as soon as he received the notice, so Lin Yihui might leave at any time. The Lin family was afraid that he would not be able to attend the child's full moon banquet, so they decided to hold a full moon banquet for the child when the child was nine days old.
At this time, everything was kept simple. The Lin family did not plan to hold a full-month banquet for the child. They just said that the relatives would have a meal together. It would be fine if there were fewer people.
The Lin family decided to prepare five tables for the banquet, two tables for the Lin family's relatives and two tables for the Cao family's relatives. The extra table was left in case there was not enough space for everyone.
Although Lin Yiwan was also in the watermelon-growing team, there was no need to invite too many people for such a family affair, so she only invited Wen Xi, Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue to the full moon banquet.
When Cao Jianyu was discharged from the hospital and returned home, Wenxi gave them a piece of soft cotton cloth and asked them to make close-fitting clothes for the child. Now, when they went to the full moon banquet, Wenxi and the other two jointly gave them a bag of brown sugar.
When Cao Jianyu just came back, Wen Xi and others came to visit the baby. Seeing him again after a few days, I couldn't help but sigh that children really change every day. This time he was completely different from when he just came back. No wonder many people in TV dramas can't be recognized after their children are replaced.
Because the changes in children are really huge.
"Mrs. Lin, have you named the baby?" Wen Xi asked curiously.
Cao Jianyu smiled gently and said, "Yes, he has a name. It's Lin Wangshu. It's the name given to him by his father."
"Wangshu? Wangshu is another name for the star. What a nice name." Wen Xi said with a smile. She didn't expect that Lin Yihui cared so much about her daughter and gave her such a nice name.
When Cao Jianyu heard this, her eyes lit up. She didn't expect that Wangshu had such a meaning. She didn't know what it meant at first. Now after listening to Wen Xi's explanation, she realized that Lin Yihui had thought of such a nice name for the child.
The more I hear this name now, the better it sounds.
Wen Xi and the others didn't dare to hold such a young child. They just stood by the bed and looked at it for a few seconds, then left without disturbing Cao Jianyu and the baby's rest.
After having lunch at Lin’s house, I took some red eggs and went back. I don’t know how these red eggs were dyed, but they looked very festive.
Those who purchased watermelons from the Harvest Brigade last year came to make reservations early this year, especially those units that got the watermelons later. They all wanted to eat the watermelons first this year, so they came to make reservations very early.
Finally, the day arrived when the watermelons were ripe and ready to be picked. Almost everyone in the village came to watch. When they saw the big, round, green watermelons piled in bamboo baskets, they couldn't help swallowing their saliva and wanted to taste the first batch of watermelons.
But they know that the watermelons have been reserved by other units. If everyone wants to eat them, they have to supply them to those units first. It is estimated that everyone will have to wait until the double harvest season before they can eat the watermelons!
The watermelon's fragrance was so strong that even if you weren't in the field, you could still smell it. Watching baskets of watermelon being loaded onto the tractor, everyone's eyes were filled with reluctance.
But no one said much, because everyone knew that the money earned from selling watermelons would be distributed to everyone at the end of the year. The more the team earned, the more money everyone would get.
Since Wen Xi asked Captain Qian to arrange ten girls to come and learn how to grow watermelons, she naturally had to teach them from beginning to end. After all, she would not come to the Harvest Team in the future, so there was no point in keeping the technology in her own hands.
Moreover, even if she still grows watermelons in the future, she will not grow them in the Harvest Brigade, so there is no such thing as teaching her apprentice and then starving herself to death.
So Wenxi also carefully taught them how to tell whether the watermelon is ripe. If they can't tell from the appearance or sound, then they can tell according to the timeline.
Remember the time from when the watermelon blooms to when it bears fruit and matures. Let the watermelon grow for two more days before picking it.
Pick one and cut it open to see if it is not ripe enough, let the others grow for two more days. When they are ripe enough, they can be picked.
What's more, you can't wait until the watermelon is very ripe before picking it, otherwise the watermelon will easily rot. Generally, it can be picked when it is 70% to 80% ripe.
For example, the Qin Mi family grows watermelons. In the past, they would pick them when they were 60% ripe because it takes time to transport them. But the watermelons here in Wenxi don’t need to be shipped long distances to other places, so they can pick them when they are 70% or 80% ripe. Once everyone gets the watermelons, they can eat them directly.
After the watermelons were transported away and the onlookers left, it was time for them to go to work, otherwise they would have fewer work points and less food at the end of the year.
Yang Mengying got pregnant with her second child in a hurry shortly after she left the confinement period. Now she is in the late stage of pregnancy. It is said that the second child will be conceived faster. Wen Xi was also worried that something might happen to her while she was alone at home, so he asked Gu Huaian to report to the watermelon field occasionally to avoid any complaints from the villagers, and then let Gu Huaian go back.
Sure enough, before Cao Jianyu was even out of confinement, Xu Mengying gave birth to her child. This time, she finally got what she wished for and gave birth to a son. She felt very proud.
If she didn't have to stay in confinement after childbirth, she would have wanted to take her son out and slap those people in the face for saying that she couldn't give birth to a son because of her figure. Does being able to give birth to a son have anything to do with one's figure?
When Yang Mengying was still in the hospital, she couldn't wait to ask Gu Huaian to report the good news to her family, because she felt that she had given birth to a precious grandson for the Gu family, and she was a great contributor to the Gu family, and the Gu family would definitely give her a big reward.
Of course, Yang Mengying was right. Later, Grandma Gu did send good things here as if they were free.
Although Feng Xintong did not inform the Gu family of the good news of her childbirth, the Gu family knew how to calculate the date, and they did not want to come and take care of her during the confinement period, so they postponed it for a long time before going to the county town to find Gu Ningzhi and Feng Xintong.
Since his family was coming over, Gu Ningzhi naturally had to ask for leave. He went out early to buy meat, vegetables, and then went to the bus station to pick them up.
Only Gu's father, mother and two sisters-in-law came, and no one else came.