Chapter 92 I Became as Fat as a Dog During the Confinement Period (Please Read On)

In the countryside of this era.

It is a common phenomenon to favor boys over girls. Although Li Duoyu likes little cotton-padded jackets, everyone would be happy if a son was born.

The child is small, only more than six pounds.

Wrapped in cotton cloth, he sleeps with his eyes closed most of the time, but as soon as he wakes up, he starts crying for milk.

After drinking, he starts to poop.

Wake up four or five times a night.

It's so tiring!

But Li Duoyu doesn't feel annoyed. Maybe he feels indebted. After all, at this time in his previous life, he was still squatting.

In this life, Zhou Xiaoying was able to give birth so smoothly. Li Duoyu thinks that it may be related to nutrition, physical and mental state.

In the previous life, although there were parents to help, the man was imprisoned, which is a bit sad to think about.

In this life, Zhou Xiaoying did not show the fatigue of a pregnant woman even after giving birth.

She couldn't bear to leave the child for a moment, and her eyes were full of love, which made Li Duoyu feel a little jealous.

And after having this child.

Li Duoyu found that the 1.5-meter bed was a little too small, so he could only sleep on the floor these days.

Unable to sleep in the middle of the night, he carefully observed this house and found that it had not changed much from the later generations.

The stone house was short, only more than two meters high, with a bedroom, a small hall and a kitchen, only three rooms, and even the furniture had not been changed much.

But it was such a small house.

Zhou Xiaoying lived in it for more than 30 years.

The only time he added a floor was when his son got married. He was afraid that his daughter-in-law would have no place to live when she returned to her hometown, so Li Duoyu added a floor on the original foundation.

But after adding the floor.

The daughter-in-law never came back.

Maybe because he was too familiar with it, Li Duoyu found that he had been reborn for so long, and he always felt that this small house was very comfortable to live in, and he had no intention of changing to a bigger house.

But now the child is born.

In addition to what he said, the house and the bed are indeed a little small. To be realistic, if Li Duoyu can't help wanting to come at night, he probably has to be sneaky and not too violent, otherwise he might stop halfway after waking up the child.

For the sake of everyone's happiness, Li Duoyu quietly put the plan of building a new house on the agenda.

And here on Dandan Island.

There are many rules for visiting newborns. First of all, relatives cannot come to visit in the week after the birth of the child. Those with conflicting zodiac signs cannot visit, and those who are born in the year of the tiger cannot visit the newborn.

Li Haoran is born in the year of the tiger.

He tried to peek at this cousin several times, but was caught by Chen Huiying and severely educated.

It was almost the second week.

Relatives on the island came to visit one after another, some brought dry goods, and some brought red envelopes.

And adding a child is a big deal for the Li family. What Li Duoyu didn't expect was that his third uncle brought a longevity lock and a pair of silver bracelets.

Li Duoyu didn't even have to guess who sent it. He heard from his uncle that the old lady was not in good condition recently and her appetite was very poor.

Sometimes she was awake, sometimes she was confused.

Two days ago, after learning that the Li family had a baby, he finally woke up for a long time and quickly asked someone to melt all his silverware and made a longevity lock and silver bracelet.

Chen Huiying sighed and accepted the gift from his uncle. She was no longer angry with the old lady.

There is an old saying:

Whether the parents-in-law treat their daughter-in-law well can be seen during the confinement period.

Zhou Xiaoying, who is both a daughter and a daughter-in-law, is naturally taken care of like a national treasure. In addition, Li Duoyu saved a person some time ago, and others gave her a lot of dry goods.

In addition, relatives sent her these days.

Zhou Xiaoying felt that she was fed like a pig during the confinement period. She kept eating every day, but she still couldn't finish it.

What about stewed pig tail bone with squid mother and red sturgeon oil rice.

But Li Duoyu suffered because he ate half of the confinement meals.

Whenever Zhou Xiaoying couldn't eat and was afraid of being scolded by her mother, she would ask Li Duoyu to help her eat.

Zhou Xiaoying had only been in confinement for more than ten days, and she didn't gain weight, but Li Duoyu became plump first. He touched the fat on his belly and felt a little helpless. All the fat had grown on him.

And the most terrifying thing was.

From the tenth day, her mother said that Xiaoying's milk intake was too low.

The child didn't have enough to drink.

So, they started to kill chickens, and in the following days, all the dishes were hard dishes, such as sesame oil chicken, stewed stone nine soup, and cuttlefish soup.

During this period, Li Duoyu found that eating too much was really a torture. In addition to him, the fat boy and the idiot on the fishing raft also became plump visibly.

While Li Duoyu was helping her with confinement, Chen Dongqing went to the kelp field every day, measuring the sea water temperature from time to time to see how the kelp was growing.

Seeing that the kelp looked the same every day, he was very happy, but what he was most worried about now was the problem of drying the kelp.

Because there was not enough space on Dandan Island, if they were harvested all at once, there might be no place to dry the kelp. In the end, there was no choice but to dry it on the beach.

Facing the drying problem raised by Chen Dongqing, Li Duoyu was not in a hurry at all, because Chen Wenchao had already set off for Gushan Dazhu Village in the past few days.

In addition, Lao Li also negotiated the price with Uncle San and Uncle Zhuang, and rented all the vacant tidal flats.

Chen Dongqing still felt that it was a bit inappropriate for Li Duoyu to use bamboo racks to dry kelp.

"It would be too much investment to get so many bamboos just to dry kelp once."

"I also felt that the cost was a bit high, so I decided to tie some ropes to the bamboo frame and raise oysters to restore health."

After hearing this, Chen Dongqing suddenly realized.

Facing Li Duoyu's endless ideas, Chen Dongqing became somewhat numb. Now he even began to suspect that if Duoyu had studied seriously back then, he might not have been the first college student on the island.

"By the way, if you want to raise sea oysters, the research institute has recently launched a new variety. After the kelp harvest is over, would you like to try it?"

"Use me as a guinea pig and give me a subsidy?"

"As an old customer, the seedlings will definitely be free, and I can even give you a new brand."

The two looked at each other and smiled, then smoked cigarettes on the fishing raft. Then, Li Duoyu said seriously: "By the way, Dongqing, I may need to trouble you about something."

"Just say it." Chen Dongqing replied.

"Can you go to the county and get me a document? The superiors require that the production brigade be disbanded and the restructuring completed before the middle of the year."

After hearing this, Chen Dongqing frowned: "You want to run for election?"

Li Duoyu shook his head: "I am too young and not qualified. Just these days, I found that there is something wrong with Wang Dapao and his two brothers. They seem to be giving gifts to people all the time."

"I think a good development environment must have a reliable person in charge. If these brothers are elected, it will not be a good thing for our Dandan Island."

Chen Dongqing glanced at Li Duoyu and couldn't help but sigh. He found that he was only looking at what was in front of him, but Duoyu was already looking further than him.

"Okay, I'll help you do it. There happens to be a classmate who works in the county office. I'll treat him to a meal another day."

"I'll pay for the meal."

"You just need to keep an eye on the kelp for me. Our director has already announced your bumper kelp harvest, and whether I can raise the harvest depends entirely on your thirty acres of kelp fields."

"Damn, you can actually do it. No wonder you are more interested in it than me."

"I'm not a fool. It's no good. I will run to your kelp field every day. Hurry up and give me a knot of my wages these days."

"No money."

"Then take two loads of dried kelp to offset the difference."