When Ding Qiunan came out of the bathroom, Li Chu was sitting by the bed, staring intently at the two sleeping babies.
From time to time, he would reach out and touch their little hands, which were clenched into fists outside the quilt.
He felt a soft and delicate body pressing up behind him, and hugged him tightly with both hands.
Li Chu sat down, slowly turned around and held Ding Qiunan in his arms, and then realized that there were still tears on her face.
"What's wrong? It's not comfortable there?" Li Chu stretched out his hand to hold her little face.
Ding Qiunan shook his head without saying a word, and just put his face against Li Chu's chest again.
Seeing that she didn't want to speak, Li Chu didn't ask any more questions. He just put his arms around her body and patted her back gently.
For a moment, the room became quiet, and the only sound left was Xiao Hei's gasping with his tongue hanging out.
After a while, Ding Qiunan raised his head and looked at Li Chu, his eyes full of tenderness, and kissed Li Chu heavily on the mouth.
After a long time, the lips parted.
"Li Chu, let's be together in the next life, okay?"
Without saying anything, Li Chu hummed a few lyrics in her ear.
"Because I don't know if I will meet you in the next life, so I will work so hard in this life to give you the best."
"I hate it, so you can't coax me." Ding Qiunan reached out and patted his chest.
"Daughter-in-law, the next life is too far away for us. We are only in our twenties. I will love and cherish you well in this life."
"Me too!" Ding Qiunan got into her arms again and hugged him tightly.
I don't know how long it took, but Li Chu heard the breathing in his arms gradually calming down. He lowered his head and saw that Ding Qiunan had fallen asleep in his arms.
He carefully put her on the bed, then pulled up the quilt to cover her, and used a newspaper to cover the light bulb, and then went to the bathroom and started washing up.
After I came back from washing, I stood by the bed and looked at the mother and son sleeping sweetly side by side on the bed.
Li Chu felt that the softest place in his heart was severely touched.
At this moment, he felt that he could no longer hold anything else in his heart, and all he wanted to do was accompany them, take good care of them, and prevent them from being harmed in the slightest.
The bad thing about twins is that if one cries, the other will wake up and cry too.
Li Chu barely slept tonight, and Ding Qiunan slept for more than two hours at first.
The two little ones cried when they were hungry, cried when they peed, and still cried when they pooped.
By the time it was completely peaceful, it was already dark.
Li Chu heated up the leftover millet porridge from last night and steamed a bowl of egg custard for her. After eating and drinking, he asked her to go to bed quickly.
As for himself, there was no need to sleep. Anyway, one or two nights without sleep was nothing given his current physical condition.
Li Chu walked out of the house and went directly to the boiler room.
After taking good care of the boiler, he prepared to burn the boiler starting from today.
The temperature during the day has been okay these days, but it's still a bit cold at night. When I wash my child's bottom at night, he is worried about catching a cold.
After setting up the boiler, you can turn down the heat a little during the day and keep it warm at night.
After packing up the boiler, I looked at the coal in the coal shed. There was still enough coal left over from last winter to burn for a while.
I will tell my brother-in-law later and ask him to find a friend in the Materials Bureau to issue a coal stamp.
No matter what I do now, it's too much trouble, and I can't buy anything even if I have money.
Not to mention that industrial coupons are still required now, even if you buy a towel.
By the way, when did this gas tank come out?
Li Chu's mind turned another corner. If there was a gas tank, wouldn't it be much more convenient to cook and boil water?
I don’t know when it came out, but I haven’t seen it in Sijiucheng yet.
But he had seen it in the newspaper, and it seemed that it was already available in Shanghai and Northeast China.
I was thinking wildly in my mind and kept moving my hands.
After filling the boiler with water, I picked up the firewood on the ground and stuffed it into the furnace. I poured some kerosene on it, lit a piece of paper to guide the firewood, and watched as the firewood started to burn. Then I took a shovel and shoveled the coals.
Add it slowly.
There were footsteps behind him, but Li Chu didn't pay attention. He was staring into the furnace.
"Xiao Chu, why are you starting to burn the boiler now?"
The person who came was the mother-in-law. She saw Li Chu starting to burn the boiler and asked.
"Mom, it's still a little cold at night. When Qiu Nan gets up at night to breastfeed and wash the baby's bottom, I'm worried about them catching a cold."
After listening to Li Chu's words, Ding Ma felt a little incredible. If your family has this condition, what should you do if other people's families don't have this condition?
No more babies in winter? Will they all give birth in summer?
"Xiao Chu, are you a bit too spendthrift?"
When Li Chu heard what his mother-in-law said, he looked back and said, "No, Mom, why don't we have to suffer if our family has such conditions?"
Well, when Li Chu said this, Ding Ma didn't know what to say.
What they say is right, if you have conditions to enjoy it, who is willing to suffer.
Besides, she also thinks about her daughter.
She also heard Ding's father tell her that time, her uncle's income in one month was almost as much as what many people earned in nearly a year.
After thinking about this, Ma Ding stopped nagging.
"Okay, then you can cook it and I'll make breakfast for you."
"Mom, don't worry about breakfast."
Li Chu took out a handful of change from his pocket without counting it, and took out a few food stamps and handed them to Ding's mother one by one.
"You go to the restaurant on the roadside outside the alley to buy some steamed buns, and then bring back a few bowls of tofu puffs in a pot. There are many people in the morning and time is tight, so just buy them from outside."
Ding's mother looked at the money and food stamps in her hand: "This is too much."
"Take it first. I think we don't have much food. You can go to the market tomorrow morning and buy some more. Qiunan wants to eat more fresh vegetables. I'll get you some meat tickets later."
After shoveling another shovel of coal in, he continued: "You can cut some meat back tomorrow, not fat meat, but more lean meat. Qiunan can't eat meat, oil or fat meat now."
Listening to what her son-in-law explained, everything was inseparable from her daughter, and Ding's mother didn't know whether to laugh or what to do.
When my daughter was not married, she was worried about not finding a good husband-in-law, but now she doesn’t worry about the issue of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
But isn't this son-in-law's pampering a bit too much?
Ding Ma felt that she was a bit overwhelmed.
"Xiao Chu, Mom is really happy that you are good to Nan Nan, but you can't go too far. You will spoil her to no end."
Li Chu put down the shovel, looked back at Ma Ding, smiled and said, "Mom, what are you talking about? If I don't pamper my wife, who will pamper her?"
"You, Xiaochu, let me make it clear to you, there is no such thing as a return or exchange here!"
Ding's mother was really happy that her daughter married such a man, and she also joked.
"Don't worry, Mom, it's impossible in this life."
"Okay, okay, I'm old and don't understand what you young people do. Just go ahead and I'll buy food."