Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

He Yulian watched Gu Xiaoxia leave with a face full of envy.

She and Gu Xiaoxia also exchanged addresses, planning to visit each other and write letters to share their experiences as mothers when they have time.

Even though Ma County and Shicheng are only 15 kilometers apart these days, it is impossible to make the trip from time to time - except for Li Long, of course.

People who have jobs have to take care of their work. They only have one day off a week. After the day off, women usually have to clean up the house and tidy up everything that needs to be washed and tidied. They are very busy.

She should have been discharged from the hospital, but after being angry with her in-laws, her milk stopped flowing and she was in a bad mood. In addition, her child had jaundice, so she had to stay for a while longer.

What I envy now is that Gu Xiaoxia was not only able to be discharged from the hospital in good health, but her child is also healthy, and her husband even drove a car to pick her up.

The car is enclosed on all sides, so you won’t be exposed to the wind when sitting inside, and you won’t suffer in the future.

Thinking about the fact that she wouldn't even have a tractor, let alone a car, and would have to ride a bicycle back when she returned, He Yulian felt that people are really no match for one another.

Although Gu Xiaoxia is from the county and her husband is from the countryside, the life they live is really incomparable.

Li Long really didn't know that Qin Liben's wife would think so much, and he was busy at this time.

There are many procedures to go through when giving birth and being discharged from the hospital. Although it is different from the previous life and it is not as busy, he still has to run around.

Fortunately, I asked around during my free time and finally completed all the procedures.

They loaded all the things they brought into the trunk of the jeep, said goodbye to the doctors and nurses, and Li Long also secretly gave them red envelopes.

Before leaving, he said goodbye to Qin Liben.

Because He Yulian's milk production had also stopped, Li Long gave the milk-increasing recipe to Qin Liben. Qin Liben knew that the recipe worked, and since both of her sons were now breastfed, he was naturally very grateful.

Li Long really didn't care about Qin Liben's promise that he should definitely look for him next time he came to Shicheng.

He was now anxious to get back to the big yard.

Although the doctors and nurses in the hospital are very dedicated, it is inconvenient to do anything.

Whether in the big yard in the county or in the big yard of the fourth team, at least everything is available for Li Long to do, which is much more convenient than in the hospital.

The jeep drove to the large courtyard in the county. On the way, Liang Yuemei asked Gu Xiaoxia whether she wanted to go to the team or to the county. Gu Xiaoxia thought about it and said that she wanted to live in the large courtyard in the county first and then return to the village after the confinement.

Liang Yuemei didn't think much of it. Living anywhere had its own advantages. She had to take care of Gu Xiaoxia until she was out of confinement.

As they walked along, Liang Yuemei was also talking about how good the current conditions were, unlike when she gave birth to Li Juan and Li Qiang. At that time, it was difficult to go to the township health center, so most children were born at home.

Moreover, there were no medical conditions like today’s, and the family conditions were not good. I didn’t have a good confinement period after the baby was born, and it was difficult to eat something good.

Things are different now.

When Liang Yuemei said this, she still looked at Li Long who was driving in front. If it weren't for the fact that her brother-in-law had changed a lot in the past two years and worked hard, the family conditions would not be like this now.

"If Dad knew we were back, he would probably catch crucian carp every day and send them to the county these two days." Liang Yuemei said with a smile, "Didn't you see how happy he was that day?"

Gu Xiaoxia said as she changed the child's diaper:
"I see everyone is happy. Haohao is obviously well behaved, but he poops and pees too much."

Liang Yuemei helped Gu Xiaoxia change her diaper, smiling as she did so:
"Can't you poop more? You eat so much every day and grow fast..."

Li Long could already smell the baby's urine and feces.

Although he has gotten used to the smell these days, he still thinks it smells bad - this has nothing to do with loving his son, it smells bad, he won't dislike it, but you can't change the fact that the thing smells bad.

But even if it was smelly, he couldn't open the window, after all, he couldn't see the wind during the confinement period, so he tried to drive the car more steadily. Fortunately, his eyesight was good, and he could see the potholes and rocks on the road - Wuyi Highway was generally flat.

When the jeep drove into the large yard, Li Long was somewhat surprised to find that the gate was opened directly.

Sister Yang opened the two doors and welcomed the car in with a smile.

The two roe deer and the little black dog were also waiting obediently on both sides. The little black dog kept jumping there, as if he knew that there were more people at home.

The jeep stopped, and Sister Yang hurriedly closed the gate, then went over to open the door of the main room - she only had an outer door.

After Li Long got out of the car, he went to open the bedroom door first. When he was about to come over to help Gu Xiaoxia get out of the car, Liang Yuemei had already wrapped a headscarf around Gu Xiaoxia and was helping her get out of the car.

When Sister Yang saw the child for the first time, she stared at him with an expression of surprise and a bit of relief.

Li Long went over to her and each of them carried a child into the master bedroom.

Gu Xiaoxia sat by the bed, waiting for Li Long and Sister Yang to put the child down, and asked with a wry smile:

"Do I have to stay in the house for the next few days?"

"Just bear with it." Liang Yuemei said with a smile, "After all, the house is so big, and you've been in the hospital for almost ten days. You'll be out of confinement in less than a month."

Gu Xiaoxia could only accept her fate.

Fortunately, everyone is like this. Think about it, it’s only three weeks and it will be over.

Sister Yang helped to move the things down, and then went to soak the unwashed diapers and prepare to wash them.

Sister Yang also made lunch. There were two stoves at home, so she made two servings of rice. The chicken soup was freshly slaughtered and stewed. According to Li Long, it was okay to put a little less salt in it. After all, it was impossible to give Gu Xiaoxia no salt at all. Although Gu Xiaoxia had enough milk, Sister Yang still prepared milk powder.

She cooked rice and stir-fried vegetables for Li Long and Liang Yuemei. Han Fang was also surprised to see the jeep when she came back from school, but Sister Yang did not allow her to see the children, which made Han Fang very depressed.

Girls are not allowed to enter the confinement room. I don’t know if it’s because they are worried about bringing in bacteria or because they are afraid that the girls will have psychological trauma.

What surprised Liang Yuemei was that in the next few days, Sister Yang took over all the work of taking care of Gu Xiaoxia. She not only cooked and took care of Gu Xiaoxia, but also washed diapers, boiled water and other tasks.

And busy and well organized.

Here, I feel a bit like an idler and an outsider.

Although Liang Yuemei felt a little uncomfortable, she was more relieved that her brother-in-law and sister-in-law did not make a mistake in choosing her. Yang Xiulan was really a good person.

A week after Li Long and his team came back, Liang Yuemei was sent back to Team 4 by Li Long. Firstly, there was a lot of housework, and secondly, she was not really needed here to take care of things.

With Li Long and Sister Yang around, Gu Xiaoxia has basically recovered and her life has stabilized.

Although Liang Yuemei tried her best to stay until Gu Xiaoxia was out of confinement, she was finally persuaded to return to the team.

The family is indeed busy. The wheat is almost ready for harvest and threshing, the corn is tasseling, the melons are blooming, and so on.

After Li Long sent Liang Yuemei back to the team, he found out that a girl who looked very much like Gu Xiaoxia had been there and had been to Gu's house, and was brought there by Qiangqiang.

He immediately remembered what Gu Boyuan had once told him—Gu Xiaoxia had a twin sister who was missing.

At that time, Gu Boyuan fled to northern Xinjiang. His wife was implicated and eventually disappeared. Gu Xiaoxia's twin sister also disappeared.

Could this girl be her sister?
Li Long had only a fleeting thought, and then he drove back to the county with the fish caught by his father.

He also has to handle the household registration procedures for his child.

Because Li Long decided to keep the child's household registration in the team, and Gu Xiaoxia's household registration had already moved to the city, Li Long finally decided to keep the child's household registration in the team as well.

Therefore, the Li family will be allocated another ten acres of food-grain land at the end of the year.

Although the child's household registration is in the team, he will definitely go to school in the county. Although the family does not understand why Li Long wants to register the child's household registration in the team, Li Long's decision in the past two or three years has basically been correct, so they did not object.

Anyway, it's not like we can't afford to support them. In the past, what we envied the city people was the commercial grain, but now the life in the team is not worse than that in the city, or even better, so there is no need to squeeze in.

Anyway, Gu Xiaoxia works in the Education Bureau, so there will be no problem for the two children to go to school in the city in the future.

After Li Long came back from the team, he went to Gu Boyuan's shop first and told him the story that was circulating in the team.

"What did you say?" Gu Boyuan was originally sitting at the counter. He stood up suddenly after hearing what Li Long said. "Really? Did you really go to my yard?"

"Qiangqiang took me there, how could it be fake?" Li Long said, "Uncle Gu, do you think that person is..."

"It must be!" Gu Boyuan said excitedly, "The day after I came back, there was a little girl looking at this side from the opposite side, and the old man Sun next door said that she looked like Xiaoxia, but I didn't pay much attention to it. Later, I started to guess..."

Now he was basically certain that his other daughter was alive.

"In that case, I guess Xiaoxia's mother should be here too," Li Long said, "otherwise, she wouldn't have come here to look for you. Xiaoxia's mother must have told her that you were here, so she came here. Otherwise, how could a little girl remember what happened back then?"

Gu Boyuan nodded, very excited, but unable to say anything.

Although he knew that his other daughter was alive and his wife was most likely alive as well, he could only wait passively.

This huge emotional fluctuation left him speechless.

"I don't plan to tell Xiaoxia about this." Seeing that Gu Boyuan didn't say anything, Li Long announced his decision. "Xiaoxia is in confinement after childbirth. She can't be too emotional now, otherwise it will hurt her body."

Although Li Long did not have children in his previous life, he watched a lot of short videos and knew that mothers are most likely to suffer from depression during the confinement period, just like He Yulian.

So he planned to keep this matter secret for a while.

Gu Boyuan nodded. He had never explained this matter properly to Gu Xiaoxia before, and he couldn't tell her now.

After a while, Gu Boyuan asked:
"How is Xiaoxia now? How is the child?"

"Xiaoxia has returned to her weight a year ago. She said she can't gain any more weight, or she'll be overweight. The two kids are fine too. They just eat and sleep, and they're very well behaved."

When talking about the child, Li Long's eyes were full of smiles: "It's very easy to take care of. I just sent my sister-in-law back today. Sister Yang can take care of it by herself."

Gu Boyuan cooked for himself these days and did not go to the compound, mainly because he felt it was inconvenient, so he did not know that Li Long and the others had returned.

"That's good." Gu Boyuan said, "I won't go over until Xiaoxia is full-term. You guys are busy over there, I can't help much, so I won't cause more trouble. Don't worry about me, I'm fine here, I can take care of myself."

Li Long was not pretentious. After all, he was already halfway through the confinement period, so a few more days wouldn't make a difference.

And then, the women in the team came over one after another.

For the first time, Sister Yang felt the influence of Li Long and his wife on the Fourth Team. (End of this chapter)