She knew that Shen Gongqi's refusal to agree to her request was for the sake of her health, but at that time she felt angry because of his rejection, and she couldn't control it. She just let it out for a while.
"Okay, let's take a rest now. You have a good rest. I will change the baby's diaper at night. If you want to breastfeed, I will call you," Shen Gongqi said.
"Well, you should go to bed, it's getting late," Fang Nuo said
He went to put out the lights, then got on the kang and lay down to rest.
The child woke up three times in the middle of the night. He woke up first, lit the lamp, and then checked the condition of the child's diaper. If he needed to change it, he would change it first. If not, he would pick him up and coax him, and then he softly called Fang Nuo to wake up and feed him.
At first she stood up and sat up to feed him, but later she became too sleepy, so Shen Gongqi was first asked to put him in her arms while she lay on her side to feed him.
The first time something like this happened, it would happen countless times later.
After Shen Gongqi became proficient, he untied his wife's clothes and put the child in her arms so that he could eat it himself.
This way Fang Nuo can rest for a while without having to wake up every time.
The next day, Shen Gongqi found time to go out and ask the barefoot doctor in the village.
The barefoot doctor in their village came from outside. I heard that he used to be the leader of a family of traditional Chinese medicine. When there was turmoil outside, he found connections and was assigned to be a barefoot doctor in their village.
Usually, the old man rarely meets with the villagers. Most of the time he either stays in his small courtyard or goes to dig herbs in the mountains.
Because Shen Gongqi left early, he met others at home.
After the barefoot doctor knew the purpose of his visit, he replied: "If confinement is not necessary, bathing and washing hair should wait until the later period of confinement. Then you can use ginger or mugwort boiled water to wash. The water temperature is in the west." Ten to ten to five is fine, not too hot or too cold.”
"Can I really wash it, doctor? It won't cause any harm to my wife's body," Shen Gongqi asked.
"Boil ginger and mugwort in water and wash them. They have the effect of dispelling wind. If you wash them and dry them immediately, there will be no problem," said the old doctor.
"Okay, then I understand. Doctor, do you have mugwort for boiling water here? I want to change some and go back to prepare" Shen Gongqi asked
"Yes, come in, I'll pack some for you to take back," the old doctor said, turning and walking into the room where he kept the medicinal herbs. He found a cloth bag and filled Shen Gongqi with a lot of his dried mugwort.
After Shen Gongqi thanked him, he took it back home, then went to the kitchen to get a bacon chicken, and some dried vegetables and mushrooms that his wife made last year, which he brought to the old doctor's house.
Unexpectedly, the old doctor also gave him some soap locust and asked him to break some and throw them in when boiling shampoo for his wife, which would make the hair softer.
When Shen Gongqi came back from delivering the gifts, he told his wife what the old doctor said.
Fang Nuo didn't say anything when she heard that it would take some time before she could wash it.
"Then wait for a while before washing. I can still survive these days. Also, it's not very hot recently. If I sit in the scorching summer during confinement, I will definitely not be able to bear it," Fang Nuo said.
"That's because our baby loves you so much, that's why he picks the right time to come here." Shen Gongqi walked over and put his arm around her shoulders.
"That's not true. You haven't chosen a name for our waiter yet. It's been a few days and you haven't decided which one you want to choose?" Fang Nuo asked.
"Uh... I'm not here yet to take a look. Just wait. I'll show you some of the names I found last time. You can choose one for your child," Shen Gongqi said. , got up and went to the outhouse, took a notebook and walked in.
He sat down next to Fang Nuo, opened his notebook, took out a few names he had chosen for his children in advance, and handed them to Fang Nuo for her to choose.
There are five names written in the notebook: Zhao Qi, You Gang, Zhong Qi, Ning Qiao and Zhenzhuang.
Fang Nuo took a fancy to the name Ning Qiao, so she said, "Let's call her Ning Qiao. Shen Ning Qiao sounds very nice."
"Okay, our waiter will have a name from now on. It's called Shen Ningqiao. I'll go find the captain in a while and help register the child," Shen Gongqi said.
"Well, you can give your child a nickname," Fang Nuo said.
"My nickname...well...or I can give it to Shen Xiaoer. Anyway, we both have a good nickname these days," Shen Gongqi said.
Fang Nuo had no objection to what he said, so from today on, our Shen family boys have two names: Shen Ningqiao and Shen Xiaoer.
Shen Gongqi went to the brigade leader to write a letter of introduction that afternoon, and then took it to the commune to register for Shen Ningqiao's residence early the next morning.
On the day the child was registered, Shen Gongqi returned to the team and continued working.
For Fang Nuo, they discussed with Dahua, gave her five yuan, and asked her to help cook Fang Nuo's confinement meals.
At first Aunt Dahua was reluctant to accept the money, but Fang Nuo acted like she wouldn't ask her to help if she didn't accept the payment. She was afraid that the two children would be in trouble but didn't say anything, so she finally agreed.
During the confinement period, she used all her cooking skills to take care of Fang Nuo's confinement.
Fang Nuo, who had finally been in confinement for twenty days, couldn't stand the smell on his body and had to take a shower and wash his hair no matter what.
Shen Gongqi knew that she had endured it for a long time. Thinking about what the doctor said, she could wash it as long as she was protected from the cold, so he agreed.
So that afternoon, when Shen Gong's subordinates came back from work, Aunt Dahua was not in a hurry to go back, and just helped take care of Yaya and Xiaoer.
Shen Gongqi first boiled two large pots of mugwort water for Fang Nuo, which was used for bathing.
A pot of ginger water with crushed saponins in it. After boiling, let the temperature cool to about 50 degrees before bringing it into the house.
Shen Gongqi asked Fang Nuo to lie on the kang, with his head facing the side of the kang.
He placed a low stool on the basin and put boiled ginger water in it.
Then he untied Fang Nuo's hair and soaked it in water. At the same time, he used a jar to scoop up hot water and wet the hair and scalp on her head.
I didn't dare to rub it for her. I just poured warm water on it and then gently rubbed her hair.
When I felt that the water temperature was low, I quickly changed to another basin of water and continued washing.
After washing her for a while, she wrapped her hair in a dry towel. After helping her stand up, she wrapped her hair in a dry towel and dried it quickly.
Fortunately, he had a pot of fire nearby in the house. The temperature was so high that her hair dried out in a short time.
If she liked her hair, I went to fetch mugwort water, put it in the bathtub, gave her a quick bath, dried her and got dressed.
The whole process took almost an hour. After Shen Gongqi washed her, he asked her to lie on the kang under the quilt to keep warm while he took out the water and poured it out.
Although I didn't take a shower or wash my hair very carefully this time, Fang Nuo was very satisfied if he could just wash it.
If you want to wash it carefully, you have to wait until the confinement period.
"It's done. You don't feel any discomfort, right?" Aunt Dahua waited for Shen Gongqi to move the tub out, then walked in with the waiter in her arms and asked.
