smoke from cooking

Killed the limp child.

Nan Shu instructed Wang Wenjun, who was stiff, to straighten his posture, and gently placed the baby on Wang Wenjun's arms.Wang Wenjun didn't dare to move, and looked at the baby greedily.

"Mingmin's child, my child..." There was a bit of sobs in the voice.

"Second young master, at least I found you. Mama, the host, has finally found a place to reason after suffering." Zhang Mama wiped her tears.

The young man in Tsing Yi rushed forward and poked his head to look at the baby, "The red one is so pretty. The young master must be one when he grows up..." The young man got stuck and turned to ask Nan Shu, "This Mama, is my young master from a Ni or a Sao?" ah?"

"Ah... this..." Nan Shu was stunned, knowing that eyebrows are the difference between a Nu and a Sa, but how can a newborn baby tell the difference?I didn't watch He Mingmin's production process just now, so how could I know how to judge.

"Seeing how happy I am, I forgot about it. Let me take a look." Zhang Mama volunteered to step forward, opened the quilt, and held up the baby's two lotus legs, "It's a little nun."

Nan Shu followed the probe to check, and found that there was a thin pink line on the baby's back, not an opening, but a thin line.

"Second young master, after the young master, he is already the most beautiful nun, that is, that so-and-so in the imperial capital... even that so-and-so, who is not as good as my young master."

The little baby was raised with his feet up, slept uncomfortably, twisted his body, opened his mouth, and cried "Ah...".

Zhang Mama quickly wrapped the quilt, but she didn't dare to let the "clumsy" Wang Wenjun pick up the child, took it, and handed it to Nan Shu, "Nan Mama, I just serve some hot soup to the host Mama , the child is born with a sip of Mama's milk." Saying that, he ran out happily.

Nan Shu patted the baby's back lightly, looked up and saw Wang Wenjun was still standing, and whispered to the chair next to him, "Sit down, what are you doing standing up?"

Wang Wenjun walked slowly to the chair and sat down, the corners of his mouth moved as if he wanted to say something.Nan Shu didn't let him have a chance to speak, "When He Mama wakes up, you go into the room to see him. Ni gave birth to a child, and they all walked through the gate of hell. It's not easy to survive. You do As the child's father, you can't take care of the child and forget about the child...Ama."

Wang Wenjun nodded, looking ashamed, and glanced at the young man beside him.The young man understood, took a few steps forward, and handed out a small cloth bag with both hands, "50 taels of silver. Please ask Nan Mama to take care of the master Mama for some time."

"The Nepalese confinement lasts for a month, and it takes at least March to take their children to travel far away. Adults and children have grown their tibias before they can go out to see the wind."

The young man looked at Wang Wenjun, saw him nodding, and took out a small cloth bag from his arms, "This is 100 taels of silver. Please Nan Mama take care of my Mama for three months."

"I signed a contract with He Mama for this monthly rent." Nan Shu raised her eyebrows. It seems that the He family has a lot of things to do. The child was born, but they couldn't take it home immediately.But even if she could be picked up immediately, He Mama would have to stay in confinement, at least a month.

"The longest is three months, and the least is one month." Wang Wenjun spoke suddenly.

Nan Shu turned her back to him, "Deduct the money from the monthly rent, and I will use the rest to make up for Hemama. In addition to the money, you also need to prepare a milking ewe."

"Sheep? You can invite a milk mama."

"Hmph. That's a thank you gift from you." It is said that the Wang family is a big merchant in the imperial capital, and it should not be difficult to find such a small matter as a ewe.Besides, at Zhang Ri Zhangyue's current age, drinking goat's milk is just right for the body, to grow taller and nourished.As for whether He Mingmin wants to feed the baby with goat's milk, I'll ask him then.As for the strong smell of ewes, whether the neighbors will have any objections is completely out of Nan Shu's consideration.Sheep are not roosters after all, they crow every day, if they are kept at home and don’t run out, who would know.

"Okay." Wang Wenjun immediately agreed.

Nan Shu turned around and left the main hall, but the boy didn't pick up the cloth bag full of silver.It's not that I don't want to pick it up, it's that I don't have spare hands to pick it up.

In the room, He Mingmin had already woken up, leaning against the back of the bed, sipping soup, and seeing the child in Nan Shu's hand, he lifted his spirits, "Show me."

After picking up the child here, Nan Shu immediately untied her clothes. Nan Shu's eyelids rolled down, "Hemama, the second young master of the Wang family is waiting in the main hall. Let him come over after you pack up. You can talk for a while. , if you want to leave, it’s best to wait until tomorrow.”

There was a sudden silence in the room, and the joyous atmosphere suddenly felt as if a basin of snow had been poured on it, chilling the heart.

"Master Mama..." Zhang Mama looked at He Mingmin helplessly.

"I see." He Mingmin couldn't hear joy or sorrow in his voice, "I'll let him come over after I nurse the baby."

Nan Shu couldn't control how she negotiated with Mingmin and Wang Wenjun. She returned to the main hall and took the cloth bag from the young man.Nan Shu walked slowly back to the front yard.

Looking up at the dark night sky, Nan Shu stretched her waist, she was tired all night, she should have a good sleep.

"Hehe, hehe." The knock on the door was especially loud in the dark.

"Who is it?" Dou Mama poked her head out from the kitchen, trotted to the door, pushed open the small window shutter on the door, and looked out by the light of the lantern outside the door.

"Master Mama, it's Young Master You." Mama Dou whispered.But in the dark night, the surroundings were quiet, and Dou Mama's words were very loud no matter how softly she spoke.

Why are you here again?Didn't you make it clear last time at the Grange?

"Master, Mama..." Mama Dou urged again.

"Open the door."

Nan Shu yawned and managed to pull herself together.The courtyard door was opened, You Ning was dressed in plain clothes, his face was abnormally pale, when he saw Nan Shu in the courtyard, he didn't speak, just looked at him quietly.

"busy?The words turned into, "Are you unwell? Come in and have a cup of hot tea."

You Ning didn't answer, just continued to look at Nan Shu.

Nan Shu looked down and saw You Ning's long, thin shadow on the long street.In the hazy lantern candlelight, You Ning's shadow is so thin, as if it will disappear in the next moment

"Last month, I went to the imperial capital to discuss a business deal."

Nan Shu froze for a moment, You Ning was explaining to herself?

Goodbye

When old friends see each other again, they will be very happy and talk about what will happen after the farewell;But what are Nan Shu and You Ning now?

Not friends, not even lovers.

Nan Shu was struggling, You Ning explained what he wanted to do.Do you want to pour another pot of cold water, so that You Ning will die completely.

"It's cold at night, you go back." After finishing speaking, You Ning turned and walked out of the long street.

Nan Shu was dumbfounded, so she just left?You Ning actually left!No confession, no love, no...nothing, after a few words, You Ning walked away cleanly.Poor Nan Shu stood blankly in the yard, trying to pierce her head, but couldn't figure it out.

That night, Nan Shu suffered from insomnia.Tossing and turning on the bed, still unable to fall asleep, Zhang Mama's crying could be faintly heard from the backyard, making people upset.

The next morning, Zhang Yue bulged her mouth and was too lazy to get out of bed.Nan Shu guiltily kissed the child's forehead and coaxed the child to sleep again. Zhang Ri over there was not affected by Nan Shu, dressed energetically, jumped out of bed, and ran to Nan Shu's bed.

"Ama, my brother is sick." The little hand touched Zhang Yue's forehead.On weekdays, Amma doesn't stay in bed for them, but my younger brother can sleep a little longer today. Could it be that he is sick.Zhang Ri looked at Nan Shu worriedly.

"Well, my brother didn't rest well last night. Let him sleep more."

After the father and son washed up and had breakfast, Nan Shu asked Dou Mama to go to the backyard to have a look. If she needed help, she would not go there.Accompanying Zhang Ri to move the small tree that was crooked that day to one side, two buds grew out of the place where the trunk of the small tree was broken.Zhang Ri was curious about whether the broken tree could grow taller again, Nan Shu asked him to observe carefully, and then told himself the observation result.

Zhang Ri joyfully moved a bench and sat beside the broken tree, staring at the little tree without blinking.Nan Shu put the fallen branches beside the kitchen by herself, and burned them as firewood while cooking.

With a few days left before New Year's Eve, Nan Shu fetched water, rolled up her sleeves, and cleaned up the three rooms in the front yard.The top of the room has been dusted by Dou Mama, and now it is only necessary to wipe the furniture with clean water, change the sheets, pillowcases, and worn clothes once, and replace them with clean and bright utensils.

Dou Mama soon came back from the backyard, still whispering in Nan Shu's ear, "That Wang Wenjun said, let He Mama confinement here, at most three months, and he will be taken back to the imperial capital after the spring. He Mama listened Just say it, I’ll wait for you. I won’t say anything else. I’m listening by the side, I just feel sad.”

"Don't take care of other people's affairs. It's almost Chinese New Year, and when you're done with the front yard, you'll go to the backyard to help. When it's Chinese New Year, you can't live in a deserted place."

Dou Mama nodded in response, rolled up her sleeves, and got busy with Nan Shu.

Wang Wenjun left on the morning of the third day after the child was born.The young man in Tsing Yi and the driver who accompanied He Mingmin that day also left with him.

After Wang Wenjun left, Nan Shu went to the backyard to see He Mingmin once.He Mingmin's face was pale, but the circles of his eyes were red.Nan Shu said a few words of relief, and kept talking back and forth, but it was important to take good care of the body, and the child still needs you and so on.

"Nan Mama, there is also a sister-in-law in the family. I remember that she just married into the Wang family, and the sister-in-law is just like you."

and then?

When Nan Shu pricked up his ears to listen to He Mingmin's concerns, so that he could use his skills as the neighborhood director's uncle to comfort the lost, He Mingmin stopped talking.

Nan Shu felt that she punched the cotton, and she didn't need half of her strength.After being quiet like this for a while, Nan Shucai reluctantly said, "It looks like the Chinese New Year is coming, although you