Chapter 100: Newbie Mother

Lü Shengcai was a little angry when he heard that his eldest grandson already had a name.

He also heard that Lü Bocheng had specially chosen the name before he left, both for boys and girls. After looking at the name he had thought of after a few days, he decisively abandoned it. He felt that his eldest son was still quite capable.

But when Su's mother, Xiao Qingyang, Qingxing and others all called him "Yangyang", he refused to call him, but insisted on calling him Xiaobao Xiaobao. He rushed to call him a nickname.

Su Qingmei didn't care. She was only happy that the child was loved by her grandfather.

"Sister, I asked the teacher about this word Yang, and he said it means the rising sun." Xiao Qingyang's greatest pleasure after school is to come to the Lü residence to see his little nephew, and compete with Xiao Qingxing to hold him.

Maybe it's more interesting for children to see children, even Yaya feels that she is a sister, and will help to coax him.

Su Qingmei looked at her son who slept most of the time with watery eyes, smiled and nodded.

"The two names your brother-in-law chose mean sunrise and sunny and warm weather." Yang also refers to a handsome man. I don't know if that guy meant that. He is quite narcissistic sometimes.

"Sister, that's Lv Weiyang. Is Wei the first child in their family?" Xiao Qingxing asked with difficulty, looking up.

Seeing Su Qingmei nod, she turned her eyes to Xiao Weiyang again. Everything around her was not in her eyes. She only had her cute little nephew in her eyes.

Su Qingmei couldn't help but smile when she saw it.

Since the child was born, Xiao Qingxing has almost stuck to the Lu family. As long as the store is not busy, she will run to the Lu family with Yaya in her arms.

"Your brother-in-law's cousin in his hometown also gave birth to a son named Lv Weiji."

"Lv Weiji? Not as good as the name of the little nephew." Xiao Qingyang said.

"That's right, the name given by my brother-in-law is still better." Xiao Qingxing agreed without raising her head.

"Yes, it sounds good. You three should stop surrounding your nephew, he will wake up soon." Mother Su came in with chicken soup and said something when she saw this.

"I will comfort him when he wakes up." Little Qingxing refused and lay on her stomach to watch.

"Your nephew can overturn the roof when he cries, can you comfort him?"

"Mom, I can comfort him. He won't cry after my sister feeds him milk. He will only cry when he is hungry."

Su Qingmei smiled, took the chicken soup, blew it and drank it.

She handed the bowl to Mother Su: "Mom, you have been here for a few days, and you won't talk if you don't go back? It's spring, and the fields should be busier."

Now Father Su is helping in the store and has a fixed salary, which is more than what Su Siquan takes home, so Old Su didn't say anything about asking Father Su to go back.

The family was missing two laborers, Su's father and Su Siquan, and Qingxing and Qingyang were no longer at home to help with some small chores. When the fields were busy, there was not enough manpower, and the second and third wives had been complaining.

The money that Su's father and Su Siquan brought back was kept by the old couple and they did not give it out. There was not much improvement in their diet. There was no money, but there was more work in the fields, and the family was not at peace.

"I will take care of you for two more days. These days, Aunt Zhou Hongxiu and I will make a few more small clothes, and prepare more diapers for you, in case the weather is bad and you have to dry them before you can use them. These days, the child gets up at night to drink milk, and you have to get up several times, and you are so tired that you can't open your eyes. Mother will help you take care of it for two more days so that you can adapt."

"Thank you, mother."

"Oh, why are you telling me all this?"

Su Qing'an really couldn't adapt these days. The child had to eat every hour, and she was very tired of eating and defecating. Sometimes she was sleeping so deeply that she didn't even know the child was crying.

She kept her eyes closed while holding the baby to feed him. The baby ate slowly, and she would fall asleep leaning against the bed before finishing eating. Fortunately, Su's mother was by her side, and the baby slipped from her hands several times.

"Mom, my cousin's wife is about to give birth, right?"

"Yes, it should be in the next few days. Mom will go back early the day after tomorrow, and your father will go back to the village next door to collect ducks. I will take your father's ox cart back."

"Ducks from the village next door? Didn't Fourth Uncle help Second Aunt collect ducks from several villages near our village?"

Su's mother curled her lips: "Your Second Aunt is not happy to pay, and no one wants to do business with her. It's all for Siquan's sake."

"Didn't Fourth Uncle pay the money first and then settle with Second Aunt?"

"Your Second Aunt is a person you... Don't know yet? Can she settle with Siquan? A cage of chickens and ducks costs several taels of silver. Can Siquan afford to buy a whole cart of chickens and ducks? Isn't it all because of our reputation that she sells them on credit? Besides, the chicken and duck business in her shop is not as good as yours, especially the ducks. Your second aunt's shop is on a prosperous street. She wants to hire someone like Granny Zhou to pluck the chickens and ducks, but will the neighbors agree? "

"Ah? Mother, the second aunt's shop also sells out all the ducks and chickens, and she also cuts and sells them like her sister. Where does she kill them?" Xiao Qingyang asked with his head tilted. He thought it was the same as his sister.

"She later asked your fourth uncle to kill the chickens at home before sending them over. Your grandmother saw that your cousin Qiuju and her family could make some money by making feather dusters and keys, so she had no objection to killing the chickens at home. The chicken feathers and offal were left at home."

Su Qingmei frowned: "It's okay when the weather is cool, but when it gets hot, the meat shipped from home will not be fresh."

"That's right. It's not as good as you killing it on the spot. So her store has fewer chickens and ducks. Especially ducks, your grandmother and her family think it's troublesome to pluck the duck feathers, so they don't want to kill the ducks."

Su Qingmei thought of her second aunt's stingy and calculating way. If she was more generous and knew how to behave, her grandmother would ask the whole family to help her.

Su Qingmei also had a lot of opinions about her. Not only did she imitate Su Qingmei to open a shop to grab business, but she also used all kinds of tricks to buy oil from Su Qingmei's shop, which made Su Qingmei unhappy.

She was the only family in the town that opened an oil shop, so her family should have a very convenient way to use oil. Since her family learned from Su Qingmei to make crispy chicken and other cooked food, they should have made more money than Su Qingmei. But I don't know whether it was because of cutting corners or lack of skills, the cooked meat business has never been very successful.

Su Ergu was indignant and wanted to block Su Qingmei's use of oil. Once when Su Qingmei went to buy oil, she directly said that there was no stock in the warehouse, and if she was in a hurry, she could bring the oil here to squeeze it.

This made Su Qingmei angry, and later she directly asked Su Dahu to buy oil from other places when he went to other places to collect goods, and never bought oil from her family again.

Su Ergu lost Su Qing'an, a big oil user, and later came to Su Qing'an several times, and also went to Su Siquan and Su's father to negotiate. Su Qing'an directly said that if the oil price was the same as that in Pingchuan County, she would buy from her shop, and save the trouble of going all the way.

But Su Ergu's oil pressing technology was not as good as others, and the oil output per catty was not as good as that of the oil shop in Pingchuan County, so the price per catty was several coins higher than that in Pingchuan County.

So she didn't agree. Su Qing'an didn't compromise, and still bought oil from other places.

Later, Lu Shengcai found out, and when he went to Pingchuan County to purchase goods, he also brought oil back for her.

Su Ergu shot herself in the foot. Since then, her family didn't say hello to Su Qing'an when they saw her in the town, just like a stranger. And Su Qing'an didn't care at all.