Chapter 44

The next day, Ning Shu woke up early and steamed the meat buns and eggs she bought on the app yesterday.

She also heated up some milk. After washing up, she started looking at today’s app.

Her eyes lit up.

Cherries: 150 yuan per box, 5 pounds per box, 26 boxes left.

Northeast rice: 15 yuan per bag, 10 pounds per bag, 53 bags left.

Cherry tomatoes: 20 yuan per box, 2 pounds per box, 10 boxes left.

Lemon boneless chicken feet: 20 yuan per box, half a pound per box, 19 boxes left.

Jiangsu lobster: 50 yuan per serving, 2 pounds per serving, 45 servings left.

Oh my god, everything today was her favorite! She could eat two pounds of cherries in one meal.

Sob… Finally, the rice had arrived, settling the 400 pounds of rice owed to Lin Xiaoshan.

There were also cherry tomatoes… for the babies to eat, as she didn’t like tomatoes.

And boneless chicken feet with lemon, she would eat them like Second Brother Lin, not wanting to let go of her fingers.

Garlic lobster could also be arranged.

Ning Shu no longer hesitated and immediately went on a shopping spree. She bought a box of cherries, 50 bags of Northeast rice, four boxes of lemon boneless chicken feet, two lobsters, and a box of cherry tomatoes.

It cost over 1,000 yuan, which was nothing for her with an app worth over 20,000 yuan.

The main reason was that she loved everything today except for the cherry tomatoes.

After buying the groceries, she first went to the utility room to take out 50 bags of Northeast rice.

Rice couldn’t be stored in the cellar, as it would get moldy in the damp cellar. So she could only store it in the utility room above the cellar.

In the utility room, there was a large earthen jar.

Ning Shu took out the sweet potatoes from inside, placed them directly on the ground, and then put 45 bags of rice in.

Because the large earthen jar was limited in size, if she covered it with a wooden lid, she could only fit 200 pounds of rice.

So she didn’t cover it with a wooden lid, but picked up the firewood on the ground and covered the exposed rice sacks.

Although no one was likely to come to the house to steal things, it was still better to cover the sacks with firewood in case someone entered the utility room.

Then she carried the bags of rice into the kitchen, one by one, and poured them into the rice jar.

The rice in the rice jar was indeed running low. This Northeast rice came at just the right time.

With fifty pounds of rice gone, it was full again.

Don’t be fooled by Ning Shu buying 500 pounds at once—it’s not that much. Lin Xiaoshan would come every month to take 20 pounds, and she and the two brothers would also need 20 pounds a month, totaling 40 pounds a month, or 480 pounds a year.

Who knows when the next batch of rice will come, so she has to prepare more.

If stored for a year, at most there would be some rice bugs, but after washing it, it could still be eaten.

After tidying up the rice, the three brothers hadn’t gotten up yet.

Ning Shu wiped the children’s books one by one. The books had been in the recycling bin for a long time and had a bit of a moldy smell, so they needed to be aired out for a few more days.

As a result, the wooden shelf in the study couldn’t be used anymore.

Ning Shu didn’t want Yi Bao and Er Bao to see it, so she aired the books in the backyard.

“Mom… Mom…” Just as Ning Shu finished airing the books, she heard Er Bao’s urgent call.

“Coming.” Ning Shu closed the back door. “What are you doing so early in the morning?”

Er Bao smirked. “Mom, Sanbao wet the bed.”

Ning Shu felt uneasy. She immediately ran to her room and saw Yi Bao and Sanbao standing on the bed.

The covers were already lifted, revealing a clear wet spot inside and in the middle.

“Lin Sanbao…!! ” Ning Shu shouted loudly, her face turning black with anger.

“Mom…!! ” Sanbao heard his mother shouting so loudly and replied loudly, as if competing in volume.

Ning Shu felt her anger dissipate somehow. “Go wash up quickly. Yi Bao, help Sanbao wipe and change his pants.”

“Mom, Yibao wet my pants too. I also need to change and wipe.”

“Then you both go together.” Ning Shu began to tidy up the bed.

However, while tidying the sheets, Ning Shu suddenly noticed something strange.

Last night, Sanbao slept next to her, Yibao slept in the middle, and Erbao slept on the side.

If Sanbao wet the bed, why was the wet spot in the middle towards the side? Shouldn’t it be a little on both sides? Since he’s in the middle?

Then, Ning Shu looked at the quilt cover. Sure enough, the wet part was on the side of the bed , and the middle was dry.

So… Ning Shu angrily went to the kitchen, where Yibao was wiping Sanbao’s bottom with a towel, and Er Bao was wiping himself.

“Lin Er Bao…” Ning Shu shouted again.

“I’m…” Er Bao was startled, and the towel he was using to wipe himself fell down. He slowly turned around. “Mom?”

“Comrade Lin Er Bao, do you have anything to say to me?” Ning Shu asked seriously.

Er Bao’s eyes flickered. “Mom… I… I didn’t do it.”

“Really?” Ning Shu stared into his eyes.

Er Bao pursed his lips.

Seeing this, Ning Shu didn’t say anything else. She turned away.

“Mom…” Er Bao was startled, ran over with his bare bottom, and hugged Ning Shu’s thigh tightly.

“Mom, I was wrong. It was me who wet the bed. I shouldn’t have blamed San Bao. I was wrong. Please don’t be angry with me.” His voice was choked up.

Actually, Ning Shu wasn’t angry. She thought Er Bao was quite clever.

He immediately shifted the blame to San Bao when he wet the bed, knowing that San Bao couldn’t explain himself clearly.

But not being angry was one thing; she still needed to teach Er Bao a lesson. It’s okay to be a little clever in front of others, but he shouldn’t push the blame onto his brother in front of him.

If Er Bao had said it was Yi Bao who wet the bed, she would have let them argue among themselves.

But bullying San Bao, who couldn’t speak well, was not acceptable. Although it wasn’t serious yet.

Ning Shu turned around, squatted down to face Er Bao, and patted his head. “It’s good to know your mistakes and correct them. Our Er Bao is the best and most obedient child.”

Hearing this, Er Bao’s eyes turned red, and tears welled up, showing that he was really scared.

He threw himself into Ning Shu’s arms. “Mom, I want to be the best and most obedient child.”

Ning Shu patted his back. “Then you should apologize to San Bao. What should you say to him?”

Er Bao turned to Yi Bao. “San Bao, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have wrongly accused you of wetting the bed. Next time, I’ll let you accuse me back.”

Ning Shu thought “…the way kids apologize is by letting the other person retaliate next time.”

San Bao had just finished wiping himself, and although he didn’t really understand Er Bao’s words, it didn’t stop him from saying, “Okay,” firmly.

Ning Shu couldn’t help but wonder if he really understood what he was saying. “Since Er Bao has apologized and Sanvao has forgiven him, after feeding the chickens and having lunch later, you two will wash the sheets and quilt cover together. Even though it was Er Bao who wet the bed, you are brothers. When you can’t do something alone, you can ask your brother for help.”

“Okay, Mom,” Er Bao agreed again.

“That’s right, Mom,” Yi Bao also saw no problem. They were used to doing things together.

“Then go put on your pants first, feed the chickens, and then come back for lunch,” Ning Shu instructed.

She also had to change the sheets and quilt cover, and the cotton had to be sunned for a week to get rid of the urine smell.

Ning Shu felt like crying. The cotton quilt couldn’t be washed. If it were modern times, down quilts or silk quilts could be dry cleaned, and even if a cotton quilt got wet, it could be washed and dried with a hairdryer.

But in this era, that wasn’t possible. There were no hairdryers, and she didn’t know how long it would take to dry.

After thinking about it, Ning Shu decided to wash the cotton in that area after dinner and use grass paper to wash the water.

Due to not eating meat for several days, the meat buns in the morning were eaten heartily by the family of four.

Ning Shu, Yi Bao, and Er Bao each ate two, and even though San Bao only ate half, plus a bowl of milk, his stomach was full.

After breakfast, the family began to deal with the aftermath of the bedwetting.

Ning Shu fetched water from the well for Er Bao and soaked the sheets and quilt cover in the water, letting each of them wash in a corner.

It was Er Bao’s first time washing clothes. He looked at the two quilts and started to rub them with his small hands.

After rubbing for a while, he looked at his mother washing the quilt, shook his hands, and went to find her.

Cotton quilts were not easy to wash. Ning Shu brought out several stools, placed the quilt on the stools, put the basin under the stools, and poured water onto the quilt little by little to wash it.

After wetting the quilt, she used soap to make bubbles, and then rubbed the wet area…washing it very carefully.

“Mom…” Er Bao walked unsteadily, leaning against the stool. He reached out to help.

“Er Bao, go help your brothers,” Ning Shu stopped him and pointed in the direction, “Go there. I’ve finished washing. Your two brothers haven’t finished yet. Go help them.”

Er Bao looked at his mother, then at the two quilts, and obediently went to find his brothers. He was a obedient baby.

Compared to washing the sheets and quilt covers, Ning Shu washing the quilt was quicker.

After washing the quilt, she began to wring it out. After the old cloth became wet, the grass paper also became wet.

The water absorption of the grass paper was quite good, although the cotton was still a little damp, it couldn’t squeeze out any more water.

Ning Shu put away the wooden basin and didn’t move the quilt on the stool. She just let it dry like that.

Looking at Er Bao, who was still washing, Ning Shu decided to leave him alone. Since he wet the bed himself, he should solve it himself.

She kindly said, “If you’re tired from washing, you can take a break and continue later. If you need to change the water, let me know.”

“I know,” Yi Bao replied.

“Bro, I won’t wet the bed again in the future.” Er Bao was about to cry. If he had known that washing the sheets and quilt covers would be so hard, he wouldn’t have wet the bed.

Without looking up, Yi Bao said, “Then you must remember.” And secretly vowed that he wouldn’t wet the bed either.

Er Bao suggested, “Bro, can we take it to Grandma’s house to wash?”

Yi Bao thought about it. While they could, “What if everyone knows you wet the bed? Besides, Grandma is old, and we should be filial to Grandma.”

Er Bao: “…Then let’s wash it ourselves.”