"Don't crowd the doorway. Let me in to have a look." Beaming, Ye Yaodong carried the baby into the room.
Lin Xiuqing lay there with a cloth wrapped around her head, smiling at him. "Thank goodness she's out. I was nearly worried to death. Now I can finally relax."
"She came just in time. Good thing the birth was so quick."
"I've already had several children. Of course it was quick."
Ye Yaodong laid the baby beside her pillow for her to see. "Thanks for all your hard work. Are you tired? Does it still hurt? Are you hungry?"
She smiled and shook her head. "It stopped hurting once she was born."
Mother Ye slapped her forehead. "Look at my memory. I just said I'd steam some eggs for you, then talked so much I forgot. Giving birth is exhausting, and it's almost mealtime. I'll steam two eggs for you first, to tide you over..."
"I've already cooked dinner..."
"Then I'll steam two eggs to go with your rice." Mother Ye turned and instructed Father Ye, "Hurry home and bring over that bucket of eggs I've saved up, and the confinement wine too. Bring the biggest jug, the twenty-jin one."
Locally, women drank confinement wine during their postpartum confinement. It had to be brewed several months in advance. It was actually rice wine, just made specifically for women to drink during confinement to warm the womb.
Whatever was cooked for confinement meals had rice wine added to it.
"All right." Father Ye answered and hurried home to get it.
Seeing that the baby had been born safely and there was nothing else for him to do, A-Guang also said he was heading home.
Ye Eldest Sister-in-Law and Ye Second Sister-in-Law cleaned up everything left from the delivery, then returned to