Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 100

“Auntie! Auntie! Did you miss me?”

“Auntie! The flowers are so pretty!”

…

After Xia Mingxi came back, the yard was filled with the buzzing of bees again, and Chen Jingyi and Xiao Mingxi successfully reunited. The two gathered around Qin Rou’s legs and looked at her stomach.

“Mom said that my little aunt will have a younger brother and sister.”

‘Auntie!” 

They would have cousins.

There would be so many children in the family!

Qin Rou took the two little guys to resume the business of raising leeks. The two babies were still very experienced in raising leeks. Chen Jingyi and his mother Qin Mian planted leeks at home, which they cut one after another.

As for Xiao Mingxi’s mother, she was embarrassed.

After having a meal at her younger brother’s house, Lu Sanjie looked at the blue sky and white clouds not far away and decided to stay on the island for Chinese New Year.

“The vegetables are delicious!” The heroic third sister Lu burst into tears. Like her father, she grew up eating vegetables grown by her mother Jiang Ping. She had not inherited the steamed bread kneading skills that her brother possesses. As a woman, she preferred to eat green vegetables.

After eating her mother’s food, she thought even the food in the cafeteria of the military academy was the most delicious on earth.

Back then, when Lu Sanjie went to the military academy, there were several girls in a dormitory, some from good families and some from bad families. The ones from good families were picky, but Lu Sanjie, under the training of the Lu family, had never said a word of disgust.

When her classmates saw that she was eating as soon as she got in the dining hall, like she hadn’t eaten in eight hundred years, they thought she came from a poor family and took good care of her.

Later…

“Why can my brother find a daughter-in-law who could cook and grow vegetables like this?” It was not fair.

She wasn’t afraid of eating bad food, but she was afraid that the little pig friend who ate bad food with her would ascend to the sky in one step.

They agreed to be pigs together. He, a piglet coming out of a shed, why did he enjoy the panda treatment now?

Chief Lu said calmly, “My dad asked me to meet someone .”

“I didn’t want to go to see her, but dad forced me to.”

“After the first time I saw my wife, the meeting was successful, and we married next.”

…

Qin Rou: “…” I just don’t want to expose you, the idiot.

Lu Sanjie: “…” Envy and jealousy.

“Old Comrade Lu, why didn’t you introduce a good son-in-law to your daughter?”

Comrade Lu Zongyi: “…It’s all by accident.”

Who would have thought that the youngest son really married this fiery girl? He had already given up on urging him to marry, as he really had no intention of planting flowers that would not bloom, and unintentionally planting willows to make a shade. (m. doing unfruitful efforts, willow is very thin tree which gives no shade)

On the 30th day of the new year, Qin Rou had to go to work at the radio station. Lu Yan had a holiday on that day and could go home to accompany her to the hospital. Before the evening, everyone had already come.

The elder sister and brother-in-law’s family, three adults and three children, six people together, Lu Yan’s parents, third sister and Xia Mingxi, four. So there were ten people all together.

As for Qin Rou and Lu Yan, on the surface, they were two people, but in fact, they were four. The family would celebrate the New Year with fourteen people that night.

To eat dumplings alone, it was necessary to make hundreds of them.

On the 30th day of the new year, the sun was just right. Qin Rou got off work earlier than usual, and Lu Yan came to pick her up for the New Year. Lu Yan was waiting downstairs, but saw his wife glance at him and ran back to the room. After digging out, she took out a huge coconut leaf and said that she wanted to go home with him holding a coconut leaf as an umbrella.

Lu Yan: “…”

Qin Rou had long wanted to try this kind of feeling of going home under the shade of the leaf. She saw a child carrying a leaf like that before and she was a little envious. She also found it fun, and even more liked it, like a Plantain Princess.

Banana leaves were not long.

It was silly to go home alone with a leaf umbrella, two people were just right, and the shame was also shared by the two people.

Finally she caught the strong man.

Chief Lu, the decision is yours!

How could Lu Yan refuse his wife’s request? They went home together under the huge leaf.

One of the two was in front and the other was behind. Qin Rou held the coconut leaves, and the tip of the leaf fell on the head of Lu Yan, who had a wooden face.

Lu Yan was afraid that she would fall, so he didn’t allow her to walk. He hugged her waist and walked side by side with her under the coconut leaves over his head.