Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 105

Sister Huahua and Political Commissar Liu returned from their hometown with their child.

Qin Rou originally wanted to hear the story of “returning rich and noble to the hometown, walking in brocade clothes at night to impress the old family”, but who knew that after Li Qinghua came back, she shook her hand full of frostbite and said that she would never go back in winter in the future. 

“I froze to death this year.”

She didn’t know if it was because she had stayed in Qiongzhou Island for a few years and had become accustomed to the climate there. As a result, when she suddenly returned that year, there was a cold wind and a blizzard. Li Qinghua on the way, was frozen into a stupid dog.

On the way back, she had a cold with her son.

Li Qinghua put on the shabby cotton-padded jacket from a few years ago, wrapped in the military coat of Political Commissar Liu, and shrank back in the cold, thinking of spinning countless times along the way.

——She was really out of her mind that she chose to go back in winter.

After finally getting to her hometown, Li Qinghua just wanted to stay still on the kang (hot bed). No matter how her mother-in-law asked her, she didn’t move. It was so cold that she was freezing to death.

Li Qinghua stayed in the house all day long and didn’t want to go out. Who would go out and gossip with people?

However, many sisters in the village heard that she was back and ran into the house to see her.

Li Qinghua chatted with them with a snot on her face, and said that she was in Qiongzhou Island and that she had become a driver.

She coughed and had a runny nose while talking.

Although she received a lot of envious eyes, she did not feel happy at all.

–It was too cold.

Her son, Liu Yue, was looking forward to watching the snow, and the child followed his father outside to play.

Li Qinghua was looking forward to returning to the island.

“It’s too cold.” 

Even though she was back on the island now, Li Qinghua still subconsciously put her hands in her pockets.

Even her son’s hands were tucked into the sleeves.

Qin Rou: “…”

It seemed that Huahua had a very cold new year.

“My mother-in-law also misunderstood that I’m pregnant, haha…”

“Xiao Qin, I brought you something, and it’s not worth much. Come and try it, it’s from my hometown.”

” I really liked this pickled cabbage when I was pregnant, so you should try it too.”

Li Qinghua went back and brought a lot of things from her hometown and gave some to Qin Rou, including the specially made pickled cabbage from their hometown. There were black fungus and wild mushrooms.

Qin Rou gave her a lot of frozen meatballs in return, as well as the soup that she cooked, and also picked a lot of vegetables from her own yard for her. It might be called a hot pot gift for Sister Huahua.

“Okay, we won’t eat in the cafeteria today, I will cook it for the child when we go back.”

After Sister-in-Law Huahua returned, Qin Rou was really tempted by the jar of pickled cabbage. She liked sour cabbage as she was pregnant, and even had a little craving for pickled cabbage and pork.

But she didn’t have the conditions to eat pork right now.

Qin Rou swallowed her saliva and decided to eat sauerkraut and prawn ball noodles. It was not difficult to cook sauerkraut noodles. With fresh prawns, the taste of cooking… That sour taste was really strong!

Because the smell was so strong that it would not dissipate in the house, Qin Rou ate it outside, and the sour smell was overflowing.

When the children came back, they were also attracted by the smell. Maybe people who ate it thought it was fragrant, but when outsiders smelled it, it really had a strong smell.

Qin Rou cooked two more bowls of sauerkraut and prawn ball noodles for the children.

Huang Xinying had been smelling the sauerkraut noodle smell coming from the house next door. She stood on the terrace and looked around, thinking that this little tea spirit stopped drinking tea after she became pregnant and started to eat strange things.

But after smelling it, she still wanted to try it.

So she went to the next door to ask for some, and Qin Rou generously gave her some.

Huang Xinying decided to cook this noodle in the evening. She liked sauerkraut very much.

Not long after Zhang Chengbei returned home, he immediately fled, “I can’t go home anymore.”

“Wife, did you stink up a pot of conch?”

“Well, throw it away for me.”

“I wanted to hide it, but I couldn’t hide the smell.”

Zhang Chengbei: “…” Now his wife seemed to be getting a little lazy, it’s really scary.

Captain Zhang fled to the next door. He found that the next door also smelled like that. As soon as he turned his head, he met Lu Yan who came back. He sincerely said to Chief Lu, “Xiao Lu, after some time in marriage, women would become lazy. I came home today and met a pot of stinky conch, and you would too.”

Chief Lu: “I don’t like eating conch…”

“Same.”

After visiting relatives after the year, they exchanged things with each other. There had been many strange twists and turns, and new family members had moved in, including Head Chief Lin’s wife, Zhou Menglan.