Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 122

Qin Rou had long stopped looking in the mirror. She was wearing a headscarf on her head, and all her hair was up and wrapped. She had to be like a village girl, she still didn’t know what she smelled like. She got used to it, so she couldn’t smell it. But it didn’t mean that others couldn’t smell it either.

Seeing that, Lu Yan frowned, “What’s wrong with me kissing my wife?”

When Lu Yan came to kiss her again, Qin Rou smiled and pushed him away, “You also smell of milk too, Xiao Lu.”

“It’s all because of you and your sons.”

“Damn it, the children woke up.” 

The couple found that the two childrens opened their eyes and looked at their parents curiously. Maybe it was because they heard more of their parents’ voices in the womb, they were very aware of Qin Rou and Lu Yan.

Two pairs of big black grape-like eyes stared at the people, and they were dumbfounded while watching.

The two little childrens seemed to be installed on the same channel, the elder brother grinned silly, and the younger brother followed with a silly grin.

“Lu Yan, look at them smiling.”

“Contestant Jiaozi is smiling sweetly.”

“It’s over, look, can they understand me? Contestant Zhouzhou joined later. He smiled brightly.”

…

Bang! Bang! Bang!

There was a knock on the door, and two little kids came in, they were Xiao Mingxu and Chen Jingyi.

Xiao Mingxi, who was loud and active, had turned down the volume a lot recently. He was afraid of accidentally opening the Pandora’s Box with his loud voice, as the following two brothers’ cries would be earth-shattering.

“Little aunt.” 

“Auntie.”

Both the little guys came to see their little cousins.

“Come in.” 

When the two little guys entered the room, they saw Lu Yan holding them both in his arms. Xiao Jingyi and Xiao Mingxi looked at the little children in amazement.

“Ahhhhhh”

The more people there were, the more excited the twins seemed to be. Maybe they enjoyed being watched. Like two restless little centipedes, their little arms and calves were moving.

Outside the door stood her mother-in-law Jiang Ping. She brought a bowl of papaya cut into pieces for Lu Yan and the children to eat, while Qin Rou had a hot papaya porridge.

Every time that happened, the babies couldn’t hold back, pulling their mother for milk.

Jiang Ping took the two little guys out to play, switched on the radio for the couple and turned down the volume, Qin Rou fed the babies, and Lu Yan sat by the side and fed her porridge.

The children fell asleep after eating, and Qin Rou leaned on her husband’s shoulder to talk to him.

Qin Rou rested for two months. When the children were one month old, they had a full moon ceremony. She simply gathered with her family to celebrate. There were many people in the colony, and Lu Yan had many comrades in arms. 

At the beginning of September, Qin Rou was still confined at home. A big typhoon landed in the past two days, and the school had already closed early. Every household also stocked up water and food at home.

Her sister and brother-in-law came to their house to stay till the typhoon receded. Whenever the typhoon passed, there was no electricity. It was pitch black at night. The room was lit with coconut oil lamps.

Typhoon days were very dangerous. Everyone was hiding at home. The wind was howling outside, many things were blown into the sky, and some strange collision sounds were heard from time to time.

Qin Rou asked her sister-in-law and her parents-in-law to seal the terrace on the second floor. The plants on the second floor were also moved into the room, and the doors and windows were closed, but there was still a lot of rainwater seeping in.

The rain was falling, everyone sat together to avoid the typhoon, but they didn’t feel afraid. It was windy and rainy outside, and everyone inside was eating steamed buns around the lights. Her mother-in-law baked a lot of cakes in advance. Her father-in-law also made sesame salt, and there were two jars of sweet and sour cucumber strips. Only Lu Yan was not at home.

Qin Rou had finished feeding the two children. Their skin had become white and tender and the smell of milk was very attractive.

It was like the ugly duckling turning into a swan.

The two childrens still slept once they were full. Qin Rou let the two children lie down beside her to sleep, while she picked up a photo album. There were mostly photos of the children and their parents. There were a lot of photos of the family, and a lot of hers and the childrens, as well as the in-laws, sister and brothers-in-law had been added to the family album.

The children opened their eyes again and woke up, looking at the world curiously. Qin Rou took them to see their father’s photo, pointed to the person in the photo, and said, “This is Dad.”

“This is Dad.” 

“Mom.”

Qin Rou knew that the two children would still be short-sighted, so they must not be able to see clearly, but it was just to play with them.

When they heard the two addresses, they also made a humming sound and seemed very happy.

After the typhoon passed, Qin Rou put on her shoes and stood on the terrace on the second floor to look into the yard.

The yard was completely destroyed.

Her beautiful yard had become… 

Qin Rou couldn’t bear to describe it. Her chicken fence collapsed, half of the chicken coop collapsed, and the thatched umbrella fell. As for other flowers and plants, the yellow Chili and green kumquats fell.

Qin Rou: “…” My land is gone.

It was an unspeakable heartache. It was clearly such a beautiful yard the previous year, it was blooming all over the place, but at that moment it seemed like a ruin…

Next to her house, Head Zhang, was also heartbroken in the yard.

Happiness was always short-lived.

As for Political Commissar Liu, who had worked hard for the time being but had yet to reap the reward, fortunately he had not yet returned home.