Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 131

Qin Rou took several photos as a souvenir. She also planned to plant some red flowers. She took scissors to trim the flowers.

The old hen in the chicken coop recently gave birth to a litter of chicks. The fluffy chirps were very cute. She gave a few to Xue Xiaohui. Qin Rou was looking forward to the arrival of a few little roosters, which could be slaughtered and eaten.

The red tomato plant seemed to like her yard very much. It was able to cheer up after many winds and rains. Once again, it was covered with red and colorful fruits, and ruby ​​agate like a bead curtain hung down.

There was always no shortage of tomatoes in their house. When Qin Rou was lazy, she decisively chose tomato scrambled eggs, a home-cooked dish that one would never get tired of eating. She grew her own tomatoes and got eggs from her hens.

The luffa Qin Rou planted were growing normally, and the eggplants and beans in the vegetable field were growing well. Recently, they had harvested a lot of large purple eggplants to make eggplant pots, fried eggplant, eggplant egg cakes, steamed eggplants with garlic, shredded eggplants, steamed eggplants…

(Miao note: I love eggplant. My fav vegetable!)

They developed a variety of ways to eat eggplants. Perhaps that year’s Feng Shui (luck) was more prosperous for eggplants, and the harvest was good.

Sometimes the influence of climate and Feng Shui on the plants of that year was unclear. Qin Rou remembered that it was a bumper harvest of lychees the previous year.

Of course, the farmers would not be happy with that kind of comprehensive and full-scale harvest. On the contrary, because there was too much supply of lychees, they were sold at low prices of a few cents per pound and many were in the rotten fields.

The eggplants produced in her home were indeed a bit worrying. Even if a variety of eggplant eating methods had been developed, the kids didn’t want to eat them all the time.

Qin Rou collected a basket of eggplants and beans. The eggplants were going to be given away later. The beans were pickled and stored.

“Xiao Qin, I heard that the fishing boat is back. Let’s go buy some fresh fish as soon as possible!” Li Qinghua came to her house and invited her to buy fish together. Li Qinghua was pregnant, and her stomach didn’t show much. She had become a lot more diligent than before.

“Huahua, I’ll give you a few eggplants.”

 “Well, we will roast eggplants today.”

Huahua, who ate in the cafeteria all the time, had set up a kitchen at home. That was the pressure brought by the child.

Slackers couldn’t be lazy anymore.

In the past, Huahua lived a super cool life. She ate in the cafeteria every day. Although the food in the cafeteria was not really delicious, it was definitely not unpalatable. Moreover, Huahua was definitely not the one who treated herself badly. She also ordered meat dishes every day.

That was like poking a hornet’s nest. Li Qinghua had lived a casual life, but she didn’t do anything and ate meat. Secretly, she didn’t know how many people envied her.

As for why so many rumors about her spread in the place that she was a lazy wife behind her back, it was because she was hated.

Li Qinghua and Huang Xinying were two people, one was the hardworking wife in the courtyard, and the other was the lazy wife in the courtyard. The two of them had one thing in common, that was, they had only given birth to one child.

In the colony like them, mostly people had only one child as with three or four, life got very tight.

Raising children was too expensive and time-consuming. If there were too many children at home, it was inconvenient for the mother to work. She had to take care of them at home.

In the past, Huahua didn’t work, and Political Commissar Liu raised her and her son. Political Commissar Liu’s salary was more than enough. The family of three could eat refined grains. The meals in the cafeteria were not expensive. Fish and eggs were twenty cents per dish, and thirty cents for good meat dishes. Huahua ordered good meat dishes every day and ate a piece of it for twenty cents a day, which was only thirty six yuan a month. Even if Political Commissar Liu had to send some money to the family, they would have no burden to live on.

But if there was a second child, then the pressure of life would increase. If they had one more child, they would have to have more mouths to feed. It was okay if they had a girl and boy, they could hold on, but feeding three or four kids was not a joke. Even the teachers’ families would have to shift eating some coarse grains.

Why could Huang Xinying be the hardworking wife? The main reason was that there was only one child in the family. Both husband and wife got paid. The husband and wife had a sufficient supply of rice grains every month, so that the family could often spend a bit and make their life prosperous and bright.

It was difficult for even a clever woman to cook without rice and oil.

In a sense, both were of the same kind.

And other colony members, especially those who had given birth to four or five children, couldn’t just shut the door to save money and raise their children.

“It’s not easy to raise children!” Qin Rou went back to the kitchen to get the bucket for the fish. Thinking of Huahua’s recent changes, and the two fat babies at home, she suddenly felt the pressure of raising kids.

Generally, in underwater, benefits range from high to low. The higher the risk, the better the salary. Lu Yan was on the water, and the salary and allowances were higher than the onshore allowances. In addition, there were subsidies for going to sea. It was hard work, but the treatment was good. All allowances added up to an average of two hundreds yuan a month.