Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 135

Zhao Jianghong was uneasy. Before he even walked to Lu Yan’s house, he saw a male soldier washing clothes in the yard. Zhao Jianghong couldn’t help but stop and watch.

Shouldn’t this be something women do at home?

Laundry, cooking and taking care of children should be done by women. He had never heard of any comrade-in-arms doing those things at home before, and it would be taken as a joke.

Zhao Jianghong: “…”

That seemed to be next door to Lu Yan’s house. Zhao Jianghong looked around, but couldn’t find the yard where Lu Yan might live.

As for Lu Yan’s dog temper, he didn’t pretend to be nice to women, he didn’t care about women at all, and he didn’t coax them at all. If he married a woman, and got angry even with just his handsome face, who could stand his bad temper?

Zhao Jianghong set his eyes on the person doing the laundry.

He thought to himself that although the male soldier in front of him was intimidating, he was still helping his wife wash clothes in the yard.

 Zhao Jianghong: “…” 

When Zhang Chengbei looked up, he found a strange man looking at him as if he saw a gorilla in the zoo. Mr. Zhang cursed him in his heart, ‘What are you looking at? Have you never seen a man do laundry?’

“Comrade, do you know Lu Yan, Chief Lu?”

 “Yes, Lao Lu lives next door, how can I not know him?”

Hearing Lu Yan’s name from someone else’s mouth, Zhao Jianghong was surprised. He didn’t want to see Lu Yan so soon, so he wanted to chat with the man in front of him.

“Have you ever seen a woman who is willing to sacrifice for her husband for several years?”

 “Yes, of course I have.” 

Mr. Zhang thought to himself, ‘Wasn’t that how my wife used to be? She used to do all the housework every day and be a good wife.’

But now she was different from other women.

 Zhao Jianghong was surprised, “Then do you know how to make this woman not sacrifice so much?”

 “Yes, you let her meet a better and more considerate man.”

“Then who do you think is better than Lu Yan?”

Mr. Zhang: “…” What are you saying?

It turned out that he was also a traitor among men.

 “Are you married? Do you wash your wife’s clothes? Do you make steamed buns for your wife? Do you wash your children’s diapers?”

 Zhao Jianghong said without hesitation, “That is what women should do.”

 “Then Chief Lu is much better than you. If I were a woman, I would have definitely married Lu Yan.”

Although Zhang Chengbei didn’t want to admit it, he had to say that if he were a woman, he would honestly marry Chief Lu.

It would be nice to marry Lao Liu and be a slacker, but he would pick Lao Lu.

No, both of them were not good, they were scum.

“Look, Chief Lu next door has come out to wash his sons’ diapers again,” Zhang Chengbei saw a familiar figure next door, speaking of Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrived. (speak of the Devil)

“What?!!”

 “Look at you, you are so stupid, aren’t you married yet? If not, then go get some good luck from Lu Yan.”

“Lu, Lu Yan?” Zhao Jianghong was stunned when he saw the person coming out of the yard next door from a distance.

He wasn’t ready yet to meet his old friend like that.

What was supposed to come had to come.

Zhao Jianghong took a deep breath and walked to the yard next door. Lu Yan was washing diapers. He had actually noticed Zhao Jianghong, but as a good father with experience, he should give his sons’ diapers to him as soon as possible. He had just started washing and would be able to process the end soon. 

“Lao Zhao, long time no see.”

Originally Zhao Jianghong thought that seeing Lu Yan, he would want to fight him, but he embraced him very honestly, and patted Lu Yan’s arm, “Brother, I haven’t seen you for many years, you didn’t contact me at all.”

He still remembered the days when they were wild.

He had been in the army for many years, rarely coming home throughout the year. They were also separated in the two places and had been in a state of no contact for a long time. He saw only comrades in arms every day. 

At that time, when seeing the good friends and brothers from the past, the women’s affairs could be put aside for the time being.

Lu Yan said with a smile, “You didn’t contact me either.”

“Come to my house and sit down.”

Zhao Jianghong looked around. He hadn’t noticed it till then, but just realized that the yard was really beautiful. When the wind blew, there was still a gentle fragrance of flowers in the air, and when he looked over, he saw the wood fragrance flowers entwined and blooming on the swing in the courtyard.

The petals trembled in the wind, and the cyan lawn was extraordinarily pure green under the light. Maybe it was because it was the island where the blue sky and white clouds that all the colors in the field of vision looked extraordinarily pure and beautiful.

On the other side of the vegetable field, there were small red agate-like tomatoes, purple eggplants, and blue loofahs. It was obviously the winter season, but there was a good harvest.

“This is your yard?” Zhao Jianghong was very surprised.

“Well, my wife cleaned it up, so it’s beautiful.” Lu Yan invited him into the house, “My wife has gone to her sister’s house. My mother and my father went home and now I’m left at home to look after the children. My sons are asleep.”