Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 47

Lu Yan left early in the morning without waking her up. The previous night, Lu Yan made a lot of steamed buns and froze them in the freezer. Qin Rou was in a low mood and didn’t stop him from making the steamed buns. She even turned over a bag of milk powder bought for the children and added sugar in it.

Not to mention, the steamed buns made by Lu Yan were indeed delicious. At first, she thought they were bland and tasteless, but after eating, she realized that they were really good.

Qin Rou had never eaten such steamed buns before. The steamed buns she had eaten were relatively fluffy, and they could be crushed when squeezed hard, and they tasted sweet. People didn’t like ordinary white steamed buns. It was also rare to see big white steamed buns.

Although Lu Yan’s steamed buns were delicious, Qin Rou wanted to taste the sweet steamed buns he would make.

At that time, Lu Yan frowned.

By adding sugar and milk powder, would the steamed bun still be edible?

– Of course it could!

At Qin Rou’s insistence, Lu Yan helped her make a few small steamed buns with milk powder and sugar, not many, five or six, because Lu Yan couldn’t bear adding sugar to all the steamed buns.

It was scary to think about.

Qin Rou got up and warmed up three steamed buns and a plate of pickles, and called the childrens over for breakfast. She boiled two extra eggs for the children and made them a cup of malted milk.

A simple breakfast couldn’t be extravagant.

Qin Rou was eating steamed buns and missed the rice rolls she ate in Guangcheng. One day she would make rice rolls at home!

There was no such condition at that moment. Even the pickles on the table were given to Lu Yan when he first came to the house. There were few fresh vegetables at the moment, so it would be good to have a mouthful of pickles.

It was just that the pickle was really salty. To be honest, it was unpalatable, but people felt uncomfortable if they didn’t eat some salty food.

Qin Rou planned to go to the villagers in the nearby village to buy some white radishes to make some sweet and sour appetizing diced radishes, or sun-dried pickled radishes.

She wanted to eat cucumbers, sweet and sour cucumbers.

These two children, Xia Mingxi and Chen Jingyi, were not picky eaters at the moment. They were short of food and clothing. They could only eat whatever the adults gave them. If they didn’t eat, they could only starve.

Xia Mingxi took the steamed bun and bit it, and found out unexpectedly, “Little aunt, are the steamed buns sweet?”

Chen Jingyi repeated, “Sweet?!”

Qin Rou: “…Mistake.”

It had a really “quirky” taste. If one ate a few more bites, they would feel tired and panic. It was better not to add sugar. There was no sweeter condensed milk at the time. If they dip it in, it would be sweet and better.

It could work with jam without condensed milk.

But they had nothing at home.

After breakfast, Qin Rou went to the chickens to pick up an egg. The feeling of surprise was indescribable. As expected of the hens she bought at a huge price, they were precious!

In the future, at least four or five hens raised would lay eggs every day.

She still didn’t know the gender of the other little chickens for the time being. Qin Rou secretly prayed that they were all hens, all hens, all hens…

Tsk, the kind of feeling of waiting for the lottery.

After feeding the chickens, Qin Rou planned to send the two little childrens to the kindergarten. There was a large kindergarten near the base. Not only the children of the base, but also the children of the nearby farm cadres would send their kids to this kindergarten to study.

Since the 1950s and 1960s, kindergartens had blossomed everywhere in China, mainly to liberate women from labor. Most units had their own kindergartens for employees.

Qin Rou said to the two childrens, “Today I will send you two to kindergarten.”

“Are you happy?”

Xia Mingxi and Chen Jingyi had never been to kindergarten before. Qin Rou used to be a kindergarten teacher, and saw many childrens going there for the first time. The “spectacular” situation of kids crying the first day away from their parents was seen by her

It was unknown how the two childrens would react.

“Happy!!” Xia Mingxi jumped up with his hands up, very happy, as if he couldn’t wait to go to kindergarten.

Chen Jingyi: “…”

Qin Rou pinched Xia Mingxi’s face, thinking that this little fat child was really an optimist. For him, going to kindergarten to make new friends may be a return to his happy hometown.

This little optimist.

Qin Rou heard from Lu Yan about Xia Mingxi’s life. He was the child of his third sister, and his third brother-in-law was no longer around. His father was also in the navy. He used to serve in the South China Sea.

The third brother-in-law’s family was abusive. The family had a birthday and insisted on asking him to come back. If he didn’t come back, he would miss the good times and the luck of his family… Later, he encountered a mountain disaster on the road.

The Lu family didn’t communicate with his family anymore, and Xia Mingxi had been raised by the Lu family.

Qin Rou sighed in her heart, it was not easy.

“Auntie, for you,” Chen Jingyi whispered while holding Qin Rou’s legs.