Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 68

“She said that if she doesn’t practice, she may not be able to pass the test.”

“If she doesn’t pass the test, your sister-in-law and I can introduce her to a job,” Zhang Chengbei was very eager and positive to hope that Xiao Qin, a colony member next door, would quickly get a job.

It’s not a tea bucket, don’t hang around drinking tea at home!

“Xiao Qin shouldn’t learn from the political commissar’s wife, Xiao Li. She stays at home all day long and doesn’t do anything. She is called a lazy wife by the courtyard, which makes Lao Liu embarrassed.”

Lu Yan found that the neighbors next door were quite warm and caring, and the comrades in the colony home were indeed warm. Next time, he had to tell Lao Wang about it.

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Qin Rou had been preparing for the announcer exam for many days. She had to go through three rounds of exams, interview, oral exam and written exam. She hoped that she could pass. If she didn’t, she might become a teacher.

She practiced in the yard, and she also built a beautiful thatched umbrella with Lu Yan, the kind of vacation thatched umbrella by the beach, the kind that was often found on the beach.

Qin Rou thought that the kind of thatched umbrella had a special atmosphere at the seaside. She liked it very much. She and Lu Yan had strong manual labor skills, and the thatched umbrella was even more satisfying to her.

They placed the table and chairs on the bottom, and finished!

Studying for the exam under the thatched umbrella made her feel that she was not preparing for the exam, but that she was on vacation by the sea. With the sea breeze blowing, it gave her an extraordinarily relaxed and comfortable experience.

It was really comfortable. The only thing missing was a suitable reclining chair. Based on her and Xiao Lu’s abilities, she couldn’t come up with a decent reclining chair for the time being. She had to do more research, or go to the village to find an old carpenter to help.

No wonder in the future, the kind of thatched lounge chair experience was not cheap, and it was charged by the hour. Now she built it at home, free of charge!

Qin Rou was sitting in the yard preparing for the exam. She felt that it was strange to sit without anything in hand. It always seemed like something was missing beside her, either a cup of hot water, a cup of tea, a cup of fruit tea, a cup of milk tea, or a cup of coconut juice …

She didn’t like strong tea either. It was very comfortable to drink some warm, weak tea to moisten her throat.

The nearby farm raised sheep, and Qin Rou ordered some goat milk for the two childrens, or kept some for milk tea for herself.

She missed the taste of milk tea.

The goat milk tea she brewed herself was also very good, which was comforting. Fortunately, she bought a lot of tea leaves when she was in Guangcheng.

She used oolong tea, which was mixed with goat milk to make milk tea. The fragrance of oolong tea could just cover up the smell of goat milk.

It was very fragrant. It would be better if she could cook some sugar red beans and mashed taro in the future.

Drinking only tea was also very monotonous, and Qin Rou would also serve a small plate of snacks.

Drinking tea and eating fruit, the taste was really delicious.

Huang Xinying, her next door neighbor, came to her house to ask her for tea. Qin Rou gave her some oolong tea that she bought in Guangcheng, and Huang Xinying gave her a lot of fried twist(Ma Hwa) with coconut fragrance.

Qin Rou didn’t want to accept it at first, but she couldn’t refuse her neighbor.

After Huang Xinying finished delivering the twist, she pretended to “emphasize” inadvertently, and the corner of her mouth twitched, “This is made by my Lao Zhang.”

“Did Mr. Zhang make it? He has good skills,” Qin Rou did not expect that Mr. Zhang could also make delicate little twists.

Huang Xinying chuckled twice.

She was an upright teacher, and would never fool people indiscriminately. This twist was indeed made by Zhang Chengbei, with a bitter face, in the kitchen.

“Are you going to be an announcer? Work hard. If you don’t pass the test, come to our school and become a teacher. I’ll give you a recommendation,” Huang Xinying smiled slightly, but she couldn’t stand the pretty little tea lady next door drinking comfortably. She must be busy and taste the ups and downs of life.

You just got married, but you have to live like her in the future.

It was better for her not to be an announcer, but to be a teacher like her.

Huang Xinying had already figured it out clearly, the people next door were still newly married, so she naturally lived her life well, but it would be different after a while.

Huang Xinying was looking forward to her having a baby soon.

Once the baby was born, it was the turning point of the relationship between husband and wife.