Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 72

Huang Xinying went to inquire about Lu Yan’s situation. After inquiring, she secretly looked forward to it, hoping that Qin Rou would get pregnant soon, and it would be best to have a boy right away.

Huang Xinying had raised a boy herself. She knew how tiring raising a child was, and she had to let the little tea spirit next door taste the same.

She closed her eyes, and what appeared in her mind was a relaxed-looking Qin Rou sitting under the thatched umbrella, leisurely looking at the coconut trees in front of her, white clouds and blue sky, as beautiful as a painting.

She couldn’t tell what kind of dissatisfaction it was.

There used to be a girl who would sit under the banyan tree and read Russian, Chinese novels, but that was a long way ago.

She too would change sooner or later, it was just a matter of time.

And she just wanted to speed up the process.

When Lu Yan came back, Huang Xinying took the initiative to send a bowl of fried oysters, scallops, abalone and a bowl of small fried pork to their house.

“Try my cooking,”

After chatting with the couple, Huang Xinying pretended to inadvertently remind Qin Rou, “Drink less strong tea, if you get pregnant with a child, it will be bad for the child.”

“The two of you should hurry up to have a child.”

After giving birth to a child, all kinds of contradictions would come.

Qin Rou: “???!!!”

The people in the colony were too concerned. A while before, they just urged her to find a job, but now they were urging her to give birth.

The organization assigned partners, the organization arranged the dates, and the community urged them to have a baby.

Lu Yan: “!!!”

There were still two little guys in the family. Lu Yan didn’t want to have a child so soon. After all, he still wanted to enjoy his life with his wife as a couple.

He smiled and said, “I want to wait two or three years to have a child with my wife.”

Qin Rou agreed, “Me too, I’m not in a hurry.” 

The two of them took safety measures, and neither of them wanted her to get pregnant for the time being.

“Why—” Huang Xinying immediately gave full play to her crackling while lecturing, “It’s great to have a child, and it can also enhance the relationship between husband and wife, don’t you want a child of your own?”

Qin Rou: “…”

Lu Yan: “…”

Huang Xinying went home with a long sigh. The young couple from the Lu family were also very persistent, and neither of them wanted to have a baby for the time being.

It was very sad.

Husband Zhang Chengbei was very dissatisfied with the incident, “You are too attentive to the family next door, you are asking about Comrade Lu’s situation, and even delivering food to his family.”

Zhang Chengbei had not been happy at all recently. His political commissar, Lao Liu, had gone on an errand to Guangcheng, and he took his wife Li Qinghua with him. Zhang Chengbei secretly thought he was going to take his lazy wife to send her back to his hometown, but he didn’t expect them to come back with a lot of joy.

After coming back, his face was full of spring, and he said that he and his wife watched a movie at the cinema in Guangcheng, and also went to a state-run restaurant to eat rice rolls…

Zhang Chengbei used to show off his virtuous wife in front of Lao Liu, but it didn’t work anymore. Lao Liu accompanied his lazy little wife to a movie. It was like eating some ecstasy soup. (m:love potion).

He talked to him about things related to his family. He could happily mention how he took his wife to the cinema to watch a movie that day, how the movie was, and how the atmosphere was.

Zhang Chengbei felt very uncomfortable.

Was it so nice to watch a movie?

He sneered in his heart. Zhang Chengbei never felt that there was any beauty in going to the movies, and there was a white curtain screen. Haven’t they seen enough in the camp? Even the young couple went to the movies.

But Lao Liu would mention it every time. When he mentioned it, his face became tense, as if he had met something great.

So Zhang Chengbei went to ask Lu Yan next door if he had gone to the movies with his wife.

After half an hour passed, Zhang Chengbei knew that he had asked the wrong person.

——Why did he ask Lu Yan?

It made him even more itchy. Why did they all go to the movies with their wives and show off to him like that?

He couldn’t take it anymore, he felt suffocated.

He had no choice but to propose to Huang Xinying to go to Guangcheng to watch a movie together, but who knew he was scolded by her.

“Are you sick? Why do we have to go so far away, don’t you think it’s troublesome?”

Zhang Chengbei insisted, “I don’t think it’s troublesome.”

“Okay, if you don’t think it’s troublesome, then help me wash the seafood.”

Zhang Chengbei: “…”

“Go, why don’t you go?”

His days were over!