Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 93

There were a lot of photos hanging on one wall, all of them were photos of Lu Yan and a woman, two children, one they both knew, Old Lu’s grandson, and the other they didn’t know.

Old Wang murmured in his heart, “This pretending is too real, with so many photos.”

Lu Zongyi and Jiang Ping looked at the photos and found that the young son and daughter-in-law looked quite affectionate in the photos.

Old Wang’s wife and Old He also looked up at the photos curiously.

The couple was very good looking.

The daughter-in-law was so pretty. Standing beside her tall son, she looked like a little bird.

“Why did you take so many photos?”

Lu Yan poured tea for the elders, “My wife bought a camera in Guangcheng before we came to Qiongzhou Island. She likes to take pictures. I also like to take pictures of her. There are quite a few in the room.”

Old Wang said immediately, “Xiao Lu, go and take them out for us to see, have you taken a lot of pictures of the seaside? We just reached and want to take a look at that place. What’s the difference between the sea on this side and the sea on our side?”

“The coconut trees here are so tall!”

“Okay.”

“I’ll go up and have a look with you. You also planted flowers on the second floor, right? They look very beautiful. I want to go up and see what kind of flowers they are.”

“I don’t know what kind of flowers they are. My wife planted them.”

Lu Yan took Old Wang up to the second floor to have a look, and even took this album at random, Lao Wang didn’t need to look around, because he found that there were also many photos posted on the wall on the second floor.

The photo was either Lu Yan, or Lu Yan’s wife, or a group photo of the two of them.

Lao Wang: “…” How many photos were there in that house?

How long had this couple been married? How could they take so many photos? He and his wife had been together for most of their lives and hadn’t taken so many photos.

It was fine for a woman to take them, but…

Old Wang glanced at Lu Yan strangely, but he didn’t expect the kid with thick eyebrows and big eyes to love taking pictures so much.

The two of them went upstairs, while Jiang Ping and Old Wang’s wife quietly went to the kitchen to take a look. They found that it was clean and tidy, and should be used frequently, but…

Jiang Ping came out of the kitchen, just in time to see Lu Yan and Old Wang coming downstairs.

She asked, “Child, why are there so many rolling pins in your kitchen?”

“I bought some, and some were bought by my wife. She thought I liked them.”

Jiang Ping: “???!!!” What did a rolling pin mean?

(Rolling pin used for beating, hehe)

Lu Zongyi was frightened at that moment, “Is this really your home?”

Lu Yan: “?!!!”

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Qin Rou came home a little later than usual, because she and her colleague Xi Xiangyi went to buy ducks together. Buying one duck was too expensive, so the two bought one together. 

Taking her half of the duck, Qin Rou hummed a song and went back. After she became pregnant, she had morning sickness recently. She often retched, had a bad appetite, and wanted to eat sour things.

In that era, she couldn’t get whatever she wanted, she could only create ways to satisfy her appetite.

She really wanted to eat sour plum duck!

She finally got half a duck, and wanted to make a sour plum duck. It was the day Lu Yan came back, so she would ask him to make some dough wrapping, sour plum duck and cucumber shreds… 

She drooled just thinking about it.

——I want to eat sour plum duck, I want to eat sour plum duck, I want to eat sour plum duck.

Qin Rou was thinking about the sour plum duck, and walked to the door of her courtyard, only to find that there seemed to be a lot of guests at her house.

Three old men squatted in her yard, studying her sunflowers.

Qin Rou was stunned at the door.

The three old men also saw her, and they who were 1.8 meters tall stood up and looked at her.

Lu Zongyi: “Xiao Qin?”

Old Wang: “Xiao Qin?”

Old He: “Xiao Qin?”

Qin Rou: “…”

“Father-in-law? Who are the two uncles…”

Suddenly, she saw several tall and strange old men in the yard, and Qin Rou panicked, not to mention that one of them was her father-in-law, Lu Yan’s father.

Qin Rou had seen photos of Lu Yan’s parents before.

Inexplicably, she saw them while carrying the duck. Qin Rou’s face flushed and she didn’t know what to do. Fortunately, Lu Yan heard the movement and walked out of the house.

He smiled brightly, “Wife, you’re back.”

Qin Rou hurried over and shoved the duck in her hand to him. She wished she could shove all of herself into him. What was the situation? Lu Yan’s parents were there? Why did no one give advance notice?

Jiang Ping and Lao Wang’s wife also came out. Jiang Ping’s eyes lit up when she saw the daughter-in-law who came back.

Sure enough, she was a beauty. Probably because she was just walking home, she was sweating a little. There was an indescribable shyness on her face.

Her son’s eyes were indeed good.

“This is your mother-in-law and Aunt Zhang.”

Qin Rou followed him and called them mother-in-law and auntie. She swallowed, and at the first glance at Jiang Ping, she noticed her mother-in-law’s long legs.

Aunt Zhang next to her mother-in-law should not be underestimated, she was over 1.72 meters tall.

Qin Rou: “…”

She tried her best to add one centimeter to her height, saying that she was 1.65.

“Come on, come in and sit, Old Lu, your little daughter-in-law is back.”