In the next few days, Ji Huai ran up the mountain whenever he had time and dug back a lot of Morinda citrifolia intermittently.
After cooking, break it into pieces and remove the core, then dry it in the sun before selling it.
He dug up old Morinda citrifolia, which weighed more than ten kilograms at a time, but after removing the core and drying it, only about 30% of it was left. It took him a long time to collect a small sack.
On this day, he took this small sack and prepared to go to the market. Feng's mother fried some pancakes for him and asked him to take them with him to eat on the road. Ji Huai took them and put them in his backpack, "Thank you, Mom."
"Come back early." After saying this, Feng's mother went to do her own business.
Feng Qiaolan sent him out and emphasized again and again, "Don't buy me any more snacks. I don't like chocolate, and don't buy candies. There's a lot of malted milk left at home."
She was afraid that he would spend money recklessly.
Ji Huai raised his eyebrows slightly and said with a smile, "I know, I have to keep the money for our children."
"That's not what I meant." Feng Qiaolan explained hurriedly, fearing that he would think she was restricting him, and her expression was still very tangled.
As soon as he finished speaking, before he thought much about it, he didn't have any special reaction, "It's all the same, isn't it just for you?"
The child in Feng Qiaolan's belly kicked her gently after he finished speaking. The corners of her mouth also raised and she reached out to touch her belly.
"Come in quickly, I'm leaving." Ji Huai asked her to enter the house.
"Yes." Feng Qiaolan was reluctant to leave when she entered. She quietly looked back at him and found that he was still there, waiting for her to enter the house before leaving.
Ji Huai went to the city, and the first thing he did was go to the purchasing station. He was queuing up with a small sack, and a voice came from behind him, "Little brother, what are you selling?"
When he turned around, he saw that it was the dark man he had seen two times before. He was also holding a small sack in his hand.
Ji Huai replied: "Morinda ji."
"You dig Morinda citrifolia too?" The man was surprised, and then he started chatting. It was also small talk.
I heard from him that they were originally three people, but now they are six people digging together. There is no way, digging this thing is very hard, it is all dug out with handfuls of soil.
This thing grows slowly. It takes an unknown number of years to weigh several kilograms. The more you dig, the less it grows. The less it grows, the harder it is to dig out.
The six of them sold less than 50 kilograms this time, while Ji Huai sold 23.5 kilograms and received 267.9 yuan.
This is a huge amount of money. He went out and looked at the street. Land was now cheaper than anything else. With the money he had, he could buy three or five large shops.
He knew that digging Morinda citrifolia was not a long-term solution, and it was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and he had no intention of continuing it for a long time.
Ji Huai first bought book stamps from Shouhou on the black market, and then he did not go to the bookstore immediately. Instead, he turned a corner and went to a local magazine. He submitted an article he wrote a few days ago and then went to the bookstore.
The craze for the college entrance examination made bookstores popular, and book stamps cost him a lot of money.
After walking around the bookstore, he selected a few exercise books for Feng Qiaolan, and then went to choose a textbook. There was only the last textbook left on the shelf, and he reached out to get it.
Before he could get it, someone behind him obviously wanted to speed up to grab it. He saw it from the corner of his eye and stretched forward, one step faster than the opponent. After getting it, he slowed down and pretended not to notice.
"I'll give you more money, can you..." Ji Hao saw his face, the words of request were stuck in his throat, and his face became even stiffer.
In contrast to his surprise, Ji Huai's expression did not change and he said calmly, "No."
Ji Hao was the child born after Ji's mother remarried, and he was ignored and abandoned by Ji's mother, who was not welcomed. She wished she could send him to the countryside and ignore him.
Ji's father was unjustly accused and died of illness in prison, and Ji's mother regarded him as a burden. He and Feng Qiaolan wrote letters home before they got married. Compared with Ji Hao's great arrangements before getting married, the other party didn't reply a word, which was why he gave up completely.
I don't know when the next batch of textbooks will arrive. When Ji Hao saw that they were gone, he was very anxious and followed him quickly, "...Brother, do you also want to take the college entrance examination?"
"Yeah." Ji Huai replied.
"Does sister-in-law agree to your participation? How are you doing there?" Ji Hao was looking for a topic lamely.
"Why don't you agree? I'm living a good life." Ji Huai still replied calmly.
Ji Hao was embarrassed and was still staring at the textbook in his hand. Ji Huai slowed down and walked to the other side, reaching for two world famous books.
Seeing Ji Huai's crisp movements without thinking at all, Ji Hao frowned even more.
Does Ji Huai not know how expensive these books are? This is not something you can just buy if you want.
He had to ask many people to get his bookplates. Ji Huai went to the countryside and was surrounded by mud-legged people. It is said that he could not earn a few cents a day. How could he be so generous when buying books? Did you do it on purpose to show him
When Ji Huai went to the checkout counter, he couldn't help but follow him. In fact, he was hoping that if Ji Huai couldn't afford it, the textbook would be given to him, or to see how embarrassed he was.
"Do you want all these books?" the teller asked.
"Yes." When Ji Huai answered, he glanced sideways at Ji Hao from the corner of his eye, and the next second, he looked back calmly.
There is no affection between their brothers. As the beneficiary, Ji Hao is favored by Ji's mother. She has been at odds with him since childhood. Although his temper is weak, he is also arrogant. The selfishness of Ji's family is engraved in their bones.
In contrast, Ji Hao, the darling of the family, has lost his tenacity, is arrogant and overconfident, submissive and lazy and childish.
Ji Hao watched Ji Huai buy the books and exercise books without blinking, and walked out the door without looking back. When he rushed out, he could only see his back.
In the urban area, inside a family building.
When Ji Hao came back, Ji's mother hurried forward and asked, "Have you bought the textbooks?"
"No." Ji Haola sat down with a sad face. There was also a short-haired woman with a big belly in the room. When she heard that he didn't buy it, her face was expressionless, but she was relieved in her heart.
"Why didn't you buy it?" Ji's mother kept nagging, "Is the bookstore gone? Why don't you go and ask..."
"No more." Ji Hao was annoyed by what she said and said angrily with a dark face, "The last copy was bought by Ji Huai. I wanted to give him more money to give it to me, but he ignored me!"
Ji's mother was startled, and the short-haired woman's expression also changed slightly.
Ji Huai.
A name that is avoided in this family, a person that everyone is deliberately forgetting.
"He also wants to take the college entrance examination? Isn't he married? Why are you still bothering?" Ji's mother came to her senses and murmured.
After Ji's father died, Ji Huai became the one she didn't want to bear. Now that she was married to Ji Nan, she was still somewhat related to Ji's father, so she didn't want to have anything to do with Ji Huai.
She gave birth to Ji Hao and already had a son, so she naturally didn't want Ji Huai to disturb their family's life again. The family's house is also small, with only two rooms, and it really can't accommodate outsiders.
"How do I know? I bought several books and I don't know where the money came from." Ji Hao became more and more unhappy as he talked.
The short-haired woman touched her belly and took the opportunity to say, "Isn't Ji Hao also married? He is a father, and he is not thinking about taking the college entrance examination."
"Yang Yue, who are you helping?" Ji Hao was furious and stood up to confront him, "Isn't it because I took the college entrance examination so that I can be assigned a good job in the future and be able to support you and your children?"
"If you don't take good care of yourself now, you don't know what will happen in the future." Yang Yue said without being polite.
"Stop arguing." Ji's mother raised her voice to stop, and then looked at Yang Yue, "It's not easy for Xiaohao either. He can be assigned a job after he goes to college. He has a bright future, and you will be the one who enjoys the blessings."
"What mom said is really interesting. I don't know how to enjoy happiness, but it is true to suffer now. When this child is born, mom, you will help us raise it, and I will also take the college entrance examination. Then we will go to college together, and we will be assigned good jobs after graduation. You are the one who enjoys the blessing." Yang Yue was sharp-tongued and retorted unceremoniously.
Ji's mother was immediately gagged, and her face turned pale for a while. She sighed and said in a meaningful tone, "I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of her. There is a lot of life at home. It would be great if this baby is a boy, so there is no need to fight. For the second child, I won’t stop you from going to college together.”
The implication is that she is not unlucky. She gave birth to a daughter for the first time. I heard that the country will tighten the law and relevant policies will be issued soon. She doesn’t even dare to register her household registration. She uses her connections to hide the child. , hurry up and fight for the second child.
Yang Yue was so angry that her lungs exploded.
Ji Hao didn't bother to listen to their scolding and left directly. When Ji's mother left, she looked at Yang Yue's belly and said, "This time it should be a boy. Our family is guaranteed to have a boy for life. Mom can't give birth to a girl even if she wants to. It's good to have a boy."
Yang Yue gritted her teeth, "I can't give birth to the child alone, isn't Ji Hao also responsible?"
"Others can give birth to it." Ji's mother didn't make any sense to her, and quickly added, "This baby must be a boy. Don't think too much about it, just take good care of it. Mom will go out to buy some food first, she has to be busy. So many things.”
Jiang is still old and spicy, Ji's mother talks with guns and sticks, and she can still get back with hidden accusations. After all, Yang Yue is a new daughter-in-law, and she can only be manipulated.
When Ji's mother left, she was so angry that her chest hurt.
If she had known that Ji Hao was so lazy and cowardly, she would never have married him. He was not as good as Ji Huai.
The two families knew each other, and she liked Ji Huai first, and he was obviously interested in her. Later, Ji Huai went to the countryside to become an educated youth, but the Ji family didn't care about him. When Ji Nan retired, the successor spot was reserved for Ji Nan. Hao.
In order to live a good life, she broke off her ambiguity with Ji Huai and chose to marry Ji Hao. Who knew that Ji's mother was not easy to mess with and she gave birth to a daughter again, making her life a mess.
Feng family.
Ji Huai did not buy snacks when he came back today, but he brought back a lot of things.
In addition to the books he bought for Feng Qiaolan, he also bought two big hens, two pounds of ribs and two pounds of pork. He put the chicken into the chicken coop and said, "Keep it for now, and feed it to Xiaolan when she is in confinement. The ribs will be stewed for her to drink, and the remaining pork can be fried."
"How much does it cost to buy so much meat?" Mother Feng's first reaction was that she felt extremely distressed.
Not only did I buy a big hen, but I also bought ribs. I wouldn’t have bought so many in previous years. It was such a waste.
"Isn't this selling dried medicinal materials? If you sell more than two hundred, you have to celebrate." Ji Huai said and handed Feng's mother twenty yuan.
"You keep it." Of course Mother Feng wouldn't want it.
"You also helped me when I was working. I can't make this money by myself. You are also busy helping me take care of Xiaolan. Just take it and treat it as our filial piety to you." Ji Huai was still stuffed. Give it to her, and she must keep it.
Mother Feng had no choice but to accept it.
Twenty yuan is a lot, and a family may not be able to save so much money throughout the year. Although she didn't want to accept it, after Ji Huai gave him forcefully, she felt very happy in her heart.
When a son-in-law gets married, doesn’t he just want to be raised as half a son? They don't have a son. If the other party respects her and treats her daughter well, she will be willing to do so no matter how hard it is.
When Feng Dafeng came back from work and saw a table of meat, he also frowned. He felt that Ji Huai really didn't know how to spend money. Which family eats this plate of meat like this
Then I heard that Ji Huai had bought more than 200 yuan, and he was immediately speechless. The meat that cost only a few yuan didn't seem to be that much. Feng Dafeng felt like he was swollen.
"Dad, eat more so that you will be strong enough to work." Ji Huai asked him to eat more meat and gave Feng Qiaolan a piece of braised pork ribs.
Feng's mother is good at her craftsmanship, and it smells delicious just by smelling it.
It was rare that there were no salty dried radish and pickled vegetables on the table. Feng Dafeng had no choice but to eat meat. Not to mention, it felt so happy to eat several pieces of meat in a row. He was reluctant to eat this meal too fast and rarely chewed it carefully.
What we cooked today was dry rice again. Dry rice was cooked more and more frequently at home. Feng Dafeng originally wanted to tell Feng's mother not to cook it so frequently next time and waste rice. Seeing that the people at the table were enjoying their meals, he silently swallowed these words again.
He also had to work hard to find Morinda citrifolia on the mountain. When he got the money from selling it, he would buy more rice and eat more dry rice.
late at night.
Ji Huai began to give lectures to Feng Qiaolan. Her belly was getting bigger and bigger, and she was about to give birth. She couldn't hold it any longer after she sat down.
Sore waist, back pain, sleepy eyes, weak legs...
Anyway, I couldn't sit still. I looked at him with a wronged expression while holding my textbook, "The kid kicked me and kept kicking me..."
"Rest first, take it easy." As a man, Ji Huai couldn't really understand it, so he could only reach out and touch her belly. He stopped teaching for the time being and brought her some water and asked her to drink some.
Feng Qiaolan stood up, supported her waist, and walked again and again. After she felt better, she slowly sat down and reluctantly read a book and listened to the lecture.
Ji Huai opened the newly purchased textbook, took a pen and began to draw pictures and start teaching. The two of them had just entered the state, and Feng Qiaolan was in trouble again. She looked around and couldn't concentrate, and her body twisted around.
"Concentrate." Ji Huai tapped the table with the tip of his pen and paused. His face was expressionless and his thin lips were set tightly. In an instant, that aura came over, quite harsh.
It was not intentional, it was just a matter of habit, but a pregnant woman who was pregnant with her child was frightened and forced herself to be serious while feeling even more aggrieved.
She was probably the most miserable pregnant woman. She was about to give birth and yet she was taken to study. She had a heavy workload every day and had to get up early to read English.
Ji Huai also realized that he was going a little too far, so he lowered his tone and said, "I will study these few pages today and go to bed after I finish studying."
He feels that he has become more tolerant.
How can Feng Qiaolan sit still? Now I can't even listen to a page, I just rely on my willpower to sit still. After listening for a while, my body becomes more and more uncomfortable, and my mind wanders by itself.
The lessons I listened to were of no quality at all and were in a fog.
"You should understand this example. Let's look at this question." He was very serious when giving lectures. He picked up the newly purchased practice questions and was able to find exactly the question he wanted.
After finding it, he put the exercise book in front of her. Feng Qiaolan really couldn't hold it any longer. She turned around, pursed her lips, a delicate and playful face, and stretched out her hand to hug him, "I don't want to study anymore..."
Ji Huai hugged her back: "If you don't persist, I haven't learned a page today. You can't be lazy, otherwise you will have to learn more later."
Look, these are the words spoken by a straight man, and the teacher is encouraging the students.
Feng Qiaolan couldn't help but fake crying, "I really can't sit still, I can't sit still."
Ji Huai looked at her and was silent for a moment, then reached out to pick her up, walked to the bed, and put her on the bed. "We have to wait until you get well after giving birth. If you can't learn, you won't learn for now."
This was also the first time for him to take care of a pregnant woman. To be honest, he couldn't relate to her, and because he loved learning, he couldn't understand it even more.
He knew Feng Qiaolan's temperament, and it was indeed difficult for her. She would probably not be able to study for a while, and she would have to confine herself after giving birth. Her health was the most important thing.
When she heard that he couldn't learn, she panicked. She must learn.
What should I do if I can’t sit still? Then she lies down.
It wasn't comfortable just lying down, so I had to lean against the quilt and use pillows as a cushion. I had to change several positions to get more comfortable.
You definitely can't do the questions like this. Any hands-on subjects are very strenuous, so you can only listen to them while sleeping.
From that day on, the location of Ji Huai's lectures was on the bed. Feng Qiaolan was half lying on the bed. He sat cross-legged on the bed, holding a history or political textbook in his hand, and occasionally a Chinese book.
He was talking throughout the whole process, and his low-mellow and gentle voice kept coming, connecting the knowledge points one by one, and occasionally telling some interesting stories for easy understanding.
Feng Qiaolan kept looking at him. After listening to a chapter, when he lowered his head to turn the book, she stretched her little feet forward and put them on his legs.
Ji Huai looked up at her.
"Your voice is so beautiful." She said with a smile.
"How nice does it sound?" He twitched the corner of his mouth and continued to flip through the book.
"It's the best thing I've ever heard. She looks good, studies well, writes beautifully, and is very smart. These are all advantages." The smile on her lips became brighter as she spoke.
He was really good at reading. His previous teachers at school were not as good at teaching as him. He knew a lot of knowledge and could easily understand it. She liked listening to his lectures very much.
Ji Huai was in a good mood. He put the opened book on his lap, pulled the quilt from her body, and covered her up.
Feng Qiaolan changed the topic and said, "However, these are not the most important."
"What is the most important?" He stopped and asked curiously.
She arched her eyebrows, her bright beautiful eyes filled with a bit of shyness, and her face flushed, "Passion for me is the most important thing."
She could really feel that he loved her, cared about her and her children, and cared about her. Every time she thought about it, it was like eating candied fruit, and her heart was so sweet. No matter how hard the pregnancy was, it still felt sweet to her. She wanted to give birth to a child with him and had no regrets at all.
"You have honey on your lips." Ji Huai chuckled and commented on her.
"Really." Feng Qiaolan is not a timid little girl, otherwise she wouldn't have secretly been in love with him for a long time. She paused and said, "It's sprinkled with honey. You gave me something to eat."
Ji Huai pursed his lips, unable to hide the smile in his eyes, and leaned over to peck her pink lips.
Feng Qiaolan raised her hand, put her arm around his neck, and bit her lower lip gently to express that she wanted to kiss him again, with a slightly bold movement.
"Other girls are not so shameless." Ji Huai reminded.
"That's why I married you because other girls didn't marry you. If other girls didn't get pregnant with your child, they couldn't have children as beautiful as you." She said confidently and softly, " Other girls don’t drink malted milk, don’t eat chocolate, and often eat meat.”
Ji Huai's eyebrows rose. He was indeed amused by her. He couldn't hold back his smile. He had such a doting and sweet smile that he couldn't do anything to her.
"Really?" Feng Qiaolan asked.
He didn't answer. He held the back of her head slightly, covered her delicate and moist lips, and kissed her gently for a long time. He pressed his forehead against hers and said softly, "Have a good rest and give birth to the baby safely. Nothing else matters." .”
"I was a little scared at first, but now that you say that, I'm not scared at all. I'm even looking forward to it." Feng Qiaolan replied to him.
Ji Huai: "Children are always ugly when they are born, what are you looking forward to?"
"That's the beginning. It will definitely look better in the future. I have helped my child to obtain good genes and win at the starting line. I have already succeeded halfway. The child will only have to work harder." She said seriously.
Ji Huai: "..."
The village is far away from the city. Of course, we can't wait for Feng Qiaolan to start sending it there. If there is danger at that time, it will be very troublesome. A few days before the due date, Ji Huai was ready to send her to the city.
Women in the village generally don't go to the city to give birth, and many give birth at home. Feng's mother has never been to the city a few times, so she doesn't understand. She thinks about going to the town, and her family is all there. If she goes In the urban area, I still don’t know what the situation is.
She was apprehensive about unfamiliar places.
Ji Huai disagreed and insisted on sending Feng Qiaolan to the city. He said, "Having a baby is a trip to the gate of hell. I don't trust it."
After all, it was her own daughter. Mother Feng was also worried, so she packed up the things she had prepared earlier without saying anything else.
She had to keep people at home, so Ji Huai and Feng Qiaolan could only go. She was worried and wanted to follow them, but she couldn't. La Neng held Feng Qiaolan's hand and kept urging them.
Ji Huai used to walk, but Feng Qiaolan was pregnant and couldn't walk that far. If something happened because she was tired on the way, it would be terrible.
Feng Dafeng was popular in the village and borrowed a bullock cart.
Ji Huai helped Feng Qiaolan up, and he sat on the side holding her in his arms. The car was also very slow, and Feng Qiaolan was still a little unable to hold on. He stopped several times on the road, and it took him a long time to get to the urban hospital.
The hospital here was much larger than the hospitals in the town. It looked professional at first glance and the sanitary conditions were much better. Ji Huai started busy going through the hospitalization procedures.
During this period, he also encountered many problems. The ward was still in short supply and he almost couldn't move in. However, he went around a lot and paid a lot of money to stay in a three-person ward.