"Grandma, where's my dad?"
In the early morning of the next day, the two-year-old Yan Yuanbao couldn't control the prehistoric power in his heart and began to cry at the top of his voice. After being made such a fuss by him, the whole family couldn't sleep.
Fortunately, in the past two years, the family has also gotten used to Yan Yuanbao's biological clock without a biological clock. Following his first cry when he woke up in the morning, he rubbed his eyes and got off the kang.
The eldest sister, Yan Jin, started to coax her younger brother after getting dressed, and quickly checked his diaper, and changed another one quickly after feeling that the diaper was a little wet.
Yan Zhen and Yan Zhu are seven years old and the other is six years old. After putting on their own clothes, they also help two four-year-old little sisters tidy up their clothes, tie the hem of the clothes into their trousers, and then put on their small coats.
It is still a month or two before midsummer, and some adults have already put on short-sleeved sleeves, but the children must not be able to, because their physical resistance is weak, and the children of the Yan family must still wear a coat when they go out.
The first thing Yan Fei and Yan Cui did when they got off the kang was to go to grandma's room to look for their father, but they crawled around the kang, but they couldn't find their father.
"Your dad has something to go out."
The old lady got up earlier than her granddaughters, and she was already preparing dinner for the whole family. The little grandson was born without a mother, and after a few months of breastfeeding with a few nearby families with small babies, he died Started to eat complementary food.
Lu Aihua estimated the time, and brought the breakfast to the children not long after they woke up. Yan Yuanbao's food was the most refined, and he was still a baby, and he couldn't digest coarse grains.
The Yan family has a lot of children. Yan Jin and Yan Zhen lived a good life when they were young. After Yan Zhu, Yan Fei and Yan Cui became sensible, there are already many children in the family. Every month, some of the family’s fine money will be exchanged with some well-off families. Coarse grains, besides that, you have to go to the black market to find some rations and come back, so that you can barely support your big family.
Therefore, when every child was eating sweet potato porridge, the bowl of boiled rice porridge in front of Yan Yuanbao was particularly rare.
Especially the rice these days is so good. After several hours of cooking, the rice oil has come out, which is fragrant and smells straight into people's noses.
Yan Jin and Yan Zhen restrained a little, and the three little sisters below, as usual, couldn't help swallowing while looking at his brother's bowl of rice paste.
Why can't the old lady see that a few granddaughters are greedy, but who made the family's conditions like that, every child eats rice and white noodles, which can't afford it.
There is no way for the little grandson. At the beginning, the granddaughters all drank the milk of their own mothers. Even if they ate supplementary food, the amount was not large. Isn’t there no chance for the little grandson? It’s not wrong to always drink other people’s milk The thing is, every month I have to bring some good things like fish and meat to promote lactation, or give some money. In the first six months of the grandson's birth, the family didn't eat a bite of meat.
It’s just that there must be a son in this world, the old lady sighed, if only Dajin and Erzhen were born, the daughter-in-law is still alive now, both of them work in the factory, life is still good, and the son is now There is no need to take such a big risk to be a bad guy.
"Don't be greedy for your brother, my grandma has steamed egg custard for you, and your sisters will share it."
Lu Aihua brought out a bowl of egg custard from the kitchen, two eggs, with a little too much water added, it looked sparse, the eggs were laid by her own hen, the old lady was really reluctant to buy it.
Because I know that I have lost a few granddaughters, the eggs laid by a hen raised at home are for them to eat, and the supplementary food for the grandchildren also comes from here.
These days, there are not many old ladies who are willing to give their granddaughters eggs. If there are any good things, they are all for their sons and grandchildren.
Sure enough, the five sisters were happy to see the egg custard. Lu Aihua fed the rice porridge to the grandchildren. Seeing the granddaughters eating happily, she also felt that there was still a lot to do in this day, as long as her son was safe and sound.
"Grandma, where are the new clothes Dad bought for us?"
After breakfast, the Jade sisters thought of their beautiful little dresses again.
"Four emeralds and five emeralds, you guys are good. Your father didn't buy a skirt suitable for you when he went to Shencheng this time, but it was not easy for him. He went to Shencheng this time to save more money so that your sisters can study. I only eat three steamed buns, I would rather be hungry to live a good life for you, so you must not blame your father."
The old lady didn't care if her four-year-old granddaughter could understand her, so she broke everything up and told her granddaughters, emphasizing the importance her son attached to their sisters. If they shouldn't listen, they feel that their father has treated them badly.
"read?"
Nine-year-old Yan Jin and seven-year-old Yan Zhen's eyes lit up.
Especially Yan Jin, she was supposed to go to school when she was eight years old, but that year her mother passed away due to dystocia, a baby and four younger sisters, the old lady couldn't bring them all by herself, so as the eldest sister, she had to sacrifice Himself, to help take care of the younger sister.
Yan Jin originally thought that she might not be able to go to school. Even in the city, there are many girls who don’t go to school in families with many children. But now, according to grandma, if her father wants to send her to school, can she not be excited? .
"Well, your father said that you sisters must go to school, no matter how much money you spend."
Lu Aihua nodded emphatically at her eldest granddaughter, and she was also neglected by her grandma. She never thought that this child, who used to be quiet in the past, wanted to study so much in her heart. Look at how excited she is now.
"Da Jin, don't blame your father, it's not easy for him." The old lady patted her eldest granddaughter's hand and said.
"Grandma, I understand, our dad is good to our sisters."
Yan Jin said without thinking.
There is another family at the entrance of the alley like theirs. They have always had daughters, but they can’t have a son. Their family is even worse. They haven’t given birth to a son yet, and the family planning is so strict that all women who have given birth He was arrested and put on a ring, so it is estimated that he will not have children in the future.
Yan Jin remembered that the family gave birth to seven daughters, four of whom were raised by someone who didn't know where, and the three older daughters were raised at home, but the man and their grandmother treated the three sisters and Their mothers were either beating or scolding, not to mention studying, the oldest one had already started earning money to support the family, and in a few years it would probably be sold for a bride price.
The situation of their family is similar, but grandma and father have always been very kind to their sisters and mother. Although life is tight, they have not starved and frozen their sisters. Now that her father is going to send her to school, Yan Jin I think dad is better.
Before hearing those neighbors' aunts and aunts say that their fathers will not treat them well when they have sons, and that they will let their sisters serve as cows and horses to support their younger brothers in the future, Yan Jin, who felt a little uncomfortable, immediately forgot about these things.
She thought that her parents were so kind to her, and when she worked and earned money in the future, she would honor them well.
The Emerald sisters must be a little younger, so they don't understand these things. They only know that the beautiful little skirts they have been waiting for for a long time are gone. Ren just forgot about those unhappiness, and became happy again.
*****
"Is Third Aunt at home?"
When the sky was completely bright, there was a knock on the door of Yan's house. Hearing the sound, Lu Aihua frowned, and reluctantly got up to open the door.
"at home."
She rubbed her stern face, tried to show a kind smile, and opened the door.
As soon as the door was opened, a dozen or so people squeezed in.
"His third aunt, I heard that Yan Chu went to Shencheng and brought back a lot of good things, right?"
There is no secret between the neighbors in the neighborhood. Yan Chu gave up the job of the iron rice bowl to his cousin of the second uncle's family, and then he left for a month. Everyone guessed that he might be a bad guy. My aunt was married to a running businessman from the south, and the other party was said to be from Shencheng. Although that aunt hadn't been back in recent years, the correspondence between the two parties has not been broken.
How many people are running to the south now, Yan Chu has an aunt in Shencheng, who has an advantage over others in terms of being a loser.
No, he just came back in the middle of the night yesterday, and he was seen by Ye Qi's neighbors, how many good things were contained in the two big nylon bags, which aroused the curiosity of others.
The relatives of the Yan family also heard the news, and rushed to take advantage of it.
"Nothing good."
Of course, Mrs. Lu couldn't admit it, but she was soft-tempered and didn't know how to deal with relatives who were asking questions and thinking about running into the bedroom.
"Sister-in-law in the lobby and sister-in-law, why are you all here?"
Yan Chu came in carrying a large piece of white cotton cloth. He originally wanted to call some girls, but who knew that when he came in, he saw relatives who surrounded the old lady.
These are also the same people that the original body hates, but whoever allows parents to be unconditionally tolerant to their children, even if they are heartbroken, they are willing to give them another chance.
Therefore, in the original body's wish, there was an expectation for six children, but he didn't have the slightest request for these people. It can be seen that he was completely cold-hearted. In this case, Yan Chu naturally didn't have to be polite to them.