Raising Babies in the 70s

Chapter 120: color TV

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Qin Rou and his wife took their four children to the family building, and when they entered the house, the two little guys, Doudou and Rongrong, hugged their mother's thighs and started to get sticky, "Mom, I want to braid beautiful hair."

"weave plaits."

These two little girls are also very smart. They know that their parents will be sticky every time they meet. The two of them are too small to compete with their tall and big father. When they return home, their mother will belong to them .

The braids made by my mother at home are the best! !

"Okay, I'll help you braid your hair after Mom takes a shower."

This is an old tradition every time I come here. Her two stinky little daughters like to dress up beautifully. They need to wear nice clothes, have beautiful braids, and be clean.

I don't know if it's because Qin Rou always thought about pearls when she was pregnant, that's why these two little guys are so stinky.

"Wash with mom!"

"Mom will take you to take a bath together."

Lu Yan knew that she had to take a shower when she got out of the car and returned home. Only after washing off the dust would she be able to get close to her daughter.

The burden of being an idol is heavy, and you have to become Xiangxiang's mother to hold your daughter.

"You still say that your daughter is stinky, don't you? The cleanest stinky mother in the world, isn't the most particular about you in our family?"

"The children are still young, so I'm afraid of spreading bacteria to them. Wash them before kissing our sweet bean curd babies."

"Do Doudou and Rongrong like Xiangxiang's mother?"

"I like Xiangxiang's mother."

Qin Rou is really particular about taking a bath with her two young daughters. The mother and daughter have no other hobbies, and the three of them especially love bathing. For this reason, Qin Rou specially asked Lu Yan to prepare a super big bathtub. Every time she Before coming back, I have to help my daughter-in-law wash up and boil hot water in advance.

After Qin Rou and her two little daughters washed their bodies with soap, Qin Rou hugged her two little girls to take a bath in clean hot water and enjoy a comfortable time quietly.

A wooden toy with sweet bean paste floating on the water.

"Mom, duckling..."

"Well, duckling." Qin Rou pinched the pink faces of her two daughters with a smile.

"Mom kiss."

The two little guys, Zhouzhou and Jiaozi, didn't take a bath. As soon as they came to the military academy, they took a basketball and sweated on the basketball court with the sons of the Zheng family. They would definitely come back sweaty later.

The water temperature turned cold, and Qin Rou went out with her two little daughters. The mother and daughter were three squeezed on the sofa. Qin Rou had a towel on her shoulders, and her long black hair fell down on her shoulders. She wiped the hair of the two little guys.

Both Doudou and Rongrong like their mother's long hair. After knowing how beautiful they are, they don't like to cut their hair anymore. They must keep beautiful long hair and wear beautiful braids.

"Mom, let's tell a story."

"Little Mermaid Bubbles..."

Lu Yan was kneading dough in the kitchen, but when he heard the movement outside, he went out, stood at the corner of the kitchen door and looked towards the living room. There were three mothers and daughters crowded on the sofa. Their eyebrows and eyes were similar, Doudou He and Rongrong scrambled towards their mother's arms, kicking and kicking their little feet in the air.

"Don't pull mother's hair!"

"Who is pulling mommy's hair secretly? Is it Doudou or Rongrong?" Qin Rou sat cross-legged on the sofa, her long hair hanging down her back, and the pair of Sweet Dourong sisters in front of her looked up with an innocent look on her face. look at mom.

Their little faces are covered with baby fat, and their eyes are watery. They seem to be defending themselves: I didn't do it!

Qin Rou pretended to turn her face away, and after a while, she felt the long hair on the back of her head being pulled.

She felt both angry and amused.

Turning around, the two little guys put on innocent faces again.

"Be honest and be lenient, resist and be strict. Doudou Rongrong be honest and tell who did it?"

"It's made of dried beans."

"It's made of dried beans."

Qin Rou smiled: "Then who is Doudou?"

The two sisters pointed at each other: "She is Doudou."

"This is endless, isn't it? Then mom order a little, whoever you order will be Doudou."

The two pairs of twins in the family seem to become the Buddha and the Goddess of Mercy every day, and they have to distinguish between the real and the fake Monkey King.

The two little girls in their family are cute and cute, and naughty is really naughty, and they are also deceptive. For example, after doing something bad, they will put on an innocent face, saying that they have done nothing, and I am very good.

"She's Doudou." Her father, Lu Yan, came over now, and stretched out a flour-stained hand towards the mother and daughter.

When the Tiandourong sisters saw their father's hand, their faces paled immediately, just like Monkey King listening to the magic spell, twisting their bodies like little meat worms to hide behind their mother.

A pair of sweet bean paste washed in vain does not want to be covered in flour.

"Papa go away!!"

"Ah, mother help!"

"Father go away go away!"

Qin Rou stood in front of them like she was protecting the two chicks. She raised her head to confront Lu Yan, and saw the flour-covered hands of the other party up close.

Lu Yan's hands are very beautiful, with slender fingers and distinct joints. They are especially beautiful when playing the violin, but his hands are covered with flour at this time, so people can't appreciate his hands. Hands drop powder slag from time to time.

"Go back to the kitchen and knead your steamed buns. Don't bother about our mother and daughter." The white-washed Qin Rou also disliked the other party's hands full of flour. She shrank back, stretched out her smooth feet, and kicked He kicked Lu Yan's waist.

"Be careful with your flour, don't get it on me!!"

"You are really a dog biting Lu Dongbin. You don't know a good heart. You protect you with good intentions and don't let your daughter bully you, but you still drive me away." Lu Yan smiled and stretched out her hand to pinch Qin Rou's face, very cruel Three white marks were left on the ground.

Qin Rou covered her face: "!!!!"

I was careless, and was smeared with flour.

Doudou and Rong Rong cheered, "Mom has become a little cat!"

"You two little heartless, stinky daughters, you father and daughter are in the same gang!"

Doudou said: "We are with mother."

Rongrong said: "Daddy is bad!"

"I'll show you how bad my father is." Lu Yan squeezed one face with one hand, and the two daughters' little faces were wiped evenly, and they all turned into little cats.

He raised his handsome eyebrows, smiled arrogantly, nodded and said: "Well, the three mothers and daughters should be neat and tidy."

The sweet bean paste sisters screamed together:

"Ahhh bad daddy!"

"Bad dad!"

"Bad dad, let's go." Qin Rou stretched out her hand to chase him away, Lu Yan pointed to her face, Qin Rou had no choice but to kiss him on the cheek twice in front of her daughter.

"Mom, I want to kiss too."

"I want my mother to kiss me."

"It's all face flour, mom won't kiss, go wash your face with mom."

Zheng Mantang's family lived on the first floor. Zheng Mantang looked at the playground not far away. Several children were playing basketball there. Among them, the pair of twins were particularly outstanding, but they were only seven or eight years old, just like his ten-year-old son. Taller.

Although there are five sons in his family, the five sons are not very tall. These five sons eat a lot and are mischievous on weekdays. He is so worried that his father can hardly support him.

When I came to this school, no one envied his family having five sons, but everyone envied that the old Lu family had two sons and two daughters. The pair of sons were raised so well. The elder brother Lu Weizhou was very elder brother. , good grades in school, polite, and take care of younger siblings...

Why doesn't such a good son belong to his family

Zheng Mantang sighed, and said to his daughter-in-law Tang Yurong, "You said it would be great if we had three sons and two daughters."

"Don't you like your son? So many sons will be enough for you to worry about in the future."

Zheng Mantang lit a cigarette, he looked at Tang Yurong's hair, his eyebrows twitched, "Why did you get a head full of wool?"

"You old man, don't talk here, this is a hair perm." Since Qin Rou permed her hair and came to the family building, several people also permed their hair, Tang Yurong didn't hold back, and went to perm her curly hair.

After perming her curly hair, Tang Yurong felt that she was completely different. Every time she looked in the mirror, she felt that she could no longer look like the country woman she used to be, but became a modern girl in the new society.

Now her life is no longer revolved around the five sons in the family, but she has begun to pay attention to the clothes of the nearby women.

"I hope that our son will have a better future and marry some beautiful wives back."

After playing the game, brothers Lu Weizhou and Lu Weize were sweating and followed the children of Zheng's family to go upstairs. When they went upstairs, they walked up two steps and came to the door of the house.

Lu Yan opened the door for them both.

"Mom, sister, we're back!"

Both Zhouzhou and Jiaozi were sweating. When they walked into the living room, they wanted to reach out to tease their sister, but Sister Tiandourong was very ruthless and quickly hid behind their mother.

"Brother smells too bad, don't come here, we're going to wash up with mom."

"Bad brother go away!"

"Bad brother go!"

Lu Weizhou and Lu Weize: "..."

"When you first came back, you said you liked your brother the most, but now you despise him?"

"Bad sister."

"Two little heartless."

Qin Rou looked at the two brothers with a smile: "Hurry up and take a bath, be careful not to catch a cold if you get wet."

"It stinks, it stinks." Sister Tiandourong held her nose.

"Brother smelly."

"Go and wash Xiangxiang."

In the evening, the family ate steamed buns and dumplings. Lao Lu and his wife raised several big white geese in the school. Today, they killed a big white goose. Qin Rou made sour plum goose and stewed pig's trotters.

Because the goose is relatively big, a large pot of sour plum goose was burned. The color of this pot of sour plum goose was particularly beautiful, full of aroma, and the sauce was all over the goose meat, which was sour and tangy.

Qin Rou and her two daughters like to eat sweet and sour meat dishes such as sour plum duck and sour plum goose.

Sour plum goose wrapped in steamed buns made by my father is even more delicious!

The Sweet Dourong sisters both had a bowl of big dumplings, and the younger sister, Rongrong, hugged the dumplings and deliberately said to her brother Lu Weize: "Look, brother dumpling, big dumplings!"

"Aww! Eat dumplings!" Rongrong performed a "lady's small cherry mouth turns into a bloody mouth" for her own brother, and swallowed the big dumpling into her mouth in one gulp, making her face bulge on both sides.

Seeing this, Doudou refused to show weakness, and also picked up a big dumpling and said, "Wow!" "Eat the dumpling!!"

Lu Weize: "..."

Two bad sisters!

Xiao Jiaozi looked at her own brother Lu Weizhou: "Brother, you see that you don't care about them, and dare to bully your brother."

"Do you think you are the only ones who have brothers? I also have brothers, brother! They bully me."

Lu Weizhou calmly said, "Aren't you Zhou Zhou?"

"I'm your brother!"

Doudou said: "Brother Zhouzhou is also our brother!"

Rongrong said: "I have two older brothers, you only have one older brother!"

Lu Weize: "..."

"Brother, you only have me as a younger brother, you want to love me."

Rongrong said: "I only have one brother Jiaozi, brother Jiaozi wants to love me."

Lu Weize comforted: "It's better for Doudou and brother."

"I'm Rongrong, bad brother!"

"Why did you change places with your sister?"

These four brothers and sisters are a chaotic pot of porridge together, and there is no need for adults to take care of them. They can talk about four people, and two pairs of identical twins are big fools.

They often imitate their older brothers (sisters and younger sisters) on purpose, or two brothers (sisters) make an appointment to deliberately pretend to be each other, and sometimes they act similarly, even imitating other people’s expressions and ways of speaking on weekdays. alone.

"Brother Dumpling, Doudou wants to be hugged."

"No, I want to hug my brother too."

"Lu Jiaozi, be serious!"

"Did you hear that, Lu Jiaozi!"

Qin Rou sat beside Lu Yan, and the couple whispered to each other, leaving the four children alone.

Qin Rou gave Lu Yan a goose butt.

Lu Yan raised her eyebrows: "Do you know who our daughters look like? Just like their mother, she is skinny and naughty."

"Hmph, it's disgusting to hold such a big piece of meat for you."

"If you don't mind, then I will kiss you with the mouth that has eaten goose butt, and kiss you all night."

Qin Rou: "...can you stop saying such unsightly things."

The old Lu and his wife were eating beside, and Lu Zongyi and his wife Jiang Ping sighed: "It feels like going back to the past."

"Yan Zai and Xiao Zai quarrel every day."

While the family was eating, there was a knock on the door outside. Lu Yan went to open the door and found that it was Chen Mulan, the daughter-in-law of Yang Chuanzong's family opposite, knocking on the door.

Qin Rou also walked over to see the situation.

"What's wrong? Who is it?"

When Chen Mulan saw Qin Rou, she intentionally showed a look of surprise: "Xiao Qin is back, no wonder, the children don't come to our house to watch TV today."

"Sister-in-law Chen, has your family bought a TV?" Qin Rou asked.

"No, it's popular outside now. What about imported color TVs? My youngest son wants to watch them. The two of us gritted our teeth and bought them!"

"You guys go to our house to watch TV together later. It's a color TV, which is different from black and white TV."

"It costs more than three thousand yuan." Chen Mulan said the frightening price, waiting to see the surprised expression of the woman in front of her.

She just came here to show off, knowing that Xiao Qin came here today, and wanted to show off the new imported color TV she bought in front of her.

This thing is really too expensive.

If it wasn't for the pride and the love of Xiaobao at home, Yang Chuanzong and his wife would really be reluctant to spend so much money to buy a color TV. The thousands of dollars can be said to be their savings for several years.

After buying it home, the couple regretted it for most of the night, but in front of outsiders, they got carried away with pride.

In the past, there were only two daughters in the family, but Chen Mulan finally gave birth to a boy, Xiao Bao. The couple felt pain like eyeballs, and Xiao Bao wanted to watch a color TV, so they bought a color TV.

Since they bought this color TV, they have become celebrities in the family building. Zheng Mantang's family has five sons, and none of them can afford this kind of color TV imported from abroad.

The couple wished that everyone would know that their family bought a color TV.

"It's really expensive!" Hearing the price, Qin Rou sighed following the other party's words.

"Xiao Qin, your daughter also likes to watch color TV, why don't you buy a TV for the children? Young people like you like this trendy thing the most, it's imported from abroad..." Chen Mulan said Husband Yang Chuanzong walked out of the house, his eyebrows beaming when he spoke.

"I'll buy it for my kids later."

Qin Rou also thought about buying a TV before, but now that she is in college, Third Sister Lu’s family bought a black and white TV. Lu Yan now lives in the family building of the school. The family thinks there is no need to buy a TV. She thinks about her two young daughters I am still young, and it is not suitable for children to watch too much TV when they are three or four years old.

After going to the next door to show off their own color TV, Yang Chuanzong and his wife returned to the house happily. The family turned on the imported color TV. Xiao Bao’s grandmother came out to watch TV with Xiao Bao’er in his arms. The two daughters didn't care about anything else, and gathered around to watch TV.

Yang Chuanzong looked at the colorful picture in front of him, feeling both proud and heartbroken. This TV set imported from abroad was too expensive, and he confessed all the money he had saved for two or three years.

Chen Mulan asked him: "Do you think the next door will also buy color TVs?"

Although the couple are proud of having a color TV at home, they also hope that others will follow suit to buy a color TV. After buying such a color TV, it will cost two to three thousand yuan and just give it away. How big a deal is this

At the beginning, I was really dizzy before I bought a color TV.

Even if I get "envious eyes" from many people, the pain like cutting flesh can't be relieved.

"Probably not. I heard that Xiao Qin, the daughter-in-law of the old Lu's family who is studying in college, seems to be opening some kind of factory. He spent a lot of money to go out, and it may not be successful."

"Our family bought a color TV for two to three thousand yuan, at least we can enjoy it, and we don't know how to do business, at least we won't lose everything..."

Lu Yan and Qin Rou closed the door and went back.

Qin Rou didn't expect that the Yang family next door, who always lived frugally, would buy a color TV back home. The color TV imported in this era is expensive and...Although Qin Rou thinks it's not worth it, but in this era, if you can have a color TV at home, that's a big deal. A very face-saving matter.

Since the opening of the economy, people around us seem to be more and more daring to consume. When new things from outside hit the market, everyone is getting more and more courageous, and they have entered a state of blind and fanatical consumption.

Just like the one next door, I used to be reluctant to eat an extra egg or order milk, but in this crazy atmosphere, I am willing to spend the 3,000 yuan I have saved for several years to buy a color TV home.

"Mother… "

Doudou and Rongrong stuck out their small heads, "Are you looking forward to the home of your brother and sister?"

"Her house has a TV."

"Colorful!"

Qin Rou asked them: "You also want to watch color TV?"

Sisters Doudou and Rongrong nodded.

Lu Weize asked curiously, "Mom, does our family buy a TV?"

Lu Weizhou said: "The TV is too expensive, an imported one costs two to three thousand."

Although they all want to watch TV, the cubs also know that color TV is expensive.

Xiao Jiaozi suggested: "Buy a domestic black and white TV for my younger sisters to watch."

"Let mom think about it..."

As soon as Qin Rou said this, the other children immediately pricked up their ears: "Do we want to buy a TV for our family?"

"Buy a TV!"

Qin Rou can already see the desire of these little guys for the TV. She came back from decades later, but she doesn't have the urge to watch TV. She misses playing with mobile phones more.

At night, Qin Rou told stories on the couple's big bed, coaxing sisters Doudou and Rongrong to sleep. The two little sisters slept sprawled on the bed, and the mother and daughter occupied the whole big bed.

Lu Yan walked in and saw that the two daughters had been coaxed to sleep. She divided them into two steps and moved the two daughters out of the room.

Qin Rou laughed at him: "You don't have to be so careful, your two daughters sleep like dead pigs."

Lu Yan raised her eyebrows: "Be careful sailing for thousands of years."

"You can't let these two little guys spoil their father's good deeds." Lu Yan climbed onto the bed and hugged the fragrant and soft woman beside her.

At night, the couple can finally be intimate for a while.

Qin Rou hugged his neck and told him about the pearl breeding factory. She couldn't help laughing and fell into Lu Yan's arms, "Our husband and wife opened a black heart workshop."

"What kind of black-hearted workshop, just be skinny." Lu Yan raised his hand and scratched her nose.

"It's all your money, it's your boss Lu's black-hearted little workshop." The couple have been married for many years and have saved nearly 20,000 yuan, most of which are now ready to be invested in the breeding factory.

"Isn't all my money yours? Boss Qin?"

"Really, I'm still quite nervous." Qin Rou hugged Lu Yan's neck, "What do you say if our black-hearted little workshop fails to grow pearls and goes bankrupt? Why are you, brother Lu, so bold and let Xiao Qin Comrade spends money recklessly."

"You didn't say it yourself, seeking wealth in danger." Lu Yan was very supportive of Qin Rou's proposal to set up a pearl factory. As long as his wife wanted to do it, he would support it.

"You quickly pray with me that our black-hearted workshop can grow countless pearls."

"It's obviously our hard-working factory, but what are you talking about as a black-hearted workshop?"

"It's easy to make a living with a humble name." Although Qin Rou is 80% confident that her breeding plant will never lose money and close down, but there are accidents in everything, and there is no telling what will happen in the future.

Buying and selling and doing business is to seek wealth while taking risks.

Don't look at the sudden riches at the moment, but the wealth doesn't last long. Sudden riches and sudden bankruptcy are the norm in the 1980s and 1990s.

The first person to eat crabs made money, followed by countless others. In this chaotic market, with all kinds of vicious competition, it is really uncertain who will have the last laugh in the end.

"You look good wearing pearls." Lu Yan pressed her under her body, brushed away the long hair around her ears, revealing the woman's full earlobes, and lowered her head to bite on them.

"If the pearls cannot be sold, you and your daughter will wear five or six strings of pearl necklaces around their necks, seven or eight pearl bracelets on their wrists, pearls for hairpins, and pearls on their belts..."

Qin Rou was going to die of laughter at what he said: "Then my daughter and I will become local rich people."

"Well, sister Pearl and daughter Pearl."

"Lu Yan... What do you think we will do if we really lose all our money? Your salary for so many years has just been wasted."

"Will you blame me?"

"Why do you blame me? Blame you for not buying a color TV?" Lu Yan kissed her, "If you don't have one, then start from scratch."

"Brother Lu, you can really talk. Every time you talk, Roumei feels very safe."

"Really? You told me to shut up before."

"Whoever makes you like yourself, silence is golden."

Qin Rou rubbed his head, Lu Yan's hair is not long, but prickly, Qin Rou saw a lot of men with long hair like a chow chow in school, and felt that she couldn't keep up with the popular taste of the times, I still like my brother Lu's neat short hair.

Still with such a flamboyant and handsome face, she smiled and kissed the tip of his nose.

"My son and daughter said they want to buy a TV. Brother Lu, do you want to buy it?" Although most of the money was invested in the pearl breeding factory, Qin Rou still had a few thousand left just in case.

"In our family, you are the leader. The leader makes decisions, and the team leader listens to the leader."

"Then think about it again, and buy it after a while." Qin Rou thought to herself that she had to think of ways to make more money. It would be a loss to keep the thousands of dollars in her hands as capital.

The pearl breeding factory has not produced any output yet, but the consumption enthusiasm of the family has been raised. In the future, the family will have to buy a lot of things, so they have to find ways to make money.

Now the first commercial housing complex in Guangcheng is about to start raising funds for construction. It is estimated that it will be launched for sale in 1981. Qin Rou also plans to buy a house in Guangcheng.

Even if a house in this era is five to six hundred and one square meters, it would cost sixty to seventy thousand to buy a house, plus other decorative appliances and sofas, this is not a small sum.

"The leader will think about it later, let's hurry up and get down to business now." Lu Yan didn't turn off the light, as under the warm yellow desk lamp, this fire-like color burned his body.

Little Biesheng is a newlywed, Brother Lu couldn't bear it long ago.

"Take it easy..."

Lu Yan muttered to deal with it, but in fact, it is not easy to take it lightly. I haven't seen each other for a long time. Isn't it difficult to raise such high demands

On the second day, Qin Rou slept until the sun was shining, the man beside her had long since disappeared, and only the two little daughters ran into the room to accompany their mother.

"Mom, the sun is drying your ass."

"Mom, you are so lazy."

Qin Rou secretly slandered that mother is so lazy because of your father.

"Mom, have you been bitten by a mosquito?"

"Um, yeah, an oversized blood-sucking mosquito."

"What are you teaching your daughter?" Lu Yan walked into the room with a plate of shrimp dumplings.

"I played house with my daughter, and they said that now that their mother is sick, they need to help her treat her illness."

Doudou touched Qin Rou's forehead and exclaimed, "Oops, it's burned to forty."

Qin Rou: "..."

"Mom takes medicine!"

Rongrong said, "Mom, drink water!"

"Dad is a little nurse and feeds mom medicine."

Qin Rou was about to laugh out loud, "Little nurse, come and feed the patient medicine!"

Little nurse Lu Yan: "..."

He fed each shrimp dumpling into Qin Rou's mouth one by one, and the sweet bean paste sisters suddenly became envious when they saw their mother taking medicine.

Rongrong touched her head: "Little nurse, Rongrong also has a fever, she needs to take medicine!"

Qin Rou: "..."

Nurse Lu: "..."

Taste their clever daughter.

"Little nurse, are you starving your daughter?"

"It's your Pippi Pig."