Although Zhou Wei wanted to verify Wang Yuanzheng's words, but Lu Yan was not at home. He had a mission to rush to the security area, so he had to give up. He would go to Lu's house next time to meet his old childhood friends.
Qin Rou returned from Wang's house with her two cubs.
Since Xue Xiaohui moved into the family home, Xiaopangdun and the others often met Teacher Feifei who rode a bicycle to work when they went to school.
Every time the happy little magpie shouts from a distance: "Mr. Feifei, good morning!!!"
All eyes will be on Xue Xiaohui.
Xue Xiaohui greeted him with a shy face.
Sometimes Qin Rou would snicker when she saw this, haha, she couldn't help but think of before crossing, the brothers and sisters who graduated from various normal schools and became teachers complained, especially primary school teachers. It is said that teachers used to be most afraid of meeting themselves in the toilet The most polite student in the class was going to squat or was squatting in the pit, but when the students saw you, they came to watch you as if they had discovered some strange creature, and stood in front of you and shouted to you: "Hello, Teacher XX."
It would be even worse if there were too many people, good teachers come and go.
Dictatorship fears people.
Although there was a big typhoon in early September, now in December, Qin Rou's yard has changed a lot, the chicken coop has been rebuilt beautifully, the small green lawn is neatly trimmed, and the vegetable field It is also fruitful.
The swing in the courtyard is covered with yellow woody flowers. Woody flowers are tall plants that cover the top of the swing like a rainbow. These flowers are extremely beautiful, and the fragrance of woody flowers is even stronger. When the wind blows , the fragrance of flowers drifts far away.
The floral scent is like vanilla ice cream, which smells especially appropriate in this not-so-cold "winter day".
Qin Rou took several photos as souvenirs. She also planned to plant some red woody flowers. She took scissors to trim the flowering branches.
The old hen in the henhouse recently gave birth to a litter of chicks. The fluffy and chirping chicks are very cute. The hen at home is already full. She gave a few to Xue Xiaohui, and the remaining chicks, Qin Rou Looking forward to a few little roosters that can be slaughtered and eaten without growing up, so that they can add extra meals to the family.
The red tomato seems to like her yard very much. No matter how many winds and rains it has been through, it can cheer up. Once again, it is full of red and bright fruits, and rubies and agates like bead curtains hang down from the shelves.
There is always no shortage of tomatoes in their family. When Qin Rou wants to be lazy, she decisively chooses scrambled eggs with tomatoes, a home-cooked dish that will never get tired of eating. The tomatoes she grows herself and the eggs laid by her own hen are self-sufficient.
The loofah grown by Qin Rou is average, but the eggplant and beans in the vegetable field are growing well. Recently, I have harvested a lot of large purple eggplants. I make eggplant stew, eggplant fried beans, eggplant egg pancakes, garlic steamed eggplant, etc. for my family. Shredded Eggplant, Steamed Eggplant…
Developed a variety of ways to eat eggplant, perhaps this year's Feng Shui is relatively prosperous eggplant, full of harvest.
Sometimes the influence of climate, geomantic omen, etc. on the plants of that year is unclear. For example, one year, Qin Rou remembered that the lychees had a bumper harvest, and the fruit hanging was amazing. The wild lychees on the roadside that no one took care of and fertilized were full of fruits. …
Of course, fruit growers may not be happy with this kind of bumper harvest across the board. Instead, because of the oversupply of lychees, they are sold at cheap prices, leaving them in rotten fields for a few cents a catty.
Now she really has a lot of eggplants in her family, and even if she has developed a variety of ways to eat eggplants, the cubs don't want to eat them.
Qin Rou collected a basket of eggplants and beans. The eggplants were going to be given away later, and the beans were made into capers for storage.
"Xiao Qin, I heard from them that the fishing boat is back, let's pick fish quickly and go early!" Li Qinghua came to her house and invited her to buy fish together. Huai, people have become a lot more diligent than before.
It's time to invite her to pick fish together.
"Mom Huahua, I'll give you some eggplants."
"Hey, our family will burn eggplant today."
… Listen, the Huahua mothers who specialize in the cafeteria are all starting fires at home. This is the pressure brought by the children.
The slackers can't be lazy anymore.
The Huahua mother used to live a super chic life. The family ate the cafeteria every day. Although the food in the cafeteria was not the most delicious, it was definitely not unpalatable. What’s more, Huahua’s mother never treated her badly. She even ordered meat dishes every day. .
This is like stabbing a hornet's nest. Li Qinghua lives a chic life, does nothing and eats meat, so many people secretly envy her.
About why there are so many gossips about her in the family courtyard, saying behind her back that she is a lazy wife, it is because she is hated by others.
Li Qinghua and Huang Xinying, one is a good daughter-in-law in the family courtyard, and the other is a lazy daughter-in-law in the family courtyard. The two of them have one thing in common, that is, they both only gave birth to one child.
Family homes like them only have one child, many have three or four, and there are four or five, so life is very tight.
Raising children is too expensive and time-consuming. There are too many children in the family, and it is inconvenient for the mother to work and have to take care of the children at home. If the mother-in-law is called to take care of the children, it will be even more serious, and the family will quarrel over trivial matters.
In the past, Huahua’s mother didn’t work, and Political Commissar Liu took care of her and her son. Political Commissar Liu’s salary was more than enough, and the family of three could eat fine grains, and the meals in the canteen were not expensive. Meat dishes such as fish, meat and eggs are 20 cents a piece, and better meat dishes are 30 cents a piece. Huahua’s mother orders a good meat dish every day. For the children's rations, even if Political Commissar Liu had to send some money to the family, they would have no burden to live on.
But if there is a second child, the pressure of life will come. One more child means one more mouth. Boys... Half-children, eating poor old people, that's no joke, life has to be tight, even the teacher's family has to eat some coarse grains.
The reason why Huang Xinying can be a good daughter-in-law is that there is only one child in the family, and both husband and wife have wages. Huang Xinying has free time when she returns home from work and does not have to take care of more children. There are so many chores, fewer children, and dirty clothes. Both of them are short, and the monthly supply of rice grains for the couple is sufficient, so that her family can often "smelt the food" and make their life prosperous and bright.
If you live behind closed doors, even if you have no rice and no oil, even a clever woman can't live without rice.
In a sense, both are the same kind of people.
And other family members, especially those who have four or five children, have to devote all their attention to saving money for raising their children, saving a little here and a little there, that is, having more children and more blessings can comfort themselves.
"It's not easy to raise a baby!" Qin Rou went back to the kitchen to get the bucket of fish. Thinking of Huahua's mother's recent changes, and thinking of the two fat cubs at home, she suddenly felt the pressure of raising cubs.
Generally, the benefits of aviation, underwater, surface, and shore are from high to low. The higher the risk, the better the salary. Lu Yan is on the water, which is higher than their salary and allowance on shore. In addition, there is also a subsidy for going to sea. Hard work It's hard work, but the treatment is good. All allowances add up to an average of two hundred a month.
Qin Rou had a baby one year after joining the job, and now she earns thirty-six a month, plus a monthly allowance of eight yuan, which is the ordinary salary of ordinary migrant workers.
Colleagues like her who are not married can still live a good life. The fees for meals in various canteens are not bad. Don’t be too frugal for a month. If you eat twenty-five for a month on the ration, you can still eat meat often If you are a vegetarian, you can spend 16 to 17 yuan on food and clothing, and you can save some money to buy soap, clothes, leather shoes, go to a movie and buy some books during the holidays. Petty life.
If you are married, it will be different. If you want to raise a baby, you have to live behind closed doors.
No matter in any age, for ordinary working people, getting married will reduce the quality of life.
If you say that you don’t eat canteen meals and start fires at home, you really can’t save much money.
Although the vegetables are only a few cents a catty, but if you want to start a fire at home, you have to ask for firewood and briquettes. Qin Rou calculates how much the family spends on briquettes and firewood for a month. Her family uses both, sister Brother-in-law, father-in-law and mother-in-law would come to her house for dinner, and they would burn the fire frequently, and there were two or three stoves, and the briquette stove would often burn a pot of water. Coupled with a few loads of firewood, it will cost seventeen or eight yuan just to light the fire.
Look at it this way, just lighting the fire costs half of her salary in a month, it’s scary, plus other daily necessities, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, goat’s milk for five yuan a month...
Well, the family expenses are very high.
Of course, if you start the fire yourself, there will be room for saving money. If you grow your own vegetables, you will save money for vegetables. If you raise your own chickens and lay eggs, you will save money for eggs. , or simply cut firewood and pick up cinders by yourself, which saves another expense.
The firewood that has been split is one price, and the firewood that has not been split is another price. If you want to save money, you have to pay more labor and immerse yourself in some trivial money-saving labor every day.
Like Qin Rou and Lu Yan, as well as Wang Yuanzheng and Xue Xiaohui, newly married couples who have no children, each of them is entitled to 30 catties of food stamps a month. The two of them buy fine grains and can eat white rice and steamed buns. The wages are fully covered. For the most part, one more child would be able to hold on, and the second and third would naturally increase the pressure.
Qin Rou's family is not bad, Xiao Pangdun often eats at her house, his mother has nothing to spend in the army, she gives him 60 yuan a month for rations, and often sends some snacks of malted milk powder, average The luxury configuration of two yuan per day, it is said that the daily diet standard of the underwater submarine personnel is more than two yuan per day, but this expense is not paid by them, the treatment is quite high, but this is true underwater It is hard work, high risk, narrow space, dull noise, and the engineers on board, it is not easy to work in the high temperature of 40 to 50 degrees.
The father-in-law and mother-in-law have pensions, and now they help take care of Zhouzhou and dumplings at home. They didn't pay for living expenses, but bought a lot of milk powder for the family's cubs, and often bought some meat, sesame and peanuts.
Now Qin Ruan and Lu Yan can make a surplus of more than 100 after a month's expenses, and live a comfortable life.
Calculated in this way, you can only save one thousand yuan a year. Brother Lu is not as capable of saving money after marriage as he was before marriage.
"Is this a sturgeon?"
"That's what the xx detachment wants to leave." There are several breeding farms and fishery companies here. After the fishing troops come back, each team will come to collect supplies for these harvests. In order, surface forces have priority over shore forces, first pick first.
"Good comrade, can you help me see if there is any roe in it? I just want the roe inside..." Qin Rou asked cheekily.
"This is fine."
Qin Rou took a big bag of caviar, and picked out a lot of hairtail and mackerel, that is, black fish. A sister-in-law behind her saw that she bought a lot of mackerel, her eyes twitched.
Mackerel, also known as black fish, is much more valuable than sea oysters, sixty-year-old shrimps and the like. Most people only eat it during Chinese New Year banquets.
Mackerel has fewer bones and more meat. The fish meat can be used to make dumplings, or it can be marinated with salt and dried in the sun. It is especially delicious when steamed on rice, and it is very delicious with rice.
Someone couldn't help saying a few words: "Xiao Qin, there are two more boys in the family, you have to learn to live a little bit."
Qin Rou smiled and nodded, thinking that she should eat and drink, there are only two of them.
Li Qinghua also picked a lot of fish, and the sisters-in-law next to her lost their temper even more when they saw Li Qinghua. These sister-in-laws probably had several children with them, and the children were making noises and chattering about what to eat for dinner. .
"Mom Huahua, you've been too active lately." A family member with short hair raised his eyebrows.
"Much more diligent than before."
"This pregnant woman is different. Niu Ye is going to have a younger brother."
"Let his mother give him more siblings."
Qin Rou married Lu Yan. The couple's life was sweet and enviable. Many people in the family courtyard envied her. However, Comrade Li Qinghua was always the one who was more envious of the people in the family courtyard.
She is the thorn in the side that the masses envy.
Qin Rou is beautiful and has a nice voice. She used to be in an art troupe, went to an art school, and was admitted as an announcer. She can take care of the yard in the family courtyard and cook good food. With her appearance and conditions Yes, although most people envy her, they also think she deserves to live like this.
And Li Qinghua, like them, is also an uneducated country girl with a pretty appearance, but she is lazy and greedy and does not work, let alone have children, which makes many people feel uncomfortable.
Later, she became a driver, which surprised people and made her teeth itch with envy.
Now that she's pregnant, she's doing something serious.
"Mother Huahua, looking at you like this, you can't be pregnant with twins, right?" The man smiled narrowly.
"Talk to Xiao Qin more, get her blessing, and give your old Liu two big fat boys at once." This person really wants to see the slacker Li Qing give birth to two big fat boys. , See how she is still too lazy to get up.
Li Qinghua waved his hands carelessly: "I'm going to have a daughter, I'm not lucky enough to have two at once."
"Go and reap the blessings of Xiao Qin's family."
"I won't go to Chief of Staff Lu to get my luck. Captain Zhang asked our old Liu to go to Xiao Qin's house to get my luck. I said no, I had a dream, and I must be pregnant with a big girl."
At this point, a reasonable person said, "You guys are really stupid, those men don't believe this, this kind of blessing can't be said to be obtained, it's even more impossible to dream, it's time to give birth to a boy A boy is still born, and a daughter is still born to a daughter."
"That's it."