After leaving home and before returning to the city, the couple walked the road to Baxi Mountain to check the crops in the mountains.

The importance of food, needless to say.

More than two acres of land were planted with wheat, which was planted a few days earlier than the wheat in the production team, and the growth was very good. When it was time to order peanuts around the Qingming Festival, there was no place to plant here, so He Jianguo opened a piece of land nearby and planted the peanut seeds left on it, and now the seedlings have also emerged.

He and his wife had been into the mountains many times before, and they were more familiar with the paths, and they could come alone under the condition of being particularly cautious, but now the large beasts in the mountains such as wild boars have basically disappeared, and the wolf howls have not been heard for a long time, and what needs to be paid attention to are snakes, insects, rats and ants.

Looking at the thriving crops, Qi Shufang began to worry after being happy.

"How will the two of us harvest the wheat on more than two acres of land when the time comes? The harvest is a little better, and we can solve it in one day as soon as possible, but where to dry it after harvesting? How to thresh? It must not be pulled to the site of our production team, and it will be unlucky for people to find out. I have a lot of strength, I remember that we also have a chisel at home, and I can use an axe to chisel a threshing stone stone and chisel it myself, but there is no animal to pull it. When our wheat should be harvested, the wheat of the production team has also begun, and it is definitely not good to borrow livestock. ”

At that time, when I planted wheat, I just thought that the harvest was my own, but now I realize how difficult it is to grow wheat secretly.

He Jianguo had a plan.

This matter was not hidden from Professor Kim.

Originally, he didn't want to hide it from his father, so he asked his father to help him harvest the wheat, which was faster, but he was afraid that there would be an accident that would affect his father and brother, and the production team was also collecting wheat, so he only told Professor Jin on a boat.

After Professor Jin recovered from his leg injury, like Chen Sanchuan and Ma Tianlong, he worked in the fields when he was busy farming, herding cattle and mowing grass during his slack time, which was very hard, that is, the time of counting work was halved. He Jianguo found time to come to Baxi Mountain and meet Professor Jin and his wife, who were herding cattle, and Professor Jin and his wife brought the stone stone in the production team that no one paid attention to during the busy farming season.

He Jianguo sorted out a field for threshing wheat at the head of the field, put the ox on the stone stone, and turned around the field again and again, rolling the ground very flat and strong, and there would be no wheat grains stuck in the cracks in the ground.

After setting up the threshing field, the stone was put back in its place, and Professor Jin and his wife drove the cattle back to the cowshed as if nothing had happened.

The two of them were not empty-handed, the grass in the dung basket on their shoulders hid the food that He Jianguo and Qi Shufang brought to them, and they also ate Qi Shufang's roasted pheasant called flower pheasant when they were busy.

Harvest began in June, the wheat in the mountains was planted early, but it grew well, but it was later than the wheat harvest of the production team, taking advantage of the fact that the production team was busy with no one close to the mountains and forests, planting at three or four o'clock in the morning on the weekend, the couple walked into the mountains, He Jianguo insisted on not letting Qi Shufang bend down on the ground, and pulled out all the wheat in two acres of land with his bare shoulders, carried it to the field, and put all the wheat ears down with a guillotine hidden in the tree house in advance, put them into the sacks that had been prepared long ago and put them on the flatbed truck and transported them back to the city, and the wheat straw was thrown on the field to be exposed.

The flatbed truck was borrowed by He Jianguo from the staff of the scrap yard.

He often goes to the scrap yard, usually likes to make friends, is generous, and has long been familiar with those staff, not to mention only borrowing a flatbed truck, even a tractor can be borrowed.

However, although the wheat in this field is better than that of the production team, except for sprinkling some rabbit manure during sowing, it has not been fertilized since then, and the care is not careful enough, and the husband and wife have no time to weed, so even if the land is very fertile, the yield of wheat is not high, and a total of less than six sacks of wheat ears have been harvested.

The ears of wheat are dried in their own yard, and it is inconvenient to threshing with stone stones, He Jianguo and Qi Shufang beat them with wooden sticks when they rested, so that the wheat grains and wheat bran were separated, and then the wheat bran was removed with a dustpan, leaving only clean and full wheat grains.

He Jianguo filled the raised wheat bran to the bottom of the stove and burned the fire, leaving no trace.

When drying the ears of wheat, He Jianguo went back to the mountains, tidied the ground, laid the ridges, dried the wheat straw and piled it into stacks, and when it rained, he could go into the mountains, so he and his wife returned to the mountains to plant corn.

The whole month of June was spent in hard work.

When they were done, the production team was not finished busy, and the dust was everywhere, and Qi Shufang didn't go back, lest the smoke and dust inhale into his lungs, which was very uncomfortable.

Stepping into July, she can finally take a breath, she waved a pu fan, lay on a rattan chair in the hall to enjoy the coolness, and watched He Jianguo eat watermelon in a big gulp, He Jianguo said helplessly: "You have already eaten a petal at ten o'clock today, you can't eat it anymore, it's not good to eat too much." He carefully asked Granny Jin that he must eat fruit in moderation, and it is too much.

There are seasonal fruits in the fruit shops below the non-staple food store, which are particularly expensive when they are first listed, and they will be cheap when they are about to go off the market, and ordinary people are reluctant to buy them, but they can finally eat fruits, Qi Shufang doesn't care about money, and eats different fruits every month.

Since spring and summer, since the fruit is on the market, they have to spend about ten yuan a month on the fruit.

The money is not saved, He Jianguo and Qi Shufang don't care.

"Hmph!" Qi Shufang is well-raised, her face is red in protein, her spirit is excellent, others have a little pregnancy reaction when she is pregnant, except for the occasional retching when she gets up in the morning, she is usually very calm and worry-free, and she is not worried about her mother, "Jianguo, I want to eat scallion pancakes, put more oil!"

"Okay, I'll make scallion pancakes at noon. ”

The taste is not picky, He Jianguo finished nibbling on the watermelon, cleaned the tea tray on the table, threw the melon skin into the bamboo basket and took it out, washed his hands and noodles.

The weather is hot, and the meals can't be left overnight, including steamed buns, pancakes, wowotou, etc., so the two of them are freshly made and eaten, the sufficient wheat at home represents sufficient flour, and all kinds of pasta change patterns, He Jianguo's skills are good, and Qi Shufang's mouth is a lot, and He Jianguo must order food at home every weekend.

It was not enough to burn scallion pancakes, He Jianguo made another dish of roasted eggplant and a plate of shredded potatoes with green peppers, and another bowl of loofah egg drop soup, which were neatly placed on the table.

Qi Shufang's taste is changeable, I don't know if it's because it's hot, or because of pregnancy, and suddenly I don't want to eat meat.

In the past, she was meatless and unhappy.

Don't eat meat and worry about her lack of nutrition, He Jianguo always changes the way to make meat dishes, fortunately she has no resistance to eating fish, He Jianguo made a fish stew for her in three days.

After eating, Qi Shufang walked around the hall with her stomach up.

"Jianguo, everyone says that a boy with a sharp belly and a girl with a round belly, do you see my belly is sharp or round? Some people say that I give birth to a boy and an ugly girl, and give birth to a girl and a handsome mother, I haven't become ugly, right?"

He Jianguo put the dishes and chopsticks into the small cabinet under the big case in the front, and said without looking back: "I haven't become ugly, I am very handsome." Boys and girls are the same, I look very good, what are you doing with the tip and round of the belly?"

"I'm just asking, I think I'm probably pregnant with a girl, you see, with a round belly. ”

Qi Shufang slipped in front of He Jianguo and straightened her stomach.

She doesn't have the idea of patriarchy, she likes it no matter if she gives birth to a boy or a girl, and He Jianguo said the same, so she was even happier.

Sometimes, she felt very puzzled, many mothers are also women, why don't they value their daughters? Aunt He Qi is, so is Qi's mother, for the sake of their son, their attitude towards their daughters makes people feel cold. If you have suffered from patriarchy, shouldn't you be more considerate of your daughter's hardship? Why did it turn the other way around?

Aunt He Qi's abandoned daughter was found, forcing the other party to go away, what about the daughter abandoned by Qi's mother?

On Qi Shude, Qi Shufang also has sisters, some are dead, and some are abandoned by Qi's mother.

Since she was pregnant and about to become a mother, Qi Shufang suddenly became sentimental.

He Jianguo looked down, his clothes were thin in summer, and he saw the round belly very clearly, he didn't even dare to touch it, the doctor explained that it didn't seem good to touch his stomach often, he would rather believe it than believe it, looked at it for a while, nodded and said: "It's really round, if it's really as accurate as people say, I think it's a big girl." ”

"Didn't you say you couldn't see it, how could you tell it was a girl?" Qi Shufang was extremely bored and deliberately found fault.

"Didn't you say that? It's a girl with a round belly. ”

"You believe what I say?"

"Of course you believe your words. He Jianguo touched her head: "Are you so idle?" is not like the usual style.

"yes, it's hot, too lazy to move. ”

That is to say, it's not that you have nothing to do, but you don't want to move? He Jianguo said funny: "You made two mistakes in the math problems assigned to you yesterday, and I will explain them to you." After the lecture, let's talk in a foreign language and practice. ”

"Okay!" Qi Shufang was very interested in learning.

The husband and wife taught one and learned the other, an hour passed quickly, and they were tired of sitting, Qi Shufang got up and moved, He Shengnan called her outside the door, she opened the door and looked at He Shengnan with a smile on his face, "Shengnan, why are you free? The weather is so hot, you are not afraid of panic when you come out under the sun?" Walking in the yard without going out, she felt that her face hurt from the sun.

He Shengnan patted his satchel: "I heard that there is a new batch of cloth in the department store, do you want to go?" Just after the salary, Li Wei and I saved up a little cloth ticket, and the elders gave a lot, I want to pull more cloth and make quilts and clothes for the children." When my belly grows, I am afraid that I will not be able to wear the original shirt, and I also want to make two clothes. ”

That's right, He Shengnan is also pregnant, only one month later than Qi Shufang.

In other words, when he was transferred out of the Railway Bureau, He Shengnan found out that he was pregnant, because he was less than three months old, and he did not publicize it.

"Go! I'm in a hurry. Qi Shufang, who has to walk and exercise every day, agreed without saying a word, went back to the house and took a satchel, loaded it with money, cloth tickets, and industrial coupons, she and He Jianguo bought some favorite jewelry and antiques from time to time, and the money in recent months has not been deposited in the bank.

With a big straw hat on their heads, the two of them walked slowly to the department store.

At this time, the city and the city are very busy, the grain in the countryside is almost harvested, and they start to pay the public grain, and they have no time to come to the city, many people in the city feel that the weather is hot, and they don't like to go out, and the flow of people in the department store has decreased greatly.

Qi Shufang is more experienced, and earlier said that the clothes were enough to wear and did not need to be made, but her stomach was big, she couldn't wear her previous clothes, and her shirt was tight, and finally she used a few pieces of fabric left at home to make two summer clothes. You don't have to do it in autumn and winter, you can wear clothes with cotton jackets and pants in winter, which are relatively wide, and when you wait until winter, the child has been born.

She ate so well, only her fat belly did not fat herself, her arms and legs were the same as before, but her face was slightly rounder.

When He Shengnan bought cloth lavishly, Qi Shufang followed and pulled a few feet of cotton cloth with big red flowers, she has now studied with Tailor Zhang and his wife for a while, and has used a sewing machine to make clothes, and the handiwork is not bad.

Babies are tender and preferably with cotton.

October is the due date, the weather is getting cooler, the child is born to wear a small padded jacket, and in winter must wear a cotton coat, even if it is wrapped in a quilt, this is the experience that everyone imparted.

Four quilts and four cotton clothes have been prepared at home, and the lining and face are cotton cloth, and silk cotton is waddled.

Considering that it is inconvenient to wash clothes in winter, Qi Shufang decided to make two more cotton quilts and two cotton cotton clothes.

As parents, they always want to give their children the best, and their finances are enough for them to do what they want.

He Shengnan held up the cotton cloth with small white flowers on a blue background in his hand, "Shufang, how do you see this color pattern? My mother-in-law asked me to buy brighter fabrics, I don't think I need to buy all the red ones, if I give birth to a boy, do you also wear clothes made of red cloth? The bright colors and plain ones are open in half, do you say right?"

Qi Shufang glanced at it and said with a smile: "I don't know anything else, but everyone says that children should dress brightly and look happy, regardless of men and women." The fabrics I bought were either red, pink, or light yellow, and three of the four quilts were red and pink, and one of them was blue. You see, the fabric I'm buying now is also very brightly colored. ”

"Since you say so, I'd better listen to my mother-in-law. He Shengnan put down the cloth in his hand.

She looked carefully and looked at it, the fabrics she bought were all bright, and when she left the counter after buying, she saw He Jianhong dragging a girl out of the crowd, seeing Qi Shufang and He Shengnan, looking at the fabrics they were holding, He Jianhong had a big smile on his face, "Shengnan, you also came to buy cloth?" Shufang, how many months have you been?

As she spoke, she pinched the girl with all her might, and reproached: "Zhao Di, why are you stupid? When I see your aunt, I don't know how to say hello!"

"Aunt?" He Shengnan and Xu Zhaodi let out a surprised sound in unison.