"The eighth day of the eighth month of August? ”

"He opened his eyes, he opened his eyes, Shufang, your son really looks like you!

"Hey, hey, hey, he's still tugging at his little mouth!"

"You're so chubby!"

"Shufang, what's your son's name?"

"Shufang, does it hurt to give birth?"

Everyone looked at the little seven catties in the swaddling clothes, and said gossipily, asking gossips, experienced women such as Ye Cuicui said that seven catties grew strong, and inexperienced married young women how to win men pulled Qi Shufang to ask about the process of giving birth, and unmarried young women such as Yun Bai praised seven catties vigorously.

After Qi Shufang finished answering the question, she sneered: "So ugly, where is he so handsome? You just want to praise him, and you have to have some factual basis." "No matter how ugly she is, she loves her son very much, but she can't let people praise him for being particularly handsome with a clear conscience, right?

Ye Cuicui said with a straight face: "How can you hate your own son like this? If you look like you, how can you be ugly? The child is not handsome when he is born, and he is even uglier than your son. Little seven catties, look at your mother, I think you are ugly, and I won't buy fruit for your mother when I grow up. The latter sentence said to Qijin.

Qijin clenched his fists against his mouth, closed his eyes, and cried.

Everyone hurriedly urged Qi Shufang to hug him, but Qi Shufang only turned sideways, stretched out her hand and gently patted the swaddling clothes, the baby's energy was limited, and Qijin quickly stopped crying and fell asleep.

Seeing that he was asleep, everyone lowered their voices together.

He Shengnan sat on the edge of the bed with a big belly, wiping the sweat on her forehead with a handkerchief, she was particularly afraid of heat after she became pregnant, "Shufang, didn't you say that you should be born in early October?

"It's not up to me to decide this, he came out when he wanted it. Qi Shufang didn't expect it to be about ten days in advance.

He Shengnan asked her if it hurt during childbirth.

"That's definitely painful, how can there be a child who doesn't hurt, I didn't give birth until two o'clock in the morning, Dr. Lin said, it's relatively smooth, someone has two days of labor pain. ”

Recalling the pain of childbirth, Qi Shufang has palpitations, but when she sees her healthy son, she thinks it's worth it.

Newborns, new hopes, hopes for the future.

Under the influence of the harsh environment in the previous life, although human beings have not reached the point where they cannot give birth to children, the probability of childbirth is very low, the rate of premature death is very high, and it is not easy to feed a newborn.

He Shengnan's face turned slightly pale, and he reached out and patted his chest, "Don't scare me." ”

"I didn't scare you, it's all the truth. ”

Qi Shufang looked at her belly, pointy, quite straight, completely different from her own arms, and then looked at her face, there were faint spots under her eyes, and her skin was a lot rougher, which was very in line with the characteristics of everyone who said that she had a son, if she gave birth to a son, then it was said that everyone's statement had merit, if she gave birth to a daughter, she would never believe in the experience handed down by the old man in the future.

Ye Cuicui straightened up and asked He Shengnan, "You're about to give birth, aren't you?"

"Well, a month later than Shufang. ”

"That's soon, everything that needs to be prepared has to be prepared. "Ye Cuicui gave birth to four children and lived three, she has a lot of production experience, before Qi Shufang gave birth, He Jianguo also came to ask her what to prepare.

He Shengnan smiled and nodded: "The family is ready." ”

The living conditions of the Li family are good, needless to say, everyone's supplies are preparing for her confinement.

Secretary He and Cao Yunhai are just such a daughter, and their grandson is also the third generation of their own family, and they are both dual-income workers, and their salaries are high, so they don't leave things to their daughters and grandchildren, so can they prepare a lot of things for outsiders with their abilities, and Cao Yunhai is a bus driver, and the things he brought back far exceed those prepared by the He family.

Because of Qi Shufang's relationship, Ye Cuicui is basically familiar with several female comrades who often come to Qi Shufang's house to play, so she naturally has no scruples when she speaks, "Do you usually like to eat sour or spicy?"

"Spicy. I don't have a good appetite after I get pregnant, and I always want to eat some spicy appetizers, is there anything wrong?"

Ye Cuicui shook her head, "It's all said that sour and spicy girls, I think your arms look like boys." ”

He Shengnan said disappreciatively: "Aren't boys and girls all the same? We are all women, do we discriminate against our unborn daughters? I don't have so many backward old ideas." Besides, what a sour and spicy girl, what a sharp-bellied man with a round belly, I can't see it correctly, Shufang has a round belly, usually everyone says that she is pregnant with a girl, but what is the result?

"Yes, boys and girls are their own children, just because everyone is a woman, so if you give birth to a daughter, you should love her even more and prevent her from suffering from patriarchal culture. Qi Shufang agreed.

He Shengnan said happily: "Shufang, let's make sense of it." ”

"Is that how we think the same thing? ”

He Shengnan laughed.

"By the way, you don't have to go to work today, Monday, you are not a flight attendant now, you can't go to work for a few days like me and Yunbai and the others and take a few days off, not watching weekends or weekends. ”

"Oh, I called in sick. "If you don't ask for leave, you will be absent from work, and He Shengnan will not dare to challenge the rules of the bank.

Qi Shufang listened to it, thinking about waiting for the maternity leave to be over, should she find an excuse to take a few days of sick leave?

She has never taken a day off in more than a year of work, so if she does, it should be easy to get approved, right?

I don't want to think about it for the time being, but I still think about how I will take care of the child after the maternity leave, many units and factories have nurseries, there are special people to take care of the baby, and mothers can go to the nursery to feed the baby. However, she has been working on the train for a year and has never heard of a nursery on the train that allows her to bring her children to work.

Maternity leave is only 56 days, and every time she goes to work, it is three or four days, how can she bear to let her child leave her, how can she bear to let her child not eat breast milk? The healthiest thing is breast milk, milk powder can never be compared, and with a birth certificate, she can only receive one pound of milk powder a month, which is not enough for a child to eat, although with a birth certificate and birth certificate can also buy milk delivered to her door, but it is not suitable for babies to eat, and she does not want to grieve her son when breast milk is sufficient.

The more Qi Shufang thought about it, the more troubled she became.

He Shengnan knew that she was pregnant, and her family tried to transfer her out of the railway bureau, because she felt that the bank job made it convenient for her to take care of the child, and the bank was only a few minutes away from home, so she didn't know Qi Shufang's troubles, and after gossiping for a long time, she suddenly asked: "Shufang, you don't have a mother-in-law, so who will cook for you and serve you in confinement now?"

Thinking of the old man who opened the door in the morning, He Shengnan was a little curious, her mother-in-law said that she would come to serve her confinement when the time came.

My father-in-law will have to go back in two days, and the family is busy. ”

"Ahh

Qi Shufang smiled: "Serve me in confinement without delaying him to work." ”

He Jianguo went to work every day, and He's father was embarrassed to stay, so he went back to the countryside in two days, and asked He Jianguo to remember to go back to the Qiji Brigade to report the good news to Qi Shufang's mother's house on the weekend, and save some eggs and goose eggs to send them.

He Jianguo got up early every morning, first boiled boiling water to warm and then washed Qi Shufang's face and brushed his teeth, and then cooked, washed clothes, washed diapers, noodles, brown sugar egg tea, brown sugar millet porridge, goose egg custard took turns, all of which were delicious and nutritious, suitable for pregnant women, and so on Qi Shufang had eaten, he cleaned up the old hen and added ginger slices to stew in the steel pot, if he couldn't go home at noon, Qi Shufang could also eat it himself, and dinner would be done after he got home.

The diapers that the child changed, the filth in the toilet, and the pots and pans that he had eaten were all dealt with when he got home, and he didn't ask Qi Shufang to touch his hands, worried that she would not be good for her health when she touched cold water.

Qi Shufang gave birth smoothly, so she could get out of bed on the same day, and she didn't have to lie on the bed and wait for He Jianguo to wait in front of the bed.

Ye Cuicui was so envious when she came to visit the door, when she was in confinement, where did she enjoy Qi Shufang's current blessings? Eating some brown sugar eggs is considered a good meal, and she cooks and washes diapers by herself during the confinement.

A few days is the National Day, and there are many supplies that are only available during the Chinese New Year, even a little more than the Spring Festival, He Jianguo runs to the non-staple food store at one or two o'clock every day to line up, and strives to buy every supply to his home. Only when it was his turn to buy the old goose, the grocery store hung up a sign that had been sold out, which made him depressed for a long time.

It is said that pig's trotter soup and crucian carp soup are milked, and He Jianguo has asked people to help.

The biggest disadvantage of the majority of urban residents living in houses allocated by the state, and several families living in the same courtyard is that it is easy to breed right and wrong, and the biggest advantage is that the neighbors are distributed in 360 rows, and distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and there are meat sellers, doctors, and grain sellers in the neighborhoods, and everyone can follow suit.

Qi Shufang is no exception, she has a ration of free tickets every month, and she basically sends them to relatives and friends who need to travel.

Qi Shufang eats well, eats a lot, the milk is not only sufficient, but also of good quality, within a few days, seven catties will gradually grow, not as ugly as when she was born, but her face is yellow.

It is inconvenient for her to go back to her hometown, which is now in the busy season of farming, and Father He is scheduled to eat happy noodles on the day of the full moon before leaving.

I was born on the eighth day of August, and I ate happy noodles on the eighth day of September, and the days were very good.

Qi Shufang was more worried about her son's face, racked her brains to remember the miscellaneous books she read, and asked some experienced people that every day when there was no wind in the yard at noon, she wore a beanie and carried her son out to bask in the sun. Everyone says that there is nothing that does not turn yellow in the child's confinement and fades out of the confinement, so don't worry.

In October, the weather gradually turned cooler, and Qi Shufang's confinement sat more comfortably, just right for neither hot nor cold.

He Jianguo went back to his mother-in-law's house to report the good news, carrying a few happy eggs, and returned empty-handed, not even seeing the fast oil cakes, but after returning to his own home, He's father handed over the eggs he had saved in the past few days and the black fish caught from the river to him to bring back to Qi Shufang to eat.

Qi Shufang has a good appetite, she basically eats more than a dozen eggs a day, and she has eaten 100 eggs just eight days after she was born.

Her food is really good, chicken soup, mutton soup, crucian carp soup, black fish soup, pig's trotter soup take turns, when her appetite is good, she eats a lot of meat, she doesn't just eat meat, He Jianguo fried vegetarian dishes for her to eat, all seasonal vegetables, from the fruit store bought from the fruit store to choose edible and cooked for her to eat.

The Huo family didn't know where to get two black chickens, and sent them overnight, Mu Xue calculated her due date, and sent her a lot of nutritional products from Shanghai.

For the sake of confinement, she and He Jianguo owe a lot of favors to everyone.

Qi Shufang kept it in her heart the same.

Halfway through the month, she suddenly heard the news that the Ministry of Railways sent someone to the Gupeng Railway Bureau to select the conductor, and once she was selected, she was immediately transferred to Beijing to work, which was a great opportunity for all the conductors.

When Yun Bai came to visit Qi Shufang, he said regretfully: "You should be unlucky, but you will choose when you give birth." ”

Qi Shufang is beautiful and capable, she is one of the best attendants on their train, and if she is still at work, there is a great possibility that she will be selected by the cadres of the Ministry of Railways.

The cadres of the Ministry of Railways personally left Beijing to select conductors, so the job must not be simple.

When Qi Shufang heard the news, she knew that she had missed this opportunity, but looking at her baby son, who was gradually becoming fat and handsome, she quickly calmed down, "Although it is a pity to lose the opportunity to work in Beijing, I don't feel sorry! I gave birth to seven catties peacefully, which is the greatest happiness for me." ”

"Don't miss the opportunity and don't come again, if you lose this opportunity, you may not be able to meet it again in the future. Yunbai still felt that Qi Shufang was not selected, which was her biggest regret.

Qi Shufang smiled: "I don't have a chance, but Yunbai, you can work hard to be selected." ”

Although the character of the Yun family is not bad, but the whole family put the burden of life on Yun Bai's shoulders, so that Yun Bai didn't even dare to get married, and her colleagues said that she would introduce her to someone, but she didn't agree, it was better to let her leave Gupeng City and leave her family, maybe there would be some development.

"Me?" Yun Bai pointed his index finger at his nose and hurriedly shook his head, "I can't, I can't." ”

"Yes, that's you! If you work hard, how do you know that you won't be selected? You have a positive attitude towards work, you have never made a mistake, whether it is the conductor or your colleagues, they have a good evaluation of you, and you are not married, why can't you be selected? If you are selected by the cadres of the Ministry of Railways and go to Beijing to work, we also feel very glorious!" Qi Shufang encouraged.

Yun Bai was about to move by her, and his eyes gradually brightened up.

Yes, if you don't work hard, how do you know that you can't do it?

Leaving Gupeng City, leaving home, leaving the shadow of your family to let yourself breathless, even if you still need to send living expenses to your family every month, but life is definitely easier than now, right?

Yun Bai sprouted infinite courage.

The cadres sent by the Ministry of Railways were inspected and selected when they were working, and Yun Bai did not show that she hoped to be selected, but she did a good job in terms of work.