Qi Shufang didn't know the specific reason why Lu Hongping was pregnant out of wedlock, and the so-called idea was only her own guess, so she didn't mention it to anyone, but after experiencing such a scene, it was difficult for her mind to settle down, especially Ou Mingxiang, who lived a relatively simple life, and would scream in her sleep, full of cold sweat.

In order not to affect her body, Qi Shufang comforted Ou Mingxiang while trying her best to calm her feelings.

I've been working on the train for a long time, and I can really encounter anything, and I can see all kinds of life.

Qi Shufang felt fortunate that Sister Wang had a good personality, good character, was fair, and was more considerate of women, trying her best to work for her staff with peace of mind, and also trying to solve the troubles encountered by all passengers, and did not publicize Lu Hongping's unmarried pregnancy.

Pregnancy before marriage is a very strict style of life, and when you meet someone with extreme thoughts, you can deduct a disorderly hat to Lu Hongping at that time, in that case, it will definitely not be as easy to end as today.

As the Spring Festival approaches, Shanghai is filled with a joyful atmosphere.

On the way back for Qi Shufang and the others, they clearly heard passers-by enthusiastically discussing the treatment of this year's Spring Festival.

"I snapped up an old hen, but she's fat. ”

"What are you doing when you grab a chicken? I bought an old goose and a fat duck!"

"Ahh

"That's it. There will be pork tomorrow, and one person will be supplied with an extra dollar of meat during the Spring Festival this year, will you go and buy it?"

"Go, why don't you go? It's a fool not to go. Yesterday, the grocery store supplied pork, I got up at three o'clock to line up, but I didn't grab a piece of diced meat, tomorrow I will be ruthless, I will go at two o'clock, I don't believe I can't grab it, I can count on this bit of meat for the New Year. My family of ten people can buy ten yuan of meat, and if you do the math, there are more than ten catties!"

"It's a pity that there are no peanuts supplied yet, only one person and two melon seeds. ”

"Melon seeds are not bad, there are not even melon seeds in the countryside, in addition to melon seeds, we also supplied two taels of sesame oil, one pound of sugar cubes, and two pounds of white flour during the Spring Festival, which is enough to make dumplings!"

"Not bad fart, we are a big family to buy it separately, and when it was my turn to buy white noodles, the sign at the door said it was sold out!"

"Ouch, you're out of luck. ”

"Isn't it? I want to have a good meal at the end of the year all year round, but the supply is too tight to grab it. ”

"Don't walk slowly, there is an announcement posted again, peanuts will be supplied tomorrow, half a pound of ripe peanuts per person!"

The two who were talking said in unison, "What else is there to do?"

"A cabbage, two green onions, and yellow croaker, hairtail, and mutton!

"How much is a pound of yellow croaker and hairtail?"

"Hairtail fish three cents eight! Yellow croaker four cents five! Oh, there is also an extra-wide hairtail fish, and the price of yellow croaker!"

The variety of New Year's goods supplied by Shanghai this year is very rich, and the citizens are happy, and Gupeng City is much inferior, but there are more than usual, which is exciting enough, and there are laughter and laughter everywhere.

Chinese New Year's Eve returned home from work at noon, He Jianguo was not there, Qi Shufang put down a box of fruit cakes bought in Shanghai, drank saliva and slowly breathed, counted the New Year goods that He Jianguo snapped up when he was not at home, and the three additional pieces of pork, two ribs, two old hens, three fat ducks, three old geese, and three pieces of mutton weighing about two pounds were frozen in the ice cubes of the ashtank.

There is no fish, no peanuts, no sesame oil, no sesame paste, no fried melon seeds, Qi Shufang looked at her family's non-staple food book, the supply of the two of them is less than half a catty of melon seeds, and there is also a catty of white sugar and a catty of assorted sugar.

Hey!

It is written in the non-staple food book that each person will be supplied with one cabbage, two green onions, one piece of ginger, one or two star anise, one or two peppercorns, two taels of soybean oil, two catties of white flour, ten eggs, a chicken or a duck, and a goose, and only one catty of mutton per person.

Qi Shufang's mind didn't turn for a while, she couldn't figure it out, she put it down for the time being, and turned to look at the briquette stove that had been moved to the hall. He Jianguo knew that she was off work today, and there was a steel pot sitting on the briquette stove, and the slightest aroma came out of it, which was very attractive.

She stepped forward and lifted the lid of the pot, and the rich aroma penetrated directly into her nostrils.

There is an old hen stewed in the pot, there is a thick layer of oil flowers floating on the surface of the chicken soup, there are only ginger slices and green onions in the soup, no other condiments are added, take a spoon and scoop a little soup to taste, and there is no salt yet.

Qi Shufang pulled off the door cover, poured some salt into the pot, boiled and put it in a large bowl.

This old hen is very fat and strong, but the stew is very bad, as soon as the chopsticks are poked, the flesh and bones are separated in an instant, Qi Shufang ate half of the chicken, soaked the pancakes and small pickles, drank a big bowl of soup, the whole body was hot, and the cold along the way was all expelled.

The rest of the soup and meat are reserved for tomorrow, and today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and dumplings should be eaten.

Thinking of dumplings, Qi Shufang opened the cabinet and looked, sure enough, there were two pots of dumplings wrapped by He Jianguo, arranged neatly one by one, white and fat, like a small ingot.

Drinking chicken soup and eating chicken is already full, so let's eat dumplings with He Jianguo at night.

Last year, I spent the Spring Festival alone, and this year I am no longer lonely.

It is not enough to eat dumplings at night, although in order to be thrifty can not prepare a very rich Chinese New Year's Eve meal, but Qi Shufang is unwilling to grieve herself, neatly cut a piece of lamb stewed radish, made an oily braised pork, stewed a carp marinated in an ashtray and not dried, and fried a plate of sour and hot cabbage.

There are many dishes, but the portions are not much, Qi Shufang is very measured.

When He Jianguo returned home, his face was warm, and his heart melted with warmth, "Shufang, we celebrate the New Year together every year, and we will no longer let you stay at home alone for the Chinese New Year's Eve like before." ”

"If you don't celebrate the New Year with me, who will you spend it with? In the past, a person was excusable, I didn't complain about you, we have to go forward and see. Qi Shufang glanced at him, and pointed to the half-pot dumplings that were served, "There are a lot of dishes fried tonight, so there will be fewer dumplings." The water in the pot is added, just waiting for you to come back and boil the dumplings!"

"You rest, I'll go down. ”

The number of dumplings is not much, and there is not much water in the pot, so the dumplings are quickly boiled, and after they are cooked, they are fished up, and one person is exactly one bowl.

The two of them ate a lot, and they actually ate seven, seven, eight, and eight, and there was only half a fish left.

Qi Shufang burped, touched her stomach and watched He Jianguo clean up the dishes and chopsticks, remembered the doubts in her heart, and asked, "Why did our family buy so many year-old goods?" ”

He Jianguo explained: "What do you say? The supply of every household is the same, and the types of non-staple food supplied by the workers are a little more, but the supply of poultry, meat, eggs, rice, flour, grain and oil for ordinary residents is no different from ours. I didn't exchange it with people I didn't know, I exchanged it with Zhang's tailor's family and Yun's family, and I also sent them some sweet potatoes, cabbage, and ginger, and they were very happy. ”

"Oh, I said. Look at me, my brain is stupid, I didn't expect this. ”

Zhang's tailor family and the Yun family's income is low, and the Yun family is still in debt, and they only bought a little bit of the New Year's goods supplied during the Spring Festival, which is enough for the New Year, so He Jianguo can easily exchange a lot of supply quotas.

He Jianguo smiled: "You have to eat some good supplements now." ”

Qi Shufang glanced at him obliquely, "My wife is not sure, are you so sure that I am one person to eat and two people to make up?"

"If my wife wasn't sure, she wouldn't have opened this mouth to make us happy. "He Jianguo knows Granny Jin's skills very well, and he has just checked, the things brought by Qi Shufang's box are useless, counting on his fingers, it has been six days, if he could determine three or four points originally, he can now determine at least eight points, after all, Qi Shufang's body has always been very good.

Qi Shufang snorted softly, her face was a little red, and she was very happy in her heart.

This is the child who pins all their hopes on it, and can it not be happy to think that he is most likely already in the belly?

He Jianguo helped her to take a walk in the yard to eat, and the action was cautious.

"Don't be like that, I'm not that delicate. He Jianguo was like this, Qi Shufang, who had always been very strong, felt a little uncomfortable, and quickly asked if there was anything going on at home when she was not at home.

Hearing her ask, He Jianguo remembered.

"Didn't you catch wild boars this year and share meat for everyone? The previous ten years were not as good as this year. So after the eldest brother discussed with others, the production brigade will not kill pigs at the end of the year, and those pigs will be handed over to the state before the New Year as the task of the new year, and there will be poultry that every household should hand over, and the commune will definitely give our production brigade a great credit, anyway, it will be a new year after New Year's Day. ”

"How much do you pay for mission poultry?"

"According to the household, the large household pays three, the medium household pays two, and the small household pays one, regardless of male and female, regardless of chickens and ducks. "Where does the poultry meat and eggs supplied during the Spring Festival come from in the towns? It comes from the farmers, and the state has always encouraged the raising of poultry.

Qi Shufang clapped her hands: "I knew that I wouldn't accept the chickens and ducks of my second sister-in-law's house, how good is it to keep it and hand over the task?"

"It's okay, since the second sister-in-law gave it, she knew it. I saw it, the eldest brother and the second brother's family raised a lot of chickens, ducks and geese this year, not counting the chickens and ducks you gave, enough for them to hand in the task for the New Year, and the eldest brother also handed over a task chicken for his father. ”

"That's good. ”

He Jianguo said: "On Sunday, I got up in the middle of the night to queue up to buy it, went back to my hometown in the morning, pulled a cart of firewood and came back to keep it for the New Year, and sent some white noodles and boiled lard and chopped pork stuffing to our father and teachers. Originally, I wanted to invite my father into the city to celebrate the New Year with us, but our family's food was better after all, but my father didn't agree. ”

"It should. "Since my family has bought more New Year's goods, there is no need to be stingy with the elderly.

"There are high-priced goods in the department store, no tickets, I don't see that our family is short of things, so I didn't buy them, the price has doubled several times than usual, it's not worth it. The new cotton cloth supplied is good, I used all the cloth tickets we saved, pulled a few feet, and rushed Ming'er to make small clothes and quilts for the children, but unfortunately there were no cotton tickets. However, when the time comes, with the birth certificate, you can get a few taels of cotton tickets from the unit. ”

"What are those taels of cotton tickets enough for? Don't we still have more than two catties of silk cotton left? Use that to make clothes and quilts for children, it's not enough to go to Shanghai to buy it, it's better than cotton. ”

Qi Shufang had a plan.

The Helou brigade has many mountains, suitable for planting peanuts and sweet potatoes and cotton, the cotton harvest of those acres planted this year is good, each person can share half a catty of cotton, plus a cloth ticket of three feet six for one person, a large household gets together, and one or two bodies of cotton jackets and cotton pants come out, but only mothers and newborn babies in the city can receive a total of three or four taels of cotton with birth certificates and birth certificates.

"I think it's okay, our first child has to prepare everything and ask for a new one. When the weather is warm in spring next year, I will ask our father to raise more chickens and leave them for you to eat during confinement. It would be nice if I could buy black chicken cubs, black chickens replenish blood, and pigeons are also good, I want to find a way. ”

Qi Shufang smiled and said, "You're thinking too long. ”

"Don't fight unprepared battles. ”

Listening to him read a leader's quotation, Qi Shufang smiled, "Is there anything else going on at home?"

He Jianguo thought for a while, "It's gone." Oh, yes, it's that Sister Ye's family asked me the day before yesterday to borrow ten yuan, and their family's money is not enough to buy New Year's goods, and they will pay us back when they pay their wages next month. ”

When it comes to money, before going to bed, Qi Shufang can't help but take stock of all the family's savings.

Because she didn't save money for hunting privately, the family's savings were transparent.

Dividends received nearly four hundred, seventy to the two old men, and more than three hundred and twenty remained. This month, the two received a salary of about 100 yuan, plus more than 30 yuan left over from buying a sewing machine, a total of more than 130 yuan, lent 10 yuan to Ye Cuicui, bought grain at the beginning of the month, bought New Year's goods during the Spring Festival, poultry meat and eggs are not cheap, counting the cost of cotton cloth, Lin Lin spent more than 40 yuan, and Qi Shufang spent a little more in Shanghai.

After this calculation, the inventory was completed, and there were four hundred and two dollars and eight cents left in the house.

"It's all your credit. He Jianguo said with a smile, not feeling aggrieved that he was not as capable as his wife.

Qi Shufang took out one hundred and two yuan, eight cents and four cents, and the remaining three hundred yuan was stuffed into He Jianguo's hand, "I've thought about it, except for antiques, our family doesn't need to buy anything for the time being, it's okay not to buy new clothes for a year and a half, and you have to pay your salary every month in the future, so the three hundred yuan will be deposited in the bank." ”

"Good!"

Their clothes for all seasons are indeed complete, and there are new clothes that have not been made, and the next morning, Qi Shufang took it out, both of them were wearing brand-new silk cotton clothes and pants, covered with new clothes, and used the half pot of chicken soup and half chicken left over at noon yesterday to make a pot of noodles, and one person beat two poached eggs.

New Year's greetings on the first day of the new year were originally a custom, but because it was an old custom, it was broken and no one came to the door.

Come to the door, how embarrassed is it to eat other people's melon seeds and candy cubes?

Qi Shufang prepared a New Year's gift for He Jianguo, a Venus brand fountain pen bought in Shanghai.

Venus in the south and heroes in the north.

Venus brand fountain pen and hero brand fountain pen are the two major brands of this era, which are popular all over the country.

Maybe it is really a heart, He Jianguo also prepared a gift for Qi Shufang, like Qi Shufang, not like many young men and women nowadays sending each other red treasure books, but a very beautiful jade brooch, at first glance, it is the Republic of China period, platinum bottom support, jade inlaid into winged phoenixes, although old, the luster is there.

Qi Shufang held it in her hand and played with it for a moment, then sighed: "It's different from a fountain pen, this can't be worn out." ”

He Jianguo could directly pin the pen to the pocket of her jacket, she couldn't pin the brooch to her chest.

It's a pity.

She could only lock the brooch with the jewelry He Jianguo had collected for her.

He Jianguo went out to work, Qi Shufang was bored alone, she was tired of eating radish and cabbage, and suddenly wanted to eat small green vegetables, so she walked around the courtyard and found a broken sand pot left by Teacher Lin, shoveled some soil under the moon flowers and put it in the pot, loosened the soil, watered it, sprinkled the seeds of small green vegetables, and then moved into a warmer kitchen and put it in the corner.

One pot was not enough, so she found another unused wooden pot, painted a scoop according to the gourd, filled it with soil, planted about 20 garlic cloves, and moved it to the kitchen, hoping that after a while she could eat scrambled eggs with garlic sprouts instead of scrambled eggs with garlic yolk.

The cellar can be very useful, not only to store radishes, cabbage, sweet potatoes, but also to grow garlic and leeks.

The food at home is very sufficient, the New Year's goods are very rich, and the air-dried game made in autumn and winter is still full of beams after being sent to Mu Xuexun, Granny Qi, Niu Hao and others.

Except for the leaders of the country, there are few ordinary people who are better off than them!

Her children will not starve or freeze.

Qi Shufang looked down at her flat lower abdomen and thought happily.

This pleasure was soon interrupted by the knocker at the door, and the postman's loud voice sounded outside the door: "Comrade Qi Shufang, Comrade Qi Shufang, are you at home?

Unlike going to the post office in the countryside to pick it up, the city basically delivers it to your door.

Sending off the postman, Qi Shufang went back to the house to open the letter, which was sent by Mu Xuexun, full of lively and agile paper, first complained that Qi Shufang didn't go to Shanghai to play with her, and then said that she received the game sent by Qi Shufang, everyone liked to eat it, and finally sent some New Year's goods to Qi Shufang, all of which were special products sent to Shanghai by her relatives from all over the world.

New Year's goods?

Qi Shufang was very greedy now, and opened the package with bright eyes, and a lot of thin-skinned walnuts rolled out of the bones, in addition to pine nuts, hazelnuts, preserved fruits, poria sandwich cakes, halva, Liubiju pickles, milk tofu, yak beef jerky, cut cakes, red dates, dried cantaloupe, raisins, two listening to Lekoufu, and a large bag of milk candy.

It's so rich!

Qi Shufang peeled a pine nut and ate it immediately, it was fried, fragrant and delicious.

Most of them are relatively nutritious food, Qi Shufang ate a handful of pine nuts, put everything in the cupboard, and decided to keep it for herself at first, but then thought about it, it is better to keep some of it and take it back to her hometown!

Eating alone at noon, Qi Shufang was eating melon seeds and reading a book after the meal, so leisurely.

He Jianguo came back to accompany her in the evening until she went to work again.

Now, they can basically confirm the fact that Qi Shufang is pregnant, in order to make sure that it is not their own speculation, when Qi Shufang rests again, He Jianguo will accompany her to the hospital for examination, and there are also doctors on duty on weekends.

The hospital is a combination of Chinese and Western, there are Western medicine and Chinese medicine, after all, the country does not have so many Western medical talents.

They looked for a Chinese medicine practitioner and concluded that they had been pregnant for a month and a half.

The big stone in the couple's hearts was put down, and they couldn't help but smirk, He Jianguo helped his wife out of the hospital, if it weren't for the fact that it would take three months to ensure stability, he couldn't wait to tell the world that he was going to be a father now. He is twenty-seven years old, and at his age, children can go to soy sauce.