This time, only Cheng Zheng went to pick it up, and Jian Lu waited at home.

The mother-in-law should arrive in H City at noon, when Cheng Zheng will take his mother to the state-run hotel for a meal, and then take a boat back to the island in the afternoon.

Jian Lu was at home by herself, boiling a pot of crucian carp porridge, the fish was stewed until soft, and the porridge with white flowers was fragrant.

The porridge was boiled, put on the table to dissipate heat, and waited for the two to come back to eat.

"Lulu!" At around 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Jian Lu heard a familiar voice, and her mother-in-law raised her voice as she stood at the gate of the courtyard.

When she came to her son's house again, Aunt Wang was surprised and delighted, firstly for her grandchildren who were about to be born, and secondly for this small single building.

The small building stands in the depths of the family courtyard, although it has to walk in for a long time, but it looks good, and there are a few trees planted next to it.

The hanging loofahs and eggplants bear quite good fruit, although they are not as big as those in the fields, but they are still important in their own small yards.

"It's almost ready to eat!" Aunt Wang stepped forward to take a look, and took a look at the loofah, and the growth was gratifying.

"Yes, I'm waiting for you to come and go." Cheng Zheng was still empty-handed, carrying the burden brought by his old mother, "Mom, come into the house, Lulu is waiting for you at home." ”

"Hey!" Aunt Wang walked in small steps, and before the person arrived, the voice arrived first, "Lulu, let Mom take a look!" ”

I haven't seen her for more than half a year, and the daughter-in-law who is pregnant has obviously changed a lot, the whole person is plump, and there is some flesh on her face, but her arms are still thinner than those of other pregnant women, and there is also some flesh on her legs, which is not obvious.

"Mom, come and rest." Jian Lu found that her mother-in-law had not changed, but the smile on her face was brighter.

"Lulu, why hasn't this grown much, haven't you eaten well?" Aunt Wang was worried that her daughter-in-law was not raised well, "Stone, how do you take care of your daughter-in-law?" ”

Cheng Zheng put the burden aside, turned his head to pour water for his mother, and avenged himself by the way, "Mom, Lulu has been struggling to eat for a long time." ”

"Yes, Mom, I didn't have a good appetite in the first three months, and I ate a lot later, which is already a lot of fatter, don't worry, the doctors said that I and the baby are quite healthy."

"That's fine, the doctor said we'll rest assured."

Aunt Wang and her daughter-in-law sat facing each other and looked at her belly, "This belly is still big, it seems that it has been raised, but I don't know if it will be good when the time comes." Lulu, my mother is from the past, and she usually walks around a lot, and when she is born, she is also smooth. ”

"There was walking, and we went for a walk every day after dinner." Cheng Zheng put the enamel cup on the table, "Mom, drink water." ”

"By the way, are you ready for the baby? I've brought a lot of them with me this time. Aunt Wang couldn't wait to open the baggage she brought, there was everything in it, as if she had moved, "This is the clothes I have made for the baby in the past few months, and this cloth is prepared by your second brother and sister, and it is comfortable to touch." In addition, when the time comes, we will have to check the things when we give birth. ”

Aunt Wang gave birth to three, and she also saw and gave birth to children in her hometown, helped her, had rich experience, and chattered endlessly, and heard that Cheng Zheng was tired for her mother.

"Mom, don't you rest for a while, you're not tired after taking the train for so long?"

"That's right, Mom, the crucian carp porridge I cooked, you can eat after a while."

Aunt Wang waved her hand, full of energy, "Tired, tired, this is not a big deal, the porridge is good, I brought pickles over, and I just drank it." ”

Speaking of eating, Aunt Wang immediately thought of the loofah and eggplant outside, the eggplant estimate has to wait a little longer, the loofah looks like a few are quite big, "Just fry a loofah tonight, I see that the dish you planted is quite good." ”

"Okay." Jian Lu was preparing to eat for the first time in the past few days, and then thought that her mother-in-law was coming, so she simply waited for someone to come together, "Mom, our vegetables are okay, right?" And it looks good, this yard doesn't look bare. ”

"Yes good ! But you're pregnant, don't worry about it, let the stone do everything. ”

Cheng Zheng was named and immediately took a stand, "Mom, I'm conscious." ”

"Yes, I was very conscious, and I was determined not to let me do it." Jian Lu also helped with the declaration.

That night, the family of three ate fresh vegetables, the freshest of which was a freshly picked loofah.

About a palm-long loofah peeled and sliced, fried a white oil loofah, and served with pickled pickles and dried beans brought by Aunt Wang, and drank it with crucian carp porridge, refreshing and relieving fever.

Jian Lu ate a lot of loofahs, and the vegetables she grew were delicious, she looked at Cheng Zheng, a little proud, "Look, is it better to grow the vegetables at home, I think it is better than the vegetable station to sell." ”

Cheng Zheng chewed a few times and savored it, "Is there one?" It's delicious, but I don't feel the same. ”

"Lulu, don't pay attention to him, this person just gives him anything to eat, and he can't eat anything else." Aunt Wang and her daughter-in-law felt the same, "How can what you grow be the same as what you buy outside?" That's definitely different. ”

"That's it!" Jian Lu glanced at Cheng Zheng and stood on the united front with her mother-in-law.

After eating, Aunt Wang ignored the obstruction of her son and daughter-in-law, and went to the kitchen to wash the dishes and wipe the table.

"Oops, tsk, that's amazing." Aunt Wang looked at one place and let out a sigh of emotion, this small building is really good, the kitchen is quite spacious, much larger than the kitchen of the family courtyard in the New Year, the toilet is also clean, the second floor is better, you can actually see the sea, and then look at the room that her son cleaned up for himself, spacious and bright, really good.

"This quilt is good in color and bright." Aunt Wang touched the futon and praised it.

Jian Lu narrowed her eyes with a smile, "Mom, I chose it!" ”

looked at Cheng Zheng again, as if he was saying what he said last time, his mother must like this colored futon.

Cheng Zheng naturally remembered, yes, this daughter-in-law really knows her mother-in-law very well.

He only replied with his eyes, both admiration and affirmation.

"It's okay for anything, it's just that you have to go up and down the stairs, Lulu had better not climb the stairs, you have to be careful."

"We all moved downstairs to sleep, and it was easy not to let her go upstairs."

"That's fine."

After the meal, the family of three went for a walk again, and Aunt Wang went to the neighbor's house of her son and daughter-in-law, and also went to Feng Xiuhui and Cui Yuhe's house to sit.

Everyone is an old acquaintance, and it is very lively to talk.

Leaving from Feng Xiuhui's house, Aunt Wang saw that there seemed to be a flourishing scene in the courtyard next door, and a trace of green leaves appeared.

"Lulu, your neighbor also grows vegetables?"

"Yes, planted turnips." Jian Lu remembered the sentence, "Radish has a meeting." ”

"That's good, you'll be able to eat the food differently." Aunt Wang is a pity, what a good courtyard, it is more spacious than her own land, why don't other families grow vegetables?

What a pity!

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On the first night of her son's new home, Aunt Wang had a good night's sleep, and not long after she fell asleep, she had a dream that her daughter-in-law had given birth to a big fat boy. When it was almost dawn, she dreamed in a daze, and this time she dreamed that her daughter-in-law gave birth to a fat girl, which woke her up beautifully.

He gave birth to three sons, all of whom were leather boys, and all of them had a place where they were not worried, and the second child had a daughter, but it was not enough, and it would be nice if the old family had another daughter.

When she got up the next day, Aunt Wang was still muttering while eating breakfast.

"Do you say that the dream in the first half of the night is the opposite or the dream in the second half of the night is the opposite?"

"It's the middle of the night." Jian Lu thought for a moment.

Cheng Zheng felt that something was wrong, and with his vague memory, when he was a child, it was like the second half of the night.

"I don't remember exactly." Aunt Wang automatically ignored the dream she had in the middle of the night and told her about the dream this morning, which felt so real that she could even vaguely remember the general appearance of her newborn granddaughter, "Chubby, and her hair is quite good!" That's prettier than any kid on our team. ”

Cheng Zheng felt that his mother was really confused when she was old, "Mom, you are better than anyone else, you can dream of what the child looks like in advance?" ”

"Don't believe me, dream, it's useful, it's what you want. Forget it, no matter, just assume that it's true in the middle of the night. ”

After having breakfast, Cheng Zheng went to the army as usual, leaving only his mother and daughter-in-law at home.

In the past, when I went to the army by myself, and there was only my daughter-in-law at home, the two sisters-in-law next door often came to talk with them, and the three of them would choose vegetables and make wool together, and the two would take care of the daughter-in-law.

"Mom, Lulu, I'm leaving."

"Okay, you go quickly, don't delay your work." Aunt Wang drove people out.

In the morning, the sun was not too big, so the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law simply moved chairs to sit in the yard to bask in the sun, talk, and knit sweaters by the way.

"Mom, can you see if I can weave? I'm going to knit one for Brother Cheng. Jian Lu has been bored at home recently, so she has to find something to do for herself, so she simply learned to knit sweaters with Feng Xiuhui and the others.

Since the 70s, this has been more and more skillful.

"It's very good to weave." Aunt Wang is also weaving, ready to give her son and daughter-in-law a piece, "The stone is big, in the past, I thought my son was taller, but now, every time I make clothes for him, I find that this person costs fabric, look at him, knitting a sweater for him will cost a piece of wool." ”

Jian Luwaner, "That's not it, I'll take Brother Cheng's practice now, and I'll knit for you and the child when I'm proficient in the future." ”

"I don't want it, I have two sweaters at home, you can wear them yourself." Aunt Wang remembered something, and asked her daughter-in-law mysteriously, "By the way, have you contacted your parents in the past few months?" ”

"I asked the third sister to share some of the food I sent back a while ago." Jian Lu also understands that in this society, she still has to behave, and from time to time she asks the third sister to bring some things home.

"Do they know you're pregnant with a baby?"

"I know, my third sister told them." Last month, Jian Xin's letter mentioned that Jian Hualin and his wife learned that Jian Lu was pregnant, but they didn't say much, only asked her to fight to give birth to a big fat boy.

This child is pregnant, who can decide whether to have a boy or a girl?

"Anyway, my parents don't care too much, and now they are guarding their son every day."

Aunt Wang sneered, remembering the incident that happened in Jian Hualin's family in front of her, and couldn't help but say, "Do you know about your father and his son?" ”

Jian Lu heard the unusualness in her mother-in-law's words, and pricked up her ears, "What's the matter?" ”

"Didn't your father recognize the fifth child of the He family as his son, and changed his surname, at first I was so happy that I met him in the field, and when I saw his face, I was about to laugh, and then the fifth child of the He family was unwilling to work in the field to earn a share of work, so we said, how can this be raised by a son, not by an ancestor? Your dad is still happy, so he willing. ”

Jian Lu remembered this, and when her mother-in-law came over last time, she said, "Did something happen again recently?" Anyway, I saw that the third sister had said a few words in the letter, and she said that the fifth elder of the He family was not very old and very fine, but she didn't say anything specifically. ”

Aunt Wang slapped her thigh and felt that this word was right, "It's a personal essence!" Last month, your mother found out that the chickens in the house were gone, and your family didn't have three chickens, and one was missing at once, and your father went door to door to look for it, and asked the captain to come out to catch the chicken thief, saying that someone in the team had stolen chickens and dogs, and had stolen your chickens. ”

Jian Lu seemed to have guessed the ending, "Did the fifth child of the He family steal it?" ”

"That's it!" Aunt Wang said with a dry mouth, poured warm water and continued, "He killed the chicken himself and roasted it and ate it, and before he had time to throw the chicken bones, he wrapped them in old cloth and hid them under the bed." Or Wu Laozhuan next door to your house can't stand your father's suspicion of him, saying that your family has wronged people by himself, and he wants to search the house. As a result, the two families searched each other, but Jian Hualin did not find anything in Wu Laozhuan's house, but Wu Laozhuan found chicken bones in the house of the fifth child of the He family. ”

"Isn't my dad going to be angry?"

Although Jian Lu had only lived in the Jian family for a short period of time, she knew in her heart that Jian Hualin was a very good-looking person, not to mention that she had scolded her for several days, and was finally found out that her son had eaten chicken, which was too panicked.

"I looked, it was all red, and I don't know what was going on. Anyway, I don't think your father did anything like the fifth child of the He family, but he was the one who had a black face for half a month. ”

Jian Lu wanted to laugh when she heard this, it is really a wicked person who has his own evil man, "My father just wants a son, now it's good, he has a son, and the result is not a worry-free one." ”

"That's not it, I've never seen this kind of thing, I'm more concerned about my step-son than my daughter, and I don't know what your father thinks."

Jian Lu didn't understand either, she really wanted to have a son from outside, and it didn't matter if she was biological or not.

According to the temperament of the fifth child of the He family, there will be a headache for Jian Hualin in the future.

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Since Aunt Wang came to the house, Cheng Zheng and Jian Lu's food has been completely contracted, and Aunt Wang generally does not let Cheng Zheng come back from the canteen, and nothing is as fragrant as the food she cooks.

Aunt Wang is like a fish in water in the kitchen of her new home, catching the loofah and eggplant planted in the yard, the two vegetables are gradually maturing, although the amount is not too much, or some to give to the neighbors, not too valuable things, Wang Auntie carried a few loofahs and eggplants to Feng Xiuhui and Cui Yuhe's house, but also was stuffed with half a bag of peach crisp and chicken cakes.

When they arrived at Political Commissar Wei's house, they collected a few vegetables and returned half a bag of white radishes and carrots, and proudly introduced, "We have grown them ourselves, so you can also taste them." ”

Political Commissar Wei has planted vegetables in his own house, but he is not allowed to show them everywhere, not only to improve the relationship between the neighbors, but also to make a good fuss about it by the way.

Immediately sent vegetables everywhere, and loofahs, eggplants, and white radishes and carrots were popular in the family yard.

Cheng Zheng went home in the evening and looked at the three dishes on the dinner table for the fifth day in a row, including fried loofah, steamed eggplant, and beef soup with white radish.

"Mom, we've been eating these dishes for five days in a row." It's not that he's a picky eater, but he can't change the dish and come in turns.