Raising Babies in the 70s

by Usui Takumii

not mine, wordrain69. Also at ao3.

6. 101 to 120

In the afternoon, the island was very quiet, and few people came out for a stroll. Walking on the road, the long sea breeze blew the hair on people's heads. The coconut leaves on the top of the head had turned yellow, like beautiful banana leaves. The shadows of the two fell on the ground, sticking to the ground together.

Qin Rou looked at the shadow on the ground and thought that it was not the shadow of two, but of four people.

Qin Rou looked at the man beside her with a smile and said, "Do you feel like when it's just before the rain, with a commotion among the little animals, two hard-working little ants would come home with the unexpected snacks?" After getting pregnant, her mind was really full of all kinds of childish thoughts.

Lu Yan smiled. It was really hard for him as a tall tall man to huddle under the leaves to share shade with her. Lu Yan picked up the woman beside him and let her sit on his arm.

Qin Rou exclaimed. She was no stranger to that posture, and hugged Lu Yan's neck with a smile, "Don't mess around, Comrade Ant, be careful or you will drop your wife."

"Put me down."

Qin Rou was now pregnant. Although she was a little plumper than before, she still had thin arms and legs. Lu Yan hugged her easily, but he did not dare to let her fall. Lu Yan put her down, and using the coconut leaves, he secretly kissed his wife on the cheek.

"It's really sticky," Qin Rou glanced at him with anger. Being outside like this, even if the two of them were married, it would be a hooligan act. But there were no outsiders anyway. Who would see them under the coconut leaves?

Qin Rou pulled his arm, obviously to kiss him, so Chief Lu decisively bent down and bowed his head to let her kiss him.

"Let's go home for the New Year."

The husband and wife returned to the family's courtyard with coconut leaves on their heads. As soon as they entered the door, they received a strange look from the guards patrolling, but Qin Rou thought to herself that she was a person who had been a kindergarten teacher, and didn't care much.

The guards were sacred and inviolable.

Qin Rou said New Year's greetings to them, and went home quickly with Chief Lu, so as not to be ashamed outside.

Who knew that when they arrived at the door of their house, they found that Zhang Chengbei, who was celebrating the Chinese New Year next door, was still tidying up his yard, and he was really persistent.

Qin Rou and Lu Yan: "…"

Zhang Chengbei who met the couple carrying the leaves: "…"

This couple was really… living a colorful life.

"The leaves from your coconut tree?"

Qin Rou: "…"

Lu Yan calmly said, "I climbed the tree to pick it."

Qin Rou: "?!"

Zhang Chengbei: "..Next time, help me pick one too."

After returning to their yard, Qin Rou and his wife hurried to wash their hair and take a bath. At the new year, they had to wash their whole body carefully and put on new clothes for the New Year.

Qin Rou's long hair was not easy to dry after washing. The couple sat under the thatched umbrella in the yard, Qin Rou had a dry towel around her shoulders, and Lu Yan took another dry towel to help her wipe her hair.

Lu Yan liked this job very much, and Qin Rou allowed him. Her long black hair was not cut short, and her soft and thin hair fell on her shoulders.

The black hair was scattered, which made the originally small face more fair and delicate, like the freshly picked lychee on the island.

Qin Rou half-squinted her eyes and looked at her yard. There were other things in the yard. She made several handmade iron flower pots out of old coconut shells, and planted hanging orchids and unknown mountain wildflowers.

The old coconut shells were really useful. Qin Rou had saved a lot. Now that the childrens of their sisters were there, she with the parents and children made handicrafts, piggy bank, and several lamps carved from coconut shells.

Coconut shells could also be made into jack-o-lanterns, hollowed-out dots, stars… Coconuts could be carved into many shapes.

There were no red lanterns for the Chinese New Year that night, so Qin Rou planned to use a few coconut lanterns burning coconut oil in the yard, saving money and making it beautiful.

The flowers and vegetables planted in the yard grew back and forth, and the ones that were harvested were filled with new ones in time. Qin Rou planted tree roses and hydrangeas in the corners. After a while, the hydrangeas would bloom.

Qin Rou yawned and got a little sleepy. She found a harmonica, Lu Yan wiped her hair, and she played the harmonica to teach the children in her womb.

From time to time, she would say a few words to the father of the childrens to deepen the parent-child relationship.

"Sleepy?"

"Sleep when your hair gets dry. I'll wake you when after I make the dumplings."

Lao Lu, sitting on the balcony on the second floor, raised his hand to cover his eyes, feeling that it was not because the sun was too hot that day, but something else was piercing his eyes.

He turned around and said to his wife Jiang Ping, "I asked you to name our daughter Lu Aiping, but you didn't want to."

This name was more showy.

Before Jiang Ping could say anything, Lu Sanjie said first, "Thank you mother."

Jiang Ping: "…"

Lu Zongyi rested his chin in his hand and thought, 'I have to call Xiao Zai and ask him to come to visit his brother. What a great taste his brothers had for a wife. He has to get the kid married as he was the only old bachelor in the whole family.'

Lu Yan: "How about I get more kids?"

Lu Zongyi: "?!"

Jiang Ping: "?!"

This was the child who didn't want to marry back then? !

In the evening, a dozen people huddled together to make dumplings, some made steamed buns, some washed vegetables.

The fathers and sons also wrote Spring Festival couplets together.

Hanging the Spring Festival couplets, cutting the window sticker, the children had a lot of fun. Before the New Year's Eve dinner, Qin Rou, Chen Jinghua, Chen Juanjuan, Chen Jingyi and Xia Mingxi, the two childrens, posted the window grilles together, and went to the yard.

Coconut lamps were placed in the yard, it was like the stars. Although there were no fireworks and firecrackers, these little lights could add a bit of the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year.

Sister Huang next door said that although she couldn't set off fireworks, they would shoot cannons during the New Year and festivals. She told her some things in advance, so that she would not be scared at night.

Qin Rou also gave her two beautiful coconut lamps.

The New Year's Eve dinner was eaten in the evening, and the dinner with more than a dozen people was extraordinarily rich. Every family had a rare good life on that day. It was just that the "Second Senior Brothers" [m. Pigs] were killed.

Pigs were being killed everywhere.

At New Year, pigs were killed in the army, in farms, in major communes, and even in schools… Children who were hungry for meat happily waited for the meat.

At that time, everyone didn't like lean meat, but wanted fatty ones. The fatty meat they bought had turned into oil, and the remaining lard (oil residue) was a snack that children liked.

In the past, Qin Rou never liked to eat oil residue. She thought it was too greasy. Maybe she was short of oil now, so she was really greedy for lard.

Her mother-in-law chopped up these lard and said that she was going to make lard cakes. Qin Rou suggested brushing a layer of bean paste, sprinkle it with chopped green onion, and the final fried cakes would be super delicious.

Qin Rou's sister, Qin Mian, made various fish balls, crab balls and shrimp balls and put them in the freezer before the 30th of the year. Again, no children could resist the temptation of balls.

The boiled soup hot pot was scalded into all kinds of beautiful small balls, and the taste was extraordinarily delicious.

Qin Mian skillfully made the meatballs in many styles, round, triangular, square, and dumpling-shaped. When making the meatballs, they also added side dishes such as radish and corn, so there were so many. The meatballs looked different, and when they floated in the tumbling broth, they kept stirring up the gluttons in the stomachs of the childrens.

"It's my sister who came up with this."

"It's really amazing! This soup has become so fragrant!"

Could it be delicious? So many seafood balls were gathered together.

Qin Rou fished balls for the little ones one by one, not to mention that Chen Juanjuan and Chen Jinghua wanted a big bowl.

Xia Mingxi, this little fatty, was already staring at the meatballs, and Qin Rou also served him a big bowl.

While eating meatballs, he also went to rob others.

Xiao Mingxi's mother was too lazy to care about him, as she was enjoying herself and eating too much. She who had eaten too much felt like she had gone to heaven.

Qin Rou was cooking frozen tofu for herself. She had made a lot of frozen tofu before, and the frozen tofu in the hot pot was super delicious. The taste was extremely delicious.

Qin Rou fished out her frozen tofu, while Lu Yan came to his wife with a bowl of freshly cooked dumplings and took one to feed her.

Qin Rou ate it, and found that she had bitten a copper coin.

Qin Rou: "?"

Lu Yan looked at her tenderly with a smile on his face, "Congratulations, you got the only copper coin, the king of luck."

"You'll have good luck in the coming year."

Qin Rou: "…"

Chief Lu was suspected of cheating.

He just picked one with the copper coin and gave it to her.

But it didn't matter, even if her husband cheated, she was the lucky king that year.

Qin Rou smiled and fed him a piece of frozen tofu. Although it was not too cold this winter, it was exciting to eat hot pot.

"There are a lot of people celebrating the New Year today, I like it very much."

"Two more kids are going to be here next year."

Lu Sanjie didn't have much vacation, and she would return to the team in two days, so Xia Mingxi was left to take care of his grandma and grandpa.

"Little aunt, little aunt! Bye mom!"

The third sister of the Lu family was reluctant to leave.

There was also a small episode, that was… Lao Wang and Lu Sanjie almost had a blind date.

Chief Lu, who heard the news, almost spat out a sip of hot tea.

—I consider you my buddy, and you want to be my brother-in-law?

Lu Sanjie was three years older than Wang Yuanzheng!

"He still wants to be my nephew's stepfather? This is too messy."

Which Goddess actually linked Lao Wang and his sister together?

"I'll invite Lao Wang to come to our house for a gathering, why hasn't he found someone yet? I'm going to be the father of two children…" Chief Lu wiped his hands with a towel, and casually said a sarcastic remark, "Look, is it so difficult to find a partner?"

Qin Rou, who was passing by, pinched his handsome face.

Why are you so proud? Do you remember how rotten you were in the first place? Army officer.

"Blind cat meets dead mouse."

She was so stupid back then.

Thinking back on her fate with Lu Yan, if she wasn't stupid, and if the man didn't do what he did, it would be difficult for them both to get together.

Lu Yan grabbed her wrist with a smile, secretly kissed his wife on the cheek, and whistled triumphantly, "It's clear that this is a blitzkrieg, one hit would kill you."

Qin Rou snickered, thinking that she just took a gamble, but the bicycle turned into a motorcycle.

"Carry me upstairs, I don't want to walk."

Pregnant women could be so willful.

Lu Yan was at home. Her sister and her husband have already gone back. Her father-in-law and mother-in-law had also gone back to take care of their own yard. Her father-in-law also said that he wanted to make a beautiful yard for Zhang Chengbei next door to see.

Old Lu rubbed his hands together and decided to have a big fight. He actually liked those sunflowers, and hydrangeas very much, and decided to have a whole beautiful yard.

"I want the whole yard to be seen by that man surnamed Zhang!"

Jiang Ping still wanted to grow vegetables seriously.

The two children, Chen Jingyi and Xia Mingxi, stayed in their yard to play temporarily, happily serving as chicken guards. Recently, several hens had laid eggs in the morning, and they would happily pick up eggs to eat every day.

Qin Rou also promised to help take care of Huahua's yard. Of course, her yard actually had nothing to take care of, which was very worry-free.

Both Xia Mingxi and Xiao Jingyi wore hats on their heads. They should have cut their hair some time ago. In order to prevent them from getting a cold, the adults put hats on them.

Little Fatty held down his hat and shouted, "The first day of the month they shave my head. I can't let them shave my hair!"

Lu Yan grabbed the kid's fat face.

"Who said that?"

"Grandpa said that."

…

Wang Yuanzheng came to Lu Yan's house as a guest again. He didn't expect that he would be able to meet Lu Yan's sister on a blind date before. Of course, it was because he heard that she was Lu Yan's sister, so he said he wanted to see her.

He was very curious about what Lu Yan's sister looked like.

After meeting, of course, they didn't meet each other again.

Wang Yuanzheng sighed, why was it so difficult to find someone to marry? Every time he reached the point of dating, as soon as he said that he wanted to get married, they backed off.

How did Lu Yan succeed in getting it done? He even married such a beautiful wife.

Even if both conditions were not good at the moment, the marriage still needed to be negotiated. It depended on the families of both parties, they must be satisfied with each other, and being military dependent, one party had to undertake more tasks of taking care of the family…

Just like Lu Yan did, when he met the girl, he submitted a marriage application report, and the other party agreed directly. It was said that the two of them didn't even talk much…

As for the other dowry gifts, there was no need for it.

Wang Yuanzheng: "…" How did they become a couple?

At first, he thought that Lu Yan was absolutely dazed by the beauty, but more than half a year had passed. But the husband and wife were still happy together.

If it was just a new marriage at the beginning, what about this time?

Did Lu Yan really have a unique way of getting along?

Wang Yuanzheng came to the colony again. Standing at the gate of the colony, he looked at the guards at the door with a sad face. Every time he felt that he was going to move in there, he was only one step away.

There was no need to talk about the previous ones, but later Xiao Xie and Xiao Huang also backed off. Would he really be a bachelor all the time?

There were places which were facing drought, and even places that were flooded to death, making it seem like God sometimes played with people. He was serious about looking for a wife but was still not married. Comrade Lu, who wasn't in a hurry, had already lived the life of husband and dad.

When Wang Yuanzheng walked to the gate of the house, he was almost stunned, because he found that a few months later, the yard in front of him was far from the yard in his impression.

The deserted yard with a few seedlings changed into a beautiful yard full of fruits and flowers.

Wang Yuanzheng hesitated.

"Lao Wang, come in!" Lu Yan came out of the room holding a bamboo basket in his hand, and started picking some square beans from the yard. Lu Yan liked to eat them, so Qin Rou planted a lot more.

Now that Qin Rou was pregnant, Lu Yan couldn't bear to let her overwork, so he would help take care of the yard whenever he came back.

"What do you want to eat, be careful when picking. Don't get hurt by the vine," Lu Yan handed him a basket.

Wang Yuanzheng looked at him up and down. This fellow was not wearing a neat and capable military uniform, just trousers and a white shirt. The shirt was unbuttoned, revealing a large chest muscle.

It was a very homely outfit.

Sure enough, after being married for a long time, people change. He was no longer the saucy bag he was when he was just married.

Wang Yuanzheng: "…"

He himself was not married yet, but Chief Lu was living the life of an old married husband.

What happened to the world?

Obviously the previous year, this guy didn't want to go for blind dates. In the face of everyone's dissuasion, he said, "Marriage? What's the point of marriage?"

"I'm not getting married."

"I'm not interested in listening to sucky talks."

"Do you have time to date?"

…

Wang Yuanzheng once again sighed.

"Where's my sister-in-law?"

"Resting in the house."

After entering the house, Wang Yuanzheng found that the house had changed a lot. Was this the change after marriage? When Lu Yan and the two first came, he came as a guest, and the house was furnished in a very simple way, but now it was full of warmth.

The table was covered with tablecloths, the bamboo tubes were filled with fresh flowers, and even on the cabinets, there were several cute animals carved out of coconut shells, and there were many photos of the couple on the walls.

Wang Yuanzheng: "…"

"Wife, Lao Wang is here!"

Qin Rou had been pregnant for almost four months. Because she had twins, she was already showing. Although her arms and legs weren't flabby, her belly was obvious.

Of course, wearing loose clothes, outsiders may not be able to see it, but she was walking downstairs now, a little more cautiously and slowly than before.

Lu Yan went to help her, "My wife is pregnant with twins."

Wang Yuanzheng: "…"

There was no need to ask, he already knew what kind of happy life Comrade Lu Yan had lived in the past few months.

He would be the father of two children. His wife was pregnant with twins!

After a few more months, he could hold his babies.

Wang Yuanzheng said with a jealous gaze, "Do you still have the face to go back to Bincheng?"

"Do you remember what you said when you started your training last year?"

Chief Lu was very calm, "Why can't I have the face to go back? I still want to go back to talk and spend more time with old friends."

Wang Yuanzheng: "…"

Yes, it was him who had no face to go back.

The man already had a wife and children.

There was also a beautiful vegetable garden.

His wife was cooking the family's meals, and he was still in the chilli sauce and cooking class.

"Last year, my wife and I spent the first year in the colony, and it's not bad here…"

"Don't talk about it. Besides, I want to be your brother-in-law."

Wang Yuanzheng thought calmly, in fact, being Lu Yan's brother-in-law was quite comfortable.

Otherwise, his heart would be turned –

Lu Yan: "You must hurry up and find someone seriously."

It was better for him to give up this unrealistic ambition. This man actually wanted to be his brother-in-law?

"It's just that you're looking for a partner in such a non serious way, that's why you can't get married."

Wang Yuanzheng retorted, "I'm more serious than you in finding a partner."

He was indeed more serious than Comrade Lu Yan, and he considered it very carefully every time. Thoughtful, but every time there were some irreconcilable contradictions, which was strange.

"You got married as soon as you saw a suitable girl."

"I like everything about my wife."

Wang Yuanzheng: "You are blinded by love. "

"Is it possible that one will marry someone they don't like?"

Wang Yuanzheng was speechless.

After coming out of the house, Wang Yuanzheng pondered, would he find someone to look at in the future?

Wang Yuanzheng looked back at the yard, and said that it was impossible not to be envious. He really wanted to have such a yard, and he also wanted to grow vegetables and flowers in it. It was best to have a wife who he also liked.

Wang Yuanzheng sighed, took a few steps forward, and noticed the yard of another house, where Mr. Zhang was still struggling.

His efforts had paid off, at least two or three flowers had really bloomed, but one was in the east and one in the west, it looked a bit…weird.

Wang Yuanzheng couldn't help but talk to him before, and asked him how he got married back then.

Logically speaking, the previous year Zhang Chengbei was still very willing to boast about his wife, but now, he felt that the flowers he planted were more worth talking about.

He boasted, "I'm going to pick this flower and give it to my wife."

He really showed off to Wang Yuanzheng.

"You must have liked your wife very much before you got married."

"That is—"

"Did you take care of this yard youself?"

Wang Yuanzheng was silent for a while, and then said, "Your wife must have married you out of love."

Zhang Chengbei: "?!" What's the matter with you?

Sister Huahua and Political Commissar Liu returned from their hometown with their child.

Qin Rou originally wanted to hear the story of "returning rich and noble to the hometown, walking in brocade clothes at night to impress the old family", but who knew that after Li Qinghua came back, she shook her hand full of frostbite and said that she would never go back in winter in the future.

"I froze to death this year."

She didn't know if it was because she had stayed in Qiongzhou Island for a few years and had become accustomed to the climate there. As a result, when she suddenly returned that year, there was a cold wind and a blizzard. Li Qinghua on the way, was frozen into a stupid dog.

On the way back, she had a cold with her son.

Li Qinghua put on the shabby cotton-padded jacket from a few years ago, wrapped in the military coat of Political Commissar Liu, and shrank back in the cold, thinking of spinning countless times along the way.

—She was really out of her mind that she chose to go back in winter.

After finally getting to her hometown, Li Qinghua just wanted to stay still on the kang (hot bed). No matter how her mother-in-law asked her, she didn't move. It was so cold that she was freezing to death.

Li Qinghua stayed in the house all day long and didn't want to go out. Who would go out and gossip with people?

However, many sisters in the village heard that she was back and ran into the house to see her.

Li Qinghua chatted with them with a snot on her face, and said that she was in Qiongzhou Island and that she had become a driver.

She coughed and had a runny nose while talking.

Although she received a lot of envious eyes, she did not feel happy at all.

–It was too cold.

Her son, Liu Yue, was looking forward to watching the snow, and the child followed his father outside to play.

Li Qinghua was looking forward to returning to the island.

"It's too cold."

Even though she was back on the island now, Li Qinghua still subconsciously put her hands in her pockets.

Even her son's hands were tucked into the sleeves.

Qin Rou: "…"

It seemed that Huahua had a very cold new year.

"My mother-in-law also misunderstood that I'm pregnant, haha…"

"Xiao Qin, I brought you something, and it's not worth much. Come and try it, it's from my hometown."

" I really liked this pickled cabbage when I was pregnant, so you should try it too."

Li Qinghua went back and brought a lot of things from her hometown and gave some to Qin Rou, including the specially made pickled cabbage from their hometown. There were black fungus and wild mushrooms.

Qin Rou gave her a lot of frozen meatballs in return, as well as the soup that she cooked, and also picked a lot of vegetables from her own yard for her. It might be called a hot pot gift for Sister Huahua.

"Okay, we won't eat in the cafeteria today, I will cook it for the child when we go back."

After Sister-in-Law Huahua returned, Qin Rou was really tempted by the jar of pickled cabbage. She liked sour cabbage as she was pregnant, and even had a little craving for pickled cabbage and pork.

But she didn't have the conditions to eat pork right now.

Qin Rou swallowed her saliva and decided to eat sauerkraut and prawn ball noodles. It was not difficult to cook sauerkraut noodles. With fresh prawns, the taste of cooking… That sour taste was really strong!

Because the smell was so strong that it would not dissipate in the house, Qin Rou ate it outside, and the sour smell was overflowing.

When the children came back, they were also attracted by the smell. Maybe people who ate it thought it was fragrant, but when outsiders smelled it, it really had a strong smell.

Qin Rou cooked two more bowls of sauerkraut and prawn ball noodles for the children.

Huang Xinying had been smelling the sauerkraut noodle smell coming from the house next door. She stood on the terrace and looked around, thinking that this little tea spirit stopped drinking tea after she became pregnant and started to eat strange things.

But after smelling it, she still wanted to try it.

So she went to the next door to ask for some, and Qin Rou generously gave her some.

Huang Xinying decided to cook this noodle in the evening. She liked sauerkraut very much.

Not long after Zhang Chengbei returned home, he immediately fled, "I can't go home anymore."

"Wife, did you stink up a pot of conch?"

"Well, throw it away for me."

"I wanted to hide it, but I couldn't hide the smell."

Zhang Chengbei: "…" Now his wife seemed to be getting a little lazy, it's really scary.

Captain Zhang fled to the next door. He found that the next door also smelled like that. As soon as he turned his head, he met Lu Yan who came back. He sincerely said to Chief Lu, "Xiao Lu, after some time in marriage, women would become lazy. I came home today and met a pot of stinky conch, and you would too."

Chief Lu: "I don't like eating conch…"

"Same."

After visiting relatives after the year, they exchanged things with each other. There had been many strange twists and turns, and new family members had moved in, including Head Chief Lin's wife, Zhou Menglan.

Zhou Menglan was a nurse. That year, she followed the army to the island. Once she arrived on the island, she felt uncomfortable. Originally, her mother-in-law was going to come with her. Who knew that before she left, her mother-in-law wanted to force her to have a second child. She was unwilling to come to help with the child if she did not give birth.

Zhou Menglan didn't raise the child at first. Her mother-in-law raised the child.

In fact, she just couldn't stand it, as her mother-in-law was sloppy. But she couldn't argue, as she didn't want to quarrel with her at home.

Her mother-in-law's way of taking care of the child was unbearable for her, a medical and nursing student, but she had no choice. She still had to go to work, so she could only give the child to her mother-in-law.

Now that she was on the island, when she heard that the woman wouldn't come, Zhou Menglan was overjoyed. No way would she give birth to a second child for her. After giving birth, would she let her raise it? Impossible.

However, there was no one to take the four-year-old child, which was indeed a problem. Fortunately, there was a kindergarten there. She heard that it was good, so Zhou Menglan planned to send the child to kindergarten.

She had wanted to send her child to kindergarten for a long time, but her mother-in-law didn't agree. Now that her mother-in-law was gone, she could finally send him.

However, the child was raised by her mother-in-law, so he did not want to go to kindergarten. As soon as she said he would go to the kindergarten, he cried like a pig that was killed at the door of the family's courtyard.

This four-year-old brat, Lin Yaoyang, had a really loud voice. It was okay to cry, but he was still crying while hugging the guard's thigh. When the young soldier stood still, he hugged his thigh and didn't let go.

He was also very smart, knowing that instead of hugging his own mother, he would hug someone else's thigh.

"Woo… I won't go in, I don't want to…"

"Uncle! Help! They're going to sell me…"

"Woo, ah, oh…" Lin Yaoyang's face was full of tears and snots, which made a lot of watermarks on the man's military pants.

Brother Bing: "…"

Zhou Menglan: "…"

"Don't cry."

Zhou Menglan's scalp was numb. She was really embarrassed, but she seldom looked after the child before, and she didn't know how to coax him. At a loss, she could only look at Brother Bing with anticipation.

Brother Bing: "…"

"Let go, let go, don't hold my leg."

"Wooo, wooo!"

"Uncle help!"

At that moment, Qin Rou also came in time to send the two childrens to kindergarten. Chen Jingyi had been going to that kindergarten, and Xia Mingxi was recently sent to kindergarten.

Qin Rou noticed the child crying while hugging the soldier's thigh, and knew he didn't want to go to kindergarten.

Zhou Menglan also turned her head to see Qin Rou. She couldn't help but look at Qin Rou more. First, she thought that this young girl was too beautiful. Second, as a nurse, she could naturally see that Qin Rou was pregnant for some months. She then looked down at the two little boys beside Qin Rou.

The two little boys wore green hats and looked extremely cute. One of them was chubby, and the other had big black eyes. They were both handsome and cute.

Zhou Menglan's gaze stopped on Qin Rou's stomach, and then she looked at the two children, and she immediately showed a stunned look. This woman was amazing. She was so beautiful, and could raise three kids.

She smiled a little embarrassedly, "My child doesn't want to go to kindergarten."

Little Fatty replied first, "Is there anyone who doesn't want to go to kindergarten?"

Qin Rou: "…"

"Have you ever played eagle catching chickens?"

"Ouch, ooh, I like being an eagle the most."

…

Little Fatty's words were like a laser gun, babbling, and the mother and son were stunned for a while, and even Lin Yaoyang (son) couldn't care about hugging someone's thigh.

He let go.

The soldier who finally escaped the claws stopped being a sculpture, and then happily changed with a newcomer, "It's time to change shift."

The job was not good in the colony, and they would meet many strange children.

"Are you going to kindergarten?" Lin Yaoyang couldn't believe it. His grandmother said that there were old witches who ate people in the kindergarten. The old witch thought about how to eat children every day. The old witch also raised snakes in the school, hissing…

"I'm going to see Teacher Guagua." Xia Mingxi said very seriously, "I like kindergarten the most!"

Because there were so many people in kindergarten, the little fatty liked the lively place. He liked to make small playmates of the same age, and he had good friends in a lot of places.

"Honghong said he will bring Huihui to show me."

Lin Yaoyang asked curiously, "Who is Huihui?"

Little Fatty was about to speak, but Chen Jingyi next to him had a sullen face and tugged at the little fat man, his voice was small and cute, "Let's go!"

"Go to kindergarten."

"Let's go!"

Chen Jingyi was very happy to see Xixi recently. Gradually, he got used to this little fat kid who talked a lot, and liked to talk to him.

But he didn't talk much to other children.

So after Xixi came back, Chen Jingyi didn't like going to kindergarten very much. Once he went to the kindergarten, Xixi would talk to every child, but he still liked to chat with him the most.

Even at school, he babbled with other children on the road, which was really annoying.

If that new kid didn't want to go to kindergarten, he didn't need to.

Chen Jingyi dragged the little fat child forward and didn't want him to talk to Lin Yaoyang.

Chen Jingyi was much thinner than Xia Mingxi. He had small arms and calves, so he couldn't pull the sturdy fatty, so he was pulling on his hands and saying, "Let's go, move!"

Unlike Xia Mingxi's loud voice, Chen Jingyi rarely spoke. When speaking, the sound was tender and cute, a bit like the voices of the cute characters in cartoons.

Qin Rou: "!" Wow!

Qin Rou was almost stunned by the scene in front of her. She didn't expect her little nephew Chen Jingyi to be so active.

In the past, he always ignored Xia Mingxi's love. Xia Mingxi said a lot to him, but Chen Jingyi just answered in a dull tone, but now Xiao Jingyi actually took the initiative to pull him away, not letting him communicate with other kids.

Was he jealous? Why did it seem like a shura field?

"Jingyi!" Little Fatty who was dragged was flattered. Although he was nervous, he found that since the reunion, Chen Jingyi was a lot more enthusiastic toward him.

In the past, Chen Jingyi didn't say a word for a long time, but now he could say two words to him. He would happily call him "Xixi", and he would also shout "Xixi eat" when he was eating.

Little Fatty hugged Chen Jingyi with his backhand. He didn't want to care about the wildflower (Lin Yaoyang) on the roadside. Wildflowers had no fragrance at home. The little fat child hugged Chen Jingyi happily and cheered, "Let's go to kindergarten."

"Let's go!"

The little kids with cute green hats huddled together and looked very friendly. Qin Rou dressed them in similar small clothes and schoolbags, and the two childrens were about to leave happily.

The wildflowers on the side of the road could help them to get closer.

Lin Yaoyang: "?!"

Zhou Menglan: "?!"

The mother and son were a little confused.

Lin Yaoyang said to his mother, "Mom, I'm going to kindergarten too!"

The atmosphere was contagious. Two friends of the same age were cheering to go to kindergarten, so he must go to see it.

Zhou Menglan: "…"

"Then go."

Zhou Menglan breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what, at least her child agreed to go to kindergarten, which was a good start.

Zhou Menglan looked at Qin Rou with a very grateful look.

If she hadn't met this powerful colony member, she wouldn't be able to deal with her troublesome son.

Qin Rou: "…"

Qin Rou couldn't help touching her bulging belly.

It was originally a two-person place, but now there was one more. The three children went to kindergarten together. Lin Yaoyang still wanted to talk to Little Fatty, but Chen Jingyi pulled him aside and said that he wanted to talk to Xixi about painting. Little Fatty looked confused but flattered.

Qin Rou: "…"

Suddenly, Qin Rou regretted not being a kindergarten teacher, otherwise she could see the children's shura field.

After sending the three childrens away, Zhou Menglan took her great savior Qin Rou to speak, and praised her, "You raised the children well."

"You misunderstood. My children haven't been born yet, those were my two little nephews."

Zhou Menglan was stunned, "Is that so?"

It turned out that the colony member hadn't given birth to a child yet, "No wonder, I was thinking you look so young."

Qin Rou chatted with her for a while, and came to know that the other party was Head Chief Lin's wife, and her husband was Lu Yan. So both of them were a little surprised that they were acquaintances.

"It turns out that you are Lao Lu's wife! I really didn't see it."

"My Lao Lin told me so much about your Lao Lu."

Lao Lu?

Qin Rou had heard about Head Chief Lin a lot before, the officer of the Xiaojun Army, and now listening to his wife, the Head Chief Lin's status in her heart had been upgraded.

So she couldn't help but talk to Zhou Menglan.

"My Lao Lu said yesterday that he was going to visit Lao Lin's ship…"

"My Lao Lin often said that he should learn from Lao Lu…"

"Xiao Qin, how old are you? "

"I'm almost twenty."

"You're so young!"

Zhou Menglan never thought that Chief Lu's wife would be so young and beautiful.

Chen Jingyi and Xia Mingxi were followed by two little tails after school. Lin Yaoyang and Liu Yue went to the Lu house. Now Qin Rou was alone at home, and she did not reject these children. Qin Mian's eldest daughter Chen Juanjuan and eldest son Chen Jinghua also came to play at their aunt's house.

Zhang Yichao, the six-year-old son of Zhang Chengbei next door, also slipped in.

There were patrols and guards in the family's courtyard, as well as a health team on duty. Generally, parents were not worried about their children getting lost.

Qin Rou counted these two, three, four… seven children on one branch.

There were not many others in the colony, but a lot of children to a family were born in those times. Family planning was only advocated the previous year, and it was only advocacy, not mandatory.

Regarding the requirements of the cadres there, it was also recommended to control births, not to have consecutive pregnancies and babies, and it was best to space a few years between two births.

Chen Juanjuan was the oldest and the only girl. Girls were generally more obedient and precocious than boys. Qin Rou asked Juanjuan and Jinghua to help take care of the children.

With so many childrens gathered for a meeting, they were almost catching up to the number in a small kindergarten.

There was a small lawn in the yard of Qin Rou's house. These little childrens said they wanted to get together. Chen Juanjuan said that she wanted to find someone to jump rope with, but the group of little boys didn't want to jump rope.

Qin Rou asked Chen Juanjuan to take the childrens to pick a few baskets of small tomatoes for the children to eat, and also dug out a bag of dried jackfruit. She went to cook a pot of sweet-scented osmanthus pumpkin balls, and gave these childrens one bowl of meal each.

The sweet-scented osmanthus was given by Head Chief Lin before, and the dried jackfruit was sun-dried from the jackfruit that Huahua gave her.

The little ones ate and played.

"My little aunt's cooking is delicious!"

"My little aunt is so beautiful!"

"It's my little aunt!"

…

When the little guys got together, as long as there was delicious food, the rainbow farts (boasts) in their mouths were always continuous.

After eating, they continued to play.

Qin Rou drank warm goat milk and watched the few childrens play at home. It was like returning to the kindergarten.

"Who would be the father and who would be the mother?"

Because there was only one girl, Chen Juanjuan, so they all looked at her when they were choosing a mother, but Chen Juanjuan said, "I don't want to be a mother, I want to be a school teacher."

Zhang Yichao, the child of Zhang's family, was very active as a father, and Liu Yue of Liu's family was very active. He raised his hand and said that he wanted to be a mother.

"I want to be a father!"

"I want to be a mother!"

Qin Rou: "…"

Xiao Jingyi, Xia Mingxi and Lin Yaoyang could only be childrens. Chen Jinghua said that he wanted to be a doctor.

Lin Yaoyang: "Who will be the grandma?"

Xia Mingxi suggested, "Little aunt will be the grandma!"

Qin Rou: "Okay, I'll be the grandma."

Her husband was promoted to Lao Lu, and she was upgraded to Grandma Qin.

Xia Mingxi immediately looked at Qin Rou and said, "Grandma, I'm hungry!"

Qin Rou said, "…" You're too much into the play.

Father Zhang Yichao coughed very deeply, "Tell your mother to cook quickly."

He patted his "little wife" Liu Yue, "Wife, hurry up and cook."

Liu Yue was very puzzled, "Why do I still have to cook when I'm the mother?"

"I don't want to cook, let's go to the cafeteria to eat. After I finish eating, I want to sleep first."

"Grandma can cook!"

Qin Rou calmly touched her stomach, "I am sick and can't cook, so who should cook now?" Xia Mingxi said with concern, "Grandma is sick. She must go to the hospital first!"

After Chen Jinghua checked Grandma Qin, he said, "You have to be hospitalised!"

… …

Qin Rou worked hard to play the "Bedridden Grandma's role".

Maybe the children had a little talent for acting, and they were all very involved in their roles, especially Zhang Yichao and Liu Yue, husband and wife.

"Wife, go and help me do the laundry."

"Old Zhang, do it yourself, don't wear it if you don't want to wash it."

The couple fought continually.

Lin Yaoyang: "If my brother isn't playing with me, he would probably be taking care of my younger brother."

Chen Jingyi: "He is not your own brother."

Little Fatty: "Why not my own brother?"

"Why doesn't the child look like me?"

Liu Yue: "How do I know?"

"Didn't you give birth to him?"

…

Qin Rou felt that she couldn't continue listening. What kind of strange prenatal education was this?!

Children's family play should not be so complicated.

"Okay, okay, you are a harmonious family, don't fight. Dad Zhang and Mama Liu should take good care of the childrens."

"Brothers should also love each other."

"Let's make dumplings together and prepare a hearty dinner. "

A group of childrens were playing in the yard, and they were actually quite capable of babbling things. Fortunately, Qin Rou had two little nephews, and Little Fatty was extraordinarily responsible, "Don't pick my little aunt's flowers indiscriminately. Only my uncle could pick them."

Qin Rou: "…" It seemed that the child observed carefully and focused on his uncle.

After playing for a long time, Chen Jingyi also talked more and emphasised, "We are the chicken guard team and we raised the leek."

Xiao Jingyi's memory was quite good.

Zhang Yichao was very generous, "Let's go to my yard to play!"

Huang Xinying opened the yard door to the children. They picked a few flowers in the yard, and Qin Rou also picked some beans and sunflowers for them.

At night, when Zhang Chengbei came back to see his yard, only to find his only seedlings were gone, his mentality completely collapsed.

He threw the flower seeds in the yard and planned to quit later.

"I don't care anymore!"

Zhang Chengbei filled up the previous pits and decided to give; the seeds that were bought were also scattered randomly in the corners.

He admitted his failure.

After Huang Xinying heard that he would never plant anything in the yard again, she decided to celebrate at home that day, "Yichao, let's have a good meal at night!"

"Okay, do you want dad to cook?"

Huang Xinying: "?"

Zhang Yichao: "My wife said that she wants me to cook."

Huang Xinying: "Who is your wife? "

"Liu Yue!"

Zhang Chengbei: "…What are you talking about?"

Huang Xinying: "He played with other children today. He became the father, and Liu Yue became the mother."

Zhang Chengbei: "…" It's outrageous, it's outrageous!

After the children dispersed, everything was calm. Lu Yan didn't come back at night. Qin Rou was lying on the bed, holding the album and looking at the photos of her man. That day's family play had quite an impact on her.

Little Fatty and Lu Yan were uncle and nephew. Little Fatty was a social freak and a good friend. Was it not in the gene?

Qin Rou thought that Lu Yan's popularity was also quite good.

She touched her belly, thinking about the possibility of the two of them combining to give birth to two sea king Pipi shrimps with natural social thorns.

Qin Rou: "…"

This idea was really messed up.

Qin Rou advised herself not to think about these strange things, in case it really might affect the babies in the womb. The babies in the womb were three to four months old. Their hearing system had been initially formed, and they could perceive the surrounding environment, movement and stillness. Prenatal education must be done well.

—It was even more necessary to create a harmonious family atmosphere.

It was estimated that things during the day had affected her, or that the pregnant woman had some sleep problems. Qin Rou had a dream at night. She dreamed that she and the boy version of Lu Yan were in a large courtyard playing with other children. In the house yard, Lu Yan played the father, she played the mother, and both mother and father worked hard, and then she gave birth to two Pippi shrimps.

They were really Pipi shrimps.

Their children were Pipi shrimps.

Dreaming of that, Qin Rou woke up with fright. What a strange dream it was.

At the same time, she was a little jealous. When she saw the children in the compound playing together, she thought it was normal for children their age to have a childhood sweetheart. She suddenly started to imagine Lu Yan playing as a father with his childhood sweetheart.

After the jealousy was gone, Qin Rou also felt that she was quite inexplicable. Some people did get jealous of their partner's ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend. She, a cautious person, even got jealous wondering whether her husband played family with others when he was a child.

When Qin Mian came to pick up the child, Qin Rou asked about something that happened to Chen Jingyi. Qin Mian then recalled that some days ago, some people around them spread gossip.

"They are saying that Jingyi is not like the Chen family, so they suspect the child is not his…" Sister Qin Mian was also a beauty, and beautiful people always attracted the attention of many men. At that time, when the Chen family was in trouble, some long-tongued women made rumors.

"Sister, in the future, let brother-in-law come to take Jingyi to let them get along more. They are biological father and son."

Qin Mian was stunned, "Do men look after children too?"

"Of course men also have to look after the children!" Qin Rou thought to herself that the communication between parents and children must be improved.

"But he can't take care of the child."

"Nobody knows everything at birth. Sister, look, Juanjuan can help take care of the children at such a young age, why can't my brother-in-law?"

"You are Jingyi's father and mother. You should give him more verbal recognition and encouragement. Tell him that he is your child and you like him very much and care about him," Qin Rou wanted to give the child enough sense of safety.

The parent-child interaction in childhood would affect the child's formation of an attachment relationship. They should give him a loving response to make him trust his parents, believe in love, and establish a secure parent-child attachment relationship, rather than avoidant and anxious.

"He's been a lot more lively recently."

Qin Rou told her sister how Jingyi and Xia Mingxi went to kindergarten and met Lin Yaoyang, which made her sister laugh.

"Okay, I'll let his father accompany him more when I go back."

Head Chief Lin hadn't returned to the hospital for a few days. Before he went back, he received a call from his mother. She asked whether his wife Zhou Menglan had agreed to give birth to the second child. She was ready to go to the island.

Head Chief Lin thought that he and Zhou Menglan had jobs, and had no experience in taking care of children. In the past, his mother had been complaining to him that Zhou Menglan did not take care of children at home, and so now she probably couldn't stand her son Lin Yaoyang.

It didn't matter whether Head Chief Lin had a second child or not. He didn't have to look after the child anyway. For a man, when a child was born, they would be raised by a woman in the family, so he didn't have to worry about anything.

At most, it was to persuade him to prevent his wife from quarrelling with her. Head Chief Lin also had a headache when he thought that his mother would come to the island with him.

Headache like the seasickness he had before.

Head Chief Lin walked into the door of his yard and pushed the door into the house. It was estimated that Zhou Menglan and his son were both at home.

Originally, Head Chief Lin thought that when he returned home, he would hear his son Lin Yaoyang crying for his grandma again, but he never thought that Zhou Menglan would take the child to make dumplings.

"Mom, shall we grow flowers in the yard?"

"Okay."

…

When Zhou Menglan saw Head Chief Lin, the smile on her face didn't disappear at all. Zhou Menglan thought that since her days in the colony were so happy, she should have joined the army earlier.

Her mother-in-law wasn't around and there was a very good kindergarten. Now the child was taken care of during the day, and she personally took care of him at night. The relationship between mother and son was much closer than before.

Head Chief Lin: "…This?"

"Dad, you're back," Lin Yaoyang was very happy to see his father and called him out.

"I'm making dumplings with my mother!"

Lin Yaoyang was very excited at this time. He suddenly discovered the benefits of the colony. There were many children to play with.

Although his grandmother was kind to him, he preferred to play with children of the same age.

Head Chief Lin: "…Do you want his grandmother to come over?"

"No need." Zhou Menglan smiled, "It's convenient for the child to go to kindergarten now. He had a good time in kindergarten. It is very convenient and worry-free for the child to go to the kindergarten, and it won't delay our work."

"It will be like this in the future."

Head Chief Lin was stunned: "…It'll be like this in the future?"

"Well, don't let your mother come over." After a few seconds, Head Chief Lin also came back to his senses, "That's fine, so let's not trouble the old."

"That's right."

Head Chief Lin thought that it would be good for his mother not to come, then the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law would not quarrel.

Zhou Menglan was in a particularly good mood at this time, "The sisters in the colony are all very good. I met Lao Lu's wife."

"Just the wife of Chief Lu, Lu Yan."

"His wife is really young, only nineteen or twenty years old. How could he marry such a young wife?"

"It's all thanks to Lao Lu's wife."

"Next time, let's invite Lao Lu and his wife to our house for dinner."

…

Head Chief Lin was confused by his wife Zhou Menglan's series of words.

Lao Lu? Lao Lu's wife? Lu Yan?!

Didn't she just talk about the child and his grandma? How did it involve Lao Lu's wife?

Also please Lao Lu? Lu Yan? Call over for dinner?

Head Chief Lin: "…"

Something wasn't right, Head Chief Lin suddenly realised something.

He did mention Lu Yan to his wife several times before, because he was really good at doing things, and he had completed his tasks very beautifully. Head Chief Lin was a little unconvinced at first, but later he felt that this young man was really good.

He did learn a lot from him, but— in order to take into account his own respect, Head Chief Lin always called him Lao Lu, saying that he was experienced, like a good old man… Even if his wife misunderstood Lu Yan as being older than him, he didn't explain much.

Cough, after all, Zhou Menglan wasn't there before, how could she know how old Lu Yan was?

Head Chief Lin had said a few words before, saying that Comrade Lu, who did not care about his family and devoted himself to his work, only got married the previous year.

Head Chief Lin: "…"

His wife met Lao Lu's wife already?

People shouldn't lie casually. He didn't expect his wife to agree to join the army. Now…

Head Chief Lin covered his face. What he said at the beginning was like water that was poured out, and he couldn't take it back.

"When are you going to invite Lao Lu to have a meal at home? I think his family is fine."

"…Well, let's talk about it later, Lao Lu, Comrade Lu Yan, he's been very busy recently."

"His wife is pregnant, so he has to come back and look after her. His wife, Xiao Qin, is so beautiful. This Lao Lu must be very good at work. Otherwise, how could he marry such a beautiful girl?"

"Xiao Qin is also working hard. She also takes care of her two nephews. Fortunately, these two nephews are very sensible. She raised the children well. If I hadn't met her, I really wouldn't know how to look after the child."

"Now our child is playing with that family's children. The kindergarten here is close, it's really convenient."

"You must tell Lao Lu that since he married such a beautiful wife, he must love her and take care of her. When you have a family, you should care more about your wife."

"To be honest, I admire Xiao Qin. Her man doesn't come home very often, and she takes care of the family so well. I should learn from her."

As Zhou Menglan thought more, she admired Qin Rou. As for Lao Lu that Head Chief Lin mentioned, she thought that this beautiful Xiao Qin must be living a very difficult life in the past. How could she marry a man so much older than her if it wasn't for that?

Head Chief Lin's scalp was numb, "…Let's talk about that later, I've been busy lately."

"You men, when you're busy, you don't care about your family."

Zhou Menglan still planned to invite Lao Lu's family to come to their house for dinner. The next evening, she saw a young and handsome male officer walking in the colony's courtyard with Xiao Qin. They seemed to be planning to go to the beach.

The man was wearing a white military uniform, and his facial features were exceptionally handsome. The sword eyebrows and star eyes under the white hat looked like they were plated with a layer of golden light under the evening light, which made him even more handsome.

His arms were protecting the woman beside him, the woman's belly was bulging, and the long black hair was pulled back, revealing a face as rich and colourful as an oil painting.

Her eyes looked extraordinarily beautiful in the setting sun.

As a woman, Zhou Menglan couldn't help but look at the handsome little brother in military uniform on weekdays, but at that moment, Zhou Menglan's eyes couldn't help falling on that pretty woman.

She really looked so gorgeous and charming, even a woman couldn't help but appreciate that kind of beauty.

Although she didn't necessarily like the look, she thought it was beautiful.

It was Xiao Qin, Lao Lu's wife.

Xiao Qin was not only beautiful, but also had a good voice. It was said that she used to sing in the art troupe, but now she was an announcer and had an enviable good voice.

It was just… how could she be so intimate with the handsome man beside her?

Wasn't she Lao Lu's wife?

Zhou Menglan was stunned, but when Qin Rou saw her, she took the initiative to greet her, "Sister Zhou, this is my Lao Lu!"

Qin Rou emphasised Lao Lu.

Zhou Menglan: "?!" This is Lao Lu?!

"Your Lao Lu looks really young."

Qin Rou smiled, "He is quite young. He is in his late twenties, but he still looks like an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old young man."

There were quite a lot of young men in the base. Early every morning, she would run on hills and stand on a high point. She was very willing to go out and see a group of young men doing morning exercises.

Tsk, tsk…

But this kind of benefit was generally only enjoyed by young girls. As a married woman, it was embarrassing to watch such a thing.

Qin Rou was actually a little curious about how the soldiers were doing exercises on the beach, but she was embarrassed to watch them. When she told Lu Yan about it, he got jealous.

"I'll do it for you."

He would do it for her personally, and he implemented the word "doing" to the end.

Qin Rou: "…" I won't dare to mention it.

"He is almost thirty, then he's younger than my Lao Lin. Is he in his twenties now?" Zhou Menglan was stunned. How could he be younger than Lao Lin?

Wasn't this Comrade Lu? He didn't seem to be too old.

Lu Yan said lightly, "Twenty-six."

"This…you're so young?!" Zhou Menglan wondered whether the man in front of her was the Lao Lu that Lao Lin talked about.

It turned out that Lao Lu was so young.

Zhou Menglan: "…"

"Lao Lu, bring Xiao Qin to our house for dinner, I have to thank Xiao Qin…"

After separating from them, Zhou Menglan seriously inquired about the husband and wife. It turned out that it was her Lao Lin who spread rumors behind the scenes.

"Tsk,tsk, tsk."

Head Chief Lin was cheeky, "What did I say? I didn't say anything wrong, did I? I usually call him Lao Lu very kindly."

"If your looks were half as good as Lao Lu, let alone the second child, I would help you have a third child and a fourth child."

Head Chief Lin almost choked on a sip of tea, "You woman, what are you saying?!"

Qin Rou followed Lu Yan for a walk on the beach, and asked him if he played family with others when he was a child.

Lu Yan was at a loss, "Why do you think I will play this with people?"

"Just asking, the little childrens are playing it these days."

Qin Rou poked his belly, "If you didn't play this, then what did you play?"

Lu Yan made a pistol gesture with his right hand, "Of course it's a game between men, fighting."

"Destroy the enemy."

Qin Rou nodded, "It sounds really cool."

Lu Yan: "I never picked up the traitor card."

Qin Rou: "…"

It seemed that it was no different from playing family, but it was a crime one.

"My fourth brother always got the traitor card, and my third sister shot him seriously. She liked to shoot the traitor the most."

"And you'll be watching?"

"I'll pass the gun."

Qin Rou was a little envious of him having so many siblings. It must be very lively.

She was pregnant with twins at the moment, and when the children would be born, it didn't matter even if they were drama elites, maybe they could perform a two-person show.

It would be hilarious to watch.

Lu Yan put his arms around her waist, bowed his head and kissed her forehead. The sea behind her gently slapped on the beach, and the sea breeze became stronger at that time, blowing their clothes. Qin Rou was holding her hair that was hanging down.

"What about you? What did you like to play when you were a child?"

"Skipping rope, I have a good waist and could jump very high."

Lu Yan looked at her for a while with a smile, and commented with conviction, "Good."

Qin Rou pinched his waist, "What are you thinking of?"

"Tell me, do you think Brother Lu's body is good?"

"Not good."

"Then I have to practice harder, as I can't make my wife dislike it."

"Don't make trouble, just wait. Once the children are home, I will let you be the traitor when they play."

"I want to be a grandpa. Grandpa Lu has to guard Grandma Qin…"

Qin Rou's belly was getting bigger. Although it was less difficult than at the beginning of pregnancy, at this stage, the belly had entered a period of rapid growth like blowing a balloon, and the suddenly enlarged belly had also caused many inconveniences in life.

She also had a little edema. She soaked her feet in warm water every day. Her mother-in-law Jiang Ping, who was a doctor, would also massage her. If Lu Yan came back, he would take over the job.

He would accompany her to take a bath and trim her nails after the bath. As long as Lu Yan was by her side, he would never let her put on her own shoes. Qin Rou was used to him helping her put on shoes.

Before going to bed, he would rub her back and shoulders, massage her legs and feet, and kiss her in various ways while massaging. In the past, she always felt that kissing too frequently was too sticky, but being kissed by someone she liked could indeed increase the feeling that she was valued by him.

Just like massage, it may only relieve a little, but it was more psychological satisfaction and pleasure.

Qin Rou was quite afraid that she would become ugly when she was pregnant. For a while, she didn't dare to look in the mirror and didn't want to take pictures, but Lu Yan insisted on taking pictures of her. Well, there was nothing else she could do. Qin Rou could only face her true self.

But after she looked in the mirror, she found that she had not turned ugly. On the contrary, she was still a little radiant, maybe it was because she was in a good mood.

It may also be because she was a little pig that was well cared for.

Another reason was that the natural diet was healthy. In that era, unhealthy food wasn't around. Anyway, junk food such as fried chicken and cola was definitely out of reach, but one could eat all kinds of fresh seafood by the sea to supplement protein. Especially shrimp and fish, they were all steamed and boiled.

Lu Yan and her mother-in-law had stopped her from entering the kitchen. Lu Yan, who could only make steamed buns, would try to make casserole rice for her. Although the failure rate was high, he would give her the delicious part to eat. If it didn't taste good, then he ate it himself.

In the morning, she also drank milk with the childrens, which made her body smell of milk. Her mother-in-law would accompany her to and from work. Qin Rou was no longer arranged as an announcer, but to the light logistics.

She couldn't do a lot of things, so that she wouldn't get tired. She couldn't take care of the yard, so she could only let the yard grow freely. Lu Yan and her parents-in-law would sometimes help clean it up, but they couldn't take care of it as carefully as her before. Coupled with the "loving care" of the two little childrens, it was becoming more messy.

Qin Rou was powerless to these things, but simply kept the lettuce, beans, leeks and small tomatoes planted on the terrace. The yard outside… it wasn't in her hands.

On the contrary, the yard of the house next door got much more beautiful.

When a small green seedling appeared in the yard, Me. Zhang ignored it thinking that he would never serve the pile of unfortunate things again.

"Whoever likes to care about plants, could serve them. Anyway, I would definitely die in the middle, but it would definitely not bloom. The ghosts will take care of you. Bah, out of sight will be better."

Mr. Zhang ignored this group of unlucky things, Huang Xinying saw these small seedlings, and thought they were weeds or something else. Mr. Zhang threw too many seeds, and it was temporarily unclear what seedlings were emerging.

Huang Xinying sometimes watered them, and the couple didn't manage them very much.

Who knew that day by day, these little young plants grew thicker and denser. After entering May, countless flowers bloomed. Mr. Zhang planted all kinds of seeds in a mess, and these flowers also bloomed colourfully. Watching from a distance, the flowers were splendidly beautiful.

Many people stopped to watch and praised, "The flowers you planted are really beautiful."

Huang Xinying said calmly, "I planted them."

After all, she poured the water.

Outsiders would resolutely praise when they heard it, "Lao Zhang is so lucky! The yard that your wife takes care of is beautiful!"

At that time, Lao Zhang's face fell, "Listen, my wife is saying nonsense. I took care of this yard!"

"I worked so hard to plant it, look at the hoe, I personally turned the ground, I fertilized it myself…"

Outsiders: "…"

Lao Zhang and his wife had a fierce dispute over issue of "who actually organized the yard", and finally the domineering Lao Zhang announced to the outside world: —This Is what I planted!

"He did it!"

Huang Xinying was too lazy to argue with him. Who arranged the yard? After all, a beautiful yard was more pleasing to the eye. Now their yard was much more beautiful than before.

Zhang Chengbei rubbed his hands, and was eager to copy homework, "Let's get a thatched hut like the one next door, and sit in the yard to enjoy the flowers."

Huang Xinying said, "Don't you dislike people who live an old lifestyle?"

"You are not motivated. We will build a good thatched cottage to keep up with our peers."

"Haha, you slowly do that."

Zhang Chengbei resolutely found a few local people to build a thatched umbrella in the yard of his home, set up tables, chairs and benches, and let his wife make tea. Then he picked two flowers and placed them in the bamboo tube happily like an immortal.

Enjoying the sea breeze and drinking hot tea, Zhang Chengbei inspected the land that he had conquered.

This was life, this was living!

He warned his son Zhang Yichao, "Don't pick my flowers."

"Don't bring anyone to pick my flowers!"

"If you pick one flower, you would be fined for copying a page of difficult characters!"

"Brat, don't come to his yard."

That yard was his heart treasure.

Zhang Yichao: "…"

Huang Xinying sat in the yard enjoying the sea breeze, and brewed a pot of Phoenix Dancong tea which her little tea neighbor gave her. Only when the light tea entered her mouth, she suddenly felt her happiness.

The husband and wife sang like a serf who turned over. The family got sweet, and they even asked someone to go to Guangcheng to buy a camera and took a lot of photos in the yard.

As long as Zhang Chengbei was at home, he would stay in the yard and preach to every passerby that it was the yard that he worked so hard on.

Zhang Chengbei raised the brim of his hat, looked at the gradually desolate and cluttered yard next door, and tutted a few times.

Now he wanted to talk to Xiao Lu next door, and he wanted to send flowers to his wife in front of Xiao Lu.

"Lu Yan! Xiao Lu! Lu Yan!"

"Hey, Chief Lu!"

…

The chief of the unlucky family, Xiao Lu, ignored him. His wife was seven months pregnant. Now he only cared about her. He was always beside his wife, and even if he occasionally returned to the colony early, and his wife was still at work, he would go to the other unit to pick her up from work.

The flowers in Zhang Chengbei's hand withered.

Zhang Chengbei: "…"

It was really boring.

Forget it, the loving couple were still focussing on the prenatal education in the yard. Xiao Qin asked the father to interact with the baby in her womb. She told Lu Yan to talk to the child through her belly, and sing to the child… Of course, because the little army officer sang seriously out of tune, the job of singing for the children fell on Xiao Qin, who came out of the art troupe.

But Chief Lu had a skill, he could play the violin.

Although it was not good, at least he could pull and make a tune.

At that time, many children of other families were learning the violin, accordion, etc., especially the children of cadres and workers, because there were many publicity and literary organisations at this time, and after learning such a skill, it was easier to eat iron rice bowls ( get a government job) in one step.

The Lu family did not have any artistic cells. The young Chief Lu was the family's only hope. Of course, in the end, the only hope was also dashed.

Although the hope was dashed, the skills were still there, and it was not a problem to pull some simple nursery rhymes.

But…

Qin Rou: "…" It's really bad!

Xiao Qin wanted to grab the violin and play music for the children.

The kindergarten teacher couldn't listen anymore.

Forget it, be patient.

Although the tune was not good, it was necessary to let the father participate in the prenatal education. Such practical actions would enhance the relationship between parents and children.

At least the children were "excited" to hear their dad play the violin.

Qin Rou's belly would bulge here and there. The childrens were excited to interact with their father. Qin Rou and Lu Yan would high-five the childrens through her belly.

The childrens liked this high-five game very much, interacting with their parents across the belly.

Every time they listened to their dad playing a tune, they would move very vigorously as if very excited. It could be that the childrens thought it was too bad, or they were actually applauding.

After that month, the childrens made frequent foetal movements, and Qin Rou could clearly feel their presence all day long.

These were two particularly lively little childrens who liked to interact with their parents very much. They were already perceiving the world, they could hear the outside world, and they could also feel the existence of light.

Qin Rou was no longer worried about giving birth to two Pipi shrimps. No matter how they would be, they were her own children, right?

She just prayed for the children to make them more lively. It didn't matter if they weren't social, or sang out of tune, they should still have their father's quality.

She hoped to have two cheerful little kids.

When Lu Yan was playing the violin, her parents-in-law and nephew Xia Mingxi were very excited, because although the Lu family had no musical skills, they all had the yearning to become artists.

They were all rushing to play the violin.

"Let me try! I want to play!"

"I'll try too!"

After listening to the violin played by her parents-in-law, and Xia Mingxi, Qin Rou felt that Lu Yan's skills were good enough.

Brother Lu was the most talented violinist in the Lu family.

Father-in-law Lu Zongyi fell in love with playing the violin, as if he had found the "second spring" (second love) of old age. Fortunately, it was at the beach. He went to the beach to play the violin, so others would not blame him for disturbing the people.

Only the waves of the sea kept rushing on the reef, as if angrily declaring to him: Very bad, bad, bad…

However, the sea couldn't do anything. It could only rush to the reef in anger.

Old Lu continued to play the violin in front of the sea happily.

Although Xia Mingxi also liked to play the violin, he loved being with friends more. He also practiced music. Nothing could change his heart from becoming an artist.

Chen Jingyi was not interested in musical instruments, he preferred to draw.

The violin music of Lao Lu and Xiao Lu, father and son made Qin Rou feel subtly worried. After listening to this kind of prenatal education, she didn't know how the children would be affected.

She sang to the children every day, and also turned on the radio to listen to music to raise the children's musical taste a little bit.

"It's moving! It's moving again!"

"Did you know that your father is here?"

It was very useful to let their father participate in the prenatal education. Lu Yan also liked to interact with the children in her womb and talked to the little ones, stroking them gently.

He would also put his ears on her belly and listen to their movements. He hugged her belly like a big watermelon, and Qin Rou would also hug his head at that time, like touching a small watermelon.

If there were no outsiders around, when he heard the children's movements, she would kiss him actively, and Lu Yan would happily kiss her back.

Zhang Chengbei stood in the yard and could see the interaction between the couple next door. They were sitting under the thatched umbrella. The sea breeze was blowing slowly. Maybe the childrens were moving. Both of them were a little excited and whispered to each other.

– It's really dazzling.

Such a sweet scene.

Zhang Chengbei couldn't remember the joy of being a father for the first time. He remembered himself as happy, but he didn't seem to be as happy as Chief Lu. He only knew that in the blink of an eye, the child was born.

He never touched the child across his wife's belly, didn't listen to the child's movement, didn't touch her belly, didn't play the violin for the child, and didn't talk to him…

Zhang Chengbei: "…"

That kind of feeling was like eating the green kumquats picked by the house next door.

He took scissors and cut out the most beautiful flowers in the yard. Then he stretched his hand holding the flowers awkwardly to Huang Xinying who had just cooked dinner. Huang Xinying glanced at him unexpectedly, but didn't say anything. She found a water bottle, placed the flower in it, and put it on the dining table.

The delicious dishes were paired with fresh flowers. The petals were crystal clear, and the atmosphere was extraordinarily warm.

When his son Zhang Yichao saw the flowers on the table, he said indignantly, "Why can't I pick them but you did?"

Lao Zhang warned him not to pick flowers, but he himself picked so many.

"I have privileges."

Huang Xinying: "If you want, get one yourself."

Zhang Chengbei: "Grow it yourself if you want."

The Zhang family chatted quietly at night, and Zhang Chengbei suddenly said with some concern, "The neighbor is pregnant with twins, will they have two boys, two girls, or both?"

Zhang Chengbei sincerely hoped that it would be two boys, preferably like his son, naughty and could pull the flowers in the yard and destroy the plants in his parents' yard.

If not two boys then two daughters. He hoped it was not a girl and a boy. If the twins turned out to be a girl and a boy, they would have a perfect family and be a winner in life.

Why were they blessed with all good things?!

Huang Xinying said, "I think it's two boys. I quietly flipped through IChing (ancient Chinese divination text), and I also found a bunch of bamboo sticks for fortune-telling. It's definitely two boys."

Zhang Chengbei took a deep breath. What was wrong with her?

Did she forget that she was a teacher?

But the subject of discussion was good.

Zhang Chengbei quietly told her in the quilt, "Why don't you try to divine what we could have? What is the probability of us having a daughter?"

Huang Xinying: "…Who wants to do divine reading for you?"

Xiao Lu next door was not dazzled by Zhang Chengbei's yard, but Political Commissar Lao Liu was stimulated.

Political Commissar Liu felt that his yard could no longer be so decadent, and planned to clean it up.

Li Qinghua then said, "You have to learn from Zhang Chengbei."

"Look at how good Zhang Chengbei has made the yard now."

Political Commissar Liu: "…"

For a while, the eloquent Political Commissar Liu didn't know what to answer.

Now he was not as good as Xiao Lu, and even Zhang Chengbei?

The world was a weird place.

Once Qin Rou was seven months pregnant, the night life for both husband and wife also disappeared. At that time, Jiang Ping moved in with her and slept next door to take care of her at night. Only when Lu Yan came home did her mother-in-law leave.

Lao Lu didn't come to live with them, because he had to stay in another yard to take care of the flowers and plants.

Jiang Ping accompanied her to and from work. Sometimes she could hitch a ride for a while. Sometimes they, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law walked home slowly. Qin Rou walked for a while and rested for a while. Jiang Ping would also accompany her patiently.

Everyone in the unit knew her mother-in-law Jiang Ping.

The two of them were mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, so it was difficult not to attract attention. Qin Rou was a beautiful pregnant woman, and the mother-in-law beside her was half a head taller than her. Jiang Ping looked extraordinarily energetic. She was even more heroic when she wore a military uniform.

When the two were together, they were very eye-catching.

Of course, it was mainly because people next to her had never seen a mother-in-law accompanying her daughter-in-law to and from work.

The announcer Qin Rou in the unit married a naval officer, which made them envious indeed. The officer's salary was high and he could support his family, not to mention he was very handsome.

However, most things had advantages and disadvantages. As a colony member, Qin Rou's husband had little time to go home and couldn't take care of the family. Sometimes he went to sea for a long time before returning home, which was the bad point.

When Qin Rou was pregnant, another colleague in the same unit, Tian Yemei, was also pregnant. The two were placed in the logistics work together. Compared with Qin Rou's husband, hers was very considerate and would come to the unit whenever he had time to pick her up. He also brought her food and vegetables.

Tian Yemei often praised her husband for being so nice to her in her work unit, which made others envious.

Of course, if one showed off too much, it would be annoying, and no one wanted to know about others' personal life in detail.

Zeng Xueqing didn't particularly like to hear that.

Qin Rou's husband did not appear in the workplace very often. She also rarely talked about how her husband treated her at home, but anyone with eyes could see that she was living a happy life.

Zeng Xueqing doubted Tian Yemei's words, but envied Qin Rou.

When Tian Yemei began to talk to them about her family's affairs again, Zeng Xueqing couldn't help but say, "Whether a person is doing well or not is all reflected on the face. If you are so comfortable at home, why doesn't your face show it like Qin Rou's does?"

Others responded the same way, "It's strange, have you noticed that Xiao Qin has become a lot more beautiful."

"I also feel that she has become more beautiful, as if there is light in her eyes. Xiao Qin was beautiful before, but she is even more beautiful now. I wonder how beautiful her children will be in the future."

"She looks in a good mood every day."

"The army officer must be very kind to her at home…"

"If I could just marry someone like Chief Lu."

"Don't let Xiao Qin hear what you say, she has only one husband…"

The colleagues were laughing, but Tian Yemei was not very happy. In fact, she was very upset. She glanced at the pregnant Qin Rou, and some thought flashed in her heart.

She recently discovered something. When her husband came to pick her up from the work unit, he peeked at Qin Rou. She didn't know if he was surprised by her beauty or because she was pregnant like her. But her husband peeked at other women, which still made her very uncomfortable.

So Tian Yemei didn't want her husband to come to her work unit, but wanted her mother-in-law to accompany her to and from work every day, just like Qin Rou.

As a result, they had a big fight at home. Her mother-in-law thought she was being illogical. Who dared to ask their mother-in-law to pick them up from work?

"How could you be hypocritical?"

"If it wasn't for the grandson in your stomach, I wouldn't have come."

Therefore, two pairs of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law appeared in the work unit. Her mother-in-law Mo Jinfeng was a country woman, and like her, she liked to show off. She also liked to add fuel to the fire, watching other people's good play.

Tian Yemei told her mother-in-law Mo Jinfeng a lot about Qin Rou in private.

"This woman is beautiful, charming, and looks too thin. If she was in our village, no one would marry her. Leaving aside the talk about her not doing work, she would rather make the man marrying her serve her. Looking at her small face and small chin, she doesn't look lucky at first glance. She must be giving birth to a daughter."

"Don't you think her mother-in-law is kind to her? She must be kind to her now that she is pregnant with twins. Let's see if once she gives birth to two girls, her mother-in-law would still be able to care about her, hum!" Mo Jinfeng said very meanly, and then continued to Tian Yemei, "You have a big butt, so you must be carrying a boy."

"Aren't you jealous of her? After a while you'll see who will be jealous of whom!"

Tian Yemei smiled reluctantly. Her mother-in-law satirised Qin Rou's words, which was good but other words also made her feel very uncomfortable. What her mother-in-law had said made her even more frightened. What if she didn't give birth to a boy?

Although it was her mother-in-law Mo Jinfeng who said it casually, the speaker was unintentional but the listener took it intentionally. Tian Yemei couldn't help but think, if she didn't give birth to a boy, would her mother-in-law and husband also change their attitudes toward her?

She was uneasy for several days, and then she found a way to find contacts to do an ultrasound test to check the child's gender. After confirming it was a boy, she relaxed.

At that time, she chatted with her mother-in-law Mo Jinfeng about Qin Rou again, and the two were on the same page.

Compared with Qin Rou, she could give birth to a boy. She felt that she was superior to her and was the benefactor of her husband's family.

Like her mother-in-law Mo Jinfeng, she gloated over the misfortune and looked forward to Qin Rou giving birth to a pair of daughters. She evenly analysed whether her belly was round or pointed.

Mother-in-law Mo Jinfeng would also chat with Qin Rou's mother-in-law, "How did your son find such a wife? I heard that she almost married a widower with kids before…"

"You didn't persuade him."

Tian Yemei was very happy when she heard her mother-in-law's words. After inquiring about it, she revealed it to Mo Jinfeng.

These gossips were revealed to Qin Rou's mother-in-law from Mo Jinfeng's mouth. She believed that no mother-in-law hearing these words wouldn't feel disgusted with her daughter-in-law.

It was best to provoke the relationship between them.

But at that time, Qin Rou's mother-in-law just raised her brows and said, "Be careful or I'll take out your tongue."

"My son likes her. He could marry whoever he wants. Our Xiao Qin is very good."

Mo Jinfeng smiled, "If she gives you two granddaughters, you won't be smiling like you do now."

"What's wrong with her giving birth to daughters? Aren't you a woman? Yes, do you also think you are a burden?"

Jiang Ping became famous in their work unit. Many women in the work unit agreed with her remarks. They all hoped to have a boy to inherit the family. If they had more girls, they would be ridiculed by others.

But as a woman, who could guarantee that she would be able to give birth to a boy?

It would be nice to meet an enlightened in-law.

So now women in the unit didn't envy Qin Rou for marrying a young officer, but for having a good mother-in-law who protected her.

Some people also said that Jiang Ping's words were cold, but she actually cared about her daughter-in-law as they saw their interaction.

She and Lao Lu had all inquired clearly about the things that happened to her little daughter-in-law in the past, and later also chatted with Qin Rou's sister Qin Mian to know the general situation.

No matter what, since the girl was chosen by her son, she and Lao Lu had no problem. She and Lao Lu had seen worse things before, so they wouldn't be frightened by it.

As for giving birth to a girl, cutting off the inheritance, and so on, that was even less of a concern.

If Jiang Ping was afraid of death, she would not have joined the army in the first place. Since she was no longer afraid of death, why would she still care about other things?

Both Lao Lu and his wife came from the battlefield, and they felt that it was a gift from God that they could live in peace until now. They didn't have any psychological problems, mainly because the husband and wife were big-hearted and open to it.

What was more, when they came to their younger son's house, they found that the husband and wife got along harmoniously. The little daughter-in-law was beautiful and her cooking was delicious. The point was that the vegetables she grew were the best, which was already a pleasant surprise.

What more could they ask for?

In private, Lao Lu and his wife also quietly discussed that their daughter-in-law was so beautiful that if she could give birth to a pair of beautiful little granddaughters, they would be able to show off in front of Lao Wang.

They had grandsons, but no granddaughters.

But the couple didn't say that in front of Lu Yan and his wife. After all, he was afraid of putting pressure on his daughter-in-law.

Anyway, both grandsons and granddaughters would be the Lu family's children.

Looking back, it was already a blessing that the youngest son could get married at the age of twenty-five. What more could he ask for?

Of course, Jiang Ping had one more thought: —Xiao Qin didn't think the dishes I cooked were unpalatable. Such a good child.

Although Jiang Ping was thick-skinned, she could admit that her cooking was bad.

It was not easy for her son to marry a person who cooked delicious food.

After living with her mother-in-law, Qin Rou discovered something.

Of course, Jiang Ping was fine with things like steaming and boiling, as long as she didn't make complicated dishes.

Sometimes her father-in-law, who was ordinary in cooking, would come to the colony to cook for his wife and daughter-in-law.

Jiang Ping would also be cheeky and say to others, "I cooked this."

Although it was not great, she liked to be praised for her good dishes.

Sister Huang, who was next door, was stunned by her, and praised Xiao Qin for how nice her mother-in-law was.

Truly virtuous people wouldn't ask to be praised for being virtuous.

People who were not virtuous especially liked to be praised for being virtuous.

Although her cooking skills were not good, she still liked cooking, and she was very principled. Since she didn't want to harm her daughter-in-law, she would harm Lao Lu.

She also euphemistically called it healthy eating.

"This is full of flavors, sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. You taste it."

"If you hadn't eaten what I made, would you be able to live to this age?"

Lao Lu: "…"

—I just didn't find out in those hard times that your cooking is so bad. It's not about the ingredients, it's about you.

Although mother-in-law Jiang Ping's cooking was not great, the cakes baked by her were delicious. Father-in-law Lu Zongyi also made salty sesame, which was crushed fried white sesame seeds. Although it was simple, it was also a test of craftsmanship and heat. Fried sesame would not taste good when it got old.

It was said that Jiang Ping had a bad appetite when she was pregnant, so her father-in-law brought sesame seeds for her, smashed them into salty sesame, and wrapped them in steamed buns or steamed buns. It was especially fragrant and delicious.

Lu Zongyi also made a large jar of salty sesame for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. When Qin Rou took the big steamed bun made by Xiao Lu and ate it with the salty sesame, she found that it was really delicious.

The sesame seeds tasted good. If they added two cucumber sticks, it would be even more fragrant and refreshing. Whether it was eaten with cakes or steamed buns, it was especially delicious.

The whole family liked it.

Xia Mingxi, who liked to eat steamed buns, ate it very happily. Chen Jingyi, who didn't like steamed buns very much, also liked this crispy and fragrant taste.

It was just that it needed steamed buns, and only when Lu Yan would be back could they be made.

Hearing what happened to her father-in-law and mother-in-law, Qin Rou couldn't help but say to Lu Yan, "Father-in-law was so kind to mother-in-law."

Lu Yan hugged her, lowered his head and kissed her forehead, "Of course, this is our Lu family's love for their wife."

Qin Rou smiled happily and rubbed his ears.

The two had not finished talking, and heard her father-in-law and mother-in-law quarrelling over the issue of growing vegetables and flowers.

Lu Yan: "…"

Qin Rou: "…"

Qin Rou hugged the man's neck, "Tell me, when we get old, would you quarrel with me every day?"

"No."

"Why?"

"Silence is golden," Lu Yan was convinced that being taciturn was the best.

Qin Rou: "…" Do you think you are the ruthless boss in the novel? Playing silence is golden?

"Brother Lu, don't play that 'silence is golden' card. You must talk to me."

Qin Rou's belly was getting bigger, so her sister often came to the family's courtyard to take care of her. She noticed Qin Rou's complexion and couldn't help but be very happy.

"Your brother-in-law is taking care of the children at home."

Yes, now Qin Mian had begun to let her husband Chen Mian take care of the children.

He even taught elementary school students, so why couldn't he take care of his own children?

Qin Mian now left the children to him with confidence, "I just found out that it's really good to let a man take care of the children."

"He could look over Jingyi for a long time." And Chen Jingyi would also take the initiative to talk to his father.

He also planted vegetables with the children.

Juanjuan and Jinghua happened to be the age of primary school students. It would be better if they mixed in with the students. Chen Mian would educate them together with the students.

Qin Mian suddenly felt the burden on her loosen, as if she had nothing to do.

But she was really happy, and there was a subtle joy in her heart. She was really happy to see her husband getting involved with the children.

She also learned it from her sister. Seeing her brother-in-law interacting with the children in her sister's womb, she was also very envious.

If they had another child in the future, she would let her husband do that too.

When Qin Mian went back home from her sister's place, she immediately suggested to her husband, "Why don't we have another child."

Chen Mian: "…Let's not have another child, it will be hard for you."

Raising a child was so difficult.

Qin Rou's belly was getting bigger. She couldn't see her toes when she looked down, and life was getting more troublesome. She had taken a complete vacation and didn't go to work. She did some simple exercises in the yard every day.

After a few months of pregnancy, her relationship with Lu Yan had gotten better. It seemed that they had become the kind of couple who didn't care much about keeping face in front of each other. She used to pay more attention to her image in front of him, for fear that he would see her in an embarrassed state. But now she was not afraid, but believed in him wholeheartedly.

This tall man gave her a very sufficient sense of security. Although he couldn't always be by her side, he did his best to give her and the child the most adequate company, and made her look forward to the birth of the babies.

Qin Rou felt that she really liked and loved him. Born in a divorced family, Qin Rou originally thought that she did not have the ability to fall in love with someone, and would not lead a normal and happy family life in the future.

But she was really lucky. Although she had transmigrated to that difficult era, she met Lu Yan and they formed a sweet little family. This little family was about to have babies.

Qin Rou didn't go to check the genders. She felt that this kind of thing should not be known until the childrens were born, which was more ceremonial.

Anyway, at that time, children's clothes were the same for boys and girls, so they could prepare two kinds of clothes.

Being a pregnant woman was also very hard. In the later stage, there was edema, cramping, and frequent urination. It was difficult to turn over, the stomach was too big, and it was very uncomfortable to sleep. Although most of the time she was very happy to be taken care of by the people around her. At that time, Qin Rou couldn't help but lose her temper, and she sometimes took it out on Lu Yan.

Lu Yan was very considerate of her. He allowed her to vent her emotions.

So once she lost her temper, she couldn't help but blame herself. Brother Lu, who insisted that silence was golden, would never be silent at this time, and would become a cutie, talking non-stop to comfort her, although sometimes his comfort was like rubbing salt on a wound.

—"You're uncomfortable with this too?"

—"Tell me, what do you want to hear from Brother Lu?"

—"You want to eat Pipi shrimp again?"

He was really urging her to beat him.

But Qin Rou still liked the salt brought back by this man who came back from the sea.

"I really want to unload this package!" (deliver the babies)

The time entered July 1972. Qin Rou was looking forward to unloading the goods every day.

Twins were prone to premature birth. Maybe when these two little kids see that the weather was good, they would wish to come out of their mother's belly to see it.

The weather wasn't good at the moment. The sun was very hot during the day. Affected by the typhoon, it often rained but it came and went suddenly. Some people brought raincoats and umbrellas, and some people didn't care. Once it rained, it also dried up after a while.

Lu Yan was also extremely nervous these days. He was afraid that he would not be able to accompany his wife when the time came.

Qin Rou didn't care about that matter. It didn't matter if Lu Yan couldn't accompany her to give birth, as long as she could see him as soon as she opened her eyes after the delivery.

Qin Rou was even more worried about the pain of giving birth. She was still quite afraid of it. What if the childrens were still not out after being in labor for a long time?

The husband and wife were both nervous, and perhaps the childrens also heard their father's expectations. In the evening when Lu Yan came home, he supported his wife for a walk in the family courtyard. While the two laughed and talked, Qin Rou started having labor pains.

Lu Yan was extremely nervous. Together with his parents and the health team, they rushed her to the base hospital.

"Wife, wife, don't be afraid."

The pain became more frequent, the tears forced out by the pain couldn't stop flowing, and the vision in front of her became blurred. Qin Rou was not afraid, but rather Brother Lu's voice was shaking.

Lu Yan looked at the wife in front of him distressingly. Seeing her little face turning pale with pain, full of tears, the panic in his heart couldn't be receded.

The labor pain eased, and the nervous Qin Rou was rather amused when she saw Lu Yan, who was even more nervous.

"Don't laugh, save your energy."

…

Lu Yan originally wanted to accompany his wife to give birth in the delivery room, but he was too nervous. His voice was trembling, he talked a lot, which easily affected the doctor, so the nurses kicked him out.

At about eleven o'clock in the evening, Qin Rou gave birth to two children successively under the command of the doctor and nurses.

The doctor cut the umbilical cord of the children and showed one of them to Qin Rou. Qin Rou saw a bright red "little monkey". If she didn't pay attention, she wouldn't have noticed that his voice was very loud.

She gave birth to two boys, identical twins, who looked alike and were equally ugly.

They were two wrinkled ugly red childrens.

Qin Rou opened her eyes and saw a man with a pale face, red eyes, and a dark shadow under his eyes. She blinked and found huge bags under his eyes.

Xiao Qin wondered how long she had slept when she saw that her husband's appearance had changed.

"You woke up."

Seeing her wake up and turn around, the man sat up straight and looked at her with concern.

"What time is it now?"

It was a natural birth, the two childrens were in the right position. Since they were nutritionally balanced, they were of good weight.

After the delivery, she was taken back home.

Qin Rou glanced at the alarm clock on the table. She must have slept for a short time, as it was just five o'clock in the morning.

She set her eyes on Lu Yan, thinking that this man probably was up all night.

Qin Rou smiled, she raised her hand and stroked the man's face. This face was extraordinarily handsome in the sunset the previous day, not to mention when she went to the hospital later, the young nurses kept staring at him.

As if grass grew on the head, his hair had become rough and ugly.

Qin Rou smiled and snuggled into the man's arms. Looking at the two little guys lying beside her, her heart felt sweet and funny.

The tired father guarded her and his two ugly childrens. She herself had an idea how bad and haggard her face would be at the moment without looking in the mirror.

The whole family became ugly overnight.

"I'm hungry."

Lu Yan kissed her face lovingly, and went to the kitchen to bring her something. After giving birth, she wanted to eat carrot and shrimp dumplings, and also wanted to eat snow fungus, peach gum, and papaya sweet soup.

Her in-laws and Lu Yan had already prepared what she wanted. Qin Rou was very hungry. First, she ate a boiled egg, then ate a lot of dumplings, and finally drank the sweet soup slowly.

Probably because the mother ate too well, the two childrens also became restless. Qin Rou pulled the children's father and asked him to take out the pillow and all he had prepared in advance.

Lu Yan helped her to sit up clearly, put a small table in front of her, and put a lot of quilts and pillows on it, so that the children nestled on the pillow like a caterpillar on a tree to feed on the pillow.

Qin Rou only slightly supported the little brats' bodies.

The way could only be thought of by a slacker. Knowing that she had two children, she prepared it in advance.

Although she had never given birth to a child or been a mother, as a kindergarten teacher, Qin Rou had read a lot of childcare knowledge, and she had heard many parents and mothers talk about it before.

She let the children use the right strength and suck in the right place.

Qin Rou adjusted her posture and the children cooperated especially in order to eat.

Qin Rou breathed a sigh of relief.

Her belly, which was originally bloated like a big watermelon, shrunk overnight. The previous day, Qin Rou hadn't felt the joy of the melon farmers' harvest, but now she finally felt that the two melons she raised were ripe.

"Do you feel like they are like two little pigs, Father Pig?" Qin Rou thought to herself, it must be the after-effects of the whole family becoming ugly overnight, otherwise, the more she looked at these two ugly childrens, the more cute they felt.

It Was worth watching so many Peppa Pigs in kindergarten.

Pigs were pretty cute.

She was caught by the brilliance of motherhood, and saw her children in rose colored glasses.

"Mother Pig, how could you say that about our children?"

Lu Yan sat on the side with a gentle smile, and studied the two childrens like a silly father. Compared with the sleeping mother, Lu Yan, who was up all night, must be more familiar with the appearance of these two children.

"Look, the pigs' noses are quite similar to yours."

Although the wrinkled facial features of the childrens couldn't be clearly seen, after careful study, one could see that the bridge of the nose looked like his father's.

This high nose and these eyes would definitely not be ugly in the future. As the manager of the piglets, she must let them grow well.

"It looks like mine."

Although the child was ugly, Brother Lu had to admit that the two children did look like him.

He didn't know why they looked so ugly.

Since the previous night, Brother Lu had begun to doubt life. He was obviously not ugly, but why were his sons who looked like him ugly?

Even looking in the mirror made him feel ugly.

Seeing his expression, Qin Rou smiled and said, "Are you trying to ask why our children are so ugly?"

"Do you dislike our children being ugly?"

"Of course not," Lu Yan looked at her with a smile.

Brother Lu mainly worried that his wife would be sad on seeing the children not looking good, and that she would be sullen. Lu Yan also thought of comforting words for a long time.

Seeing her in a good mood now, Brother Lu could finally relax.

"They'll look good when they grow up."

"Brother Lu, go and clean up yourself. Let the children grow up watching your handsome face or else they will follow you."

Lu Yan went to wash and change. Dressed in clothes, he had to go to the team to go through the process of asking for leave, so he reluctantly left his wife and children, and finally realised that he had become a father. At that thought, Chief Kk u fell into a trance.

On the way to leave, he received the blessings, and envy of countless people. Everyone in the team knew that his wife gave birth to two fat boys.

"Two sons, congratulations!"

"How does it feel to be a father for the first time?"

"What is the secret to having twins?"

Chief Lu was dazed and stunned, while calmly patting the table. He took a half-month vacation to go home to accompany his wife.

"Go, go, you gave me a promise."

After taking leave, Lu Yan didn't want to talk too much with people, let alone share the secrets of having a child, so he hurriedly went home to accompany his wife.

"You're amazing!"

Head Zhang and his wife were overjoyed when they learned that Qin Rou gave birth to two boys. It was exactly what they expected.

But in addition to being happy, there was a bit of envy. Twins were rare, and twins who looked alike were even rarer. For example, in their colony, apart from the Lu family next door, Wang Junyi's family had a pair of twin sisters who looked the same.

Head Zhang couldn't help but rub his hands. His ambitions were constantly expanding. It would be great if his wife gave him twin daughters.

"They will really have two boys," Huang Xinying was extremely happy, since the little tea spirit next door was about to start raising kids.

There were some things that only mothers knew. Many unmarried young girls were always scared of pregnancy and childbirth. In fact, the most tiring and hard work was the follow-up breastfeeding.

Having a baby was just the beginning.

Two, three or four year old boys were even unmanageable.

In addition to being happy, the Zhang family decided to have a big meal in the evening to celebrate.

"Let's cook a good meal, let's eat pork at night."

Zhang Chengbei pushed his wife's elbow, "Little goddess, do you want to divine whether we would have a daughter?"

Huang Xinying was expressionless.

"Let's do it, let's do it! After we finish the meal, let's do the divination together."

"Old Wang, I have good news," Comrade Lu, who had become a grandfather, was so excited that he couldn't help himself. When such a great thing happened, he had to tell his good brothers and comrades in arms first.

They were good neighbors and good rivals.

"Hehe, you don't need to tell me, Old Lu, I've already guessed it," Lao Wang didn't want to answer Old Lu's phone at all, but since he became a grandfather, he had to congratulate him.

It was not like he didn't show off before.

"You guessed it? Then you are so smart! My youngest daughter-in-law gave birth to two grandchildren."

"Two grandchildren? Are they both boys?"

"Yeah, you don't know yet. These two boys look exactly the same. Oh, you haven't seen them yet. When I come back to my hometown in the future, I will show you my two grandsons. These two boys look a lot like my son. They will become two handsome boys when they grow up!"

"…"

"Really? Congratulations. Hey, my little granddaughter came over. My cute little Jiaojiao, do you want to talk to your Grandpa Lu?"

"My little Jiaojiao can sing."

"Come on, say Grandpa Lu."

A tender and sweet baby voice came from the phone, "Grandpa Lu…"

Lu Zongyi felt heartbroken.

He had been coveting the cute, sensible and sweet-sounding granddaughter for a long time.

He got grandsons, but he had no lovely granddaughter, let alone the warm-hearted padded jackets (girls are called padded jackets as they are caring) of the grandparents.

"Grandpa Lu, when are you and Grandma Jiang coming back?"

"…"

"Little darling, grandpa's little granddaughter, grandpa will hold you, and ask your grandma to make you a beautiful floral dress tomorrow."

"Okay, say goodbye to Grandpa Lu."

—The old man would be struck by thunder!

Lu Zongyi hung up the phone very indifferently.

Old Lu walked around the same place for several laps, with a sweet and sour feeling in his heart. Thinking of his two lovely grandsons, he was very happy, but thinking of the sweet little granddaughter, he couldn't stop being jealous.

He also thought so much of a granddaughter.

He wanted the kind of little granddaughter who the grandparents would spoil.

Human desire was probably a bottomless pit.

Anyway this sheep was not the only one in the family, so he had other options. Also even the donkeys of the production team should rest.

He needed to shift strategy, so the task would fall to his next child.

Old Lu calmly called Lu Xiao, the unmarried fourth son in the family, and told him that he became an uncle.

"Really? Two boys, and they look exactly the same? It's so strange!" Lu Xiao on the other end of the phone hadn't noticed the crisis.

"It's strange, of course it's strange, fourth child, when would you get married? Are you seeing someone? What kind of person are you seeing?"

"Quickly give birth to a granddaughter for me."

Lu Xiao: "… Aren't you at my little brother's place? Uncle Wang is provoking you again? Old Lu, hurry up and calm down by eating the food my mother cooks."

"I'll tell you what calm is."