Raising Babies in the 70s

by Usui Takumii

not mine, wordrain69. Also at ao3.

4. 61 to 80

It was completely irrelevant to Lu Yan, "She can grow them if she wants."

"I even helped her polw the ground."

Lu Zongyi: "…When you were at home, why didn't you help me polw the ground?"

"Are you my wife?"

Lu Zongyi: "I am your father."

Anyway, the women, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of their Lu family were all the same.

"You will suffer in the future," Lu Zongyi hung up the phone. His youngest son was the most like himself. Of course, why he thought so was definitely not because this youngest son was the most handsome.

Fortunately, as his father, he left him with the skills.

The steamed buns made by his youngest son were so delicious that he missed them a little.

Qin Rou had been depressed for two days before, but it wasn't that she didn't do anything. She was preparing for the announcer exam. She practiced tongue twisters every day.

Chives, coriander and onion ginger garlic, some tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, loofah, snow peas, radishes, etc. were planted in the vegetable fields in the courtyard.

Growing vegetables was not an easy task. When Qin Rou bought seeds, she paid attention to choose good seeds that were suitable for the climate there. She went to the seed station a few times, and asked about the temperature and light requirements, etc., and made a record.

There were many kinds of agricultural planting and scientific research experimental parks on Qiongzhou Island. Because of the special climate there, crops of two or three seasons could be planted. Therefore, there were particularly many breeding and experimental departments.

There was also an agricultural university. It was most suitable for the place, and there were many species there.

As a child of a flower gardener, Qin Rou had always been curious about planting, and she was also curious about agricultural university. Generally, the most popular searches in agricultural universities were nothing more than tragic incidents such as "graduation thesis" being eaten.

However, she had also heard that there were some advantages to agricultural universities. Like fruits, one could buy strange fruits grown by the friends at the university, and it was very cheap.

"Have you tried planting a cocoa tree? There is a cocoa tree at the Baoning Breeding Station? What kind of tree is that? Is it a tree that makes chocolate?" Qin Rou accidentally heard the staff talking about the cocoa tree while chatting with people at the seed station, so she could not help but curiously inquire about it.

"Yes, do you know about chocolate?"

"I have eaten chocolate produced in the Shanghai market."

Qin Rou memorized the place. If there was a chance in the future, she could get some cocoa trees to plant.

But, of course, she still had to plant her vegetables first.

What Qin Rou paid most attention to was her lettuce planting career. She wanted to eat lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, lettuce, lettuce…

Lettuce was difficult to grow. The temperature on Qiongzhou Island was high, and for lettuce seeds, a low temperature should be available.

Qin Rou soaked the seeds with clean water. Fortunately, there was a freezer at home. She filled several bottles of water and froze them into ice, and made a simple box, similar to the one selling popsicles, and covered it with a dilapidated quilt gifted by Li Qinghua. The winter in her hometown was cold, and they had thick quilts. The quilt was torn, but it was her treasure back then.

The once cinnabar mole had become the mosquito blood on the wall. (failed marriage)

"You are covering the ice with a quilt, won't it melt?" Li Qinghua felt that Xiao Qin always acted bizarrely.

"No, we need to take precautions to keep ice cubes."

The seeds soaked in water were placed in the low-temperature small refrigerator to promote growth. After the seeds were all white, Qin Rou sowed them in the soil.

During that time, she had planted a lot of seeds, and waited for them to sprout, such as cucumbers and tomatoes.

Natural selection, survival of the fittest, with the only resources, only good seedlings could be selected.

The world of plants was so cruel.

Qin Rou not only planted it herself, but also got the two little childrens to plant it. Instead of letting them plant anything else, she let the two little guys manage two pots of leeks. Yes, under the climate conditions, the survival rate was the highest. So the best reward would be the leek.

How embarrassing it would be to let the childrens grow small tomatoes and strawberries, in case they died, in case they didn't bear fruit, in case… too many in case, but leeks were different.

A large pot of leeks was gratifying. After harvesting, they could also be mixed with seafood, fish, etc. to make dumplings, and children could experience the joy of harvesting when eating dumplings.

In order not to discourage the two childrens, it was best to let them cultivate leeks first and become baby leeks.

Or maybe be the ones who cut leeks.

"Okay, stick your little tag in your leek pot. From now on, you two are responsible for the leek."

Qin Rou asked them to grow leeks, and also asked them to write a leek growing diary. Of course, these two children didn't know any words, so they couldn't write. What Qin Rou suggested was for them to draw the growth process of their little leeks.

In addition to assigning them the task of raising leeks, Qin Rou also gave them the honorable task of managing the chicken coop.

She got a lot of blue bricks from the orderly friend in the colony yard, and together with the two childrens, and Li Qinghua and her son, they built a beautiful chicken coop in their yard.

It was a kind of two-bedroom room.

The small grass nest that Qin Rou built was also placed in it.

"I built a chicken coop!" Xia Mingxi was a little unsure.

Chen Jingyi's eyes also sparkled.

"It's so beautiful! Mom, I also want to raise chickens," Liu Yue said to his mother. All his friends had chickens, so he couldn't live without chickens.

Li Qinghua was also a little subtly tempted. She didn't know why, but she was.

Logically speaking, she was used to growing vegetables, raising chickens, raising ducks and feeding pigs. She finally got rid of that painful work and came to Qiongzhou Island. Wasn't it good to be idle? Why was she still looking for something to do?

Not to mention raising chickens, raising pigs was the most flavorful. But living in such a beautiful little house, Li Qinghua never thought of raising these things. She could keep the jackfruit tree because she thought it was fragrant.

There was no shortage of meat to eat there, fish, shrimp, crab, could be steamed, and boiled to eat. They also got a little meat ticket every month, just to buy a few pounds of pork to satisfy their cravings, so why bother with other efforts?

But… the chicken coop was pretty cool.

The beautiful chicken coop was surrounded by a small fence, and there was a small pocket door in the middle. She really liked it more and more.

Li Qinghua also had a special ability. She could identify the gender of chicks.

Qin Rou held her hand, "I'll take you to buy chickens next time."

Of course, she couldn't choose all females, but could choose a few more females. If only males were left, after finding out that they were all males after raising them, they would collapse.

Qin Rou took the two childrens and went to Li Qinghua's house to happily build a chicken coop.

Then they went to buy another batch of chickens. Li Qinghua gave two little hens to Qin Rou.

Liu Kai, Political Commissar Liu hadn't been home for two days. As soon as he got home, he heard strange noises. There was something in their yard.

His little wife actually started raising chickens?!

If it was in the past, he might be relieved, but at that time Liu Kai discovered a very terrible thing. The quilt he and Li Qinghua had when they got married was gone.

He searched the whole house over and over, but couldn't find it. In the end, he even searched for the ashes in the kitchen, but couldn't find any clues.

Obviously, the quilt was originally well stored in their closet, but it disappeared for no reason.

When they came to the island, he tried hard to persuade Li Qinghua that the quilt would be of no use, but she had to take it with her. She also said that it was a testimony to their marriage and that the two would build a life for a lifetime.

Yet she actually threw it away!

Political Commissar Liu panicked for a day, and often lost his mind at work. When he returned home, he secretly asked Liu Yue, the little boy at home, to inquire about the situation, "How is your mother lately?"

Liu Yue happily said, "Okay!"

Political Commissar Liu asked again, "Did she say anything about me?"

"No," Liu Yue denied it.

Political Commissar Liu: "…"

"Dad, I'm going to feed the chickens, don't quarrel with me!" Liu Yue was not interested in talking to his father, and happily went to the newly built chicken coop to see the chickens.

He also wanted to draw a chicken observation diary and show it to Aunt Qin.

He liked chickens more!

In the past, his little wife took the child at home lazily every day. When he went home, the mother and son were still warm and thoughtful to him. Just two days before the separation, his wife tried to please him.

Only at that time would she be diligent for a few days, so that Liu Kai could live a comfortable and proud life for those days.

Of course, after a few days, she went back to her old ways.

Political Commissar Liu was also used to it. Although he said that if she didn't change, he would definitely get divorced… He realized that what he said was a bit too much that day. But it was not his original intention.

As long as his wife admitted her mistake, the matter would be turned over.

Who knew things wouldn't turn so easily.

It had only been a few days but the mother and son ignored him, which had never happened before.

Political Commissar Liu also discovered that his wife was secretly learning to read behind his back, and he heard her mumbling, "A tiger on the mountain, a deer in the forest, a pig on the roadside…"

While reading, she was drawing in the palm of her hand.

It was not that Political Commissar Liu didn't teach his wife how to read and write personally, but she was fishing for three days and drying the net for two days.

So she was actually studying by herself in private?

Was the sun coming out of the west?

"Xiaohua, do you want to learn to read again? I'll teach you."

Li Qinghua, like her son, rejected the man, "I don't want you to, you are not good at teaching."

Political Commissar Liu's eyes widened, " What did you say?"

– She dared to despise him?!

Li Qinghua disliked him very much, and she did not want Political Commissar Liu to teach her to read again. When she first moved to the colony, although there were many embarrassing incidents, Li Qinghua also studied humbly and did not want to be an illiterate woman who could not read.

However, her memory was not good. When her husband taught her, it was like teaching a stupid cow. After a while, he said, "Why did you forget?", "I taught you this last time, and you don't remember?", "I've never seen someone as stupid as you.", "Looks like I taught in vain again yesterday."

Over time, Li Qinghua also felt that she was indeed not fit for studies, and she had to be illiterate for the rest of her life, so she simply gave up.

When she was with Xiao Qin a few days ago, Xiao Qin said that she was going to be an announcer, and read tongue twisters every day, told stories to children, read prose aloud…

Li Qinghua listened to her telling stories to her son, and was also fascinated by it. Xiao Qin's voice was really nice.

She also was teaching the three children to read and write. Li Qinghua listened next to her, and found that she could memorize it.

So she asked Xiao Qin to teach her to read. Since she had the burden of divorce on her back, Li Qinghua also wanted to learn characters. When she was in the village, she used to envy the commune's scorekeepers, and even more those who teach in the classroom.

Being literate made it easy to find a job.

Xiao Qin taught her a few simple tongue twisters, and Li Qinghua recited them next to her. She found that she had memorized them all.

Not to mention, Xiao Qin also gave her a dictionary to teach her to recognize pinyin and radicals, and taught her how to look up a dictionary. Li Qinghua didn't understand anything, and her memory was not good. There were always many questions to ask Qin Rou. The girl also taught her tirelessly, never throwing impatient words.

Li Qinghua asked her, "Don't you think I'm stupid?"

"How can that be? Sister Huahua, you obviously learn very quickly."

Qin Rou had taught many younger children, and she had long been accustomed to these little guys learning and forgetting things. So the teacher would blow the cow hide (boast) so as to not cause them to be disinterested in studies.

Therefore, she couldn't be too serious. That was torturing herself. She always had a little more patience and knew that she had to teach them over and over again.

For Qin Rou, compared to teaching a three- or four-year-old child, teaching an older child like Li Qinghua was much easier.

At least Li Qinghua's attitude was correct, she was not lazy, and she studied seriously. As long as she had that attitude, Qin Rou, who was a kindergarten teacher, felt very relieved.

If all kindergarten children were like Li Qinghua, then she would be willing to be a kindergarten teacher.

"Sister Huahua, you are already doing very well. Don't be too eager to learn everything. Let's take it step by step."

Qin Rou, who had coaxed the children, hurled encouragement and compliments to Li Qinghua, which made her dizzy.

In addition, Li Qinghua found that she had indeed made rapid progress, and Qin Rou also presented a copy of her own story collection , which was ten short stories written by Qin Rou. After copying it, Qin Rou asked her to retell the story to her son Liu Yue every night. If she came across a word she didn't know, she could look it up in the dictionary by herself.

Li Qinghua took the dictionary and stumblingly read the story. She found out that as an illiterate person, she really understood the two-hundred-word story.

She could read text!

It turned out that it was not that she was too stupid, but that Political Commissar Liu was not good at teaching.

Otherwise, when Liu Kai would teach her, she could never learn.

"You can't compare to Xiao Qin at all," Li Qinghua looked at Political Commissar Liu with disgust.

In the past, she thought that Political Commissar Liu was a God. In their small village, it was not easy to get a cultural person like Liu Kai, and Li Qinghua was very satisfied with marrying such a husband.

She could be said to have the best marriage in her village.

But her life was not as happy as she imagined. Although she had no worries about food and clothing, her husband picked on her faults every day and brought her to the family's courtyard. Li Qinghua was indeed not as good as other military wives, not as good as Huang Xinying.

– You can't catch up no matter what.

Living lazily every day, it was said to be comfortable, but in fact it was meaningless, just like the second-rate people in the village before.

Li Qinghua really wanted to change her previous life.

She made plans for a divorce.

Unlike Qin Rou, Li Qinghua couldn't take the announcer exam. Her education level was not enough to be a teacher. Even if she wanted to be a nurse, she was afraid of needles. However, she recently found out that the nearby Haiken Farm was hiring several female drivers, so she signed up.

It may also be because of her recent "success in her studies" that Li Qinghua gained a little self-confidence. If she passed the training and assessment and was selected to be a female driver, then she would also be a person with a job.

As the job of driver did not have high requirements on the level of education, Li Qinghua really wanted to fight for this job. When she signed up, they disliked her small figure and didn't want her to sign up, but she had the cheek to ask for a chance.

She was lazy in the courtyard for a few years, and had no other skills. She had the strongest ability to be cheeky, and finally made them sign her up, but she didn't tell her husband.

It didn't matter if she couldn't pass the entrance exam. At least she would learn driving and when divorced, she might even go to the village to drive a tractor.

Yes, Li Qinghua had already thought about it.

"Let's just divorce."

Although she had given birth to a child, she was only twenty-five years old. She was the same age as Xiao Qin's husband, and she was young. It was not hard to remarry.

The little abacus in Li Qinghua's heart was beating loudly.

She even considered remarriage.

Li Qinghua didn't communicate much with the locals there before. She followed Qin Rou to chat with some aunts in the villages in the past few days. She found even if her personal conditions were not very good, she was also a sweet pastry, more than enough to match a man there, or marry an educated youth.

She looked cute and one couldn't tell that she had given birth to a child. If she remarried a local boy in the future, and he also had a jackfruit tree in his house, it would be fine. Although the house may not be as beautiful as the family's courtyard, it was better than her life in the village.

The female educated youth who went to the countryside disliked the lack of culture of the local men, but Li Qinghua did not dislike it at all. She felt that it was better to have no culture. She had had enough of her husband who was too cultured.

The man may not despise anyone.

"Li Qinghua, what's with your attitude? Are you really going to divorce me? If we divorce, you have to go back to your hometown."

"Who said that I have to go back to my hometown, I can remarry on the island. There are so many men here who are not married, and I don't dislike the second marriage."

What was more, the family there also had jackfruit trees.

When Political Commissar Liu heard it, he immediately became furious. What did this woman say? Did she say she was going to remarry? Did she see another man?

"Is there some wild man out there who hooked up with you?"

"Let me tell you, he is guilty of sabotaging military marriages and will be imprisoned!"

"As long as I don't agree to divorce, you can't divorce me!"

Li Qinghua glared at him, "Why are you so fierce? You wanted to get divorced first. What's wrong with me finding a way out for myself."

"I can't live after a divorce? Of course I'm going to remarry, I have to find another way, find a man to warm the quilt!"

Li Qinghua smiled, which was why she liked the island. People in her home village used to be conservative, and there were very few divorces. For a woman, letting her divorce was no different than killing her. She would be pointed at, but it was different there, so many of Zhang Tuan's neighbours were divorced.

Therefore, Li Qinghua no longer regarded divorce as a rare event.

As a lazy person, she was also a very optimistic lazy person, she was easy to get satisfied with, she could eat whatever she had every day, and she was not picky.

She thought of the best in everything.

"You still dare to mention remarrying? How dare you say that?! Li Qinghua, as long as I don't die, you can't remarry!"

"You already like another woman, why don't you allow me to remarry? As expected, what Xiao Qin said was right, you're just eating in the bowl while peeping at the pot. You couldn't marry who you liked, so you don't let me go."

"You stupid woman, who do I like?"

"You like Huang Xinying, every day you talk about her, but she is already married."

"Fu'k!" Political Commissar Liu felt that one day he would be pissed to death by the woman in front of him.

"If I like other women, how could I tolerate a slacker like you bouncing around in front of me?!"

"Don't you just despise me, I tell you, I despise you now!"

"Divorce means divorce, I want to remarry, I want to be like Xiao Qin, marry a twenty-five-year-old. Her husband is so good, and he can make steamed buns. The big steamed buns he makes are especially delicious!" Li Qinghu opened the door like a valve, and the next words jumped out in a series like a beam, "Look at you, you don't even go into the kitchen, what's the point of marrying a man like you."

"Xiao Qin's husband is young and good-looking, and he graduated from the military academy at a young age… He could make fences and accompany Xiao Qin to the movies…"

"It's a shame that you are also a literate person. You don't even have the ability to teach people to read. If you go to school to be a teacher, someone like you will wrong the children!"

Political Commissar Liu was left speechless by the woman, "You—"

Did his wife actually praise another man? Xiao Qin's husband?That young officer surnamed Lu? ? Did she praise another man?

"Why are you mentioning a man from another family?"

Li Qinghua: "You always talk about a woman from another family."

Political Commissar Liu finally knew what it meant to shoot himself in the foot, "I was wrong in the past. In the future, I won't mention any other woman, and you're not allowed to mention any other man."

"It's been a few years, and I've just mentioned him a few times. I haven't said enough yet, if you don't listen, don't listen. If you have the ability, let's go and get a divorce, so I could remarry soon!"

"Anyway, I'm still young, I can marry another man and give him a big fat boy and a daughter."

The string in Liu Political Commissar's mind was broken.

After knowing that the quilt she used to cover the ice cubes was Li Qinghua's marriage quilt, Qin Rou was naturally embarrassed to use it again, and hurriedly sent it back.

"It's okay, just use it. If you don't want it, I'll take it back to dry stuff on it."

Li Qinghua was extraordinarily generous. After quarreling with her husband, she opened up the matter. It turned out that her husband didn't like Huang Xinying, but liked her. She had misunderstood at first.

Now the person who was afraid of divorce was not her, but Liu Kai.

"Come on, Xiao Qin, try the fried oil cakes Lao Liu made."

"It's still hot."

Qin Rou quickly refused, "How can I do that? I just used your quilt and am still eating your food. "

"What's the matter? My man said that you have to try it."

"Okay, I'll take a few for the children to try later."

"He also wanted to know your thoughts. Is Xiao Lu's steamed buns more delicious, or his oil cakes?"

Qin Rou: "…" It must be my man's big steamed buns that are even better!

"He's willing to use the oil, what a waste of money."

Qin Rou asked curiously, "What happened to you and Lao Liu? Cleared up the misunderstanding?"

Seeing Li Qinghua's appearance, Qin Rou guessed that the one Li Qinghua said before "Big melon" was probably a fake melon.

"Yes, he said he only likes me."

Qin Rou: "… Who did you misunderstand that he likes?"

"It's the one next door to your house," Li Qinghua whispered something from the past to Qin Rou.

Qin Rou was speechless for a while.

When she was a child, she only heard of "other people's children" used as examples but it turned out that there were "other people's wives" in the place.

The colony circle was like that.

It really rolled everywhere.

On the other hand, Li Qinghua was thinking ahead of time, and she couldn't move it, so she simply rotted.

Qin Rou had a brief chat with Huang Xinying next door before, and the woman was quite enthusiastic. She was always a good wife and mother.

No wonder she could be a model of a good wife in the colony.

Qin Rou thought to herself that as a man, she would also like to marry such a wife.

After sending Li Qinghua away, Qin Rou tasted the oil cake she brought and found it good.

—The man's desire to fight had also risen.

Recently, because of the start of school, Huang Xinying was as busy as a spinning top, attending classes, preparing lessons, and dealing with school affairs. When she came home, she was very tired, and was also busy cooking. Her family, one big and one small, was lazy. Sitting on the bench listening to the radio, seeing her coming back, her husband hurriedly urged, "Come on, cook, you're going to starve us to death."

"Mom, go cook!"

"We have leftovers, can't you heat it up yourselves?"

"It's hot, it's hot, how can we enter the kitchen?"

After serving the two men in the family for dinner, Huang Xinying packed up the rice bowls and went outside to wash the dishes. While washing them, she stopped her movement. She turned to look at the yard next door, there was no one in the yard.

She could not help but feel a sigh of relief.

Huang Xinying didn't want to see Qin Rou sitting in the courtyard and on the terrace on the second floor drinking tea.

Qin Rou, a new colony member who moved in next door, was weird. She was different from all the colony members in the past. She especially liked to sit and drink tea and eat snacks slowly.

How did she get such a habit?

Whether Huang Xinying was on her way out of the house, or on her way home, or in the yard on the first floor, or in the room on the second floor, she might see Qin Rou drinking tea from the house next door.

From day to night, whether it was morning or noon or afternoon and evening, it was possible to see Qin Rou drinking tea.

This woman did not like to drink tea in the house, she liked to drink tea in her yard the most.

Not only that, after the Lu family next door built a strange chicken fence, Qin Rou, she and her husband Lu Yan, the husband and wife built a huge thatched umbrella in the yard with a hem with a chair and small table.

When Lao Zhang saw the thatched umbrella next door, he laughed next door, "Is this a return to the original hut?"

Who knew how often Qin Rou would sit under the thatched umbrella and drink tea all day after the appearance of the thatched umbrella..

White clouds, blue sky, towering coconut trees, white walls and red roofs behind, under the thatched umbrella, a woman in a white dress was drinking tea leisurely. Sometimes there was an ordinary tea cup by her side, sometimes a huge enamel jar, stacking small fruit points, she could spend an afternoon quietly.

The man was not at home, the children went to kindergarten, the woman was alone at home, and she sat under the thatched umbrella, reciting tongue twisters, reading articles, or singing softly.

The woman could also play!

Huang Xinying really couldn't see through her.

If she was said to be lazy, she was not. She could drink tea, eat snacks, read books, raise chickens and grow vegetables in the yard or clean the house. If said she was not lazy, no, Huang Xinying had not seen any woman who drank tea and snacks all day long.

She had a soft spot for the thatched umbrella in the yard. She often ate lunch under the umbrella. Huang Xinying once took a look. She ate two or three steamed shrimp dumplings at noon, a strange dough wrapped with glutinous rice, and a steamed dish, bean sprouts with fish and vinegar.

In the afternoon, Huang Xinying took a nap and went out, and saw her drinking tea and eating steamed shrimp dumplings and coconut cakes.

She ate very little each time, but it seemed to be eating all the time.

Also drinking tea.

Huang Xinying: "…"

Did her man never care about her?!

Oh, her man didn't care about her when he came back.

The little army officer was also a wonderful man.

She obviously heard that Lu Yan was a very difficult person, with a bad temper, but he was blinded by the beauty.

Apart from that, she couldn't think of any other explanation.

Huang Xinying: "…"

After the man next door would come back, her life would only be more nourishing.

Huang Xinying had long discovered that the little army officer next door could wash clothes. He not only washed clothes, but also washed dishes. Even if he was laughed at by Lao Zhang, he didn't care, and still washed clothes and dishes in the yard openly.

She never heard him say a harsh word to his wife.

She also saw Lu Yan washing clothes in the yard the previous day. Qin Rou sat in the yard drinking fruit tea. She smiled and fed her husband who was doing laundry a fried oil cake and asked him if it tasted good.

"Delicious…"

At that time, Huang Xinying heard a lot of praise from Lu Yan. When she was cooking at home, her man never praised her like that.

Huang Xinying saw Qin Rou leaning over and saying something in her husband's ear again, and ran away with a smile, avoiding the water splashed by the man.

Watching the couple fighting, Huang Xinying only felt that the young couple was really noisy.

When they have kids…

No, they had two kids.

Before Huang Xinying discovered the essence of the "tea spirit" woman next door, she still ran to the woman next door to hang around and asked her, "Aren't you going to cook?"

Huang Xinying used to like to go to the house next door on purpose to show off her attentive virtuous and culinary skills.

Many new colony members did not know how to handle all kinds of seafood, let alone peel seafood and pick fish bones, so she would deliberately say in front of the husband of the other party, "Men don't like to cook, my man is like that as well, I don't care if he doesn't. He would dislike you if you don't cook well, you have to do this…"

"You don't know how to deal with these little things since you came here for the first time, right? I'll teach you how to peel crabs and pick out fishbone, follow me to learn, and then peel it off for your boys to eat."

…

Usually, after she said that, the man on the other side would speak up, "Yeah, why don't you hurry up and learn from her how to be a virtuous wife?"

"Let's follow her as an example."

…

Some women would learn from her modestly, while others would listen to their husbands at the time, and they would promise on the surface, but secretly get angry.

Huang Xinying liked to listen to a woman praising her inadvertently at times like that.

When she got to the Lu family, what she heard was completely different.

The army officer said, "Don't bother, I'll peel it, don't hurt your hand, I feel bad."

"Wife, you said you want to eat crab dumplings, I have already steamed all the blue crabs on it. Now, I'll peel it later, tell me, do you want to keep the shell and cook the soup?"

"Will you use this soup to cook the noodles? Then I'll make the noodles."

"I know you like crabs. I specially asked someone to bring them from Ningshui. The crabs are more delicious."

When the husband of the "tea spirit" next door came back, he would make steamed buns, make dumplings, and wash clothes and dishes.

The dumplings that "tea spirit" Qin Rou ate were all made by her husband!

Huang Xinying thought of her husband. When her husband Zhang Chengbei returned home, he did nothing.

She was particularly uncomfortable.

Finally, Huang Xinying still spoke to her husband, "Go and clean up that pile of seafood."

Her husband Zhang Chengbei heard her words as if he had heard something extraordinary, and said in a disgusting tone, "Fish, the smell is so strong, I can't get used to it. I smelled it at the beach, and you want me to smell it when I come back?"

Huang Xinying was upset, "I have never disliked the strong smell."

"That's what women should do. Is there anything wrong with you?"

"Why can the man next door do it but you can't?"

The two of them were talking, and they got into a fight.

There was a little noise in the colony courtyard. Hearing that a husband and wife were quarrelling, and seeing the direction of the people watching the fun, Yang Yufeng subconsciously thought it was the new couple from the Lu family, who knew…

—It was the Zhang family next to the Lu family who quarrelled.

The day after the Zhang family quarreled, it happened to be the day that Lu Yan returned to the yard. As soon as he came back, he took a shower and changed his clothes, and then he washed the dirty clothes in the yard.

At that time, Zhang Chengbei appeared next door, and he was also doing laundry in the yard.

Zhang Chengbei's face was bitter, almost like a pig's liver. He looked humiliated and burdened. He was facing a pot of dirty clothes, as if facing the cruel torture of the enemy.

The torture continued.

The executioner was Xiao Lu, the newcomer next door.

The day before, after arguing with his wife, he almost got divorced. They couldn't be divorced… They were a model couple who had become a joke in the entire colony.

Zhang Chengbei persuaded his wife to be patient.

A man's reputation was the most important thing!

After the people watching the fun came over, Zhang Chengbei no longer dared to quarrel with his wife. He just said that they were having fun and wanted to experience the feeling of quarrel.

With a good wife at home, how could he quarrel with her?

What a shame!

The cowhide had been blown so much in the past, if it fell from the sky, where would Zhang Chengbei hide his face? No, he must not let people see his jokes, so he could only endure the humiliation.

Zhang Chengbei, whose face was swollen like a pig's liver, saw Lu Yan next door. It was because the enemy was extremely jealous when he met him.

His wife asked him to wash his dirty clothes in front of Lu Yan, to turn over the events that happened the previous night.

D*mn, these women were really messed up.

Zhang Chengbei cursed in his heart.

If she told him to do the laundry, he could just do the laundry, why did he have to do the laundry in front of Comrade Lu next door when he came back?

–What about my face if I wash my clothes in front of him?!

Zhang Chengbei came to beat the clothes in his hand like his enemy Lu Yan, and after a few beats, he realized that his enemy seemed to have come to the gate of his house.

What did this guy want to do?

Zhang Chengbei must have come to see his joke, his face was sullen in anger.

– I wash my sh*t!

But he didn't dare not to wash, his wife would make trouble with him if he didn't and he would be thrown out.

The first one was fine, the second one was really making him a joke.

He didn't want to be a joke in the colony home.

"Mr. Zhang!" Lu Yan greeted him happily.

Look who he found, Mr. Zhang who likes to talk to him about his wife!

A good man who could chat with him about his wife without living in his house and listening to the radio.

Lu Yan, who had been holding back in front of Lao Ma for two days, could be considered to have found an organization. He must cherish the good partner assigned to him by the organization.

Lu Yan stepped into Zhang's courtyard.

Zhang Chengbei watched the tall and handsome man walking toward him, and a first-level alarm sounded in his mind: The enemy is coming, the devil has entered the territory!

The man also wanted to come to his house to harm him.

Can't you just watch Lao Tzu do the laundry quietly?

"You also do laundry?" Lu Yan just returned home and didn't know what happened the previous day, so he asked casually.

Zhang Chengbei gave a humiliating, "Um!"

Huh, thanks to you!

He also came to show off his might in front of Lao Tzu.

"Where's sister-in-law?"

Zhang Chengbei: "…" Which jug can't you lift?

"Upstairs."

The supervisor was upstairs.

"At home," Lu Yan responded. He found that Zhang Chengbei's face was not very good. He was not as cheerful as last time when chatting with him about his wife. It was estimated that something had happened.

He said that his wife was upstairs, and Lu Yan also saw Huang Xinying standing on the second floor. Was Zhang Chengbei embarrassed to chat in front of his wife?

"Lu Yan, when will your wife find a job?" Don't hang around drinking tea in front of my wife every day, hurry up and go to work!

She harmed his wife and harmed him.

"She wants to be an announcer."

Hearing Zhang Chengbei's words, Lu Yan thought that he was right. Zhang Chengbei liked to chat with him about their wives.

His ideal roommate.

"Let her pass the test quickly!"

"She said that if she doesn't practice, she may not be able to pass the test."

"If she doesn't pass the test, your sister-in-law and I can introduce her to a job," Zhang Chengbei was very eager and positive to hope that Xiao Qin, a colony member next door, would quickly get a job.

It's not a tea bucket, don't hang around drinking tea at home!

"Xiao Qin shouldn't learn from the political commissar's wife, Xiao Li. She stays at home all day long and doesn't do anything. She is called a lazy wife by the courtyard, which makes Lao Liu embarrassed."

Lu Yan found that the neighbors next door were quite warm and caring, and the comrades in the colony home were indeed warm. Next time, he had to tell Lao Wang about it.

Qin Rou had been preparing for the announcer exam for many days. She had to go through three rounds of exams, interview, oral exam and written exam. She hoped that she could pass. If she didn't, she might become a teacher.

She practiced in the yard, and she also built a beautiful thatched umbrella with Lu Yan, the kind of vacation thatched umbrella by the beach, the kind that was often found on the beach.

Qin Rou thought that the kind of thatched umbrella had a special atmosphere at the seaside. She liked it very much. She and Lu Yan had strong manual labor skills, and the thatched umbrella was even more satisfying to her.

They placed the table and chairs on the bottom, and finished!

Studying for the exam under the thatched umbrella made her feel that she was not preparing for the exam, but that she was on vacation by the sea. With the sea breeze blowing, it gave her an extraordinarily relaxed and comfortable experience.

It was really comfortable. The only thing missing was a suitable reclining chair. Based on her and Xiao Lu's abilities, she couldn't come up with a decent reclining chair for the time being. She had to do more research, or go to the village to find an old carpenter to help.

No wonder in the future, the kind of thatched lounge chair experience was not cheap, and it was charged by the hour. Now she built it at home, free of charge!

Qin Rou was sitting in the yard preparing for the exam. She felt that it was strange to sit without anything in hand. It always seemed like something was missing beside her, either a cup of hot water, a cup of tea, a cup of fruit tea, a cup of milk tea, or a cup of coconut juice …

She didn't like strong tea either. It was very comfortable to drink some warm, weak tea to moisten her throat.

The nearby farm raised sheep, and Qin Rou ordered some goat milk for the two childrens, or kept some for milk tea for herself.

She missed the taste of milk tea.

The goat milk tea she brewed herself was also very good, which was comforting. Fortunately, she bought a lot of tea leaves when she was in Guangcheng.

She used oolong tea, which was mixed with goat milk to make milk tea. The fragrance of oolong tea could just cover up the smell of goat milk.

It was very fragrant. It would be better if she could cook some sugar red beans and mashed taro in the future.

Drinking only tea was also very monotonous, and Qin Rou would also serve a small plate of snacks.

Drinking tea and eating fruit, the taste was really delicious.

Huang Xinying, her next door neighbor, came to her house to ask her for tea. Qin Rou gave her some oolong tea that she bought in Guangcheng, and Huang Xinying gave her a lot of fried twist(Ma Hwa) with coconut fragrance.

Qin Rou didn't want to accept it at first, but she couldn't refuse her neighbor.

After Huang Xinying finished delivering the twist, she pretended to "emphasize" inadvertently, and the corner of her mouth twitched, "This is made by my Lao Zhang."

"Did Mr. Zhang make it? He has good skills," Qin Rou did not expect that Mr. Zhang could also make delicate little twists.

Huang Xinying chuckled twice.

She was an upright teacher, and would never fool people indiscriminately. This twist was indeed made by Zhang Chengbei, with a bitter face, in the kitchen.

"Are you going to be an announcer? Work hard. If you don't pass the test, come to our school and become a teacher. I'll give you a recommendation," Huang Xinying smiled slightly, but she couldn't stand the pretty little tea lady next door drinking comfortably. She must be busy and taste the ups and downs of life.

You just got married, but you have to live like her in the future.

It was better for her not to be an announcer, but to be a teacher like her.

Huang Xinying had already figured it out clearly, the people next door were still newly married, so she naturally lived her life well, but it would be different after a while.

Huang Xinying was looking forward to her having a baby soon.

Once the baby was born, it was the turning point of the relationship between husband and wife.

In a military colony, one couldn't hide secrets. Within a few days, all the people knew that the new colony member, Qin Rou, was going to be a radio announcer, so there was a lot of discussion.

Many members got together, and they talked about the colony and anything new happening.

"That beautiful new colony member wants to be an announcer?"

"Will she pass the exam? Her voice is pretty good, I heard that she used to sing…"

..

In the colony courtyard, no one had ever been an announcer, so it was a rare occurrence.

Several women ran over to encourage Qin Rou, "Sister Xiao Qin, if you pass the test, we will have an announcer in our colony."

"You have such a nice voice, you will definitely pass the test."

"You must pass the test! If you become an announcer, I will definitely turn on the radio every day to listen to your voice…"

…

Although people often had nothing to do and liked to gossip, they also talked warmly and encouraged Qin Rou as if she was going to participate in some important competition on behalf of the colony.

Sincere encouragement, hidden flattery, bragging… All kinds of words were intertwined, and people couldn't tell them apart. However, after listening to so much "encouraging" gossip, it was really easy to make her feel like being blown by the sea breeze. She lost her mind and fantasized that she had become "the hope of the whole colony".

On the important day of the exam, her husband made her a big steamed bun to encourage her. Huahua had given her a jackfruit in advance, and Mrs. Huang next door had given her a friendly gift.

Teacher Huang smiled subtly, "You will need it." If you can't be an announcer, you can become a primary school teacher.

It was really a small society. Qin Rou had gained too much "concern".

Even Mr. Zhang next door said, "Xiao Qin, the community expects you to be an announcer quickly!"

"Be a positive example for future colony members!"

Qin Rou: "…"

It seemed like he was urging her to find a job.

First, she had to pass the written test on the first day. The written test was some basic broadcasting knowledge content. Qin Rou reviewed it thoroughly and completed the written test with a calm mind. The next day was the interview and oral test.

Those who came to take the test were all sitting in the waiting room, which was a small classroom with tables and chairs. Qin Rou entered the waiting room and sat in a daze very calmly.

She had had a lot of interview experience, and she was not flustered, just waiting for the exam quietly.

There were all kinds of noisy voices whispering. In that small waiting room, there were both men and women. Most of the people's voices were in the middle and upper ranks, and their timbres were outstanding.

There were many young girls, either with braids, bangs, or haircuts, who exchanged the answers of the written test.

Young men also joined them, like a peacock, deliberately showing their deep and powerful voice.

"What did you answer? I'm…"

"I think I chose…"

"You read the question wrong, answer…"

"I didn't do well in the written test yesterday. After listening to your answers, I don't think I'll pass the test."

"You guys are really good."

In her era, the procedure for answering was always indispensable, and anxious young people were already eager to know the result.

Even before the interview, they were still thinking about the results of the written test.

Qin Rou didn't believe a word of what these people said. There were so many strange things in the interview field, whoever believed must be a fool, and there were so many dramas in the interview waiting room. She used to study at university. She had many classmates who complained a lot about the interview.

For example, deliberately acting, falsely reporting the score of the written test, and breaking the mentality of others; It was like, infinitely spreading anxiety, and taking the people around to sift the chaff together…

However, people in the 1970s and 1980s should be very simple, maybe they hadn't even thought of such a complicated routine.

Qin Rou didn't take the initiative to chat with the people around her, but many people's eyes were on her, as she was the most beautiful.

Long black hair, fair skin, a small face, a pair of fox eyes full of water, wearing a neutral blue and white blue sea soul shirt, which also outlined a delicate and graceful figure.

Several men wanted to take the initiative to talk to her, but she was not easy to approach. They only dared to look at her secretly, secretly resenting the oversized enamel tank on her table, which blocked everyone.

Qin Rou also brought her enamel jar. It was the first time she had won by her ability since she went there, and it also gave her a prize, her husband. Qin Rou looked at the big red flower on it and felt that the enamel jar brought her good luck.

She opened the lid of the cup and took a sip of water while looking up.

Qin Rou once saw in the mirror when she was drinking from an enamel tank. At that time, she only thought of one sentence:

—Lin Daiyu pulls the weeping willow upside down.*

Sigh…

How could there be such a big cup?

That was why she found a tall and handsome husband?

Qin Rou drank the water calmly. Maybe she would seem a bit too bold and domineering (funny), but she didn't mind what others thought.

As a kindergarten teacher, in fact, there was always a bit of social bullshit.

The person next to her: "…"

Several girls swallowed and looked away. One of them was wearing a short-sleeved shirt with a polka-dot pattern. Originally, she was shaking and talking to the people around him

"I'm afraid to death, what if my voice trembles later?"

"If I see people, I get scared. I don't dare to speak."

"How is the test inside?"

"I'm sure I won't pass the test. I'm most afraid of exams…"

The woman in blue workwear next to the polka-dot pattern kept comforting her, "Don't be afraid, after you go in, don't think about anything, okay?"

"I'm afraid to death, I'm shaking now."

"Don't be afraid, if you're afraid, I'll be afraid too…"

Miao:

Lin Daiyu pulls the weeping willow upside down: A witty, confident but slender and willowy (delicate) woman. Lin Daily is character from Dream of red chamber

Qin Rou couldn't help but glance in the direction of the two of them. The girl in patterned clothes was flustered, and the hand holding the book was indeed shaking.

Then came the sound of "laughing" in front of her, and a young girl with neat bangs mocked, "Just came to sign up."

Qin Rou remained silent.

"Hey, the person with the sea color shirt, you are so beautiful."

"Thank you."

"You have a nice voice. If we pass the exam together, can you lend me the clothes you are wearing?"

Qin Rou: "…"

"I can't lend it to you. These are the clothes I borrowed from others, just for today's exam."

The exam room was really full of talented people, they had the kind of social cheekiness.

In the end, who could be admitted to the announcer was still uncertain.

Qin Rou's luck was not bad, she ranked sixth, and soon went home after taking the exam.

She came back early, and the children hadn't come home yet. So she had time to make a cup of oolong milk tea, sat in the yard and wrote a schedule, detailing the little seedlings she planned to plant.

She wrote the attributes of plants like whether they like shade, cool, or hot and humid. She also drew a table, and listed the small squares for watering and fertilizing…

She really had nothing to do, but she really liked such a well-organized check-in record sheet.

Huang Xinying came home early that day, and saw her drinking tea next door again.

Didn't she say that she was going to take the test that day?

Did she pass the test or did not pass the test? How was her performance?

Why did she love tea so much?

Huang Xinying found the tea from Qin Rou and brewed a cup. She held it in her hand and took a sip in the wind.

It was not very tasty.

But she decided to eat in the cafeteria that day and give herself a vacation.

"Little aunt, little aunt, little aunt!"

"Little aunt, how was the exam?!"

…

It was really a one-person exam, and the whole colony cared. When Qin Rou went home to the colony, everyone who saw her asked how she did in the test, even the man who was standing guard at the door asked curiously.

It was because when Xia Mingxi went out, he said, "My little aunt has an exam today."

"Please take care of her."

Qin Rou was no longer interested in thinking about the scene of the two little childrens in kindergarten. Everyone in kindergarten must have known that his little aunt was going to take an exam.

"How was the test?"

It was okay.

What else could be said but that? It was too modest to say that she didn't do well in the exam. If she passed the exam, people would say that she was pretentious and if she said she did well in the exam and she didn't pass, it would be shameful.

"Auntie! Your test…"

Qin Rou was shocked, as even Jingyi asked her how she did in the test.

She really didn't know if her aunt's status was too high, or the brainwashing ability of Xia Mingxi was too strong after a whole day.

Qin Rou hugged the child and kissed jim. Xia Mingxi said he wanted a kiss so she kissed him as well, and took the two little guys upstairs to see the leek seedlings.

Originally, she planned to make something to eat for the two children in the evening, but Lu Yan unexpectedly came back, and brought back a pig's trotter.

"Why did you come back?"

"Changed duty with someone."

"Wife, how was the test?"

Qin Rou: "…"

Another one came.

"It was alright."

"That's fine," Lu Yan smiled. He came back at such a critical time. If his wife didn't pass the exam, he could comfort her.

Seeing that Qin Rou was in a good mood, Lu Yan felt relieved. When he saw her sea color shirt, the smile on his face deepened.

"You stare at me again and I'll beat you with a rolling pin," Qin Rou gave him a threatening look.

The reason for the incident was that Qin Rou turned over Lu Yan's shirt one day before. It was new and had not been worn yet. She found that she could use it as a nightdress, it was pure cotton.

Lu Yan was not at home, nor was she polite to him. After washing, she wore it directly. Who knew that when the man came back to see her at night, he would be as excited as a cat eating catnip…

He especially liked her to wear his clothes.

He wished she wore all his clothes.

It was alright to wear his sea soul shirt, as for the rest… the humiliating size gap?

The sea color shirt was a military product

At her strong request, Lu Yan helped her get a similar shirt that fit her size.

In the era, the sea color shirt and white shoes were quite fashionable and could be worn by both men and women.

"You don't know how to use the rolling pin I bought for you, so all you have to do is beat me."

Qin Rou smiled and kissed him on the face, "Who asked you to buy so much?"

Lu Yan took the opportunity to touch her hand, and Qin Rou exploded, "Did you use the hand you touched the pig's hoof with?"

"No, no, I didn't touch it."

"Yes, you touched the hoof."

"Lu Yan, where did you get the money to buy the pig' trotters? Did you hide the money from me?"

"I got paid some subsidies, and the rest were handed over by the leader."

"Thank your leader for me."

To have a mouthful of pork to eat was equivalent to a holiday. Qin Rou made braised pork trotters and cooked pork offal soup.

Only after eating a lot of seafood could one know the benefits of the second senior brother.

The second senior brother (pork) was now very expensive.

As for other small seafood such as shrimp and sea urchins, they were not expensive. There were few people fishing, and there was a lot of seafood and fish in the sea, so they were not worth a lot of money.

The aroma in the house next door was scattered, the braised pig trotters' smell was extremely domineering, and the aroma of the soup had been floating all the time.

The little tea spirit next door not only liked drinking tea, she also liked making soup.

The Zhang family ate the canteen meal, and Zhang Chengbei complained a lot, "I'll bring you some rice, and some of it would be good."

"I asked you to knead the steamed buns and noodles," Huang Xinying drank tea quietly and was full.

She really didn't know why the small tea spirit could drink too much tea.

Zhang Chengbei: "…"

Since a couple moved in the house next door, why had the way she treated him declined?

Miao:

精 (jīnɡ) which means spirit. Lemon spirit means literal: a lemon which became human after cultivation, fig: jealous

Tea spirit which our FL is being called can be due to her drinking tea everyday, or slang for green tea: which is a woman who talks in a girlish voice and has extremely sweet looks. She is always kind to everyone around her, but is cunning.

The results of the written test, oral test, and interview had all come out.

When Qin Rou went to the radio station to report, she saw another woman who was also admitted. This one named Wang Lichun was none other than the girl in the polka dot shirt who was shaking like a sifter in the waiting room that day.

When Wang Lichun saw Qin Rou, she smiled shyly, "I don't know how I got admitted, I got sh*t luck."

(Sh*t luck describing someone having a stroke of luck during a time of misfortune)

"I almost wanted to push the door and run away when I went in."

The woman was a showman!

Qin Rou also smiled shyly, "Me too, a pie fell from the sky and hit me on the head. I even got first place in the test."

Wang Lichun: "…"

The two of them went to the radio station in the city. Together with the two of them, the broadcast group had a total of six announcers, four women and two men.

At the time, the broadcast was divided into three time periods, morning, middle and evening, from 5:00 to 8:00 in the morning, from 10:50 to 2:30 in the afternoon, and from 5:30 to 11 in the night.

The content of the program also varied. The chorus would be announced at the beginning of each broadcast, there would be radio gymnastics in the morning, learning of Marxist-Leninist thoughts, news, newspaper summaries, broadcasts to rural communes, workers, etc., as well as weather forecasts and literary programs, as well as rebroadcasting programs of China Central Radio.

In addition to the daily broadcast, the announcer was also responsible for the live broadcast of major events such as conferences in the city.

Qin Rou's voice was in good condition. She used to sing. She was assigned to be in charge of the noon radio program preview, weather forecast and two literary programs.

The morning, noon and evening programs were basically the same. There were four weather forecasts a day, one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and another at the end of the broadcast.

There were also literary and art programs and news programs in each time period. It was made considering that everyone listened to the radio at different times every day.

The noon broadcast started at 10:50. She only needed to arrive at the radio studio before 10:00 to prepare. The broadcast ended at 2:30 in the afternoon, and she could go back at about 3:00 to 3:30, and there would be a once a week rotation.

Qin Rou was very satisfied with the working time. She could sleep in late, but she couldn't take a nap. She had to postpone it. It took ten to twenty minutes to get back from the radio station. She could go back and sleep again.

Really pleasant working time.

Wang Lichun looked at Qin Rou with more resentment. Although she was admitted, she was in charge of the morning broadcast.

The two of them were newcomers, and only the options of morning and noon were given to them. The secretary asked Qin Rou to choose, and she said, "Noon."

Wang Lichun, who had no choice, could only do the morning shows. The broadcast started at 5 o'clock, and she had to prepare at 4 o'clock. She would get up earlier than chickens in the future.

She wanted to exchange with Qin Rou, but the woman didn't agree.

"Sister Qin Rou, why can't you let me? I have something to do at home in the morning, and I have to get up to take care of my old mother. My mother has always had a problem with her waist. Every morning I get…"

Qin Rou: "…"

"Didn't you think that you may have to get up in the morning to work when you took the announcer exam?"

Wang Lichun: "I didn't expect it to be so early."

"Sister Qin Rou, please, help me."

Qin Rou had no sympathy at all. First of all, she didn't believe this woman, so she was as hard-hearted as iron, "If you don't need this job opportunity, you can give it to someone else, such as the one who spoke to you on the day of the test."

"You are so smart, you got second place in the test, and you can find other jobs that don't require you to get up early, I believe in your ability."

Qin Rou patted her shoulder, and then rode her bicycle home happily.

Who let her take the first rank?

The news that Qin Rou was admitted to be an announcer spread throughout the whole colony. Everyone came to congratulate her. Qin Rou made some coconut glutinous rice and sent it to a few neighbors, for example, the next door Zhang family.

Mr. Zhang was very happy, thinking that Xiao Qin finally had a serious job, and would no longer stay at home drinking tea every day to stimulate his wife. His good days would start again.

Let Xiao Qin get busy!

"Xiaoying, you can try it, this cake Xiao Qin made is really good."

Huang Xinying was not as happy as him. Xiao Qin was admitted as an announcer, not as a teacher at their school.

Really disappointed.

She also wanted to see her become a language teacher in the lower grades, and be made to cry by the naughty kids.

Strange to say, the two little nephews raised next door were too temperamental… Huang Xinying didn't know how to describe them.

One was too quiet…as for the other…it was hard to say.

The only advantage may be that he was optimistic. He didn't like to cry. She had never seen the child cry. He ate everything she fed.

Huang Xinying: "…"

Thinking about her son, and about the naughty children in the class, Huang Xinying thought to herself, why didn't she meet kids who would make her feel at ease?

What made Huang Xinying even more unacceptable was that even if the tea spirit next door started to work, she still drank tea in the yard every morning!

After she came back from school, she still saw the tea spirit next door drinking afternoon tea. Not only did she drink afternoon tea, but also read Russian novels while drinking it.

If Lu Yan came back early, he would take a quick shower and put on clean clothes. The couple would read novels under the thatched umbrella in blue and white sea color shirts. Qin Rou knew a few words, but when she didn't get a word, she asked Lu Yan who would explain. The two would chat with each other.

The young couple looked at each other happily and smiled, and when they saw Huang Xinying next door, they would take the initiative to say hello.

"Hello, sister-in-law."

Huang Xinying: "…"

Was this endless?!

Huang Xinying went to inquire about Lu Yan's situation. After inquiring, she secretly looked forward to it, hoping that Qin Rou would get pregnant soon, and it would be best to have a boy right away.

Huang Xinying had raised a boy herself. She knew how tiring raising a child was, and she had to let the little tea spirit next door taste the same.

She closed her eyes, and what appeared in her mind was a relaxed-looking Qin Rou sitting under the thatched umbrella, leisurely looking at the coconut trees in front of her, white clouds and blue sky, as beautiful as a painting.

She couldn't tell what kind of dissatisfaction it was.

There used to be a girl who would sit under the banyan tree and read Russian, Chinese novels, but that was a long way ago.

She too would change sooner or later, it was just a matter of time.

And she just wanted to speed up the process.

When Lu Yan came back, Huang Xinying took the initiative to send a bowl of fried oysters, scallops, abalone and a bowl of small fried pork to their house.

"Try my cooking,"

After chatting with the couple, Huang Xinying pretended to inadvertently remind Qin Rou, "Drink less strong tea, if you get pregnant with a child, it will be bad for the child."

"The two of you should hurry up to have a child."

After giving birth to a child, all kinds of contradictions would come.

Qin Rou: "?!"

The people in the colony were too concerned. A while before, they just urged her to find a job, but now they were urging her to give birth.

The organization assigned partners, the organization arranged the dates, and the community urged them to have a baby.

Lu Yan: "!"

There were still two little guys in the family. Lu Yan didn't want to have a child so soon. After all, he still wanted to enjoy his life with his wife as a couple.

He smiled and said, "I want to wait two or three years to have a child with my wife."

Qin Rou agreed, "Me too, I'm not in a hurry."

The two of them took safety measures, and neither of them wanted her to get pregnant for the time being.

"Why—" Huang Xinying immediately gave full play to her crackling while lecturing, "It's great to have a child, and it can also enhance the relationship between husband and wife, don't you want a child of your own?"

Qin Rou: "…"

Lu Yan: "…"

Huang Xinying went home with a long sigh. The young couple from the Lu family were also very persistent, and neither of them wanted to have a baby for the time being.

It was very sad.

Husband Zhang Chengbei was very dissatisfied with the incident, "You are too attentive to the family next door, you are asking about Comrade Lu's situation, and even delivering food to his family."

Zhang Chengbei had not been happy at all recently. His political commissar, Lao Liu, had gone on an errand to Guangcheng, and he took his wife Li Qinghua with him. Zhang Chengbei secretly thought he was going to take his lazy wife to send her back to his hometown, but he didn't expect them to come back with a lot of joy.

After coming back, his face was full of spring, and he said that he and his wife watched a movie at the cinema in Guangcheng, and also went to a state-run restaurant to eat rice rolls…

Zhang Chengbei used to show off his virtuous wife in front of Lao Liu, but it didn't work anymore. Lao Liu accompanied his lazy little wife to a movie. It was like eating some ecstasy soup. (m:love potion).

He talked to him about things related to his family. He could happily mention how he took his wife to the cinema to watch a movie that day, how the movie was, and how the atmosphere was.

Zhang Chengbei felt very uncomfortable.

Was it so nice to watch a movie?

He sneered in his heart. Zhang Chengbei never felt that there was any beauty in going to the movies, and there was a white curtain screen. Haven't they seen enough in the camp? Even the young couple went to the movies.

But Lao Liu would mention it every time. When he mentioned it, his face became tense, as if he had met something great.

So Zhang Chengbei went to ask Lu Yan next door if he had gone to the movies with his wife.

After half an hour passed, Zhang Chengbei knew that he had asked the wrong person.

—Why did he ask Lu Yan?

It made him even more itchy. Why did they all go to the movies with their wives and show off to him like that?

He couldn't take it anymore, he felt suffocated.

He had no choice but to propose to Huang Xinying to go to Guangcheng to watch a movie together, but who knew he was scolded by her.

"Are you sick? Why do we have to go so far away, don't you think it's troublesome?"

Zhang Chengbei insisted, "I don't think it's troublesome."

"Okay, if you don't think it's troublesome, then help me wash the seafood."

Zhang Chengbei: "…"

"Go, why don't you go?"

His days were over!

After becoming an announcer, Qin Rou's life was much busier than before. After tidying up the yard at home, she sat under the thatched umbrella and flipped through the manuscripts, drinking some hot tea.

There were a lot of unfamiliar things to learn about the job. Fortunately, the broadcasting work in the era was really simple. Qin Rou had come back from a more advanced era. Facing these old machines and equipment, she could quickly get started.

She could even help with debugging equipment.

D*mn hands-on ability.

The staff praised her, "Smart and powerful!"

"Xiao Qin is too capable, an excellent announcer, her literary program is very well broadcast, and the first broadcast received a good response."

Compared with her, Wang Lichun was struggling to keep up.

Wang Lichun originally thought that she could use her excellent ability to surpass Qin Rou. When she first entered, she said a lot of modest words, saying, "I can't compare to Qin Rou." "Qin Rou is too powerful, she got first place in the test."

"She got admitted based on her ability, I was just lucky, I had sh*t luck."

At the beginning, the people in the platform would comfort her, "How can you be admitted just because of sh*t luck? You must be capable."

The result came later.

Wang Lichun heard someone say in private, "She doesn't really seem to get admitted by her ability."

"Yes, yes, Xiao Qin is very good and has solid skills. I think her attitude is serious."

"Some people can rely on sh*t luck for once, but it's impossible to have sh*t luck every time."

"It's just…"

"Who made it slippery that day, she stepped on sh*t luck."

Wang Lichun's face got ugly. It was like shooting oneself in the foot.

In the past, Wang Lichun liked to deliberately belittle herself in front of people who were inferior to her, and then heard them say, "No way, you are much better than me. If you say that, how can I live?"

That would give Wang Lichun an inexplicable satisfaction.

She also liked to pretend to be incompetent on purpose. In fact, she was already prepared, and only made a hit at the most critical moment, making people look up to her.

Finally, she would say something very lightly, like having sh*t luck.

When the person was really better than her, the words she deliberately demeaned herself became a real fact.

Wang Lichun had a very powerless feeling of anger.

Qin Rou met a girl from the editor and reporter team. Xi Xiangyi was a very elegant girl. Qin Rou liked the literary manuscripts she wrote, so she came into contact with this seemingly indifferent girl.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they got in touch, the two chatted very happily. She found that Xi Xiangyi was not a cold and withdrawn girl. Like many people who liked to do writing work, she liked to read Russian novels, and she had collected a lot of novels.

Qin Rou shared fruit tea with her, and Xi Xiangyi lent her the novels she had collected, and even wrote literary manuscripts for her.

As Qin Rou was not very familiar with the popular novels of the era, she did not know which stories were good, so Xi Xiangyi would tell her a lot.

The novels that Xi Xiangyi recommended to her were really good, and since there were no other entertainment activities, and no mobile phones or computers, Qin Rou also started drinking tea and reading novels.

Sitting under the thatched umbrella to read the Russian novels, when Lu Yan came back, he would come over to read it with her, and she would discuss the plot of the novel with him. At the time, she found that Lu Yan was actually very good at Russian. Not only was he good at it, but he spoke it very well. He said that he learned it from a foreign ship repair master who used to be on the ship.

Of course, not a ship repairer, but an engineer.

Qin Rou secretly hoped that he could make a confession, but the upright man didn't seem to understand the kind of romance.

Iron hearted man.

When discussing the plot with him, he really talked about the plot with her seriously.

Qin Rou: "…"

The man was probably the type who couldn't speak love.

Coincidentally, neither did she.

Qin Rou actually planned to save it. She quietly asked Xi Xiangyi and borrowed a copy of "Jane Eyre" and planned to discuss it with Lu Yan.

In addition, Qin Rou had another sentence that she wanted to tell Lu Yan for a long time.

She wanted to say: I want to take back the words I said in the past of just living together.

"Lu Yan, look, the heroine in this book is so good at communication, look, I'm not very good…"

Lu Yan looked at her with a smile, "Who said that? You obviously know very well."

"I'm very good at communication? I mean I'm not very good at talking about love."

"You're very good. You said that you want to live with me. Isn't it the most beautiful love story?"

Qin Rou: "…"

That couldn't be answered.

"Okay, then let's continue to live like this."

"Sister Huang is here, let's say hello to her."

Although Lu Yan didn't know how to speak love, he gave her a pocket watch. It was a pair of pocket watches. It was obvious that people in the era liked to give watches, so he found someone to fiddle with a pair of pocket watches, one for each person. He used all his private money, and finally Qin Rou paid the balance.

Little prodigal man.

The surface of the pocket watch was silver, the pattern was simple. It was quite beautiful.

But as soon as the pocket watch was opened, it was silly inside.

One side was the dial, the other side was:

– Standard ID photo of an army officer.

The man in the photo had handsome features, long eyes, indescribable high-spiritedness, just like he wanted to join the army and go to the battlefield, the kind that could be used as a publicity photo.

Qin Rou: "…"

Qin Rou wanted to know which photo of her was on Lu Yan's pocket watch, but he didn't show it to her. Later, she found out that it was the ID photo she took to fill in the work file form.

Beautiful, even if she looked too serious, she was also high-spirited, like going on the battlefield.

After all, it was a work photo. One couldn't look very depressed, of course she was proud of it.

Lu Yan's picture was also his ID photo.

There was absolutely no favoritism.

It had to be said that Qin Rou held these two watches together, and inexplicably also had a little sense of CP. (couple pairing)

Qin Rou, who got the pocket watch, was very happy. She didn't want to use it too much as she was afraid that she would lose it accidentally.

She had already started to get familiar with the work of the radio station. Her sister Qin Mian called her. On the phone, she said that her family was also coming to Qiongzhou Island, "There was a vacancy in Haiken Farm, and I reported for it."

Qin Rou didn't expect such a coincidence, nor did she expect her sister to come over so soon, "It's just the right time to come here, the winter here is not too cold, and it is suitable for the elderly to live. Sister, you can take care of your father-in-law's body."

"I think so too."

"Did brother-in-law agree?"

"Agreed."

Qin Mian hung up the phone, but in fact her husband did not agree. Maybe for some reason and careful thinking, he had his own stubbornness in his heart.

Their family was willing to go to the sea reclamation farm, which was also a branch of the border, devoted to national construction, as an active reformer.

But he didn't think there was anything wrong with him and he didn't need to reform.

Her husband's way of thinking was a bit twisted. He used to be a diligent and conscientious teacher teaching and educating people. He was strict with students. He had done nothing wrong and was worthy of students.

If he compromised, it was as if he really did something wrong.

The Chen family used to be a rather noble scholar.

Their daughter, Chen Juanjuan, was not actually called so before, but Chen Jingxi. Later, she wanted to change her name to Juanjuan, because Juanjuan was as good as the surrounding.

"I'm not going," Chen Mian coldly refused.

"If you don't go, then I'll take my two children and my father-in-law."

The world was really changing. In the past, her father-in-law didn't think much of her uneducated mountain girl, but the relationship became good.

Chen Mian was stunned, "My dad is willing to go?"

"Your dad supports us to go."

Everything started anew, and she didn't want to see a decadent husband again.

She wanted to go somewhere else.

Qin Rou was really happy to learn that her sister's family was coming over. She hugged her little nephew Chen Jingyi and kissed him, "Our Jingyi's parents are coming."

"Mom…Mom?"

"Auntie!"

When Qin Rou left, she took photos of her sister and her family, and often taught him to recognize them. He still remembered his parents.

Qin Rou still wanted to change her sister and brother-in-law's job, but it was not as serious as before. Qin Rou went to ask the principal Wu Min, but she had news from her side. There was a lack of educational resources on the island, and a shortage of good teachers.

"You can arrange for him to be a teacher in a junior high school."

"Your brother-in-law is good enough as a high school teacher."

In mid-November 1971, it had been three months since they came to the island. For more than a month, the temperature in other places may be as low as single digits, but Qiongzhou Island entered a very comfortable season.

They were able to wear skirts and short sleeves…so to speak, it was about the same as summer elsewhere.

Although the temperature was high, there was a sea breeze. As long as a person was not exposed to the sun, they would not feel uncomfortably hot.

Some colony members felt that July and August were hot, but Qin Rou didn't feel that at all. After all, she used to grow up in Shenzhen, and the summer in Shenzhen and Guangcheng was really hot as there was no wind.

Many people couldn't survive without air conditioning.

In a long time of heat, people would get used to it, and the heat resistance would increase. Qin Rou once had a friend who stayed in Shenzhen for three months. It was said that she later returned to her hometown to spend the summer. Her father saw her at home in July and August without an air conditioner or fan, and looked at her like looking at a lunatic.

"Aren't you hot?"

"…It's not hot."

When Qin Rou was in college, she also met a classmate from Qiongzhou Island. She shivered and said to her, "Winter in Guangcheng is so cold…"

"I can't get through it."

Qin Rou, who was still wearing the bare-legged dress, "?"

In short, the Shu dog barks at the sun, and the Cantonese dog barks at the snow.

"You must not have seen snow in your hometown."

Qin Rou couldn't help but think of a picture in the circle of friends. In a certain year, a "thick" layer of snow fell, and all the snow on the car cover piled up. Finally, she built a fist-sized snowman with two toothpicks inserted.

A dozen people in front of the car took pictures with their phones and sent them to the circle of friends.

Other places were about to welcome winter. Qin Rou had a bumper harvest of melons and fruits. The lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. that were planted before could be picked. Her yard had changed a lot.

That year's eggplants and loofahs were not lucky. The rotten roots were broken in the previous typhoon, and the replanted ones produced green shoots. Only tomatoes and cucumbers and leeks were growing very well, especially tomatoes. She built a pergola. It was covered with pretty little tomatoes.

She grew two kinds of tomatoes, one was a big red tomato and the other was a small tomato. The small tomato was very fruitful. There were more than 20 red and bright small tomatoes hanging on a vine, hanging down like beautiful curtains of agate beads.

Qin Rou took her little nephew to collect tomatoes, gave him a small basket, and picked off beautiful small red ones one by one.

"Try it, is it sweet?"

"Sweet."

They went to the chicken coop and got fresh eggs, and made a wonderful fairy dish – scrambled eggs with tomatoes.

She went to pick two batches of lettuce that she took care of and grown, ordered fungus, frozen tofu, shrimp slips, vermicelli, plus some prawns, abalone, squid, scallop meat, and cooked it into a small seafood hot pot to celebrate the autumn and winter seasons.

Qin Rou took her little nephew Chen Jingyi to eat seafood hot pot in the yard.

Xia Mingxi had been picked up a month ago, as a soldier friend took him to his mother.

Her man had gone to the sea for more than half a month and had not come back.

There were only her and her nephew left.

Qin Rou's sister Qin Mian's family was going to arrive at Qiongzhou Island in early December.

And she was going to go to Guangcheng in two days. She had to pass a week there, so she wanted to leave her little nephew Chen Jingyi and the yard to Li Qinghua who readily agreed.

"Xiao Qin, don't worry, leave it to me," Li Qinghua guaranteed that she would water the plants and feed the chickens on time.

"Sister Huahua, you can also pick a few of these in my yard and take them home. Don't let them spoil."

"Okay."

When Political Commissar Liu returned home, he saw his little wife seriously writing future plans.

Political Commissar Liu: "Future plans?!"

His wife was amazing, as she could write about future plans.

'On a certain day in a certain year, I have to go to Xiao Qin's yard…'

Political Commissar Liu didn't know if he should be laughing or crying, "I have never seen you so caring about our yard."

There was still a jackfruit tree in the yard, not even a little squirrel hung out at their house. Even if one wanted to steal coconuts, they didn't come to their house to steal them.

Only a little bit of leek lettuce was grown on the second floor terrace.

"Xiao Qin's yard is so beautiful, of course I have to pay attention, it's not like our yard."

"I don't have to worry about it."

Political Commissar Liu: "…" You have the face to say that?! You can help others to take care of their yard, but you can't take care of your own yard? Why is our yard like this? Who is the culprit?

The Lu family's yard was the most beautiful yard in the whole colony. Many of the yards were full of flowers, but they were not as beautiful as her small vegetable garden, because she was very good at layout and diligent in pruning the branches and leaves. The yard was not only fruitful, a few new flowers had been added.

Her yard had vegetables, flowers, chicken coop, thatched umbrella, deck chairs, and a small green lawn on which a shade swing was placed. The flower vines climbed onto the swing and formed small flower buds.

When many people passed by Lu's house, they took a look in the courtyard and praised the ingenuity of the hostess.

Recently, several new colony members had come there. Every time they came, they always asked who the home belonged to.

"That's Xiao Qin's house, and the yard is beautifully laid out."

"It's really ingenious."

"Isn't she an announcer? She goes to work late in the morning and comes back early in the afternoon. She has nothing to do all day, so she can take care of her own small yard."

"Aren't there some colony members who don't work? Don't they have more time?"

"She doesn't have any children yet. When you have a child, there is no time to take care of other things."

Qin Rou went to Guangcheng because the Provincial Radio and Television Business Administration organized a table tennis competition with various units. She wanted to go with the table tennis players of the unit. Of course, she did not participate in the competition, but went there as an announcer to broadcast the game live.

Table tennis was a popular activity. In the past two years, old and young people had been engaged in table tennis competitions, and even their colony members organized table tennis teams.

Originally, the matter had nothing to do with her, but she was picked to be the announcer of the competition, and the director said that it was an opportunity for her to take advantage of.

"You can be in the newspaper!"

Qin Rou thought: I don't want to be in the newspaper!

At the beginning, she didn't want to mix in the entertainment industry, and newspapers.

But such a good opportunity fell in her hands. If she didn't cherish it, she would be a little ignorant. The opportunity was very eye-catching.

Qin Rou could only pack her suitcases and go on a ship to Guangcheng with them. There were five of them. Besides her, there were four other contestants.

One of them was Wang Lichun. She had been practicing table tennis with people on the radio group. She got the opportunity to participate in the competition, and thought that she could go to Guangcheng at public expense. Who knew Qin Rou was hired to be an announcer.

"Some people are really lucky. We practiced tirelessly, but she'll just sit there watching us and move her mouth."

"Why don't I have such sh*t luck?"

"When I signed up for the competition, I was the one who was selected, but it turned out that some people just got sh*t luck."

Originally, Qin Rou and Wang Lichun seldom got together as one's show was in the morning and the other at noon. As Wang Lichun had to stay in the radio station to practice even at noon, there were more opportunities for the two to meet.

Qin Rou admired her very much, how could someone talk about sh*t luck every day?

"It's not about sh*t luck, it's about good character."

"I dreamed about koi fish yesterday, so I only had luck like koi fish."

As soon as Qin Rou finished speaking, she heard many people in the station laughing. Zeng Xueqing who was broadcasting at noon with her, couldn't stand Wang Lichun, "You were lucky every day with sh*t, can you eat less sh*t?"

Although only half a month had passed since her period, Qin Rou suspected that she was pregnant.

She and Lu Yan were not in a hurry to have a child at first, but after the chubby kid left, Qin Rou felt that the house was deserted, but she gradually got used to it.

Before going to sea, Lu Yan was a little reluctant to give up. As a result, he accidentally tore it up. Although Qin Rou was incapable of accepting it, and usually threw it away, at the critical moment, there was only one left.

In the middle of the night, he couldn't go to someone else's house to ask for it.

As her calculation, it was also in her safety period, so no safety measures were taken.

Qin Rou guessed that it wouldn't happen in one accident. If she did get pregnant, she would give birth. She did not reject having children, but she didn't want to, mainly because Lu Yan wanted to live a "no children" life for a period of time.

As soon as the two of them got married, they brought two kids and the children really made the atmosphere lively, but Xiao Lu envied the newlyweds, and the private world.

Qin Rou had discussed it with Lu Yan before. When her sister would come, the little nephew would naturally live with his parents. Then the two of them could spend a year as a sweet husband and wife, and then plan to have children.

Knowing that her sister and her husband were coming, the guy was really happy for a few days, as the private world of two he imagined was coming.

Qin Rou now felt that the silly man may be happy for nothing.

—His private world was a dream.

Although the child may still be a small bean sprout, home could no longer be regarded as a private world.

Speaking of which, she also found it strange. She had never been pregnant before, and had no personal experience. She just saw on the news that many women were pregnant for a few months without realizing it. But just after half a month, she suspected that she was pregnant.

She didn't know if it was her own delusion.

Qin Rou didn't dare to talk about it to the people around her. She asked Sister Huang once the previous week, but she started to advise her to give birth to children again.

It was hard to say such things. After realizing that she might be pregnant, Qin Rou began to pay attention to her diet and rest. If the task of going to Guangcheng had not fallen on her, she wouldn't want to go.

As the group went to Guangcheng, Qin Rou vomited so much on the ship, which startled everyone else. Fortunately, the time for their departure was at night. After she finished vomiting, she ate something and fell asleep.

Seeing her like that, Wang Lichun hid in the dark and rejoiced with her colleague Dong Wenhua, "She said that it was koi luck, but when she vomited like this, where is her luck? We won't have to wait until Guangcheng to lose someone to death."

Wang Lichun was very happy. She recently learned through another announcer who played tennis with her that she and Qin Rou were both on a three-month inspection period. If they didn't pass the inspection period, they could lose their job.

Generally speaking, if there were no other major problems, both of them could pass the inspection period.

But Wang Lichun was not satisfied with that. She hoped that Qin Rou could not pass the examination. If she could not pass the examination, would she get her place? She had been thinking of a way before, but she couldn't think of a way, but now she had an idea, "Dong Wenhua, if Qin Rou messes up this broadcast, will she fail the assessment?"

Dong Wenhua told her about the assessment, "If it's just one or two broadcast mistakes, then she may not have such a big responsibility…"

"Then how can I make her fail the assessment?"

"The problems that will only affect her are political ideology and personal behavior. Other problems are not big, she is a member of the military, there's no problem–"

"Her man is often away from home, and now he's gone for more than half a month. If you say she can't stand loneliness and hooked up with other men, it's a matter of bad behavior."

"Don't say nonsense."

"I'm not talking nonsense. Qin Rou is a coquettish woman. Look at her eyes, she fascinated the young men in the station."

"Tell me, if I go to Guangcheng to find a second-rate man and give her to—"

"I warn you, don't continue talking."

Both Wang Lichun and Dong Wenhua were stunned for a moment. It was the voice of a strange man, who was talking.

The two turned their heads and saw that it was a crew member with a flashlight.

Wang Lichun and Dong Wenhua immediately were relieved. Wang Lichun sneered. There was nothing to be afraid of, even if Qin Rou heard her saying that, as long as they didn't admit it, or confessed a mistake verbally, who could believe her?

Who knew that the two of them were heard by the person on the ship.

Generally, in order to prevent people from smuggling across the border, there were security equipment and security personnel on board.

"The two of you are suspected of committing a crime."

"We didn't, we were just chatting."

"What you two said just now is recorded on the ship's tape recorder."

"You insulted the army colony members on the ship, and you never thought that the crew members could be soldiers discharged from the army?"

Qin Rou arrived in Guangcheng, and only after getting off the boat did she know that Wang Lichun and Dong Wenhua were going to be dealt with because of their behavior.

She learned the cause and effect of the incident and thanked the crew.

"You are our friend's wife."

"In this sea, you cannot be bullied."

…

Qin Rou had seen too much malice since she was a child, because she was beautiful and too gorgeous, and it was easy to meet men who had evil thoughts on her, and took advantage of her in their behavior and speech… There would also be many people who deliberately speculate that she had done shady deeds based on her appearance.

It was not her fault that she looked gorgeous.

Qin Rou took out a pocket watch, opened it, and smiled charmingly and flamboyantly toward the sea.

She liked the sea and Lu Yan very much. She was no longer alone who could only protect herself. Now she had a husband, family and friends, as well as warm-hearted neighbors and comrades.

There may be children soon.

Qin Rou was really happy!

She had a lot of things to say, but her lover was not around, nor was Huahua. She wanted to talk about things related to Lu Yan, and after thinking about it, she couldn't help but call Director Sun of the art troupe.

"Director Sun, I'm Qin Rou."

"Qin, Qin Rou?" Director Sun, who received the call, was a little stunned. It had been four or five months since Qin Rou left. It was a long time ago.

Qin Rou, who had gone to Qiongzhou Island with the army officer, suddenly called her. Could it be that something happened?

A small pepper and a fiery man together, what good ending could they have?

Could it be a divorce?

It wouldn't be that fast either.

"Qin Rou, did something happen to you and the army officer?" When Director Sun answered the phone, Xue Tingting and Tang Ruibai happened to be in Director Sun's office. When they heard Qin Rou's voice on the other end of the phone, they immediately kept silent, not talking anymore.

Both of them were listening intently to the conversation between Qin Rou and Director Sun.

Tang Ruibai thought to herself, could it be that Tan Rou's matter was exposed?

Xue Tingting was looking forward to hearing Qin Rou's cry. That army officer was a domestic abuser. Qin Rou was living a miserable life on the island. So, after a few months, she couldn't stand it anymore?

"Director Sun, I want to thank you…"

Qin Rou said a lot on the other side in a crackling tone. Anyway, she was thanking Director Sun for helping her introduce Lu Yan, such a good husband.

Director Sun: "?!"

Tang Ruibai: "?" How is that possible?

Xue Tingting: "!" How come?

Qin Rou must be crazy, but her voice on the phone was really pleasant and happy.

Did she have a good life after marriage?

"Are you having a good time?"

"Yes, there are many, many good people here. The neighbors in the colony home are very nice. They care about me very much. They all came to encourage me when I went for the test of announcer… Sister Huahua is very interesting… Sister Huang from the house next door is a good woman who is virtuous and caring. She often comes to my house to take care of me…"

"Lu Yan is a good man, he is very considerate to me…"

…

Qin Rou on the other end of the phone was happy and bubbling up. After finishing speaking, she hung up the phone with no end in sight.

Director Sun, who hung up the phone, was in a trance. She didn't expect such a strange couple to live happily together.

The excitement and joy in Qin Rou's words couldn't be faked.

Was she really living a very happy life on Qiongzhou Island?

Was it possible?

Tang Ruibai on the side was also blown away by the bomb-like news.

Back in the dormitory, she told the others in the dormitory, "I'll tell you some news, Qin Rou has called back, she has arrived on Qiongzhou Island…"

It caused people to be surprised:

"Wow, she had a good time on the island!"

"The army officer is so handsome and treats her so well. Qin Rou is lucky. She was so happy to meet such a good man. I envy her!"

"When will the organization introduce me to such a good person?"

"…"

Xue Tingting, who returned to the dormitory, still couldn't believe it. How could Lu Yan be a good man? Was he good to Qin Rou? He was just a background board, but turned out to be one with excellent family background and good personal ability? Did he like his wife? (Background board: characters in background on novels, NPC)

Why was he better than the male protagonist?

Xue Tingting thought of Lin Changyan. Her relationship with the male protagonist Lin Changyan recently was flat, and she was even a little confused.

Lin Changyan was what she had always wanted, a man she had always insisted on and never regretted, and a dream she had during her college days. She used him as her hero and fantasized that the two of them would be able to live happily in the book.

But when she transmigrated to the book, the male God in her past dream… had become a lot less mediocre.

In the university before, there were few boys, and Lin Minghui's height and appearance were among the best. He was her fantasy.

She was no longer on the university campus of the past and had become even more beautiful after she became Xue Tingting, while Lin Changyan was still like Lin Minghui.

There were also many handsome and outstanding young soldiers in the military region of Liao Province.

The man Lin Changyan had become dim, even if he was willing to date Xue Tingting, she could no longer accept him in her heart.

In other words— she felt that Lin Changyan couldn't compare to Lu Yan, that young, handsome and tall naval officer. Lu Yan also had an extraordinary family background. She heard that there was a picture of him on the school's publicity board…

After Qin Rou married Lu Yan, Xue Tingting was brooding about that matter. She tried desperately to find someone to inquire about Lu Yan's various situations. The more she inquired, the more uncomfortable she became. …

Why was such a man given to Qin Rou cheaply?

Xue Tingting remembered the scene she saw at the gate of the art troupe that day. He stood beside Qin Rou. One was handsome and the other was soft. The two were like the sun and the moon. He thoughtfully sent her back to the dormitory and held her leather luggage box.

…

She remembered the scene of that day very clearly, and it was unforgettable for a long time.

She was unwilling to marry a man that was not as good as Qin Rou's. She wanted to marry a husband with better conditions than Lu Yan.

Xue Tingting didn't believe that Qin Rou was really happy after her marriage.

She was beautiful, and men would like her beauty for a while, but never for the rest of their lives.

The days to come were still long. Qin Rou and Lu Yan had only known each other for half a year. She went directly to Qiongzhou Island with him. Maybe they had never seen each other's parents. Would her parents-in-law like a woman like her who almost became a stepmother?

What about when she had a baby? When she gives birth to a child, her figure would be out of shape and her beauty gone, would a man still be nice to her?

Qin Mian's family packed up and prepared to go to Qiongzhou Island. That time the family moved, there was actually nothing to take. Qin Mian was very open to it. Her sister Qin Rou told her a lot about the situation on Qiongzhou Island. She was looking forward to the days to come.

Qin Mian was not afraid that she would not be able to adapt to the situation of Qiongzhou Island. She was not afraid of going north to Liao Province, not to mention that Qiongzhou Island seemed to be closer to her hometown.

Hmm…

Actually, she didn't know either, but Qiongzhou Island and their hometown were in the south.

The husband was still taciturn, and the father-in-law had become a lot more energetic. Maybe he knew that he was about to leave that place. Although it was his hometown, it was also a place that disgraced him.

He wanted to leave, go to a place where few people knew him, and cut off everything from the past.

The two children knew they were going to leave. Although they were reluctant to part with their friends, they were looking forward to seeing their aunt, uncle and younger brother Jingyi.

They also heard from their mother that there were very tall coconut trees on Qiongzhou Island, egrets flying on the coast, sweet jackfruit, and a little squirrel who came to his aunt's house to steal coconuts and got stuck in its head…

"Wow!"

There was actually a little squirrel stealing coconuts?

Why was it still stuck in the head? How did it steal?

The children exclaimed.

He Chunfang came to Chen's house to inquire about the situation. She heard that Qin Mian's family were going to Haiken Farm on Qiongzhou Island soon. Was that place good? So far apart, no one wanted to go.

She learned from the art troupe that Qin Mian's younger sister, Qin Rou, seemed to be married very well, and that the man was very considerate to her…

But she also inquired about the harsh conditions in Qiongzhou Island, where strong winds blew every year, and houses got blown down…

She even heard that there were many fleeing from there.

"Qin Mian, do you really want to go there?"

Qin Mian didn't want to pay any attention to her, but said lightly, "Yes."

"The conditions of our farm here are good enough. This is near Bincheng. If you go to those remote rural areas, you are going to suffer…"

He Chunfang didn't want Qin Mian to leave, although a rational analysis told her that Qin Mian would not have a good life in Qiongzhou Island, but she was really afraid that she would have a good time.

Qin Mian looked at her with a funny look, and said sternly, "Why do you think so much about leisure and work, but are afraid of suffering? Are you afraid of being involved? We should carry forward the spirit of hard work, not be afraid of suffering and being involved, and go to the place where the motherland needs us… "

He Chunfang: "…"

Chen Mian: "…"

"Workers are the most honorable…" Qin Mian said.

He Chunfang, who was dizzy by her words, left.

Qin Mian turned around and found that her husband looked at her strangely, "What are you looking at me for?"

Chen Mian suddenly smiled, he raised his hand and pushed down his glasses, his eyes were filled with memories, "I suddenly remembered some things from the past."

Qin Mian said clearly, "Do you mean that when you met me, I scolded people vividly on the mountain? You were sensible, gentle and generous."

Chen Mian: "I know."

"You know, after marrying you, I seldom eat chili. Let's try some tonight, and wish us a better life in the future. It's booming, I'll cook Mapo tofu, fish head with chopped peppers, and spicy dried bamboo shoots for you…"

"The peppercorns I got from Fatty Zhang last time were very fragrant," Qin Mian had no other preferences. She liked peppercorns.

Chen Mian: "Okay… Add three bowls of wine for me."

Seeing Qin Mian happily cooking, he suddenly remembered that brother-in-law, Lu Yan. Where was he from?

He suddenly wondered what his life was like.

The sun was shining brightly, the white clouds in the sky were gathered together very beautifully, the air was scented with flowers, the green branches and leaves were lush, it was incredible, in such a month to see such a view.

After October, Qiongzhou Island had entered a good time without typhoons.

Huang Xinying stood on the terrace on the second floor and looked at the scenery in the distance. She then took a sneak peek at the yard next door. The small yard next door was still beautiful, but there was an uncoordinated eye-catching guy.

The tea spirit was not at home these days.

Where she was originally, there was a certain mushroom head, swinging in the autumn when she had never sat, writing and drawing under the thatched umbrella where she had never been.

(Huahua)

It was really annoying and uncomfortable.

The good mood of the day was gone.

It was better than a small tea spirit at home.

Huang Xinying snorted coldly, and when her husband came back, she finally couldn't help but say, "Why did the neighbor next door leave, and I was not allowed to help her take care of her yard?"

Wasn't that little tea spirit living afar?

Obviously, she was next door to her house.

Zhang Chengbei had been living a beautiful life recently, Lu Yan was away, and he felt at ease again. When Lu Yan was there, he had to sneak into the yard to do laundry every night.

It was finally no longer needed.

Zhang Tuan picked up an enamel cup and took a sip of hot water, "She knows that you are a teacher, and you are so busy on weekdays, so why would she bother you?" Huang Xinying raised her eyebrows, "She knows that I'm so busy on weekdays, why don't you know?"

Zhang Chengbei sighed.

D*mn, when would their neighbors be transferred? Or he could be transferred.

Since they came, his life had been getting worse, and his virtuous wife of the past had begun to become unvirtuous.

This was a woman's terrible jealousy and comparison, and it was really ugly.

However, the men were not united, and Lu Yan was a traitor, which made Zhang Chengbei struggle to maintain his face.

He used to call his wife too virtuous outside, but now she was not virtuous. Who was the one who was embarrassed? It was not her, it was himself, Zhang Chengbei.

A woman's heart for comparison was unbelievable.

Zhang Chengbei took the hoe handed over by Huang Xinying, and resignedly went to the yard to dig the ground. His wife ordered him to grow vegetables and flowers in the yard in the future, to be on par with the next door, no better than the yard next door.

God, did she want him to be an old man to grow vegetables and flowers?

"Lu Yan didn't grow vegetables or flowers, so why didn't his wife ask him to take care of the yard?"

Huang Xinying said lightly, "Then you do the laundry, cook, clean the house, take the children and help me prepare lessons."

Zhang Chengbei: " "…"

"Don't be afraid of people laughing at you, you just say you want to cultivate your sentiments."

"Our family doesn't need to grow vegetables, we can't make it through…"

"No."

Women's hearts for comparison were really unbelievable.

Zhang Chengbei was digging the ground, but a small mushroom head appeared out of nowhere. It was Li Qinghua, the slacker wife of his political commissar. Li Qinghua looked at him and laughed, "Mr. Zhang, do you also grow vegetables and flowers?"

"Hey, do you know how?"

…

Zhang Chengbei closed his eyes, thinking that the one next door should come back quickly!

Qin Rou ended her trip in Guangcheng. Their group did not win the prize in the Guangcheng table tennis competition. They originally planned to get a participation prize. Qin Rou's broadcasting was not bad, and she received advice from many seniors. This newcomer was originally given a chance from above to learn.

Although she didn't get any prize, Qin Rou got a panda tea set as an announcer.

A cute bamboo-eating panda was printed on the small teacup. She liked it very much, so she happily accepted the panda tea set.

Qin Rou also bought a lot of tea in Guangcheng. Thinking that she might be pregnant and not suitable for drinking tea, she planned to keep it or use it as a gift, such as giving it to Sister Huang next door. It seemed that she also liked tea.

The days in Guangcheng were also the days when she could eat rice rolls, happily.

She also picked out a lot of things in Guangcheng, bought a lot of seasonings, picked a belt for Lu Yan, and bought a lot of things for her upcoming sister, brother-in-law, nephew and niece, and packed a large bag.

Lu Yan knew a lot of friends at the pier, who helped her load things onto the ship. After returning, the orderly helped her deliver the things to the door of the courtyard.

Sister Huang, who was next door, seemed very happy to see her back, "Xiao Qin, are you back?"

The tea spirit was back, so that mushroom essence should go away. She would rather see beautiful tea spirit than looking at that mushroom essence.

"Sister, I bought some new tea, do you want it? I thought of you when I bought it."

Huang Xinying: "…Okay, thank you Xiao Qin."

The tea spirit only brought her tea.

A few days after Qin Rou came back, she saw herself in the newspaper. She touched her belly. If she was really pregnant, he or she would also be in the newspaper with his mother!

She would keep that newspaper, and later, point to the people in the newspaper and ask, "How many people do you think are there?"

After having fun alone for a long time, she opened her pocket watch and looked at the man in the photo.

She really missed him.

She took a deep breath and went to Huahua's house to bring Chen Jingyi back. Jingyi had indeed changed a lot. After Xia Mingxi left, he would draw him and say that he missed Xixi.

Little Fatty, the little bee who was busy buzzing around and couldn't rest for a moment! They thought he was noisy when he was around but after the little bee disappeared, they missed him very much.

Qin Rou asked about Xiao Jingyi's situation in Liu's house. He got along very well with Liu Yue. Liu Yue was also a good-tempered kid. He also talked a lot and was so loud that he could be heard from far away, "Mom!"

After taking Jingyi back, Qin Rou found that the little guy had a good appetite, so he grabbed chopsticks to eat.

"Good! Eat!" Xiao Jingyi looked at her with wide wet black eyes.

Auntie was back.

"Do you like to eat what your aunt makes?"

"I like it."

"Steamed buns…"

"You still miss your uncle?!" Qin Rou was very surprised, it seemed that the big steamed buns made by her husband were really good.

Xiao Jingyi missed him very much.

To be honest, she missed it a little too. Although she didn't eat big steamed buns very much usually, it wasn't bad to eat a big steamed bun with hot goat milk in the morning…

She missed it so much, and every time seeing the uncle and nephew eating steamed buns, Qin Rou got very happy.

If she had a son in the future, the fat son would eat big steamed buns with his father; if she had a daughter in the future, the fat daughter would eat big steamed buns with her father…

Imagining the scene, it was very magical.

Father and son or father and daughter knead steamed buns together, which was a bit cute.

The family wore sea color shirts and went to the beach to fish small seafood. The sea crabs on some tidal flats were particularly ferocious, and sometimes they accidentally encountered jellyfish…

The child would like to go to the beach to play with the sand, and parents brought them to build castles…

Maybe she was influenced by hormones or the residual effect of being a kindergarten teacher in the past. How could Qin Rou think of what it would be like to have a child in the future?

It would be embarrassing if it came out that she wasn't pregnant.

On the day her sister arrived, Qin Rou took Xiao Jingyi to the pier to pick them up. After waiting for an hour or two, they finally saw the ship. The two sisters were very happy to meet each other.

"Sister!"

"Sister!" The two hugged each other. After they separated, Qin Rou pulled Xiao Jingyi over. The little guy looked at Qin Mian without blinking, and shouted a little shyly, "Dad, mom."

Qin Mian couldn't stop the laughter, hugged her little son in her arms, and pointed to Chen Mian, "This is your dad."

"Auntie!"

"Auntie! "

Children's voices had a stronger energy than adults.

Chen Jinghua and Chen Juanjuan surrounded Qin Rou as she smiled and hugged them one by one. She had more relatives and friends around.

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

"He went to sea and hasn't come back yet," Qin Rou replied with a smile. After coming back, he should be able to have several days off.