Raising Babies in the 70s

Qin Rou took the cloth to her sister Qin Mian's house to make clothes. Qin Mian's house was in a school near the farm. Small huts, made up a school.

It is not comparable to the conditions when they were on the Ben Thanh farm. The house they lived in at that time was still made of bricks, and now they live in a thatched hut.

There are not many teachers and principals in the school, and many of the students are children from poor families in the nearby villages, dressed in rags, and come to school naked.

Qin Mian sewed small pants for these children with shabby rags. The sun was shining during the day and the children did not have umbrellas. Squirrel-like leaves.

In the past, the teachers here were not very literate. After graduating from junior high school and high school, they could become elementary school teachers. Now, after Chen Mian came, he, a "college student", has become the most literate teacher in the whole school. .

Not to mention her father-in-law, Chen Yubai, who was originally a university teacher.

Chen Mian speaks fluent English, he will teach children foreign languages, other languages ​​and mathematics, he also teaches very well, the principal and other teachers are very respectful to their family, Chen Yubai occasionally Will help a few teachers on behalf of the class.

Chen Yubai has read countless history books. He has a lot of stories to tell children. Many students like to go to him to find Grandpa Chen to listen to stories.

The parents of the students here are not literate people, but they respect the teacher. The little fish and shrimps by the sea are not worth a lot of money, so let the children bring the school to the teacher to eat together.

There are a lot of wild fruits on the mountain at this time. The Chen family took their younger brother Jing Yi and other children to pick fruits in the forest, and they ate happily every day.

Many villagers also planted some fruit trees. Of course, the fruit is not worth much. The mountain lychee on a whole tree is only 50 cents.

If you can’t eat it, it can only be rotten. At this time, there are no storage and transportation conditions. Not much sun.

The Chen family lives here with small fish, small shrimps and wild fruits. The conditions here are not good, but they will not be hungry. Knowing that her sister and brother-in-law are coming, Qin Rou also planted some food on the second floor of her house. Boxes of leeks, lettuce and tomatoes were delivered to my sister's house.

The school also allocated a vegetable plot to their family. Qin Mian was planning to do a good job in the same way as her sister's yard.

Lu Yan borrowed a transport car to bring Qin Rou over, and went with her brother-in-law to pick up some planks and thatch, and prepared to build two or three more houses. Well, it is not suitable to wait until the typhoon day, you have to hide in the teaching building to avoid the typhoon.

In the thatched hut, the windows were opened, and the light in the day was excellent. Qin Mian sat in front of the sewing machine, turned over the rags and plaids brought by her sister, and praised: "These are good cloths, and they're not cheap. You just got married, so you really should make some new clothes. When my sister measures you, I'll make some clothes for you right away."

"Is there a red cloth? My sister will make you a bright red dress. Even if you don't wear it out, you can keep it."

"This kind of floral and plaid can be made into simple shirts or skirts, the white ones can be made into tops, and the army green ones can be made into trousers...I don't need to make trousers, I used to have some You can save on wearing military pants... Lu Yan's old clothes can be changed, and I can wear them too. They just issued new military uniforms... Here are some cloths, help me make two for my little nephew."

"You did it for him before. His older brothers and sisters still have old clothes to wear. It's not a waste of your good cloth. If there are rags, I will not be polite to you. I'll change it into small clothes."

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"Sister, how is your family living here?"

"Okay, why not? Look at your brother-in-law and his father, they are in better spirits..."

Qin Mian used to be a girl in the mountains, so naturally she didn't dislike such living conditions. She was afraid that her husband and father-in-law would dislike her. As a result, the two men were fine, but they liked it here.

I probably like the sunshine and air here. I said goodbye to my previous life. There are new people around me, and they are very kind to them. Although the students are naughty, they are also very kind. Respect the teacher.

Every day I see clear blue sky and white clouds, dazzling sunshine, green eyes, lush mountains and fresh air, even if I live in a thatched cottage, I feel open.

Especially my father-in-law's body, after coming here, it gradually improved and became a tough little old man.

He sometimes rides his bicycle around, and chats with the old people in the village. He also heard that the old people here are very long-lived, and he wants to be an old man.

It's hard to tell my sister about this.

"Your father-in-law and mother-in-law gave you so much cloth, you are very generous, you should get along well."

In this era, other things are not expensive, cotton is the most expensive, and you can't save many cloth tickets in a year, it's three years old and three years old, and three years of sewing and repairing, like Although the people here have a full stomach, raising money to buy cloth is a big problem.

Nobody wants.

Those like Pippi shrimp are also thrown into the pit for composting.

"I haven't met his parents yet, so I don't know how to get along well, so I just said a few words on the phone."

When she received so many cloths, Qin Rou was really taken aback. The production of cotton cloths is low at the moment, it is not easy to buy cloths, even if you have money, you have to pay extra cloth tickets , And there are not many cloth tickets per person for a year, and they can only be used tightly. If there are children at home, which one is not the boss wearing the second one, and the second one wearing the third one.

However, at this time, green military uniforms and blue military uniforms are popular. If you have military uniforms issued after you become a soldier, you can save a lot of cloth tickets.

In 1972, the problem of difficulty in dressing has not been solved. It was only in these two years that advanced foreign petrochemical equipment was introduced, and more chemical fiber production lines were opened. After a few more years, there will be " Really good" fabrics are widely circulated in the market.

When she was in Guangcheng, Qin Rou also saw some really good clothes. These came from Hong Kong Island. At this time, there was a train connecting Hong Kong Island and the mainland every day. A steel bridge is built. People from the other end of the bridge come here to visit relatives. They come here in new clothes in the morning, and go back in tattered clothes at night, leaving their good clothes to their families on the other end.

"When I meet his parents in the future, take good care of it..." Qin Mian is an experienced person, so he told him about his previous experience with his in-laws, "My sister was in bad conditions, you How good it is now, our sister has been admitted to the announcer again, how excellent."

, if they knew about it, they would definitely envy me."

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The two sisters laughed and chatted, and after a while, two women came uninvited outside, one with a mole on her forehead, the other wearing a sea soul shirt and green military pants, walked in together room.

They had a piece of clothing in their hands, and they came to find Qin Mian to sew and mend it.

"Qin Mian, I'm coming to see you again." The woman with a large mole on her forehead smiled, her name was Sun Mingfang, and she used to be from the same village as Qin Mian , I played together when I was a child, and the feelings were neither salty nor light.

The woman beside her was her sister Sun Mingli.

Sun Mingfang looked at the thatched house where Qin Mian lives now, and the pride and joy in her eyes became even greater.

She didn't expect to be able to "meet an old friend" on this small island, and the person she met was Qin Mian.

What makes her secretly happy is that Qin Mian has become like this now.

In those days, Qin Mian, a poor girl like them, could climb up to a literate "beautiful scholar" like Chen Mian. Man, she followed the handsome scholar and married to Liao Province. For the girls in the mountains, it was like a dream. Qin Mian flew up the branches and turned into a phoenix, and became a scholar's wife.

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Life is not bad or not, she also called her sister over here and wanted to find her a military husband here. There are many navies in the naval port.

Now that she saw Qin Mian who was down and out, Sun Mingfang's heart was instantly relieved. She used to envy this girl flying up the branches to become a phoenix, but now the phoenix has changed back to a grass chicken, living in this broken In the grass hut, her college student husband, teaching in this shabby school, is really laughable, not as good as the man she married.

This is probably a feng shui turn.

Sun Mingfang couldn't help but look at Qin Mian these days, and she felt at ease when she looked at her current appearance.

Now she stepped on this wild girl under her feet.

"Qin Mian, please help my sister to mend some clothes, you have to be careful, don't break my sister, my sister is not the same as before, she married an officer , is still a naval officer..." Sun Mingfang boasted to Qin Mian that her sister was indeed going to marry, but she was not an officer, but a soldier, but this did not prevent her from showing off in front of Qin Mian.

What can Qin Mian know? It's not just listening to her, in fact, Sun Mingfang doesn't know the difference.

Anyway, she thinks that her brother-in-law is very powerful, and she is still by the side of the chief of staff.

"Really? That's good." Qin Mian also knew Sun Mingfang's careful thoughts, just wanted to show herself in front of her, so she obeyed her words and just listened.

When she was going to marry to Liao Province, Sun Mingfang was very jealous, and seeing her like this now, she is not too proud.

Qin Mian only listened to her, but didn't talk to her. The two sisters didn't want to have too much contact with their hometown.

Now on the island, I can't get in touch with my hometown.

"The man my sister married is great. They got married and they divided the house in the family's courtyard. It's a beautiful house, built of bricks, with two floors..."

"Look at my sister's outfit, these little white shoes, aren't they?"

The less Qin Mian wanted to talk to her, the more excited Sun Mingfang became, but she wanted to tell her more: "I'll tell you secretly, don't tell others, my sister married The man here is still the chief of staff, called Lu Yan, Lu is the Lu of the Army, Yan is a king plus two fires, his family is literate, and this name was given to him—"

"Cough cough cough..." Qin Rou who was drinking water almost choked on the water.

Is it such a coincidence that I can hear a familiar name even after listening to people bragging? Are there any other Chiefs of Staff Lu?

Qin Mian: “…”

Sun Mingfang has long noticed the person sitting beside Qin Mian, "This is your sister?"

"It's my sister, she is very good now, she is admitted to announcer."

"Really? She even got admitted to the announcer." Sun Mingfang didn't expect Qin Mian to have a younger sister who was admitted to the announcer. She thought this beautiful woman was new to the farm As for the educated youth in Guangdong Province, I didn't expect that she would be Qin Mian's sister.

These eyes are indeed her little vixen sister who has been beautiful and charming since she was a child.

She was admitted to announcer? ! An announcer is a good job.

But her sister is no better than her own sister.

"This woman, the most important thing is to marry well, pick a good man, I think it's good to marry a soldier, my sister is now a military wife, do you want to let my sister Introduce someone to your sister?"

"My sister recognizes a document and hasn't talked about it yet."

Qin Judao: "No, I'm married, and my lover is also working on the ship."

"Is that so? Is it a ship going? It's sailing? I heard from my brother-in-law that he said that dry turbine work is hard..."

The house is a sketch that Qin Rou and his wife discussed and drew.

Sun Mingfang looked at the tall and handsome man who came in and hesitated, daughter-in-law? This is Qin Mian's brother-in-law.

She looked at the man carefully, although he had thick eyebrows and big eyes, he was extremely handsome, and his exposed arms were even stronger, but he was wearing an old military uniform and sweating on his forehead. There were several black mud stains on Jun's face.

—a rough and handsome man.

Qin Mian's sister married this person?

The smile on Sun Mingfang's face was a little reluctant. Although this man was a little poor, he was also a crewman. His eyes lit up, he was really a handsome man.

Sun Mingfang laughed stiffly, while her younger sister Sun Mingli turned pale, almost stupid on the spot.

She said tremblingly: "... Chief of Staff Lu."

Thinking of what her sister said just now, Sun Mingli's face was full of blood, she couldn't stay any longer, she was ashamed and lost her home, she pulled her sister who couldn't tell what was going on beside her. Leave immediately.

Her sister didn't want to leave yet, and Sun Mingli ignored Sun Mingfang and ran away.

Sun Mingfang chased after her: "You don't need any clothes, are you sick?"

"What did you just say?"

"Sister, let's go, it's too embarrassing, that is Chief of Staff Lu." Sun Mingli regretted it, she should not have mentioned these things in front of her sister Sun Mingfang,

Sun Mingli had met Lu Yan at her partner Xiao Wu, and was particularly impressed by this army officer, so she asked Xiao Wu a few more questions, and Xiao Wu told her about Chief Lu's staff.

Sun Mingli chatted with her sister privately, saying that it would be great if she could marry a man like Chief of Staff Lu, because Lu Yan's name was special, she also specially emphasized that one king adds two fires , It's easy to remember even if it's difficult. My sister Sun Mingfang also remembered this name. Sun Mingfang didn't know other officers, but only this one, and she was talking nonsense in front of Qin Mian today.

Who knew that when he was talking nonsense, he met the righteous master.

"What did you say? The young man who came in just now, he is Chief of Staff Lu? Qin Mian's brother-in-law?" Sun Mingfang still refused to believe this, "He is too young ."

"He is wearing a tattered military uniform, how could he be the chief of staff, don't you admit it?"

Aren't you supposed to be very stylish?

"That's Chief of Staff Lu, I saw it with my own eyes when I went to see Xiao Wu, how could I admit it wrong..."

"Oh my god! How could he be Qin Mian's brother-in-law, the husband of her vixen sister?"

Qin Mian, her sister married a naval officer, or chief of staff? ? ? Still so young and handsome? ? !

These two Qin sisters are really good at seducing men.