Team 4, in the evening, Tao family.
Tao Daqiang, who came back from the field with a tractor, drove into the yard and lowered the accelerator because he was afraid of showing off his daughter.
The baby is already half a year old. Tao Jianshe made a wooden bed. At this time, he was still crawling in the bed and playing, holding his feet and gnawing there.
Yang Pingping sat at the door, turned her head and saw her daughter sewing something with fabric in her hand.
Although there is a sewing machine at home, some clothes are too small and difficult to use, so they are sewn directly by hand.
After Tao Daqiang turned off the fire, he took off the tools from the tractor and put them in. He took the washbasin from the basin rack in the yard, poured the water inside into the vegetable field through the flower wall, and then went to the well to make a basin of water. Wash.
"How about you kill melon seedlings?" Yang Pingping asked.
"It's very good. My brother has pulled out all the grass. Come and help me dry for a while." Tao Daqiang wiped his face with a towel. The towel was too dry, so he soaked the towel in water and lifted it to twist it. Rub after drying, and said while rubbing:
"Brother Long said that some places in his mouth are very turbid, and the towels can't even be dried outside, and they can still get moldy - how is this possible? The sun is so strong in the summer, how can the towels not dry?"
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"Maybe the place is different? Do you remember what the rainy days said when I was in school, it would rain every day?" Yang Pingping heard that the old man in the village seemed to have said something rainy and continuous. She was at least a few years longer than Tao Daqiang study.
"Then you have time to go and see it. But if you can't stay, how can you do without the sun?" Tao Daqiang chatted casually and wiped his body. I have been doing this for a day and I still sweat a lot.
After wiping her body, Tao Daqiang walked over and looked at the work in Yang Pingping's hand and asked:
"Is this the clothes made for Xiuxiu? Is this clothes a little small?"
"This is not. This is for Brother Long's children." Yang Pingping picked it up and gestured to Tao Daqiang, and said proudly, "We can live like this now, and there is a tractor driving, thanks to Brother Long. br>
Xiaoxia is going to have a baby, and there must be many people sending red eggs in the team, so his family must be short of them. I just want to make two clothes. The doll grows fast, and the clothes are expensive, so it’s not bad to prepare more. ”
"Faced with it. But I heard that Xiaoxia seems to be pregnant with twins," Tao Daqiang whispered, "two!"
"What? Two?" Yang Pingping said in surprise, "When did you say it? Is it accurate?"
"Is it almost the same as you?" Tao Daqiang went into the house to tease Xiuxiu, and said while teasing.
"Then I have to do another one..." Yang Pingping speeded up the movement at hand, "If Xiaoxia wants to give birth, how many days will it take?"
"How many days will it take."
"That's too late." Yang Pingping felt relieved.
After sewing the one she had at hand, she immediately went into the house and started cutting cloth on the case.
Now Tao Daqiang is watching the child, and she is just concentrating on doing it.
Some people from the fourth team couldn't feel it. Yang Pingping's house was in the third team and she felt it too clearly.
Although the two teams are separated by a reed ditch, the lives on both sides are different, at least the lives of ordinary family members are really different.
On the fourth team, almost every household is not short of money in daily life all year round. It’s not that I really have a good financial freedom, but I buy oil and salt to supplement daily necessities. lack.
It is said that life is within your means, and the third team really only needs to measure their flowers - the one who can really make money throughout the year is the wheat harvest season, and after the autumn other crops are ripe and harvested and sold.
Although there is an occasional investment in winter, most people really don’t have the ability and the intention to do other things.
So when spring comes, you have to buy agricultural supplies, seeds and fertilizers, the cost of water for mechanized tillage, the miscellaneous expenses for children to go to school, etc.
All of them require money.
Life is better than the first few years, but it is also tight.
Some people visited and even missed their time in the production team, saying that at that time, at least they didn’t have to buy seeds and fertilizers themselves.
Of course, this is also a joke. Now that you eat fine grains every day, and then you must have made progress. However, in terms of spending money, the third team is better every year, just like most other villages, but compared with the same as in terms of spending money, the third team is better and better every year. The fourth team is still far from that.
On the fourth team, every household has extra money in daily life. Let’s take the simplest measure. The number of bicycles in the fourth team is more than two or three times that of the third team.
There is no way to compare the tractors. None of the third team has bought a small four-wheel tractor yet.
Yang Pingping would go back to her parents' home from time to time, so she felt the most deeply. My parents' home is good in Team 3, but my life is really not as good as an ordinary family in Team 4—
In the final analysis, Li Long will work for the people in the fourth team at least three times a year to make money.
To be honest, Yang Pingping really can't figure out why there are still people in the team saying bad things about the Li family. More than once she heard village cadres in her Niangjia village say that if there were people like Li Long in her village, they wouldn’t be allowed to provide for the people?
You don’t know how to be blessed.
Anyway, Yang Pingping knew that she had married into the Tao family and had really lived a good life.
She also knew what life the Tao family lived in the past. Before she had a child, Tao Daqiang often said it when he went to bed at night.
Although Tao Daqiang usually says, after getting married, he still often tells his past things to his wife.
So Yang Pingping sincerely thanked Li Long and the Li family, and was sincerely thinking about making a good dress for Li Long's upcoming child.
She also went to the village to secretly see Wu Shufen. There was a time when she couldn't figure out why this person didn't like Li Long.
Naturally, she didn't know that Tao Daqiang wouldn't tell her what kind of person Li Long was before.
Many other families in the village were also discussing what to give Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia's children.
If you have a common relationship, you will think of preparing some red-skinned eggs. If you have a good relationship, you will prepare clothes, shoes, hats, etc. like Yang Pingping.
When the women here gave birth to a child and were in confinement, they visited married women, and basically all gave eggs dyed with red skin.
The fourth team is not short of eggs, and every household does not need to exchange eggs for money for household use, so eggs are basically left for home food.
After all, eggs are nutritious, so you know this without publicity. Scramble eggs in the morning, boil eggs, cook eggs, cook eggs, lack eggs and garlic, or scrambled eggs with spicy food, etc.
When there are eggs, it is much easier to make breakfast when there are children in school.
Children also learn to wrap eggs with mud and cook a pile of fire to eat.
They also tried to put the eggs directly in the fire and burned Humin, but the eggs exploded.
So later someone in the village went to southern Xinjiang to travel. When they saw the roasted eggs there, they would be very novel and suddenly realized that they were enlightened. It turned out that it was better to go out to roast eggs in the wild and eat eggs than to cook them.
At least it won't explode.
In the Shicheng Obstetrics and Inpatient Department, there were two mothers in the ward where Gu Xiaoxia lived.
The other one is from the local corps of Shicheng. Her husband is from the 8th Division of the Corps. She wears glasses and looks very gentle.
This person is a little older than Li Long, and his wife is comparable to Gu Xiaoxia. When he knew that Li Long would have two children, he looked at Li Long with envious eyes.
Liang Yuemei accompanied Gu Xiaoxia in the yard, and the man and Li Long were chatting at the door of the ward.
"It seems that you don't look like you are in the countryside. Where can I work in Ma County?" The man handed Li Long a cigarette. Li Long waved his hand and signaled to a ward. The man said:
"Don't you need to pay that attention, do you?" But I still put the cigarette in the cigarette box.
"From the supply and marketing cooperative." Li Long said, "employee."
The other party's obvious expression was a little reserved, and he said with a smile:
"I am from the office of the government office, a cadre. You still love your wife very much. You are willing to pay for your wife to come here. Have you named your child?"
"Get up," Li Long said with a smile, "the boy is called Junming, and the girl is called Junjing."
The Li family has a genealogy, but Li Qingxia didn't exactly follow the genealogy when he named the child. Li Long is from the An generation, and neither of his elder brother nor him came by the generation.
However, those who have always lived in their hometown villages all come from generation to generation, such as Junshan Junfeng.
When the village is bigger, the name of the person will inevitably be heavy. Moreover, their clan is not only in one village, but it is said that when compiling the genealogy, it covers more than a dozen villages in all directions and four provinces, and there are more names. Because he was pregnant with Shuang, his name was actually Shuang. The boy was named Junming, Junwei, and the girl was named Junjing, and Junchan.
This is a great name.
The nickname boy is Haohao, Mingming; the girl is Yueyue, Xingxing.
Anyway, it takes up all the things in the sky.
This was discussed by Li Long and Gu Xiaoxia. Gu Xiaoxia was still a little worried, so she had to ask the parents on both sides.
Li Long just thought of being willful and just naming his own child.
"It sounds so good to you." The man was stunned when he heard the name given by Li Long. What kind of soldiers are the boys who are naming these days? Army, mountains, peaks, etc.; girls They are all Juan, Xia, Mei, Ying, etc.
This young man's naming rank is obviously higher.
He gave his children a mountain, with two words, namely Qin and Shan. I didn’t think about the name of a girl, everyone said she was a boy.
After saying this, he felt that the name he gave him was a little...needed to change?
Li Long surprised the other party when he saw this name and was very proud. I didn’t have my own children in my previous life, and I had them in this life. So I’ll be a father for the first time, so I’ll be willful!
At this time, Li Qingxia was actually thinking about something at home.
No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!
After he and Tao Jianshe came back from catching fish, they told Li Jianguo.
"What? You said Qiuli is going back to your hometown?"
Li Jianguo was a little worried. Qiuli was busy and he couldn't give it to him. If Li Long gives birth to a child, he will not be able to give it to him.
"Why do I want you to send it?" Li Qingxia patted her chest, "I'm going back to have something big to do!"
"What's the big deal?" Li Jianguo was already thinking about what Qiuli had, which of these things could be adjusted, and when can I spare some time to send my father back.
After all, I am the boss, and if I support my father, I have to take care of it.
So asking this question "what big thing" is actually just a smooth speech. I didn't even think that there would be big things in my heart, and I even felt that my father was perfunctory.
"Continue the family tree!" Li Qingxia said solemnly, "When the family tree was compiled, Xiaolong was still young. You just got married, and Anguo has not yet been married.
At that time, there were only the names of you three brothers in the genealogy, and you girl didn’t even have a name. Now your family has Juan and Qiangqiang, and the two girls in Anguo, and Xiaolong has children. Don’t you have to write them all in? ”
Not to mention, continuing the family tree is really a big deal.
Even though Li Anguo felt that he would bring his father and mother here to live, this branch would be in northern Xinjiang from now on.
But Li Jianguo, who received the traditional education, also thought about putting all his relatives on the family tree when he was alive.
As for what the family tree will become later, let’s talk about it later. He definitely can't control the affairs after his death, but now my father says it's a big deal, but it's really a big deal.
"Then is not that easy to edit a family tree?" Li Jianguo thought about it and shook his head, "We are the legitimate branch, but we don't have any patriarch in this village. You guys have the final say in the family matters. In northern Xinjiang, can people practice what you say? ”
Revising the genealogy is not a trivial matter. You need to notify all the branches recorded in the genealogy during the last time you were revising it, and you must prepare the materials.
The Li family’s genealogy has always been lithographed, and this photolithography takes some effort. It is not the kind printed in later generations. It can be made by just one piece of the computer.
There's something to do.
"Hey, that's not what I heard before I came, and I didn't think so much at that time. I don't know what's going on now. Regardless of whether it's up to you or not, I have to tell these younger generations' names to my hometown first. When it's up to you, I'll continue. It's better to have a name."
Li Qingxia was very persistent in this matter: "I have money. When I practice, I will pay for it and I have to write all my names."
For young people in later generations, family tree is really not that important, but in this era, the majority of people still value it.
It is said that a partial branch heard that the family tree was sent to find it, and wanted to put their branch into the sect, just to recognize the ancestors. Unfortunately, because the materials were not trusted or not complete, they did not recognize it in the end and went back crying. .
One era has its mark of another era, which may be a bit ridiculous in later generations, but at this time, this is a very pious thing.
Li Jianguo originally wanted to persuade him, but this matter was not only related to Li Long, but also to his children, Li Juan and Qiangqiang.
Must be supported.
He thought about it and said:
"Dad, then go back in August. I went back for half a month. At that time, the wheat was harvested, the corn and the melon were not ripe yet, and Xiaolong's child was in full moon and confinement. It's easy for us to leave."
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"Half a month, okay!" Li Qingxia thought about it, "I agreed to pay the money from the clan, don't worry. Don't get involved in this matter..."
Li Jianguo smiled unanimously.
When Gu Xiaoxia was hospitalized, Li Long watched the night, and Liang Yuemei lived in Li Xia's yard, walked over to the hospital, or Li Long picked her up.
The hospital has not yet provided confinement meals. Although there is a canteen, some of the meals are not good for Gu Xiaoxia, so Liang Yuemei made them at Li Xia and sent them there.
Although Sister Yang was willing to go over to accompany her, she could not stay in the hospital, and Han Fang had not had a holiday yet, so she could not run away.
When I was preparing to cook dinner for Han Fang that afternoon, I saw someone sitting at the door of the big yard with two big black bags placed next to it.
Sister Yang hurried over and asked:
"Comrade, who are you looking for?"
"I'm looking for... Sister Yang?" Meng Hai hurriedly stood up when he heard the noise, and greeted Sister Yang with a smile.
He was actually older than Sister Yang. He had carried his handkerchief with Li Long before and had dinner in the yard, so he followed Li Long to call Sister Yang.
"Are you that Captain Meng...?"
"No, I am Meng Hai, the militia company commander of Qingshuihe," Meng Hai said with a smile, "Comrade Li Long and the others are not here?"
"I'm going to Shicheng Hospital." Sister Yang said while opening the door, "Isn't Xiaoxia about to give birth? Is it better when I give birth to the hospital."
"Oh..." Meng Hai nodded, understanding why there was no one here.
"Corporate Commander Meng, come in." Sister Yang opened the door and said.
"I won't go in, but I won't go in," Meng Hai said hurriedly, "I just came over and took a look. I knew Comrade Li Long's wife was about to give birth, so I brought some things from our village to see."
He opened his handbag and it contained eggs, dried fish, honey, dried mushrooms, wild strawberry jam, as well as small clothes, shoes, etc.
A large bag full of.
Meng Hai handed the bag to Sister Yang and said:
"You should hand over these things to Comrade Li Long. I'll come back after a while. The eggs are raw. Because I don't know when they will be raw, I didn't dare to cook them."
Sister Yang accepted it, either, or not. She just hesitated for a moment, and Meng Hai had turned around and left, and she didn't want the bag.
Sister Yang could only shout at his back:
"I'll tell him when Li Long comes back!"
After Meng Hai left, Sister Yang put two bags in the car and pushed them in. The bag was quite heavy.
When she went back, she put the car in the two bags in a category and put them in the kitchen. She also sighed in her heart that Li Long is so popular that before the baby was born, someone sent something over.
Li Long didn't know this. At this time, he was walking with Gu Xiaoxia in the hospital.
The days are almost here, but the child has not yet been born, and Li Long is also anxious. Fortunately, the examinations in the hospital are normal, so I can only slip away like this.
Finally, Gu Xiaoxia felt the pain, and she shouted softly. Li Long hurriedly helped her and half carried her to the ward, still calling the nurse.
This is about to give birth. (This chapter ends)