Shi Meiyun caught it.
Now, the sewing machine has been bought for so long that the enthusiasm has faded, and all the clothes in the village that need to be mended have been mended.
There are no longer a lot of people coming to Qiao Qingqing to borrow sewing machines every day.
There are people who want to borrow bicycles, but these are expensive and if you don't know how to ride one, you can't borrow it from others. If you accidentally damage it, you won't have the money to compensate them.
What's more, the fishing village is so close to Heqin Town that you can easily walk there, so there is no reason to borrow an expensive bicycle.
So everyone could only discuss privately what it felt like to ride a bicycle on a mountain.
There wouldn’t be such a shameless person coming to borrow the car - shameless people have basically been cleared out of the village.
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"Qingqing, what do you think of these two pairs of tiger-head shoes?"
At night, after dinner and washing up, Shi Meiyun and Qiao Qingqing packed up and went into the room.
Shi Meijun couldn't wait to take out the shoes she had prepared for her little grandson and let her beloved daughter-in-law take a look.
Qiao Qingqing has been very busy these days, busy dealing with the work on the island and busy doing business with Sun Zhong to make money.
So she seldom went to the cowshed anymore, and instead Lu Heng went there in the dark at night.
Anyway, Lu Heng was going out for patrol at night.
Shi Meiyun was worried that she would bump into the villagers when she came here, so she forced herself to resist the urge to come and show off to Qingqing.
Today her son said he was going out and asked her to look after Qingqing. God knows how excited she was.
When she left, she took with her the two pairs of tiger-head shoes and the two tiger-head hats.
Qiao Qingqing took the shoes and looked at them left and right, eyes full of love.
"Mom, you have such a clever hand. How can you make such delicate and cute little shoes with just a few pieces of cloth? There are also golden little tigers embroidered on them. It's so beautiful!"
If these shoes were sold at the supply and marketing cooperative, they would probably cost several dollars!
Shi Meiyun's beautiful face blushed slightly after being praised. "It's not as good as you said, Qingqing. I just used the things you gave me to make this ordinary tiger head hat. It's just that this time I embroidered the tiger very smoothly, especially the eyes of this little tiger. They are bright and lively, and I am also very satisfied with it."
Shi Meiyun even felt that these two pairs of tiger-head shoes were the best she had ever made.
Looking down at Qingqing's bulging belly, Shi Meiyun said with a smile: "It shows that my two little grandchildren like the shoes I make very much."
Qiao Qingqing also grabbed the shoes and shook them in front of her belly, "Look at the shoes grandma made for you, aren't they beautiful? When you come out, you must thank grandma."
As she was speaking, a bulge suddenly appeared on her belly, which lasted only two seconds before shrinking again.
The two of them stared intently, but soon saw a bulge in the other direction.
The baby in the belly seemed to be responding to its mother and grandmother, stretching and kicking its feet from time to time. Qiao Qingqing's belly suddenly felt like a piece of dough being propped up, with bulges here and peaks there.
For those without experience, it might be scary.
Shi Meiyun, who had given birth to a child, just felt curious and excited.
"It seems that these two children are lively and healthy!"
Qiao Qingqing had already adapted to the babies' fetal movements and no longer reacted with a fuss when they first started moving.
"They are more active at night. During the day, they are probably too lazy to move because it is too noisy outside."
As she spoke, Qiao Qingqing's hand touched the bulge on her belly, and suddenly a wonderful feeling of blood connection surged into her heart, causing her whole heart to soften instantly.
My whole body felt numb and I felt like I had melted into a pool of water. I wished I could give all my love to the little life in my belly.
Qiao Qingqing also made corresponding actions.
"Mom, help me pour a bowl of water."
Shi Meijun let out an "ah" and quickly got out of bed to pour some water.
The water in the tea bottle is spring water, not plain water.
So after Shi Meiyun poured the water and saw that it was not warm, she exclaimed in surprise.
"Eh? The water is cold! Qingqing, I'll make you another bottle..."
Qiao Qingqing hurriedly called her: "No need, Mom, it's hot, I don't want to drink too hot water, I deliberately let the boiled water cool down and poured it into the tea bottle."
Lingquan water must be drunk directly to exert its full effect.
The efficacy of spiritual spring water will be weakened after processing.
Although Qiao Qingqing still uses the spiritual spring water to cook and make soup, if she needs to drink water, she will choose to drink it directly.
Lingquan water is warm in winter and cool in summer. It feels warm when you drink it in winter and cool when you drink it in summer.
After drinking a bowl of spiritual spring water, Qiao Qingqing felt comfortable all over. The babies in her belly seemed to have absorbed the nutrients and gradually calmed down.
Shi Meijun was very surprised: "So you are thirsty? You are really smart. You can tell your mother when you are thirsty. Grandma can't wait to see you..."
This might be a coincidence, but the silly grandma couldn't help thinking too much. In her heart, even if her little grandson was just an unborn fetus, he was smarter and cleverer than others.
In the later stages of pregnancy, Qiao Qingqing's body and face became bloated, but she was originally very thin, so this little bit of weight gain did not make her look fat, but just the right size.
But the changes in late pregnancy are far more than that.
As the child entered the eighth month of growth and development, Qiao Qingqing gradually felt the embarrassment of back pain, toe pain and urinary incontinence.
Moreover, her belly suddenly swelled like a balloon. From July (the first month of pregnancy) to August, her belly doubled in size!
Now Qiao Qingqing has to lean back slightly when she walks, and she has to support her lower back with her hands.
Anyone who sees her belly is so big would probably be shocked.
Only Shi Meijun stayed by her daughter-in-law's side every day, studying how to nourish her body. Therefore, she didn't think there was anything wrong at first, but felt uneasy later.
"Qingqing, your belly is really too big. I'm a little worried. If the fetus is too big, it's not time to deliver it. You have two... otherwise, should we control it?"
Qiao Qingqing had no experience in childbirth, but she had some basic common sense, so she could understand the logic behind what Mother Lu said.
She couldn't help but be secretly shocked.
In fact, she didn't deliberately eat too much, she just drank a lot of Lingquan water every day.
Qiao Qingqing couldn't help but suspect that this was entirely because the spiritual spring water was too effective.
Therefore, in order to avoid difficult labor later on, Qiao Qingqing decided to stop using the spiritual spring water.
Now, it's only the eighth month, and there's still some time before the due date.
After Qiao Qingqing stopped taking the spiritual spring water, she started walking more every day.
Since it was inconvenient for Shi Meijun to go out, she would go from her home to the team leader's house and ask Zhang Miaomiao, who was also pregnant, to sit in her room with Yao Xiaoman or Zhou Lanfang.
"Sister Qiao, my father-in-law said that another group of educated youth will come to our brigade in the second half of the year. Now that I think about it, time flies."
Zhang Miaomiao sighed, "We went to the countryside around this time last year, right?"
Qiao Qingqing peeled a peanut and threw it into her mouth. "Today is the first day of May. We went to the countryside at the end of May."
"It was after the Dragon Boat Festival that my family encouraged me to go to the countryside." Zhou Lanfang took over the conversation. Today, Yao Xiaoman was a "substitute" on the island, so Qiao Qingqing and Zhang Miaomiao came to her place. "At that time, everyone said that going to the countryside was glorious. As long as you go to the countryside for one or two years, you will be arranged to go to university and have a good job. My parents believed it and let me come."
Zhang Miaomiao glanced at her secretly and said, "But, I heard from my father-in-law that the policy of going to the countryside has changed. It's not the same as before."
Zhou Lanfang was confused, "Why did it change?"
Zhang Miaomiao explained: "My father-in-law said that not all the educated youth sent to the countryside could go to college. They had to be recommended by the brigade, and the number of places was getting smaller every year."
"Oh... Actually, I understood it after I went to the countryside. The so-called going to the countryside to go to university is a lie." Zhou Lanfang said calmly, "But isn't there a saying that 'labor is glorious'? It's also glorious for us to be workers, and it's not all bad."
In fact, only she knew that if she had no choice, she would not have gone to the countryside.
Although her parents didn't say anything, they probably realized that the city was becoming increasingly chaotic and they didn't want her to join a bunch of students in movement, so they begged her to come to the countryside.
Zhou Lanfang knew that with her personality, if she insisted on staying in the city, she would end up like other students...
He is the same person as Liao Yifan.
Deep down in her heart, Zhou Lanfang realized that this was an exciting and dangerous road, but the danger was not to herself, but to her family, relatives and friends.
Therefore, after a fierce inner struggle, Zhou Lanfang abandoned her "ideal" for the sake of her family and friends.
Now, life after going to the countryside is also quite interesting.
The various actions of Liao Yifan and others made Zhou Lanfang feel fortunate more than once that she had made a wise choice.
"……Ouch!"
Sister Qingqing beside her suddenly called out softly. Zhou Lanfang stopped reminiscing and turned to look at her with concern.
But Sister Qingqing looked at her bulging belly with a gentle and helpless expression, "Damn it, how come you kicked me so hard?"
Zhang Miaomiao laughed when she heard this and said, "Is it because I just said I was going to snatch their tiger-head shoes that they got angry?"
Before she finished her words, Qiao Qingqing felt the little guy kick her in the stomach again.
She couldn't help but grin, "Hey, ancestor! Can you be a little gentler? This is your mother's belly button, not a ball!"
When Qiao Qingqing said this, her tone of voice rose slightly.
She didn’t know if the little ones in her belly understood what she said, but after that, she never got kicked again.
Zhou Lanfang was very interested. She moved closer to her and looked at her belly intently: "Sister Qingqing, do they seem to understand?"
"It seems so. Anyway, I feel like I can communicate with them sometimes." Qiao Qingqing rubbed her belly and smiled bitterly, "If they hadn't listened to my advice, I don't know how many times I would have been kicked in the belly every day."
Zhou Lanfang pursed her lips, a hint of deep fear flashing in her eyes.
Although children are cute, she doesn't want to have them at all!
If you ask why, it's probably because she doesn't want to be like Sister Qingqing, with two little ones moving around in her belly. She always feels that babies are out of control. What if they play around in their mother's belly and accidentally use too much strength and break their mother's belly...
Imagining that scene, Zhou Lanfang shuddered!
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