Lin Xiangyi quickly returned to Xie's house while chatting with Xie's mother.
As soon as I entered the door, I saw a little girl about two years old with two little pigtails and a rosy face standing in their yard, eating a star fruit in her hand.
Hearing the sound, she turned around and looked at Lin Xiangyi and Xie's mother timidly with her pair of black grape-like eyes.
"Oh, it's Taotao? Are you here to play today?" Xie's mother smiled.
Taotao didn't respond, but tilted her head to look at Xie's mother. Perhaps she realized that Xie's mother was someone she knew, so she handed the badly bitten star fruit in her hand to Xie's mother and asked her to eat it.
Even Lin Xiangyi laughed. This little girl is so cute.
"This is your aunt's granddaughter, Xiaomei and Guoqiang's daughter Taotao," Xie's mother said to Lin Xiangyi, then she squatted down with a smile and said to Taotao, "Auntie doesn't want to eat it, Taotao can eat it by herself."
Aunt Xie and Su Xiaomei, who were busy in the kitchen, came out when they heard the noise and asked, "You guys are back?"
Su Xiaomei said to Lin Xiangyi embarrassedly: "She insisted on coming with me this morning. She cried if I didn't come. I had no choice but to bring her here. But Guoqiang will come and take her back later."
This is to explain to Lin Xiangyi that she will not delay her work.
Lin Xiangyi smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. It's not very busy now anyway. It will be more lively with a child here."
Su Xiaomei breathed a sigh of relief.
She has been working here for a few days. She is paid every day and has lunch provided. There is meat in every lunch and it is cooked very deliciously.
Even if you work in units or factories in the county, you may not necessarily have such good benefits.
Su Xiaomei cherishes this job very much. She can see that Lin Xiangyi is a person who clearly distinguishes between public and private affairs. When it is time for them to work, she orders them around without hesitation.
So she was also afraid that Lin Xiangyi would misunderstand that she came here to work and that bringing the child here would affect her work.
"Taotao, this is your aunt, call her aunt," Su Xiaomei coaxed Taotao.
Her husband Xie Guoqiang is a few days younger than Xie Qingxiao, but he dropped out of school before finishing junior high school and got married very early.
"Uncle, mother," Taotao's pronunciation was a little unclear, and then she handed the carambola in her hand to Lin Xiangyi.
Lin Xiangyi smiled and said, "If Auntie doesn't want to eat it, Taotao can eat it by herself. Wait a minute, Auntie has something good to give you."
Lin Xiangyi went into the house, and when she came out, she was holding a handful of candies, including fruit candies and White Rabbit milk candies.
"Why give so much candy? Xiangyi, no need," Su Xiaomei said hurriedly.
"Oh, I'm not giving it to you, I'm giving it to the child," Lin Xiangyi said with a smile. Not allowing her to refuse on behalf of the child, she squatted in front of Taotao and said softly, "Put the candy that Auntie gave you in your pocket, okay?"
No child can refuse candy. Taotao immediately opened her pockets, stared at the candies, and a string of crystal clear saliva flowed from her mouth.
Everyone laughed. Su Xiaomei couldn't bear to watch and quickly said, "Taotao, why don't you thank your aunt?"
"Thank you, uncle, mother," Taotao said eagerly.
Lin Xiangyi smiled and put the candies into her pocket. She couldn't help but touch her head. She was so well-behaved.
She used to not be interested in children, but recently, maybe because she is pregnant, she seems to like children a little.
Every time I see a child, I will unconsciously stop and take a few more glances.
Her eyes full of love were seen by Mother Xie and Aunt Xie.
Aunt Xie said teasingly, "Xiangyi, if you like children so much, why don't you give birth to one yourself? Your parents are still young and can help you take care of the child, so that it won't interfere with your business with Qingxiao."
Lin Xiangyi smiled when she heard this and said generously: "I want to have a baby, but I don't know when I can get pregnant."
Ouch. Aunt Xie and Xie's mother looked at each other and both laughed.
In the eyes of their generation, marriage means having children, and having many children means more blessings.
"Okay," Aunt Xie said with a smile, "You are young now, so you can have one baby first and then have a second baby two years later. This is good for your health. After my daughter Xiaomei gave birth to Taotao, I also took care of her for two years. Look, she looks better than those girls of the same age who gave birth to several babies in a row."
Lin Xiangyi glanced at Su Xiaomei. Actually, her condition was not that good. After all, her family was poor and they didn't have anything special to support her. But she did look more energetic than those women who had given birth to several children in a row.
Su Xiaomei was stared at by Lin Xiangyi, feeling a little embarrassed: "Actually, I have recovered now, and I will be planning to have another baby next year."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xiangyi said, "If you still want another child, it's best to have it now."
Everyone was surprised when this was said. Aunt Xie asked hurriedly, "Xiang Yi, why is this?"
Because the family planning system will be promulgated in more than a month.
Lin Xiangyi explained: "Our country now has too many people. For more than a decade, there has been a slogan called 'One is not too few, two is just right, three is too many'. It can be seen that the country felt that there were too many people more than a decade ago and deliberately restricted population growth."
"I like to read newspapers and listen to the radio to learn about current affairs. In the past two months, I have often seen articles about population and fertility. I guess that in the near future, the country will take some measures to limit population growth."
Mother Xie and Aunt Xie were both shocked when they heard this. How could this restrict others from having children?
"Wife Qingxiao, is everything you said true?" Aunt Xie asked for confirmation.
"These are all my guesses. They may not be true. You don't have to believe me," Lin Xiangyi said hurriedly. This was all she could say.
Aunt Xie looked at Su Xiaomei and said, "Then we have to think about it. We only have one daughter, so we must have a son, right? If we don't have a son, we will be looked down upon and bullied."
Lin Xiangyi did not refute when he heard this. This was a concept left over from history and could not be changed overnight.
Moreover, Aunt Xie was not particularly biased towards boys. Looking at Taotao, although she was not fat, she still had some flesh on her face, which was much better than many skinny girls in the village.
but.
Lin Xiangyi looked at her mother Xie, wondering if her mother-in-law favored boys over girls?
After family planning, she can only have one child. If she gives birth to a daughter...
Lin Xiangyi likes her mother-in-law, Xie's mother, very much and hopes to continue to get along with her in this friendly way.
So Lin Xiangyi asked bluntly: "Mom, do you like grandsons or granddaughters?"
As soon as Mother Xie heard this, she knew why Lin Xiangyi asked this, and she immediately said, "I like both grandchildren."
Although her words were meant to coax Lin Xiangyi, there was not much truth in them.
She really likes both her grandsons and granddaughters.
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