Chapter 67
In the frontier area at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, it often snows in winter and it is extremely cold outside.
The army's wakeup call had been sounding for quite some time, but Yang Qiujin lay in the warm quilt, not wanting to move at all.
After Chen Shengqing left, she hadn't slept well for several months. Now that Chen Shengqing came back alive and was sleeping next to her, she felt so at ease. Maybe because she was sleepy due to pregnancy, she tried several times to open her eyes and get up, but failed every time.
She didn't want to get up, and Chen Shengqing didn't want to get up either.
He worked as a spy in the Soviet Union for three months and fled for nearly a month. He lived a thrilling life on the edge of a knife. He finally returned to his safe home. His beloved wife was by his side. He hugged his wife's soft body and didn't want to get up at all.
After hugging her for a while, he suddenly remembered that Yang Qiujin was pregnant, and the joy in his heart kept surging in his chest.
Although this was not his first time being a father, he was not by her side when Yang Qiujin became pregnant for the first time. He only knew about her pregnancy through the letters she wrote. His mood at that time was completely different from the feeling he had now when he saw her pregnant with his own eyes.
Chen Shengqing was worried that he was hugging Yang Qiujin too tightly and would squeeze her belly, so he quickly let her go, then carefully reached out and touched her belly, and put his head against her flat belly to listen to what was going on inside.
Yang Qiujin was completely awakened by his continuous noise and said with a smile: "The child is still small, probably not even as big as a chopstick head, what can you hear?"
Chen Shengqing sat up, lowered his eyes and looked at her with a smile: "It's not that I don't have experience, I don't know. When you were pregnant with Tianyou, I was on a mission in the army and couldn't come back, so I missed the time when you were pregnant and gave birth. Now that you are pregnant again, I am very happy and can't help but want to hear the movements of your belly."
Yang Qiujin recalled the sadness she felt when she was pregnant with Tianyou, and sighed: "At that time, you were in the army and couldn't come back, and I was pregnant alone. The morning sickness in the early stages of pregnancy was very severe. I vomited every day, from morning to night, and my stomach was empty. I couldn't eat anything. At that time, I cried every day because I was in pain. I wished I didn't have a child and didn't want to have a child. Fortunately, my parents-in-law have been taking care of me, soothing my emotions, making everything I wanted to eat for me, and letting me eat a little. Only then did I slowly get through it. Who knew that when I gave birth to Tianyou later, I had a difficult delivery and almost died..."
"It's my fault. I have done everything I could to defend my country, except for you. I will double compensate you in the future." After Chen Shengqing heard what she said, he saw that she was about to get up, and reached out his hand guiltily to help her out of bed and put on thick clothes for her.
I don't know if it was because of her pregnancy, but Yang Qiujin's breasts were fuller than before. Chen Shengqing had never dressed a woman before and his left hand was injured. He clumsily tried to button her clothes, but because her breasts were too soft, he couldn't button them for a long time, which exposed a large part of her beautiful scenery.
The rough fingers accidentally scratched the delicate skin on the woman's chest, and a feeling of electric shock spread throughout the body. Chen Shengqing felt as if he was electrified. He shivered and his body had an inexplicable reaction.
He was sitting opposite Yang Qiujin. Yang Qiujin felt that his gun was raised and was against her. She reached out and held his big palm and said, "I will do it myself. Ji Mingchen said that the baby is not stable in the womb. Don't even think about touching me before the baby is stable in the womb."
Chen Shengqing was stunned for a moment, and the corners of his mouth curled up, "What do you think I can do to you in my current state?"
Yang Qiujin looked him up and down. His left hand was in a bandage and his legs were in plaster. He looked like a cripple. He really couldn't do anything to her.
She thought it was funny and deliberately gave him a seductive look, "If you want, I can find another way to solve it..."
"How to solve it?" the man was hooked.
Yang Qiujin reached down with her little hand, gently squeezed and pinched, and the man's breathing suddenly became rapid, and a strange cry came out of his throat: "Qiujin, our mother and your sister are already awake."
Yang Qiujin let go of her hand and smiled, "You also know that they have gotten up, so why are you still thinking about those things? Get up quickly, I have something else to do later."
There was a burning smell in the kitchen, and Yang Qiujin knew without hesitation that it was Chen Tianyou's masterpiece.
She put on her clothes, combed her hair and went to the kitchen, where she saw Chen Tianyou standing next to a big pot, making pancakes with a spatula in his hand.
Yang Qiuyue was lighting the fire, while Li Xiu'e was beside her, instructing Chen Tianyou on how to make pancakes.
Seeing her enter the kitchen, Yang Qiuyue smiled and called her, "Sister, you're awake."
Yang Qiujin hummed and walked to the stove. She saw two or three slightly blackened pancakes on a plate on the stove. She couldn't help but joked, "Today the sun rises from the west. I am so young and will enjoy the blessing of my son."
Chen Tianyou said a little embarrassedly: "Mom, I'll eat these black cakes. I've mastered the skill of frying cakes now. You can eat the better ones later."
Li Xiu'e took an oil brush and brushed some oil on the pan for him. She said, "Qiu Jin, our Tianyou is still very smart. He thought that his father had returned and you were very tired because of your pregnancy, so he wanted to learn how to cook to honor you. He only ruined three pancakes the first time, but he cooked them all well afterwards. We can all enjoy his blessing in the future."
Yang Qiujin certainly wouldn't discourage the child from learning to cook for the first time. She smiled and picked up a piece of fuzzy pancake, ate a few bites, and kept praising it, "Although it's fuzzy, it tastes very good, sweet and fragrant, really good."
"I put a lot of sugar and eggs in the batter." Chen Tianyou was observing her reaction when she took the first bite of the pancake. Hearing this, he smiled happily and his confidence in making good pancakes increased greatly.
Yang Qiujin looked at the white sugar scattered on the stove and her heart was bleeding silently.
Military dependents were only allowed one or two ounces of sugar each month. Chen Tianyou made a pancake, and although it was a mess, it tasted really good. However, in the final analysis, he wasted nearly half of the few ounces of sugar in the family. Yang Qiujin felt distressed but could not say anything.
After the family finished eating porridge in the morning, Yang Qiuyue was going back to the farm to work. Yang Qiujin came out with Benying and said she would take her with her.
Li Xiu'e disapproved and pulled Yang Qiujin aside, saying, "You are pregnant now. Didn't the military doctor say that your pregnancy is unstable and you need to rest? If you ride a horse to work, what if you shake the baby off?"
Yang Qiujin understood very well what her mother-in-law meant by this. She wanted her to stop working at the farm and think about going back to work after she had the baby.
She reached out and patted Li Xiu'e's hand, soothing her, "Mom, the farm has entered winter and is not so busy, but it still needs someone to look after it. As the farm manager, I have to go to work and keep an eye on it. It's okay if I don't ride a horse. I'll go borrow a bicycle frame and put it on Benying. I can ride on the bicycle frame and go there, right?"
"It's freezing and snowy here, why are you always thinking about going to work? Shengqing can support you." Li Xiu'e was still worried.
Yang Qiujin couldn't convince her, so she turned around to borrow a bicycle rack. Just as she put the bicycle on Benying, Chen Shengqing came out with two crutches and said, "I'll go with you."
"You are in this condition now, why are you going to the farm with me/her?" Yang Qiujin and Li Xiu'e said in unison.
"Your mother is worried about going to work while you are pregnant. I am worried too. I am on sick leave now. I will take you to work." Chen Shengqing called Chen Tianyou, "Son, go and carry two thick blankets to the bicycle rack. Let's take your mother to work together."
"Okay."
After school, it was freezing and snowy outside, and there was nothing fun to do. Chen Tianyou was worried about having no place to play.
He ran into the house, took out the quilt and mattress that his mother slept on, spread them on the frame of the car, and put two pillows on the front of the car. Chen Tianyou said to Yang Qiujin considerately, "Ms. Yang, please get in the car. My aunt and I will take you to the farm."
Well, Yang Qiujin and Chen Shengqing both got on the rear carriage, covered with thick quilts, with their heads resting on pillows, just like they were sleeping at home, and were taken to the farm by Yang Qiuyue.
Yu Cong was extremely surprised when he heard that Yang Qiujin's deceased husband not only came back but also followed her to the farm, and more importantly, she was pregnant.
When Chen Shengqing, leaning on a cane, went to the farm with Chen Tianyou to see the rabbits, he found an opportunity to ask Yang Qiujin: "Director Yang, you are pregnant, so you must be tired and uncomfortable than before. Your border defense department is quite far from our farm. Are you tired running back and forth?"
"Speak human language." Yang Qiujin didn't believe that he would care about her for no reason.
"Have you ever thought about quitting and finding another job in your border department?"
Ever since Yu Cong made a big splash at the Autumn Harvest Festival, several female workers on the farm, under his leadership and rehearsal, won prizes at the farm party. After he was praised by several farm leaders, his self-confidence swelled, and he always wanted to get rid of Yang Qiujin, who had different ideas from him and always argued with him. This is just what he was thinking.
"Deputy Director Yu, if it was so easy to find a job in our border defense department, I wouldn't have come to Tianshan Farm to work as a farmer." Yang Qiujin snorted coldly, "I built our farm single-handedly. Not to mention when I was pregnant, even when my husband was notified by the army that he was missing and might die, I never thought of leaving the farm. Don't waste your energy, just do your job well, I will not be defeated by any difficulties."
Yu Cong was frustrated and said awkwardly: "I am doing this for your own good."
"If you really want to do this for my own good, you should share more of the work for me and patrol the area more often to prevent those wild kids from causing trouble again."
Ever since the corn cobs were stolen from the farm in the fall, the head of the Liu family was arrested, and Liu Dabao and his children who did the bad things were not caught for several months. The farm suffered heavy losses, and Secretary Zhai directly fired the people from Liujiazhuang and told them to go back to where they came from.
I don’t know what happened to the Liu family. Most of the adults in Liujiazhuang went back to their hometown, but Liu Dabao and several children were still left on the farm.
It was freezing cold, and those children were hanging around the farms every day, stealing and causing trouble. Half a month ago, they secretly dug a hole in a corner of the farm, which attracted several wolves, and they ate a lot of the chickens, ducks and geese on the farm.
But Yang Qiujin was so angry that she wanted to catch these bastards and kill them all.
Yu Cong was blamed and promised verbally that he would check for these bad guys, but he actually turned around and ran to the farm again, and no one knew which female educated youth he was hanging out with.
In the farm director's office, Chen Shengqing, who had just finished looking at the poultry and livestock in the pens, limped to Yang Qiujin's office, leaning on his crutches, and sat on a chair to rest.
Yang Qiujin's farm had been open for more than three years, and this was his first time to visit the farm to see Yang Qiujin's office.
The entire office is not big, only about ten square meters. There are two desks, some daily utensils, portraits of great men on the wall, and a few guns hanging. There is nothing else. The office is kept clean and tidy, just like Yang Qiujin's personality.
Chen Shengqing took a quick look around and was just lamenting that his wife's office was too plain and simple when he saw Chen Tianyou running in. Without saying a word, he took down a rifle and a gun from the wall and started to walk out.
"Stop." Chen Shengqing called him, "Tianyou, what are you doing with a gun? Do you know how to shoot?"
"I'm going to the Gobi Desert to hunt wild rabbits." Chen Tianyou loaded his gun neatly, pulled the trigger, aimed at Chen Shengqing and said, "Of course I can shoot. My mother taught me how to shoot."
The black muzzle of the gun pointed at him, and Chen Shengqing felt a nameless fire rising in his heart. "You can shoot, but you still point the muzzle at people? Do you know that a loaded gun can easily go off accidentally? If you are not careful, you will kill someone."
"I'm not a three-year-old child. I know when to shoot and when not to shoot." Chen Tianyou retorted unconvinced.
"You can't point the gun at someone. If you accidentally kill someone, not only will you be irresponsible for their life, but you will also have to pay for it yourself." Chen Shengqing said coldly, "Put the gun down and do what you need to do."
"I won't let go." Chen Tianyou was stubborn. "I finally came to the farm. Winter is a good time to catch wild rabbits. I won't go back until I have a few shots to satisfy my craving."
"Are you going to let it go or not?" Chen Shengqing also got angry. He slammed the table, stood up, and tried to snatch the gun from Chen Tianyou's hand.
Chen Tianyou was not willing to put down the gun he had finally caught, so he turned around and ran away.
But Chen Shengqing had both legs in plaster and looked like a cripple, but he was still so agile. Before Chen Tianyou could see clearly what was going on, Chen Shengqing had already come in front of him and reached out to grab the gun in his hand.
Chen Tianyou is not a pushover either. He holds the gun tightly and refuses to let go.
While the two were arguing, they somehow touched the trigger, and there was a loud bang, which echoed throughout the entire farm.
"What happened?" Upon hearing the gunshots, Yang Qiujin hurriedly ran from the patrol enclosure to the office where the gunshots came from.
Chen Shengqing was sweating profusely and sat on the ground with a look of rage. When he saw her come in, he called her with a puzzled look, "Qiu Jin."
"What happened to you, Shengqing? Are you okay?" Yang Qiujin was shocked and quickly helped him up, looking around, "Who fired the gun? Why did they fire the gun in the middle of nowhere? What happened?"
"I'm sorry, Mom. It's my fault." Chen Tianyou held his rifle and stood in front of Yang Qiujin with tears in his eyes to admit his mistake. "I wanted to go to the Gobi Beach to hunt rabbits, but my dad wouldn't let me go and wanted to take my gun away. I didn't want to, and when we were fighting for it, the gun went off accidentally and almost hit Dad. I'm sorry, Dad. I didn't mean to do that."
Yang Qiujin frowned and looked back at Chen Shengqing, and sure enough, she found a bullet on the wall behind his head.
Yang Qiujin broke out in a cold sweat, not daring to imagine what would happen if the bullet hit Chen Shengqing.
She wanted to scold the child, but she saw that the child was also very scared, tears were streaming down her face. Finally, she sighed and took the rifle from Chen Tianyou's hand, "Mom knows you didn't mean it, but you have to remember that at your age, you can only play with gas guns, not with rifles with such high lethality. Look, if your dad hadn't been lucky today, you would have killed him."
Chen Tianyou wiped his tears with the back of his hand and nodded, "Mom, I understand. I will never touch that kind of gun again."
Chen Shengqing sat back in his chair and looked at Chen Tianyou with a gloomy face. "It's not that I'm lucky, it's that I dodged quickly. The bullet just grazed my head. Chen Tianyou, this is the first time and the last time. Next time, if you dare to point your gun at someone other than the enemy, I will let you taste the feeling of being hit by a bullet."
Chen Tianyou gritted his teeth and said unconvincedly: "If you hadn't insisted on taking the gun, the gun in my hand would not have gone off accidentally and would not have hit you. I didn't mean to do that. Why are you so fierce to me? You adults really forget the old child when you have a new one."
"What do you mean by new kid or old kid?" Yang Qiujin was amused by his words. "Your father is afraid that you might hurt others or yourself with the gun. What does it have to do with your brothers and sisters?"
Chen Tianyou pouted and said, "Li Dadan said that when adults have a new child, they will be mean to the older child. Dad has never been mean to me before, but he started to be mean to me when you got pregnant."
"This..." Yang Qiujin didn't know how to explain it. She glared at Chen Shengqing, signaling him to express his opinion so as not to let the child feel upset.
Chen Shengqing moved his legs helplessly and said, "Dad is not scolding you for having a new baby, but what you just did was too dangerous. Dad is worried that you will hurt yourself, so his tone was a little anxious. Whether your mother is pregnant or not, you are the most important child in my life. Dad will always love you and protect you. At the same time, I will educate you and correct everything you do wrong. This has nothing to do with the child in your mother's belly. Even if he was not there, you would still be criticized for what you did today."
Chen Tianyou said nothing after hearing this.
Yang Qiujin asked worriedly, "Tianyou, are you unhappy that Mom is pregnant? Don't you want a brother or sister?"
Nowadays, many families have multiple children, and it is rare to see a family with only one child. Yang Qiujin and Chen Shengqing had been married for more than ten years, but they only had one child, Chen Tianyou.
For so many years, the whole family revolved around this one child, and inevitably he became a little spoiled. Yang Qiujin suddenly became pregnant, and she was worried that Chen Tianyou would not be able to accept a second child.
Chen Tianyou was silent for a while and then said, "What would you do if I didn't like your new child?"
Yang Qiujin's heart sank, and she looked at Chen Shengqing. They both saw helplessness, pain, and shock in each other's eyes.
The whole family was silent.
After a while, Yang Qiujin made a decision and said, "If you don't like it, I'll go to the hospital for an abortion this afternoon. Anyway, I'm busy with work, and this child is not coming at the right time. If you don't want a brother or sister, I don't want you. You are the child that I gave birth to with all my might. Although you were very naughty before, you always caused a lot of trouble for me, making me exhausted to clean up your mess. But since you came to the border, you have learned a lot from your father, and you have become more and more sensible and obedient. You also know how to love and protect your mother, and your mother is very pleased. It is enough for your mother to have you as her only child in this life. When you grow up, you must be more filial to your mother, so that you can have endless money and endless meat to eat."
Chen Shengqing felt an inexplicable pain in his heart after hearing her words, but he always respected Yang Qiujin's decision, so he sighed and said, "If you and your mother don't want brothers and sisters, then don't have them. Just don't be so willful and disobey the advice of adults in the future. If someone dies, it will be useless for you to regret it."
Chen Tianyou's eyes were filled with tears, but his handsome face broke into a smile, "Dad, Mom, I lied to you. In fact, I like my sister very much. The reason I asked you those questions was to see how important I am in your hearts. Now that I have confirmed my position in your hearts, you can give up your sister for me, but I want my sister."
Yang Qiujin breathed a sigh of relief, "Why do you think that mom is pregnant with a sister, not a brother?"
"Because I like pretty sisters. If it weren't for my sister..." Chen Tianyou paused and said, "If he comes out, I'll beat him to death."
Well, this dog's behavior of liking pretty girls hasn't changed.
The end of the year is approaching, and the farm has given us a rare one-week holiday so that everyone can have a good year.
This year, the farm's output doubled because of the planting of wheat, cotton, corn seeds, and other fruit and vegetable seeds improved by Professor Zheng and others. Before the holiday, the farm also doubled the amount of New Year gifts it distributed to everyone.
The farm is part of the farm. On top of the farm's welfare, each employee was given an extra chicken and a big herring. Fan Hui and several other employees happily went home carrying the chickens and fish.
Everyone else went home, but Yang Qiuyue carried the chicken and fish and silently returned to the staff dormitory of the farm, where she cooked a meal alone.
She has no home since her divorce.
Her parents' home is no longer her home. In the eyes of her neighbors, including her parents, a married woman is like spilled water. The only person she can rely on is herself.
Although she came to the border, she became an accountant with the help of her sister and earned more than 30 yuan a month. Her life was pretty good. Her sister and brother-in-law were also very good to her and let her live in their house during the holidays.
But she didn't want to disturb her sister and brother-in-law's happy family. Besides, everyone was on holiday and no one was guarding the farm. Yang Qiuyue was afraid that those bad guys would take advantage of the fact that no one was there to cause trouble, so she took the initiative to tell Yang Qiujin that she would stay to guard the farm and let the other workers go home to have a good New Year.
She was alone anyway, and it didn't matter which New Year she celebrated, so she might as well stay there, where she could guard the place without having to endure other people's strange looks, and live her own life in peace.
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