Chapter 137 Comrade
Lin Xiaotong frowned and asked, "Should we give birth to this child?"
"I have no choice but to give birth to the baby. My in-laws are eager to have another boy."
"I'm not saying you can't have children, but at least you should hold off on it. If you really give birth to another boy, my granddaughter will probably be put behind."
Most families do indeed value boys more, and even many working families in the city think so.
"When you have children in the future, you must take good care of yourself during the confinement period. Be sure to treat yourselves well."
Sister Mei earnestly reminded that she had actually seen a skinny woman in the hospital whose mother-in-law insisted on breastfeeding her baby boy.
She saw that the skinny woman had no milk at all, and all she squeezed out was half a bowl of milk and half a bowl of blood.
Lin Xiaotong thought that she was only 19 years old this year and still a child, so how could she be pregnant?
If she really wants to have a child, she will definitely have one.
Have fewer but better children, and live a happy life.
"It's still early for me. There's no rush to have a baby."
"Fortunately, your mother-in-law is a good one."
Sister Mei thinks Lin Xiaotong is very lucky. This woman gave birth to her second child after getting married.
It's your choice to live as a human or a ghost.
After hearing this, He Cuicui gave up the idea of a blind date.
She now feels that she doesn't have to find this man, and she doesn't have to get married.
She should think about it again.
…
Back in the compound, the uncles and aunts soon discovered that there was a new child in the third uncle's family.
"Hey, Xiulan, does that kid look familiar to you?"
Zhang Dazui came over with a bunch of celery in his hand and sat on a small stool.
"Don't tell me, I seem to have seen this kid somewhere before."
Gao Xiulan sat at the door, picking leeks, preparing to make leek boxes for lunch.
Seeing the green celery in Zhang Dazui's vegetable basket, he asked.
"Is your celery quite tender? Did you buy it this morning?"
"Hey, Aunt Cao gave me a handful. They're grown at her son-in-law's house. I'm going to make some celery and dried tofu for Old Zhou at noon."
"That child, don't you remember him? The one whose house was raided by the supply and marketing cooperative?"
He opened his mouth wide and leaned over to speak in Gao Xiulan's ear.
She was shocked when she saw him in the morning. How could this child run into their yard?
"It's that child. What you said is true. Doesn't that child have a grandfather?"
Gao Xiulan was also puzzled.
"I saw it this morning and didn't think much of it. I thought it was the third uncle's son bringing his child back."
"I heard from Jin Qiaofeng this morning that someone came last night."
"I went out to ask around. The child's grandfather was sent to a labor camp outside Beijing, living in a cowshed. The child's parents were also in labor camps in the northwest. The only person left in the family was a half-grown child."
Zhang Dazui went out to the supply and marketing cooperative to ask the young lady she knew, and brought back three pieces of dried tofu before leaving.
"Anyway, the neighborhood committee won't say anything about Uncle San bringing his child. After all, taking a child to collect manure is considered a reform. Our area isn't that noisy after all."
Gao Xiulan said this as she gathered the yellowed chive leaves aside and clapped her hands.
"Even if Qian Yu from Afen's family saw it, I wonder if he would still make a fuss?"
Sit with your mouth wide open and pinch off the celery roots, breaking the stalks into sections.
"That shouldn't be the case. I've seen Qian Yu working diligently lately. He must be a temporary worker now."
"I mean, the kid felt uncomfortable when he saw Qian Yu."
"It's hard to say. The red armbands are really not good people. They always do things that are unscrupulous."
"Who says it's not true? Didn't Jin Qiaofeng's old man, Chang, help someone block a stick and his leg was broken?"
“There’s nothing good about that group of people…”
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"Mom, when I went out this morning, I met a little kid in the front yard. Is he from Third Uncle's family?"
At noon, Lin Xiaotong was eating leek dumplings, which were crunchy, and she tilted her head and asked Gao Xiulan.
Xie Da Jiao also looked at Gao Xiulan while biting a chive box.
"Oh, no, that's not it. I told you about that incident at the back door of the supply and marketing cooperative. That child belongs to that family."
Gao Xiulan picked up a piece of cabbage with chopsticks and ate while talking.
"Where is the third uncle's son? I haven't seen him since I came here."
Lin Xiaotong thought that since she came to the compound, she always saw the third uncle walking around alone.
"Oh, yes, you don't know about the Third Uncle's family yet."
Gao Xiulan took another mouthful of rice, picked up a leek box, took a bite, and spoke slowly.
"Your third uncle and third aunt had a good relationship, but they had a son, Sannuozi. Sannuozi was not in good health, and after getting married, he still had no children."
"I don't know when Sannozi met a fortune teller. I heard that his family has a pill passed down from their ancestors that can cure all diseases."
"Sannozi had such a good relationship with someone that he invited them to live in his house. I didn't expect it would last so long."
"Guess what, Sannozi's new wife ran off with a man, and Sannozi happened to come back and saw them. The three of them took the money and ran off. They haven't come back yet, and I don't know if they are still alive."
"Third Auntie's health was not good at that time. She passed away a few years later, leaving Third Uncle alone at home."
"This incident was dug up in the 1960s. People accused Third Uncle's family of being the leaders of feudal superstition and sending people to work in the toilet."
After hearing this, Lin Xiaotong's mind was almost non-existent, her eyes were dull and her head was buzzing.
"Mom, this, this, this..."
"The third uncle's house was allocated by the factory in the 1950s. In the 1960s, he added some money and bought it from the factory. Fortunately, he still has a place to live."
Gao Xiulan sighed. The Third Uncle was a very nice person and he liked children. All the children in the compound had eaten the popsicles that the Third Uncle bought for them in the summer.
Even someone as stubborn as Diao Yulian was polite and good-natured when she met the Third Uncle. This was because when she gave birth to Wu Chunyan, her water broke while she was drying clothes in the yard. It was the Third Uncle who discovered it and sent her to the hospital in time.
Lin Xiaotong consoled him, "The child is staying with Uncle Three. It's fine for the two of them to live together now."
"Yeah, it's nice to have someone at home. Otherwise, it's lonely to be alone for a long time with a light on when you come in and a lock on when you go out."
"Sannaozi is such a heartless person. He hasn't sent any letters in all these years. Even when Auntie was dying, she was still talking about him."
"Really? It would be better to give birth to a piece of barbecued pork than to give birth to him!"
Gao Xiulan got angry when she thought of this, and she was crunching the chive boxes in her mouth.
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Qian Yu has been helping out in the kitchen of a state-owned restaurant lately. Today, he took a day off and went back to school to get something, and he ran into the red armband friend he used to be good friends with.
Seeing these people, I couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.
He covered his face with his hair, lowered his head and prepared to slip away, when he was suddenly stopped by someone.
"Oh my, isn't this Qian Yu? What's wrong? You want to leave without even calling us comrades?"
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