That night, everyone in the family compound tacitly agreed not to set off firecrackers.
Go to bed early.
Li Qingyun couldn't sleep, so he took out the small box containing his own money from the space and began to calculate his income for the whole year.
Last year, the family saved a total of 10,000 yuan. This money cannot be touched as it is her housing fund.
This year, the bulk of the family's income comes from Gu Tingzhou and her salary.
Gu Tingzhou earns nearly ninety yuan a month. Since he joined the army at the beginning of the year, he has saved nearly a thousand yuan. He also spent some of it on decorating his house, otherwise he could have saved even more.
She herself earned 35 yuan a month, and since she had only been working there for a few months, she earned nearly 200 yuan in total.
The family's expenses this year were not much. In the first half of the year, she often took food, meat and vegetables from the space. Later, after Gu's mother came, she also took the main rations and meat of the family from the space when she had the chance, so the bulk of the food expenses were saved.
What was left was that she gave Gu's mother ten yuan in salary every month and ten yuan for living expenses.
After deducting these miscellaneous expenses, there are things to buy for Gu's father and Qinghuan in his hometown, dealing with social relationships, purchasing daily necessities for the home, expenses for Gu Tingzhou's travels, and Dabao's tuition and miscellaneous fees.
The total cost this year was two hundred and fifty-two dollars.
The total balance is 942 yuan.
It looks like there is a lot of surplus.
In fact, my family has been quite frugal this year, and due to the social environment, we have been living a simple life. We haven't bought many things that we should have, for fear of getting into trouble.
The adults and children in the family all had new clothes made last year, so they had enough to wear. Even Gu's mother had two new cotton-padded jackets, so no one made new clothes this year.
Although Li Qingyun's belly had grown, her previous coats were still loose enough for her to wear, so she didn't have to make any new clothes.
I just made two small jackets for the third baby in my belly, and a new cotton jacket for the second baby.
I didn't spend much money on these things. I only bought two kilograms of cotton, and the cloth was all in the space.
The expenses for a family's food, clothing, housing and transportation are quite high, and with the third child coming soon, the expenses will be even higher.
If you want to save more money, you can only increase income and reduce expenditure.
After all, there is not much business to do these days, so no matter how much business acumen Li Qingyun has, it is of no use.
Li Qingyun carefully sorted out the nine hundred yuan and put it in a box together with two savings slips. These were all her future house purchase funds.
Perhaps because of her longing for home since childhood, she has a special desire for a house and wants to own a house of her own. This obsession has never changed in two lives.
She didn't know that under her influence, Qiu Ju had become the first to live the life of a homeowner in Hong Kong in the 1960s.
After the Chinese New Year, Li Qingyun's due date is getting closer and closer. Gu Tingzhou's recent work is near the military area, so he goes out during the day and comes back at night.
The leader took into consideration that he had a pregnant woman at home, so he did not arrange for him to travel far.
As the months went by, Li Qingyun became extremely frequent in urination, having to get up many times every night and unable to sleep due to the pain in her pubic bone. Fortunately, Gu Tingzhou took good care of her, which made her feel a lot better.
Many times, women are not afraid of hardship and fatigue. What they fear more is that no one understands them.
In other words, knowing the truth but turning a blind eye to it can really make people feel disheartened.
Fortunately, Gu Tingzhou is a prospective father with strong execution ability, which soothed her irritability during pregnancy.
Now she looks forward to unloading every day.
I am also afraid of the pain of childbirth.
To be honest, she couldn't recall the pain her original body felt when giving birth to her first and second babies.
There is a saying that a mother will forget the pain of pregnancy and childbirth so that she can give birth next time.
So she spent the entire New Year's holiday in a mixture of anticipation and pain.
After New Year’s Eve, the first and second days of the New Year come one after another.
The new year passed quickly.
I don’t have any relatives in the military district to visit this year.
They only interacted with the Jiang family and treated each other to a meal as a reunion meal.
Because of their relationship with the big boss, they didn't dare to interact too openly, and the gifts they gave were mostly some cheap food. Fortunately, the other party didn't mind and accepted them all.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, the military region holds a cultural performance by the art troupe.
Dabao really wants to go and see it.
Mother Gu's eyes kept drifting away.
Li Qingyun was unwilling to join the crowd. She had seen many wonderful performances in later generations, and she had no interest in shows like these.
"Then mom, you take Dabao to see him. Erbao and I will be at home." Gu Tingzhou was worried about Li Qingyun being alone at home with her big belly.
"You can go wherever you want to see. I can stay at home by myself." Li Qingyun quickly expressed his opinion.
"Okay, I'll take Dabao with me, and you stay with your wife. Be careful. According to the date, it will be in the next few days." said Mother Gu.
The second baby is two months away from turning two years old. He can't stay at home for a day. He got angry when he saw that his grandmother took care of his brother but not him.
He quickly stretched out his hand and said, "Grandma, look, Erbao, look."
Gu's mother had no choice but to carry him up as well. The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren went out, leaving only the couple at home.
They had just walked out the door.
Li Qingyun suddenly felt a stomachache for a few seconds, which soon subsided.
She wondered if she was too nervous because she was about to give birth.
So she took out a book to read to calm down.
About twenty minutes later, the throbbing pain came again, this time lasting for a few seconds to ten seconds, and then gradually subsided.
Although the pain was still within the tolerable range, it had never happened before. Li Qingyun felt something was wrong. Was she about to give birth?
"Gu Tingzhou, I don't feel right. Let's go to the hospital quickly."
After hearing this, Gu Tingzhou went into the house without saying a word, took out the delivery items that Li Qingyun had prepared long ago, left a note for her family, and prepared to take her to the hospital.
Fortunately, the military hospital is nearby, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with it late at night.
"I can still walk on my own. You can carry me when I can't walk anymore."
The two of them walked slowly towards the hospital as if they were taking a stroll.
There were not many people along the way.
When they reached the gate of the family compound, they met a smelly woman walking over with two buckets in her hands.
The woman had her face covered with a headscarf and was carrying a child on her back.
Seeing them coming, he moved away a little, huddled together and walked away quickly.
After Li Qingyun walked over, she realized belatedly that this woman was Chen Guizhi, whom she had not seen for a long time.
But she had no time to care about others now, because the contractions were getting closer and closer. At the beginning, the pain came every twenty minutes or so.
It's probably only been ten minutes now, and the pain is coming back again.
And each time it hurts more than the last.
Seeing her standing there in pain and unable to move, Gu Tingzhou was so anxious that sweat covered his forehead.
"Wife, what's wrong with you? Just hold on."
He picked her up and ran to the hospital quickly.
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