"Okay, okay, I'll go out and not say anything.
That's more like it. He lowered his voice and said, "Xiaobei is going to be a father, and you're going to be a grandfather. Aren't you happy? But you mustn't tell anyone about this for three months. Then write to your third brother and his wife and ask them not to tell anyone for now. We just need to keep this a secret among ourselves."
"Happy, happy."
Just as he was about to fall asleep, Gu Zhenjiang suddenly opened his eyes and sat up with a start.
"What did you say? Xiaoxue is pregnant?"
Li Cuiying rolled her eyes, "Did you hear it or not?"
"No, I just dozed off and didn't hear clearly. Are you talking about this? Or am I hallucinating because I fell asleep?"
"Yes, yes, but we just need to keep this a secret among ourselves. Don't tell anyone else, especially your eldest brother's relatives."
Gu Zhenjiang nodded and lay down again.
"Don't worry, I got it." After thinking for a moment, he added, "I'll queue up to buy some coal tomorrow. We still have this month's egg coupons, so I'll go find someone to exchange them for. I'll boil two eggs for Xiaoxue every morning, or make some noodles and poach two eggs. We still have a lot of meat coupons from the past few months, so you can go and queue up to buy some meat in the morning while you still have time."
Since Xiaoxue is staying here, I will cook some mutton for you in the next two days. Nutrition is essential when you are pregnant. I will also go and exchange it for some fine grains.
I'll call my third brother tomorrow to let him know. "Now that we're grandparents, how can I not tell them?"
When the couple heard the news, they lost their sleepiness and thought for a long time about what to buy.
Li Cuiying is already considering taking leave to take care of Jiang Mengxue after she gives birth next year.
At that time, you will have to exchange more egg and meat tickets with others in advance, and save fine grains and brown sugar for your confinement period.
Li Cuiying only knew that she was full of energy now, her arms and legs no longer hurt, and she had the energy to do anything.
The next morning, Li Cuiying got up early to cook a bowl of millet porridge and fried a few eggs.
It was really difficult to get up this morning. Jiang Mengxue stuffed her clothes into the quilt at her feet and covered herself with them for a while. She got up in the middle of the night and added some fuel to the fire, so the kang was still warm.
"Is it dawn? Time to get up?" Xie Sheng sensed movement beside him, but his eyes were still dazed and he didn't even open them.
"It's only six o'clock. I can still sleep for another half an hour."
Although she heard the noise outside, Jiang Mengxue really couldn't get up.
After dinner last night, she fell asleep on the kang. Because Xie Sheng was sleeping next to her, she didn't even log in to her space. She would go in and check the information next time she was free.
"Xiaoxue, Xiaosheng, get up."
"Here I come, Second Mother."
The two of them got up and put on their clothes. As soon as they opened the door, they felt the cold air outside and shivered all over.
"The kettle is filled with hot water that was just boiled this morning. Wash your face first." Li Cuiying said as she walked to the table and carried the kettle to the washbasin rack.
"Second Mother, Second Uncle isn't home? He's at work so early?"
Jiang Mengxue didn't see her second uncle in the kitchen outside her house and thought he had gone to work.
"He went to queue up to buy coal early in the morning. He had already agreed with the neighbor to go together today. So he came to knock on your uncle's door early to queue up.
By the way, Xiaoxue, have you bought coal for your place? If you haven't, ask your second uncle to buy it for you, don't go by yourself. " She said this to Jiang Mengxue and the others because they were worried because there was not enough coal after they came. In fact, that was the case. This year they bought coal according to the amount of previous years. Now it would definitely not be enough to burn an extra kang, but there was no need to say this.
"I bought Er Niang and brought her back a while ago. I happened to meet Sister Sheng and my old comrades from Peking University and Tsinghua University on my way home. They helped me get her back."
Li Cuiying thought she had simply met two people, and didn't wonder why Xie Sheng was with Gu Qingbei's comrades.
"I made steamed buns a couple of days ago. You should eat less pickles now. From now on, we'll stir-fry some vegetables in the morning, and then make mutton soup and noodles in the evening."
"Second Mother, I plan to go back to East City this afternoon to pack some clothes. The sweet potatoes I just dried a few days ago are still not dry."
"Yes, Second Mother, we originally planned to apply for the dormitory and then go back to pack our things, so we didn't bring anything when we came yesterday."
Li Cuiying nodded. She originally wanted to say that she had no clothes and go buy some instead, but she was afraid that the sweet potatoes would go bad if they were not dried well at home, and Xie Sheng also had to go back.
"Okay, do you want me to come with you? I don't have much to do right now anyway. My job doesn't require me to sit in an office all day. Just put the sweet potatoes in your bags and bring them over. I'll help you dry them. My dried sweet potatoes are delicious. If I'm at home free tomorrow, I'll take the sweet potatoes from the cellar and dry them there too."
"I can go back by myself. We'll take the bus back anyway, so I don't have to carry it myself."
After dinner, Xie Sheng rode his bike and took Jiang Mengxue back to the hospital. At this time, there were already quite a few people gathered in the room.
Wu Shuke divided them into groups as previously agreed upon and gave them some simple materials to study first.
Doctors with experience and relevant knowledge sat together and began to discuss the specific content.
Not to mention anything else, there are more than 20 brigades in Zhonghe Commune alone. If we divide it further, each brigade has seven to eight to ten production teams.
It is impossible for each brigade to send one person over, and their hospital cannot arrange it either.
Therefore, only the top few brigades in the commune are eligible to select people. As for those who are not selected, their women's directors can be arranged to study with them. This can only be done slowly in the future and cannot be solved immediately.
According to Wu Shuke, the leaders above meant that they could select a few doctors to stay and let the lower levels send people to study here in turn.
I also hope that Jiang Mengxue and other doctors will work together to make the plan more perfect, and the leaders will prepare to submit it for other cities to learn from.
Jiang Mengxue never expected that the leaders would make such a big deal out of this. She thought that at most it would be spread among the communes in their city for study. If it spread to the whole country, she would still feel a little guilty.
Because, logically speaking, what she wrote were not important things, but just some small things in life. It can be said that most doctors know this, but no one has taken the lead in talking about it.
She is just a new doctor who has only been working for a few months, so it would be difficult for her to convince people.
"Doctor Jiang, you don't need to worry about these things. Since the higher-ups actually brought it up, they must have figured out how to resolve it. Besides, whether this matter is credible has nothing to do with your age.
All doctors can say that the knowledge you write is common, but why don’t they consider that there are so many women in the countryside who are illiterate and don’t know these health knowledge?”
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