Chapter 144 Pregnant

On the third day of the New Year, we take a family photo.

Su He dressed herself up nicely. Although the photo is in black and white, it still has a ceremonial feel.

The two babies take photos every year, but they never get tired of it. They are very happy when they hear that they are going to have photos taken. The little girl Changyi even asks her mother to give her a nice hairstyle and let her wear her red hairpin.

When taking photos, you must first take a big family portrait.

Su's father and mother were sitting, Changyi Chang'an stood on their right side, Mianmian Xingran stood on their left side, and the two younger ones were the third brother's son Chengyao, and the second brother's son Xingye. Yes, Pei Chuwei gave birth to a son as her second child, named Su Xingye, and named him after his sister.

Cheng Yao and Xingye were held by Su's father and mother.

In the back row are my daughter, son-in-law, son, and daughter-in-law, eight people in total.

Click, here’s a big family photo.

After that, everything was casual. The four children took a photo with their parents and their own families, and Su's father and mother, the grandparents, took a photo with their grandchildren.

The sister-in-law Su He took a photo with her three sisters-in-law. The same goes for the men. The three brothers-in-law took a photo with the brother-in-law Gu Jianhua.

One photo for the four siblings and one for the three brothers.

Take a photo with a few children.

Anyway, if money is not a concern, everyone still likes taking photos and takes a lot of them.

Not to mention other photos, five copies of the family portrait were printed, one for Su's father and mother, and one each for the four brothers and sisters.

Because they were leaving the next day, Su Che and Feng Shuning came back to visit their father and mother once more on the evening of the third day of the Chinese New Year.

"With Xiaohe and the others here, you don't have to worry about me and your father. We are fine and living a good life." Mother Feng hugged her daughter.

Feng Shuning nodded and said, "Mom and Dad, we will come back next year during the Chinese New Year."

She didn't know when her parents would be able to return to the city. How many years would they have to do labor reform in the countryside? For a lifetime? Feng Shuning didn't know.

She just hopes her parents can come back to the city soon.

The eldest brother Su Yue passed away later than the third brother, on the 8th. When they passed away, Su's father, mother, Su He, and the second oldest brother Su Xiao all took something with them.

It will probably take several years before I can come back.

Hong Xing, a college student, was also preparing to go to the capital to study at university. Sister Gu and Team Leader Wang and their family of five came back and had a meal with them.

Going to college is a good thing and a happy event. When Hong Xing left, his grandparents, Gu's father and mother, and his uncle and aunt, Su He and Gu Jianhua, all gave him red envelopes.

I wish him academic success and a bright future.

After the New Year, everything back home was peaceful.

"Jianhua, I feel pregnant."

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, we eat Yuanxiao (Chinese rice dumplings), but Gu's mother made glutinous rice dumplings, which were enlarged versions. The ones made by Gu's second sister were as big as a baby's fist and very delicate.

The ones made by Gu's mother are shaped like an adult's fist and filled with red bean filling.

They eat sticky rice dumplings here by adding lard and sugar. Lard is added to prevent the dumplings from sticking to the bowl, and sugar is added to make it sweet.

Su He ate a sticky rice dumpling at noon. When he smelled the lard, he felt sick and wanted to vomit.

She has not taken systematic contraceptives since the beginning of last year, but she did not get pregnant after a year, and she has not taken them this year either, as she is preparing to have a second child.

Today, I was feeling sick while eating sticky rice dumplings and suddenly thought of this. I calculated the date and found that her aunt had been delayed for more than a week.

Su He was wondering if she was pregnant. Otherwise, after systemic medication, his aunt would not have been able to postpone the birth.

"Have you got it? Let me hear it."

Gu Jianhua put his ear to her belly. Su He was speechless. "No, even if it is there, it's only been a month. What can you hear?"

The size of a baby born one month into the pregnancy is about the size of a peanut.

Gu Jianhua didn't listen and continued to stick to Su He's belly. After listening for a few seconds, he suddenly raised his head and said in shock, "Wife, I heard a sound, it seemed to move!"

He really felt it.

Su He, "... that must be my intestines moving."

Gu Jianhua, "Okay, wife."

"Let's go to the hospital and have a look at it by the doctor in a few days."

"Um."

In fact, there was no need for Su He to see a doctor. She felt that she was pregnant because she had a dream, a prenatal dream, in which she dreamed of snakes. There were snakes all over the room, chasing and biting her.

She was scared awake.

However, to be cautious, half a month later, the day before school started, Su He went to the hospital to see a doctor.

Confirmed.

Mother Gu was very happy, "Xiao He, I'll kill a chicken for you."

Just in case, Su He took some medicine to preserve the pregnancy.

Counting the days, it was around the end of December or the beginning of January.

It was October when she was born.

If you don't choose a good date, the expected delivery date should be during the summer vacation or winter vacation.

But getting pregnant depends on fate, it's not something that will happen whenever she wants.

"Sister-in-law, if you can have a pair of twins, it will be perfect, two daughters and two sons."

It was Sunday, Su He was at home, and Second Sister Gu came over for a stroll. When she heard that Su He was pregnant, she told her.

Su He, "Well, I won't have any more children after this one."

Gu Erjie said, "Three children is fine, not too many, not too few, just right."

"Mingyue is also pregnant. She is three months pregnant, one month older than you."

Su He was surprised, "Really? Then Mingyue and I were born one after the other."

"Yes, she's in September and you're in October."

It is the busy farming season, but there is nothing much to do in Su He. Anyway, Mother Gu doesn't go to the fields, and this year Father Gu doesn't go to the fields either.

Their family is not busy, but the bright moon is.

"You will take care of my second sister during her confinement period," Su He asked.

Sister Gu, "It must be me."

Mingyue is her own daughter. Even if she is her daughter-in-law, she cannot do what her elder sister did and use the excuse of being busy on the farm to avoid taking care of her during the confinement period.

The elders are quibbling with the younger ones, but the key is that the younger ones have not done anything excessive.

"My elder sister doesn't plan to let Qingyu go to school anymore"

Su He didn't see Qingyu when school started. Among the younger generation in her husband's family, Xiaomei and Xue'er are already in the second grade of junior high school. If Qingyu was still here, she would also be in the second grade of junior high school.

Second sister Gu was eating sunflower seeds. "My eldest sister said she can't study anymore. She won't be able to learn well. Even if she does well, she won't be able to get into university or find a job."

"It's better to go home and farm, and when I grow up in two years, I can find someone to marry."

Qingyu is 17 years old this year, one year older than Xiaomei and Xueer.

If classes had not been suspended for those two years, these kids would all be in high school now.

"Qingyu is the only one in the family who is in school, and it doesn't cost much, so just let him go and finish junior high school at least."

Sister Gu's family is actually quite wealthy for a rural family.

It didn't cost much to marry the eldest son, and Zhang Ning didn't ask for a dowry, so Sister Gu set up two cabinets and held a banquet.

There is no other place to spend money.

When Aoki and Zhang Ning separated their property, Sister Gu did not give any money to anyone and did not contribute to building a house. It is estimated that she had several hundred yuan in savings.

After all, we have a lot of chickens at home, as well as pigs and cows.

She and her eldest brother-in-law were also hardworking and earned ten work points every day. Oh, and there was also their second son Qinglin, who was also very hardworking.

Second sister Gu shook her head and said, "My eldest sister thinks studying is useless, not because she is stingy with the money."

I also told her to let Xiaomei stop. Mingyue Chunqing has studied and now she is digging the soil.

She was so angry. If it wasn't for her own sister, Second Sister Gu would have scolded her long ago. How could she say that? Her eldest sister was just talking about her in a roundabout way!

Su He, "Second sister, don't listen to your elder sister. How can studying be useless?"

"Next time when there are recommendations for places at the Commune Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, Mingyue will be the first one to be recommended."

Sister Gu nodded, "I understand, Xiaohe."

"That's the recommendation. I feel it's not as fair as the college entrance examination."

Second sister Gu felt that if her eldest daughter was recommended to go to college, then her younger daughter would probably have no chance. Even if she was outstanding, it would be impossible for a family to choose two people to go to college.

"Well, it's a decision from above. But sister, you should let Xiaomei continue studying. It's not certain that the college entrance examination will be resumed someday."

Su He said this seemingly casually.

Gu Erjie, "Well, I don't plan to let Xiaomei suspend her studies, so just continue studying."

It's not like she can't afford it. She can just raise more chickens and get the money.

"How is the Red Army doing?"

Gu's second sister's youngest son, Wang Hongjun, is ten years old this year, one year older than the two children. He is in the fourth grade at the village primary school next door.

Sister Gu shook her head, "Not very good, just like her second sister, she doesn't want to go to school, and going to school is like being tortured."

"She cried and shouted that she didn't want to go, and she walked back several times after I sent her there."

Su He, "This is more serious than Chunqing's case." Chunqing went to school after all, she wouldn't come back halfway.

Gu Erjie, "Sister and brother are the same."

Then he said, "Hey, Xiao Hebai's family wants the two children to get married as soon as possible."

Su He heard this and asked, "What do you and your brother-in-law think?"

The Bai family is the neighbor behind the second sister Gu's family. They have three daughters and three sons. Two sisters are married. The one who talked to Chunqing is the eldest son in the family, Bai Shitou, who has two younger brothers and a younger sister.

My younger sister is still young, around six or seven years old, but my two younger brothers are older, around fifteen or sixteen years old.

"This is what I think. Marriage is fine, but we have to separate. There are too many members of the Bai family, and it would be troublesome to live together..."

When Second Sister Gu was a child, she lived with her grandparents, second uncle, and second aunt, and later she got married and moved into another large family. She understood very well that in such a large family, there are many conflicts and that quarrels can arise over trivial matters.

It's very troublesome.

But there are very few families like the eldest son-in-law's. They are all large families, and Shitou is indeed a hardworking child and a nice person.

Besides, since we are from this village, my mother’s family can take care of me if I have any problems.

So they didn't object.

After listening to this, Su He said, "That's right, second sister. It's better to separate. Tell the Bai family about this idea."

"There's no need to separate them too far, just one yard, like Mingyue and Xiaoxu."

"There are indeed many conflicts when the sister-in-law and the mother-in-law live together."

Su He thought of what happened to Gu Sanjie back then. No matter how you put it, living together is not a good thing. It's the law that things that are far away smell good, but things that are close by stink.

Sister Gu said, "Right, I'll tell you when the Bai family mentions marriage again."

I don't know what the villagers think, they feel like the sky is falling if the children are separated and they refuse to agree no matter what.

What's the big deal about separating? It's not like we're going to stop communicating or break off our relationship.

Living together is annoying and noisy.

..........

Soon it was time for summer vacation.

Su He is six months pregnant and her belly is quite big. She might be carrying two babies. The fetal movements are exactly the same as when she was pregnant with Chang Yi and Chang An.

She also had a dream in which two huge snakes were chasing her.

To verify, Su He went to see a doctor.

The doctor took the baby's pulse and said, "Twins, two children."

Not to mention the first time she was pregnant with twins, but the second time she was pregnant with twins as well, that was really amazing.

"Wife, I admire you."

Comrade Gu Jianhua gave his wife a thumbs up.

Su He also admired herself. She didn't expect that she could have twins as her second child. Her mother's genes were so amazing.

"After this baby, you won't have any more children. Go get a sterilization."

Gu Jianhua saluted her and said, "Yes, Commander!"

"Poor mouth!"

After leaving the hospital, he went back home and told Su's father and mother the news.

Su Mu, "It would be perfect if we could give birth to another pair of dragon and phoenix twins."

Father Su: "It's all right." Dragon-and-phoenix twins, twins, are both very rare.

"You should live at home after school starts. By then, your baby will be eight months old and you'll have a big belly, which will make it inconvenient for you to move around." said Su's mother.

Su He chuckled and said, "That's what I thought too."

The daughter-in-law is pregnant with twins again, and Mother Gu is in high spirits again. Even though there are chickens suitable for slaughter at home, she insists on going to Uncle Gu's house to catch them, and then "in passing" talks about Su He going to the hospital.

"I thought Xiaohe's belly was so big, and I wondered if she was pregnant with twins again. I went to the hospital today and it turned out to be true." Gu's mother looked happy.

How could Zhang Xiuying not understand the hidden meaning of her sister-in-law's words? She was just showing off.

"Oh, that's great," she laughed.

To be honest, this daughter-in-law is really good. She got pregnant twice and gave birth to four babies.

In recent years, the relationship between the two sisters-in-law has eased a little, and they are no longer as confrontational as when they were young. Gu's mother was also happy to chat with them for a while longer.

Gu Li also heard her mother Wu Sanfeng nagging about this matter, but she didn't take it seriously. Su He and Gu Jianhua were not dead, so it was normal for them to get pregnant and have a child again.

Aunt Su He is indeed very lucky, as she always has twins. However, having twins has risks, so I wish her safety.

She no longer wanted to care about the outside world and only wanted to study hard. Then she got stunning results in the college entrance examination in 1978.

She wants to surpass everyone's expectations, become the top scholar in the province, and be the one that everyone pays attention to.

Ever since her family found out that Su He was pregnant with twins, they started guessing the gender. They had their own method and showed it to the two babies.

It is said that the child's mind is pure, without any distracting thoughts, and his eyes can see through things.

I asked, "Is the baby in mom's belly a brother or a sister?"

Changan, "Mom is pregnant with a little brother."

Chang Yi said, "No, it's my sister that's in my mom's belly."

Everyone was talking about their own things. Gu's mother and the others were even happier. Could this be a dragon and phoenix twin?

We won’t know whether it is a dragon-phoenix twin until it is born.

In mid-July, the second son Chunqing's marriage was decided.

The betrothal gift was fifty yuan, and I lived alone. I built a mud house, and the brick house could not be built for the time being.

After the deal was agreed upon, all we had to do was choose a good day to hold the wedding banquet. I looked at the date and it was August 12th in the solar calendar and June 12th in the lunar calendar, which was a good day, so we decided to hold the wedding banquet on that day.

When Chunqing got married, Su He still gave her a pair of pillowcases and kept twenty yuan at the bottom of the box.

The same thing goes for Gu's mother, a pair of hot pots.

The first and second daughters asked for the same dowry, and the second sister Gu gave the same dowry.