Shen Anyian handed the proposal to Secretary Chen and asked Secretary Chen to submit it to the County Party Committee Revolutionary Committee.
The proposal to build a monument for the martyrs and visit their families during festivals and holidays has almost been finalized.
But this task is not so easy to solve. It is a long and meticulous task because many martyrs have no names and cannot find their relatives.
Even though the Armed Forces Department has the names of some martyrs, there are still many that have not been recorded in the Armed Forces Department’s archives, and only some of their deeds are circulated among the people.
They have to find people one by one, contact the troops, verify the military numbers and reasons for sacrifice, contact their families, etc. There is a lot of verification work to do.
This matter will not produce any results for at least a year or two.
So Shen An Nian handed the matter over to Secretary Chen. When she heard that the Revolutionary Committee had passed the proposal, she stopped managing it.
Since the Revolutionary Committee has agreed, someone will naturally get to work on this matter.
She went to Zhaojia Village to prepare for the chicken farm.
The commune lent Zhaojia Village 200 yuan as start-up capital, but this amount was still too little to set up a chicken farm.
But they could no longer borrow funds from the commune. Shen Anyan worked in the commune and knew that the commune was really poor, so they could only try their best to reduce costs.
To build the chicken coop, they could only tamp the earth bricks themselves and recruit other people to build the chicken coop.
The two hundred yuan borrowed from the commune cannot be used to buy chicks.
Once the chicks are born, they need to be fed. There is no grain left, so rice bran mixed with wild vegetables and chopped into small pieces can barely be used to feed the chicks.
Buying rice bran means money.
Chicks are too expensive, so they buy eggs and hatch them themselves.
An egg costs three and a half to four cents, and they can invest one hundred yuan to collect eggs, which can buy about two thousand seven or two thousand eight hundred eggs.
Shen Annian selected two young and capable women in the village to go to various villages every day to collect eggs and hatch the collected eggs.
Without hens, they had to rely on artificial incubation.
Shen An Nian had someone build a kang, put the eggs in place, and had someone monitor the temperature 24 hours a day to ensure that the temperature was suitable for hatching chicks.
It takes at least twenty to twenty-five days to hatch chicks. During this time, she only needs to come over occasionally to check on them, and let the workers in the chicken farm do the rest.
Shen Annian was riding her bicycle back to the village when a village lady suddenly stopped her and congratulated her, saying that her family was going to have a new baby.
She was stunned for a moment before she realized that her fourth brother's wife had given birth.
"Hong Xing gave birth?"
"She's probably given birth. I saw them taking her to the hospital this morning. Your parents were there too."
"Then I have to go and see it too."
Shen Annian was afraid that the children at home would be scared without seeing adults, so she ran back home. Sure enough, she saw that Xiao Shitou and the others had already returned, but there were no adults at home.
Little Stone came running over on his short legs, "Aunt San, do we have a little brother now?"
"How do you know it's a little brother and not a little sister? Don't you like little sisters?"
Little Stone pouted and looked at her, his eyes extremely confused. "But Grandma Cao said it was a little brother, how could it be a little sister?"
Why did Third Aunt and Grandma Cao say different things? Is he a little brother or a little sister?
Shen Anyian rubbed Xiao Shitou's head.
It turned out that it was the villagers who told them.
Older people like to have boys, no wonder they say such things to their children.
"Your fourth aunt may give birth to a boy or a girl. Don't you like a little sister?"
Little Stone shook his head. "There are so many sisters at home, but no brothers. I want a brother to play with me."
That's true. There are five children in the family, and he is the only little boy. He will be lonely.
"I'll go to the hospital and check. When I come back, I'll tell you whether you have a little brother or a little sister."
Xiao Shitou wanted to go with her, but Shen Annian disagreed.
She still doesn't know what the situation is with her fourth brother's wife. With children around her, she is afraid that she doesn't have the energy to take care of them.
She told Shen Anyui to take good care of the other children and rode her bike to town.
When she arrived at the hospital, the baby had already been born.
For some unknown reason, my fourth brother's wife was making a lot of noise and refused to rest.
Shen An Nian walked forward and asked, "What happened? Why don't you let the mother rest?"
Qin Yunxiang whispered to her, "She gave birth to a daughter and insisted that the hospital switch her son for a daughter. She's demanding the hospital return her son."
When the fourth brother's wife heard her words, she screamed, "I'm going to give birth to a son. Wong Tai Sin gave me some magic water to drink and said I'll definitely be able to conceive this time."
She spent thirty dollars to ask Wong Tai Sin to draw a talisman for her.
She originally thought she was pregnant with a son, but it was a worthless girl. How could she accept this?
Shen An Nian didn't look at her, but looked at Song Lao Si who was standing next to her, "Lao Si, what do you think?"
Qin Laosi also felt a little regretful, but it was only a momentary regret. Whether it was a boy or a girl, it was not his child.
What's more, he is still young and can have children in the future, so he is not as pessimistic as his fourth brother's wife.
"My son and my daughter are both my children, so it's fine."
His attitude made Shen Annian slightly satisfied.
Qin's father and mother do not have obvious ideas of favoring boys over girls. Influenced by them, Qin Lao Si will not blindly pursue having a son, which is a good thing.
But in order to have a baby, my fourth brother's wife actually resorted to such extreme means as drinking talisman water. If she is not awakened in time, I am afraid that the child will not have an easy life in the future.
"Fourth sister-in-law, it seems that you have attended all the education classes in the village in vain.
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