After dinner, Shen Anyui cleaned up the dishes while Shen Anyian took a walk in the yard to digest the food.
Back in the room, Qin Zhengqi handed her his allowance, which was about one hundred yuan.
Shen Anyian asked him, "Is all this money for me?"
"right."
Shen Annian sat on the edge of the bed, happily counting the money.
She will soon be able to receive her salary, with two paychecks every month, and she feels like she has more money than she can spend.
"I want to discuss something with you. Mom came to take care of me. Should we pay her a salary?"
Qin Zhengqi was stunned. He had never thought about this question before.
Seeing that he didn't respond, Shen An Nian continued, "Mom originally had her own job, but she quit her job to come and take care of me.
My mother will have to take care of me during the confinement period for several more months, and it will be very hard work. I can’t let her keep working hard and get nothing in return.”
"I don't think Mom will take your money."
"I'll go tell her."
"Okay, you have the final say, I'll listen to you."
Shen Annian thought for a moment and said, "How about giving Mom a salary of 20 yuan a month, plus 15 yuan for living expenses? What do you think?"
"Can."
Shen An Nian took out thirty-five yuan and said, "I'll go talk to Mom now."
When Mother Qin heard that Shen Annian was going to pay her a salary, she was not willing to accept the money.
"What's the point of talking about money? I'm your mother-in-law. Why should I ask for a salary just to take care of you? That would be nothing."
"Mom, that's not what I meant. You already had a job, but you quit it to take care of me, and you still work so hard every day.
Besides, even if we find someone to take care of me, we still have to pay them. Why can't you ask for a salary?"
Qin's mother still felt that it was too embarrassing to discuss salary as a family.
Shen An Nian continued to persuade: "You quit your job and come to take care of me. I don't know how Fourth Sister-in-law will scold you in her heart.
If you get a salary, it's like changing jobs, and your eldest sister-in-law and fourth brother's wife can't say anything to you."
Mother Qin thought about it and realized that it was true. Gao Hongxing had been acting weird in the two days before she left.
If I live here for too long, she will probably have more opinions and might even quarrel with the fourth brother.
Getting a salary can indeed shut her up.
"That doesn't need that much, just give me fifteen dollars.
As for living expenses, ten dollars a month is enough, why would we need fifteen dollars?"
Shen Anyian stuffed thirty yuan into her hand and said, "As the child grows older, he will need more nutrition. I don't know if fifteen yuan is enough for living expenses. Please take it."
Qin's mother had no choice but to take the money, which was just enough to buy a few hens so that she could eat eggs every day.
Shen Annian returned to the room, and Qin Zhengqi made her a cup of milk at just the right temperature and handed it to her.
Now she needs to supplement more calcium so that her body will not suffer from leg and foot cramps due to calcium loss.
Shen Anyian took the milk and took a sip, then sighed, “It would be nice if we had fresh milk here.”
"It's too hot here for raising cows."
"You can also raise buffaloes, as their milk is just as nutritious.
The children in our military families' compound are all so skinny, like they're malnourished. If they had milk to drink, they would definitely grow taller."
In later generations, buffaloes were bred to produce milk just like cows.
Moreover, buffalo milk is sweeter and mellower than ordinary milk, and is also more nutritious.
The protein content of buffalo milk reaches 7.6%, almost twice that of ordinary milk.
Qin Zhengqi had never heard of anyone drinking buffalo milk. "Can you drink buffalo milk?"
“Of course you can drink it, but buffalo milk is not the same as the kind of cows we use for plowing the fields. Plowing cows can only produce two or three kilograms of milk a day.
If there are animal husbandry experts who can improve the breeding of dairy cows and buffaloes, we can get buffaloes that produce a lot of milk."
Shen Anyian pinched his muscular forearm and asked, "Did you drink milk every day when you were a child? How did you grow so tall?"
She made some inappropriate moves, which made Qin Zhengqi furious. He could only hold her hand and said, "When I was a child, I couldn't even get enough food to eat, so how could I have milk to drink?
My family is all tall, my dad is tall, and my second and third uncles are also tall."
Shen Annian thought about it and realized that not only the older generation, but also the younger generation, the eldest brother and the fourth brother, were not short in height.
This whole family really won the genetic prize.
"I hope our child can grow up with the advantage of your height."
"You're not short."
She was indeed not short, at 1.65 meters tall, which was considered quite tall for a woman in that era when people generally did not have enough to eat.
But she still felt unsatisfied. She wished she could grow to 1.7 meters.
"That's what I got from drinking milk since she was young. Now I let Sui Sui drink malted milk and milk every day just to help her grow taller.
It would be great if the children here could also drink milk.
There are so many mountains here that we can raise cattle and supply milk to the surrounding counties and towns. We can also make milk powder and supply it nationwide.
It’s a pity that we don’t have technical personnel, so all these are just empty talk now.”
Qin Zhengqi gently touched her head and said, "We must take one step at a time, and things will get better and better."
Shen Annian only mentioned this briefly, and his emotions quickly passed.
"I'm going to take a shower."
Since she became pregnant, she has been particularly afraid of heat and sweats all over after a busy day.
She couldn't take a bath in such hot weather, and Qin Zhengqi was worried that it would be unsafe for her to take a bath with a big belly, so he made a small stool for her to sit on while taking a bath.
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