What else could she do now? She could only accept it. The child was hers, and logically she should raise him herself.
"Lu Ting, where did your aunt marry?"
"My grandfather lives in the next village. My uncle works in a flour mill. My aunt stays at home to take care of the whole family and has to go to work every day."
"How old are their children?"
"The oldest is fourteen or fifteen, and the youngest is seven or eight. They have three daughters and two sons."
"All five children are of school age, and your uncle is the only one working to support the family."
"Yes, my uncle is the youngest son in the family. His parents are old and can no longer work in the fields, so they have to rely on his brothers to support them.
My uncle is not even 40 years old yet, and he has elderly parents and young children to take care of, so the entire burden falls on him. My aunt has to go to work every day and cook for the children when she comes home.
My cousin dropped out of school when she was less than fifteen and stayed at home to work with her mother."
Fourteen or fifteen years old is the age for going to school, but she followed her mother to the fields every day to earn work points. As the eldest daughter in the family, the pressure was really great.
"Doesn't your aunt let her go to school?"
"No, Qin Zhen went to junior high school for a year, but her grades were poor and she lost interest in studying, so she dropped out and came back to work. Her sister, Qin Yan, is a year and a half younger than her, has better grades than her, and is in the first grade this year.
The third child, Qin Ke, is twelve years old and in sixth grade. The fourth child, Qin Dan, is ten years old and in fourth grade. The fifth child, Qin Rui, is eight years old and will be in second grade in the second semester.
Five children have five mouths to feed. They are in the growing stage and they open their mouths to eat. It is really stressful for their parents.
"Lu Ting, how much salary do you plan to give your aunt?"
"The temporary workers out there are eighteen dollars a month, so we'll give them twenty! My dad said they'll pay for it, and we don't need to borrow money."
Su Yan glanced at Lu Ting and said unhappily, "This is our own child. If we need a nanny, we'll hire one ourselves. I'll accept whatever they buy for the child, but we'll pay your aunt our own wages."
You still have three younger brothers who haven't married yet. If we spend so much money on your parents every year, Lu Jin's wife will definitely complain when she finds out.
As for your aunt's salary, we can give her an extra five dollars. As long as she helps us take care of the children, that's better than anything else."
Hua Jing seems to be only 38 years old, but she is already a mother of five children. She has given birth to so many children, so she should have experience in raising children.
As long as she takes good care of the child, it would be fine to reward her with something else.
"Yan Yan, you're so kind. When we go to Grandpa's house next week, let's talk to Auntie about this so she can be mentally prepared."
"good."
The next day, Su Yan walked to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy snap button elastic bands. Perhaps because she was too inexperienced, she broke several needles on the sewing machine. She had to buy a few more needles as backup, and also bought two rolls of thread of various colors.
I want to buy some cloth but I don’t have any tickets. It seems I have no choice but to go back to the space and look through the warehouse.
Su Yan went around the supply and marketing cooperative, bought everything she needed, and went straight back to her parents' house to wait for them to get off work.
When Su Qingshan opened the door, he was shocked to see the living room floor covered with watermelons and cantaloupes of all sizes. He was relieved to see his daughter busy in the kitchen.
"Yan Yan, you are here. Since you are pregnant, come and sit down. Your mother will cook the meal."
"Yes, let me do it." Jiang Lingling took the spatula and continued to stir-fry the vegetables in the pot.
Su Yan sat on the mahogany sofa, and Su Qingshan poured her a glass of well water.
"Yan Yan, my friend asked me again if I could help them get medicinal herbs this year, but I refused.
They made a lot of money selling medicinal herbs there last year, and I'm worried they'll target us if we continue trading with them."
Su Yan felt that her father was right to stop when it was time to stop, so as not to feed those people's appetites and make it difficult to control.
Some medicinal herbs can continue to grow in the fields without being dug up, and the longer they grow, the more valuable they are. Honeysuckle and other herbs should still be picked every year. After being picked, dried, and stored in a warehouse, they will not go bad for one or two years.
"Dad, if you refuse, then that's it. It doesn't matter if the medicinal herbs in the cave grow for another ten or eight years."
"Yan Yan, your grandpa knows you're pregnant and said he left a few old hens for you. When can you go to his house?"
"We'll go to Grandpa Lu Ting's house for a few days next week, and we'll stop by Xiahe Village to visit Grandpa."
"Okay, let's go see grandpa and grandma and buy them some wick cakes."
"I'll buy them some canned lychees then."
There are thousands of empty cans in the cafeteria. When she harvested lychees in May, she made dozens of cans and labeled them, planning to give them to her elders during the Chinese New Year. The rest were processed into dried lychees, and she asked Lu Ting to take them to Jinshi to sell two years ago.
Su Qingshan picked up a watermelon from the ground, saw a small basket of bayberries on the table, and asked, "Are there bayberries in the Immortal Cave?"
"Well, the Immortal Cave not only grows a variety of medicinal herbs, but also a variety of strange and exotic fruits."
"Why are these bayberries so big, like ping-pong balls, and so black? I wonder if they count."
Black bayberry is nothing. There are two white bayberry trees in the space. The taste is no worse than this one. It’s a pity that it’s not convenient to take it out now.
"Dad, try this bayberry. It's absolutely delicious. You'll want to eat more after eating it."
Su Yan brought twenty watermelons, a bag of melons, a basket of bayberries, and a basket of mangoes for her parents.
It would definitely not be easy for her to come back when her belly got bigger, so this time she left two hundred kilograms of rice, two hundred kilograms of flour, and even brought several buckets of peanut oil for her parents.
Jiang Lingling came out of the kitchen carrying some food. "Yan Yan, you gave us so much food, we'll pay you."
"Mom, what are you talking about? Are you trying to put me in an unfair position? It's normal for children to be filial. Stop it."
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