Although Zhou Wei wanted to verify what Wang Yuanzheng said, Lu Yan was not at home, and he had to rush to the garrison area for a mission, so he had to give up. He would go to Lu's house next time to see him and meet his childhood friends.

Qin Rou brought the two children back from Wang's house.

Since Xue Xiaohui moved into the family compound, when Xiao Pangdun and his friends went to school, they often met Teacher Feifei who rode a bicycle to work.

The happy little magpie would always shout from a distance: "Good morning, Teacher Feifei!!!"

Everyone's eyes would fall on Xue Xiaohui.

Xue Xiaohui greeted him shyly.

Sometimes Qin Rou would laugh secretly when she saw this. Haha, she couldn't help but think of the complaints of her seniors who graduated from various normal schools and became teachers before she traveled through time, especially elementary school teachers. It is said that the most feared thing for teachers in the past was to meet the most polite students in their class in the toilet. They were going to squat or were squatting, but when the students saw you, they gathered around you as if they had discovered some strange creatures, and stood in front of you and shouted to you: "Hello, teacher XX."

It would be even worse if there were many people, and they would shout hello to you one after another.

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Although it had experienced the big typhoon in early September, now it was December, and Qin Rou's yard had changed a lot. The chicken coop was renovated beautifully, the green lawn was trimmed neatly, and the vegetable garden was also full of fruits.

The swing in the yard was covered with yellow osmanthus flowers. Osmanthus flowers are tall plants that cover the entire top of the swing like a rainbow. These flowers are extremely beautiful, and the fragrance of osmanthus flowers is even more intense. When the wind blows, the fragrance of flowers drifts very far. The fragrance of

flowers is like vanilla ice cream, which smells particularly appropriate in this not-so-cold "winter".

Qin Rou took several photos as souvenirs. She also planned to plant some red osmanthus flowers. She took scissors to trim the branches.

The old hen in the chicken coop recently gave birth to a nest of chicks, which were so cute with their fluffy chirping. The hens in the house were already full, so she gave a few to Xue Xiaohui. Qin Rou was looking forward to a few roosters for the remaining chicks, which could be slaughtered and eaten as a snack for the family.

The red tomatoes seemed to like her yard very much. No matter how much wind and rain it had been through, it could always cheer up and once again be full of fruits. The shelves were hung with ruby ​​agate like a beaded curtain. There

was always enough tomatoes in their family. When Qin Rou wanted to be lazy, she decisively chose fried tomatoes and eggs, a home-cooked dish that she would never get tired of. She grew her own tomatoes and laid her own eggs, and was self-sufficient.

The loofahs planted by Qin Rou are growing averagely, but the eggplants and beans in the vegetable garden are growing well. Recently, she has harvested a lot of large purple eggplants. She makes eggplant stew, fried eggplant with beans, eggplant eggplant pancakes, steamed eggplant with garlic, hand-torn eggplant, steamed eggplant... for her family.

She has developed many ways to eat eggplant. Perhaps it's because the feng shui is more favorable for eggplant this year, and the harvest is plentiful.

Sometimes it is hard to explain the impact of things like climate and feng shui on plants that year. For example, Qin Rou remembered that there was a bumper harvest of lychees one year. The fruits were hanging in all directions. Even the wild lychees on the roadside that were not taken care of or fertilized were full of fruits...

Of course, fruit farmers may not be happy about such a comprehensive and comprehensive harvest. On the contrary, because there was an oversupply of lychees, the price was low and they rotted in the fields at a few cents per pound.

Now her family has too many eggplants, and she is a little worried. Even though she has developed many ways to eat eggplants, the children don't want to eat them anymore.

Qin Rou harvested a basket of eggplants and beans. She planned to give the eggplants away later and make the beans into sour beans for storage.

"Xiao Qin, I heard that the fishing boats are back. Let's go pick some fish as soon as possible!" Li Qinghua came to her house and invited her to go buy fish together. Li Qinghua was pregnant, and her belly was not very obvious at the moment, but she had become much more diligent than before.

Now they invited her to go pick fish together.

"Huahua's mother, I'll give you some eggplants."

"Okay, we'll roast eggplants today."

...Listen, Huahua's mother, who used to eat in the cafeteria, now cooks at home. This is the pressure brought by the child.

Even lazy people can't be lazy anymore.

Huahua's mother used to live a very carefree life. The family ate in the cafeteria every day. Although the food in the cafeteria was not the best, it was definitely not bad. What's more, Huahua's mother was not the kind of person who treated herself badly. She would order meat dishes every day.

This was like poking a hornet's nest. Li Qinghua lived such a carefree life, not doing anything but eating meat. I don't know how many people envied her behind her back.

Why are there so many rumors about her in the family compound? People say she is a lazy daughter-in-law behind her back because she is hated.

Li Qinghua and Huang Xinying, one is a good daughter-in-law in the family compound, and the other is a lazy daughter-in-law in the family compound. They have one thing in common, that is, they both only gave birth to one child.

There are few families like them who only have one child. Many have three or four, and some have four or five. Life is very tight.

Raising a child is too expensive and time-consuming. If there are too many children at home, the mother cannot work and has to stay at home to take care of the children. If the mother-in-law is called to take care of the children, it will be even more serious. The whole family will quarrel over trivial matters.

In the past, Huahua's mother did not work, and Political Commissar Liu supported her and her son. Political Commissar Liu's salary was more than enough for the family of three to have fine food, and the food in the cafeteria was not expensive. Rice was two cents and an ounce, ordinary vegetarian dishes were ten cents per portion, cuttlefish, meat, and eggs with mustard greens were twenty cents per portion, and better meat dishes were thirty cents per portion. Huahua's mother ordered a better meat dish every day, which cost her one yuan and twenty cents a day, which was no more than thirty-six yuan a month, plus the food for a child, and even though Political Commissar Liu had to send some money home, they had no burden in their lives.

But if there is a second child, then the pressure of life will come. One more child means one more mouth to feed. If it is a girl, it is okay. If there is another boy, it can still be managed. But if there are three or four boys in the family... the half-grown boys will make the parents poor. That is not a joke. Life will have to be tight. Even the teacher's family has to eat coarse grains.

Why can Huang Xinying be a good daughter-in-law? A big reason is that there is only one child in the family. Both husband and wife have a salary. Huang Xinying has free time when she gets home from work. She does not need to take care of more children and do so much housework. One less child means one less set of dirty clothes. The couple has sufficient supply of rice and grain every month, so her family can often "have delicious food" and run a prosperous and bright life.

If you live by frugality, you will have no rice or oil, and even a good cook cannot cook without rice.

In a sense, the two families are the same kind of people.

Other families, especially those with four or five children, have to save money to raise children, saving a little here and a little there, and the only comfort they can have is the blessing of having many children.

"Raising children is not easy!" Qin Rou went back to the kitchen to get the bucket for the fish. Thinking of the recent changes in Huahua's mother and the two fat kids at home, she suddenly felt the pressure of raising children.

Generally, the salary is from high to low in aviation, underwater, surface, and onshore. The higher the risk, the better the salary. Lu Yan is on the surface, and his salary and allowance are higher than those on shore, plus there is a sea subsidy. It is hard work, but the salary is good. All the allowances add up to an average of 200 yuan a month.

Qin Rou has been working for a year and gave birth to a baby. Now her monthly salary is 36 yuan, and she also has an allowance of 8.8 yuan a month, which is the average salary of an ordinary worker.

Unmarried colleagues like her can still live a good life. The charges for various canteen meals are similar. If you don't save too much, you can eat 25 yuan a month and still have meat to eat regularly. If you save more and only eat vegetarian food, you can have enough food and clothing for 16 or 17 yuan. You can also save some money to buy soap, clothes, small leather shoes, go to the movies and buy some books during holidays, and live a petty bourgeoisie life.

If you get married, it will be different. If you want to raise a child, you have to live frugally.

No matter in any era, for ordinary working people, marriage will reduce the quality of life.

If you say that you don't eat canteen meals and cook at home, you can't save much money if you really calculate.

Although vegetables only cost a few cents per pound, if you want to cook at home, you need firewood and beehive coal. Qin Rou calculated the money her family spent on buying beehive coal and firewood in a month. Her family used both types of coal. Her sister, brother-in-law, parents-in-law would come to her house for dinner, and they would often light fires. There were two or three stoves, and the stove with beehive coal often had a pot of water boiling. It turned out that beehive coal cost one cent a piece, and she would burn four or five pieces a day, plus a few loads of firewood. It would cost seventeen or eighteen yuan just for lighting fires.

Look at it this way. Just the firewood costs half of her salary in a month. Isn't it terrible? Add to that the other firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea, and the five yuan monthly subscription for goat milk...

Well, the family expenses are huge.

Of course, if you cook your own firewood, you can save money. If you grow vegetables yourself, you can save money on vegetables. If you raise chickens to lay eggs yourself, you can save money

on eggs. You can save firewood in various ways, use coal stoves skillfully, or simply chop firewood and pick up coal slag yourself, which saves another expense. The chopped firewood has one price, and the unchopped firewood has another price. If you want to save money, you have to work harder and immerse yourself in some trivial money-saving labor every day.

Like Qin Rou and Lu Yan, as well as Wang Yuanzheng and Xue Xiaohui, newly married working couples with no children, each of them was allocated about 30 kilograms of grain coupons a month. They could buy fine grains for the two of them and eat white rice steamed buns every day. Their wages were enough to support them, and they could even support one more child. Naturally, the pressure would be doubled if they had a second or third child.

Qin Rou's family was relatively well off. The little fat boy often ate at her house. His mother didn't have much expenses in the army, so she gave him 60 yuan a month for food, and often sent him some malted milk powder snacks. It was an average of two yuan a day for the luxurious configuration. It was said that the daily diet standard for underwater submarine personnel nowadays was more than two yuan a day, but they didn't have to pay for this expense. The salary was quite high, but it was really hard underwater, with high danger, small, dull and noisy space, and the engineers on the ship had to work in high temperatures of forty or fifty degrees, which was not easy.

My parents-in-law have a pension, and now they are at home helping to take care of Zhou Zhou and Dumpling. They don't pay for living expenses, but they buy a lot of milk powder for the kids at home, and often buy some meat, sesame, peanuts and the like.

Now Qin Rou and Lu Yan can still make a surplus of more than 100 yuan after spending a month, and their life is quite comfortable.

If you calculate it this way, they can only save 1,000 yuan a year. Brother Lu is not as good at saving money after marriage as before marriage.

"Is this a sturgeon?"

"That was taken away by the xx detachment." There are several farms here, as well as fishing companies. After the fishing troops come back, each team comes to collect the harvest, and the supply is also collected in order. The surface team has priority over the shore team, and the first come first served.

"Good comrade, can you help me see if there are any fish roe in it? I only want the fish roe in it..." Qin Rou asked shamelessly.

"That's fine."

Qin Rou scooped up a large bag of fish roe, and picked up a lot of hairtail and mackerel, also known as black fish. When a sister-in-law behind her saw that she bought a lot of mackerel, her eyes twitched.

Mackerel, or black fish, is much more expensive than oysters, clams, and mantis shrimps. Most people only eat it during New Year's banquets.

Mackerel has few bones and a lot of meat. The fish meat can be used to make dumplings, or it can be marinated with salt and then dried in the sun, and steamed on rice. It is particularly fragrant and goes well with rice.

Someone couldn't help but say a few words: "Xiao Qin, there are two more kids at home, you have to learn how to live."

Qin Rou smiled and nodded, thinking that they should eat and drink, they are just two kids.

Li Qinghua also picked a lot of fish, and the sisters-in-law next to her lost their temper when they saw Li Qinghua. These sisters-in-law were nothing more than bringing up several children, and the children were arguing and making a fuss about what to eat in the evening.

"Huahua's mother, you have been moving more recently." A short-haired relative raised an eyebrow.

"She is much more diligent than before."

"A pregnant woman is different. Niu Ye is going to have a younger brother."

"Let his mother give him more brothers and sisters."

Qin Rou married Lu Yan. The couple lived a sweet life that attracted envy. Many people in the family compound envied her, but the one that everyone in the family compound envied was Comrade Li Qinghua.

She was the center of everyone's envy.

Qin Rou was beautiful and had a nice voice. She was in the art troupe before, and she also studied at an art school. She was admitted as a broadcaster. She could take care of the yard in the family compound and cook delicious dishes. With her appearance, most people envied her, but they also felt that she deserved to live such a life.

Li Qinghua, like them, was also an uneducated country girl with a delicate appearance, but she was lazy, greedy, and didn't work, let alone have more children, which made many people feel uncomfortable.

Later, she became a driver, which surprised everyone and made people envious.

Now she is pregnant, and she is finally doing something serious.

"Huahua's mother, you look like you are pregnant with twins, right?" The man smiled nervously.

"Talk to Xiao Qin more, and get some of her blessings, and give your old Liu two big fat boys at once." This person really wanted to see the lazy Li Qinghua give birth to two big fat boys, to see how she could be lazy.

Li Qinghua waved her hands carelessly: "I want to give birth to a daughter. I'm not lucky enough to give birth to two at once."

"You go and try to get some blessings from Xiao Qin's family."

"I won't go to Chief of Staff Lu to get some blessings. Commander Zhang asked our old Liu to go to Xiao Qin's family to get some blessings, but I said no, I had a dream, I'm definitely pregnant with a daughter."

Now someone reasonable said, "You are really stupid, those men don't believe in this, this kind of blessing can't be obtained just by saying it, let alone dreaming, those who are supposed to give birth to boys will still give birth to boys, and those who are supposed to give birth to girls will still give birth to girls."

"That's right."