People who eat plenty of oily food have a full stomach and therefore more energy to work.
Sheng Liancheng and his son started going to the fields to build corn fences and prepare the land. Now, the Sheng family has four or five acres of land, all of which are wasteland they found elsewhere.
Sheng Liancheng originally wanted to develop another piece of land this year, but Sheng Xiping stopped him from doing so.
Why build so much land? The fourth and fifth children will be going to study abroad soon, and there are only a few people in the family.
Life is better now. There's no shortage of meat and such. There's not much food at home. With a little extra grain rationing, it's enough to eat. Why bother planting so much and suffering so much?
After thinking for a long time, Sheng Liancheng felt that his son's words made sense, so he simply stopped going to reclaim wasteland and just kept these few acres of land to take good care of.
After Zhang Shuzhen filled the sausages and steamed them, she hung them up to air dry for two days. Then, Sheng Xiping specially took a car to Songjianghe and sent an express parcel to Zhou Qinglan.
May is the busiest time for the forest farm, as it involves reforestation, forest protection, and fire prevention.
The processing plant shut down, and all of the more than 100 workers went up the mountain. The women participated in planting trees and the young men protected the forest and prevented fires.
As in previous years, all students from Qianchuan Elementary and Middle Schools, except for those in the third year of junior high school and the second year of senior high school, went up the mountain to plant trees.
Sheng Yunfang and others passed the preliminary exam, then went to the Forestry Bureau Staff Hospital for a physical examination, and after returning, they began filling out their college application forms.
Currently, the system of applying for universities before the college entrance examination is still in effect. Students can only make a rough estimate of which universities to apply to based on their preliminary and mock exam scores.
The Sheng sisters were timid and dared not report anything too ambitious.
Sheng Xiping encouraged them to apply to their first choice school based on their usual grades, a school that was within their reach.
"Report the good news: if you pass the exam, we're lucky; if you don't, it's okay. You can always repeat a year, and I'll support you."
Sheng Xiping's words gave his two younger sisters the confidence to apply to universities, so the two girls gritted their teeth and applied.
Around May 20th, afforestation and fire prevention were completed one after another, and then it was time to start clearing the land.
That day, Sheng Xiping received a call from the provincial capital; it was from Zhou Qinglan.
"Xiping, I'm pregnant again," Zhou Qinglan said happily on the other end of the phone.
"What the hell? Honey, say it again!" Sheng Xiping's head was about to explode when he heard this.
His wife is pregnant again? When did she get pregnant? What's going on? That can't be right.
"I said, I'm pregnant again. I was supposed to get my period at the beginning of the month, but it hasn't come yet."
I just went to the hospital for a checkup, and the doctor said I'm pregnant.
Zhou Qinglan's voice on the phone sounded slightly different; it seemed as if she was speaking through gritted teeth.
"You've forgotten about your trip to the provincial capital last month, haven't you? Sheng Xiping, are you trying to deny it?"
Upon hearing this, Sheng Xiping remembered.
Last month, I went to the provincial capital for a meeting. On the night I arrived, I had dinner at Chen Ruiqing's house, and Sheng Xiping drank some wine.
After returning to the hostel that evening, the couple, who hadn't been together for quite some time, spent half the night making love.
Holy crap, this is way too accurate! She got pregnant just that one time?
In fact, Zhou Qinglan had an IUD inserted at the hospital after giving birth to Sheng Xinyu.
However, she has a sensitive constitution, and since getting the IUD, she has had severe inflammation, with constant back and abdominal pain, as well as bleeding, and her period lasts for a long time.
Just then, Zhou Qinglan was admitted to university, and before leaving, she went to the hospital to have her IUD removed.
After that, Zhou Qinglan went to school outside and only went back during winter and summer vacations. When the two of them were together, they always took precautions and were very careful.
Unfortunately, that very night, Sheng Xiping had a few drinks and, in a moment of high spirits, forgot about any precautions. Unexpectedly, she became pregnant.
"Wife, listen to me, we can't keep this child." Sheng Xiping scratched his head and said with a distressed look.
"One is that you are still in school. If you get pregnant and have a baby at this time, what will happen to your studies? It will not be good for your studies."
Secondly, what era are we living in? Everyone's encouraging people to have only one child.
We already have two sons. If you have another one, won't it affect your job placement after graduation?
Starting in 1979, the government began to advocate that each couple should only have one child.
Newlywed couples and couples with the ability to have children are encouraged to have only one child, obtain a single-child certificate, and receive financial rewards.
In September 1980, a document was issued calling on leading cadres, members of the Communist Youth League, and others to actively respond to the policies of higher authorities.
Relatively speaking, the current regulations are not so strict, and it hasn't developed to the point of being obsessive.
However, Sheng Xiping and Zhou Qinglan already have two sons, so having a third child now would clearly not meet the requirements.
In rural areas, this would be easier to handle; village officials would turn a blind eye, and the child would be born and registered.
Ke Shengping and Zhou Qinglan are both from the forest farm, and Zhou Qinglan is still a college student. It's ridiculous that they want to have a child now.
Sheng Xiping didn't care much; he didn't really care about work anyway.
But Zhou Qinglan is different. She finally got into university and is about to graduate and be assigned a job. Having a baby now? What a joke!
Even without considering other factors, which company would want a pregnant woman?
So, she just started working and immediately took leave to go home for postpartum care and have a baby? Isn't that ridiculous?
"Sheng Xiping, what nonsense are you talking about? I've always wanted to have another daughter, you know that, and you're still trying to persuade me not to."
"Now you're saying no? What were you doing that night? Why didn't you think about it then?" Zhou Qinglan said angrily on the other end of the phone.
"Wife, wife, listen to me, I'm doing this for your own good, really for your own good."
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