Chapter 42: Bean Going Out for the First Time
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is the summer of 1977. Little Doudou is two weeks old and starts to eat the food of a three-year-old.
Because Lao He has been on business trips with Lao Chen recently, Ailan always goes back home to eat and stay during holidays. She only occasionally goes to Lao Chen's house to clean and water the flowers.
She is gentle and patient. Doudou likes this aunt the most. He looks for her as soon as he closes his eyes every day and sticks to her.
Because her mother was busy, she couldn't spend the whole day with her. Her aunt had to go to school, and her grandmother was slow and could never catch up with her. Only her aunt was gentle and could catch up with her, and they had a lot of fun playing hide-and-seek with her every day.
Look, Qin Ju just came back from get off work. He didn't see her in the yard, but when he entered the house he found her hiding behind the door. Little fool, part of her clothes was showing, and she thought she was hiding very well.
"Oh, where's Doudou? Why can't auntie find Doudou?" Ailan acted very cooperatively.
The little girl was very proud. She waited for her aunt to look for a while, then poked her head out from behind the door and said, "Hehe~"
When my aunt discovered the new continent, her expression and voice were extremely exaggerated: "Oh! Doudou is here!"
The little girl burst into giggles and became even happier when she saw her mother. She hugged her mother's thighs and babbled about how she had just hidden from the cat.
Qin Ju listened patiently, kissed her sweaty red little face, and asked her if she had been good and obedient at home today. She would jump out and answer him word by word.
Doudou started speaking later than other children, which made her father very anxious. From the age of one to two, he took her to the pediatric department of the provincial hospital at least three or four times. Qin Ju told him that the child was fine and not to worry, but he just didn't listen.
In fact, Qin Ju was also anxious at first, but she is a doctor herself. The examination of the child's condition and the birth circumstances showed that the child was fine, had a lively personality, ate well and slept well, had very good motor development, and was taller than other children of the same age. She didn't know what she was so anxious about!
Just as she was thinking about it, Qin Ailan took out a letter from her arms.
"Who wrote it?"
Ai Lan blushed, "You'll know if you see for yourself."
Qin Ju looked at the stamp and signature on the envelope and saw that it was indeed from his hometown, Wulitun. "Brother Liao has written to you a lot in the past few years, right?"
Qin Ailan lowered her head to look at her toes, and even her ears turned red.
"Well, since it's written specifically for you, I won't read it. Big sister, just tell me, what's the matter?"
Here's what happened. Two years ago, Liao Zhixian was growing watermelons in Wulitun. He spent his spare time every day researching how to grow watermelons that were red, big, and sweet. This summer, he actually succeeded.
Wang Lifen and her husband were very happy to have successfully generated income for the brigade. Coincidentally, the commune had a quota for recommending workers, peasants and soldiers to join the university, so they secured one and came to the Wulitun Production Team, and gave the quota to Liao Zhixian.
"Are you from the provincial capital's industrial university?"
"Um."
Although Liao Zhixian is a city dweller, he is interested in agricultural planting. He has to study a major that he is not interested in just for a university place. Moreover... Qin Ju frowned.
Since the elder sister came to her to ask for advice, it meant that she did not approve of this matter. "He asked for your advice in the letter. Do you want to advise him not to go?"
"Yes, I was very happy at first, thinking that he had finally made it. But recently a few college students from the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Program came to our factory, and from what Mr. Chen said, they didn't learn much, but they are quite good at fighting. I... I don't want him to learn bad things." The last few words were like the buzz of a mosquito.
Qin Ju laughed.
"What are you laughing at? I'm serious. You're the only smart one in our family. Hurry up and help me think of something."
"No, sister, you are also smart, and you are getting smarter and smarter."
Her eyes were serious, she was not joking, but Qin Ailan felt even more embarrassed, "I'm not smart at all, I'm not as good as the fourth child in studying, I'm not as fast as you in learning things, and I'm dumb in talking, I can't speak..."
Qin Ju grabbed her hand and squeezed it hard, "Who said that? Every profession has its specialties. You can cook so many delicious dishes, which means you are smart. Now you have learned so many skills from Mr. Chen. You are already amazing." For a rural girl who had not even graduated from elementary school, being able to judge that the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University was not a good career path based on just a few words from Mr. Chen was already a great progress.
If she had not relied on the advantage of being reborn and knowing the direction of history, she would never have imagined that the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, which is now in full swing and everyone's brains are racking, will be closed soon. The future will be completely different from regular university students, whether in terms of learning ability, work ability or professional precision, they will not be on the same level.
"But I'm afraid if I miss this opportunity, I'll... You know, he's such an outstanding person, he should go to college."
Qin Ailan's cheeks were slightly flushed and her eyes were sparkling. It was obvious that when Qin Ju was not paying attention, the two of them had slowly come together through phone calls and letters.
I thought that after being separated by thousands of kilometers, Liao Zhixian's feelings for his elder sister would gradually fade and fade with time and space. Unexpectedly, in three years, they became stronger and stronger. Even on such an important matter as life choice, he was willing to listen to Ai-lan's opinion.
"Big sister, don't worry. Brother Liao can get into a university with his own ability, a regular university."
"But given the current situation, there is no point in taking the college entrance exam."
Qin Ju smiled and said, "Sister, just go to work and explain your concerns to him. As for the rest, we can just wait and see." It's already September, it's almost time.
"Oh, by the way, when you reply, remember to tell him to read books carefully, especially the high school textbooks. Tell him to find the textbooks and review them carefully, as they will be useful in the future."
Seeing her speak so confidently, Ailan felt reassured. She agreed and left with full confidence.
*
After Lao He came back and celebrated Doudou's second birthday, Qin Guihua urged them to return to Beijing as soon as possible.
"Didn't your brother and sister-in-law call you the other day and say that your parents returned to Beijing from the Great Northern Wilderness half a month ago and officially resumed work? As their daughter-in-law, Lai Di should go back and see them. Besides, Doudou is already two years old and has never seen her grandparents. Before she was born, her grandparents sent her a lot of things."
Qin Guihua thought about it and probably guessed that Xiao He's relationship with his parents was not harmonious, so she advised earnestly: "There are no parents who are not wrong in the world. Go and have a look, and do your duty. If anything really happens in the future, you won't feel guilty."
He Liansheng looked reluctant, but Qin Ju respected his choice. If he didn't want to go back, she didn't have to go either.
In his previous life, whenever he talked about his parents, he would remain silent, which shows that his childhood might not have been happy. At this time, one should not advise others to be kind without experiencing their suffering.
"Grandma, just go and do your thing. Let's discuss it ourselves. It's not that easy to ask for leave."
He Liansheng's parents have returned from the Great Northern Wilderness. The greatest benefit to He Liansheng is that after their historical legacy has been sorted out, his future should not be affected by them.
Doudou was so happy when her dad came home that she was still full of energy when it was time to go to bed. She did somersaults on the bed and performed the actions of a little rabbit jumping, a little rabbit eating grass, and a little rabbit purring. Anyway, she liked little rabbits and performed these actions more than ten times a day.
Not only does she like to imitate a little rabbit, she also likes to let her father see it. Every time her father looks at her, she gets more excited.
Qin Ju was just about to ask her to go to bed quickly and stop making trouble when she suddenly heard a noise coming from next door. She tilted her ears and listened. It turned out that Liu Baozhu and Zhao Qingsong were arguing again.
She was tired of the couple's quarrels, but she couldn't help but listen because they were just separated by a wall.
"Zhao Haiyang has been fighting with his classmates recently, and Haiyan has also been bullied by her classmates. Zhao Qingsong couldn't stand it anymore, so he asked Liu Baozhu to quit her job and go home to take care of the children. Liu Baozhu insisted that the brother and sister were pretending. She asked the teacher, and no one bullied them at all." Qin Ju sneered twice, "These two kids will not stop until they make Liu Baozhu's work suffer."
It was the same in her last life. She was tortured to the point of being helpless. She couldn't hold on for a few years and had to resign. As a result, the brother and sister miraculously stopped fighting and complaining.
He Liansheng didn't react at all after hearing this. It took him a long time before he hummed a sound.
Strangely enough, Qin Ju discovered that Lao He didn't like children, especially the siblings Zhao Haiyang and Zhao Haiyan. When they first came, he was quite friendly to them, and felt different from other children, but his attitude changed immediately in the past six months.
"You don't like them?"
"Not really, but you should be more careful in the future and don't let Doudou get too close to them."
Fearing that Comrade Xiao Qin might not understand, he paused and added, "Once I found Zhao Haiyang hunting birds. He knocked down a bird's nest and stepped on the chicks. If I hadn't stopped him, he would have destroyed the entire nest."
Qin Ju raised her eyebrows. This was definitely animal cruelty. However, she was not surprised at all because he was like this in his previous life. Qin Ju had seen him rob bird nests twice. He was about to step on the hungry chicks, whose feathers had not even grown fully. She was so angry that she beat him up. As a result, Zhao Haiyang complained to his father, and Zhao Qingsong blamed her for being too cruel to the child.
In his view, they were just a few little birds. Why was it so serious? He even asked her if she had ever caught fish or dug out bird nests when she was a child in Wulitun. Why was it okay to eat bird eggs and fish, but not to "accidentally" step on a little bird?
Qin Ju was puzzled by the question at the time. In her opinion, catching fish and taking bird eggs were helpless acts due to the pressure of livelihood, but deliberately stepping on the chicks to death was pure bad behavior.
But Zhao and his son didn't think so.
From then on, Qin Ju paid more attention to Zhao Haiyang's movements. She was afraid that he would go astray. However, the more she paid attention and the more severe she was, the more he hated her. He felt that she was meddling in his affairs and wanted to find something to complain about him to his father and sow discord between them...
Qin Ju felt that she was a fucking saint in her previous life, and she should have just stood by and watched this bad guy go astray and go to jail.
"You don't seem surprised?" The man stared into her eyes.
Qin Jue calmed down and said, "I've also seen him step on a bird."
He Liansheng's deep eyes moved, and a hint of disgust flashed across them, but he quickly concealed it and touched his daughter's hairy head, "Don't play with them in the future."
Doudou laughed, not knowing whether she understood or not. Instead, the quarrel next door became louder and louder. The little girl suddenly frowned like her father and said sternly, "Shut up!"
Qin Ju and Lao He were stunned and looked at each other, "Dou Dou is talking?"
Doudou continued to yell at the wall with his little face: "Shut up!"
Old father Qin was delighted that his daughter finally uttered a short sentence!
But I was not very happy because it was an insult.
Qin Ju was also very upset. "Shut up!" was Ms. Qin Guihua's motto, especially when facing her second sister. She would say it several times a day. Now that Doudou is taken care of by his great-grandmother most of the time, he has learned to curse!
This is not a good habit.
Qin Ju straightened her chubby little face and said, "Don't learn to curse, or your mother will slap you."
Doudou had no idea what swearing meant and what words were nice. So when the noise from the neighbors stopped, she was tired from playing and ready to go to bed.
Qin Jue feels that it is necessary to have a talk with Ms. Qin Guihua tomorrow. Children are just learning to speak, so adults should pay attention to the impact when speaking.
Although the old father was surprised, he did not treat it as a powerful enemy. After all, his daughter was cute no matter what she did, such as at this moment, when his daughter was drinking from the bottle while kicking his chest with her two little feet, hard and hard, until every toe was curled up. He even kissed her when his wife was not paying attention.
Qin Ju: Do you think I didn’t see it? I was just trying to save your face.
I don’t know if it was because he felt something after kissing his girlfriend’s little feet, or what, but the next morning, he said he still wanted to take Doudou back to Beijing to have a look, and asked Qin Ju to ask for a few days off from work.
Qin Ju was confused but respectful because Lao Qian had not been involved in the affairs of the institute since he injured his leg. She only needed to tell him and there was no need to hand over any work. All the work was hers anyway and no one else could take over.
In the summer of 1977, Doudou and his family of three set off as the first child from his family district to go to the capital!
With the child, the train ticket was a hard sleeper, thinking that it would be convenient for the child to sleep when tired, but Qin Ju thought she was overthinking it, because Doudou was extremely excited since she got on the train, and it was impossible for her to fall asleep. However, unlike the naughty children who ran around in the carriage, Doudou just liked to look at things, whether it was the bed, seats or the scenery outside the window on the train, she was very curious and her eyes were not enough.
Qin Ju was really tired. She had been very busy at work recently, so she treated every trip out as a break. As soon as they got in the car, Lao He let her sleep while he looked after the child.
So, Qin Ju fell into a deep sleep while Lao He gently introduced the scenery outside the window. When he woke up again, it was already dark. Dinner was simple. Grandma baked a lot of biscuits for him, which could be eaten with hot water. Doudou was a milk-soaked biscuit, sweet and soft. Occasionally, he would eat a few soft biscuits, and his belly would be bloated.
There were other children eating instant noodles in the carriage. She moved her little nose, took a sip, and walked over curiously to look at them.
The parents of the other party saw that she looked like a New Year picture doll, clean and tidy, and didn't ask for anything, just looked, so they said they would give her some, but she waved her hands and said, "Thank you."
Lao He ran over and nodded to the family, "Thank you, but it's not necessary."
Doudou followed her father without looking back. She knew in her heart that she had just eaten and would not ask for things. She also knew that these were someone else's things and not from her family, so even if someone offered to give them to her, she would not take them, let alone cry for no reason.
What’s even more frightening is that when other children cry for things, she complains about the noise, covers her ears and looks disgusted.
This……
This child really seems too rational, Qin Ju whispered to Lao He.
"Yes?"
"Not yet? Look at other people's children and your daughter."
Lao He put the girl's exposed chubby feet into the small blanket and patted them gently, "This is good, you won't be bullied in the future."
Qin Ju really couldn't figure out what the connection was between being overly rational and being bullied, but she now had a question, "Can you tell me why you didn't want a child in the first place?"
She remembered that Old He really didn't like children, especially the naughty kids in the family area. He always turned a blind eye to their "Hello, Uncle He". When they talked about Zhao Haiyang that night, he was also full of disgust... In his mind, there are only two kinds of children, Doudou and other children.
Her voice was gentle, but it didn't get him to answer. "Go to sleep."
It seemed like a very long time had passed, and Qin Jue heard a sentence in a daze, "Because some children are born devils."
"Well, what did you say? I didn't hear it clearly." Qin Ju couldn't help but fell asleep again as soon as he finished asking.
When I woke up again, the train had already reached the next province next to Beijing, and it would only take a few more hours to get there.
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