"Oh, this is good news. We didn't have the conditions a few years ago. Now it's just right. We can give Xixi a younger brother or sister." Grandma Shen was very happy. After Shen Anning took Liu Manxue's pulse and confirmed that she had been pregnant for more than a month, the whole family was very happy.
A few years ago in the Northeast, when Aunt Shen sent them a package, she would include several doses of Chinese medicine, and it was clearly stated that they were for Mother Shen and Sister-in-law. Shen Anning opened it once out of curiosity and found that it was for contraceptives. When she first gave it to Mother Shen and Sister-in-law, they were a little uncomfortable.
Shen An Ning has five children in her generation, but only her eldest brother is married and has children, so Xixi is the only child. Now that she has settled down, she knows that her grandparents are looking forward to the birth of great-grandchildren. After all, how can a family prosper without children!
Seeing that Liu Manxue had no appetite for the meat dishes on the table, Shen's mother went to the kitchen to cut a plate of sour beans, and Shen Anning also fried a grandma's dish with the peppers she brought back from Sichuan.
At night, Shen Zixi slept with her parents. The little girl slept between her parents, looking here and there, hugging Liu Manxue, and touching her mother's belly with her little hand, "Mom, was I also in your belly when I was a child?"
"Yes, Xixi baby, when you were in my belly, you were very small and very obedient. You didn't make a fuss even when I was working in the fields. The day you were born, it was very cold and snowing outside. You were like a kitten, lying in my arms obediently. You would only cry out when you were hungry, but you didn't make any noise at all."
Shen Zixi couldn't remember much about her childhood, but she always remembered the smell of her mother. She remembered that her aunt always put her in a backpack and took her to the farm. She would snuggle in her mother's arms carefully, "Mom, I love you so much, and I love Dad too. When the little brother and sister are born, Xixi will love them very much."
The little girl's words were heartfelt. Liu Manxue and Shen Anyan were deeply moved as they watched their daughter grow up. "Daddy loves Xixi too. Whether she has a brother or a sister in the future, Xixi will always be the most important little baby in Daddy's heart."
"Mom, too. I love Xixi the most. From now on, my younger brothers and sisters will be left to Xixi baby to take care of."
The little girl, who had been a little worried that her parents wouldn't love her as much after she had a brother or sister, was delighted to hear these words. She covered her mouth and laughed for a long time. Before falling asleep, she was thinking about how her parents were different from Xiaolong's in the class. After Xiaolong's mother gave birth to his sister, she once forgot to send him to school, causing him to be punished by the teacher to stand for an entire class... Her parents loved her the most, and she would love her little brothers and sisters too.
Shen Anyan and Liu Manxue watched their daughter fall asleep. The couple smiled at each other, and everything was said without words. Xixi was separated from them when she was a child, and they had not fulfilled their parental responsibilities for so many years. In the year since they came back, they tried their best to give Xixi a sense of security. If the little girl had not come back from school and said that others had cute little brothers and sisters, the second child would not have come so soon.
On weekends, the few people who usually go to school are at home. Early in the morning, Grandpa Shen and Grandma Shen went out to buy soy milk, fried dough sticks and buns. It was also a rare day off for Dad and Mom Shen.
After breakfast, the eldest brother and his wife took Xixi to her grandparents' house. The Liu family was also born in a military family. The old man of the Liu family and Grandpa Shen were comrades who had been in the same trench. The eldest brother and his wife were in a free love relationship. Later, when they told their family who their partner was, Grandpa Shen slammed the table and laughed.
Grandpa Liu only had two sons. The youngest son died during the war. The eldest son was Liu Manxue's father, Liu An. He served in the army for eight years. After being injured and discharged from the army, he joined the largest steel plant in Beijing as the head of the security department and served as deputy factory director.
There are three children, two sons and a daughter. The two sons are soldiers, so even if Liu Manxue did not sever ties with her family after being demoted, these ten years would not have had much impact on the Liu family. It’s just that they did not have the ability to save the Shen family. After all, the older generation had retired from the army, and the two younger ones were just starting to develop.
Peng Zhe saw his parents go out to work, and immediately slipped to Shen Anning's side, "Sister, I'll take you out to see the results of my recent work, do you want to go?"
Shen Anning was a little curious, "You found a way to make money so quickly?"
Peng Zhe scratched his head and said, "Oh, why don't you go and take a look first? Go and see if it's okay. This isn't mine, my classmate also has one."
Grandpa and grandma went to the small park in the compound to play with old friends. Shen's father and mother went out to see a movie under the teasing eyes of a group of children. Shen Anning took his younger brother and sister and Peng Zhe to the site of his first entrepreneurial project.
The courtyard was very familiar. Shen Anning looked at Peng Zhe and smiled. This guy brought her here because he was really not afraid of being beaten to death by his aunt and uncle.
"Sister, don't look at me like that. I did this with my parents' consent." Thinking about the broken feather duster at home that day, Peng Zhe felt that his butt was also hurting.
The courtyard house on the Dongzhimen side was the dowry that my grandparents gave to my aunt. However, because of my uncle's status, they had always lived in the military compound, so this place naturally became idle. Later, it was forcibly rented by a group of people from the Revolutionary Committee for ten yuan a year, and was returned at the end of last year.
"Okay, then what do you use such a big yard for?" Standing outside the gate, Shen An Ning smelled a very fragrant smell, a mixture of meat and oil. Not long after she finished breakfast, she felt hungry.
"Come in and take a look. I'm telling you, my investment is definitely profitable. Haven't you heard the rumors? The higher-ups are already considering reforms. There are a lot more street vendors setting up stalls in Beijing lately."
Of course Shen Anning knew this, and she also knew that the document would be out in a month, and the South would develop rapidly because of it.
Although it is just one courtyard, there are fourteen rooms in total. The four back rooms have several windows on the outer walls, which can be used as kitchens and warehouses. There is a large glass roof in the yard behind the screen wall, with more than a dozen tables placed underneath. The remaining four north rooms and the east and west wings can be divided into ten private rooms of different sizes.
"Are you planning to start a private cooking business?"
Peng Zhe nodded very solemnly, and the next second he returned to his usual playful and smiling face. "Sister, you don't know, my college classmate and roommate is Chen Zhiyuan. His ancestors were royal chefs in the palace. His father, his uncle, his uncle's father and his fellow apprentices, as well as his two cousins and two brothers, all learned to cook since they were young. They spent three years just chopping dough in the kitchen. They are all skilled. He is the only untalented descendant in his family."
Peng Zhe was secretly delighted as he spoke. If it weren't for his untalented Chinese roommate, he would never have thought of such a good way to make money.
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