Cuihua has a good supply of breast milk, and she plans to breastfeed until her child is one year old before weaning, which will make things even harder.
Although Zhai Sanhe was right, Cuihua shook her head.
"My colleagues, those with mentors, are all trying to keep their jobs, and those without mentors are trying to do the same."
If others can get through it, so can I. It's just a year. If you feel sorry for me, let me eat more.
The weight she lost will be regained quickly. As long as Xiaxia is healthy, that's a blessing for both of us.
Seeing her insistence, Zhai Sanhe stopped trying to persuade her.
"What about the houses in Taoyuan Village? Are you planning to tear them down and rebuild them, or just repair them?"
"Tear it down and rebuild it. You went to see that house, did you? Is there any need to repair it? It was just a dilapidated house that we picked up from the ground."
After all these years, there's really no point in repairing it.
If it weren't for the well in the yard and the fact that the space wasn't large enough, I might not have even considered it.
“Okay, then I’ll talk to the village chief and ask the strong laborers in the production team to help out during the off-season. We’ll pay them for their work.”
Building a house is a big deal, and it's really better for the man to handle the communication.
"Then I'll leave this matter to you."
"The estimated cost is around two hundred,"
They also plan to build an adobe house; the old house was built during the Republic of China era and is quite old.
This house is warm in winter and cool in summer, making it comfortable to live in. Since we're going to build it, let's build it bigger so it won't affect the future addition of children to the family.
“Build three rooms in the main hall, then build a two-room west wing, and also arrange two rooms in the east wing, one for storage and one for the kitchen.”
"We need to build a latrine and chicken coop in the backyard, repair the fence, and add a back gate. How much will that cost?"
"Three rooms should cost around two hundred, but if you add the east and west wing rooms, it will cost at least five or six hundred."
“Let’s build it like this. With a child, it’s really not suitable to live in Xihe Village anymore. Let’s move out.”
After discussing it, the couple happily made the decision.
The two of them now earn about 80 yuan a month combined, but their savings add up to two or three thousand yuan.
Most of it was Zhai Sanhe's premarital property. Cuihua's own savings were only a little over three hundred yuan, which she had saved by living frugally.
As for the five hundred dollars in the family savings belonging to her sisters, she kept a clear account of it, determined not to embezzle it just because she was in charge of the household.
All this money was sent back by my sisters one after another, accumulated little by little over time.
Xiao Jiu, Cui Mei, Cui Hong, and Cui Xiang, in particular, received the most.
Cuilian and Cuiju also send money home every month, but not as much as they do.
Although the seventh and eighth brothers haven't earned any money yet, they've earned work points. They've worked at home for so many years, so even if they haven't made any great contributions, they've still put in a lot of hard work.
So they don't lack the money to build houses.
If we don't build it now, things will be even more difficult in a few years.
The Zhou family's house is less than twenty years old. With some repairs, they can live there for another ten years or so. Let's just get through those few years first.
The Tang sisters each kept a ledger, which detailed the money and food they had given to Cuihua over the years and the hard work they had put in.
Compiling their accounts into a booklet will also make it easier to reconcile accounts and prevent money from affecting the sisters' relationship in the future.
Currently, the three sisters pay child support to Cao Amei every month, which comes from their own accounts and has nothing to do with the other sisters.
After reading the letter, Xiao Jiu calculated the cash she had. She only considered the cash because she had too much gold to count. She thought that even if she did nothing all day long, she would still have more than she could spend when the reform and opening up came.
The cash was all obtained through bargain hunting; even after deducting the money exchanged with the Weng family, she still had nearly 20,000 yuan in her hands.
The biggest source of their income is the cash flow they get from the little notebook on the island, because that's their base.
Those who were sent abroad needed money and tickets to travel back and forth. I guess there was an accountant on the island, so that's how the money was saved up.
Despite having everything he needed, his daily expenses were very low, and he even managed to save up his monthly allowance of six yuan.
Even though her sister said they had enough money to build a house, Xiao Jiu still took some time to go to the post office and send back 100 yuan.
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On October 16, 1964, the whole country was jubilant because China's first atomic bomb was successfully detonated.
November 11th marks the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force.
To celebrate this great holiday, the school held a series of events, both large and small, from after National Day until mid-November.
Even Xiao Jiu was honored to be selected as one of the outstanding student representatives of the second year.
I would occasionally accompany my teachers and senior students to various hospitals and medical schools for academic exchanges.
The last time she captured an enemy agent in the cave dwelling, the school awarded her an Outstanding Individual Contribution Award, and the 300 yuan bonus was given to her privately.
She should have been awarded a second-class merit, but the school did not report it due to various considerations, including her age and experience.
Of course, we don't know what other tricks are involved, but she herself isn't particularly fond of showing off.
Since the school is doing this, there must be a reason behind it; we should just accept it.
Whether the radio and enemy intelligence she secretly transferred had any effect remains to be seen.
She did ask, but her superiors declined to let her know, citing confidentiality.
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In the first semester of her sophomore year, Xiao Jiu took two final exams. One of them was a special exam set by her junior and senior professors specifically for her, a little genius. It even included topics like dissection practice that required her to perform on the spot. To everyone's surprise, she not only did very well, but she even did better than some interns.
After the semester ended, the school leaders held a special meeting to discuss her skipping a grade.
She went too, and handled the teachers' various tricky questions with composure and dignity.
The head of the Department of Clinical Medicine was particularly fond of her.
"With her grades, she could easily go to a senior year, let alone a junior year."
If you disagree, I will take her with me and raise her myself.
Such an outstanding child, and you're using his age as an excuse—how outdated!
And so, Xiao Jiu overcame numerous obstacles and skipped directly to her senior year.
That's right, not junior year, but senior year, and he was actually taken in as the director's last disciple.
They even gave her special treatment, allowing her to attend whichever of her junior and senior year classes she wanted, with an assessment to be conducted six months later.
If I pass all the courses in my third and fourth years, I will be able to go directly to the military hospital for rotations next fall.
The teachers all felt that the department head was too willful. These were medical students, not nurses. How could they go on internships without going through regular courses?
Even if I graduate in the future, it will be without proper justification.
The louder the opposition, the more the director argued with them, even making bets with them.
"Six months from now, you can set any questions and conduct any tests you like. If she fails even one thing, she'll have to go back to school for a fresh start."
On the contrary, if she passes all of your tests, and then goes to the military hospital to wander around, none of you should try to take her away from me.
This child is a natural-born medical student; I want to mentor her myself!
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