Qi Bocai felt very wronged. She really didn't mean anything else. She just asked and then calculated her family's assets to see if she could afford a bicycle. Facing Qin Xiangju, Qi Bocai smiled a little shyly: "Mom, look at what you said, I just set a goal for my family. Only with a goal can I have the strength to work. Maybe next year, my family will really buy a bicycle."

Hearing what Qi Bocai said, Qin Xiangju said, "It's a good thing to have a goal. You and your wife are both hardworking people. You won't have trouble buying a bicycle in the future." What was she afraid of? She was afraid that her eldest daughter-in-law would be crazy again and ask the second wife to buy them a bicycle. However, Qin Xiangju overestimated Qi Bocai. Even if she was crazy, she would not say such a thing. She knew it was impossible to ask the second wife to buy her a bicycle. At most... she would ask the second wife to help her get a bicycle ticket.

After walking for more than an hour, the group finally arrived at the Dongshan Village Production Brigade. In the cold winter, the weather was cold and my feet used to be numb from the cold. But today, after walking so much, my whole body felt warm.

When we got to Qin's house, it was quite lively. Uncle Qin had many brothers and sisters, many children, and even more relatives, so when they got together, it was lively.

Seeing the Xiao family coming, Auntie Qin was the first to rush out: "Xiangju, you are here."

Qin Xiangju asked Xiao Yu to take the things off his bike. Although it was a wedding banquet, they would be polite to bring food, enough for the whole family. If they were not polite, they would give some money and bring the whole family. The problem was that the money was only enough for two or three people, but they brought a family of ten or so. There were many shameless people like this.

The Qin family's aunt looked at the things in the sack and said, "It's fine if you just come, but why bring things? You are so polite." Then she asked her daughter-in-law to carry the sack in. Then she said to Lin Yiyi, "Yiyi, you are the matchmaker, go to the bridal chamber and have a seat."

Lin Yiyi said, "Okay." This was her first time as a matchmaker, so she didn't know the rules. But fortunately, there weren't many rules in the countryside.

Xiao-Woo: "Give me the bottle, I'll get you some hot water."

Lin Yiyi: "Yes." She took out a glucose bottle, "The water should not be too hot." In modern times, many saline solutions in hospitals are placed in bags, but in the 1960s, they were all placed in bottles with rubber stoppers. Lin Yiyi used this saline bottle to hold hot water and then used it as a hand warmer. Because the bottle is filled with saline, it is also clean.

If it is a bottle for other things, you naturally dare not use it randomly. As for this bottle, because the salt water has been used up, there is a vent hole with a needle stuck in the lid, but because of the material, this vent hole will not be affected when holding hot water, and it will not pour out. Don't fill a bottle of hot water to the brim, leave a centimeter of space, it can keep hot for two or three hours, just like giving you a hot water bag.

Xiao-Woo: "I know."

Lin Yiyi followed Aunt Qin to the bridal chamber. When Qin Yuanyuan saw her, she said happily, "Cousin, you are here?" Qin Yuanyuan was wearing a Lenin suit and looked very good. Her Lenin suit was not thin. Unlike the thin Lenin suits worn in spring and autumn at that time, her Lenin suit was made into a cotton jacket at the suggestion of Lin Yiyi. So it would not be cold to get married in such a cold winter even if she wore a Lenin suit. On the contrary, Qin Yuanyuan had a good figure and healthy dark skin, and she looked very heroic in this suit.

Lin Yiyi: "Congratulations, I wish you a happy marriage and a long life with your cousin-in-law."

Qin Yuanyuan: "Thank you, cousin, please come and sit here. These are my cousins ​​from my grandmother's family..."

After chatting for a while, Aunt Qin came with a bowl of sugar-water eggs: "Come here, eat this bowl of matchmaker eggs quickly. And this, Xiaoyuer asked me to bring it over. There are girls here, so he won't come over." Aunt Qin specifically said that these were matchmaker eggs, lest her nieces from her mother's side think that her aunt didn't give them any to eat.

Lin Yiyi: "Thank you, auntie, can you bring me two bowls and chopsticks?" There were three sugar-water eggs here, and she couldn't eat them at all. Seeing these girls staring at the sugar-water eggs, Lin Yiyi decided to share some with them.

Aunt Qin was a smart person and of course understood what she meant. She wanted to say that there was no need to share with others, but she didn't know how to say it out loud, so she could only bring two bowls and two pairs of chopsticks to Lin Yiyi.

Lin Yiyi counted and found there were five girls in total. She said to them, "We'll each have half of an egg yolk. I'll put the eggs in the bowl and you can share it among yourselves." Then she cut two of the eggs in half and put them in the bowl. "Come on, eat them. Don't be shy."

"Thank you, cousin."

Lin Yiyi: “You’re welcome.” She gave the remaining one to Qin Yuanyuan, “Eat it, eat the whole thing, and you and your husband will be happy and sweet in the future.”

Qin Yuanyuan: "This is what my mother gave to you, my cousin."

Lin Yiyi: "I don't like this, you eat it, be obedient."

Qin Yuanyuan was a little embarrassed.

She is older than my cousin’s wife: “Thank you, cousin’s wife.”

Lin Yiyi sat in the room for a while, then went outside to take a look. There were many people sitting and chatting in the yard, and many children were playing. Even many people were looking at her. Xiao Yu and others were also sitting on one side, and with them were Qin's uncles and several cousins.

Xiao Yu saw his wife coming out, so he stood up and walked over: "What's wrong?" Seeing a leaf on her head, he reached out and wiped it off.

Lin Yiyi: "I'm going to look for my mother and the others. What's wrong?"

Xiao Yu: "A dead leaf, they are in the kitchen, I'll take you there."

Lin Yiyi: “Yeah.”

Some women in the yard began to discuss: "Who is that? She is very pretty, well dressed, and fair-skinned."

"It's the sister-in-law of the Qin family."

"This girl doesn't look like someone from our countryside. She looks like a girl from the county town." Some people started bragging.

Then some people started sitting together and discussing.

It's not just modern weddings that are like this; modern wedding banquets are like this as well, with a group of people sitting together, chatting about this and that, all they talk about is gossip.

The kitchen became even busier, with people chopping vegetables and cooking. Lin Yiyi watched from the door for a while and saw Qin Xiangju and others sitting there chatting, so she didn't help.

It's not that they don't want to help, but the Qin family has enough helpers. There are many sisters-in-law in the Qin family, and their respective daughters-in-law. If all of them were called, there wouldn't be enough room in the kitchen, so there would be no need for the married sister-in-law to help.

Qin Xiangju saw Lin Yiyi standing at the door and waved at her: "Why are you here?"

Lin Yiyi walked in: "Let me take a look." She stood next to Qin Xiangju, holding a hand warmer, and greeted the aunts in the kitchen.

Seeing Lin Yiyi, everyone had something to talk about again. Several aunts asked enthusiastically: "Yiyi, when are you planning to have a baby?"

If it were someone else, and they had been married for several years but still hadn't given birth, everyone would definitely suspect that they would never have children. But Lin Yiyi's situation was different. She was only 15 when she got married, and most people with a little common sense would not let a 15-year-old girl have children. In other words, they would not let a 15-year-old girl get married at all. So it was understandable that Lin Yiyi didn't get pregnant in the past few years. But she is 18 this year and will be 19 next year. If she still hasn't given birth in these two years, people might have gossiped about her.

Lin Yiyi said, "I'm going to prepare for pregnancy next year." After saying this, Lin Yiyi thought that they might not understand the term "preparing for pregnancy", so she explained, "I just got pregnant this year.

I will go to the commune, work hard, and prepare to have a baby next year."

Aunt Qin San said, "We will prepare to have a baby next year. We can have it by the end of next year or the year after."

Qin Si's aunt: "Your mother-in-law is still young. You should give birth to more children and ask your mother-in-law to take care of them for you." The second daughter-in-law gave birth to a child, and the mother-in-law helped to take care of the children. This is very normal in the countryside.

Besides, Lin Yiyi has to go to work, so she needs her mother-in-law to take care of her even more.

Lin Yiyi said, "I'm afraid that my mother will be too tired by then." Actually, Qin Xiangju really needed to bring them, after all, she had to go to work. If she didn't go to work, some of the things would have no provenance, and if she went to work, everyone would think she bought them at the supply and marketing cooperative.

Qin Xiangju: "Why should I be tired? Just don't worry." She was so happy that the second son's wife could give birth to children. She would take care of as many children as the second son's wife gave birth to. She would not feel tired at all.

Lin Yiyi: "Thank you, mother. I feel relieved when you take care of me. Just look at Brother Yu and you will know."

Qin Xiangju couldn't help laughing after hearing this.

Aunt Qin Wu said, "That's right."

It was almost lunchtime when the outside became bustling with activity: "The groom is coming... The groom is coming..."

In fact, weddings in this era were not as interesting as modern weddings. Modern weddings had all kinds of excuses, but in this era, there are no excuses at all. The only advantage of weddings in this era is that you don’t have to toast everywhere, because no one has so much wine. In modern weddings, you have to toast at every table, and some people who are not decent will even make things difficult.

After the wedding banquet, the bride was taken away by the groom. Several cousins ​​of the Qin family accompanied the bride to the groom's house, and the Xiao family also went home. On the way back, Lin Yiyi felt groggy and very tired. She didn't want to push the bike, so she and Xiao Yu rode the bike home first. As soon as she got home, she went into the room to sleep.

It was past three o'clock and she hadn't gotten up yet. When Xiao Yu went to call her, he found her in a daze. Xiao Yu wiped her forehead and said, "Yiyi, you have a fever." Lin Yiyi's forehead was very hot.

Lin Yiyi said weakly, "Do you have a fever? No wonder I feel so sleepy."

Xiao Yu: "Get up, I'll take you to see a doctor." Today is the weekend, Dr. Lin is at home, and it happens to be closer to the Shanglin Production Brigade.

After Lin Yiyi put on her clothes, Xiao Yu looked at her and was worried about letting her sit in the back, so he simply let her sit on the crossbar of the bicycle.

When they arrived at the Shanglin Production Brigade, Xiao Yu drove Dr. Lin directly to the Lin family.

Lin Dajun: "Sister, brother-in-law." They were preparing to go to my sister's house for dinner.

Even in the cold wind, they still had to walk a distance. The Lin brothers who went to their sister's house for dinner were also weird.

Xiao Yu: "Your sister is sick, go and get Dr. Lin."

Lin Dajun: "I'll go." He ran out of the house in panic.

Xiao Yu found his way to Lin Dajun's room and put Lin Yiyi directly on Lin Dajun's bed, which was covered with a thick quilt, and looked warm. The Lin brothers all had a clean and thick quilt and quilt, which they bought with their own money, the money from selling meat tickets, the money from work points, and the money from Lin Dajun's work. They bought four beds and used up all their savings. The Lin brothers, who cherished their lives very much, did not feel stupid at all.

After a while, Dr. Lin came.

Xiao Yu made way for him and said, "Excuse me."

Doctor Lin took the patient's pulse without saying anything. Doctor Lin is a combination of Chinese and Western medicine. He is not very skilled in both, but he knows a little about both. Relatively speaking, he may be more inclined to Chinese medicine. After all, his father used to be a Chinese medicine doctor. Later, with the reform and opening up, he began to learn Western medicine. But because no one taught him, he only learned the basics of Western medicine.

After Dr. Lin took her pulse, Xiao Yu asked nervously, "How is she?"

Doctor Lin said, "She's fine. She just got chilled by the cold wind."

Xiao Yu heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this.

Doctor Lin: “However…”

Xiao Yu had just breathed a sigh of relief when Doctor Lin said no, and Xiao Yu's heart dropped again.

Doctor Lin smiled and said, "It's okay. She's pregnant for a month. But I may have made a mistake. It's better for you to go to the hospital for a check-up."

When Xiao Yu heard this, he was stunned.

Lin Sijun: "That's great. My sister is going to have a baby and I'm going to be an uncle."

Lin Dajun: "I will be your uncle from now on."

Lin Sanjun's face was full of smiles. They had all grown up, and as long as a woman had a child, it meant something. Their sister and stepfather had been married for so many years, but they had no children. Although they had not heard any gossip, women in the village who were married without children would be rejected by their in-laws, so the younger brother of the Lin family was still worried behind the scenes. Now that they heard that their sister was pregnant, they breathed a sigh of relief.

Doctor Lin's word "pregnancy" woke up the groggy Lin Yiyi: "No... no way?" Although they didn't take birth control pills, because Lin Yiyi wouldn't take birth control pills for birth control, and Xiao Yu didn't use a raincoat, but every time they made love, it was counted as a safe period. Isn't it said that the first seven and the last eight are safe periods? According to this time, he

We have been doing it for a year and haven't gotten pregnant, so how come we got pregnant this time?

Lin Yiyi looked at Xiao Yu, wanting him to say that she had heard it wrongly. But... she saw that Xiao Yu was stupid and hadn't reacted yet.

Lin Yiyi: “…Brother Yu?”

Lin Sijun: "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, are you stupid? Brother-in-law..." His mouth was covered by Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu let go of Lin Sijun and asked hurriedly: "Doctor Lin, then... then she..."

Doctor Lin: "It's okay. I'll get her some medicine to relieve the pain. You can go to the hospital for another checkup tomorrow."

Xiao Yu: "Thank you, Dr. Lin. Sijun, you follow me to get the medicine." As he said that, he turned and looked at Lin Yiyi, his eyes showing excitement, but he tried hard to suppress it, "I..."

As a 25-year-old man, he was looking forward to it, seeing that other people had children. However, even though he was looking forward to it, he didn't expect it to come so soon, which caught him off guard. It has only been three months since the wedding night.

Xiao Yu thought that he was too good. Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth moved, wanting to smile. But he tried hard to hold it back: "Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere else?"

Lin Yiyi: "No, I just feel a little dizzy. Let's go back. I won't take any medicine for now. I'll drink some warm water later."

Xiao Yu's heart tightened: "Why don't you take medicine?"

Lin Yiyi: "I heard that when a woman is pregnant, she shouldn't take any medicine randomly. I'll go to the hospital tomorrow to see how things go. I'll just bear with it for now." It's not that she doesn't believe Dr. Lin, but the mothers in the company always talk about pregnancy, saying that taking medicine randomly during pregnancy can cause such and such problems for the child. She didn't take it seriously before, but now she feels a little scared when she thinks about it. In the past, she thought those mothers were making a big fuss, but now that there might be a little life in her belly, she finds herself nervous about everything, fearing that it will affect the fetus.

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Then you just stay up all night, and we'll go to the hospital tomorrow morning."

Lin Yiyi: “Yeah.” But it’s not good to endure the illness, and it’s not good for the fetus. Oh, right, “Brother Yu, go to Dr. Lin’s house and get some ginger. Ginger and brown sugar are very good for colds.”

Jin-Woo: "Yeah. Army, did you hear that?"

Lin Dajun: "I heard it, I heard it..." He ran outside and bumped into Lin Sijun who was returning.

Lin Sijun: "Brother, what are you doing?"

Lin Dajun: "I went to Doctor Lin's house to exchange some ginger. Did you bring the cold medicine?"

Lin Sijun: "I got it." Lin Sijun ran into the room, "Sister, Doctor Lin only gave me one pill.

He said you have to go to the hospital for a checkup tomorrow, and it would be better to ask the doctor in the hospital to take another look. You can get medicine in the hospital. He gave me a fever-reducing pill. And this is the isatis root powder, which he grinds himself. He said this can also be eaten. You can pour it directly into your mouth and drink it with warm water, or you can make tea. "

Lin Yiyi: “Okay.”

Lin Yiyi had already gotten up. After Lin Dajun came over with several replaced gingers, they went home. Of course, the Lin brothers followed them back.

After returning home, Xiao Yu didn't dare to let Lin Yiyi do anything. He ran back to Xiao's house to find his mother, because... he didn't know how to take care of a pregnant woman. Xiao Yu: "Mom."

Qin Xiangju was making dinner when she saw her son coming in hurriedly: "What's wrong?"

Xiao Yu: "Mom, Yi Yi is sick, I don't know how to cook, please go and make dinner for us."

Qin Xiangju was very worried when she heard that Lin Yiyi was sick: "She was fine when she came back this afternoon, how come she got sick? Oh, she said she felt a little uncomfortable then... How is she now?"

Xiao Yu: "We just came back from seeing Doctor Lin. Doctor Lin said she felt cold. It might be because she walked a lot in the morning. It's because she has a hot and cold body. But the problem is... the problem is that she might be pregnant."

Qin Xiangju: "What?" She was adding fuel to the stove and stopped, "Second brother, did I hear you wrong?"

Xiao Yu: "No, Doctor Lin said that she might be pregnant, estimated to be a month, and asked us to go to the hospital for another check-up tomorrow, and gave us a fever-reducing pill. But Yi Yi was worried that the fever-reducing pill would be bad for the baby, and she didn't want to..." Before he could finish his words, he saw his mother had already left in a hurry. Xiao Yu had no choice but to chase after her.

Qin Xiangju: "Go get some ginger. Ginger and brown sugar water is good. Drink a little. It won't harm your body." We are all experienced people. In those days, who would go to the hospital for a little cold? They all drank ginger water. There was no brown sugar at that time, but the taste of ginger water was really too stimulating. Now we have brown sugar, so we have ginger and brown sugar water.

Xiao Yu: "We have some at home. Yi Yi also mentioned ginger and brown sugar water. I exchanged some with Doctor Lin when I came back."

Qin Xiangju: "Your wife knows more, and you know nothing."

Xiao Yu, who knew nothing, felt that once the child was born, he would be useless as a father.

When Qin Xiangju arrived at the Lin family's house, Lin Sanjun was boiling water. She went to see Lin Yiyi first and saw her daughter-in-law lying on the bed, looking a little sick, drinking water from an enamel cup.

The more Qin Xiangju looked at it, the more she liked it.

Lin Yiyi: "Mom, why are you here? Is Brother Yu bothering you again?"

Qin Xiangju: "He is a big boss and he doesn't know anything. He has to ask me, right? How are you? If I had known this, I wouldn't have gone to the wedding today. You must be tired, so Leng Feng took advantage of you."

Lin Yiyi said, "Don't worry, I'm fine. I just drank the Isatis root powder that Dr. Lin gave me. I'll sleep for a while and drink a bowl of ginger and brown sugar water later." Lin Yiyi knew about Isatis root. In the later life, when she caught a cold, she used cold medicine in the early stage of the cold, which was Isatis root powder. It didn't harm anything and pregnant women could drink it. So just now, she drank a bowl of it without any worries.

Qin Xiangju: "Okay, then you take a rest. Mom will make you dinner. What do you want to eat?"

Lin Yiyi: "Thank you for your hard work, I want to eat light food." In fact, even if she felt well, she didn't dare to move. She heard that one should be extra careful in the first three months of pregnancy. Now when she thought of what her colleagues had said, she worried about this and that. She felt that she was about to develop pregnancy phobia.

Qin Xiangju: "Okay, okay, you take a rest, I'll make you something light."

Qin Xiangju stir-fried some vegetables and made some porridge, which was rather thin and mushy.

Lin Yiyi was really impressed by Qin Xiangju's cooking skills. Even though the porridge was tasteless, she would eat two more bowls just because it was cooked by Qin Xiangju.

Xiao Yu felt relieved when he saw that she could eat two bowls of porridge.

After dinner, Qin Xiangju cleaned up the house for them and went back. The younger brothers of the Lin family also followed them. Even the fifth brother of the Lin family was taken away by the younger brothers of the Lin family without Xiao Yu saying anything, for fear that he would disturb Lin Yiyi.

Because of a cold, Lin Yiyi, who used to take a bath every day, did not take a bath. She only soaked her feet and went to bed. Not long after, Xiao Yu came. Xiao Yu knew that Lin Yiyi was afraid of cold. Every time he went to bed, he would wait for his body to warm up, not to mention that Lin Yiyi was pregnant now.

After getting into bed, he was a little nervous and kept a distance from Lin Yiyi: "Look, is this distance okay?"