◎First update◎
Everyone in the compound knew about Zhou Guoping's visit in the afternoon. When they came back with New Year's goods, they heard several children chattering about the incident as soon as they entered the yard.
This kind of thing couldn't be kept secret and soon spread to every household.
Cheng Caili was feeding her daughter while holding her in her arms. When she heard about this, she immediately started to scold Zhou Guoping, "Who is this person? How dare he come to our house! He should be beaten up and thrown out!"
The little girl Chuchu, who was drinking milk, was frightened by her mother's agitation. She could feel her mother's chest rising and falling while she was sucking milk, which looked scary.
"Wow~" ChuChu pouted her little mouth in grievance and was about to cry.
"Hey, mom didn't scold you." Cheng Caili's expression softened instantly, and she held her daughter and coaxed her patiently, "Let's continue to drink milk."
When Lu Yuan heard his daughter crying, he felt even more distressed and he tried to comfort her until she calmed down.
"Is our daughter too timid?"
"Not at all! I just spoke too loudly. I will be more careful next time."
Cheng Caili looked at her girlfriend, a delicate and beautiful little baby. She was perfect in every way, how could she have any flaws!
Xu Shengjie also helped the pregnant Liang Baozhen back to the house. Liu Nianhua had solved a big problem this time. To express his gratitude, he specially brought New Year gifts and sent cakes to both Zhang Rong's family and Liang Baozhen's family.
"It's really not easy for Sister Hua to raise a child alone." Liang Baozhen sat down with her big belly. She was really uncomfortable after standing for so long today.
"That's not true." Zhou Yun remembered that it was the same for him at that time. It was not easy for a woman to raise a child. Fortunately, most of the neighbors in the courtyard were good and could help each other out.
"Does your stomach hurt?" Xu Shengjie looked at his wife's growing belly and was worried that she was feeling unwell.
Fortunately, I went to the hospital for a check-up recently, and all indicators of the pregnant woman and the fetus were normal.
"It's OK. Just don't stand too long and it will be fine." Liang Baozhen knew he was worried and took credit for it. "Don't worry. I knew what to do when things got serious today. I stood a little further away. I quickly asked the three kids to notify people."
"You are sober." Xu Shengjie was really worried that she would rush forward without caring about anything, and it would be terrible if she got bumped.
Zhou Yun watched the couple come and go and smiled, "If Baozhen wants to go up, grandma will definitely pull her along."
The scandals from the previous year were blown to pieces with the sound of firecrackers on New Year's Eve, welcoming the arrival of the new year with the crackling sound.
Early in the morning of the first day of the New Year, Xu Shengwei and Xu Shengwei paid New Year's greetings to their grandmother and brother and sister-in-law as usual. Each of them received a red envelope of New Year's money and went out happily.
Everyone went to visit relatives and friends. It happened that the sun came out on the first day of the new year. Although it was not too warm, it was still happy to see.
The sunlight shines on the thick snow, as if covering the white snow with a layer of golden light.
Liang Baozhen was wearing a thick bright red cotton jacket. She had delicate features, a fuller figure, and a bulging belly. She was standing at the entrance of the alley, stepping on the snow, watching the children playing snowball fights.
This year she couldn't travel too far during the New Year, and she couldn't even go back to her parents' home. Song Chunhua asked her second brother to send eggs home, and she didn't know where he got a leg of lamb, saying that he wanted to give it to her as a supplement.
I cooked a pot of mutton soup at home last night. It warmed me up and even my hands and feet were no longer cold.
"Ha!" Xu Shengya was tired from playing. Just now, she and several girls in the yard teamed up to deal with a group of boys. Everyone's cotton-padded jackets were covered with scattered snow from the snowballs that hit them. In the middle of winter, they played so hard that sweat oozed from their foreheads and their fair little faces were flushed.
"Sister-in-law, when will the baby come out?"
Now it was the mid-game break, she needed to take a break and catch her breath, so she sat down next to her sister-in-law and looked at her big belly. She knew that her little nephew or niece was inside.
"There are still three months left." Liang Baozhen was also looking forward to unloading the goods as soon as possible. After unloading the goods, she would be able to walk as light as a swallow and as fast as the wind!
It’s not like now, it’s inconvenient to go anywhere.
"Wow, that's still a long time!"
"Aunt Baozhen, is that a little brother or a little sister inside?" Song Xinhe, the eldest daughter of Widow Chen, also came over and asked.
"I don't know either. I'll know when the baby is born."
"I hope it's my younger sister." Song Xinmiao whispered as she sat next to her sister.
Qin Xiaoyue asked her, "Why?"
"Then there will be more people playing snowball fights!"
"That makes sense! Then let's go with my sister!"
A group of little girls reached a consensus that now there is an inequality in the number of boys and girls playing snowball fights!
There were five boys and only four girls in the compound, and even if Chuchu, who was still in Cheng Caili's arms, was included, it was just a tie. Their goal was to surpass the number of boys, hoping that Liang Baozhen's belly was pregnant with a female army for snowball fights.
Liang Baozhen was at a loss for words. Is this how you determine the gender of your child?
The reason is really simple and plain.
"Xu Shengya, have you guys rested enough? Hurry up!" Xu Shengwei waved over here, "Hurry up, hurry up!"
“Here I come!”
Liang Baozhen has been bored recently. She had a rare day off on the first day of the new year and was so engrossed in watching a group of kids playing snowballs that she didn't even notice Xu Shengjie coming back from outside.
When she noticed a tall figure beside her, she was almost scared!
Liang Baozhen fell backwards, her hand on her chest, "You're back? You scared me."
Xu Shengjie patted her on the back and smiled at her flustered expression. His eyes were sparkling like a little deer. "I called you, didn't you hear me?"
"Did you call me?" Liang Baozhen was probably so engrossed in watching the children playing snowballs that she didn't notice. She pulled Xu Shengjie's arm and said, "Look at Xiaowei and Xiaoya, they are having so much fun."
"Naughty kids." Xu Shengjie looked forward in the direction Liang Baozhen was looking and saw a group of children making a lot of noise.
The party didn't end until our family called us to go home for dinner.
Liang Baozhen was itching to join in but couldn't. With her big belly, it was difficult for her to even bend over. She looked at the thick snow on the ground and felt envious.
"Want to play?"
"Hmm~" Liang Baozhen seemed to have a premonition when she heard this. Xu Shengjie would definitely find a way for her, otherwise he would not ask this!
Sure enough, the man next to her leaned over and scooped up a handful of snow, then rolled it into a ball with his crisscrossed hands. After a while, he made a snowball that was white and round, much rounder than the one the children had just made.
"Take it and play with it." Xu Shengjie put the snowball in his wife's hand and felt that he had completed his mission.
Liang Baozhen was holding a cool, plump snowball in her hands and was speechless for a moment, "Is this how you play?"
She thought there would at least be a snowball fight.
"Not big enough or not round enough?" Xu Shengjie noticed that his wife was not satisfied, so he leaned over and made another snowball for her and stuffed it into her hand again, "Let's play together."
Liang Baozhen went home holding two round snowballs in her hands, but she didn't know what to do with them!
At dinner time in the evening, the family sat around the square table with two snowballs placed in an enamel bowl. By the time they finished their meal, the outside of the snowballs had shown signs of melting.
Liang Baozhen simply melted two snowballs together, rolled them back and forth in her hands, and tossed them while soaking her feet.
Well, it’s actually quite fun!
The Spring Festival gradually passed in the snow, and the admission notices of the college entrance examination before the New Year also flew into everyone's hands. The admission rate of this college entrance examination was low. Many people from the National Cotton Mill participated, but only three people received college admission notices.
Liang Baozhen closed the window of the factory office to block out the cold wind outside, and turned around to hear Huang Cui'e talking about the postman delivering the acceptance letter to the factory.
"There are only three people in our factory who passed the exam, which is amazing."
"Which three? Do we know them?"
"One is Liu Fengxian from the Finance Department, one is Fang Chongguang from the Fine Yarn Workshop, and one is Qin Qin from the Logistics Department." Huang Cui'e was well-informed. Every new employee in the factory had to accept her ideological propaganda, and the number of people she got to know increased.
"I only know Liu Fengxian." There are thousands of people in the National Cotton Mill, but Liang Baozhen estimates that she only knows a small half of them. She knows Liu Fengxian, an employee who is paid every month!
"I know her, too." Zhu Jinyu also asked about the issue of salary payment. "Who will be responsible for salary payment after she leaves?"
"You're still worrying about this?" Song Ming was delighted. "You're indispensable in the factory anyway."
"That's right!"
"I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going to the radio station." It was time for the afternoon broadcast again. Liang Baozhen took the great quotes and daily newspaper content that she was going to read today, and slowly walked towards the radio station.
Ever since her belly got bigger, she started out a little earlier, walked slowly, and wasn't in a hurry.
"Hello everyone, I am Liang Baozhen, the radio station announcer. Today I bring you the quotes of great people......
Finally, I would like to inform you that the 16th Spring Sports Meet of the National Cotton Mill will be held on April 7 and 8. All employees are welcome to sign up, be positive and have the courage to fight. "
Xu Shengjie was working in the workshop. He couldn't help but curl his lips when he heard his wife's voice. His wife had a good job. He could hear her gentle voice reciting quotations every day.
"Mr. Xu, what do you mean?"
Hong Saner also heard the broadcast. The spring sports meet was coming. It was a good opportunity to show off his skills. The National Cotton Mill, like other state-owned mills, used to hold sports meets every year, but it didn't hold them in the past two years because the mill director, Chen Yong, was busy with production construction and often asked the workers to work overtime, so the sports meets were cancelled.
Now that we are finally recovering, how can we not be happy?
The most important thing is that there are prizes for winning in the sports meet! Two years ago, the first prizes were radios and food coupons, which were quite generous. Who wouldn’t be tempted?
"What do you mean?" Xu Shengjie was wiping the equipment.
"Are you going to show up at this sports meet? With your physique as a soldier, you can easily win?" Hong Saner was already dreaming of a bright future. If he won the first prize, he would get a meat ticket and could have a good meal in a state-owned hotel.
Xu Shengjie shook his head, "I won't go, you go."
He was too lazy to take advantage of the limelight. More importantly, by that time his daughter-in-law Baozhen would be about to give birth, and he, who was about to become a father, could not afford to be distracted.
The author has something to say:
As a father, you can’t be distracted QAQ
Thanks to the cutie who irrigated the nutrient solution: 5 bottles of oats;
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