In the afternoon, Shen Qinghe wanted to go to the supply and marketing cooperative with He Xiuyun to buy New Year's goods, but was rejected.
"It's so cold, what if you catch a cold? Just stay at home, your father and I will go buy New Year's goods." He Xiuyun was determined not to let Shen Qinghe go out.
Jiang Jianguo raised the shopping list in his hand and said, "Qinghe, didn't you write down everything you want to buy? Your mother and I can just buy the things listed on it."
Qinghe gave enough money and tickets, it was just a matter of running errands.
If he couldn't do this well, Jiang Jianguo would really feel like a waste.
"Qinghe, let your parents go. I will go to the supply and marketing cooperative to find them after I arrange my work in the afternoon." Jiang Chunlin said.
Thinking that there were still more than a dozen sets of clothes to be finished by the end of the year, Shen Qinghe agreed.
Thinking of something, she looked at Jiang Chunlin and said, "We're having barbecue tonight, remember to buy some beer and soda."
"Can you eat?" Jiang Chunlin raised his eyebrows and glanced at Shen Qinghe's stomach.
Shen Qinghe smacked her lips. Ever since she became pregnant, she seemed to be getting greedier and greedier.
"I can't drink beer or soda, but I can eat barbecue."
"Little greedy cat!" Jiang Chunlin reached out and gently pinched Shen Qinghe's nose lovingly, "What else do you want to eat? I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy it all together."
Shen Qinghe thought for a while and shook her head, "There's nothing I particularly want to eat."
"Okay, I got it. I'll take a nap in the afternoon and then get up to work." Jiang Chunlin gave the instructions and then went to work.
With two months left before the Chinese New Year, Shen Qinghe asked Luo Aixiang and Luo Ailan to exchange tickets for clothes so that they could save up some tickets to buy New Year's goods.
Shen Qinghe cut out two sets of clothes, yawned, and went to the bedroom to sleep for a while. When she got up, she heard someone talking in the main room.
I picked up the watch under my pillow, checked the time, and instantly woke up.
She slept for almost four hours.
"Awake." Jiang Chunlin saw Shen Qinghe coming out of the bedroom with a dazed look, his eyes burning.
If his parents weren't around, he really wanted to hold her in his arms and cherish her for a while.
"Why did you buy so many snacks?" Shen Qinghe was a little surprised when she saw all kinds of food on the table.
"The supply and marketing cooperative will not open until the fourth day of the New Year. You have a double body and two mouths to feed, so you have to buy more. What if you cry in the middle of the night because of the hunger?" Jiang Chunlin joked.
He Xiuyun was packing her things. She pretended not to see it and smiled secretly with pursed lips.
Shen Qinghe blushed and glared at Jiang Chunlin coquettishly, then reached out and picked up a piece of lamb egg and started eating.
Shen Qinghe carried the meat to the kitchen and cut it into thin slices. Just after she cut two slices, the knife in her hand was snatched away by He Xiuyun.
"Qinghe, don't do it. Just tell me how to cut it and I'll do it."
Shen Qinghe stood next to the chopping board, telling He Xiuyun how to cut the meat and washed a lot of vegetables.
The most common foods in winter are cabbage and potatoes. Cut the potatoes into slices and the cabbage into pieces as big as half a palm.
Shen Qinghe prepared the sauce for the barbecue and brought it all to the main room.
She put the pan on the stove, sprayed it with oil, then put the meat on it and grilled it. When it was medium-rare, she sprinkled it with seasoning and continued to turn it over.
When Jiang Chunshan and Jiang Chunlai came back from get off work, Shen Qinghe had already grilled two plates of meat.
"Second brother, third brother, come here and eat barbecue." Shen Qinghe said with a smile while turning the meat with tongs.
The three children gathered around the iron stove, drooling with greed.
He Xiuyun ordered the three children to wait for their father to come back before eating together, and to endure it no matter how greedy they were.
Seeing Jiang Chunshan and Jiang Chunlai coming back, the three children looked at them eagerly.
The two were stunned, then immediately understood, washed their hands and sat by the stove.
"Eat." He Xiuyun said.
All three children gathered around, staring at the roasted meat on the plate with green eyes.
In fact, Shen Qinghe roasted the meat for the children to eat, and she was afraid of burning them right after roasting it.
"Grandma said it's time to eat, so let's eat it."
The three children stretched their claws towards the plate and wolfed down the barbecue, with oil dripping from the corners of their mouths.
"Now that you've had your fill, I'll grill them." Jiang Chunlin took the tongs from Shen Qinghe's hand and said, "Wait for it over there."
Shen Qinghe sat obediently by the side waiting to be fed.
Just now, she was itching to grill the meat herself, so Jiang Chunlin set a time for her.
"Qinghe, it turns out that meat can be eaten like this." Luo Aixiang swallowed the barbecue in her mouth and squinted her eyes in enjoyment.
This was the most delicious meat she had ever eaten in her life, even better than the braised pork in state-owned restaurants.
"If you like it, let's have team building every once in a while in the future!" Shen Qinghe said with a smile.
"Team building?" Luo Aixiang asked puzzledly.
The others also looked at Shen Qinghe in confusion.
Shen Qinghe scratched her hair and thought quickly, "It's a dinner party."
"Oh, so people in Beijing call 'dinner parties' 'team building'." Luo Aixiang said thoughtfully.
Shen Qinghe ate barbecue and drank... boiled water.
She enviously watched the men drink beer and the women drink soda, but she could only drink the tasteless boiled water.
The barbecue in my mouth smelled delicious. Jiang Chunlin got the hang of it quickly and roasted the meat until it was charred and tender. I wanted to swallow my tongue after taking a bite.
Everyone was chatting while eating, and they hadn’t finished talking enough even after the barbecue.
He Xiuyun made a pot of tea for everyone and poured the snacks bought at the supply and marketing cooperative in the afternoon into plates. Everyone continued to eat and chat.
It didn't disperse until ten o'clock in the evening.
"I really envy Qinghe. Her family is very warm." After walking out of the Jiang family, Luo Ailan looked back at the gate and said.
Luo Aixiang nodded, "Me too."
Thinking of the stepmother, he lowered his eyes and looked at his cotton shoes, "I won't have the chance to have such a harmonious family in this life, maybe in the next life."
"Yes." Luo Ailan nodded heavily and held Luo Aixiang's hand. "Let's do more good things in this life, and we will definitely get what we want in the next life!"
The two sisters returned to the next door. They felt a little uncomfortable as they had just returned from a lively place.
The next day, after breakfast, Liu Hongmei and Chen Hongxia took the children and prepared to return to the village.
Shen Qinghe also packed up her things and loaded them all into the tricycle, ready to take them back together.
"Qinghe, let's go back in the afternoon. Let your father go back and clean up the house first. Put a few pots of charcoal fire in your room to warm up the room before going back. It's too cold today." He Xiuyun was afraid that Shen Qinghe would be cold, as she was very weak now.
You can't take medicine for a cold, so you'd better be careful.
"Qinghe, your mother is right. I will go back first and you can come back in the afternoon." Jiang Jianguo said.
"Qinghe, listen to me. I'll go back and help you clean up the house. You are our giant panda now, and we are all waiting for the birth of your little baby."
Liu Hongmei looked at Shen Qinghe's belly with envy, hoping it was a girl.
Now that her conditions are better, she has been thinking about whether to have another child, but she is afraid of giving birth to a boy.
If Qinghe gave birth to a girl, then half of her dream of having a girl would be fulfilled!
Shen Qinghe reached out and touched her belly, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Jiang Chunlin left work early in the afternoon and sent Shen Qinghe and He Xiuyun home.
…
After Shen Qinghe moved to the county, Qi Qingmei counted the days every day, looking forward to the New Year coming early so that she could go to the county to live with Jiang Xiaohui after the New Year.
Qi Qingmei had just come back from washing clothes in the river and was stunned when she saw Shen Qinghe.
Jealousy made the expression on her face a little distorted.
Shen Qinghe's clothes were very fashionable, making her look as tender as the forsythia in early spring.
Besides, why did she come back with a big belly?
She actually got pregnant earlier than her?
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