Chapter 21 The Abandoned Capitalist Lady in the 1950s
I parked my bike in front of the Lu family's house and saw Lu's mother sitting next to her resting and Lu Dajun wiping the table.
The Lu family is really good in this regard. The men will take the initiative to do housework, and Lu's mother doesn't feel that her son is being wronged by doing housework.
She felt that the family did not belong to just one person, everyone was a part of the family and they should work together.
The two sons have watched their mother take care of them when she comes home from get off work since they were young. They think it is hard, so they try to share as much of the burden as possible. If she doesn't come home, they just lie in bed and act like a boss.
Seeing Ning Ning parked the car at the door, Lu Dajun called out "Sister-in-law" and came out to help her take the things from the car.
Mother Lu also came out and said, "Why are you bringing things back again? We have everything we need at home. We don't need you to keep sending things home."
"Mom, these are the tomatoes in the yard. I'm afraid they are the last crop this year. I'm giving them to you and Xiaojun as fruit.
If I could get some cans and make tomato sauce, I could use it to scramble eggs in the winter and try something new.”
"Alright, let Xiaojun take it. Don't use your hands. Just use your tender little hands to do the work. Let the men do the rough work. Come inside and rest for a while. Have you eaten yet?"
Ning Ning and Lu Ma walked into the house. "We've eaten, Mom. I came back this time to tell you something."
At this time, Lu Dajun also brought the backpack into the house.
Ning Ning immediately ordered: "Xiaojun, go sit at the door of our house and don't let anyone get close."
Mother Lu's face was full of confusion: "What happened? Why are you being so mysterious?"
"Well, I just got the news that in order to increase steel production, they might ask every household to hand in their ironware for steelmaking.
Now we all eat in the canteen, and we will be mobilized to hand in iron pots, kitchen knives and other things. If they ask us to hand them in, we certainly won't be able to resist.
Not communicating means that one is not positive in thinking and is a backward element.
What I mean is, except for those that must be displayed outside for people to see and iron products that everyone knows about, you should quickly find a way to hide the rest.
At least hide the good ones and leave the bad ones to be handed in.
Those iron pots and other things seem useless now, but who knows when the canteens will be abolished. By then, we won’t even have a pot at home, so what will we use to cook?
It's not easy to collect industrial coupons to buy pots, so let's not worry about whether they are real or not, we should make preparations early."
"No way! How can we live without a pot at home?"
"Didn't they tell us that we all eat in the cafeteria? Even if we had a pot, we wouldn't be able to use it!"
Ning Ning continued, "Although I don't know whether this news is true or not, I think it's better to believe it than not. Let's hide the things first. If nothing happens, we can take them out and use them. We can just treat it as a false alarm."
"You're right. It's better to believe it than not to believe it. We won't lose anything if we put it away. I'll go pick it up right away."
As soon as he finished speaking, he began to search the house for iron objects in a hurry.
Mother Lu was holding a pair of scissors and a metal stove for winter heating, and she was worried. "Tell me, where can I hide all these things? We don't even have a place to hide things at home. Even the cellar is shared."
"Why don't I take them back? I have plenty of space over there, and I can definitely hide all your treasures."
Ning Ning suddenly remembered the things in the backpack. "Oh, Mom, I brought the backpack with me. There's a clay stove and a clay pot hidden under the tomatoes. I was afraid that if the pot was taken away, you wouldn't even have anything to cook porridge when you're hungry at night, so I prepared a set for you."
Mother Lu began to organize the backpack Ning Ning brought, muttering, "You are so thoughtful."
While taking out the things inside, he put all the iron products he found into the backpack that Ning Ning brought.
Originally, Ning Ning was thinking about telling Lu Ma about the food waste in the cafeteria, and wanted to persuade Lu Ma to stock up some food at home so that she wouldn't have to provide relief here frequently when a natural disaster occurred.
But on second thought, forget it. Not to mention how difficult it is to buy food outside now, even if you can buy it, look at Lu Ma, she can't even find a place to hide the ironware, where can she hide the food.
It’s better not to cause trouble for yourself. Not only is it difficult to explain, it’s also difficult to implement. So forget it.
After returning home, Ning Ning hid all the ironware she had taken from Lu Ma's house behind the pickle jar in the cellar.
Both spaces are now filled to the brim with her things, and there is really no place to store these iron products.
The light in the cellar is very dim, and ordinary people will not be able to find these things at all if they don't check carefully, so it doesn't matter where they are placed.
Sure enough, within a few days, the street issued a notice requiring every household to hand over the iron products.
Lu Dayong looked at Ning Ning and said, "Wife, you are right. Fortunately, you hid some of it at the beginning. My wife is really smart!"
"Come on, stop talking nonsense and go hand in ours, sooner or later."
There are many small blast furnaces on the side of the road, and there is huge dust everywhere you go.
The department store also built one. Today at work, the male colleagues were working overtime downstairs to make steel. The section chief and Chen Jianwei were not sitting in the office at the moment. They were all led by the manager to work downstairs to make steel.
That night, Lu Dayong suddenly said, "Wife, I think you need to get pregnant quickly."
Ning Ning turned around and glared at him. "We've only been married for a short time, and you're trying to induce labor now? Isn't it a bit too early? I didn't expect you to be this kind of person!"
Lu Dayong pulled Ning Ning over and hugged her in his arms, "What are you thinking about? I was thinking that now that the men have gone to work in the steel mills, maybe women will have to participate in the labor too.
You are so delicate and tender, how can I ask you to do such rough work? I can't bear to let you do it.
If you are pregnant, they can't ask you to go out to work."
Ning Ning thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case. Not only that, there would be a natural disaster next year. If the child was not born next year, there would be no chance of having another child in the next few years.
If you can't even get enough food to eat, the child will suffer when he is born.
Although there is no shortage of food at home, I can't stay at home all day. As long as I go out on the street, I will see others as thin as bean sprouts, while I am fat and white. Then I will become the target of public criticism.
Even makeup can't hide the fact that my body shape is different from others.
In this day and age, it’s not a big deal to not have children after a few years of marriage. People will urge you to have children. Even if you don’t take it to heart, it’s annoying to hear it.
I have to give birth sooner or later. I am already 20 years old, and my household registration says I am 18. My body has been well taken care of by the strengthening pills, so there is no problem with giving birth now.
From that day on, the young couple lived a shameless life.
Who would have thought that just over half a month later, Ning Ning would experience symptoms of morning sickness when she woke up in the morning.
After going to the hospital for a check-up, I found out that I was one and a half months pregnant.
"Doctor, she had her period last month. Will it affect the baby?" The person asking the question was Lu Dayong.
The doctor said: "This is normal. Some pregnant women will have their period in the early stages of pregnancy. It's not a big deal. The pregnant woman is in good health, so there is no need to worry."
After returning home, Lu Dayong closed the door and then jumped for joy several times in the room, which scared Ning Ning. This guy was quite concerned about his reputation and did not lose his composure at all in front of others.
"I'm really amazing. I didn't expect you to get pregnant so quickly. Whatever you want to eat, I'll make it for you."
Ning Ning rolled her eyes at him. "I'm really good, okay? The baby's in my belly. Stop being so conceited. Go tell Mom and make her happy too."
"Hey, I'll go right away."
He turned around and poured Ning Ning a glass of water, took some snacks, and kissed Ning Ning on the face twice before turning around and walking out the door.
Ning Ning cursed in her heart: What a bastard.
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