Siheyuan: Sizhu starts blindly and takes a new path

April 1963 was a fruitful month for many people. Qin Huairu passed the first-level fitter assessment after two months of hard work, and her salary would be 33 yuan in the future. The old man also became one of the few eighth-level craftsmen in the steel rolling mill. Ma Hua, Liu Lan, and Fatty also became eighth-level cooks, but their eighth level was the lowest level. For cooks, the lower the number, the higher the ability, the higher the salary. It seems that only technical workers are more powerful with a higher number. Other projectionists, childcare workers, teachers, doctors, police officers, literary and artistic workers, engineering and technical personnel, etc., the lower the number, the higher the ability, the higher the salary.

Only the second uncle was unhappy. He wanted to pass the assessment for seventh-level worker this year, but due to a small mistake, he failed to achieve his wish.

Although Xu Damao did not get promoted, the places where he shows movies are all in the nearby villages where people are doing well, and he always brings home a large bag of local specialties. Of course, he did not forget Section Chief Jin's share, this is a long-term matter, one meal is full and one meal is full, Xu Damao is very clear about the division.

Banggeng now spends the evening with Grandpa Ouyang from time to time. Grandpa tells him stories about his battles and stories about ancient celebrities. He also encourages Banggeng to read more books and study hard. He really treats Banggeng as his own grandson. Banggeng has also learned a lot of knowledge from Grandpa Ouyang.

Sha Zhu was very happy to see his wife's belly getting bigger and bigger. It became a must for Sha Zhu to interact with the little guy in her belly every night. He patted a place on Yu Li's belly, and the little guy inside would push up Yu Li's belly at the same place. At first, Yu Li thought that Sha Zhu's behavior was not proper, but after doing it many times, she found that the child inside responded more and more accurately in the same place, and the reaction speed was also improving. She felt from the connection between mind and spirit that the child in her belly liked this, and through such practice, he would become more and more flexible and smarter. Sha Zhu and Yu Li were also looking forward to the birth of this child.

Now Sha Zhu thinks about preparing all kinds of things for his child every day. He heard about baby cribs from somewhere, so he went to the department store to look at them. They cost more than 100 yuan, which was too expensive. Sha Zhu looked at the crib for a long time. After returning home, he drew a rough drawing and asked a carpenter to make one for him. He also painted it himself. He made all kinds of toys such as wooden horses, rattles, bamboo balls, cloth tigers, bamboo dragonflies, wooden swords, and even a slingshot. Yu Li played with these toys and said, "Kids can play with wooden horses, cloth tigers, and bamboo balls, but these wooden swords and wooden swords are all boys' toys. It seems that you still like boys."

Sha Zhu said: "Of course I like boys. Boys can inherit my cooking skills and carry on the family line."

"What if I really give birth to a girl? Strangle her to death?"

"How is that possible? The girl is pretty good too."

"That's good. Why don't you prepare more toys for girls?"

"Haha, the key is that I'm a boy, and I've been playing these since I was a kid. I don't know what girls play."

"You just don't know what girls play with. You should have been playing with this slingshot since you were young. This steel slingshot is not something a child can play with. Even if they did, they wouldn't need two."

"Haha, haha." Sha Zhu kept laughing foolishly.

"Don't tell me this is a toy you made for yourself in the name of a child."

Sha Zhu held the slingshot, pulled the rubber band, and aimed outside. Then he saw Xu Damao pushing a car in from the front yard.

Xu Damao was humming a little tune as he pushed the cart, with a lot of things hanging on the handlebars. When he arrived at his door, he called out, "Jingru, Jingru, come out quickly and help your man get the things in."

Qin Jingru felt the bag was heavy, so she went into the house and opened it. There were two small clay jars at the bottom and a bunch of dried mushrooms on top. Qin Jingru picked up the jar and opened it to see that it was filled with honey. She scooped a spoonful of it and put it directly into her mouth without even washing it with water. It was so sweet.

Xu Damao had just locked the car and entered the house when he saw this scene. He said, "You are really good. You just eat it directly without worrying about choking to death."

"I am happy even if I choke to death. I have never tasted honey this sweet since I was a child. When I was a kid, I saw others eating it and my brother and I could only drool beside them. Then we picked flowers and licked the nectar, thinking we were bees. At that time, I hoped that I could eat honey every day in the future."

"Okay, I'll leave one of these two cans for you to eat." Xu Damao was generous for once, and said, "If you get pregnant, I'll let you eat it every day."

"I also want to get pregnant quickly, so you have to work harder too."

"Why am I not working hard? I try my best every day and night!"

"Then why can't I get pregnant?" Qin Jingru suddenly remembered something and added, "I got pregnant the first time we had sex. Now I can't get pregnant. Is it because I'm in the wrong place? Is it because the feng shui of this house is bad?"

Xu Damao disagreed with this statement: "Bad feng shui? Impossible, my mother gave birth to me and my sister in this room, how could the feng shui be bad?"

"How about we go back to my parents' home and stay there for a few days?" Qin Jingru suggested going back to her parents' home because Xu Damao and Qin Jingru did not hold any wedding ceremony, nor did they go back to their parents' home. Moreover, Xu Damao did not even go to Qinjiazhuang after that. (It seems that Yu Li did not go back to her parents' home either, I forgot)

"How can I go there? I have to go to work every day. If I go out to show movies, do you think I can just sit at home and do nothing like you?" I don't know if Xu Damao saw through Qin Jingru's little trick or if he really didn't have time.

"Da Mao, why don't I find a job? I have nothing to do at home every day, and these women can't get along with each other. It's really boring."

Xu Damao felt that Qin Jingru was taking things for granted, so he criticized her, "What can you do? Can't you just farm?"

"I am strong and can do any strenuous work."

"Forget it, are you going to carry heavy bags at the station? If you want to go, I can't afford to lose face." Xu Damao was afraid that Qin Jingru would go to carry heavy bags, so he gave a death order, "Don't go, do you hear me? If you go, we will get divorced."

"Da Mao, don't talk about divorce all the time. It hurts our feelings. If you don't want me to go, then I won't go. I know you care about me and are afraid that I will get tired."

Xu Damao rolled his eyes and said, "Just stay at home and take care of yourself. Get pregnant as soon as possible. This is the most important thing for you. My mother will be here tomorrow. She said she wants to take you to see a doctor. She's worried that you may have hurt your body from the last miscarriage."

The next day, Xu's mother took Qin Jingru to see a doctor she knew. When the doctor took Qin Jingru's pulse, Xu's mother said in a narrating and complaining manner that her daughter-in-law had married her son early because she was pregnant some time ago, and then she accidentally miscarried. She didn't know if she caught a cold during the confinement period and suffered from postpartum disease. She asked the doctor to take her pulse carefully and give a good prescription so that her daughter-in-law could get pregnant earlier and the old couple could have a grandson as soon as possible.

Listening to Xu's mother's story, the doctor looked at Xu's mother and then at Qin Jingru. Without saying much, he prescribed medicine for Qin Jingru and told her and her husband to take it.

However, Xu's mother automatically ignored the doctor's instructions that her son also had to drink the medicine, and only remembered that Qin Jingru had to drink the medicine every day. So, Qin Jingru began the journey of drinking the bitter medicine soup.

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Qin Jingru: I don’t want to take medicine. I beg everyone to give me more comments so that I can get out of this suffering as soon as possible.