60s Splendid Life

"Is anyone home? Can we come in?"

"It's here, it's inside, come in quickly."

Lu Jin asked outside the door, and when he heard a response from the room, he went in with their child in his arms.When they arrived, they saw Aunt Qin and a young woman sewing clothes in the room, and brothers Da Mao and Xiao Mao were playing in the house, and when they saw them going in, they ran towards them.

"Does Big Mao and Little Mao still remember brother?" Lu Jin put the umbrella on the ground first as he was holding a child in his hand and didn't have any extra hands to close the umbrella.Both brothers had a sky-high braid on their heads, dangling in front of his eyes, making him want to reach out and grab a handful of braids.

The two little guys responded to him with crisp voices, "I remember, Brother Xiaojin."

Lu Jin still didn't forget to introduce the younger brother to the two children, "Yes, I am brother Xiao Jin, this is brother Xiao Bao...?" He wanted to say younger brother, but he was not sure whether it was Xiao Bao's or Er Mao's. Looking at Aunt Qin, they asked, "Auntie, how old is Ermao?"

"Er Mao just celebrated his birthday last month and turned two years old." Aunt Qin said with a smile.

"Oh, that means Xiaobao is getting older. Xiaobao is two and a half years old, just half a year older than Ermao." But Lu Jin looked at Xiaomao, who was obviously half bigger than their Xiaobao, and was very envious. If they With such a strong body, little Bao'er has nothing to worry about.

"Then Xiao Mao, you have to call Brother Xiao Bao." He looked at Xiao Mao and said.

But Xiao Mao obviously didn't agree with calling a younger brother who looked younger than him Big Brother, and shouted at Xiao Bao, "Brother."

"Let me put away the umbrella for you." Wang Xiumei, the mothers of Da Mao and Xiao Mao, saw that Lu Jin was carrying a child into the door and had no hands to put the umbrella away, so she went to help put the umbrella away and put it at the door. He asked casually, "Where did you buy this umbrella, it's really strong."

"We bought it at the supply and marketing cooperative when we went back to town. Do you want it, sister-in-law? We still have a new handful at home. I'll get it for sister-in-law when I go back." Lu Jin said with a smile.

"No need, no need, I just asked a question." Wang Xiumei touched the ribs of the umbrella just now, and it felt much stronger than oil-paper umbrellas made of bamboo. This kind of umbrellas made of steel ribs can be taken out on windy and rainy days. Going outside is not afraid of being blown.It's a pity that the country people have money but no ticket, so they can't go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy these things.

From the expression on Wang Xiumei's face, Lu Jin could see that the other party wanted his umbrella very much, but seeing that the other party did not continue on this issue, he stopped there.Over there, Mrs. Qin called him to carry little Bao'er, and he carried the child over there, letting the child sit beside Mrs. Qin.

Seeing Da Mao and Xiao Mao dangling in front of him, he took out a few candies from his pocket as if by magic, one child divided two, and bright smiles appeared on the faces of several children when they got the candies.

"Mother, candy." Da Mao and Xiao Mao held the candy and stuffed it to their mother, which meant that they wanted their mother to help peel it off.

Wang Xiumei took the candy without peeling it off, and glanced at her mother-in-law.

When Aunt Qin saw that Lu Jin was giving candy to her little grandson again, she said disapprovingly, "Why did you give them candy again? I haven't finished eating what I gave you yesterday."

"Yesterday is yesterday's, today is today's. We sent them back from relatives last time. There are still a lot at home. Sister-in-law, you can peel them off and give them to eat. It's okay, it's just two candies." Lu Jin Smiling, he peeled a piece of candy and stuffed it into the mouth of their little Baoer, then turned around and said to the sister-in-law over there.

"They're used to it." Seeing the two grandsons looking at her eagerly, Aunt Qin couldn't bear to give her grandson a piece of candy.

Seeing that her mother-in-law did not object, Wang Xiumei peeled off the candy and stuffed it into the mouths of her two sons.

With candy in their mouths, Da Mao and Er Mao brothers are very fond of this little brother who always gives them candy, and they even like the little brother sitting next to their grandma, wanting to pull people Come down and play with them, "Brother, come and play."

"My brother won't go down. Why don't you come up here and sit and play?" Aunt Qin didn't let the two grandsons drag Xiaobao down, and asked the two grandsons if they wanted to sit and play on the kang.

Brothers Da Mao and Er Mao fell in love with the little car in Xiaobao's hand. They had never played with such a beautiful toy in their childhood. After hearing what their grandma said, the two brothers asked their mother to help them take off their shoes. , and went up to the kang together.

At first, Xiaobao didn't feel much about the elder brother and younger brother who surrounded him. Later, when he saw two older brothers and younger brothers surrounding him, he also generously gave them his own car to play with. The three children soon got used to it. Together.

"Why didn't you see Xiaolian and Chenchen? Did you send them to school?" Asked Aunt Qin, who didn't see Lu Jin bringing her other two younger siblings.

"Well, yes, I took them to school this morning. After completing the formalities, I let them stay in school for class. I came back at noon, had lunch and did my homework. I just went to school again." Lu Jin replied.

"Yeah, they're still young, so it's good to send them to school to learn a few words." Aunt Qin is different from other women in the village. She doesn't think that reading is useless, and her three sons have all gone to school. Learning, she herself has learned a few words by herself, and knows the importance of reading.

However, most of the families in the village did not send their children to school. The family difficulties were one of the reasons. The most important thing was that most people felt that reading was useless.

"Yeah, that's what I thought too. Let them learn to read and write first, and it will be easy for them to do anything when they grow up." Lu Jin nodded and replied.

The two discussed a few things about studying, and Aunt Qin asked if Lu Jin had ever gone to school, and Lu Jin said yes.Aunt Qin also knew that life was good when Lu Jin's parents were there, so how could she not let her children go to school, but thinking of the two who were gone, she felt a little uncomfortable.

Seeing the momentary sadness on the other party's face, Lu Jin knew that she probably remembered something about their family, so he changed the subject and asked, "Aunt Qin and sister-in-law, are you sewing clothes?"

"Yeah, taking advantage of the rainy day and not being able to go out to work, my aunt sewed up the torn clothes of Uncle Lu and Brother Bocheng. Those people didn't know if their clothes were torn. Wear it and go outside." Aunt Qin shook her head when she said this, and thought that there is no adult in Lu Jin's house now, so she said to Lu Jin: "If you have clothes that are torn at home and you can't sew them, you can bring them over to help your auntie. You sew."

"No, no, I can sew by myself." Lu Jin said hurriedly.

But he saw that Wang Xiumei's sewing didn't look like old clothes, but seemed to be making new clothes, so he asked, "Sister-in-law, are you making new clothes?"

"Yeah, the weather is going to be hot. Make new clothes for Da Mao and Er Mao. Da Mao won't be able to wear last year's clothes this year. Er Mao can still wear his brother's clothes. Big Mao has to make two new clothes." Wang Xiumei was sewing. They are small clothes for the son. Adults can wear them one year and continue to wear them for the next year. But children grow fast, and the new clothes at the end of the year will be a lot shorter. The younger brother can also pick up the older brother’s old clothes to wear. , my brother can only make new ones.

Now there are only two children in the family, and the two younger uncles are not married yet, so if there is any good thing in the house now, the two children should be kept close first, and it is easier for the two children to make two new clothes.

"I also bought some cloth there, and I was thinking about how to make two new clothes for Chenchen and the others. They are going to school, so it's not good to always let them wear clothes that don't fit. Sister-in-law, can you teach me? How to make clothes?" Lu Jin originally wanted to ask others to do it for him, and he could pay for it, but it was difficult for him to say this.

"Okay, it's very simple." Wang Xiumei briefly told Lu Jin how to make clothes, but she saw that Lu Jin didn't understand, so she couldn't help laughing and said, "Why don't you directly Bring the cloth to sister-in-law, and sister-in-law will help you."

"Well, why is this so embarrassing." It was really embarrassing, but he was so excited that Lu Jin didn't realize that he was smiling so much that his eyes lit up.

Aunt Qin was amused when she saw the boy smiling like this, and said to him: "You can take it here and let your sister-in-law do it for you. Madam can do it for you if you have time these few days."

"Okay, then I'll put Xiaobao here, and I'll go home and get the cloth." Lu Jin said to Xiaobao, let him play with his brothers here, and come when he goes home to get something , quickly went out, and went back to their house under the umbrella.

When he came again, he came with a basket on his back, which contained the cloth he bought, three new raincoats and an umbrella. He gave the raincoats and umbrella to Aunt Qin, "This is the last time I was in town. The raincoat and umbrella I brought back, there are extras at home, these few are used for your family, auntie."

"No, no, how can we take these things from you. You are a child, so take these things home quickly." Aunt Qin straightened her face and asked Lu Jin to take the things back with a serious face.

"It's not something expensive..." Lu Jin pouted and retorted in a low voice, but he still shut up when Aunt Qin looked at him.

When Wang Xiumei saw the umbrella with flowers, she wanted it very much. Thinking of her husband and father-in-law who were working outside in the rain, she whispered to her mother-in-law: "Mother, why don't we ask Xiaojin how much these things cost? Let's give the money to Xiaojin, so we can just buy it from Xiaojin? I don't know when the rain will stop. In previous years, it would be the second half of the month. If we want to buy raincoats and umbrellas to go outside, it is not easy to buy. Father-in-law and Awen are all drenched in the rain when they work outside, if they wear raincoats, they don’t need to get soaked.”

Now most of the people in the village work outside when it rains, just wearing bamboo hats and coir raincoats. It’s okay if it rains a little bit, but if it rains heavily, they will be completely soaked. No raincoat can protect them well.

Aunt Qin was a little hesitant when she heard this, but she knew it was forbidden to do business outside. She is the wife of the captain. If she took the lead in doing this, she might cause trouble to her husband if people outside knew about it.But when she thought of her husband and sons working outside in the rain, her heart softened a little. After hesitating between the two, she still preferred her husband and sons in her heart.

Seeing Aunt Qin looking at him, Lu Jin knew that Aunt Qin's heart was moved, and he also understood Aunt Qin's concerns, so he gave a suggestion with a smile: "You don't need to give me money, auntie and sister-in-law. Originally, I wanted to give it to you Yes, since you are embarrassed to take mine for nothing, how about this, you exchange things with me, don’t people in our village often exchange things with each other?”

When Aunt Qin and Wang Xiumei heard this, they looked at each other, and their eyes lit up.