Chapter 16 Good Father and Loving Mother

Chapter Nine Good Father and Loving Mother

"Grandfather, father, mother, are you in heaven? I have a son now, you must be well. I think our family can travel to this place. It should be you who guard us. Our family will definitely survive happily. .”

Zhou Jiao looked at the red corners of Zhang Guoqing's eyes, stretched out a hand to hold his hand, and said coquettishly: "Brother, do you think your son has eaten and slept like a piglet? Please move it to the left , you lie on my right side, rest early and have work tomorrow."

"Well, let me go to the main room first and let my mother rest and not come here. Feed every two hours at night. You can take out the newborn milk powder and feeding bottle and try it at night to see if he eats it? By the way, you Take out a dozen diapers, 2 pig’s trotters, a catty of red dates, and two packs of milk powder, and a baby bottle. You can take care of the other meat. I’ll go out and go around before tomorrow morning. Ming Lu came back.

Those rags are my mother's treasure, so don't throw them away and wrap them up for me. I guess the children of the second sister-in-law's family will use them. "

Zhou Jiao knew that the youngest daughter of his second brother's family had just turned 2 years old, and the diaper was just about to be used. In her impression, the little girl was spoiled by Lin Chrysanthemum. Mother Zhang relented and fed her with rice porridge. A few times, the family stewed egg custard was finally fed to her, and Lin Juhua ate it all by herself while Zhang's mother turned around, making Zhang's mother so angry that she could only scold. It looks like a chick, and it is very rough. Zhou Jiao couldn't help laughing at the thought of this.

When Zhang Guoqing arrived at the main room, the kerosene lamp was still on. The kerosene in a kerosene lamp costs a few cents a night. In rural areas, everyone lights kerosene lamps unless necessary, and they are all in the dark. So Zhang Guoqing was still a little surprised, did he plan to be on duty at midnight?

"Mom, the baby has been fed and slept just now. Today you and my father didn't rest. This time you go to bed quickly, and you don't have to get up at night. Be careful that it's freezing. I'll be more alert at night, so don't worry."

Zhang's mother nodded in a daze, and told Zhang Guoqing to call her when the child cried, she was afraid that they would not take care of them. Father Zhang didn't see anything wrong with him, so he undressed and went to sleep. Zhang Guoqing carefully blew out the lights and came out to close the door.

At 2 o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke up and cried, Zhang Guoqing immediately picked him up and made milk powder, and the little things he had to eat were also quiet. He didn't wake Jiaojiao up either, it would be good if she was weak after giving birth and could sleep a little longer, after changing her diaper, the little villain would be comfortable and go back to sleep. He didn't cry like other children's children, he really deserved to be his son, he was smart.

It just so happens that I will be breastfeeding at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning, and then I will adjust it to milk powder at midnight, and add milk powder once during the day, so I won't be afraid that Jiaojiao's body will not be able to bear it.

Dazedly felt movement in the yard. Zhang Guoqing got up, watched the dawn outside, and tidied himself up by the faint light.

Walking towards the kitchen, the sister-in-law is making breakfast in the kitchen. People in the countryside get up early. Without a watch, it should be more than 5 o'clock. As the eldest sister-in-law, she has been busy for more than ten years. It is not easy.

As for the second sister-in-law, she has to get up to cook the pig food later, otherwise when the pig is hungry and barking, his mother will clean her up.

In the past, after the family had breakfast, the men in the family would go to the backyard to tend the vegetable garden, or to tidy up their own land. Nobody hangs around, that's what bums do. Women have to wash clothes and tidy up the house and yard before going to work at 6:30. After work in the afternoon, we still have to hunt pigweed.

Zhang Guoqing couldn't find his mother, and he wasn't used to shouting loudly. He greeted his sister-in-law, and came out early with two vegetable dumplings. At this time, Zhang's mother just picked vegetables from the backyard and walked towards the kitchen.

"Mother, let me go to the city first to see if there is any milk for sale? My sister, then I will go directly to announce the good news. When I come back, I will go to Zhou's house to announce the good news, ha ha."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Guoqing blinked at Zhang's mother. Zhang's mother knew what he meant, and laughed and scolded: "You brat, you are naughty, and you are a father."

"Mother, if the baby wakes up later, remember to ask Jiaojiao to feed him once at 2 o'clock in the morning."

"Understood, mother will prepare her breakfast first, the old hen soup simmered last night, just in time to wake up and eat noodles."

"Hey, mother, your old son has fallen out of favor~ You have a young child who doesn't want your old son, so sad. Haha, mother, can you see if I have anything to take with me when I go to the city?"

"Go, who cares about you brat, go early and return early. There is nothing to bring, the brown sugar and eggs are ready. I haven't eaten in the morning, so I took some steamed buns and went on the road. I saw steamed buns in the city Remember to buy something to eat."

"Understood, I'm leaving first." Zhang Guoqing shook his hand and rode his bicycle away. Zhang's mother watched him turn around the path before returning to the kitchen when he couldn't see his back.

Zhang Guoqing likes this girl very much. She understands the truth and is unambiguous. You must know that rural girls live very meticulously and care about a lot.

After all, just a few years after liberation, the problem of food and clothing has not been solved. Even if Zhangjia Village has a good location, rich soil and rich forest resources, every family in the village doesn't have much savings, and the best thing is that their family doesn't have to worry about food.

Many people in the villages who rely on centimeters really eat two meals a day with one piece of vegetable porridge. Every spring, the snow melts, and every family, young and old, digs wild vegetables to survive. No one can buy food even if they have money, and no one can afford high-priced food.

Zhang’s family eats porridge for breakfast and lunch three meals a day, and dried sweet potato rice for dinner is already considered a wealthy family. When they eat, they close the door and don’t want others to see the comments. There are hatreds for the rich everywhere. Those who came here from those years know that they don't reveal their family background.

Zhang's father and Zhang's mother are shrewd and capable people, and with the subsidies of their two sisters, they go to the city to exchange for coarse grains every year when they are allocated fine grains. The two pigs in the family are sold at the end of each year, which is also an income for the family besides centimeters. At the end of the year, when pigs are slaughtered and pork is sold to relieve hunger, another 20 catties are reserved for Chinese New Year and gifts.

There are more than a dozen chickens laying eggs for daily necessities at home, and every now and then they are also for a few small supplements. Of course Zhang Guoqing is also in Xiaobubu, how old is the youngest son in his mother's eyes.

If she hadn't liked Zhou Jiao, she wouldn't have gotten married so early. The 18-year-old Zhang Guoqing is tall and tall, close to 180. His mother is well-raised. He has tendons all over his body. In addition to his strength, he often goes hunting in Daqingshan and earns a lot of private money, which he often brings back Open meat at home.

There is no way to live these days. Zhang Guoqing's parents have separated and the children are young. In those years, they were either little devils or bandits messing around. That is to say, they can go to the mountains to hide in the mountains of Zhangjiacun, and the elderly, women and children in the village are hiding in the mountains. For picking mountain goods, Zhang’s father and his brothers teamed up with the village’s strong men to hunt together, and then secretly went to the city to sell wild animals and mountain goods. Compared with other places, this place is also a good place for Fengshui.

After finally getting rid of the devils, the whole village can finally go down the mountain with peace of mind. The houses at the foot of the mountain have long been given to those devils. They made money by relying on the unrest in the past few years. Every household belongs to the same village and helps each other. To open a house to clean up the land, reclaim wasteland.

After liberation, the People’s Commune was established, and most of the landlords and rich peasants’ land properties were liquidated. Zhangjia Village has fewer people and more land, and its conditions are much better than other villages.

Other villages are all thatched houses, and occasionally there are green brick and tile houses, but Zhangjia Village relies on the Daqing Mountain, and uses the stones on the green mountain to build the house directly, which saves manpower and money. Those who have the conditions will buy tiles If you don't have the money to lay the roof, you can build a thatched roof.