Chapter 6: Brother Eighty Soldier 06

Zhang Xiaohua's birth date is approaching, almost at the end of the month.
In the past few days, Wang Tonghua and a few women in the brigade left early and returned late, going deep into the mountains to fight wild chestnut. Because she didn't have a ticket, she couldn't buy sugar at the supply and marketing agency. She wanted to exchange more money and asked someone to quietly go to nearby people to buy brown sugar.
The rabbits in the house give birth to cubs. Generally speaking, rabbits can give birth to seven or eight litters a year, but if the nutrition cannot keep up, the female rabbits will not be able to bear it, and there is no milk during the lactation period. Du Baoqin has been in control, only letting them give birth to three or four litters a year, sometimes five or six in a litter, sometimes seven or eight, and at most eleven at a time.
There are too many cubs, and they are not well taken care of, and they often die a few, so it is not that the more the better. Eight of them were born this time, and if they were able to survive until weaning, that Zhang Xiaohua’s eggs would have fallen for a whole month.
For a while, Jiang Rui digs the rabbit grass more diligently. Almost the entire back mountain has been run for her. She can be seen on the side of the ridge near the team. Sometimes she goes to the river to wash clothes. When I came back, I was holding a handful of dandelions in my hands.
After the eggs and brown sugar were exchanged, they were solemnly placed in the rice jar by Wang Tonghua, and no one could move them without authorization.
A few days later, Zhang Xiaohua had abdominal pain and gave birth to a girl at home.
The Zhang family came the next day. Her mother and sister-in-law were carrying a cloth bag. Inside the bag were clothes sewn for the child with old clothes. After entering the house, they turned out a bag of dried longans from under the cloth bag.
Zhang Xiaohua's eyes were red. Her family's conditions were not much worse than those of Du's. For this package of longan, the family didn't know how much work it took.
Adding a new child is a lot more work, and the Du family has divided the labor. Du Youfu and Du Baoqiang had to go to the team to dig a drain during the day. After they got off work, they were responsible for filling up the large water tank at home, and had to take care of the private plot in the backyard. Jiang Rui still takes care of a few rabbits and three meals for the family. Wang Tonghua has experience, sleeps with Zhang Xiaohua at night, helps her take care of the children, and washes diapers during the day.
Zhang Xiaohua can’t go out for confinement and eats in the room. Every morning, a bowl of brown sugar and millet porridge, a steamed egg, and egg custard at noon, add a bowl of longan and brown sugar water in addition to the food at night. After one or two days, Jiang Rui went to the fisher's house to pick up a crucian carp, stew the soup to milk her.
Although this kind of food is not comparable to the wealthy family, it is already within the reach of the Du family's manpower. At this time, the whole family tightened their belts and held her and the child first.
On Friday night, Du Baozhen returned home and saw her little niece. She was attracted to the stove by the sweet smell.
Jiang Rui had just simmered the longan and was about to take it to the room. When he turned around, he saw Du Baozhen standing behind him, staring straight at the bowl in her hand, swallowing her saliva.
"I'm coming back early this week. Let's wash your face first, and dinner will start soon."
"Okay." Du Baozhen answered, but couldn't move under her feet. She lives in school this semester, and her academic tasks are more onerous than before, but the food is not as good as what she eats at home. She used to think that the pumpkin porridge at home was added with saccharin, which was not as flavorful as white sugar. Now, all day long, her mouth is so pale that she her fingers.
Jiang Rui saw her gluttony, and said helplessly: "This longan was sent by my sister-in-law's family. We will help her up. We can't eat it."
"I know." Du Baozhen took two deep breaths with a look of eagerness, "I will smell it, sister, don't worry about me."
Jiang Rui went to the house. After returning, Du Baozhen was still sucking the remaining sweetness in the kitchen room, looking greedy and pitiful.
She shook her head, took out the jar of brown sugar, took a look, found a fingernail-sized piece from it, and stuffed it into Du Baozhen's mouth.
"Um... it's delicious!" Du Baozhen suddenly narrowed her eyes and said sweetly, "Sister still loves me."
"Okay, go and set the dining table, let parents and brother eat."
"Yeah, okay." She got what she wanted and hopped out.
Du Baozhen's gluttony was not relieved until Zhang Xiaohua was out of confinement and the family took care of her.
At the end of the year, the commune distributed grain dividends. In addition to money, it also distributed several cloth tickets, cotton tickets, and so on.
When Wang Tonghua and his family were all around, at the dinner table, they explained where the tickets will be used one by one. When it comes to cloth tickets, she glanced at Jiang Rui with a bit of joy on her face. Make new clothes for Baoqin, and everyone else leans back."
"Isn't there more? Mom, I want to make new clothes too." Du Baozhen took Wang Tonghua's hand and acted like a baby.
Wang Tonghua stared at her with little power, "Baoqin makes new clothes only after seeing others. What are you doing for the fun?"
Du Baozhen was surprised: "Sister wants to meet someone? Why don't I know?!"
"You're a little kid, it's good to read, know what these do?" Wang Tonghua ignored her and turned to confess Jiang Rui: "I will go to the commune tomorrow, sell the rabbit fur, buy the cloth and cotton, if it is too late , The good designs are all taken away."
Jiang Rui nodded, and saw Du Baozhen pouting unhappy, and softly persuaded her: "Xiao Hawthorn does not have a new cotton coat yet, and the extra cloth should be made for her first. You are an aunt, and you want to let your little niece."
Xiaoshan Haw is the nickname of the new granddaughter of the Du family, and the name has not yet been taken. Zhang Xiaohua heard Jiang Rui's words and glanced at her gratefully.
After dinner, Du Baozhen followed Jiang Rui into the kitchen room, "Sister, who are you looking for? Are you in a brigade with us?"
"Yes." Jiang Rui said truthfully, "It's Zhao Nan who saved you before."
"It's him?" Du Baozhen was surprised again, "How could it be him? Sister knew him?"
"First help me burn the fire." Jiang Rui put the bowls and chopsticks into the pot, added half a pot of water, and directed Du Baozhen to boil the water, and then said: "I don't know you."
Du Baozhen sat under the stove and added firewood into the stove. Hearing her answer, she frowned, "Isn't it strange that you don't know him? Sister, why don't you choose someone you like?"
Jiang Rui just smiled and shook his head.
Du Baozhen stared at the fire in the stove. After a while, she seemed to tell her, and she seemed to say to herself, "I definitely don't want this..."
Zhang Xiaohua happened to be walking around in the yard with the baby in his arms. He groaned in his heart when he heard the conversation between the two of them. He went back to the house and watched Du Baoqiang soaking his feet comfortably, even more angry, and stepped forward to kick his tub. Kicked.
"what happened again?"
"What's wrong with me?" Zhang Xiaohua lowered his voice, and said angrily: "Just now at the dinner table, Baozhen almost snatched our girl's new clothes, you don't even let go of your fart!"
Du Bao scratched his cheek forcefully, "Mom didn't say to give it to her."
"That's because Baoqin opened her mouth! If she doesn't say it, with mother's eccentricity, do you think that piece of cloth can fall on her head? I can see that Baozhen is a bloodsucking bug. When the family up, let her support herself!"
"There is no need to say so badly." Du Baoqiang frowned.
"Heh..." Zhang Xiaohua sneered. Thinking of what she had just heard, what she said, Du Baozhen, should never be like Du Baoqin. It was a big joke. She asked the whole family to raise her, study, take college entrance examinations, and go to the big city in the future. It will be the phoenix flying out of the chicken coop. It is different from rural people like them, so of course you don't need to be like them! I also don't want to think, if there is no Du family doing everything for her, without Du Baoqin's sacrifice, can she say such ridicule?
"Let's wait and see, and see what the baby sister of your Du family can give you in the future."
The next day, Jiang Rui went to the supply and marketing agency to select a piece of red cotton printed with floral prints. From tailoring, styling, and cutting, she completed it under Wang Tonghua's guidance.
When Du Baoqiang got married, he bought a sewing machine at home. Because he rarely made new clothes, it had accumulated dust in the corner. Du Baozhen turned it out, stepped on it every day, and spent seven or eight days to make a new dress.
She had been Du Baoqin for such a long time and found it the most interesting, so it took another two or three days to finish the new clothes of Xiao Hawthorn.
At the end of the twelfth lunar month, Wang Tonghua waited eagerly, and finally waited for the news that Zhao Nan returned home to visit relatives.
Zhang Liyun quickly told her about the time and place for the two young men to meet.
Because it was the first meeting, the two elders did not meet too early, but Jiang Rui could not be allowed to go alone. The Du family discussed it and decided to let Zhang Xiaohua accompany him.
That morning, Jiang Rui was pushed into the house to dress up after eating breakfast.
Zhang Xiaohua turned over all the wealth of her family when she was married, stroked Jiang Rui's eyebrows, and painted a little red on her mouth. After her strong resistance, she didn't apply powder on her face, but she was white, and it was fine if she didn't wipe it. .
After tracing the eyebrows, pulling up two braids, and putting on a new dress, Jiang Rui came out of the room, Wang Tonghua and Du Baozhen were stunned for a while.
After a while, Du Baozhen realized, "Sister, you are so beautiful today!"
"It's really good." Wang Tonghua said with joy.
Zhang Xiaohua smiled and said, "Baoqin is good at craftsmanship. Looking at the cotton-padded jacket on her, it looks no different from others. She is wearing a bulging bag. She is clever and put it around her waist. It looks more foreign."
Du Baozhen nodded straight, circled Jiang Rui, holding her hand: "Sister, I will make new clothes next year, and I want you to do it for me, can you help me?"
"I think Baoqin won't be in our house next year." Zhang Xiaohua said with a smile.
Wang Tonghua glanced at the sky and told the two of them: "It's almost time, you go, don't let people wait too long. Baoqin girl's embarrassed, Xiaohua, you are her sister-in-law, just say what you need to say, just ask Ask, don't be cold."
"I know, don't worry, mom."
The two aunts and sisters went out arm in arm. When people met on the road saw Jiang Rui, they had to take another look before they were curious to ask where they were going. Zhang Xiaohua only said to go to the commune to buy some new year goods.
The two walked to the commune and saw a person standing under the car station from a distance. Looking at him from behind, he was as tall as a green pine and like a sword.
Zhang Xiaohua whispered and laughed in Jiang Rui's ear: "It's him, right? Looks very energetic."
Jiang Rui looked up, the person seemed to feel something, and turned around.
The author has something to say:
A cub asked if the male lead was ill. He was indeed ill. They were all broken into 800 pieces. Why is he not ill? Hee hee, the male lead is sick and the female lead is medicine.
Author: Come, come, take medicine friends.
Male lead: Good. (Happy...)