Raising a family through the 1970s

Yao Youjun

was extremely helpless, "Eldest sister, I don't want to see where to marry

?" Yao Xiujuan looked at Yao Youjun and said as a matter of course, "Then look at each other! What kind of girl do you like? Let my mother help you see it in advance!"

"What type do you

like?" Yao Xiujuan nodded again and again, looking at Yao Youjun eagerly, "Well, what do you like? Is it lively and steady?"

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Yao Youjun thought about it seriously, but unfortunately, what appeared in his mind was the girl who always went to him on Saturdays and Sundays and chirped behind his buttocks, so frightened that he hurriedly shook his head.

Yao Xiujuan and Yao Xiuli who were watching were confused, "Youjun, what's wrong with you?"

Yao Youjun reacted and hurriedly shouted, "No, it's okay!" "

My mother took Xinxin to my uncle's house to play, I'll see when they will come back..."

After saying that, he hugged Pingping and ran away.

Yao Xiuli said, "Eldest sister, my brother seems to be a little wrong.

Yao Xiujuan nodded thoughtfully, "Well, I found it too..."

When Chu Tian came home with a cart full of firewood, it was already three or four o'clock in the afternoon.

"Good grandson, grandma left you a meal, can you go eat something?"

Chu Tian was unloading firewood into the firewood shed at this time, and said without looking back, "Grandma, I'll go eat after I finish unloading the firewood..."

Old Mrs. Chu was not in a hurry to leave, but stood aside to help Chu Tian, chatting casually, "Our hens haven't laid eggs for several days..."

Chu Tian took the last bundle of firewood from Old Lady Chu's hand, stacked it on the firewood stack, clapped his hands, turned to look at Old Lady Chu and smiled.

"Ah, it's the end of October, and it's normal not to lay eggs..."

Mrs. Chu nodded, "I knew it was cold in Xinjiang, but I didn't expect that it was only the end of October, and I would need to wear a padded jacket in the morning and evening, and I would have to burn a fire in the kang at night..."

"By the way, the kang is going to be burned now, so won't it have to be burned from morning to night in winter?"

Chu Tian nodded, "Yes." After

thinking about it and asking tentatively, "Grandma, are you worried about something

?" Old Mrs. Chu frowned and pointed to the firewood stack, "Is this firewood enough for

a winter?" "It's not winter yet, and one bundle a day is not enough..."

Chu Tian patted the ash on his hands, stepped forward with a smile and grabbed Mrs. Chu's arm, and chuckled, "Grandma, don't worry about this, I still think there is too much firewood, I plan to find someone to buy some crushed coal from the coal mine before winter, and when the time comes, I will bring the idle iron stove at home into the hall..."

"Every day it is pressed with crushed coal, so that even the fire wall is connected, and it is not cold in the house on the left and right. Old

Lady Chu thought about it and suddenly realized, "Ah, it turns out that the hole left in the hall is just for the stove? Behind it is a fire wall?"

Chu Tian helped Old Lady Chu into the hall, "Yes, it's cold here in Xinjiang, if the house is small, it's okay to rely on a kang only, but I specially let our house be built bigger, so it can't be heated only by the kang in the bedroom."

Mrs. Chu smiled, "This Xinjiang is really very different from our hometown..."

The day of reunion always passes quickly, and it is time for Yao Youjun to go back to work, Yao Youjun, who is standing under the shuttle, is holding Xinxin in one hand and some food that his mother has packed for him in the other.

"Dad, mother, little sister, you go back, my eldest sister and I will leave..."

Father Yao nodded, "Well, it's important to go to work well and not come back to work often."

Yao's mother also took Yao Xiujuan's hand and said, "Don't worry about your second sister's affairs, you and your son-in-law live a good life is the most important thing..."

Yao Xiujuan replied with a smile

, "Mother, I know!" Yao Xiuli reluctantly put the fragrant and soft Pingping in her arms and gently put it into Yao Xiujuan's arms, "Eldest sister, next time you come back, will Pingping speak?" Yao Xiujuan

looked down at the ignorant Pingping and smiled, "This eldest sister doesn't know..."

After a pause, he said, "You are so reluctant to be mediocre, do you want to go to the eldest sister's house for a few more days?"

Yao Xiuli didn't say anything, and Yao's mother hurriedly refused.

"What are you going to? It's because you're going to have a baby, and there's no one to take care of you. "

Now that your grandmother is here, I won't talk about it, and the elders of the son-in-law are also here, how can you let your little sister live there casually?"

"Let the family think that our family can't afford to raise a daughter, so let the eldest son-in-law raise it!"

Yao Xiujuan said helplessly, "Mother, you think too much, my grandmother-in-law is very good..." Brother Tian's two eldest ladies are also very good!

" Yao's mother touched her flat little face and said with a smile, "I didn't say anything bad..."

Before he finished speaking, Yao's father urged on the side, "Xiujuan and her mother, you have talked to Xiujuan all the way, haven't you finished talking yet? This car is about to start, don't you say it!"

Yao's mother turned around and glared at Yao's father when she heard this, "What are you shouting, isn't this not driving yet?"

After speaking, she turned her head back to look at Yao Xiujuan, and said in a soft voice, "Xiujuan, get in the car, my mother will watch you go..."

Yao Xiujuan nodded "um", then lowered her head and said Pingping in her arms, "Pingping, say goodbye to grandma, grandpa and aunt..."

Ping Ping blinked "ah".

Yao's mother touched her flat little face with a smile, "Oh, my good grandson, it's so well-behaved..."

"Get in the car!"

Shin Shin also beckoned her little hand, "Grandma, grandpa, auntie, Shin Shin is gone..."

Chu Tian was surprised to see Yao Xiujuan and Yao Youjun walking into the courtyard with Ping Ping in their arms, and Xinxin in their arms, hurriedly dropped the axe in their hands and greeted them.

"Xiujuan, why didn't you tell me in advance when you came back?" Yao

Xiujuan smiled and handed her son who was asleep in her arms to Chu Tian, "Just now, the friend army is going back to work tomorrow, so they will come back together."

Chu Tian said dissatisfiedly, "Even if you come back with friendly troops, you should tell me, how did you come back from the regiment

?" Yao Youjun hurriedly answered, "Brother-in-law, we came back from the carriage of the Sixth Company."

Chu Tian frowned, "There is still a distance between the Sixth Company and our brigade, and you all walked back this way?"

Yao Youjun scratched his head embarrassedly, "Hmm..."

Seeing what Chu Tian wanted to say, Yao Xiujuan hurriedly said, "Brother Tian, Xinxin and Pingping just fell asleep, and it is not comfortable for them to sleep in this way, why don't you put them on the kang first?"

After settling down Xinxin and Pingping, Chu Tian and Yao Youjun came to the hall together, and Chu Tian took the lead in sitting down, looking at Yao Youjun who sat down with him.

"When did you go home?" Yao

Youjun grinned, "Seven days ago."

Chu Tian nodded, "Saved up for two months' vacation?"

Yao Youjun smirked, then took out thirty yuan from his pocket and handed it to Chu Tian, "Brother-in-law, this is the salary of the previous two months!".