In fact, Zheng Ying also knew that because of having no children, the old lady had a lot of opinions on her.

Fortunately, she didn't live at home, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were far away, so she couldn't hear her complaints.

Even if she was scolded a few times and saw her mother-in-law's cold face every time she came back, she didn't care about it.

Anyway, come back a few times less.

"Hey, since both of you are fine, it must be that the fate with the child has not come. Don't worry about you and the fourth brother. When it comes, it will naturally happen."

"He's not in a hurry, after all, every time he comes back, his mother won't scold him, he's heartless!"

Zheng Ying held back her mouth, then whispered again.

"Second sister-in-law, can you give me some diapers for the eldest baby?"

"Nappies? What do you want them for?"

Xu Qian asked in surprise.

"My mother said that boys have strong yang energy. Put the boy's diaper under the pillow and smell it more to bring the baby."

Zheng Ying said mysteriously.

The corners of Xu Qian's mouth twitched slightly. The smell of the diapers of these brats in her family...is indescribable.

She still wanted to put that thing under her head and smell it every day. Xu Qian's face became distorted for a moment. She wanted to throw these diapers as far as possible.

"If you really think it's useful, I'll get you a few, but I don't think you should worry too much."

"I see."

With a happy face, Zheng Ying accepted the diaper that Xu Qian gave her, and put it in her pocket with the roll in her hand.

Xu Qian looked at her speechlessly.

……

After a light rain, the weather became colder and colder. All three children caught colds several times and even had a fever.

The fever was not too severe, only about 38 degrees, and she was sent to the hospital in time, so there was no problem.

But at that time, Xu Qian was still terrified, and she didn't dare to close her eyes when she slept at night. Fortunately, after the beginning of winter, the children gradually got used to winter, and the cold was getting better day by day.

Just two months ago, all the flesh and blood she had carefully raised was gone, and her little face looked pitiful with a thin face.

This small appearance made Xu Qian feel bad.

The farm work on the team has been busy for the past few days, and everyone has returned home, chopping firewood and chopping vegetables, pickling vegetables, and preparing for the winter.

Old man Zhou helped Xu Qian's family apply for a homestead, which was just under the old Zhou's yard. Below the old Zhou's yard was a small bamboo forest, and under the bamboo forest was an earth slope.

The slope was full of sand and rocks, and there was no way to plant land. I was in a panic there before. Old man Zhou applied for the homestead to repair the house, and the team leader assigned the land to him.

Although this land is not good for growing food, it is really good for building houses. After all, there are rocks underneath and the foundation is hard, so the house will not collapse after repairing it.

Looking from a distance, the slope is protruding, surrounded by fields, and further forward is a big river. People in the village depend on this river for drinking water.

Xu Qian also went to look at the soil slope. The ground is really solid. Although it is not easy to dig the foundation, the house is not easy to collapse after it is repaired, and the house can be preserved for a long time.

Building a house involves digging foundations, burying stone strips, knocking down walls, and laying tiles.Xu Qian originally thought that old man Zhou would hire someone to do it, but unexpectedly, he had no plan to hire someone at all.

The old man took his two sons and two daughters-in-law with him, and he did it by himself without any help from others.

Even the old man's two nephews offered to help, but he didn't agree, and only cared about digging for himself.

Of course, his two sons and daughter-in-law did not come to help in vain. Old man Zhou promised them in advance that when the house was repaired, the family would give them a hundred yuan.

Even in order to convince them that he would give money, he gave the family 20 yuan before repairing the house.

With such a large sum of money in front of them, the two brothers Zhou Wenguo and Zhou Wenbing are naturally very motivated.

You know, they farm the fields on weekdays, and after a year of hard work, they only get a little over [-] yuan.

It took five or six years of farming to save 100 yuan.

But now, as long as they sell some coolies and work hard for a few months, they can earn 100 yuan, so they are naturally happy.

People who work all year round are strong, and women are also called by men. The five of them moved together, and the speed was still very fast. The homestead was dug in half a month.

Seeing their hard work, Mrs. Zhou took out 50 yuan and went to the brigade to buy [-] catties of rice.

He also asked the old Zhou Zhou Wenhua to take the national food stamps and meat stamps from Xu Qian, buy a hundred catties of wheat and ten catties of meat in the county seat, and then make steamed buns for rice every day.

At the same time, after Xu Qian waited for the child to fall asleep and let Chunmei watch over it, she also went to the county seat.

When she came back, she had ten catties of lard on her back, a basket of fifty eggs, two catties of brown sugar, and two bags of milk powder.And two pieces of cloth for clothes.

Mrs. Zhou asked her where she got the meat ticket. Didn't she run out of meat tickets in her hand?Xu Qian said vaguely that she met a god-sister in the city, and she didn't need a ticket to buy meat.

The old lady was also clever, and she understood as soon as she heard this, and immediately warned her not to let her go to her sister's place again.

In fact, Xu Qian just went around the county town. She wanted to find the black market, but she couldn't find it, and then she came back.

With meat, food, and good food, Zhou's father and son worked even harder. Years ago, the walls of Xu Qian's house were built one meter high.

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, two pigs were slaughtered in the team, and the Zhou family shared more than a dozen catties of meat, and Xu Qian bought another five catties with the money.

With so much meat, the old lady took some of it out for frying, and the rest was salted and kept for the Chinese New Year. As for the unfinished meat for the Chinese New Year, it was hung up to dry as bacon, and eaten later.

Uneaten meat during Chinese New Year?

Save it for later?

Just kidding, it's impossible. Although there is a lot of meat, the Zhou family also eats a lot. It is impossible to have endless meat.

On the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Xu Qian said that she was going to the county seat to get the money sent back by Zhou Wenjun.

In fact, she went to the county seat again, and this time she finally found the black market in the county seat.

It should be said that it was not the black market that she found, but the group of black market people who found her.

A half-grown boy in a broken hat pulled her directly to the corner and asked her if she wanted to change something.

She nodded, and then the kid pointed her in a direction and charged her fifty cents.

It was only then that Xu Qian realized that this kid was a stalker. She saw that Xu Qian had come here several times this month, carrying something on her back every time, and looking around, as if she was looking for something.

Seeing that she was a novice, she hadn't even touched the door of the black market, so she showed up to remind him, of course, there are risks for him to do so, but in his business, the risks are not small, and he wouldn't do it if he was afraid Appeared here.

The black market is in a very remote alley. There are guards at both ends of the alley, and there are people watching around the alley. If there is a slight disturbance, someone will report it.

Entering the alley, there are about a dozen people setting up stalls in it. That's right, they are setting up stalls, just like normal markets, except that the owners of the vendors are all covering their faces.

There are quite a lot of pedestrians who come here to buy things, but everyone is very quiet, they come and go in a hurry, buy things, pay and leave without bargaining.

Xu Qian followed suit by laying out two newspapers on the floor, and then putting the things she was going to sell on the floor.

The things she wanted to sell were two pieces of bacon weighing one catty, two pieces of fresh pork weighing two catties, one handful of dried noodles weighing two catties, one bag of rice weighing five catties, and one bag of white flour weighing five catties.Two bars of soap, thirty eggs.

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