Lin Yutong suddenly felt that even if she told Fourth Master everything she knew about future generations, he would only listen carefully.
Because the Qing Dynasty here is different from their Qing Dynasty.
So, who can guarantee that the world today is the world that I described.
He may use it as a reference and then laugh it off. He trusts his own mind and analysis more.
Just like now, with a little bit of disturbance, he smelled a different smell.
Lin Yutong asked him, how did you know these textbooks would be useful?
Fourth Master rolled his eyes at Lin Yutong and said, "Read more history books when you have time."
Maybe I really haven’t studied history thoroughly enough. But history always has its similar development trajectory and can always inspire people.
Yin Zhen himself is an academic master. Because of Master Yun, he studied English and Russian the most, as well as physics and mathematics used in mechanics.
Fourth Master is looking through it now, just to get familiar with it. "You should also take a look... I didn't want to lock you in the house..."
Lin Yutong laughed. In this world, if you want to be shut down, you have to be shut down. You, the aunts in the neighborhood committee, are just for free.
Even so, when the two read books, they only dared to read secretly at night. Then Lin Yutong would quietly put the book back into his space.
On this day, Lin Yutong dug out white cotton cloth, filled it with cotton, and made clothes for Bai Xiaomei's child to wear after birth. The due date is March, and the weather is still a bit cold.
In this day and age, it is difficult to get more diapers for children. Most of the clothes are made of wear-resistant fabrics. Children's skin cannot bear these things. Or they are the kind that do not absorb water at all and will become wet when two drops of water are put on them.
A big piece.
Old autumn clothes and long trousers are the best, but there are really not many people who are willing to throw away old autumn clothes and trousers. Who doesn’t pile up patches on top of each other?
Many people have holes in their exposed cuffs and necklines. Shouldn’t they just wear them all the same?
Everyone is like this, no one is laughing at anyone.
The sisters-in-law in the company took out their children's old diapers, washed them, dried them, tidied them up, and sent them to Bai Xiaomei.
The company commander’s wife said: “Everyone’s family is like this. These are old ones that were given to me when I was pregnant. Anyway, the children in our company all grew up wearing these diapers. Every family takes turns using them.
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Bai Xiaomei was extremely grateful. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw small bags of small clothes again. They were enough to wear until she was two or three years old. By then, the children were getting older, and they could still wear the clothes of adults if they were changed.
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It’s not that we don’t care about hygiene, we really don’t have the conditions to care about hygiene.
Lin Yutong took two small jackets over. Before he could say anything, Bai Xiaomei said: "These are made of the cloth you received as a gift when you got married."
Yes! Even the explanation is omitted.
When I got married, many people did send me pieces of cloth, some of which were one or two feet long.
One foot and two feet are too few, they are not the same color, and the degree of newness and oldness are different. What can be done? Making clothes for a two or three-year-old child has to find a way to piece them together. But if it is to make shoe uppers, it is a bit too much.
pity.
Lin Yutong put everything away. She had no idea what to do?
Now when Bai Xiaomei looked at the small clothes, she thought they were made by Lin Yutong with those small pieces of cloth. She didn't explain it and pushed it to her: "Tell the child to wear it close to the body. I left all the threads outside."
"You've given it to us, what will you do when you give birth?" Bai Xiaomei pushed, "You'd better keep it. It's not easy to find such soft cloth again."
"It's okay." Lin Yutong looked at the pile of patched clothes on the kang, felt a little uncomfortable, and then said, "We have family members on both sides who are helping us, so why should we give in?"
Bai Xiaomei complained to Lin Yutong, "My mother sent me a pack of brown sugar, and my sister-in-law also had objections. She wrote a letter and said that it was difficult for the family to go hungry. My parents-in-law couldn't count on it either, because his brother was pregnant over there.
She has a son, and she is looking after that. Cheng Hao wrote back and said he would try to get two pairs of clothes for the children..." She said, opening the box next to her, and inside was a pack of old clothes for adults, "It's called
Let’s use this to correct our children. What can I say? They say that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. Now, without the help of people in our company, I really can’t survive.”
Every family has its own sutras that are difficult to recite. If everyone was wealthy, no one would be so cruel.
This is all a waste of time.
Lin Yutong advised her like this.
Bai Xiaomei nodded, "That's what I said. I'm so angry."
"Why don't you see that person from your family?" Lin Yutong asked.
Just as he was talking, there were footsteps outside, "Daughter-in-law... Wife-in-law... do you see what I bought you?"
As he said that, the door curtain was lifted, and a bright red satin quilt was exposed from behind the curtain, but no one came out from behind the curtain, "Did you see it? Let's also make a red wedding dress. It's not as good as Lin Yutong's, but it doesn't matter, you
Dress like this for now, and I will buy you something better in the future."
Shouldn't he know that Lin Yutong was in the house.
Bai Xiaomei's face turned red with embarrassment, "Come in. Lin Yutong is here, don't be embarrassed."
The hand holding the bright red satin quilt retracted with a 'rubbing'.
After waiting for a long time, he came in from the outside with a dry cough. He saw Lin Yutong smiling awkwardly, "Xiao Lin is here?"
When Lin Yutong saw that Cheng Hao had his hands behind his back, he was too embarrassed to take out the things and ask to see them, knowing that he was embarrassed.
So he said goodbye with a smile, "The due date is not far away. I've been keeping an eye on it lately. If something is wrong, call me right away."
Cheng Hao responded before watching Lin Yutong go out with a smile.
In the yard, Bai Xiaomei could still be heard asking Cheng Hao: "...you have been busy for so many days and have all your money been spent on this?"
"Yes! I want to buy you a wedding dress." This was Cheng Hao's voice, a somewhat uneasy voice.
No voice was heard inside for a long time. Lin Yutong was about to leave the yard when he faintly heard Bai Xiaomei say: "...Why are you spending money so recklessly that your child doesn't even have clothes? You told him to run around naked..."
The tone was choked.
Lin Yutong turned back and looked at the small fenced courtyard. She could understand Bai Xiaomei's mood at the moment. She was moved by the man's heart, but she was also annoyed by the innocence and childishness that the man sometimes brought out. She was so incompetent. Everyone yearned for romance and harmony.
Surprise, but they can't afford the cost of romance and surprise.
Later, Lin Yutong found out that Cheng Hao had gone to the forestry farm to do some work for someone else. He was doing the work because someone else had something to do at home, but he couldn't take the holidays, so he had to find someone to take his place. Cheng Hao went to the company after finishing his work every day.
I work until midnight at night for five cents a day. The snow on the mountain has not yet melted and it is very slippery. Not only is it a mountain road, but you also have to carry wood down the mountain at night. Which piece of wood cannot weigh hundreds of kilograms? It is dangerous and hard work!
It took two whole months to buy a red wedding dress for my wife.
Such a story is so heartwarming that it makes Lin Yutong want to cry. There is sweetness in the sourness, and even if she complains, she still feels soft in her heart.
Half a month later, Bai Xiaomei gave birth to their first child. He was a healthy boy.
The moment Cheng Hao heard the child cry, he also cried loudly in his small yard.
He didn't even know what he was crying about? The surprise brought by new life? Or maybe it was a father's confusion about the future life.
Cheng Hao named this child Cheng Gensheng.
This means that after the mind has settled down, it means that you want to take root in this land in a down-to-earth manner.
After the child was born, Bai Xiaomei had not yet breastfed. The first breast milk was fed by another female educated youth in the company. Her child was half a year old and had not yet been weaned.
It is impossible to buy milk powder at this time. There are some in Beijing and Shanghai, but they require foreign exchange coupons. Even wheat flour is not easy to buy.
Maybe it was due to poor nutrition during pregnancy that Bai Xiaomei had no milk. Lin Yutong had no choice but to give her baby milk powder. Seeing her baby crying from hunger, she had to take two kilograms of millet.
This thing is also a cereal, but it can also be used to make porridge for pregnant women and children.
Confinement was difficult. One family gave me a couple of eggs, and that family gave me some noodles. I just made do with it, but I managed to make ends meet.
It wasn't until the mare in the company gave birth to the foal that the child could eat enough. Uncle Geng squeezed the mare's milk every day and gave it to Cheng Hao. He could drink it after rolling it twice in the pot.
Already.
Cheng Hao and Lin Yutong learned how to catch fish in a basket. No matter what kind of fish they brought back, they would make soup. After three months of drinking fish soup, they were considered to be pregnant.
But little Comrade Cheng Gensheng was more impressed by his wet nurse, and his own mother's milk was not that rare. Bai Xiaomei held him in her arms to breastfeed him, and turned away in disgust.
Cheng Hao said that after eating mare's milk, the child will definitely become a thousand-mile horse in the future.
Maybe he can't see his own future, so as a father, he places his hope on his children.
Normally, I don’t feel that life goes by fast. Only when you see your child taking off his clothes that are all too small, can you feel your child’s growth. Only by watching your child grow, can you know how fast life goes by.
By the time the wheat is harvested, the three-month-old baby can already be carried out.
Bai Xiaomei tied the child to her body and held a pot in her hand to deliver water to the people harvesting wheat in the fields.
There are many mothers like Bai Xiaomei who carry their children with them. They work just like men, the hot sun burns on their faces, and their once-young appearance has the traces of time and vicissitudes.
Under the shade of the trees in the fields, mothers were sitting there, breastfeeding their children. No one thought such behavior was rude, and no one thought it was immoral. They were the most beautiful people.
Lin Yutong stood up and took off the straw hat on his head to fan himself. He thought of those mothers who criticized mothers who breastfed their children in public.
She thought, no matter what time, the glory of motherhood will never be dirty. Only the human heart is dirty. (. )