CH 132

He Songbai did not say anything, just smiled. He said to his old grandmother, "Relax. Our days will get better. The country has said that there is always a chance to stand out as long as we work hard. Granny just waits for the blessing."

Grandma Li remembered that many years ago, the skinny young man ran to her bed and asked her for permission to do business.

He told her, "No one will get tired of a good life. Hard life will only make people lose hope."1

Grandma Li looked at the bustling and prosperous scene in front of her eyes, and the fire at the stove crackled all the time, symbolizing the endless fire. He did not disappoint her. All the promises he had made were fulfilled one by one.

She smiled and said to her grandson, "Okay, Granny is waiting for happiness. I'm still waiting for my great-grandson."

When He Songbai heard this, his ears were red again.

He coughed softly and looked around to find his wife. She is pregnant, and she has to be cautious in the first three months. She can't drink alcohol, get cold or get tired. Soon he found Zhao Lanxiang, who was entertaining guests in the crowd.

"Go sit and have a rest?" He Songbai said.

Zhao Lanxiang entertained a group of fellow educated youths. They coaxed the couple to drink alcohol or drink a glass of wine.

He Songbai drank without hesitation but did not let Zhao Lanxiang drink a glass of wine. He said with a smile, "Everyone should be rushing towards me today, don't embarrass my wife."

Everyone laughed again and filled He Songbai with bottles of wine. They all still remember that when He Songye got married many years ago, He Songbai outdrank all of them.

Although He Songbai did not wear a groom's clothes, he also wore a decent tunic suit with a small flower on his chest, which looked energetic. Zhao Lanxiang also followed the custom in the countryside. Instead of wearing a pearly red wedding dress, she wore a simple red gown, which was not much different from other brides married in the country.

It's just that the red flower gown she casually wears, paired with her bright and clear eyes, has the enchanting beauty that is rushing towards people's faces. Her skin is white enough to pinch out the water, and under the sun, it shined as if it would blind people. She has a scholarly temperament, confidence, and elegance. She is very eye-catching.

The people who had eaten at the wedding banquet said that the daughter-in-law of the He family was the most beautiful woman in ten miles and eight townships.

Although several people tried to embarrass the new wife, Li Dali and the Li family's boys stand up and block them all like a solid wall. Zhao Lanxiang looked at them gratefully and hurried back to the house to rest.1

The wedding banquet was arranged from morning until night. In the middle of the day, He Songbai returned to the room to sober up a few times and rubbed her legs.

There was a strong smell of wine spraying in his breath, which caused Zhao Lanxiang to feel distressed.

"Drink less."

He Songbai shook his head. His whole body was lying on the bed. He looked up and satisfied, "I am very happy today."

His wife wiped his face with a hot towel, and He Songbai rubbed his face to her like a child and whispered, "Before, I didn't dare to talk to you because I was afraid of being laughed at by others."

"We can only covertly cover up our relationship, and even I dare not tell my family members. At that time, how much I wanted others to know that I was talking to such a good woman, but I could only hold it in my heart."

"After you left in 1978, some people said that I wanted to eat swan meat."

He Songbai showed his teeth, and his handsome face ridiculed himself, "Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi. Don't the toad eat swan meat now? I have to let them all see so they do not bully the young and poor..."

Zhao Lanxiang couldn't help laughing when he compared himself to a toad. She threw the towel aside and leaned over to lean into his ear, and said, "The swan meat is actively brought into your mouth for you to eat. Do you like it or not?"

He Songbai was thirsty in his throat. It felt like it was smoking.

The swan flicked his lips on her own initiative, and a scent of sweet kisses drowned him.

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He Songbai quickly took a telegram and told the good news to his father-in-law. Zhao Yongqing, who had received the news of her daughter's pregnancy just after the Chinese New Year, felt like a roller coaster in his heart. He was happy and angry, but he replied to the telegram to ask the young couple to come back early.

After three months, the couple went to the hospital to take an ultrasound to see the baby's gender.

Sure enough, it was Tang Tang.

After the doctor informed He Songbai, he was all stunned. A great ecstasy came to his heart.

If he has a white and tender daughter, she will look like her mother. Coquettish and cute, with a sweet voice, so that no one could handle it. He will definitely braid her beautiful braids every day, personally choose her beautiful little skirts, and develop her into a girl as beautiful as her mother.4

The doctor thought that the young man in front of him was also patriarchal, and he persuaded him, "Girls are also very good. The thought of favoring men over women must not be kept."

He Songbai pulled out from the joy of being immersed in Tang Tang. He nodded in excitement and took out the wedding candy that had been prepared for the doctor to eat.

"Yeah, yeah. A girl is a treasure. She must be her dad's cotton-padded jacket!"

In two sentences, he choked the doctor's unsaid words, "abortion is not good for his health." The doctor was stuffed with a bag of wedding candy, and his scornful expression gradually turned into stunned.

He Songbai walked out of the examination room happily and said to his wife with a loud voice, "It is Tang Tang's alright. I told you it is a girl. It's right not to toss you for so long after you got pregnant."

Zhao Lanxiang couldn't help but laugh. Her palms were covering her stomach, and she was also very happy.

He Songbai is not patriarchal because his respected grandmother is very tough. He knew that even women could carry a heavy burden, and girls can be impressive.

Zhao Lanxiang is also not picky about the gender of her children. Her thoughts are also closer to later generations, and she had no concept of boys are precious. As long as there is a child, it is a gift from above, and gender didn't matter.

But they all looked forward to the birth of their coquettish daughter, sweet and soft.

He Songbai turned over the test results and said, "The doctor said that your nutrition is not enough and prescribed some folic acid for you. He told me to get you to eat more meals."

After returning home, he told his grandmother about these doctors' orders. The grandmother asked him to kill a chicken every week, stew it and give it to his wife.

Because it was spring, the people on the brigade began to go to the market to buy chickens and ducks for feeding. He Songbai thought about it and decided to surround the hill next to the pig farm and built a chicken farm. He bought 3,000 chickens and found experienced farmers to start chicken farming.