Chapter 27 Pregnancy Incident Follow-up

After Qin Huairu left, Wang Jianfeng began to think about how to deal with the aftermath.

But I don’t have any ideas, I can only take it one step at a time.

Qin Huairu told Jia Dongxu about her pregnancy the next day. Jia Dongxu did not doubt it and was happy for a while, but then he hesitated. His current salary was not high, and he still smoked and drank frequently. The family's living conditions were not very good.

Qin Huairu is pregnant, so their living conditions must be improved. His salary was already tight, and now it is not enough. He is a little worried.

When Jia Zhang heard the news, she was very happy. She only knew that the old Jia family was going to have another baby. Then she set up the incense table and began to summon the souls of Jia Dongxu's father. She didn't care about life or anything. Anyway, she would never starve.

In fact, Jia Zhang should be rich. When Jia Dongxu's father died, the factory gave a large sum of death compensation and reserved a work station for Jia Dongxu. Logically speaking, their family should not be too bad. If Zhang was more diligent, they could live a good life. However, Jia Zhang was a lazy person. She originally knitted insoles to supplement her life. A normal person could knit several in a day if he was fast. But it was not surprising that she could knit one insole a week or one in a month.

So it would be strange if the Jia family had a good life. The whole family depends on Jia Dongxu's salary. In fact, Jia Zhang is willing to take care of the children and do housework, and Qin Huairu is also willing to go out to do odd jobs. However, since Qin Huairu got married, Jia Zhang started to have a headache whenever she worked, and she didn't know whether it was real pain or fake.

In addition, Jia Dongxu also has the hobbies of smoking, drinking and playing cards, which is another huge expense.

Qin Huairu had no way to go out to do odd jobs and could only do laundry every day.

The news that Qin Huairu was pregnant again spread throughout the courtyard the next day. Some were happy and some were sad. The Jia family had both joy and sorrow. Originally, only Jia Dongxu had a city household registration and a ration of grain. Qin Huairu and Jia Zhang had rural household registration and did not have a ration of grain. Banggeng's household registration was with Qin Huairu so he did not have a ration of grain either and could only buy grain at a high price.

In fact, the problem of not having rationed grain was entirely Jia Zhang's own problem. She was reluctant to give up the grain that the rural areas received every year. In fact, the street office had also mobilized them, but they were unwilling to do so. After the rationed purchase and sale of grain, if you wanted to get grain, you had to participate in labor, otherwise you would not be able to get grain. At this time, the policy changed, and the rural and urban household registration began to gradually become clear. You could not transfer your household registration just because you wanted to.

If you want to transfer, you must have a formal and stable job, otherwise you cannot transfer. As for the child's household registration, it follows the mother. Without a city household registration, he or she must either return to the countryside to farm or buy expensive grain in the pigeon market.

The regulations on the rationed supply of grain in towns and cities are as follows: in areas where grains and flour are the staple food, heavy manual laborers shall receive 40 to 49 kilograms per month, and the average shall not exceed 44 kilograms; light manual laborers shall receive 29 to 39 kilograms per month, and the average shall not exceed 35 kilograms.

But in the past two years, it has been good. There have been no natural disasters, and the price of food is not very high. Every household still has some surplus food. As long as there is money to eat, it is not a big problem. However, one more person will increase the pressure. Why did Yan Bugui calculate to the bone? It was also caused by the large population. There are a total of six people in the Yan family, all of whom are teenagers. If he didn't calculate a little, the Yan family might really starve to death.

In the early 1950s, although the country developed rapidly, it had a weak foundation and was still fighting on the Korean Peninsula, so there were still many difficulties overall. It was not until July last year that the war was basically over and the country began to develop comprehensively.

The Jia family became lively because of Qin Huairu's pregnancy, but Wang Jianfeng, the culprit, had already begun to prepare for his future plans. It was imperative to build another house, but it probably wouldn't be possible to have a house that was too big, a courtyard house with three or four entrances.

There are still a few empty rooms in this courtyard that I can plan to make use of. However, now that I have this small courtyard, everyone in the courtyard is jealous. If I get two more rooms, I guess I won't be able to live in peace.

Just thinking about these things gives me a headache. It’s better not to think about them. Let’s just leave it this way for now. Everything will be easy when the spring breeze comes. However, it will take at least twenty years for the spring breeze to come. We have waited a long time. Now we can only take it one step at a time.

Wang Jianfeng also heard the news that Jia Dongxu's wife Qin Huairu was pregnant again, and he felt relieved. At least now he didn't have to worry too much. The child in Qin Huairu's belly had passed the test of the Jia family. But in fact, the Jia family had no doubts. After all, Qin Huairu's personality in the courtyard was that of a good daughter-in-law and a good wife, who was submissive to everything.

In addition, many women of that period did not go out of the house, and might just go to the street occasionally to buy some vegetables, so when the Jia family knew Qin Huairu was pregnant, their first reaction was joy rather than suspicion.

Although she is really beautiful, has a perfect figure and a pair of peach blossom eyes, she does attract some prying eyes from time to time, the most obvious ones are Sha Zhu and Xu Damao, and there are many others in the dark. However, Jia Zhang is also very cautious about Qin Huairu, and outsiders rarely have the opportunity to come into contact with Qin Huairu.
However, the Jia family really didn't expect that Qin Huairu would take the initiative this time. Something went wrong on the way back from her parents' home. However, this problem was mainly the Jia family's problem. Jia Zhang scolded Qin Huairu all the time, and Jia Dongxu would occasionally fight her. Qin Huairu must have been dissatisfied and resentful in her heart, and Jia Dongxu rarely accompanied Qin Huairu back to her parents' home after getting married, so she was taken advantage of by the thief Wang Jianfeng.

The next day, Wang Jianfeng left some food for Qin Huairu and went to the countryside. Now the weather was getting colder, so Wang Jianfeng stopped fishing. It was not that he couldn't do it, but the effort was not proportional to the reward.

Wang Jianfeng was wearing a thick cotton coat and rode his bicycle much slower. Due to the lack of silage this month, the villagers had to reduce the amount of livestock raised, but there was nothing they could do about it.

It is impossible to feed them with grain, so we can only reduce the number of pigs raised. We will raise them again in large quantities when the flowers bloom in the spring next year. It is worth mentioning that we have raised several fewer pigs and sheep, because this is the first time to raise them in the wild and we have no experience. It is good that we did not lose all the pigs.

The amount of meat supplied by Wangjia Village has gradually decreased this month, but Wang Jianfeng doesn't care because his task targets can be exceeded.

(End of this chapter)