Bai Fumei in the '70s

Chapter 110

The next day, Li Dali took his wife to the health clinic for inspection, and it confirmed the news that his wife was pregnant.

He couldn't keep mum and happily carried his wife back home, hoping that the baby in her belly would be ripe in October, so that he could hold the baby in his arms.

He Songye was embarrassed and pulled her husband's ear.

"Don't... don't do this... I can walk on my own."

Li Dali pampered her, "I'm willing to carry you so rest for a while."

While checking out the fetus, the doctor also reminded He Songye not to be too laborious. During this time, she was truly hard on herself. She wished to split a person into two to work more than she already did. She worked hard all day long to work on the sewing machine.

After returning home, Li Dali shared the good news with everyone. This good news is undoubtedly exciting. Granny's face lightened up and, she laughed heartily.

Zhao Lanxiang, who got the good news, was also very pleasantly surprised because Sister He was the one beside her who also had no children in her previous life. They both were childless in their later years, and they felt a sense of mutual sympathy. In this life, she waited for the good news of Sister He and was happy for her.

As for He Songbai, he looked at his elder sister's haggard face and immediately decided to kill a chicken to nourish her.

Since the brigade divided the fields, everyone also stared at who raised several chickens. So He Songbai hugged ten chickens in one breath and raised them. Two of them died in the spring, and now there are eight left. The chickens in late autumn have just changed their new feathers. They are just big and neither too old nor too tender.

Zhao Lanxiang carefully boiled a pot of chicken soup, and thanks to the blessing of Sister He, the whole family savoured the flavour of chicken on this day.

Well versed in food supplements, Zhao Lanxiang stewed nourishing soups for three days. She soon made Sister He, who was haggard, in the pink of health.

The whole family is looking forward to this child, whether it is Li family or He family. Li Dali is getting older, and it is not easy to have children until this age. His expectations for having a child was to work hard and save money for the baby and no longer let his wife do the heavy work.

The weather is getting colder, but everyone's heart is ablaze, especially for the young intellectuals who are preparing for the college entrance examination. In the two-month preparation time, they can’t wait to split the time into two petals, competing for time to review, hoping to borrow more time to change their fate.

Some were very old, some as young as 17 or 18, but without exception, they were all unable to absorb the knowledge of several years of middle-school in just two months, or even just read the textbooks. There just wasn't enough time.

Wu Liangping joked, "We have to relax our minds, there is a way to say "a red heart, prepare with both hands." (T/N - I'm not too sure but this might be the meaning based on what I found - 'You can change your fate when you help yourself')

He mentioned this sentence to the educated youths and, it strengthened their mentality to revise calmly.

For this year's college entrance examination, almost all of Hezitun's unmarried, educated youths registered. They squeezed out a dollar for the registration fee and handed it to the village secretary. Fortunately, this year they divided the fields, and they don’t have to wait until the end of the year to divide the grain. Otherwise, this one dollar wouldn't be just a small burden.