Chapter 422 Retrograde Operation
Hearing what Jia Zhang said, Qin Huairu shook her head in annoyance.

Now she had no idea whether that thing would come or not.

Jia Zhang was under great pressure, and Qin Huairu was under even greater pressure. After all, whether or not there was a baby depended entirely on her belly.

Qin Huairu estimated that now all the neighbors in the yard knew her exact time on those days of each month.

The women in the courtyard knew that this kind of thing didn't matter, because they would always run into their neighbors when they washed the belts.

But now, when the men in the courtyard saw her, they also had a strange look on their faces, which made Qin Huairu feel a little shy.

Everyone knows that Jia family's daughter-in-law is thinking about having a third child.

There were people in the courtyard who knew what the Jia family was thinking regarding this retrograde operation, but there were also people who talked nonsense.

In this day and age, it's normal to attract some gossip when thinking about having children.

Every time Qin Huairu sowed seeds, she always firmly believed that the seeds would sprout.

Just like when the steel mill first planted soybeans, everyone was pessimistic and mocked them. Especially when it didn't rain, Director Li insisted on using the canteen's vegetable washing water to water the seeds.

It's a waste of time and energy, and has resulted in countless verbal battles.

But when the beans sprouted and grew vigorously, the people in the factory who had ridiculed the logistics staff felt like they had been slapped in the face.

The factory director even arranged for the security department to organize a seedling protection team to guard the seedlings 24 hours a day without blind spots.

When it comes to harvest time, there are huge crowds of people and the sound of gongs and drums.

The entire steel mill, with tens of thousands of people, turned the soybean harvest into a declaration of their victory over the drought.

Even in the entire Nanluoguxiang, the biggest topic these days is still the steel mill and Qin Huairu's ears are callused from hearing about it.

From this point, we can see that leaders and ordinary people have very different focuses. Leaders also have different focuses.

For example, Director Li treats planting soybeans as a trivial matter.

Because he has paid and worked hard, but he has not shed as much sweat as those assigned growers.

Even though Director Yang later took away the greatest publicity credit from him by using the seedling protection incident, Director Li couldn't care less.

To put it bluntly, only Director Yang can carry out that publicity, and only Director Yang can maximize the benefits.

But for Director Li and the logistics department, the more than ten acres of soybeans are just disposable consumables.

The only thing they did was to ask the canteen to add bean sprout soup every now and then, and it didn’t help much else.

The credit for the publicity goes to the entire leadership of the steel rolling mill and to its leader, Director Yang.

This is very unfair, but even Director Li has to abide by that rule. After all, it is only more than ten acres. Now it is more than ten thousand acres, and the situation is different.

But when this kind of thing spread to the public, it really made everyone feel hope of overcoming difficulties.

Many people, in times of difficulty, saw the growing of beans at the steel mill as a hope for support.

For example, at Hongxing Primary School, Goudan, Yan Jiedi and others were asked to write an article of no less than 400 words about growing beans in a steel rolling mill.

Suddenly, there were all kinds of legendary stories, such as the white-bearded grandfather who saved seeds and protected bean sprouts even when he was hungry, and the leader who was reluctant to drink water and saved it for watering the land...

Although the people in the steel mill neither admitted nor denied this incident, it did achieve the publicity effect.

Anyway, Qin Huairu believed it sincerely. She hoped that her fertile soil would be like the miracle land of the steel mill, blooming flowers full of hope and bearing fruits of harvest.

Unfortunately, every time we have hope, we end up disappointed.

Every time the harvest day came, Yue Xin would always tell her that if the seeds didn't germinate, there would be no harvest.

This happened more and more times, and Qin Huairu was desperate. Jia Zhang turned her head to look at Qin Huairu's belly, as if she was mumbling to herself, or as if she was deliberately speaking to Qin Huairu.

She said: "It must happen this time, it must happen this time!

Even Shazhu, that greenhorn woman, is pregnant, let alone Huairu, who is so well-versed in this field!"

The last time He Yuzhu took Liu Ting to Dr. Su's house to take her pulse, Dr. Su's subsequent instructions were equivalent to spreading the news of Liu Ting's pregnancy.

In particular, there was a reward of white flour from the factory. Although life was difficult for everyone, there were still a few pregnant women among the families of employees of the steel mill.

The news of Liu Ting’s pregnancy will spread in the market as every pregnant woman receives the white flour benefit.

Five kilograms of white flour is nothing, but if you take this little bit of stuff to the pigeon market and exchange it for coarse grains, it might be enough to buy a laborer's food for a month.

So much so that the steel mill reduced the weight from five kilograms to two kilograms.

But after all, the news that He Yuzhu's wife was pregnant and was the first to receive factory benefits spread.

If He Yuzhu's family had not already moved into a tube-shaped building, this incident would have caused a stir, with several more neighbors coming to borrow food.

Although Jia Zhangshi did not mention anything about white flour, she was definitely looking forward to it.

Qin Huairu felt like her head was about to explode as she listened to Jia Zhang's nagging, and she had a dull headache.

Qin Huairu slapped the rag on the table and retorted: "Mom, don't you think about how the He family lives?
What day is it in our house?
We eat corn flour every day, but I can’t even poop, and getting pregnant is much more difficult than others.”

The coarse grain noodles these days are not coarse grains like sweet potatoes ground into powder.

For example, corn cobs are ground into powder and mixed in. You can imagine how difficult it is to digest those things.

It seems that in later generations, everyone suffers from constipation due to eating too much fine grains, and then eats some coarse grains.

People nowadays don't have this worry. When it comes to whole grains, there is nothing you can't do, only what you can't think of.

Especially the Jia family, most of their food was exchanged at the pigeon market.

Those black marketeers will use any possible means to make money.

Jia Zhang was very disdainful of Qin Huairu's statement.

Of course, the more crucial thing is that Qin Huairu dared to refute her.

Jia Zhang snorted coldly, but said: "When I was pregnant with Dongxu, it was even harder than yours, but I still gave birth to him and raised him to this age!"

Qin Huairu was not a person who would take things easy. She didn’t know why she was so angry today, but she directly retorted: “When I gave birth to Bang Geng and Xiao Dangshi, our family conditions were not that good!

Dongxu seeds won’t germinate, what can I do? ”

"You!" Jia Zhang was so shocked by her daughter-in-law's words that she had no way of responding.

Qin Huairu also looked at Jia Zhang with blank eyes, as if to say that at most she would just make a fuss.

But it didn't take long before Qin Huairu suddenly clamped her legs together and ran into the inner room!

Jia Zhang also became flustered and stood up and followed him in.

But I saw Qin Huairu taking off her pants and preparing to tie the belt that had been prepared long ago.

Jia Zhang said in panic: "Huai Ru, you are here again?"

"Yeah," Qin Huairu replied with a rather bad look on her face.

(End of this chapter)