1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 184: Harvesting in the Sea in Winter
The town health center is actually made up of two rows of double-story brick houses. When you enter, you will see several elderly people receiving medical treatment.

The health center in Chaoyang Town does have an obstetrics and gynecology department, which is located behind a row of brick houses.

There was no condition for pregnancy testing here. The toad pregnancy test method was only available in the county hospital. But Chen Xiangbei didn't need to test again. The doctor judged from experience that she was definitely pregnant.

The doctor asked her whether she had any chronic diseases such as heart disease and whether she had a family history of genetic diseases. After that, he took her blood pressure and listened to her heartbeat carefully with a stethoscope.

As for the fetal heartbeat that Chen Xiangbei had been thinking about all these days, the doctor told her directly that she would have to wait until the fourth month of pregnancy before she could hear the fetal heartbeat with a stethoscope.

Liang Ziqiang had told her before that it wouldn’t be that early, but she didn’t quite believe it. Now she does.

The traditional stethoscope is not as good as the technical means widely used in later generations, and it is impossible to hear the fetal heart rate clearly too early.

The doctor gave me some precautions, including no sex in the first three months and the last three months, and also some precautions in the middle three months...

Chen Xiangbei was mistaken for a red-faced Guan Gong. Although she was an elderly female doctor, just like her mother, she still felt embarrassed sitting there.

At the end, the doctor habitually added, "Strengthen your nutrition."

Nowadays, it seems that the most important thing a woman needs to pay attention to after becoming pregnant is to improve her nutrition, especially in rural areas.

Chen Xiangbei really wanted to say that she hasn't been lacking in nutrition recently.

After coming out of the clinic, Chen Xiangbei was actually a little upset because she couldn't hear the fetal heartbeat.

Liang Ziqiang consoled her with a smile: "According to what the doctor said, we'll be able to hear the fetal heartbeat with a stethoscope after New Year's Day. Then you can continue to come here or go to the county hospital!"

There are a lot of things to buy today.

After buying a lot of wool at the supply and marketing cooperative, Chen Xiangbei insisted on knitting two more sweaters for her children by herself.

As for the baby’s other clothes, it’s still early now and it won’t be too late to buy them in a few months.

I bought a can of malted milk. It's okay to drink it now, but it's not suitable to drink it later, because it will cause less milk and weaning.

Besides, this thing has too much sugar. Liang Ziqiang wanted to supplement his wife's nutrition, but he didn't intend to really help her gain weight...

The town supply and marketing cooperative does have a small supply of non-local fruits such as walnuts and apples, but the price is higher than that of the agricultural and sideline products supply market in the city, and the quality is not that good. I bought some.

In addition to supply and marketing cooperatives, street vendors have also long been allowed.

Liang Ziqiang bought some fresh vegetables grown by the farmers themselves, and some eggs. It happened that the egg seller was also selling hens, so he bought both the laying hens and the eggs they laid.

It was necessary to stew chicken for her several times during her pregnancy. It had been a while since Liang's mother slaughtered a chicken for her last time.

His father had bought a new cart, and this thing was very necessary for Liang Ziqiang.

So he went to the farm implement store and bought a brand new cart.

The cart saved him a lot of trouble. Except for eggs, which he had to carry by hand to avoid breaking, he put all the food and drinks into the cart and pushed it along.

The cart, hens, malted milk and vegetables, plus the three hundred and ten yuan that the two people in front spent on making winter clothes, totaled about four hundred yuan today.

If you think about it, there is really nothing that you shouldn't spend. In fact, these things may be more important than building a house.

The savings of 3,700 at the bottom of the box turned into 3,300.

When it was time for lunch, they went to the same restaurant as last time. However, she didn't even look at the pork trotter rice noodle, which she had enjoyed so much last time, and she said she was tired of it. So, she ordered the pork offal rice noodle, which was very popular in their area, with plenty of pig heart and liver.

But Chen Xiangbei secretly added a lot of vinegar...

It was really annoying that when they returned home from town in the afternoon, the wind got weaker and weaker until it stopped completely.

When I got home, I found that Liang Zifeng was the only one at home. He took this opportunity to read books and do exercises eagerly.

When asked, I found out that my father and eldest brother went to the salt fields to help people, while my mother and eldest sister-in-law saw that the wind had died down and the tide had receded in the afternoon, so they took the opportunity to go to the beach to catch seafood. I put the things I bought on the cart into the house. I stood at the door and looked towards the beach. There were indeed quite a few people on the beach.

"Don't they say that after a strong wind, a lot of things will be blown to the shore? How about we go there to catch seafood too?" Chen Xiangbei couldn't help but feel a little jealous when she saw those people going there to catch seafood.

In winter, the chances of encountering fish and crabs are very low. But that doesn't mean there is nothing to pick up at the beach in winter.

However, the things picked up in winter are somewhat different from usual ones.

Anyway, there was only half a day left and it was impossible to do anything else, so Liang Ziqiang immediately used all his equipment for going to the beach, locked the door, and went to the beach with his wife to join in the fun.

Duobao didn't know where he was playing alone, but he came out and followed them to the beach.

When I arrived at the beach, I saw my nephew Liang Xiaohai squatting a little away from the shore playing with sand, while my sister-in-law Kuang Haixia was looking for clams next to him.

"Sister-in-law, you picked up a lot of clams?" Liang Ziqiang greeted, "Mom and Lizhi are here to catch clams today, right?"

"You two are back from town?" The eldest sister-in-law pointed ahead. "They went all the way to the front and I was going to go with them, but Xiao Hai squatted down to play in the sand and dug out a few clams!"

It turns out that this nest of clams was made by Xiao Hai while playing with sand?
No wonder. Today, Xiao Hai was squatting aside playing with sand, with mud all over his neck and face, but the sister-in-law didn't show any intention of punishing him.

"Xiao Hai, you were awesome today!" Both of them praised Xiao Hai.

"There's something even more amazing!" Xiao Hai patted the pile of sand he had just dug out and shouted with a sense of accomplishment, "Look at my cannon!"

Liang Ziqiang looked at it for a long time before he could barely figure out that he was trying to build a cannon out of sand by digging and piling up.

However, the cannon was too freehand. Without using any imagination, I really couldn't imagine it. But after he said that, it made some sense.

"The cannon Xiao Hai made looks just like the one in the movie. Well done!"

Chen Xiangbei was like a blind man, praising Liang Xiaohai without paying any attention to the facts.

Liang Xiaohai became excited when he heard this, as if he felt that if he didn't do something, he would be letting down this ready-made cannon on the sand.

“Beep, beep, beep!” A series of simulated trumpet sounds, “Charge! Kill, kill, kill!”

Xiao Hai performed two bayonet fighting movements on the spot and kicked up two clouds of mud and sand.

Most of the two clouds of mud and sand splashed up and landed on his mother Kuang Haixia's hair, ears, and shoulders.

Liang Xiaohai was totally unaware. A battle filled with smoke had just begun, and he somersaulted twice in the sand.

"See if I can't kill you!"

Liang Xiaohai met a strong enemy. He didn't fall under the hail of bullets, but fell under the slap of his mother. He was pressed to the sand and beaten...

Judging from the speed of his defeat, it seems that he is playing the role of the enemy.

Liang Ziqiang and Chen Xiangbei's eyelids twitched as they watched, and they ran over and finally managed to hold the eldest sister-in-law back.

Considering that there were still clams to be dug, Kuang Haixia spared him temporarily.

The two continued to move forward to look for anything they could pick up on the beach.

"Look, wife, this darker one is called a clam, and it's different from the ones we picked up before!"

Liang Ziqiang had not walked far when he started picking up clams continuously.

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