Mixed in 1980

Chapter 288 The Impressive Miss Zhao
"Your period hasn't come?"

Xu Jinqiu was slightly taken aback, but the corners of her mouth quickly turned up: "How old are you? You still look silly, like a child."

Miss Zhao glared at him angrily: "Xu Jinqiu, don't go too far! If it weren't for the fact that you're pregnant, I would have dealt with you severely."

"See? Isn't that stupid enough?"

Xu Jinqiu looked at Chen Fan, who couldn't help but smile wryly and pinched Zhao's nose: "She's really silly. She's going to be a mother and she doesn't even know it."

Miss Zhao rolled her eyes: "I'm pregnant?"

"OK!"

"I'm pregnant? I'm going to be a mom? Oh my god, I'm not prepared at all, how did I get pregnant? What am I going to do now...?"

Seeing Zhao's flustered state, Chen Fan was both amused and exasperated, and quickly put his arm around her.

After a short while, Ms. Zhao calmed down and suddenly chuckled foolishly, "I'm pregnant, so I don't have to go to work anymore. I can stay home and take care of the baby and not have to work at all..."

Upon hearing this, Xu Jinqiu rolled her eyes.

She was pregnant, but the reason she was happy wasn't because she was having a child, but because she didn't have to go to work. Ms. Zhao's thought process was definitely different from that of normal people.

"I'll have Wenya manage the company for you for now."

Chen Fan was both amused and exasperated. Miss Zhao had always wanted to quit, and now that she had a legitimate excuse, she definitely wouldn't want to go to work.

Even Zeng Ali couldn't suppress it.

"Just let her keep in charge."

Miss Zhao touched her belly and chuckled foolishly, "Brother, I'm sleepy, help me back to rest."

"Then let's walk."

Chen Fan gently pinched the bridge of her nose, reached out to support her, and said, "Qiu'er, you come too. Get some rest. You don't need to keep watch."

Xu Jinqiu stood up, took Zhao's other arm, and said jokingly, "Your Highness Zhao, let's get up and go back to the palace to rest."

"Let's go, Xiao Qiuzi!"

"Screw you!"

……

Back in the east courtyard, instead of letting Miss Zhao return to the west wing, she was directly moved to the main room to live with Xu Jinqiu, which would make it easier to take care of her.

Chen Fan only went out after his two wives had settled down.

Miss Zhao lay on the bed, still unable to stop giggling: "Qiu'er, it's settled then, I'll stay home and take care of the kids, you can leave all the children to me."

"You're just lazy!"

Teacher Xu smiled slightly, turned to the side and put her hand on Miss Zhao: "It's no use talking to me about this, we need your older sister's consent."

Miss Zhao puffed out her belly: "She dares to disagree? If she disagrees, see how I deal with her!"

Xu Jinqiu chuckled but remained silent.

Miss Zhao snorted, "Don't believe me? Just wait and see. Tomorrow I'll teach Comrade Zeng Ali a lesson."

"I believe you!"

"Look at you, you obviously don't believe me. You'll see tomorrow."

Miss Zhao gave a soft hum and then chuckled foolishly, "Qiu'er, don't you think it's amazing? I'm going to be a mother too."

Xu Jinqiu touched her belly and said, "It's quite amazing. Silly Miss Zhao is going to be a mother. Time really flies."

"It's pretty fast!"

Miss Zhao yawned and pulled the blanket up: "I came back from being sent to the countryside in 1979 and did odd jobs in the dance troupe. I was really naive back then."

Xu Jinqiu raised the corners of her mouth: "That's right, all I was thinking about was working hard so I could get promoted sooner and earn a few more dollars a month."

Just as she was about to continue, she heard even breathing in her ear. Xu Jinqiu smiled slightly, closed her eyes, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

The Intermediate Court!

The children gathered in the yard to play, and Yanxi and Xiaorui, the two little ones, followed a group of older children around like little shadows.

Xiaoxi would stop from time to time to look after her younger siblings.

Zeng Ali watched from the side, a slight smile playing on her lips. When Chen Fan approached, she asked, "Where's Yuanyuan? Did she not want to stay up all night and went back to the courtyard to slack off?"

Chen Fan whispered, "My period hasn't come."

Zeng Ali's eyes lit up: "Pregnant?"

Chen Fan nodded and said, "It's not certain yet. In a couple of days, we'll go to pay our respects to Grandpa Wang Hetang and ask him to take our pulse."

What was Yuanyuan's reaction?

"I'm very happy. As soon as I heard I was pregnant, I thought about giving up my job and staying home to take care of the baby."

"No way! She's so spoiled!"

Zeng Ali rolled her eyes, glanced around, and whispered, "Our daughter has grown quite a bit, should we have another one?"

Chen Fan frowned slightly, glanced around, and said in a low voice, "If all three of you get pregnant at the same time, I'll have to be a monk for a year. Shall we postpone it for a year?"

"Pah, would it kill you to not want to think about that?"

Zeng Ali patted her husband and said irritably, "Then let's have a baby born in the 90s next year. What do you think the 90s generation will be like?"

What will the post-90s generation be like?
Like those born in the 1980s, they were also unlucky, especially when it came to the bride price. Those born in the 1990s were particularly unlucky, with some places saying: "One person gets married, and the whole family goes into debt."

……

New Year's Eve passed quickly, and on the first day of the new year, everyone stayed home. When visiting relatives, they went to the neighbor's house. Miss Zhao wanted to go to the temple fair, but Zeng Ali stopped her.

As for what she said last night about dealing with Zeng Ali, Miss Zhao selectively forgot. Deal with the eldest sister? She'd be more likely to get herself dealt with!

Chen Min drove to Xinghuo Community, dropped her daughter off at the entrance, and took out New Year's gifts from the trunk: "Stay at your godmother's house tonight, and have your godmother bring them back tomorrow."

After saying that, he drove off.

Xiaoxi carried the gifts and skipped and hopped into the building. Soon she arrived at a residential building and took the elevator to the 6th floor.

I pressed the doorbell, and the door opened quickly.

"Little girl, come in quickly!"

When Sun Hongyu saw her daughter, she quickly came in, hugged her daughter and kissed her: "I missed you so much, godmother. Stay at home today and spend the New Year with godmother."

Xiaoxi nodded and turned to look at the dining room. She saw her godfather coaxing her younger brother to eat. The younger brother was turning around and around as if he were playing a game.

"Godfather, let me feed my little brother!"

He took the bowl and spoon from his godfather, placed them directly on the table, glared at him, and the three-year-old boy pouted, obediently picking up the spoon and eating by himself.

puff...

Sun Hongyu and her husband couldn't help but laugh. It had to be their goddaughter; their little devil had been completely subdued and didn't even dare to cry.

After breakfast, instead of staying home, the couple took their daughter and son out to the temple fair. They ate lunch at the fair and played until the afternoon before returning home.

Xiaoxi wasn't sent back until the second day of the Lunar New Year.

The second day of the Lunar New Year was anything but quiet at home. Chen Fan got up early, prepared gifts, and took the whole family to visit his uncle's house in Dongmianhua Hutong.

Once inside, Chen Fan took out cigarettes, offered one to his grandfather and uncle, and tossed one to his cousin Guan Xiaopeng: "Where's your sister? Hasn't she come back yet?"

Guan Xiaoyu spent the Chinese New Year in Guangzhou after getting married.

However, the couple has a long holiday, so they go back seven or eight days in advance to stay for a while before taking a plane back to Beijing on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

Guan Xiaopeng took the cigarette, glanced at his father, and lit it: "My brother-in-law's younger brother is getting married. He'll be staying a few more days this year, probably until the seventh day of the new year."

"Xiaoyu, why didn't you say so earlier? I would have prepared a gift to bring with me."

"There's no need to go to such trouble."

Guan Yueshan smiled and gestured for his nephew to sit down: "Xiao Fan, there just happened to be something you suggested to your uncle. Do you want to take it on?"

"Uncle, please speak."

“There’s an old department store in Xinjiekou, a long-established state-owned store. For some reason, it has been losing money for the past two years and they want to find someone to take it over.”

"Found you?"

“The local street office contacted me a few days ago, wanting me to take over the business. I’ve never run a shopping mall before, so I don’t know if I can do it.” Guan Yueshan rubbed his hands together.

"If you take over the property, do you absolutely have to open a shopping mall?"

"Huh?" Guan Yueshan was taken aback.

“Uncle, you’ve never done retail before, so you definitely won’t be able to handle this. But you could take it over and set up an appliance mall, specializing in selling home appliances, which would be quite suitable,” Chen Fan suggested.

"Selling home appliances? Our own?"

Guan Yueshan holds the distribution rights for HaiLe home appliances in Beijing. In recent years, HaiLe's product line has been expanding, and it has made a lot of money.

"Selling from just one company isn't enough."

Chen Fan lit a cigarette and took a puff: "My sister has acquired land in Hong Kong, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen to build home furnishing malls."

"Once the home furnishing mall is completed, we will invite other home furnishing brands to move in. You can do the same thing and invite all kinds of home appliances in."

Upon hearing this, Guan Yueshan's eyes lit up.

Chen Fan briefly explained Suning's future model: "Let's follow this model and open home appliance stores all over the world."

"Once the brand is established, we won't need to open our own online store anymore. We can directly recruit franchisees, and we can make a lot of money just from the franchise fees."

Guan Yueshan rubbed his hands excitedly: "You're so quick-witted! This model is great. We can open a hundred or two hundred stores and make money just by sitting down."

The future may change, but this model will definitely be profitable within the next twenty years.

After resolving his uncle's doubts and having lunch there, the family went home first. In the afternoon, Chen Fan went to the neighboring courtyard to drink with his three fathers-in-law.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Chen Fan prepared a case of Moutai liquor and a box of nutritional supplements, and took Miss Zhao to pay a New Year's visit to Grandpa Wang Hetang's house.

As Miss Zhao emerged from this side, she was incredibly arrogant!

After returning to Ya'er Hutong by car, she didn't get out. She waited for Chen Fan to open the car door, then stretched out her right hand for Chen Fan to hold: "Little Fan, get ready, let's go home."

He's really into his dramatic mode!
Chen Fan was both amused and exasperated: "Empress Zhao, please!"

When they got home, not only were their family members there, but also the elders from several families. Upon seeing them return, they quickly surrounded them, asking, "How is it? Are you pregnant yet?"

Miss Zhao coughed lightly: "Xiao Fanzi, you speak."

"Still acting."

Chen Fan rolled his eyes at her before saying, "She's pregnant, a little over half a month along, and it's twins."

"Wow, Yuanyuan is so lucky."

The elders were overjoyed and praised Mr. Wang Hetang for his skill in recognizing twins after only half a month.

Chen Fan added, "Grandpa Wang also said that there is a high probability that they are twins, a boy and a girl."

Upon hearing this, the elders were even happier.

Twins, a boy and a girl, are so rare. Xu Jinqiu and Zeng Ali couldn't help but envy Yuanyuan. She had both a son and a daughter in one birth, which was perfect in one go.

Lazy people are just lucky!
Even with the best efforts to minimize the number of pregnancies, having two children doesn't guarantee a son and a daughter.

P.S.: Second update! Another month has passed, thank you all for your support!
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