Chapter 107 Work
"Pan Shuiqin nodded sweetly, placing a hand on her stomach, ’I’m already a good half month late.’"
Yang Peimin hadn’t expected her casual query to hit the mark, and she congratulated her with surprise, "Cousin, congratulations."
But Pan Shuiqin kept her calm, not swept away by the surprise, "We can’t be sure yet. We will see in two months if there’s any reaction. We can’t talk about it yet. If it’s not true, it would be so embarrassing."
In the countryside, it wasn’t common to go to the hospital for pregnancy tests; they just waited until the belly showed.
Yang Peimin nodded, "Then take care of yourself, don’t work too hard. Eat more nutritious food. We just bought some eggs, I’ll pack some for you to take home later."
There wasn’t much food at home, especially during the lean season. Eating meat every meal was unrealistic. Compared to meat, eggs were a bit cheaper at 50 cents per pound. You could buy ten eggs for that, and they added nutrition whether fried with edible amaranth, chives, or tofu.
Whenever she cooked, she almost always fried an egg. In other families, this might be considered extravagant, but she couldn’t cook many other dishes and didn’t want to eat a purely vegetarian diet, so she managed buying meat and eggs herself, using her own money. Nobody could complain about it, and even when Shen Yidong ate the egg and meat, he spoke less.
They also kept seven or eight chickens, six of which laid eggs. Almost every day, they got two to four eggs, which sometimes weren’t enough, so she had swapped for some with neighbors’ families.