The fierce peasant woman is busy farming

Xuan Mo seemed to be thinking about something.

"Okay, do you have anything else to do here?

If not, let's go home together.

Doctor Yang and several other doctors are in our village, and my mother and her colleagues are in charge of entertaining them, which is very hard work.

Let's go home early so we can share some of the burden with our family."

“Okay, I’m fine.

Sister, aren’t you here to see the shop?

Have you watched it?"

“Well, after reading it, I don’t think it’s good.

I didn't expect the rent of shops in this town to be so outrageously expensive.

For example, the annual rent of the shop we just looked at is twenty taels of silver.

In fact, the purchase price was only two hundred taels.

……

There is also a shop next to the town school, whose rent is as high as thirty taels.

I don’t know what business I can do to earn back the rent in a year.”

"Well, I know the shop near the town school you mentioned, does the previous owner sell steamed buns?

That shop is not doing well and cannot be maintained.

During the years I was studying in town, I changed employers more than a dozen times.

I can’t do anything for long, I don’t know why.”

"Yeah, that's what I said, selling buns is a sure-win business, but it's no longer viable.

There must be something seriously wrong with this store.

I didn’t dare to decide.

Of course, if it is decided, mother has to come and see it in person."

"Sister, don't worry, let's take it slow."

"Okay, Xuandi is grown up now and can comfort his sister."

Xuan Mo felt a little embarrassed by the praise, and he touched his head and smiled foolishly.

The brother and sister didn't bring anything with them, so they just walked and soon reached home.

When I got home, I found my house in a mess.

It was my sister-in-law Chunniang who started it.

Originally I calculated the time to be within these few days.

Doctor Yang and other doctors who attended the forum also took Chunniang's pulse.

They all say it will only take a few days.

The midwife was in place, living next door to the Ning family and waiting.

Everyone in the village knew about it.

Many people's lips are curled so much that they almost reach the back of their ears.

“It’s as if no one has ever had a child.

It was her family that caused such a big commotion. "

"Yes, which woman doesn't give birth at home?

She, Zhou Yue, gave birth to four babies by herself, without hiring a midwife or a doctor, and they all went smoothly, didn’t they? "

"Third Aunt, did you say that the fifth child in Zhou Yue's family was born to her?"

"Didn't she say that the relative's child was fostered in her home?"

The woman called Third Auntie curled her lips and said:

"Relatives? Whose relatives?

Qian's maiden surname is Qian, and Zhou's maiden surname is Zhou.

Chunniang's maiden name is Shen.

Besides, Zhou and Shen have no maternal family left."

"Then there is still Ning Shisan's in-laws?"

"What's Ning Shisan's maternal surname?

Do you remember his aunt?"

"I don't remember, who can remember that?

Besides, it’s even more impossible that it’s Ning Shisan’s in-laws. They haven’t been in contact with each other for a long time.

After his mother passed away, things got ugly and he lost contact with his maternal family."

"Oh, yes.

Whose child is that?

In my opinion, this is the child of Zhou's affair with another man."

"Don't talk nonsense. It could be the child of one of their sisters."

"Ah, her eldest sister? Qing...sister?

Impossible? At this age..."

"Pooh, pooh, pooh, what are you talking about, where are you thinking about?

I said they were sisters named Qian, Zhou, and Feng, after they married into their husband’s families.

After giving birth to a child, the person dies and there is no one to raise the child.

What if the Ning family takes it over and helps raise it?"

"Hey, you don't know, but I do."

"Hurry up and tell me, you knew why you didn't tell me earlier, hurry up and tell me, tell me..."

"Haha, if I tell you, you can't spread it."

"This is news from the village chief. If it gets out..."

"I won't tell you, I won't spread it, please tell me now..."

“In fact, Xu Junmo was a child abducted by human traffickers.

After he was abducted, he suffered a lot and refused to speak.

Therefore, the officials didn't know how old he was or where he lived.

The government was unable to raise the child, so they entrusted the child to Zhou to raise.

I heard that the government gives her several hundred taels of silver in support every year."

"Good God, what a poor child!"

"Oh my god, that's a lot of money!"

"Oh my god, I can raise a child even if I'm given so much money. I guarantee I'll raise him better than she does..."

……

Villagers are like this. A few people can make up a melodrama for you in no time.

This sometimes suspenseful, sometimes romantic, sometimes tragic script is performed every day in the village.

They include men and women, young and old, and they are not afraid of wind or rain and never get tired of doing it.

The Ning family can't control what other people say.

They either stayed in their respective rooms or sat in the yard, waiting anxiously.

Waiting for the birth of new life.

Hearing Chunniang's crying and screaming in the room, several people clenched their hands together.

My palms were sweaty.

Several midwives came together and asked people to bring things into the house.

Zhou Yue and Qian were busy in the kitchen, boiling water, cooking food, and making medicine...

People who have something to do are happier than those who just sit there, at least they are not as miserable.

"Oh no, Madam Zhou, it seems, it seems to be the foot..."

The oldest midwife suddenly lifted the door curtain, ran out and grabbed Zhou Yue's hand.

Zhou Yue was shocked. The more he feared something, the more it would happen.

There were no cesarean sections in this era, and an abnormal fetal position could be fatal.

"Quick, go call the doctor."

The midwife saw Zhou Yue in a daze and thought she was frightened and urged her immediately.

Because it was her first child, Chunniang had seizures in the morning and did not give birth until the afternoon.

The doctors who were waiting in the yard saw that there was nothing for them to do, so they ate lunch and returned to their own yards.

Nominally they came to attend the medical forum convened by Dr. Yang, but all the expenses were provided by the Ning family.

Therefore, Dr. Yang asked them to come here to look after the pregnant woman, and they had no objection.

But they were not willing to just sit in this yard and wait for the wind.

Zhou Yue didn't force it. It was early winter, and it was a bit cold sitting in the yard without a fire pit.

At this time, the delivery room, which was the east annex where Yuan Mo and Chun Niang originally lived, was warm as spring.

More than ten days ago, Qian had stuffed the stove in the fire wall with wheat straw and leaves.

The original east annex was a single room. In order to build a fire wall, they built a hollow wall in the middle of the room.

This wall is built with red bricks, covered with yellow mud on the outside, and then coated with white lime on the surface.

There is a hole under the fire wall, which is the stove of the fire wall.

The mouth of the chamber is in the half room outside the kang. In order to facilitate the filling of firewood, the mouth of the chamber is slightly raised.

In order to facilitate the removal of ashes, a pit was dug under the stove mouth.

The pit is covered with some removable wooden slats.

Normally, after the fire wall is lit, the stove mouth is blocked with a stone slab.

There should not be too much air inside to prevent the firewood from burning too quickly.

Let the firewood burn slowly and let the heat slowly transfer into the fire wall.

Then the wall of fire heats up the room.

In order to make it convenient to get warm water, a small water jug ​​was placed next to the stove, just like the water jug ​​in the kitchen.

In this way, when she washes the child's butt, wipes her hands and face, or when Chunniang wants to wash herself, there is ready-made warm water.

Even if you are taking care of a baby after childbirth, you don’t have to use cold water to wash diapers and rings.