Chapter 27: Hardship

The birth of our third daughter, Menghua, has increased our burden. The parents are old and frail, and gradually they cannot take care of themselves.

Now I'm busy with Lotus, I get up early every day, I have to take care of my parents and my daughter. I can't leave the family in the field, and I can't take care of my family because of the busy work of the brigade.

Due to overwork, Lotus fell ill, the tea and rice were tasteless, the whole body was weak, and she sweated profusely at night, and sometimes she was out of breath. I took injections and medicine for three days, but I didn't get better, and Menghua still had to breastfeed, which really stumped me this time. Hurriedly invited her mother-in-law to help, Zhenzhen and Chen Han were ignorant, and the two children made trouble when they met, fighting each other for one thing, fighting and making trouble.

My mother-in-law came to the house for a few days, and her head exploded. But seeing that his daughter is getting thinner and thinner, it hurts in his eyes and heart.

With my mother-in-law at home to take care of, I sent Lotus to the county hospital for treatment.

In the hospital, Dr. Wang diagnosed Lianhua and found that her condition was serious, so he invited Dean Li to come for consultation.

Through the consultation, Dean Li determined that it was a loss of qi and yin, anemia and hypoglycemia caused by overwork, poor rest, poor diet, and frequent depression. Leave the hospital for observation.

Lotus was arranged in 5 beds in the ward, and nurse Liu Ruhua was in charge.

The nurse, aged 30, is a top student who graduated from a nursing school. Married to He Lin, who is also a doctor in the county hospital, the two have a son, 4 years old, smart, lively and lovely.

Such as flowers, dignified posture, elegant conversation, serious work, thoughtful and enthusiastic service, often with a smile on the face, needles have always been, to the point, and lotus is very close to the lotus.

Every time she is on duty, she talks and laughs with Lotus, and she has a deep relationship like a blind date sister.

Under the kind care of Ruhua, the lotus flower is open-minded, the spirit is greatly lifted, the fatigue and troubles are forgotten, and the qi and blood are soon smooth, and the blood sugar reaches the standard. The face is flushed with a rosy glow. Gradually, Lianhua recovered from her condition and was about to be discharged from the hospital, but Ruhua bought two sets of clothes for Menghua and sent them, saying that the three flowers were together, which was also fate.

And the two are like-minded, like siblings, Ruhua prefers dream flowers, and decided to add another family affection to friendship...... The two became godsisters.

Lotus was escorted back home by Ruhua's arrangement, accompanied by her mother-in-law and Lotus, had lunch at my house, and took a ride back to the hospital.

At home, Lotus is no longer depressed and troubled, but instead becomes lively and cheerful, talking and laughing.

When I think about Ruhua, I go to the county hospital to see Ruhua, and by the way, I invite her to have a meal.

came and went, the two of them were like glue, and no one could forget anyone.

Because Lotus was in a happy mood, but was very happy and sad, Menghua had just eaten nine months of milk, and then there was no milk to eat. The constant crying of hunger made Lotus very puzzled.

The first two daughters ate until they were two or three years old, so why didn't they have enough milk when they had dreams?

One night when I was snoring, a red light appeared in front of my eyes, and then a baby boy with pink carving appeared in his wife's arms, but it was Nanke's dream to wake up with a smile.

On this day, Lotus went to find Ruhua, and told Menghua about the lack of milk, and told Ruhua about the dream again, and Ruhua half-jokingly asked Lotus if she was pregnant again, right?

After lunch, Ruhua asked Lotus to find Dr. Tang to check on him, because Dr. Tang is proficient in traditional Chinese medicine, has a very accurate pulse, and is 5 to 6 months pregnant, and can identify whether it is a man or a woman through the pulse beating.

Dr. Tang was off duty that day, so Ruhua found Dr. Tang's house and asked him to take the pulse of his sister. Through the pulse, Dr. Tang diagnosed that Lotus was a happy pulse and had been pregnant for nearly two months.

Lotus never dreamed that she was pregnant, because the dream flower was too small, and her heart was uncertain.

When I said goodbye to Ruhua and returned home, the sullen Lotus told me about the diagnosis of Dr. Tang in the hospital, and I was also surprised.

At night, the husband and wife tossed and turned, forgetting the hardships of the day and falling into deep thought......

The wife reminded that the three daughters were too young and flowed away.

I was also helpless at the time, thinking that my wife was right, if she had another life, not only would Menghua be aggrieved, but also the burden on the whole family.

But we have to be anxious, and we are afraid that we will lose our son, and we can't make up our minds after thinking about it...

I rolled over and got out of bed, found a copper coin, and decided: take it all and resign myself to fate.

Throw the copper coin into the sky, and when it hits the ground, the result you want...

The copper coin landed, bowed down to look, the "word" faced upward, it was exactly the result I wanted in my mind, repeated three times, it was the same look, and I was very happy.

When Lotus saw me throwing copper coins repeatedly, she asked me what the result was? But Lotus said: Since we believe in the destiny of heaven, it is better for us to calculate a hexagram tomorrow, and if we wish, we will give birth to this child.

The next day, after breakfast, I handed my daughter over to her mother's care, took the lotus flower and rode to the Guandi Temple ten miles away...

Guandi Temple, the village is not big, there are more than 100 people, although it is inconspicuous, but there is a well-known "Yu Banxian" in the village.

Half-fairy blind, nearly 60 years old, married a blind man, gave birth to two boys and three girls, the children have started a family, the husband and wife depend on each other, rely on fortune-telling to live, only count gossip every day, so it is also called "in gossip". It is Mr. Ling, who is famous far and wide. Many people come here, and some even drive hundreds of miles to tell fortunes, sometimes catching up with the crowd, and even a few days can not be ranked in the hexagram position.

Lotus and I hurried to the Guandi Temple, and when we arrived at the house of the half-immortal, we saw that the half-immortal was telling fortunes, so we didn't dare to disturb, so we had to stand outside the door and wait.

The wife of the half-immortal heard that someone was coming to tell her fortune, and came to us by touching the door frame, and asked us to line up first, and wait for tomorrow morning, and said: Today is beyond the gossip, and I will not take the hexagram again.

We had no choice but to go home.

The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, my wife and I rushed to Guandimiao Village, ten miles away, early, but there were already people who had been complimenting for a long time, according to Mr. said: sincerity is spirituality, so there are many people who work tirelessly and wait at his door.

I lined up the third hexagram, a hexagram down for about half an hour, when I met a person who pinched the "eight" character and looked at the year, only one hexagram a day.

After the first two hexagrams, the half-immortal drank tea and rested for a while, I respectfully handed over the cigarette, lit it for the half-immortal, and the half-immortal smoked it for us to calculate our fortunes.

The first hexagram told my fortune, reported the eight characters of my birthday, and the half-immortal asked me to check the official fortune or the wealth?

I said, "Count how many sons I have hit?"

The half-immortal rolled his eyes, pinched his index finger and said something in his mouth, and said endlessly for a while, and then said:

If you have children, you have to report your wife's eight characters.

The wife reported the eight characters of her birthday, and the half-fairy and the ugly son pinched her fingers and counted it, paused for a while and said:

Your daughter is half a table smaller, as for the son, hit 3 sons, don't you know you, you can't avoid family planning?

After a pause, he asked his wife to draw lots, and the half-immortal took the lottery and touched it, laughed and said: Guanyin Bodhisattva has sent you a son, and he will invite me to be a guest in the future...

He told his wife about his fate again, and the husband and wife were overjoyed after hearing it, paid the hexagram money, and returned home with a thousand thanks.

On the day of delivery, Lotus was sent to the obstetrics and gynecology department of the county hospital, and under the arrangement of her sister Liu Ruhua, Zhao Huijun, director of the obstetrics and gynecology department, was invited to help.

Hui Jun, four or five years old, graceful figure, plain white, a pair of gold-wire glasses on the bridge of her nose, and speaks in the voice of a warbler. The angel in white and the flower family are very close. With the help of Ruhua and Zhao Huijun, my son was soon born in the world.

I sent joy candy in the hospital, invited Huijun and Ruhua and others, and returned home after being discharged from the hospital seven days later, and the neighbors came to congratulate me, and my mother liked it even more. When I met people, I said that my life was good, and I added another eldest grandson, so that they could come to my house to eat candy.

My father's eyebrows danced with joy, and he smiled when he saw people.

A few days later, please come to the film screening to show your joy.

The birth of his son was celebrated by relatives and friends, and for a time the crowd was full of joy.

Half a month later, the parents named their grandson: Mengzhen!