4. Strange things
Ah Hao slowly opened his eyes, took out a small bottle with trembling hands, motioned Geng Qiu to open it, poured out a pill, and fed it to him, after taking the medicine, Geng Qiu didn't dare to let her fall asleep, for fear that she would not be able to fall asleep. hurriedly talked to her indiscriminately, but Ah Hao ordered: "Bury this placenta, then go boil hot water, and cook something for me to eat." ”
"Are you alright?" Geng Qiu didn't dare to leave, and said in disbelief.
"It's going to be fine, it's just that if you give birth to a child, eat something, and rest well, you'll be fine." Ah Hao said tiredly, took a piece of cloth and poured the medicinal powder, thinking that it was to be padded under him. But he didn't have the strength to move, Geng Qiu had to help, this gang didn't matter, but he almost stunned him. Where is this woman, obviously there is a little Ding Ding. It was simply beyond the physiological range he knew, completely incredible.
But the situation was urgent, Geng Qiu didn't have time to think about it, and he didn't dare to stop his hand, so he shifted Ah Hao's position, left the place full of blood, put the two mothers and children together, covered them tightly, and began to clean up the bloody placenta again, ready to bury it. Since there was no shovel, he found the pit dug by the kitchen knife, but fortunately it was wetter by the river, and dug a deep pit, and the placenta was packed in a clay pot with a lid and buried in the pit.
After Geng Qiu finished handling the placenta, he took advantage of the time to boil hot water, he packed up Ah Hao's things, Ah Hao's luggage had four large baskets, clothes, food, pots and bowls, and the ground was full of things. It's just that the place to live is not very good, this is a small cave, four baskets occupy one-third of the position, and the place where the two mothers and children sleep occupies more than half, and there is a small open space at the entrance of the cave.
It was clear that Ah Hao had made a fire, and there were unburned hay and branches at the entrance of the cave, a simple stove made of a few stones, and a dirty iron pot on which food had been boiled, and a small copper kettle for boiling water and an empty bowl on the ground next to it.
Geng Qiu lit the fire with a lighter, began to boil water, and then took the iron pot to the river to scrub, after the water boiled, he poured it directly into his thermos cup, first took the boiling water and scalded the cleaned thermos cup, and then put the remaining boiling water in the thermos cup.
Geng Qiu thought about it, and directly boiled five poached eggs and added a big spoon of brown sugar. He remembered that the women in their hometown had to eat more poached eggs in sugar water during confinement, and it happened that he had a basket of eggs and a packet of brown sugar. Although this is not a woman, the person clearly needs to eat. What's more, he hasn't looked carefully at the food that Ah Hao brought, and he doesn't know what it is?
Geng Qiu had just finished boiling the eggs, and the child cried and woke up the mother who was sleeping soundly. Ah Hao shouted in panic: "Brother Qiu, Brother Qiu." An expression of fear that he would not be there. Geng Qiu responded, hurriedly brought the sugar water eggs, and picked up the child by the way to look at it, the child was estimated to be hungry, he fed a little sugar water, and the child really drank it, and drank a small half bowl before falling asleep again. The remaining sugar water eggs were just fed to his mother.
The new mother had no strength, but she ate quickly, and most importantly, he seemed to feel extra happy and relieved that Geng Qiu was by his side, but he was tired and hungry, and fell asleep after eating.
Geng Qiu, who had nothing to do, began to think crankily, to be honest, he really wanted to peel off Ah Hao's clothes and carefully study his physiological structure. But he wasn't a doctor or a scientist, and he really couldn't figure it out, so he had to interrupt his cranky thoughts and start sorting out Ah Hao's things.
He found that the things that Ah Hao brought were really not ordinary, and the food had to be at least more than 200 catties. Including about 50 catties of white rice, 30 catties of white flour, 50 catties of brown rice, some sorghum, coarse noodles, millet, soybeans and other grains. There are also a few small jars of brown sugar, coarse salt, pickle gnocchi, etc. Two large chunks of fatty bacon wrapped in lotus leaves. And that's just food.
The utensils are: an iron pot and a matching spatula, a copper kettle, a large clay pot, a slightly smaller soup clay pot, five large coarse porcelain bowls, a bamboo chopsticks, two small copper spoons, a large wooden spoon, two gourd scoops, two black soap-like soaps, two strange and simple toothbrushes and some toiletries, two washbasin-sized wooden basins, it is obvious that the smaller one is new, probably for children. In addition, two hats woven of fine bamboo are placed on the back basket.
There were more types of clothing, obviously two people's men's clothes, a thick long cotton robe, two thin cotton jackets, four pairs of trousers, four large trousers, four pairs of cloth shoes, four sets of single clothes, he tried to compare, and the larger ones were about the same size as him and his body, so he unceremoniously took a cotton jacket and put it on.
There are also a lot of children's clothes, a small quilt of different colors, a plain quilt, several sets of clothes of different sizes, a small embroidered cloak, and a roll of cotton cloth of primary color. There are also some small pieces of cloth, some new and some old, which are presumably diapers. There was also a small cloth bag containing a sewing kit and a few scraps of cloth and a pair of iron scissors.
These clothes, without exception, are made of cotton cloth, as if they were hand-spun, which is not very good. But almost all of them are new. For children, underwear, the fabric is better and softer. And all the clothes are handmade, there is no zipper on it, a copper buckle, all of which are made of cloth buckles, most of the tops are oblique, and the pants have to be tied with a belt to not fall off, if he hadn't seen his grandparents wear such clothes when he was a child, he wouldn't know how to wear these clothes. This qiē shows that none of these things are modern products.
In the end, Geng Qiu also found a bow, several sharp arrows, and an axe on the ground. After reading the things, Geng Qiu's mood became even worse, some of these ancient things had been seen on TV, and he couldn't think of a place in China that was so old and old-fashioned. However, this qiē was not as important as filling his stomach, and the sun was setting, and his stomach began to remind him to make dinner.
Geng Qiu filled a bowl of rice and began to cook rice, which was put into a clay pot to cook. He cut a few more slices of salted meat and fried cabbage. Fortunately, when he was a child, he lived in the countryside and was used to burning stoves, and it didn't take much time to cook a meal, just one dish at a time.
The smell of the food made the sleeping mother open her eyes in a daze, and whispered: Brother Qiu, Brother Qiu. ”
"Wake up, let's have some food." Geng Qiu served a bowl of thick porridge, because the first time he used a clay pot to cook rice, he couldn't hold the ratio of water and rice, and the cooked rice became like this. He brought a large bowl of cabbage again, Ah Hao looked at the cabbage, his eyes lit up, and he said happily: "Finally there is a vegetable to eat." ”
Ah Hao leaned on the back basket, put on his jacket and started to eat, this time he didn't let Geng Qiu feed, maybe after resting, the body came back a little. Geng Qiu found that his amount of rice was really not small, and after eating a bowl and a half of thick porridge, most of the fried cabbage went into his stomach. However, Geng Qiu also ate a lot himself. The two are comparable.
As soon as the two finished eating, the child also cried, this time it must be milk, Ah Hao said directly: "Brother Qiu, feed the child some rice soup." You can't just give him sugar water. ”
"Don't you breastfeed?" Geng Qiu asked rhetorically. It's so difficult to raise such a young child just by drinking rice soup. When he was a child, he saw children in the village who were raised by rice soup, but the children raised in that way were relatively weak.
"Who feeds you?" Ah Hao asked puzzled.
Geng Qiuyan stared at his chest a few times, and the man said with some annoyance: "I'm not a woman, I don't have milk." ”
Geng Qiu couldn't say anything, anyway, until now he subconsciously forgot that this was not a real woman, although he gave birth to a child.
However, Geng Qiu thought that the milk powder he brought was originally going to be sent to the welfare home, which would come in handy. It's better for a baby to drink milk powder than just to drink rice soup, besides, there is no rice soup now, and when he was cooking just now, there was no rice soup at all.
So he soaked half a bowl of milk powder in warm boiled water to feed the child, the child really ate fragrantly, not only urinated after eating, but also pulled a bunch of black poop, Geng Qiu has no experience with children, this mother obviously only uses her mouth to say, no actual experience, and others are still weak, and there is no body. So Geng Qiu had to take care of the children in a hurry.
Geng Qiu was so busy that he was sweating profusely, and finally wrapped the child again, the child was a baby boy, but he was not sure about the child's gender now. Put the child in the mother's quilt and let them both sleep. Geng Qiu took advantage of the fact that it was not yet dark, went to the river to wash, cleaned up the pots and bowls, picked up a pile of firewood, looked at the child's soiled quilt diapers, and looked at himself, the only laborer, took a deep breath, pinched it with two fingers to wash it, and found a place to dry.