On the morning of the cold winter wax moon, the sky in Liuyang County, Tanzhou is full of dark clouds, and a light rain falls from time to time, and the rain is sandwiched with starry snow, the temperature gradually drops, and the beasts in the mountains and forests are so frozen that they hide in their nests and dare not come out.

The long curvy rural dirt roads are bustling with people, and villagers wearing robes and oil umbrellas are happily busy entering Taihe Town to buy items needed for the New Year.

Li Laoshi, who was burly and thick-eyed and big-eyed, wore a cyan robe and a thick coat woven of palm leaves, pushed a wheelbarrow full of items from the back door of Taiqingguan and quietly came out, walked ten miles on the official road, entered Taihe Town after three forks, met a few familiar villagers, said hello and hurried home.

Li Laoshi's name Li Changsheng, a native of Qujia Village, is twenty years old this year, and now he is a layman in Taiqingguan, a famous family within a radius of several hundred miles.

At the age of ten, he entered Taiqingguan to do chores and do rough work, including food and housing, and only got dozens of copper plates per month.

Later, he learned to read and count with his cousin (wife), and was promoted to a house in Taiqingguan, including food and lodging, one or two dollars of silver per month, and a lot of food during the New Year's holidays.

He has been introverted since he was a child, honest and responsible, never lies and harms others, and he still maintains his true colors after staying in the place where Taiqingguan is a place where people gather for several years, and the Taoist priests give him the nickname "Li Laoshi", and they don't bully him.

The sleet turned into light snow, and the snow was scattered, and before the hour the ground fell a layer of white, and the weather was slightly cold, and the dirt road was too much to walk, and the snow became frozen, slippery and hard.

Li Laoshi had learned martial arts from the Taoist priest of the Taoist temple, and he had the strength to easily push the wheelbarrow carrying nearly 200 catties of goods forward, and finally set foot on the winding and rugged dirt road in Qujia Village before noon.

"Brother!"

"Daddy!"

Two young children dressed in green clothes and about the same height ran out of the village screaming excitedly.

The slightly taller, round-faced, thick-eyed, tiger-eyed, red-lipped toddler is called Li Yunqing, the son of Li Laoshi, who is six years old this year.

The young boy with a slightly low melon seed face and pink eyes and pink lips is called Li Quai, who is Li Laoshi's younger brother and is five years old this year.

The uncle and nephew are only one year apart, and the nephew is one year older than the uncle.

Li Laoshi pushed the wheelbarrow in his hand without stopping, and walked forward with bigger steps, thinking of the two closest women in the world in the family, he asked his younger brother with a smile: "How are your mother and your sister-in-law?" ”

Li Quai's two calves ran with the wheelbarrow, and replied urgently: "Mother is very good." My sister-in-law's belly is so big, it looks like a big wooden basin is stuffed. ”

Li Yunqing laughed and naughtily jumped into the wheelbarrow, beckoning Li Quzhi to come and sit too.

Li Quzhi looked at the high board of the wheelbarrow, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid of falling, so I won't sit." ”

Li Laoshi's home is at the end of the village, and the wheelbarrow has traveled all the way through more than 40 households before he arrives.

Qu waited at home all morning, and when he heard the call of Li Quai's uncle and nephew, he hurriedly went out of the hall to greet him.

Qu Shi Qu Zhu is Li Laoshi's mother, Chinese New Year's Eve is 8 years old this year, tall and tall, slightly dark skin, round face and big eyes, coiled in a simple bun, wearing a navy blue long coat and trousers, looking healthy and energetic.

The He family also had to go out with him, but was stopped by the Qu family and stayed in the hall where the charcoal fire was warm.

He Liyi is a cousin of Li Laoshi, three years older than him, and is twenty-three years old this year.

At the end of the year, there were a lot of pilgrims in Taiqingguan, and he was very busy with the room, Li Laoshi had not gone home for a month, looking at the hall with the door closed, and said in a slightly excited voice: "Mother, it's snowing, you come into the house quickly, I'll unload the things in the miscellaneous room and go over." ”

He estimated the days, the cousin was about to give birth in the next few days, and he was going to be a father again, and he was very excited.

Qu looked at the cart full of items covered with oiled paper, and asked with a smile: "What did the view give you this year?" ”

Li Laoshi pushed the wheelbarrow to the door of the miscellaneous room, turned around and said: "Mother, in addition to last year's food and incense candles, Guanli also gave ten catties of white flour, five catties of dried dates, four catties of sesame oil, and three catties of brown sugar. ”

He is a northerner and likes to eat pasta.

He deliberately asked the housekeeper for white noodles.

"That's worth five taels of silver." Qu's smile was even stronger, and he quickly beat the snow off his second son and eldest grandson, and said to the eldest son: "I'll unload the things, you take off your clothes and go to see Sister Yi." ”

This daughter-in-law of hers was picked up by her husband in the north for business, and her origin is unknown, but she is beautiful, gentle and polite, can read and hyphenate, and has a good embroidery hand, throwing the cousins and girls in the village out of a few miles, and she is a few points better than the young lady of the rich and noble family in the county.

She is kind by nature, even if she doesn't have her husband's advice to "treat her daughter-in-law as out", she will be good to her daughter-in-law.

During her daughter-in-law's pregnancy, her son was not at home, so she understood that it was not easy for her daughter-in-law, so she took care of all the work, so that her daughter-in-law could raise the baby with peace of mind.

Li Laoshi's heart had already flown into the hall, but he refused to let Qu suffer, and unloaded all the things of the wheelbarrow into the miscellaneous room and pushed the wheelbarrow in. The wheelbarrow is in the view, and it has to be returned.

He Shi looked at his husband's face red from ice and snow, and called his son softly: "You go and serve some hot ginger soup for your father to drink." ”

She is taller than Qu's, with pink skin, long face and almond eyes, red lips and white teeth, beautiful appearance, long hair like ink, combing a simple partial bun, wearing only a silverfish-shaped peach hairpin, wearing a dark green wide cotton robe, and a belly twice as large as that of ordinary pregnant women in the same period, and it is difficult to hide her innate elegant temperament.

Li Laoshi's eyes couldn't turn when he fell on He's face, he only knew that he was smiling, and when he drank the hot ginger soup, he inadvertently glanced down at He's frighteningly big belly, and his heart jumped.

When He was pregnant with Li Yunqing, his belly was much smaller than this, and he screamed in pain all night during childbirth.

Now that He's belly is so big, what will happen when he gives birth?

There was no smile on his face, and he didn't have a good appetite for lunch, so he hurriedly returned to Taiqingguan in the afternoon, knelt down and kowtowed three times to the master of the temple and asked for a handwritten letter, and then walked thirty miles to invite the master of Taimingguan and his medical skills, Fengdaogu, to his home.

Two days later, in the middle of the night, He's lower body was red and began to have labor pains.

Zifeng Daogu took an apprentice female Daogu and stayed by He's side and gave her birth an hour later.

When the first morning light pierced the night and illuminated the earth, a loud cry of a baby was heard from the delivery room.

After a while, an extremely loud and even deafening baby's cry came out, directly covering the cry of the baby in front, and Qu Shi was so happy that he went straight to thank the Taoist gods in all directions, and muttered in his mouth: "His father, daughter-in-law has added two healthy grandchildren to our family." ”

Zifeng Daogu was in a hurry, and couldn't help but explain loudly: "Female donor, your daughter-in-law gave birth to not twins, but dragon and phoenix fetuses. ”

Qu was stunned for a moment, the two babies cried loudly, especially the second cry could lift the tile, which one was the little girl. reacted and smiled even more, raised his eyebrows and said: "His father, his daughter-in-law gave birth to an auspicious dragon and phoenix fetus." Great, now our grandchildren and granddaughters are complete. ”

Zifeng Daogu smiled and said: "Female donor, your second grandson is four catties and seven taels, and your little granddaughter is four catties and two taels." ”

Qu Shi heard that his grandchildren's weight was not light, and the last bit of worry disappeared, and he said vigorously: "Thank you Xiangu!" ”

"My sister-in-law gave birth to a little niece for me."

"I have younger siblings!"

Li Quai's uncle and nephew, who slept in the westernmost bedroom, had long been woken up by the baby's crying, and when they heard the good news, they stood on the wooden bed and jumped up and shouted excitedly.

Qu hurriedly brought chicken soup to He, who was so tired that he collapsed and only needed to breathe, and sent Li Quai's sick uncle and nephew to report the good news to his brother who lived in the same village.

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There are no updates on Saturdays and Sundays, so three chapters will be released in a row today!