After two more snowfalls, Chu Ying still borrowed oxen and rollers to compact the snow, and when the snow melted in spring, Chu Ying turned a large push of compost piled at the back of the house to the ground one by one, giving the compost more air, and waiting for the beginning of spring to fertilize the wasteland.

"Ye Qiu, Ye Qiu, Yuhe fell and was probably going to give birth, my mother asked me to ask you to help." Ye Qiu looked at Wang Qiyuan's anxious appearance and quickly wiped his hand on the apron to wash his clothes, and then followed, although he had not helped others to produce, but Wang Qiyuan was a man, and Aunt Wang would definitely not be busy alone, and she had to go to catch the ducks on the shelves.

"I'm going to help too." Chu Ying hurriedly put down the brush, and accidentally knocked over the ink when she stood up and walked out, Chu Ying put on her shoes and followed behind Ye Qiu.

"What are you going to do as a little kid, go home." When he arrived at Wang Qiyuan's house, Ye Qiu blocked Chu Ying at the door, closed the door, and hung her outside, this child was full of blood when he gave birth, and it was not good to scare Chu Ying.

Chu Ying paced back and forth outside the door, waited for a long time and didn't see the baby's cry, knocked on the door a few times, Wang Qiyuan didn't let him in, and had no choice but to go home, waiting for almost noon when Ye Qiu hadn't come back, Chu Ying went to Wang Qiyuan's house and knocked on the door, only to listen to Yuhe's heart-rending cry, thinking that it hadn't been born yet, so she could only go back to make some slightly thicker porridge, and bring a bowl of pickles to Wang Qiyuan's house with a clay pot.

"I'm here to deliver food, Brother Wang, open the door, I won't go in to see, just wait in the outer hall, you haven't eaten, I've done a lot, let's eat some cushions first." Chu Ying knocked for a long time, and finally saw Wang Jiyuan with a lot of charcoal on his face.

"Don't go in, just stay here, I still have to boil water." Wang Jiyuan's body was also a little gray with soot.

"Aunt Wang, let's eat some first, has Yuhe eaten it? If you don't eat, how can you have the strength to have a child......" Chu Ying stood outside Bai Yuhe's door and roared at the top of her voice.

After a while, Ye Qiu drank a few mouthfuls of porridge, and continued to enter the house without pickles, but turned around and entered the house with a bowl of porridge.

Chu Ying listened to Bai Yuhe's non-stop shouting, and put the clay pot on the edge of the stove to warm it up a little, waiting for Wang Yuyuan to go to Bai Yuhe's door to deliver water, Chu Ying looked at the rice jar, there was only a quarter of the rice in it, and she didn't see what she had given before, and it was estimated that she had finished eating.

Chu Ying slowly walked home with her head covered, it was not easy to give birth to a child in ancient times, the medical conditions were poor, and she couldn't have a caesarean section, it was still quite dangerous to give birth to a child, so she could only hold it out, and Chu Ying was afraid when she remembered Bai Yuhe's cry just now.

Chu Ying looked at how much surplus grain there was in the granary in the attic, before they first ground chestnuts into flour to make cakes to eat, now there are only 3 bags of chestnuts, and rice can last for three months at most, it should be impossible to eat wheat harvest, but Chu Ying still took a sack of rice and a sack of chestnuts, and carried it to Wang Yuyuan's house with a bamboo pole.

"Chu Ying, what are you doing here?" Wang Qiyuan sat on the wooden pier and watched Chu Ying pour the rice into the rice jar.

"The child needs more food after birth, and I still have some surplus, so you can use it first." Chu Ying put away the sack and went outside to take a look at the situation in Bai Yuhe's room.

The door suddenly opened, and a basin of water splashed over, Ye Qiu was stunned for a moment and ran over to see if Chu Ying was wet, "Didn't you let you go home?" What's going on here, hurry home and change your clothes, don't freeze. ”

Chu Ying looked at Ye Qiu's brows, pushed herself towards the door, and then entered the house and closed the door. Wang Qiyuan took a face towel and wiped the water on Chu Ying's body slightly, "Go back and put on dry clothes, it's still very cold this spring, Ye Qiu will go home when he's done, go back quickly, don't freeze." ”

Chu Ying's nose was sour, and she blinked her eyes a few times and walked out of the door, although she understood that Ye Qiu was busy, her tone and attitude were not very good, and she shouldn't be dangling over there, but she still felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, in her heart Ye Qiu has always been a woman who can't speak loudly and gently.

Chu Ying wiped the ink that fell on the ground, and continued to practice calligraphy, because he was not very familiar with this font before, he had been practicing according to the calligraphy, this winter was cold, in addition to practicing calligraphy every day, now he can practice the same as on this calligraphy.

Chu Ying turned over the ink strips on the shelf outside the door and continued to dry, Chu Ying used almost a box of ink strips, Chu Ying picked up a small wooden block and put it on the table to engrave, the sack next to it was full of carved small wooden blocks, these days you can take the sack to be used as firewood, the original Chu Ying carved a waste one, but now there are one or two good ones out of ten.

"I gave birth, I finally gave birth, and I was in a hurry, is it enough to eat so much at noon? I'll get a few more cookies. Ye Qiu continued to wash the clothes that had not been washed just now, except for the underwear this winter, the outer clothes had not been washed, although they did not move around, they were still a little dirty.

"How many were born? Is it male or female? Chu Ying put on her shoes and was about to look at the baby that was born.

"One, a male doll, but her belly is so big, it's not big." Chu Ying felt that something was wrong when she heard it, Bai Yuhe's belly should be at least a twin, Bai Yuhe was not very fat even if she had a child, and her limbs were still relatively thin, so such a big belly must not have been eaten too much.

"It's supposed to be two, I'll take a look." When Chu Ying walked to the door of Wang Yuyuan's house, she could still hear Bai Yuhe's faint shout.

"Why isn't this belly small, it's still so big, there won't be any children in here, Yuhe, you can exert some more strength." Chu Ying heard Aunt Wang shouting like this, so she immediately ran back and called Ye Qiu.

Chu Ying saw the child who was being held by Wang Qiyuan, looking really ugly, her face wrinkled together like a little old man, and she didn't want to take a second look.

"What's the matter, the newborn children are like this, my mother said that I was ugly when I was a child." Because Bai Yuhe was still looking to see if there was a second child, Wang Qiyuan slowly fed the rice soup to the child, and the child stopped for a while and didn't cry much.

"How can there be, you use some strength, this one foot has come out, what can I do, Aunt Wang, what should I do with this foot......" Ye Qiu originally thought that he could rest for a while, but he didn't think that this side was over yet.

"There's no way, Yuhe, hold on for a while, and this doll will come out soon." Chu Ying was so anxious outside the door that she stomped her feet, looking at Wang Jiyuan, who was looking at the doll for a while.

Chu Ying walked to the kitchen to help boil water, this little doll doesn't care about herself, and it's so ugly, she doesn't want to hug it.

"Mother, I can't do it, I really can't do it, ah......" Chu Ying threw firewood into the stove, listening to the voice that couldn't be shouted, Chu Ying decided not to give birth to a baby, this is simply a ghost door to close away.

"Yuhe, Yuhe, don't faint, wake up, what can I do, what should I do about this big and small." Aunt Wang ran out and hugged Wang Jiyuan helplessly.

Ye Qiu chased after him and helped Aunt Wang, "Aunt Wang, this time has been so long, I'm afraid this child can't be saved, let's keep the adult." Ye Qiu handed Aunt Wang a wooden stick and nodded.