Chapter 44: The Grudge
Aunt Wang's birth situation was even worse than everyone expected.
At the beginning, Bai Lu reported that Aunt Wang had signs of labor but it was difficult to find a stable mother, Zhou Manyun agreed to invite the stable woman who was originally intended for her mother's use, so she put the matter aside and concentrated on taking care of her mother. Aunt Wang, who she had never seen in her previous life, was all she could do.
But the two stable women who had already received the deposit left their burdens halfway and ran away!
Du Xuanshuang arranged to be on duty at night, but how did a few rough men know that the two mothers-in-law had not finished their work and slipped away, they only remembered that no one was allowed to enter the courtyard at night, and said goodbye loudly to the two old women. When the people in the inner courtyard received the news and chased them out, they could no longer see the mother-in-law.
There are a lot of things at night, and the Zhou family, who is handing over the canopy, really has no heart to send someone to chase the two midwives, and it is important to take care of the home.
The two mothers-in-law were scared away by Caixia, the maid next to Aunt Wang, before preparing for the delivery.
When Zhou Manyun came after the Taoist priest, Caixia, who was wearing black hair, was holding Gao's leg with tears in her eyes and crying bitterly, and the melted rouge powder was painted on Gao's blue skirt with deep and shallow traces.
"Second grandmother, the slave really didn't mean it. It's just that when the two mothers-in-law asked Aunt Wang if she had a manorrhea, the slave said that she had leaked her mouth......"
Not on purpose? Said you missed your mouth?
Zhou Manyun slowly walked to the side of the second uncle, Gao, and looked at Caixia who was kneeling on the ground, her eyes full of disgust.
If it was really my mother who encountered such a bad thing in the event of a dangerous situation, she should have strangled the maid in front of her to death!
According to Caixia's cry and the evidence of another mother-in-law on the side who wanted to get rid of the crime, Caixia did tell the truth bluntly in front of the midwife who had no idea about what the Zhou family had encountered in the past few days.
The Zhou family courtyard that suffered bad luck, the people who died one after another, the corpses that were pulled away by truckloads of cars, and the smell of blood in the yard that could not be washed away......
"Second grandmother, I really don't do anything about the old slave, the old slave just keeps listening to the side and doesn't dare to squeak. It was Sister Caixia who told the two old men that the difficulties suffered by the Zhou family were all caused by the death of Brother Wen, who was born to Aunt Wang, and that Brother Wen died unrestlessly, and she wanted to harm the Zhou family...... She also said that Aunt Wang's baby came so early, and it was a resentful ghost to be reincarnated to ......."
"Shut up!" , Seeing that the second uncle was stunned and listened to no movement, Zhou Manyun was anxious, and stepped forward and kicked on the shoulder of a mother-in-law who was shaking hard. She can't continue to say this, and if she continues to say it, it will cause more trouble.
But as soon as the mother-in-law here closed her mouth, Caixia's howl sounded again, "It's not me!" That's what everyone is saying in private! ”
What do you mean by all this being passed on? Zhou Manyun regretted a little that he should have taken Mother Zhu out. With Bai Lu and Xiaoman by her side, Zhu's mother injured her arm, but she still had the strength to kick off the jaws of the two.
Mingxia signaled to her stunned grandmother, and Gao called for the people around her to take Caixia down in a trance, while the other mother-in-law was sent into the delivery room to help.
Man Yun reached out and reached Gao's hand, Gao subconsciously held it tightly, and Man Yun immediately felt that his skin was cold.
In her previous life, the second aunt once said that she was most afraid of seeing people give birth, and when she encountered this kind of thing, she would be so frightened that she would hide in the nunnery and recite the scriptures, and she would not come out for a long time. It's just that I didn't expect this problem to be so stubborn at this time. Zhou Manyun stretched out another hand and wrapped Gao's hand in her palm.
The blue-faced Gao was really afraid.
Gao had been vaguely hearing Caixia's confession, because she had long been frightened by the noise in the delivery room. She had been pregnant three times, but the first two babies were either stillborn or born without zhanzhu, and after giving birth to Zhou Shen, she also suffered a great loss due to postpartum hemorrhage and could not get pregnant again. The birth of a child, the death of a mother, and the production of half a foot on the ghost gate will always remind her of the painful memories of the past.
Aunt Wang was originally the aunt of the big house, but now her housemother Xie is scared sick, and the other concubines are also upside down, and the subordinates have asked Mrs. Zhou to say nothing, and the Gao family, who is temporarily in charge of the inner courtyard, has to come and keep an eye on it.
"Second uncle, it's okay! Yun'er is with you! Zhou Manyun shook Gao's hand lightly and took a deep breath. The plum blossoms outside Luojing City, the melodious bells, and the children's thick fetal hair...... It was dangling in front of her eyes.
"Hmm!" , Gao squatted down and hugged Man Yun tightly in his arms.
Without a stable mother-in-law, only the Taoist priest who pricked Aunt Wang's needle and two or three mothers-in-law who have production experience and are a little old are left, but after all, these mothers-in-law are not serious in their business, and from time to time they can hear them shouting and half-sounding, which makes the people waiting outside even more anxious.
"Second grandma, the Taoist chief said, maybe she won't be able to live! Which one do you want? Through the curtain, a mother-in-law loudly went directly to the outside to ask for instructions.
"Small!" , Gao tightened his arms around Man Yun and replied without hesitation.
Zhou Manyun sighed lightly, and wrapped his hands around Gao's neck. Gao's intuitive choice, she can understand, as a wife, no one would think that she would give up the heirs of the family to save the life of a cheap concubine. It's just that she wants to cry, she wants to cry......
"Get out! You guys...... Get out! With the roar of false words, several mothers-in-law ran out of the door in a gloomy manner.
Facing the Gao clan who let go of Manyun and stood up, the mothers-in-law were stunned, unable to tell how ugly they were, and one of them still had crimson five-finger marks on his face.
The voice of the Taoist priest floated out of the delivery room again, "Be careful!" ”
"It's coming!" , With a loud voice, Zhou Manyun's small body crapped into the door curtain......
"Sister Yun!" , Gao Shi, who was chasing after him, had a pale face, resisted the urge to fall to the ground, and said to the Taoist priest tremblingly, "I, I...... Come on! ”
Zhou Manyun shouted at Mingxia to help the second aunt out, and at the same time stuffed a small fetal foot back into the birth canal little by little. Just now, he yelled a few mothers-in-law away, precisely because one of the fetus's little feet suddenly came out, and the mother-in-law made him fan people directly.
Mingxia, who listened to the greeting and came in, also turned white all of a sudden, hugged Gao and walked straight out, and the door curtain fell behind her, making her scalp tingle in an instant, and she almost screamed. The six girls are really ...... What a wickedness!
"If you're not afraid, just reach in a little more and help her turn over, right?" , concentrating on the nonsense of inserting needles on several acupuncture points, as if unintentionally whispered.
Zhou Manyun gritted his teeth fiercely......
On the seventh daughter's day in early July, the Zhou family added a little daughter at three o'clock in the child's house, a premature baby who had just arrived at four pounds, and her right foot was a little deformed.
"It's all because that woman is so strong! But the Taoist chief said that as long as you massage it every day, you will grow up and get better! The early morning sun shone obliquely into the house, and Zhou Manyun, who was extremely energetic, lay on the side of Du's bed and read it in pieces.
"Mother! Look at her, isn't she beautiful? Zhou Manyun pointed to a small swaddling baby resting on Du's pillow and asked, Du's smiled lightly and closed his eyes.
How nice! Newborn children, and waking mothers. Man Yun chuckled and kissed Du Shi on the cheek.
"Big ...... Come on, don't care! Mother Zhu, whose face was still swollen, complained with difficulty, causing everyone sitting in the room to daxiao for a while.
After laughing enough, Bai Lu sighed lightly and said, "Such an older child, can you stand still." She was born to Aunt Wang. Aunt Wang died, died of postpartum hemorrhage, and the baby girl who was picked up by Zhou Manyun is now lying asleep next to Du's side, because of Mrs. Wang's sake, I think that Xie Shi, who has ignored the child since it was born, will not take her away.
"That's right, I've got a kitten!" , Zhou Manyun's eyebrows and eyes smiled into a crescent moon. This little cousin who didn't have in her previous life was brought to the world by herself, and the moment she heard the first cry of the world, she made up her mind to raise this little sister!
The little girl was born early because she was small, and her crying was very light and thin, according to Zhu's mother's cheap name and easy to feed, Manyun called her "kitten".
"Sister Yun? Are you here to raise? Bai Lu rolled her eyes unceremoniously, "If it weren't for the second brother who walked half the city to find a kind person who was willing to share the milk, would it be possible?" Under the night dew, enduring the white eyes, Du Xuanshuang, who wanted a small cup of milk, had to explain the hard work.
Zhou Manyun was a little scared, and asked softly, "The nurse should be able to find it, right?" ”
"It's easy to find out of the city!"
Bai Lu's answer immediately plunged the room into an awkward silence.
In Fengjin City, the nurse is not easy to find, early in the morning Du Xuanshuang and they brought back the news from outside, the Zhou family was haunted by evil ghosts and caused disasters The saying has spread all over Fengjin County, and there is even a saying that the county order Lou Lun is also because he helped the Zhou family, so he suffered a catastrophe.
The frustration of Zhou Manyun and the others did not last long, and not long after Chenshi, Xing Laosi, who went out of the city to Puji Temple before dawn, brought back good news.
In the vicinity of Puji Temple, he had directly bought a small farm yard, and he also negotiated with the elders of the temple and borrowed a courtyard in the temple. How to live, Ren Zhou's family chose.
Because they wanted to move out of the yard where many people had died early, the Zhou family's luggage had already been packed up at night. Although Mrs. Zhou insisted for a while, saying that she would let her go to Pingzhou to find a house again, when Guizhi, who was in charge of the kitchen, reported that the local helper woman quit her job and was given a cold reception when she went to the street to buy, she agreed to the proposal to move smoothly.
"We're leaving!" , Zhou Manyun's mood was even more excited, she turned around, returned to the edge of the bed, and whispered to the sleeping kitten more news, "And your nurse is also waiting for you in that place called Baoshu Village!" ”
Bai Lu, who came in from outside, looked at Man Yun and couldn't help laughing.
When Man Yun glared at her, she instead said the news she had just gotten from her husband, because of what Man Yun had done these days, Du Xuanshuang had deliberately explained that she had something to report directly to Sister Yun.
"Just now, Xue Dong's family, who originally rented our yard, came. Originally, we all thought that he was here to urge for the house, but it turned out to be ......", Bai Lu deliberately sold Guanzi.
"As a result, he gave this yard to our family?"
"Sister! How do you know? Bai Lu's eyes widened suddenly, and he said: "This time he made a special trip from Pingzhou to Fengjin to deliver the house, and fortunately, it was a coincidence, otherwise we would have been outside the city by the time we arrived at noon." ”
It's understandable that the ghost courtyard that is full of curses and grudges that caused people's lives and seems to be full of curses, but it can be sent out immediately, and this proprietor is also generous.
Zhou Manyun smiled slightly and asked casually, "What does this person do?" ”
"This businessman surnamed Xue, named Xue Jinjun, walks the river to transport and sell rice and grain, and is one of the top rice merchants in Pingzhou Prefecture, and I heard that several neighboring states and counties have his industry."
"Xue Jinjun!" , Zhou Manyun sighed, the corners of his mouth that were originally smiling straight, and asked, "Does his family make satin cloth?" ”
"Well, I haven't heard of this! Do you want me to inquire about ......?"
"No need!" Manyun hurriedly shook his hand.
Maybe it's just that the name is a little similar, in his previous life, Xue Sujun, who forced himself to have nowhere to hide in the Gao family, his father was also called Xue Jinjun, but at that time, I heard that the Xue family lived in Jiangnan and operated cloth and satin, and Xue Sujun's name was also obtained because of his ancestral business.
In this life, she doesn't want to have any more intersections with those injustices in her previous life, so she doesn't have to ask.