Volume 1: The Source of Life Chapter 1: New Life
The catkins are flying, and the elm money is blooming.
Blue Planet, New Era, the first day of March, is a dull and quiet day.
Early in the morning, a group of people hurried by on the road of the town of District 8, and they hugged a pregnant woman with a big belly to the town hospital.
At nine o'clock, the baby was born, just six pounds.
At 10:32, the mother Chen Qiaoqiao died of massive hemorrhage.
One life and one death, one joy and one sorrow.
There is a river in the east of the town in the eighth district, and there is a row of big banyan trees by the river, and there is always a mother-in-law who likes to gossip here after lunch.
In this era, the planting industry was developed, and the crops grown in the nutrient solution had high yields and did not occupy land, but they were tasteless. The land in the countryside is covered with abandoned factories, and there are all kinds of chicken farms, pig farms, and cattle farms......
People's living supplies are provided by the base, and they don't have to worry about eating and drinking, and other things need to be purchased with contribution points to the base.
The older the person, the more nothing to do. Every day, those who are idle and panicked go to this big banyan tree to gather, Zhang's family, and Li's family talk shortly.
"Have you heard that the daughter-in-law of the Meng family is coincidental and gave birth."
It was the neighbor of the Meng family, Aunt Qiu Xiang, who said this. Her house and Meng's house are separated by the courtyard wall, and they can't hide it from her.
Opposite her was the most gossipy mother-in-law in the town, and when she heard this, she immediately came over, covered her mouth and whispered: "I know, the child was born, but Qiaoqiao died, and this child is afraid that it is not lucky." ”
Aunt Meng Sanzi, a relative of the Meng family, snorted angrily: "Phew...... The older I get, the more I live back. Running here to chew the root of the tongue, Qiaoqiao died of heavy bleeding, what is the matter with the child? ”
Everyone saw that Aunt Meng San was really angry, and they stopped talking about it, and they all pulled the topic to other things.
Aunt Meng San saw that everyone no longer mentioned the matter of having a child by chance, and it was not easy to get angry in her heart, so she only turned her head to look at the still damp ground outside the town and couldn't help sighing.
Blue Star's life is getting more and more absurd, mutated animals, strange children, and species that disappear frequently.
It was a particularly long spring, with heavy rains in March. The rain was mixed with hail and snowflakes, and some vegetable crops were planted in the corners of the houses outside the town, and they finally grew green and edible, but they were almost destroyed by a heavy rain.
The book says that spring rain is as expensive as oil, but now people can't understand where spring rain is expensive, and at most it moistens the air.
After a breakfast, the rain had just fallen in the morning, and only the slightly damp soil in the field was left to tell people that the hail and snow in May were real.
In the past few years, I don't know what went wrong, either a major drought or a major flood. I've heard that it's strange to have children in some places, but no one has ever seen how strange it is.
Someone saw Grandpa Meng holding the tiger, and Grandma Meng holding an infant baby in her hand, and walked home from the town hospital together, busy with her mouth and eyes, reminding the gossiping person to pay attention.
"Grandma Meng, your daughter-in-law gave birth to a granddaughter?"
Grandma Meng's expression froze, and she slowed down for a moment before she replied dryly: "Yes, yes." ”
"That's really a great event, Yan Xuan is now a child and a child."
This is indeed a great joy in this age of increasing scarcity of newborns.
Grandma Meng had to laugh awkwardly and deal with a few words, and she didn't talk much to the neighbors, just hugged her granddaughter and hurried home. And Lao Meng didn't stop holding his grandson's hand, nodded and smiled and walked over.
Everyone saw that the old couple was in a trance, there was no joy on their faces, and they didn't care. We all know that her family gave birth to a granddaughter, but her daughter-in-law died. Although it is said that both children are complete, it is not a happy event.
Grandma Meng put down her granddaughter, saw that she was asleep, sighed, and turned to tidy up the vegetables picked back from the mountains in the morning.
Busy with her daughter-in-law giving birth, the family hasn't eaten yet.
The basket contained small greens and shallots, which the old man planted in a cave in the back mountain. The old man has a stubborn temper, not to say that the grains and vegetables grown in the nutrient solution should be eaten less.
They are already old, so they eat and eat, but the children are still young, and they still have to eat less if they can eat the contents of the nutrient solution.
Life is getting more and more difficult, not poor, but it is difficult to eat green and pollution-free. Heavy metal pollution was everywhere, and the air was filled with a strong smell of insecticidal water.
The factories that were abandoned outside the town were the beginning of the pollution in the past.
The daughter-in-law was sent back to the countryside as soon as she became pregnant, and the son said that she was pregnant, and that there were some fresh vegetables in the fields in the back mountains, which were different from the vegetables grown in the nutritious water in the city.
The old man also raised four chickens in the back mountain, and guaranteed to lay at least two eggs every day, one daughter-in-law and one tiger.
The countryside is fine, and you can barely see the real green, but in the city, there is smoke and dust everywhere, and the tall buildings can't see the blue sky.
He said that it was for the good of his daughter-in-law and the child in her belly, and Grandma Meng sighed again when she thought of her gentle and kind daughter-in-law.
In this world, people are good at being bullied, and it is her son who bullies her daughter-in-law, what can she do? I could only try to be nice to my daughter-in-law, but I didn't expect to bleed heavily after all.
The son also said that everyone speculated that the end times were coming.
Grandma Meng still saw others write about the end of the world in the novel, and what kind of mess was written in it. The more strange it was, the more unbelieving she became. What is the last day of the world, is it possible that people can fly away without eating or drinking water?
As soon as Grandma Meng finished cooking, she heard the cry of a baby coming from the house.
Lao Meng pushed the window on the balcony on the second floor to look out, and when he saw Grandma Meng walking out, he hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up and come up to make milk powder, my granddaughter is hungry and crying." ”
Grandma Meng hurriedly took off her apron and walked into the house, instructing Meng Qinghu as she walked: "Huzi, you go to the door to play and see if your father has come back." ”
Meng Qinghu obediently squatted down at the gate of the courtyard, and the family's big black dog Anu was sitting beside him. A man and a dog are at the intersection of the town, where there is a suspension bridge that the townspeople must pass to enter and exit.
In order to protect against the ferocious beasts, all highways into the town had a wide, deep trench. The town's drawbridge had to be lowered to allow people and vehicles to enter and exit.
In the house, Grandma Meng washed her hands and nagged that Grandpa Meng knew how to farm and grow vegetables, and he wouldn't even brew milk powder for his granddaughter.
As soon as the bottle was placed in the baby's mouth, she couldn't wait to swallow it. Grandma Meng held her granddaughter in one hand and the bottle in the other and said, "Look at our granddaughter's hunger, don't worry, be careful of choking." ”
Soon the thirty milliliters of milk were drunk by the little baby, and she burped with satisfaction, tilted her head and fell asleep peacefully.
Grandma Meng sat on the edge of the shaking bed, looking at the sleeping baby, and tears poured down: "Old Meng, you say, what should I do with this child." ”
The daughter-in-law was still lying in the morgue of the hospital, and the granddaughter was just born in the morning, so she hurriedly completed the formalities and was carried back.
Everyone thought that the Meng family was because their daughter-in-law died, and the baby might as well be taken care of at home, and there were still some points left.
I don't say it, I mutter in my heart. I usually look at Lao Meng and his wife are good, and they are not that stingy people, why did they suddenly search so much this time, and they were reluctant to give up that point.
Is it bad for such a young child to be observed in the hospital for two days? I was born in the morning, and I was hugged back at noon.
Only Lao Meng and Grandma Meng knew in their hearts that their granddaughter was different from a normal baby.
It wouldn't be a good thing if she stayed in the hospital for a long time.
Meng Tingxuan rushed back from the city, and it was already nearly noon the next day. If he didn't need to come back to sign and send his daughter-in-law to the cemetery, he wouldn't even want to go home.
The daughter-in-law was his classmate, who lost his parents and had no siblings when he was a teenager and grew up in an orphanage at the base.
There are many such children in various towns, and most of them are parents who died during the mission as part of the Self-Defense Forces.
In the past few years since the two got married, they first gave birth to Meng Qinghu, and then entered the city, which can be regarded as tender and sweet for a while.
Who knew that within two years of Meng Yanxuan going to the city, he would have another woman, and he would have to divorce him. The daughter-in-law refused to divorce and secretly conceived a child again.
In this century, children are wealth. Pregnant women have the right to be unfair, at least when the daughter-in-law is pregnant until the child is three years old, Meng Yanxuan doesn't want to divorce.
Meng Yanxuan had no choice but to send her to the countryside to give birth, saying that the air in the countryside was good and there were more green foods. But I didn't think about how the hospital in the town could compare with the hospital in the city.
Anyway, there is no one in her mother's family, so no one cares about these things.
The daughter-in-law died, and the old Meng and Lao blamed their son for being ruthless, but they were glad that their granddaughter was not born in the city. Such a child, born in the city, they can't keep it.
The daughter-in-law was buried in the cemetery, and Meng Yanxuan was in a hurry to go back, and he didn't even look at his own daughter.
Holding Meng Qinghu's hand, Grandma Meng's face was always calm, and her heart kept circling the words of the doctor when she delivered her granddaughter: "What should you do with this child!" ”
Those children who are very strange from birth are all going to be picked up by the base. Now, whether you have value or not, you will only know if you study it.
And what Lao Meng and Grandma Meng are most afraid of is that their granddaughter will be taken to do research, no matter how different she is, it is also their granddaughter.
"Xuan, what do you think this kid should do?"
Meng Tingxuan is tall and handsome. With his face, not to mention in the countryside, even in the city where he works, he is considered a top-notch person, which is why he cheated in marriage within two years of going to the city.
This is not an era of looking at faces, but for Meng Tingxuan, this face is quite useful.
"Mom, what do you guys think?"
Grandma Meng looked at her son in embarrassment: "Your father and I mean that we want to raise it secretly, we live in the back mountain, and others can't find out." ”
"Back mountain, back mountain, back mountain can have town safety?"
As soon as Meng Yanxuan heard his mother say that he was going to Houshan, he was anxious, and he didn't know why his parents were different from other parents. Obviously, his father Lao Meng had saved a lot of points in the Self-Defense Forces, but he was reluctant to use them for him, so he had to build the back mountain.
Is the construction of the back mountain more important than the future of his son?
Grandma Meng was moved to tears by her son: "Then what should I do, is it really sent to the base, she is still so young." ”
Meng Yanxuan was noncommittal, according to his idea, it would be good for everyone to send the child directly to the base.
The child went just to draw blood for research to see if there were any special abilities in the body. The base pays for the funds and child support, and the child is sent back if there is no problem.
If the child has any special abilities and can enter the secret training camp of the base, everyone knows that the people who come out of the secret training camp are the core members of the base.