On August 23, 1943, Lin Huiya gave birth to her third child.

The child is born ten days before the due date.

On the morning of the 23rd, when I was having breakfast, the alarm suddenly sounded, and I saw a big red lantern slowly rising from afar, "Eat quickly, queue up to enter the air-raid shelter after eating!" Shen Mengxi calmly ordered.

So, the children quickly ate the porridge in the bowl in a few bites and entered the air-raid shelter in an orderly manner.

Lin Huiya was a little nervous, and when she went out, she tripped over the threshold under her feet, and stumbled and held on to the door frame. Although he didn't fall, he was scared out of a cold sweat.

When the bombing was over for more than an hour and the alarm sounded again, Lin Huiya, who walked out of the bomb shelter, had blood on her pants, and a child saw the blood stains and cried, "Blood! Bleeding! I'm going to die! ”

Mrs. Kang was so angry that she stepped forward and slapped the child, "Shut up!" Shut up if you can't speak! ”

The child covered his mouth, tears crackling down, and aggrievedly hid behind the other children.

Shen Mengxi couldn't take care of the child, and supported Lin Huiya with Sun Shengyi.

"It's okay, I know it in my heart, it's just that I was frightened and red in the morning, and it's still early to die! Mrs. Kang should not scold the child, she must have seen her relatives bleeding to death, so she was so alarmed. Lin Huiya took her husband's coat, draped it on her body, covered the bloodstains, and slowly walked to her room.

At this time, it is not easy to go to the hospital again, although the near place has not been bombed, but it is not necessary to go farther, and the situation of the hospital is also uncertain.

With Lin Huiya's current situation, it is unlikely that she will go to the hospital, even if Liang Chengru is not injured in the lumbar spine, that thin physique is estimated to be unable to hold his wife. As soon as Shen Mengxi's eyes fell on the two guards, Lin Huiya hurriedly took her hand, "Jiayu, you can deliver the baby for me." ”

"You trust me?"

"I trust you." Lin Huiya said with a slight smile.

Shen Mengxi also smiled, "Then I'll ask the kitchen to cook something for you to eat, and when it hurts, you can't eat." ”

The sun went from the east to the middle of the heavens and then to the west, and all the children sat quietly in the courtyard, and no one made any noise. There was a soft moan in the room, Liang Cheng was pacing back and forth in the courtyard like an ant in a hot pot, Bingbing took Ah Ping's hand and stood outside the door of his mother's delivery room, serious and worried.

Although Lin Huiya is thin, but her body is well adjusted during this time, the child is not big, and she is in labor, and in the evening, when the western sky is red, the Chaoyang orphanage finally sounded the loud cry of the baby, and there was an uproar outside the door.

Liang Chengru actually thanked the western red glow again and again.

Shen Mengxi cut the umbilical cord for the child, scrubbed it clean, and waited for the placenta to be delivered, and shouted 5 catties and 5 taels outside at the door, the mother and child are safe!

There was a cheer outside, a group of children were jumping in the yard, Lin Huiya smiled and whispered a thank you, and fell asleep.

This child looks full, looks more like his mother, and all the indicators are very ideal, Shen Mengxi looked at the results of his own care, very pleased, opened his two little hands, touched his index finger lightly to his palm, and the child held it tightly.

The child drank a little warm water and slept quietly next to his mother, and when the mother and son slept soundly, Liang Chengru had already named the child Dunmin, Liang Dunmin.

Others don't know, but Shen Mengxi knows that after today's bombing, the Chongqing bombing is over, with the continuous counteroffensive of the US army, the Japanese army suffered a heavy blow in the Pacific theater, and had to transfer a large number of troops from the Chinese battlefield, and Japanese planes were also requisitioned into the Pacific theater, so the five-and-a-half-year Chongqing bombing was over.

In the past five and a half years, Chongqing has been bombed by more than 9,000 planes on 218 occasions. There is a bombing almost every ten days or so. The people of Chongqing have never seen a single Japanese, but they have endured 11,500 bombs.

When Lin Huiya asked Shen Mengxi to give the child a nickname, she thought that the child was born at this point in time, so she said, "It's good to call Aji, I hope this child brings good signs!" ”

Sure enough, after Aggie was born, the alarm didn't go off again, and everyone said that this kid was really a lucky star!

The school-age children in the orphanage all went to the nearby elementary school, and without the roar of artillery fire, it seemed to be much more stable.

Sun Shengyi was eager to move back to her home, but later dismissed the idea in shame, because at this time, inflation was so severe that prices had skyrocketed to a jaw-dropping level, and she couldn't find a suitable job, and even if she did, she wouldn't be able to support her family of eight. I had to stay in the orphanage and try to help with things.

Shen Mengxi persuaded her to live in peace, and the orphanage is now inseparable from the help of their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Li Ruoyun's eldest son is fourteen years old, not tall, due to his mother's illness, he is very sensible, helps his grandmother do things, and also takes the initiative to take charge of the dormitory hygiene, which makes Mrs. Kang feel relieved and sad.

Due to the years of anti-Japanese war, the lack of materials, coupled with the difficulty of transportation, prices gradually rose. At the same time, the Nationalist government repeatedly printed fiat currency to cover the huge fiscal deficit, which exacerbated inflation.

Officers were paid according to their numbers, and non-existent and dead soldiers were paid privately, so that in the end the highest authorities did not even know when and where exactly how many troops were available.

The budget is 5 million posts, and the actual number of people who eat military rations is 7.2 million, but if the reorganization is verified, it is good to have 3 million. The Nationalist Government repeatedly tried to cut military spending and verify the number of soldiers, but in the end, due to various resistances, it could not be implemented, and inflation and empty pay intensified.

When I first arrived in Chongqing, salt was 3 dimes a catty, but in 1944, it was already 32 yuan a catty; A box of panacea was a dime before the war, and it was 140 yuan after the war. When the citizens go out to buy food, they have to carry a large leather bag to hold the money.

Now that a haircut costs 60 yuan, and the three batteries of a flashlight cost 400 yuan, Shen Mengxi went out to ask the price, and then quietly took out the food from the Wuling space, and then found someone to pick it back to the orphanage. Peanuts are 80 yuan a catty, candy is 160 yuan a catty, and she took out two catties and prepared to give the children sweet mouths.

As for haircuts, her skills have been perfected, the girl's short ear-length hair, the boy's small flat head, are all operated by Shen Mengxi herself, she has an electric fader with calipers, and she pushes one in a few buzzes, and the children also think it is fun, of course, there are also a few little guys who protect their heads, crying and mourning every day when they shave their heads.

When it comes to shaving heads, we have to say that the children in the orphanage wash their hair and take a bath. The water is paid to hire people to pick it up, it can't be wasted, a basin of water should be washed at least five heads, the washed water is poured into the bucket, kept to mop the floor, as for the bath, it does not exist, just a bath.

Shen Mengxi pays great attention to the hygiene of the children, the orphanage is disinfected regularly, the children wash their hair and bathe regularly, the clothes are clean, and none of the children have lice.

In the past few years, Shen Mengxi feels that the muscles in her legs are much stronger, and even the shoes on her feet are one size bigger.

Lin Huiya has not gone to work for half a year, and although Liang Chengru's salary has doubled, prices have risen nearly 100 times.

Wages for other occupations have risen more sharply, with only a limited increase in the salaries of civil servants and teachers. In the early stage, most of the Liang couple's savings were used to build an orphanage, and now the three children's education expenses have also increased significantly, and Lin Huiya is very distressed.

Zhang Jiaxuan's salary is not much, but it is obvious that he has a way to make money, and Zhang Jiasen's family lives with him, and the expenses are not small. Shen Mengxi has never heard him complain, she knows that there must be a way to accumulate wealth, she does not criticize her brother for being honest, in this world, it is not easy to live well. Shen Mengxi knew that in the next five years, prices would rise even higher.

Shen Mengxi said to the outside world that he had sold his dowry to supplement the orphanage, and Lin Huiya also sold some calligraphy and paintings.

The children were sensible, knew the efforts of the two aunts, and stood in a row in the courtyard, bowing in unison to express their gratitude.

During this period, Hongzhi came to her again with a red face and handed her a receipt from the last time, which was stamped with the red seal of the base. He Hongzhi looked at the situation in the orphanage, some period Ai Ai, Shen Mengxi knew his intention, and didn't say much, and gave him a bank safe key, Hongzhi was a little embarrassed, and he didn't know whether to reach out and take it for a while.

"It's used to resist the Japanese, and it's not for you, take it!" Shen Mengxi said lightly.

He Hongzhi took the key, stood upright, saluted a military salute, and left with tears.

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