Chapter 12 of the Year of Tranquility

There was a family at the back of Ya's rented house, and they were the first in that row of houses. The family has four daughters, the youngest daughter is two or three years old, the husband works as a security guard, and the wife takes care of the children at home, and sells beer door-to-door in her spare time.

Ya's husband has a lot of fellow villagers who rent houses here, and after work, they often get together to play mahjong and drink, drink less liquor, and most of them drink beer. At the end of a meal, empty beer bottles were thrown all over the floor.

The villagers took turns to have dinners, and once it was Ya's turn, the big guys were drinking and drinking, and suddenly they heard someone knocking on the door. A thirty-five or sixteen-year-old woman with short broken hair came in and said, "I live in room 301, don't go so far to buy wine in the future, I have beer and liquor in the house, you can take care of my business." I have a lot of children, and they are all young, and I can't go to class......", Ya's husband nodded again and again and said, "Yes, yes, no problem." ”

Since then, Ya's fellow villagers have been buying beer at the Shaanxi woman's house, in fact, the store is not far away, but thinking that the Shaanxi woman's family is really not easy to live, they fixed to her house to buy it. Anyway, the price is about the same, not to mention that it is indeed much more convenient to take the wine home after walking a few steps.

Once at noon, Ya came home from work and heard a woman's quarrel when she walked to the alley. Ya took a closer look, it was a Shaanxi woman, only to see her angrily said to the neighbor who came to persuade her: "I don't get my salary back, and I go out to prostitute ......", Shaanxi woman is a talkative person, and his husband is a man of few words. Ya Xiang: Their four daughters have to go to school and eat, how much money can they earn by relying on men as security guards? The woman sells beer at home, and the customers are mainly tenants who live in this area, and they don't make much money. How do men dare to spend their little salary? Ya was really a little skeptical of what the Shaanxi woman said.

Family planning in their hometown was strictly investigated, and they came to Beijing to give birth secretly. There are already four daughters, will they still give birth? Listening to the angry chatter of Shaanxi women, a sentence came to Ya's mind: "Poor couples mourn everything".

Compared with these people who give birth to one daughter after another and raise them independently, there are also some people who give away their daughters. Ya Niang's family has such a family. They were laid-off workers in small towns, and when they were out of work, they went to the city and opened a small restaurant. Their eldest daughters are about to enter high school, and the couple has not given up their desire to have a son. They have already given birth to four daughters, and except for the eldest daughter, who stayed with her, the rest were given away early.

The woman in the family would not get pregnant after giving birth to several babies in a row, and then the couple panicked and began to look for doctors everywhere for treatment. A few years later, they finally became pregnant again, and this time they didn't dare to think about whether it was a son or a daughter, so they just gave birth to a daughter as a companion.

Jaya later heard that they had another daughter. They are all in their forties, and when women are busy working in the restaurant with big bellies, many customers, especially female customers, will say in a low voice: "It's so old, it's time to be a grandmother, and you're still alive!" ”

Women look much older than men, and the pressure of having a son seems to oppress her a lot. Anxiety, hope, disappointment...... These feelings haunted her in the dark night, urging her during the day. The bitter smile, the involuntary frowning, inadvertently carved traces of vicissitudes on her face, and aging quietly unveiled. Mental stress is the main reason why a woman ages rapidly.

Nor are all women who have repeatedly become pregnant in order to have a son. There is a sugar, tobacco and liquor non-staple food store in the vegetable market near Yaniang's house, the business is very good, the boss is a talent, the proprietress is tall and fair-skinned, and fashionably dressed. They have a daughter who is in the fifth grade of primary school. Ya once thought: The boss and his wife only have one daughter, the business is good, there are no worries lingering in their hearts, and they are refreshed and young.

One day, when she passed by there, she saw a little boy in her arms, and asked, "Who are you?" Ya thought she would say that she would say "nephew" or "wai yi", but she actually said with a spring breeze on her face: "It's my son." Ya said enviously, "You are so blessed that you have both children and daughters!" "Ya later heard that the proprietress had miscarriage several times. When she was two or three months pregnant, she went for an ultrasound, and found out that it was a girl and lost it until her son arrived.

Whether in the countryside or in the city, deep down people still want to have both children and daughters, especially to have a son to feel satisfied. Of course, there are also people who want to have a beautiful little princess, just like the usual scenes on TV: the male protagonist warmly said to the pregnant female protagonist: "I hope you will give me a daughter who is as well-behaved and beautiful as you." A happy smile immediately appeared on the heroine's face.

When her daughter was four years old, she thought of giving her a younger brother or sister to keep her companion. She didn't deliberately want to have a boy or a girl, in short, in Ya's consciousness, whether it was a man or a woman, it was best to have two children. When I was young, I was a playmate, and when I grew up, I was a relative and friend who accompanied me through thick and thin. Especially after a hundred years of parents, as relatives, they support each other to face the wind and rain, so as not to end up with "zero Ding Yang sighing zero Ding".

When Yahuai's son was more than two months old, he went to a clinic near his home to see him for a cold, and a woman said to the doctor, "You have a really accurate pulse!" You say I'm pregnant with a son, and it's a son! The male doctor smiled and said, "Ninety percent accurate." Ya was immediately attracted by their conversation, so she sat down in front of the doctor and said, "Doctor Wang, you can also give me the number and pulse." Dr. Wang then put his hand on Ya's wrist and closed his eyes to feel it, and after a long time, he let go of his hand and said to Ya, "Ninety percent of this pulse is a girl." ”

Ya suddenly felt a sense of loss, it turned out that there was still a glimmer of hope in her heart, although it was slim, but it was a kind of hope after all. Like a kite flying far away, the line finally broke free and flew away, and the kite flyer could only look at the gray shadow that merged into the clouds in the vast sky and sighed.

Ya still smiled and said to the doctor: "Thank you, Dr. Wang, I feel that it is a girl, and it is not easy for my family to have a boy." ”

Dr. Wang said, "You can't say the same thing, if you give birth to a girl, you will give birth to a boy." ”

Ya Xiaoxiao didn't answer again, thinking: Yes, like the people in the past, give birth to him ten or eight tens, and there will always be a day when a son is ushered in. But that was the old days, and the people of today who were willing to take such a big risk. In the past, people ate chaff and ate vegetables in tattered clothes and hats, and no one made fun of anyone, but now? Isn't it an outlier in the eyes of people who dare to have so many children? With such a stressful life now, and a family planning policy, who wants to take such a risk?!

Ya has heard so far, the most daughters are six, in addition to the next-door neighbor Hong is sister who met in Beijing, Ya also met one in her hometown.

It was the middle of a summer day, so hot that the clouds had slipped away, the cicadas were chirping weakly, and the trees were so bright that the sun was shining so hard that their heads hung and stood still. Ya rode a bicycle to rush home, who knew that the more anxious she was, the more troublesome she encountered, Ya's bicycle tire was punctured.

Ya had no choice but to push the car to a bicycle repair stall on the side of the road, and the mechanic was an aunt. Next to the car repair stall was a watermelon seller, and Ya walked over and bought a small watermelon, which was a dime or two more expensive than the watermelon sold elsewhere.

At noon, Ya was hungry and thirsty, and felt a fire in her throat. Ya bought the watermelon and asked the boss to cut it into several pieces and eat it on the small table that was set up. The fire in his throat and eyes was suppressed, and a cool and refreshing feeling came over his body. Ya looked at the owner of the watermelon seller, a man in his forties, of medium height, with a dark face. I saw a little girl more than a year old in his arms, and two or three little girls fiddling with toys beside him.

Ya asked the proprietress who repaired the car curiously: "Are these little girls his children?" ”

The proprietress nodded and said, "Yes, all of them, six daughters!" As she spoke, she stretched out her finger and gestured to the shape of a six.

Ya was a little stunned and said, "Six! I have the ability to feed so many children! ”

"The eldest daughter is 18 years old and works in a supermarket, giving them 1,500 yuan a month, and the supermarket salary is 1,800 yuan." The proprietress said.

"What does the child's mother do?" Ya asked.

"If you don't do anything, you'll be responsible for having children." The proprietress said.

Soon, a woman in her forties came, and several little girls pounced on her mother and called for her, and the woman's expression was a little wooden, she took the little girl in her husband's arms, and fed her water with a bottle.

Ya lamented that the couple who sold watermelons had great energy and could support so many children by selling fruits. I often hear people say to people with two children, "Now that the policy is not tight, I want another one." ”

"No, I can't feed it, these two are enough for people, from primary school to college, hundreds of thousands, not to mention the cost of food and clothing...... "You can't ask for more children's bitter water at any time."

Ya has been raising the baby with peace of mind since the pulse, and no longer cares whether she is pregnant with a boy or a girl. When the month was young, Ya went to help in her sister's shop in the provincial capital, and her mother was also there. Ya usually has constipation, and it is even worse when she is pregnant. So my mother often bought bananas for Ya to eat, and Ya was no longer troubled by constipation.

In May and June, Ya's belly grew like a balloon, and she showed signs of staggering when she walked. On that day in July, Ya decided to go back, and she still hasn't had a prenatal check-up.

Back in her hometown, Ya went to the hospital to get a prenatal check-up and checked it every week. Ya walked to the hospital, about an hour or two back and forth.

Now Ya can finally concentrate on having a safe baby and no longer think about making money. Along the way, Ya comfortably looked at the bustling traffic on the road, admired the wonderful dance of the white clouds in the blue sky, listened to the cheerful chirping of the bird branches, Ya's heart was like a gentle wind gently sweeping over the calm water, and life would be comfortable if the years were always so quiet.

Ya first went for a prenatal checkup, and the doctor said that Ya's blood pressure was low, and he prescribed medicine to replenish qi and blood for half a month. Ya usually takes medicine and always remembers to take it, and if she can't remember, she doesn't take it, so Ya's house has a lot of half-bottles of medicine. Now for the sake of the fetus, Ya honestly eats three times a day, and she doesn't fall once. Half a month later, Ya went for a follow-up check, and her blood pressure was normal.

After her blood pressure was normal, she often felt shortness of breath, as if she couldn't breathe in one breath. The doctor said that there was a lack of oxygen, so Ya went to the hospital every day to get oxygen. A week later, Ya felt that the shortness of breath was much less and stopped going.

During this period, my mother came back once. She persuaded Ya to do a B-ultrasound to see if it was male or female. Ya didn't think about it and said, "Don't look at it, Dr. Wang gave me a pulse and said that 90% of them are girls." ”

My mother said, "That's not necessarily accurate. ”

"A lot of people say it's accurate."

"The B-ultrasound is really accurate, and the pulse is not accurate."

"I'm too lazy to look at it, it must be a girl, it's not easy for our family to have a boy."

"It's just that you don't look at men and women, you should go to the B-ultrasound and see how the fetus develops."

Ya felt that her mother's words made sense, and decided to take the time to take a B-ultrasound with her mother.