Chunying hurriedly put on a jacket and rolled out of bed. Light the oil lamp, open the door and look out, the other three rooms in the courtyard were alarmed, Lu Yougui walked out of the door with his clothes on, and listened carefully, Lu's mother asked behind him: "Is the family crying on the opposite door?" ”

There was a dog barking outside, and then someone hurriedly ran over, as if he was going to the opposite door, and knocked on the door and barked: "Zhang's family, Zhang's family, are you okay?" But it was a woman's voice.

The crying suddenly stopped, and before she knew what was said, the woman banged on the door a few times, followed by the creak of the door opening and closing. The room seemed to be quiet, except for a few cries occasionally, vaguely sounding like a cry of pain.

Chunying stood at the door for a while, feeling that the wind was blowing cold, so she hurriedly retracted back into the house and closed the door, trembling back into the bed. Shi'er muttered a few words of "noisy death" and fell asleep again.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, and the woman who had just spoken shouted, "Open the door." Open the door! Ask grandparents for help! The courtyard was alarmed again.

Chunying couldn't sleep, so she had to get up again and hurriedly get dressed, step on her shoes and go out to see. I saw Lu Yougui open the courtyard door, and a woman in her forties said a blessing to him, and said anxiously: "I'm really sorry to disturb in the middle of the night, the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family is about to give birth, her man is not at home, except for our two families nearby, everyone else is far away, can you borrow a stove to boil some hot water?" Borrow some scissors, white cloth, basins or something......"

Before she could finish speaking, Lu Yougui interrupted her: "What did you say?" Doesn't her family have this? ”

"There is only one stove in her house, the pot is too small to burn, and other things were originally planned to be prepared, but the day is still early, I never thought that I would be born now!"

Chunying heard that it was such an urgent matter, so she hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Can you ask the doctor to stabilize the mother?" She hasn't been in pain for long, hasn't she? It's too late to please! She remembered that when a pregnant woman was about to give birth, she had to have labor pains for a long time to give birth, and the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family on the other side must have cried because of the pain, and by the way, she could ask for help.

The woman glanced at Chunying with some surprise and replied, "I don't think it's good, I'm just afraid that I'm going to give birth, the doctor is in the town, where can I invite him to go?" There is no need to stabilize the mother, who of the old sisters in the village has never given birth? Because it's so close, much closer than my home. So let's borrow a stove. ”

What this woman said is also the truth, this area is located in the northwest corner of Zhuangzi, in addition to the warehouse, there are only three households, one is the courtyard where the two families of Lu Wang temporarily live, one is diagonally opposite the door, and one is about a hundred meters away, presumably it is the woman's home, it can be said that it is quite far away, if the mother's own stove is really not good, she will ask for help from the two families of Lu Wang nearby, it is not strange.

A woman's scream came from the courtyard opposite the door, and the woman was in a hurry, and hurriedly said, "I'll go back and see, and come back later, if you have given birth in your family, please go and help." With that, he hurried back.

It was the first time Chunying had encountered this kind of thing, and she didn't know how to react, so she looked at her father and said dryly, "Shall we lend it to her?" Having a baby is a big deal......"

"Nonsense!" Mother Lu came out with her clothes on, frowning. "We're not here as a farmer, what does this have to do with us?! Doesn't her house have pots, stoves, scissors, and white cloth? Even if you don't have time to prepare, scissors and a basin of water are a must! Baba came to us in the middle of the night to borrow it, but I'm afraid I was reluctant to use her for myself, right?! ”

Chunying said angrily: "It's not worth anything, why don't you give up a few old things?" Although we are not from here, we want to live here for a long time, and what good is it to offend the people in the village? Mother, you just think it's doing good deeds, and by the way, you can have a good relationship with the people in the village! ”

Lu Yougui also said: "Chun'er's words are reasonable, you quickly bring the new scissors and cloth brought by Sister Qiu'er and her family today, and then boil a big pot of water. ”

The Wang family also came out at this time, and Aunt Wang muttered in a low voice: "Wouldn't it be bad luck to lend her something and turn around and get stained with yin blood?!" Second Uncle Wang frowned and scolded: "You have a lot of things, why don't you shut up quickly?!" She was not convinced, and defended: "We use most of the old things collected from the village, if there are unclean things, then the mother has a good use, but it depends on us!" You go out at home all day to deal with people, haven't you ever suffered the losses of these people?! Second Uncle Wang remembered the silver that was scolded by the people in the village when he bought old furniture during the day, and his face was a little unsightly.

Although Chunying was a little unhappy when she heard this, she couldn't say anything. Strictly speaking, the Wang family is only a very distant in-law, forced by the situation, so they have to live with the Lu family. It's one thing for her to be good friends with Shi'er, but she can't make decisions on behalf of Shi'er's family. It's not good to offend Shi'er's aunt, so she had to say, "Then lend it to her, let's borrow it from our family?" After washing the basin and scalding it with boiling water, it will be ready to use. "In ancient times, boiling water was the most convenient disinfectant.

She was busy here, and persuaded her parents to go into the house and put on thick clothes to avoid catching a cold, Aunt Wang saw it and felt a little embarrassed, so she said to the concubine: "It's not worth a few dollars, Ming'er will go and buy a new one, let's lend it to her family, so as not to let the people in this village know and complain." After that, he went back to the house and took out a white cloth, and said to Chunying with a smile: "This is what I only received during the day, and I originally planned to make a few single clothes for the old man and the two little ones, but I will use them first." I'll send them there. Mother Lu got dressed, went out with a small bag, and hurriedly said, "You want to go, I'll go with you." There was no reluctance at all, and Chun Ying guessed that her father must have persuaded her.

The two mothers went to the opposite door to help, Chunying was boiling water in the shed, and Aunt Wang looked strange and boring, and was glared at by her husband again, with a sneering face. Suddenly, I heard a cough from the public house, and I hurried over to say hello.

Chunying washed the basin, took the boiling water and scalded it again, then poured the water into it, picked it up and planned to go out. Shi'er got dressed and came out, yawned and said, "Do you still want to burn?" I'll do it. Chunying smiled: "Thank you, thank you, hard work." "Got a roll of the eyes.

When the hot water was brought to the opposite door, the woman took it with joy and thanked her again and again. Chunying looked at the house and saw that it was three adobe houses, with two windows open to the north and south. But one foot wide, two feet long, with paper pasted on it, old New Year's pictures pasted on the wall, a table, chair, and cabinet, all of which are old, with a dim vegetable oil lamp on the table, a door on the west side, and a curtain of flower cloth, and a burst of crying from inside, the little daughter-in-law seems to be in pain.

Aunt Wang comforted in a low voice: "You are the first child, so it will be more difficult, I know that you are in pain, so I have to endure it, save some energy and shout less, and when I turn back to give birth, I will also have more strength." ”

The little daughter-in-law cried, "But I am in pain...... Died of pain!! "Crying again. Mother Lu lifted the curtain and came out and said to the neighbor woman: "This is not a way, we can talk about it, she just doesn't listen, if it goes on like this, where will she have the strength to turn back?!" Turning his head to see that Chun Ying was also there, he sent her away: "What are you doing here?" The girl's house shouldn't have come, go back! ”

"I'm just bringing hot water." Chunying argued, and heard the woman next door say that she was going to invite the mother's mother, but at the same time, she also had to find two other women in the village who had experience in delivering babies.

Lu's mother said: "Our family has only been here for two days, and we can't even tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, how do you know where her mother's family lives?!" ”

The woman hurriedly said, "Very recognizable! Just on the northeast corner of the village, you walk along the road out of the village, through the forest over there, you can see several houses, the first one on the left. ”

Chunying hurriedly said: "I've been there once during the day, I'll go find it." What's her family name? ”

The woman was overjoyed: "The surname is Peng, called Peng Laoquan, there is a big stone at the door of his house, and it looks like a stone mill." ”

Lu's mother hurriedly grabbed her daughter: "In the middle of the night, where do you recognize the road?" Beware of falling. ”

Chunying said: "Don't take precautions. I took a lantern and went to shine it. So he ran home, put on a jacket, and when he saw that there was no lantern, he took one out of the pyre, tied a strip of rag on one end, dipped it in lamp oil, lit it, and made a torch, and took it out of the house.

Shi'er hurriedly asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"Go and call someone, and you'll be back soon, don't be busy boiling water first, and wait until you have a letter to the door, so as not to waste firewood." After saying that, Chunying went out and walked in the direction of the forest according to the impression of the day.

At this time, it was the thirteenth and fourteenth day, the moonlight in the sky was still bright, and there were torches in her hands, Chunying was not very scared in her heart, but the road was uneven, and there were stones from time to time, and she walked a little unsteadily. When she arrived at the front of the forest, she looked at the darkness inside, and hesitated a little, but after thinking about it, since the woman said this way, it must be no problem, and the forest was located in the middle of the village, and the area was not large, so there must be no danger, so she boldly raised the torch in front of her, and went straight in.

The forest is planted with mulberry trees, so they do not grow very tall, but the leaves are dense and cover the road. Chunying walked while raising the torch so as not to burn the leaves, slowly, found that there was a fixed path in the forest, and hurriedly walked all the way out along the path, and after a while, he came out of the mulberry forest, and suddenly several houses appeared in front of him, and Chunying knew that the destination had arrived.

found the Peng family, Chunying knocked on the door vigorously and woke people up, and the old couple of the Peng family heard that the youngest daughter was about to give birth, so they hurriedly dressed and couldn't even close the door, so they were anxious to leave. Chunying was afraid that the old man would wrestle, and when she caught a glimpse of that Mrs. Peng is little foot, she hurriedly stepped forward to support her, and carried her forward. Mrs. Peng thanked her, and saw that Chunying was actually a big foot, and said with a smile: "It's a hurry, but the benefits of big feet are coming." ”

A group of three people leaned on a torch, stumbled to the place, the small courtyard of the mother's house was already lively, three or two women who didn't know each other were busy in the courtyard, seeing them coming, one of them smiled and said: "Just say, Aunt Peng, go in and persuade it, your daughter's first life, I am very afraid, I can't help but call!" As he spoke, he came up and took the hand, and carried Mrs. Peng into the house. Chun Ying was already panting and wiping sweat against the wall.

When I returned to my yard, all the houses were lit up, and even two torches were planted in the courtyard. The two women were helping to boil the water, and Aunt Wang turned out a bottle of pills, saying that there was ginseng in it, and it was for the mother to take it, which was the most uplifting, and poured two pills, and one of the women wiped her hand and wiped it, and carefully held it as if she were a baby. Shi'er cooked a small pot of porridge and asked another woman: "What flavor does Sister-in-law Zhang like to eat on weekdays?" I was ready to send it at this time, so that she would not have the strength to go hungry. And Lu Yougui, Uncle Wang and others were dressed, and planned to rush to the town overnight to find the descendants of the Zhang family, and invite the doctor by the way.

After just such a short period of effort, the people in the village seem to have taken action, even the two families of Wang Lu are no exception. Chunying watched people busy all the time, and somehow, she was a little moved in her heart, and hurriedly stepped forward and snatched the spoon in Shi'er's hand: "Let me come, you go back to sleep." Shi'er glanced at her and ran to cut red paper instead.

The daughter-in-law of the Zhang family was in pain for most of the night, and finally gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses at dawn, and the mother and son were safe. When all the families in the village got the news, they all felt auspicious and came to congratulate them. Even Cao Niangzi and Zhao San's sister-in-law brought congratulatory gifts to the door. After a while, the Zhang family came back, and was very surprised to go home and hug the child under the congratulations of everyone, and cried out with joy, which caused everyone to laugh at it kindly.

Chunying and Shi'er went back to the room after dawn and slept for an hour, got up again to freshen up, and ran to see the baby, until the mothers urged them again and again, and then reluctantly went home. Although the body is very tired and the eyelids are tight, the spirit of the two is very high, Shi'er keeps talking about the child's little hands and feet, Chunying also smirks and agrees, and then argues with her about whether boys are cuter or girls are cuter.

When Zhao San's sister-in-law heard it when she entered the door, she laughed at them: "People who don't know, I still think that you are also from this village, go back and comb your hair, and look like you are called Huazi!" ”

Chunying touched her hair embarrassedly, knowing that she was in a hurry today and combed her less carefully than usual, Shi'er grinned and pulled her back to the room, and the two helped each other to comb their hair again. Chunying thought that there was a happy event today, and she should wear a silk flower, and was about to ask Shi'er which one was good, but when she turned around, she sat aside in a daze and didn't speak, so she asked her what was wrong.

Shi'er smiled and said, "Somehow, I suddenly felt ...... The third young master didn't take us to heart, and it didn't matter if we didn't go back...... The days of this farmer's family ...... It's fun, isn't it? ”

Chunying smiled: "That's right! The third young master doesn't care about us, and we don't have to worry about him! ”

Shi'er smiled, quickly snatched the flower from her hand, and put it on her head.