Chapter 5, the family wants boys
The sister-in-law took Yang Cuiping to do B ultrasound, and before going, her brother Li Guoqing said: "Go to B ultrasound to see if it's a boy or a girl, if it's a girl, beat her off." Yang Cuiping chuckled in her heart, she didn't come back to her senses, what did this mean. Later, her sister-in-law told her that the family wanted Yang Cuiping to give birth to a boy.
At that time, family planning was very strict, and a couple could only have one child, and most of the girls in a team were born. Because the mountains here are a bit high, a lot of land is on the mountains, and the roads on the mountains are not passable, so it is all carried by people, so everyone thinks that only boys can support the family. Coupled with the idea that people have the idea of passing on their ancestry, many people want to have a second child at the risk of being fined, demolishing their houses, and even losing their teaching jobs. As a result, almost all of those who are pregnant with a second child are still girls, and there are several families in this team that have two girls.
Brother Li Guoqing is no exception, the first to give birth to a girl, and after she was pregnant with her second child, she was arrested by the township cadres for labor induction, and almost killed herself. I also went to the county hospital for rescue, and then my body recovered and I became pregnant again, this time my sister-in-law didn't want to have a baby.
After my sister-in-law gave birth to a girl for the first time, my brother Li Guoqing was very unhappy, and he didn't care much about his sister-in-law. So my sister-in-law also wanted to give birth to a son, and tied Li Guoqing's heart, and my sister-in-law felt that this baby might be a boy.
Li Guoqing hopes that his sister-in-law's baby is a boy, and after his sister-in-law is pregnant, he has been studying all day long, whether the belly of the pregnant boy is round or pointed, and I heard that when she is pregnant with a boy, there will be a black line on the belly. My brother often looks at his sister-in-law's belly, and there is indeed a black line, and he also thinks that this baby must be a boy.
When my sister-in-law gave birth, my brother was not at home and went to play in another village, so the family asked someone to bring him a letter and told him to come back, and said to the person who brought the letter, "If he asks what the birth is, you can say that it is a boy and tell him to come back quickly." As soon as my brother heard that it was a boy, he jumped up with joy, and immediately ran home, and everyone he saw along the way was invited, "Come to the house to play, my wife has given birth to a son." ”
When I got home, I realized that it was a girl again, and I sat at the door with an angry ass, so I scolded my sister-in-law, and my sister-in-law didn't dare to make a sound, so she just cried.
I gave birth to two girls, and my grandfather didn't like it, never asked, and never hugged it. Sometimes the child cries at night, and the brother is annoyed by the noise, so he calls his sister-in-law, "immediately hug me to the outside wall and throw ......" Later, until the child is more than a year old, he sees that it is quite cute, and he slowly likes it.
In order to have a boy, before Song Ziyang got married, when he built a cemetery for his grandparents, the name of Song Ziyang's son was engraved on the tombstone, (Later, people often joked, yes, why is there no name of Song Ziyang's wife, but there is the name of Song Ziyang's son.) )
Yang Cuiping thought to herself, no matter what you say, your child is in charge of herself, and he has to give birth to boys and girls, but fortunately, her father-in-law, mother-in-law and Song Ziyang didn't say anything.
Yang Cuiping proposed to ask her mother-in-law to prepare cotton to make a small quilt, (there is cotton planted in her own field), and her mother-in-law said: "Just buy it when the time comes," and sell all the cotton. As a result, she never bought it, Yang Cuiping prepared a few children's clothes and diapers by herself, and later her mother-in-law gave a moon gift and made a small quilt for the child, as well as a children's blanket to be useful.
At that time, the children were born at home, and the end of October was the time to give birth, but because the nutrition did not keep up, the children were small, so they were paid for a month, and they were not born until the end of winter.
On the ninth day of the first month of winter, my mother's mother and sister-in-law came to give a moon gift, but when I came, I saw that Yang Cuiping had not yet given birth, and my sister-in-law went back the next day.
That year, there were four pot-bellied women in a team, and at first everyone was guessing who was going to have a boy and who was going to have a girl. Song Ziyang said, "Yang Cuiping is definitely going to give birth to a girl, you see her face getting whiter and whiter, "People are all like, the longer you get a boy, the uglier you get, and the older you get a girl, the more beautiful you are."
As a result, the first three were all girls, and Yang Cuiping was the last, and everyone was looking forward to it. As everyone wishes, Yang Cuiping gave birth to a boy, not to mention how happy the family is, especially the father-in-law, the child has just been wrapped, he held it in his arms and did not let go, the weather was very cold at that time, and the father-in-law held his grandson for three days before putting it down. (Later, the child had to be held before going to sleep.)
Due to the difficulty of childbirth, and the stomach hurt for three days before she was born, Yang Cuiping couldn't eat for a few days, and her body recovered very slowly. Mom has also stayed for a long time, and she doesn't worry about Dad being at home. The day after giving birth, my mother went back, and when my mother left, Yang Cuiping cried and was reluctant to let my mother go.
Because her mother was old and illiterate, she was a little uneasy to go out, so Yang Cuiping asked Song Ziyang to send her mother to the eldest brother in the county seat. Song Ziyang sent his mother away and came back in the evening, Yang Cuiping asked him, "Did you send your mother to the eldest brother?" Song Ziyang said: "I sent it to the eldest brother, and I personally handed over my mother to the eldest brother." ”
After a few months, Yang Cuiping went back to her parents' house to know that Song Ziyang did not send her mother to the eldest brother that day, her mother said that she had just gotten off in the county, Song Ziyang said, "He has something to do and will come to him," and asked his mother to wait for him there, but he disappeared as soon as he went, and his mother waited for a long time and did not see him coming, so he went to find the eldest brother by himself, (my mother also carried a basket of things, very heavy,) It happened that the eldest brother went to the countryside that day, and he was not at home, and his mother had a cold and motion sickness, and he vomited in the car.
My mother couldn't find my eldest brother, so I waited downstairs for my eldest brother, and then my mother met my neighbor's uncle and brought my mother home with her. Yang Cuiping was very angry, she didn't expect Song Ziyang to be so irresponsible. After coming back, Yang Cuiping asked him, "You knew that your mother had a cold that day, and she was carrying such heavy things, why didn't you send your mother to the eldest brother in person, and you came back and said, you delivered, where did you go that day and what did you do, does it matter so much?" Song Ziyang said that he met a relative who worked at the Agricultural Bank of China that day, and the relative insisted on pulling him to dinner, and he couldn't refuse...... Yang Cuiping was skeptical, but there was no evidence, and she was still very angry. Thinking that the matter is over, it's useless to be noisy, so forget it.
After giving birth to a child, Yang Cuiping can only take care of the child at home, unable to work in the field, Yang Cuiping is afraid that her mother-in-law will be unhappy, and she also tries to do some housework, maybe she has been getting along for a long time, maybe her mother-in-law is menopause, Yang Cui can't please her mother-in-law no matter what she does, and her mother-in-law began to have trouble at home......