Chapter Twenty-Three: New Hope

From the evening of July 14 to the early morning of July 15, Guzhuang was in chaos. Uncle Zhang, the servant of the sixth room, found the carriage half-buried in the mud at the entrance of the village, and he was almost buried in it, and called a few times in the rain, and when he heard someone in the carriage responding, he immediately went back to the village to call someone. In just a quarter of an hour, the entire Gu Zhuang was alarmed.

Wen Yi began to prepare for today's events as early as a few days ago. Because she is just a little girl, and her grandmother is in charge of everything at home, she can only make a small fuss, ask Mama Zhao and Ziying to go to the pharmacy to grab some medicinal materials that can be used to treat knife wounds to stop bleeding, bruises and sprains, and can be used in production, and ask Mama Zhao to look at the address of a well-known stable woman in the village, and prepare rain gear and white cotton cloth for bandaging, and then turn out the two discarded door panels in the firewood room and wipe them clean, as a stretcher in case of emergency.

That's all she can do, although Mrs. Lu realized something, she didn't say anything, but on the morning of the 14th, she ordered Uncle Zhang to move things to the front yard, and found an excuse to let Aunt Zhang go to Wen's mother-in-law's house to the left so that she could remember the road clearly.

When Wen Yi arrived at the front yard, she saw medicinal herbs, white cloth, new wooden basins, scissors and other things next to the door panel, and twenty or thirty oil-paper umbrellas and eight coats neatly stacked on the table opposite, and her eyes immediately turned red. Although grandmother said that she didn't believe it, she actually prepared secretly, which shows that she still cares about herself.

She wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, turned back to Zi Ying and smiled: "There is a big event tonight, so I have to bother my sister once, but I also ask my sister not to ask why, and don't tell anyone what I just said to my grandmother later." ”

Zi Ying has been used to training in the Nie family for many years, and she is very obedient, so she nodded: "Although the young lady commands, the slave will never say a word." ”

Wen Yi nodded, picked up the umbrella and was about to go out, but was stopped by her grandmother who came in a hurry, very surprised: "Grandmother, didn't you say ......?"

Old Madam Lu glared at her, her face was a little annoyed: "I'm confused, this kind of thing, where can you be a little doll to manage!" Naturally, my wife came forward! ”

Wen Yi was stunned and hurriedly said, "But it's raining so hard outside, your body is ......"

"That's better than you, too!" Mrs. Lu turned around and ordered Mama Zhao to put on a coat and an umbrella for herself, and then glared at her granddaughter and said, "If something like this happens, your fifteenth aunt may be giving birth tonight, this is what you can cook as a girl?!" Get back to the house! ”

Wen Yi pursed her lips, her temper came up, she casually pulled over a coat and put it on, and came over to help her grandmother go out. Mrs. Lu glared at the boss, because she heard the chaos outside the door, many people were shouting to help dig the soil to save people, ask the doctor to stabilize the wife and so on, so she was deflated: "That's it, it's important to save people, why don't you keep up quickly?!" ”

Uncle Zhang hasn't come back yet, Aunt Zhang went to ask Wen Po, Mama Zhao is old and is in charge of housekeeping, Zi Ying wants to find someone to send rain gear stretchers to Zhuangkou to support, so Wen Yi helped her grandmother alone, and went to the nine-room house in the east of the back corridor with an umbrella and in the rain.

Wen Yi patted the door for a while before someone came to open it. As soon as Mrs. Lu entered the door, she frowned when she saw that the ninth room was in a mess. Jiufang had just gotten the news, and it was in a mess, and more than a dozen male and female servants gathered in the corridor of the front and back yards, full of panic, and some people couldn't help crying. Old Madam Lu stood under the porch of the front yard and shouted, "What's the mess?!" The young and strong laborers quickly took the rain gear to the village to save people! The powerful mother-in-law and daughter-in-law also went over! What about the housekeeper?! Why don't you take someone with you soon?! The main mother is in distress, you only know what is the use of crying here?! ”

The housekeeper, who was crying a mess, woke up when he heard this, hurriedly saluted Mrs. Lu, ordered a few housekeepers to go out, and was stopped by Mrs. Lu: "I asked someone to dismantle the door panel and use it as a stretcher, you call two people to take it, if it is not enough, come back and demolish your house!" There are also white cloths and medicinal herbs! Doctor, please! I bought it there and prepared it for the temple, and you brought it to the temple first. ”

The housekeeper was stunned, hurriedly saluted, and took someone away. Old Madam Lu also ordered the male and female servants of the ninth room to prepare for the treatment of the wounded, and asked them, "Where are your old master and young master?!" ”

A mother-in-law cried and said, "My lord caught a cold yesterday and lay down, and now he can't get up." The eldest young master was waiting in front of him, and the second young master was too young to let him know about his wife......

Wen Yi frowned when she heard this, and said to the mother-in-law: "No matter what, you have to tell your master about the matter." Otherwise, it's a mess, and there's no one to call the shots. My grandmother can't always do it for your master. There is also the sixth brother, who is not too young, and the fifteenth uncle is sick, he can always come forward to preside over the overall situation, right? ”

The mother-in-law only knew how to cry, and Mrs. Lu was so angry that she stomped her feet: "You can't be the master, go and tell your master to get up!" ”

There was a sound of footsteps in the backyard, and after a while, Gu Yitong, the male owner of the ninth room, was helped out by his eldest son with a pale and weak face, followed by his younger son who was full of panic. Gu Yitong saw Mrs. Lu, and first bowed down: "Sixth aunt ......" Mrs. Lu hurriedly waved his hand to let him get up: "It's okay, it's okay, when is it, and you still take care of these false courtesies!" When you are sick, tell your son to bring someone to save your daughter-in-law. ”

Gu Yitong's eldest son Wen Shun, but a twelve-year-old boy, has always been spoiled by his parents to grow up, although as the eldest brother, his temperament is more stable than that of his younger brother, in the end, he is still young, he got the news that his mother is in distress, and his father is seriously ill, and he has long lost his mind. The father is waiting at home, and the son will take the people! ”

He ordered a few powerful servants to follow, and was about to go out, when it was already bustling outside, a group of people came, all of them were bloody, and the bloody qi rushed into the door of the house at once, and even the old lady Lu was taken aback.

Wen Yi knew that this was carrying people back, and hurriedly said: "Quick, Aunt Fifteen, they have been carried back, quickly find a clean room to settle in!" And please doctor Wen Po! Then the people woke up and hurried away.

It was Mrs. Xu Shi who was carried back, she was lying on a door panel, wailing lowly, her lower body was covered with blood, and the blood dripped all the way back along the door panel, and everyone who saw it panicked. When Wen Shun saw his mother's tragic condition, he couldn't help crying: "Mother! Gu Yitong's body shook and staggered, Wen Yi hurriedly took a step, supported him, and then blocked the sight of his eleventh cousin Wen Quan, preventing him from seeing his mother's situation.

Wen Quan looked at her in a panic: "Ninth sister, my mother ......" Wen Yi said in a low voice: "Didn't you see that your father was very sick?" Why don't you help him back to his room?! "Wen Quancai is only six years old, how can he have the strength to support his father? Wen Yi was just afraid that he would be frightened when he saw the blood on his mother's body. Fortunately, Wen Quan was stunned, he was obedient, and he really helped his father to go back, and a girl quickly caught up and helped the other side.

Wen Yi turned around and saw that Wen Shun was still crying, so she stomped her feet and said, "Why are you crying?!" Your mother isn't dead! Why don't you go and arrange a rescue! Wen Shun suddenly realized, and hurriedly called a small guy to rush out. Wen Yi frowned and returned to her grandmother, and asked worriedly, "Grandmother, can you really save it?" "These nine rooms are up and down, but they are so panicked that they don't even have a charter.

Old Madam Lu replied expressionlessly: "Of course you can save it!" The people in their family are useless, and my wife is here! ”

The old lady did what she said, when Wen Shun and the fourth wife of the second room arrived with the doctor and Wen Po, she had already arranged the manpower of the ninth room, each injured person slept on a clean bed, changed into wet and cold clothes, the wound was cleaned and bandaged, a brazier was burned next to the bed, and there was someone to take care of in the house. Perhaps because of the timely rescue, the coachman and a few girls were seriously injured, but there was not much danger, two of them could even speak clearly, after the doctor's treatment, only the coachman was unconscious because of his broken legs, and everyone else woke up.

The most dangerous is only Xu, who has no external injuries but is facing childbirth.

The fourth wife, Liu, immediately took someone into the house, and after a while, she came out and said to Mrs. Lu: "Thanks to the aunt who came in time, everything is arranged properly, otherwise the fifteenth brother and sister will be afraid to confess." Seeing Wen Yi in a blink of an eye, I was a little surprised.

Wen Yi hurriedly said: "Grandmother went out alone, and her niece didn't worry, so she followed." After a pause, "Fourth aunt, the fifteenth aunt will be fine, right?" Liu sighed and said, "I can only resign myself to fate, to be honest, your fifteenth aunt is really dangerous!" ”

Wen Yi listened to the weaker and weaker calls of the fifteen aunts in the house, and saw the daughters-in-law who came out with a basin of blood from time to time, and her heart tightened.

Mrs. Lu took out a small box from her sleeve and handed it to Liu: "This is a century-old ginseng stored at home, I have already used some of it, and I thought it might be useful when I went out, so I brought it out." You ask someone to cut a few slices of fried ginseng soup and pour it down for your nephew and daughter-in-law to see if it works. ”

Liu Shi said in surprise: "Alas? Aunt Six! You've been a great help! Hurriedly took the ginseng, assigned a personal girl to fry the ginseng soup, and said: "We also have a few old medicinal materials at home, maybe they can come in handy, I'll go home and get it!" He took two steps, stopped, and turned back. Old Madam Lu knew what she was going to say, and said lightly: "Leave it to me here, you go and come back quickly!" Liu bowed, hurriedly called the servant woman to get an umbrella, and went out.

Wen Yi helped her grandmother, walked to the wing room next to the delivery room and sat down, listening to the shouts inside, her heart was a little bottomless. In any case, she wanted to help a little, and after asking her grandmother, she ran to the kitchen, and instructed the frightened servants to boil hot water, boil ginseng soup, and boil medicine, and thought that the autumn night was cold, and everyone was drenched in the rain, and ordered to cook ginger soup and fine porridge just in case, and remembered that the fifteenth uncle was still sick, and asked the kitchen man to prepare the man's medicine.

When she was done, she thought that there was nothing she could do, so she went back to the wing room to take care of her grandmother, walked to the porch, and saw Wen Shun standing outside the window of the wing room in a daze, holding the window tightly with his right hand.

Wen Yi couldn't bear it and stopped him: "Don't worry, the fifteenth aunt Ji people have their own natural appearance." ”

Wen Shun nodded dumbly, and suddenly cried: "I knew that I would stop my mother no matter what......"

Old Madam Lu walked out of the wing room and asked sharply, "What is your mother for, going out in such weather?!" Your father and son didn't follow or say, except for the coachman, the people who accompanied him were all women, if something happened, he didn't even have a helping hand, and your son didn't stop him! Why don't you tell me about it?! ”

Wen Shun cried: "My nephew originally stopped me, but my mother didn't listen...... It was my uncle who sent a letter saying that my grandfather had slipped his foot in the rain and had fallen hard, and that he had asked his mother to go back to see his old man. My father was sick and advised my mother to wait until the rain stopped tomorrow before going out, but my mother was anxious to know what was going on with my grandfather, so she only brought a few people back. I said that I would go to my grandfather's house to see what was going on, and that I would send someone back early tomorrow morning, and then my father would bring my brother over......"

Mrs. Lu knew that the Xu family's maiden home was outside Pingyang City, only six or seven miles away from Guzhuang, all the way to the avenue, and she arrived soon by carriage, no wonder she didn't take it to heart, but she still reproached Wen Shun a few words: "Even so, it is better to have a few powerful family members to follow the car." Tonight, your mother was in distress outside the village, and no one knew about it. If I hadn't sent someone to the pastry shop in Zhuangkou, I'm afraid that no one would have found your mother until dawn! ”

Wen Shun lowered his head and cried to listen to the training, and at this time, the cry of a baby came from the adjacent delivery room, and the three of them were shocked. Old Madam Lu hurriedly took Wen Yi's hand and walked over, and asked loudly outside the door, "Is it a man or a woman?" Is the mother safe?! ”

Wen Po walked out with a swaddling baby, revealing a little face with a red brocade quilt, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to the old lady, the wife gave birth to a little master, the mother and son are safe, but the wife is exhausted and fell asleep." When Wen Yi heard this, she hurriedly stretched out her head to look at the child, only to see that he was red, wrinkled, as small as a cat, with his eyes closed tightly, and a pair of small hands clenched into fists, only the size of fresh jujubes, shaking from time to time. Her heart moved slightly, and she only felt as if something was gently brushing her heart, a little itchy.

Mrs. Lu looked at the child, reached out and touched his little face lovingly, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and ordered: "Send it back to the room quickly, it's cold outside, don't catch a cold, the mother should also take care of it, and the ginseng soup will be delivered immediately." Turning his head and seeing that Liu was back, he hurriedly said: "It's already born, it's a boy, but you have suitable tits?" Liu recited a sentence of Buddha, stepped forward to look at the child, and was also full of joy with a smile on his face: "Peace is a blessing!" If you don't die, this child will be enlightened in the future! Then he said to Mrs. Lu: "Fang Cai's nephew and daughter-in-law have also thought of it, and have already sent someone to find it." After saying a few words to the girls, he hugged the child and took the two daughters-in-law into the delivery room.

With the Liu family here, and the child was born safely, Mrs. Lu naturally didn't have to worry about it anymore. After being busy for most of the night, she couldn't support it anymore, so she helped Wen Yi back to the wing room to rest. When he turned around and saw Wen Shun's excited and worried face, he scolded: "What are you doing in a daze?!" Why don't you go and tell your father the good news?! Wen Shun was a spirit, and he was too busy to go. Old Madam Lu looked straight and shook her head: "The fifteenth child is an honest man, and the son he gave birth to is also stupid!" ”

Wen Yi was in a good mood, and said with a smile when she heard this: "Sixth brother is just more sincere, but he is better than those who are full of heart!" ”

Old Madam Lu glanced at her, helped her to a place where no one was, and then said, "Today's incident is considered your merit, and it is not in vain that the Buddha gave you a wake-up." ”

Wen Yi was excited in her heart, and hurriedly lowered her head to hide the tears in her eyes: "Seeing that the fifteenth aunt's mother and son are safe, the granddaughter is also happy in her heart......"

This child, according to the ranking, should be seventeen cousins, in the previous life, he was a little life that died without even having time to look at the world. But he was born, and in a few days he would open his eyes and see the world......

Wen Yi suddenly felt that this life after being reborn was full of hope.