After lunch at noon the next day, Lin Yunxuan and Zhao An took the chicken coop to Zhangjia Village to find Zhang Qingyun.

Originally, she wanted to go alone, but He Cuifang was not at ease, worried that she would not be able to find her way when she went out alone for the first time, so it was better to let Zhao An follow and the two of them should take care of her. So in the end, the two of them went out together.

Zhangjia Village is in the southwest of Shimen Town, backed by the east extension of Da Python Mountain, the east of the village is next to the official road to the north, the size is about the same as Gangtou Village, less than six miles away from Shimen Town. Because it is easier to walk near the official road, people in the village generally walk to the town.

Lin Yunxuan and the others set off from Gangtou Village, and they didn't need to pass through Shimen Town when they went around the path, and it took about half an hour to reach Zhangjia Village. She asked people at the entrance of the village and soon found Zhang Qingyun's home.

Zhang Qingyun's home is the fifth in the village, a small courtyard surrounded by a bamboo fence, with an old locust tree in the yard, a row of thatched houses under the tree, and four rooms.

Lin Yunxuan stood outside the bamboo fence and shouted, "Zhang Qingyun, Zhang Qingyun!" ”

"Hey, I'm here." As a crisp voice sounded, Zhang Qingyun's figure appeared at the door of the thatched house in the middle.

"I'll return your chicken coop." Lin Yunxuan raised the chicken coop in her hand and said loudly.

"It's you, sister!" After Zhang Qingyun saw the person coming, he ran over in surprise, "I didn't expect you to really come." Actually, even if you don't come and return my chicken coop, it doesn't matter. ”

"I have always done what I said I would do when I promised others." Lin Yunxuan smiled and handed the chicken coop in her hand to Zhang Qingyun.

Zhang Qingyun stretched out his hand to take over the chicken coop, and at this moment, there was a weak cry like a baby and a kitten from a thatched house, and then a little girl's panicked cry came, "Mother, big brother, it's not good, Xiaobao's forehead is so hot, come and take a look!" ”

"Xiaobao!" Zhang Qingyun couldn't care about the chicken coop, so he hurriedly turned around and rushed over to the thatched house, and Lin Yunxuan and Zhao An also followed closely when they saw this.

Lin Yunxuan entered the thatched hut and saw a wooden bed on the opposite wall, and a pale and haggard young woman with a thin quilt lying on the bed was in a hurry. There was a little girl of about seven or eight years old sitting beside the bed, combing two braids, holding a baby in her arms, looking at the young woman on the bed with tears in her eyes.

Lin Yunxuan didn't care about explaining, and said directly to the little girl in an unquestionable tone: "You put the baby flat on the bed." ”

The little girl was surprised, but she was calmed by the momentum emanating from Lin Yunxuan's body, and she hesitated for a moment and did as she said.

Lin Yunxuan walked to the side of the bed, and saw a baby who seemed to be born a few days ago with his eyes closed, his little face yellow, and his lips open and a little red crying, she frowned and reached out to touch the baby's forehead and the back of his neck, and asked, "How long has this child been born?" Have you ever pulled out meconium since birth? ”

"It's been five days since I was born." The little girl replied quickly.

"What is meconium?" Zhang Qingyun asked anxiously on the side.

Lin Yunxuan raised her eyebrows: "Did you pull out the?" ”

Zhang Qingyun and the little girl looked at each other, and then looked at the young woman on the bed in unison.

"Nope." The young woman shook her head nervously.

Lin Yunxuan's eyes darkened, she lowered her head to check the baby's head, unbuttoned her clothes to check the baby's body, and deliberately looked at whether there was an anus. I found that except for some redness and swelling at the base of the umbilical cord, the rest of the body was fine.

After taking the baby's pulse, Lin Yunxuan raised her head and said to the mother and son in the house: "The baby's meconium is not discharged, the toxins in the body cannot be discharged, and the navel is somewhat inflamed, so I have a fever." If you don't deal with it in time and continue to have a fever, you will be in danger of convulsions and coma. ”

"So what now?" Zhang Qingyun and the others were anxious like ants on a hot pot.

"Detoxify the meconium first, and then find a way to reduce inflammation in the navel." After Lin Yunxuan finished speaking, she looked at the young woman on the bed, "Auntie, how many times a day do you feed the baby now?" ”

"Sometimes once or twice, sometimes not, I don't have enough milk to feed her, so I can only ask Qingyun and them to cook some porridge and water to feed Xiaobao. Xiaobao can't eat enough every day, and she is so hungry that she cries day and night, so I don't pay much attention to whether she has pooped or not. It's all my fault, I didn't take good care of her. The young woman blamed herself and wiped away her tears.

"Mother, don't cry, Granny Chen said that you are still in confinement and can't cry." When the little girl saw the young woman crying, she hurried over to wipe away her tears.

Lin Yunxuan lowered her head and thought about it, picked out two feasible recipes for milking, and said: "Soybean pig's trotter soup and crucian carp soup can be milked." Pig's trotters are not expensive, you can go to the market to buy them, and soybeans may be available at many people's homes. If you have a river or a creek nearby, you can go to the river to catch fish. ”

In fact, there are many recipes for milking, such as Tongcao pig's trotter soup, astragalus chicken soup, and papaya crucian carp soup, but in terms of the ingredients that can be found in this time and space and the ability of this family to bear, soybean pig's trotter soup and crucian carp soup are the most suitable.

"Really? Do these really work? Zhang Qingyun and his mother looked at Lin Yunxuan, their eyes were full of expectation.

Lin Yunxuan nodded, and Zhang Qingyun showed a smile, "There is a stream in the north of our village, I'll go catch fish later." I shouldn't be able to buy pig's trotters at this hour, so I'll buy them tomorrow. ”

"But these recipes don't mean that you will have milk immediately after eating, you have to drink it for a while. During this time, the aunt should drink more water every day, feed more milk, and let Xiaobao suck a few more times even if there is no milk, so that the mammary glands can remain unobstructed. I'll wait for the medicine to get through the meconium first, Qingyun, you go and ask the woman who has milk nearby, ask her to feed Xiaobao for a few days, and let her go when your mother has milk. ”

"But we can't afford to have someone to nurse us." Zhang Qingyun rubbed the corners of his clothes and whispered, "Granny Chen next door helped us ask, and it costs more than ten yuan a day to ask someone to breastfeed." ”

"Where's your father?" Lin Yunxuan looked around and asked.

"My dad doesn't know where he's gone, he's been gone for days." Zhang Qingyun glanced at his mother and whispered.

"Can you find milk or goat's milk in the village?" Lin Yunxuan asked again.

Zhang Qingyun bit his lower lip and shook his head.

"The amount of milk for a newborn is not very large, Qingyun, why don't you go and ask, how much does it cost to feed only two meals a day, two meals in the morning and evening, and you feed porridge and water at other times. If the price is acceptable to you, ask her to come over and feed your baby now. The baby is sick now, and the resistance will be worse if he is hungry all the time. Lin Yunxuan thought about it and gave them a suggestion.

Zhang Qingyun listened and said okay, turned around and was about to go out.

Lin Yunxuan saw Zhao An standing at the door with a helpless expression, so she called out to Zhang Qingyun and asked him to take Zhao An to the river to help catch fish first, and then he went to the grass and woods at the back of the village near the foot of the mountain to see if there were any suitable herbs to use.

After a stick of incense, Lin Yunxuan picked the herbs and returned to Zhang Qingyun's house, and she found a clay pot in the kitchen to boil the herbs. After the herbs were boiled, Lin Yunxuan waited for the decoction to be warmed, inhaled the decoction with a reed tube, and then carefully squeezed it into Xiaobao's anus.

The effect of the decoction is similar to that of the previous life, but there are no side effects.

After a quarter of an hour, Xiaobao began to. This is Xiaobao's first bubble of after birth, black-green meconium, stinking, but a few people in the house don't feel stinky, and they are happier than the festival.

After Xiaobao finished pooping, Lin Yunxuan washed Xiaobao's little body with warm water, and instructed Zhang Qingyun's mother and little girl: "In the future, take a warm bath for Xiaobao every day, and be careful not to touch the umbilical cord when washing." ”

"Mmmm, Caiyun, do you remember what my sister said?" Zhang Qingyun's mother wrote down Lin Yunxuan's advice by heart, and asked the little girl standing beside her.

The little girl nodded vigorously. It seems that the burden of taking care of Xiaobao falls on this little girl named Caiyun.

After Xiaobao took a shower, Lin Yunxuan and Caiyun were helping her get dressed, Zhang Qingyun came back, followed by a dark and chubby village woman in her thirties wearing a dark blue dress with several patches.

"Mother, sister, this is Aunt Li introduced by Granny Chen, who is from the next village, she can come to feed Xiaobao two meals a day." Zhang Qingyun explained the woman's identity to everyone clearly.

Lin Yunxuan nodded, hugged Xiaobao to the woman, and signaled that she could breastfeed.

Xu was too hungry, Xiaobao found the tits accurately as soon as he approached the woman's chest, opened his mouth and bit it and began to suck violently and no longer let go, the woman who was in pain screamed, quickly held down Xiaobao's mouth, pulled out the tits, and said in a trembling voice: "Your baby is not breastfeeding, but here to bite, and it can eat so much!" No, you'll have to add money. It costs three pennies to feed a meal. ”

Zhang Qingyun was anxious: "Auntie, we said that we would feed a meal for two pennies." ”

When the woman heard this, she stopped doing it, and made a gesture to put Xiaobao down.

"If you don't add money, you won't feed it."

Zhang Qingyun was so anxious that he was about to cry.

"Xiaobao is too hungry to be like this this time. Auntie, it's better for us to take a step back, we will give you three cents for this meal today, and we will still pay two cents for a meal later. Lin Yunxuan stood up to play a round, "When everyone is in trouble, if you help us today, maybe we can help you one day in the future, don't you say?" ”

The fat black woman was moved by Lin Yunxuan's words, thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

Taking advantage of Xiaobao's milk, Lin Yunxuan also gave their mother's pulse by the way.

Fortunately, the lochia in the womb was not cleared, plus a little malnourished, and the postpartum period was relatively weak, so there was no major problem. Go back and pick some motherwort, boil it into soup, drink it and clear the lochia.

After Xiaobao's beautiful meal, Zhang Qingyun sent away the black fat woman's wet nurse.

Lin Yunxuan put Xiaobao up and held her and burped her with a hollow palm, and after a while, Xiaobao gave a loud burp, and then fell asleep peacefully. Lin Yunxuan reached out and gently touched her forehead and the back of her neck, it was not as hot as just now, it should be a fever, and she was relieved.

"It's not hot, it's not hot, Xiaobao has a fever!" Caiyun also touched Xiaobao's forehead and said excitedly.

The mother and son all cried with joy, and their eyes were full of gratitude when they looked at Lin Yunxuan.