The incense is very vigorous, the firecrackers roar every day, the paper cigarettes and candles smoke wisps, the pilgrims are endless, and the reputation of "sending the son Guanyin" is spread all over the township.

It's strange to say that the "Sending Son Guanyin" in the Lotus Nunnery has always been effective, but it doesn't show much to Yi Ande. After the couple got married, they bowed to Guanyin Bodhisattva for decades, burned incense and candles for decades, and spent a lot of silver, but the couple did not have a group of children, but they were lucky to get a single seedling in their later years. It stands to reason that he has sincerely begged for a son to worship Buddha all his life but only got a son, and others are not as pious as him but full of children and grandchildren, the couple should weaken the belief of praying to God and worship Buddha, but on the contrary, since giving birth to Yi Wangding, the couple's worship of Guanyin Bodhisattva is increasing day by day! What is the reason for the two of them to believe in Guanyin Bodhisattva without hesitation? It turns out that the couple thinks like this: they only have one son, this is an indisputable fact, this can't blame the gods and Buddhas, let alone Guanyin Bodhisattva to send a son ineffectively, but they are destined to have only one son in this life, if it weren't for Guanyin Bodhisattva to bless this son, I am afraid that I will be a "desperate" family in this life! Therefore, the couple has always believed that as long as they sincerely pray, Guanyin Bodhisattva will definitely manifest and send a child and fulfill his promise. Therefore, since his son Wangding got married, Yi Ande and his wife have come to the Lotus Nunnery more often.

People are not as good as heaven, Yi Ande saw that his daughter-in-law Yi He followed in the footsteps of his wife Yi Zhang in terms of fertility, suffered from the same problem, and failed to give birth to a baby after several pregnancies. Sincerely, the gold and stone are open. Under the pious inspiration of him and his wife, his daughter-in-law Yi He finally became pregnant again in the winter. Yi Ande and his wife were happy in their hearts, happy on their faces, as if they had eaten honey all day long, and they said to people: "This Guanyin Bodhisattva will definitely send a fat grandson!" ”

Yi Wangding helped his wife to his restaurant, saying that it was a restaurant, but it was a low eaves house built vertically on both sides of the patio between the upper and lower buildings, which was called the evening building in the Yuanzhou area. The evening building was originally as spacious as two main rooms, but they divided it into two with a wall in the middle, with one end near the patio used for the dining room and the other end used as the kitchen. Their dining room is very simple, with a square table, four benches, and a dining rack. The family spends three meals a day here; There are also a few small benches and bamboo chairs for the family to sit at leisure. In addition to owning this evening building, their family also has two main rooms on the east side of the front building, the one near the hall is inhabited by Mr. and Mrs. Yi Wangding, and the adjacent one is inhabited by the two elders of Yi Ande. The main hall of the upper and lower two buildings, belongs to the father and brother four people share, every red and white wedding, the two halls are put on the table, blowing and blowing are not lively, usually the two halls are for everyone to pass or leisure, and children for entertainment.

Yi He was lying on the bamboo rocking chair in the Wandong restaurant, breathing a little rapidly, rubbing his stomach with one hand, and pointing to the dining table with the other and saying, "Son, his father, lunch is ready, if you are hungry, eat first!" I'll wait for my parents-in-law to come back and eat together. ”

"It's so hot, I don't really want to eat it now, I'll eat it when my parents come back." Yi Wangding replied to his wife, while picking up the teapot from the tea table, "Dulululu", like a cow drinking water, and drank most of the boiling water from a teapot. Then he said loudly, "Good tea!" Good tea! After drinking a bowl of tea, the whole person seems to be much cooler! "Actually, how can the croppers have any good tea, this is just the cold boiled water that his wife Yi He pulled back from the corner of the field, plantain, sea needlework and other grasses and vines after drying. Legend has it that the tea brewed from this grass vine has the effect of clearing the fire and relieving the heat. It may be that the weather is too hot, or it may be that he is too thirsty, Yi Wangding feels that his heart is moist after drinking half a pot of "herbal tea", and the heat disappears, so he sighs of good tea! This may be an instinctive reaction to drinking water after being thirsty.

"Oh, why haven't you eaten yet? See, what time is it? Sweating profusely, Eander walked in, blaming his son and daughter-in-law for not waiting for him to have lunch.

"Wangding said that he would wait for his parents to come back and eat together." Yi He got up and answered his father-in-law's question.

"Good! We're back, let's eat...... Eat! Don't wait any longer! When the mother, Yi Zhang, saw that her son had worked all morning, and when he returned home hungry and waited for him to eat, she couldn't help but feel a little heartache, so she also urged them to eat loudly.

Zhuanghu people "eat new rice", not as much as the big households, what delicacies of the mountains and seas, nine bowls and ten plates! Yi Wangding's family "eats new rice" today is also hearty, with meat, fish and eggs, plus chili peppers, eggplant beans, three meat and three vegetarian bowls. Although the Zhuang family "eats new rice" can't afford to be arrogant, they still care about auspiciousness. The six bowls of Yiwangding's dishes are the meaning of six or six great shun. The dishes are sumptuous, the rice is delicious, and the family of four is talking and laughing around the table, although it is hot and sweaty, but it is also delicious to eat. After the meal, his father Yi Ande fanned the moxa fan back to the room for a nap, this is a habit of the old man, whether it is a hot summer or a cold winter, he always has to sleep for a while at noon, otherwise he will have no energy in the afternoon like a ghost. Mother Yi Zhangshi washed the dishes and chopsticks on the dinner table, and nagged her daughter-in-law Yi He to come. Now is the critical moment, how to protect the child in the belly, otherwise the previous efforts will be wasted. Yi He listened while lying back on the bamboo rocking chair, fanning the moxa fan with one hand and continuing to caress his stomach with the other. Yi Wangding is a carpenter, most of the time in other people's homes work, originally did not have the habit of taking a nap, but these days are too hot, so hot that I can't sleep at night, after lunch is also a little sleepy, so, he moved the two eating benches to the patio to merge into one, with the stool as a bed upside down to sleep, soon there was a "snoring" sound of drowsiness.

"Boom, boom." Out of nowhere, there were a few muffled thunders that weren't too loud.

"Thunder there? It seems that God is finally going to open his eyes to rain. Yi Zhang said to himself while washing the dishes.

"Ouch, ouch, my stomach hurts!" Yi He suddenly screamed from the bamboo rocking chair.

"What's wrong? It's the baby kicking you in the belly, right? Yi Zhang walked over quickly and asked his daughter-in-law with concern.

"No, baby kicking is not this kind of painful method!" Yi He covered his stomach with his hands and replied with a painful face.

"Is that going to give birth?" Yi Zhang asked.

"I'm afraid I'm going to give birth!" Yi He grinned and gritted his teeth in reply.

"Ouch, ouch! It hurts me to death. Another shout from Yi He woke Yi Wangding, who was sleeping on the edge of the patio. I saw him jump up from the dining stool, walk quickly to his wife, and ask, "What's the matter?" ”

"I'm afraid your daughter-in-law is going to give birth." Yi Zhang said with a little excitement.

"I'm going to give birth, okay! I've been looking forward to it for a long time! Yi Wangding said with joy on his face.

"Come, daughter-in-law! Let's go to the room! After speaking, he helped his daughter-in-law and walked into the room.

When a woman gives birth to a child, a man has to avoid it, even if it is a husband, this is a rule that has been passed down by the ancestors in the northwest area of Yuanzhou. It is said that men cannot see the amniotic fluid and filthy blood that flow out of a woman during childbirth, and whoever sees it will be unlucky, and some may even worry about their lives. No one has verified the authenticity of this legend. It is better to believe that it is there than to believe that it is not, and everyone believes that it is true anyway. Therefore, Yi Wangding watched his wife being helped into the room by her mother, and she didn't enter, walk, stand, or sit, so she had to stand there stunned, rubbing her hands and starting to be stunned.

"Oops! I said, son, what are you doing here? Why don't you go to the upper hall and call the eldest aunt. After Yi Zhang's daughter-in-law settled down, he walked out of the room and commanded his son anxiously.

As if freed, Yi Wangdin jumped out of the evening gate, almost running to call for the eldest aunt.

A house, the upper hall and the lower building, the walls are against the walls, the houses are connected to the houses, no matter what happens in that house, they all know when there is a sound, not to mention that Yi Wangding's wife has been tossing for a while when she complains about stomach pain. At this time, the eldest aunt Yi Yan, the second aunt Yi Huang, the fourth aunt Yi Chen, the next door Granny Liu, and Sister-in-law Li all came to Yi He's room one after another.

The eldest aunt Yi Yan is the wife of Yi Wangding's uncle Yi An'an, don't look at her close to the "sixtieth birthday", but she is not deaf, her eyes are not dazzling, and her body is hard! Don't look at her as an ordinary rural village woman, but she is still quite good at "midwifery", the daughter-in-law of dozens of families in Yijiaping, she "delivered" the child. Her proficiency and steadiness in "delivery" are like a force, which often invigorates and enhances the spirit and confidence of the mother, and achieves twice the result with half the effort. You see, as soon as she entered the door, she arranged it in an orderly manner, and assigned her second aunt, Yi Huang, to the kitchen to boil water; Assigned the fourth aunt Yi Chen to eliminate the scissors poison in case of cutting the umbilical cord later, and repeatedly instructed the scissors not to be sloppy in disinfection, to be burned with fire first, boiled with boiling water, and rubbed with soju after boiling; Assign Wang Dingniang to prepare washbasins, foot basins, urine buckets, straw paper, sweaters, wool jackets, and wool quilts...... Assign Yi Wangdin to prepare a handful of guns and fill them with gunpowder; instructed the mother Yi He to lie flat on the bed, open her thighs, and arch her calves; Don't look at these trivial things, it is related to the smooth delivery of the baby, and the safety of the pregnant woman and the child. After Yi Yan had implemented these things with the people, he walked to the bed and skillfully removed Yi He's inner and outer pants, and carefully checked the ......

"Are you about to give birth?" Yi Wangding's mother, Yi Zhang, couldn't wait to ask about the eldest uncle, Yi's mother, Yan.

"Not so fast, just broke the water".

"How's the opening of the uterus?"

"It's more than two fingers wide, but it's not in place yet."

"When will I give birth?"

"If nothing happens, it should be born in an hour or two!" Yi Yanshi replied and then asked, "Hey, third aunt, did you buy some red ginseng last time?" You have to prepare some red ginseng. ”

"Bought it, bought it. I'll look for it. After Yi Zhang finished speaking, he rummaged through the cabinets in his room to find red ginseng, and finally found a red ginseng shaped like a small radish in the corner of the wardrobe drawer and sent it to Yi Yan.

Yi Yanshi casually took the red ginseng and turned around and handed it to Sister-in-law Li, instructing: "First cut half of it and soak it in warm boiled water, soak it until it is soft, cut it into thin slices, and then soak it in boiling water." ”

"Do you still want to eat ginseng?" Yi He was a little surprised and scared.

"Don't be afraid, niece and daughter-in-law, just in case, I'm prepared." Yi Yan said.

It is a very painful thing for a woman to give birth to a child, and it is also a very dangerous thing, like the metaphor of nine deaths and one life. At this time, Yi He's stomach pain became more and more intense, the degree of pain became more and more serious, and the screams of pain became louder and louder.