At noon on the sixth day of October, Chu Chu suddenly launched.

Seeing this, Zhang Meng hurriedly went to Jiang's house to borrow a carriage and went to the town to ask Dr. Zhang to deliver the baby.

Ying Bao and Chun Niang came to help, first boiled a large pot of boiling water, scalded and washed all the large and small pots at home, and then spread the puerperium to Chu Chu.

Ying Bao saw that Chu Chu's stomach hurt badly, and she was afraid that she would faint, so she drank a bowl of juice with Wuding Zhi.

Chun Niang cooked a bowl of brown sugar poached eggs and forced Chu Chu to eat two, so as not to collapse when she gave birth.

Doctor Zhang finally came, and when she saw that everything was ready, she didn't hesitate to deliver Chu Chu immediately.

At this time, Chu Chugongkou had already opened four fingers, and Mrs. Zhang helped her up and walked a few laps.

After the production went smoothly, not long after the amniotic water broke, Chu Chu followed Dr. Zhang's instructions, followed the contractions, and the baby slipped out smoothly and cried loudly.

"Oops! It's a daughter! ”

Dr. Zhang said happily, quickly cleaned out the placenta, gently plucked the baby's mouth with gauze, turned her over and patted her back and buttocks twice, so that she could breathe smoothly and cry louder.

Pick up the baby and wash it in warm water for a while, and then wipe her clean with a cotton cloth that has been prepared long ago.

Then take a piece of cotton cloth and hold the umbilical cord, leaving one finger long, bite the cloth off with your teeth, and then take a cotton thread to tie the umbilical cord break.

Ying Bao watched Dr. Zhang's delivery throughout the whole process, and it felt amazing.

Mrs. Zhang wrapped the baby, slowly rubbed Chu Chu's belly, and then gently pressed it to remove the residual blood pressure in the uterus.

When there is no longer a hard lump in the lower abdomen, then stop.

"Give your child milk as soon as possible, otherwise the milk will become inflamed." Doctor Zhang advised: "You'll get out of bed and relieve yourself later, you know?" ”

Chu Chu nodded, looking at the baby in Chunniang's arms, with a gentle face.

After Dr. Zhang cleaned up Chu Chu, she changed the puerperium under her with another one, then sat down to rest, and shouted outside the door: "Come in." ”

Zhang Meng walked in with the curtain, touched his wife's cheek, and was so distressed that he couldn't speak.

Mrs. Zhang pointed to the lotus leaf bag on the bench and said, "This is the afterbirth, find a place to bury it, bury it deeper."

Zhang Meng agreed, picked up the lotus leaf bag and went out.

Chun Niang put the little baby next to Chu Chu and went to help pour out the blood herself.

After that, I went to the stove room and cooked a big bowl of pig's trotter noodles for Dr. Zhang.

Because Chu Chu had just given birth, she could only eat some soft and light egg noodles.

Only on the second day, when the milk is smooth, can the mother eat some fish soup to promote lactation, otherwise, the mother may accumulate milk and become inflamed.

Early the next morning, Zhang Meng carried red eggs to Yue's house to report the good news, and Jiang Sanlang also helped to deliver red eggs to various families in the village.

Chu Chu is Chun Niang's goddaughter, and she is also half a child of the Jiang family, and after receiving the good news, the villagers also brought eggs or brown sugar to congratulate her.

For a time, Zhang Meng's family came and went, and it was very lively.

In order not to affect Chu Chu and the child's rest, Chun Niang received the guests in the hall and asked Ying Bao to register the congratulatory ceremony.

When Zhang Meng came back from Yue's house, he would leave these things to himself.

came with Zhang Meng, as well as Chu Chu's younger brother Chu Qing.

It turned out that after the patriarch of Chu learned that the school in Dongchen Village did not admit students from other villages, he asked Chu Qing to come to his sister and ask his brother-in-law to help, and it was best to study under the Xiucai Gongmen.

Because Xiucaigong's knowledge is definitely stronger than those old boys who have repeatedly failed the exam.

In case one of the members of the Chu clan is admitted to Xiucai, it will be a matter of honoring the ancestors, and their family will have the hope of crossing the class and being promoted from a farmer to a scholar.

Chu Chu was very happy to see his younger brother coming, and hurriedly asked her husband to clean up a room for him and come out, and he would live at home in the future.

Chu Qing sat on the edge of the bed, touched the little niece's little face, and said to her sister: "Sister, my wife asked me to tell you and let Sister Chu Yan take care of you, but I didn't agree." ”

Chu Yan is pampered like that, where will she take care of people, Chu Qing would rather take care of her sister by herself than her cousin.

What's more, their sister and brother are not familiar with Chu Yan at all, and they basically can't speak when they walk on the other side, and she came to her sister's house because she had ill intentions.

Chu Chu smiled approvingly: "You did the right thing, I don't need them to take care of you." ”

Chu Qing scratched her head and said, "I told my grandmother that I would take care of you and my niece, and my grandmother was angry." ”

Chu Chu sighed lightly: "If you are angry, you will be angry, we will not go back to the village in the future, so we will live here with my sister." ”

The younger brother was brought up by her since childhood, and he was closest to her, and he couldn't ask for it to live with him.

"Hmm." Chu Qing pursed his lips and smiled.

He had long wanted to live with his sister, but his father wouldn't let him.

Now that Daddy has married the bride, he doesn't care much about him, so he doesn't have to go back.

At this time, Zhang Meng walked in and said to Chu Chu: "Jiang Cunzheng agreed that Chu Qing would study under Li Xiucai, and Ming'er would go to apprentice early in the morning." ”

"That's great." Chu Chu was very happy.

Being able to study under Li Xiucai, even if it is only three years, is extremely lucky for his younger brother.

Because Li Xiucai said that he was going to go to the scientific examination in three years, his energy was limited, and the number of students under his disciple could not exceed twenty.

There are more than 20 people who come to study, and the children of Dongcun Chen alone have already accounted for more than a dozen places.

Which of the remaining places is not a thousand choices?

Even if it is twenty taels a year, some people are eager to tie it.

It is said that the twenty-one years of restraint were still set by Sakura Bao.

The first is to prevent someone from messing around with Xiucaigong, and the second is that Xiucaigong owes a lot of external debts, and there is no way to repay the debt.

The days passed by until the end of October.

On this day, Chu Qing, who came back from the school, told his sister that he had seen Chu Yan and Sun Erniang, and they lived in the West Village.

They seem to be renting a house in a villager's house in Xicun, and they don't know what to do.

Of course, Chu Chu knew what they wanted to do, but how could they talk to his younger brother.

"Don't worry about it, stay away when you see it, and ignore them!"

She told her brother: "You just need to study hard, and you can't see anything else, understand?" ”

Chu Qing nodded ignorantly.

He didn't tell his sister, he saw that Chu Yan poking his brain at the door of the school several times and looking at their husband.

Oh no, it's looking at Mr.'s friend.

My friend's friend lived in the West Village, and he came to discuss his studies with him every other day, and the two of them often recited poetry and painted, and stayed all afternoon.

Whenever this happens, Chu Yan and her mother come in to talk to her husband's mother.

But my husband's mother was very polite and detached from them, and often said that she was tired and wanted to rest.

But as soon as Chu Yan's mother and daughter left, Mr.'s mother came out of the house, either going to the backyard to plow the ground, or sitting in the yard to make clothes.

The students next to her may not have noticed, but Chu Qing knew Chu Yan, as long as her mother and daughter came, they couldn't help but look at them twice to see what they wanted to do.

In a flash, it was the sixth day of the winter month, and Chu Chu's daughter was full moon.

Zhang Meng held a full moon wine for his daughter and invited the whole village to participate.

Of course, in order to show respect for the scholars, Chen Changping, a talented man from the West Village, and Chen Changsheng, the village leader, were also invited.

The weather was not good, it was gloomy and cold, and there were fine snowflakes.

Jiang Saburo took a few villagers to help build two wedding sheds, and set up several tables of flowing water mats under the sheds.

A few concubines of the Jiang family helped with the cooking, and a few neighbor aunts sat outside the stove to pick vegetables and wash dishes.

Before the banquet began, Chu Chu's father came, along with the patriarch of the Chu clan and Chu Cunzheng.

They braved the wind and snow, drove an old horse-drawn car, and stopped at the door of Chu Chu's house.