Chapter 47: Innocent Fun Stories

Because of the poor conditions in the mountains and the inconvenient transportation, there is no decent doctor in the eight villages for ten miles, and the birth of a child by a woman is actually a matter of life and death.

There are many pregnant women in the local area who died of dystocia, and the legend of "giving birth to ghosts" also has noses and eyes, which makes the foolish men and women in the mountain village believe that it is true.

He Runqiu was worried for most of the night, he now has two sons and two daughters, and he really doesn't want his beloved wife to risk giving birth again.

Thinking that this was the last child, he named him He Yuanying. He really got his wish, and later Long Yufei never had children again.

"Yuan" is actually the meaning of "first", but the name of the countryside likes to be used contrary to its meaning, and I clearly hope that my son will be smart and grow up, but the name is "pig baby", "dog baby", "two fools" and the like.

The autumn night showed a hint of coolness, the moonrise in the middle of the night, the high sky, full of stars, He Runqiu thought that tomorrow would be another sunny day.

Who knows, as soon as the little girl was born, the morning was about to be bright, and a light rain immediately floated, accompanied by the autumn wind blowing the yellow leaves flying everywhere, a bleak and gloomy.

The clouds in the sky are rare and colorful, and they are extraordinary.

The light rain continued until the day of the "Three Dynasties", and it suddenly became clear, and the ground was not the usual mud, and even He Runqiu's youngest son, who was less than two years old, was deeply impressed by the sudden change in the weather.

"You Miao doesn't worry about growing", He Yuanying will soon be two years old, and he knows everything, but he is very timid, and when he hears anything scary, he doesn't dare to hide in the quilt.

It's okay to be timid, but I also like to listen to ghost stories, and I don't tell one or two stories every night, so I don't sleep.

No one else in the family had any choice, but only the second brother, who was two years older than her, knew her best, and asked her: "Who in the family was born on a rainy day?" and she went to sleep obediently.

It turned out that there was a story in the village about a "birthday on a rainy day" that was widely circulated, about a foolish daughter-in-law who gave birth to a foolish daughter, and did not remember the girl's birthday, but remembered that it was raining lightly when she gave birth to a child. In the future, if the child wants to celebrate his birthday, just find a rainy day.

"Birthday on a rainy day" has become a synonym for a fool in Da Shuidong, He Yuyi asked who in the family was born on a rainy day? He Yuanying immediately pouted, don't look over, covered the quilt, and pretended to be asleep, and it didn't take long for him to really fall asleep.

The mountain people's judgment criteria for whether their children after birth are promising, in the current view, is a bit hilarious. But at that time, it was often the head of the way, which was quite effective and convincing!

In fact, the judging criterion is very simple, that is, according to the dream of the mother when she was pregnant and the vision at birth, you can determine whether the child will grow up or not. This is much more popular than "three years old to see old".

"Three-year-old to see the old", in the mountains so spreading, originated from the habit of children at the age of three to marry "baby kisses".

"Finger for marriage", that's what happens after getting drunk. It's not binding, you can't take it seriously. After the breach of contract, the most that can be blamed is so-and-so, "talking without credibility after drinking, bad wine, etc.!"

The main reason why the baby parents should be decided after the child is three years old is that the medical conditions at that time are not good, and infants and young children are prone to death.

People in the mountains generally believe that children under the age of three are not considered to be their own family members, and they think that it is possible to "leave home". The current standard of "going to kindergarten at the age of three" should have some of these meanings.

"Leaving home" means that a child who is less than three years old and has not yet "taken root", when he dies, it happens that someone else's family has a child, and the countrymen think that this is a child who dislikes this family and runs to another person's house.

Before the child dies, there will be a series of abnormal pathological manifestations, which are collectively referred to as "walking".

Only after the child reaches the age of three, at this time the child can speak, know the way, and can walk, and is called "rooted" in the mountains, and then it officially becomes a member of the family.

At this time, the family only considered setting a baby kiss for the child, and both parties should see whether the other party's child is smart and clever, whether the appearance is thoughtful, and exclude mute, deaf and other disabilities, and slowly evolve into "three years old to see the old." ”

In the autumn and winter when the weather is fine, the mountain women like to sit in the sun and chat with the soles of their shoes.

The most they talk about is their own children, and the most talkative of them is the dream and the vision of birth when they are pregnant, in fact, they are praising their own children in disguise.

At this time, when He Yuanying was the most well-behaved, she sat there quietly and ladylikely, pricked up her little ears, and listened carefully to the aunts about her child's pregnancy dreams and birth visions.

Some emperors and heirs of families, sometimes in order to build momentum and facilitate their own inheritance, will also fabricate some birth visions to prove that they are destined to return.

The people in the mountains are all solid-eyed, and they can't make up facts in order to win the battle. Most children have neither dreams of pregnancy nor birth visions.

Whenever her mother talked about her brother and sister's pregnancy dreams and birth visions, Xiao Yuanying raised her little face high, with a proud expression.

It's strange to say that these children of the He family really have pregnancy dreams and birth visions.

Maybe it's because Long Yufei's memory is super good, maybe it's because the impression of the dream is too deep, every time she tells it, it's all well-founded, and there is nothing far-fetched.

Even if dreams can be fabricated, those birth visions are in plain sight, and they can't be fabricated.

Long Yufei's statement is also very consistent with the last comparison, and it is obviously not a fabrication of facts. In addition, the He family is the only scholarly family in Dashuidong, and the children of the He family must have a future when they grow up, which has become the consensus of the people of Dashuidong.

Every time my mother said that Xiao Yuanying was reincarnated as a green snake, Xiao Yuanying was complacent, a picture of me being very powerful.

But when talking about the vision of "Xiaoyu" she was born, an embarrassed expression suddenly appeared on her little face, and she secretly looked at the aunts on the side with her eyes between her fingers, seeing that they were all listening attentively to what her mother was saying, without the slightest connection between her and the "rainy birthday" thing.

Xiao Yuanying couldn't help but exhale softly, and her face also showed a picture of happiness that she had passed the test.

But when her mother said that colorful auspicious clouds appeared in the sky, Xiao Yuanying became angry again, and sometimes coughed in a troubled manner, attracting the attention of adults.

Occasionally, an adult raised her eyes to see her, and her eyes lit up, her little face raised high, and she looked very promising, which was really hilarious!

Xiao Yuanying can't be idle at home, and when she sees her mother silent, she will keep asking about her birth vision, and after listening to it, she will continue to ask her brothers and sisters, and she never gets tired of hearing it.

When there are adults at home, Xiao Yuanying is a qualified listener, never crying and disturbing the adults.

Occasionally, naïve but philosophical questions are asked, not at all like a three-year-old child saying them, to the surprise of others.