Chapter 28 - I\\\'ll give you my life (1)
Late at night.
In the dense forest of the back mountain, Bai Zhenzhu sat on a big tree, staring blankly at a perfect moon slowly climbing up into the night sky, like an arrogant and indifferent eye, staring at her with contempt. The bone-piercing brilliance shone down through the branches above her head.
Teach people to feel cold.
Bai Xing Xing’s hoarse scolding came from under the tree, “… Bai Zhu! You come down! You are so capable… You bullied my father who was sick and couldn’t do anything, and you bullied my red beans when he was only six years old… They took You can’t do anything, can you? Come down if you have the ability, and try to bully me!”
Bai Zhenzhu closed her eyes, tightly clutching Bai Taotao’s clothes she snatched from the big room.
Bai Xingxing also wanted to climb up the tree to grab the white pearl, but she couldn’t get up after trying for a long time.
Nine times out of ten, he missed.
White Pearl was temporarily stabilized.
Xing Xing stood under the tree and cursed loudly. When she was tired, she sat on the ground panting heavily.
White Pearl got a moment of peace, but her mind became muddled.
She thought: How did you get to this point? ? ?
White Pearl also wants to be like the girls in the big house, who are loved by their father and loved by their mother…
But her mother’s belly was unsatisfactory, and she gave birth to four daughters in a row! In the countryside where sons are more important than women, and the strong laborers have the right to speak, there is not a single boy in her family, commonly known as the extinct household.
Grandmother Chen Juxiang hated Mother Pearl deeply, and thought that the incense of the third room would be ruined by Mother Pearl; Mother Pearl gritted her teeth and tried her best to give birth to a baby.
From the birth of White Pearl, Chen Juxiang urged her father and her mother to divorce, but fortunately her father did not listen.
But Chen Juxiang talked too much, and the relationship between Pearl’s parents gradually began to crack.
A few years later, Mother Pearl became pregnant again.
This time, she had a seizure in the middle of the night. Because she was not sure whether the child was a son or not, Mother Pearl did not dare to disturb her mother-in-law Chen Juxiang, for fear that she would be ridiculed to death if she had another daughter. So she gritted her teeth and endured great pain, silently struggling to give birth to the child.
It turned out to be another niece – Bai Jade, the younger sister of Bai Zhenzhu.
Mother Pearl was desperate, lying on the bed and didn’t even dare to cry. Papa Pearl got angry and slammed the door out in the middle of the night, preferring to sleep in haystacks instead of coming back.
Mother Pearl lay on the bed, heartbroken.
When it was almost dawn, Mother Pearl made a decision.
——At that time, Pearl’s eldest sister was only nine years old, and she was ordered by her mother to throw the little sister who had just been born into the dense forest in the back mountain.
Pearl’s eldest sister is already sensible, and was forced to carry her baby sister out of the house. But she was afraid and unwilling to throw away her sister, so she lingered in the yard for a long time.
Hesitating again and again, Pearl’s eldest sister hugged her little sister and knocked on Tang Liren’s door.
Tang Liren became angry when she heard it, and made the whole family riot, and asked Bai Zhenggan to take the boys out to find Dad Pearl, and after finding him, he scolded him; The born baby doll takes a bath, puts on a clean little clothes…
Chen Juxiang and Li Cuier were also woken up. When they heard that Mother Pearl had given birth to another daughter, they sneered at Sang and scolded Huai.
One said I gave birth to two sons, the other said I gave birth to three sons, and the two of them teased me with you, like you said cross talk, and said that there are two males in each of the first and second bedrooms, so why only three and one son are born? Can’t come out?
Tang Liren didn’t want to scold Chen Juxiang directly, so she caught Li Cui’er and yelled at him——
“It’s useless to have a daughter? You go home now and ask your parents’ brother – is Li Cui’er useful? I won’t say anything about the things you pick up from your parents’ house every year, such as oil, salt, firewood, rice, clothes, tableware, etc. Now, you just can’t wait to steal your old woman’s **** to your parents’ house!”
“Just based on this, your mother’s family still dare to say that your daughter is useless? Li Cui’er, let me tell you, if they tell the truth, don’t be afraid, my sister-in-law will decide for you, and I will accompany you back to your mother’s house… Let’s go Get all that stuff back! Go! Let’s go now!”
Li Cuier was so frightened that she didn’t dare to speak, so she quickly hid in the room and cried.
Chen Juxiang was also embarrassed.
——There was indeed one time when Tang Liren sent two small pieces of cotton cloth to Chen Juxiang, saying that the cloth was good, but it was a little bit small, and it was a processed commodity sold at a low price by the supply and marketing cooperative in the town. Pants are fine.
Unexpectedly, Li Cui’er took a fancy to the two pieces of cloth, stole it quietly, and took it back to her mother’s house.
Later, Chen Juxiang asked for another piece from Tang Liren, thinking that there were exactly three pieces of cloth, and she could cut a pair of pants for each of her three golden grandsons. Only then did she realize that the two pieces of cloth she had saved before had been stolen by Li Cuier. ! Chen Juxiang was so angry that she beat Li Cuier!
At the moment, Chen Juxiang had nothing to say, and after scolding the money-losing goods in the direction of the third room, she also turned around and entered the house.
At that time, White Pearl was thinking, why is Tang Liren not her mother?
——Tang Liren raised a silly daughter Taotao, at the age of twelve or thirteen, she would only call her parents, mother, brother and sister. If Tao Taotuo was born in someone else’s family, she might have been abandoned early in the morning, and her best fate would be to raise her casually, marry a fool and be a maimed wife, and receive a little betrothal gift.
However, Tang Liren just loves Taotao to the bottom of her bones. She is a fool who can’t even talk. She is cleaned up and kept clean and beautiful all day long. Whoever saw Taotao, even though she knew she was an idiot, Will also be directed at her fair and well-behaved, patiently and tenderly say a few words to her.
– But what about Pearl’s mother? She actually… wanted to throw away the newly born little sister!
Later, the relationship between Pearl’s parents got worse and worse.
The mother is getting more and more nagging – she is always talking about her difficulties, complaining that her husband is not considerate, and that she is not as strong as the uncle Bai Zhenggan; she also complains that her daughters are ignorant, unsatisfactory, and not as smart, capable, beautiful and generous as the girls in the big house. , which made her unable to straighten her waist or raise her head in front of Chen Juxiang and the people from Sifang!
The father became more and more silent – if he really couldn’t stand his wife’s talk, he would directly beat people, regardless of the presence or absence of his daughters.
In contrast, Pearl is really envious of the girls in the big house: the relationship between parents is good, the relationship between parents and children is also good, the family is harmonious, and there is negotiation in what to do, no matter when and where The ground can be twisted into a hemp rope.
She also vaguely heard people say that the big house is so hard-working, it should not be poor, it is dragged down by the second, third and fourth rooms.
Later, the sisters slowly grew up.
Pearl also wants to have a harmonious family like the big house.
She has observed that everyone in the big room is very hard-working and considers the family members. Everyone is rushing to do the heavy work, and they will be polite when they eat. With the support of the uncle, except Taotao and Red Beans, everyone in the family has gone to school for a few years. They are all polite and reasonable… Even Brother Nansheng, he can control his temper when others don’t mess with him.
White Pearl followed suit.
But–
——She is rushing to do rough and heavy work? Well, it turned out that all the work was hers!
——She was polite to her parents and sisters and gave them delicious food? Well, in the end, they really thought she was stupid, she didn’t eat it, and they won’t give it to her in the future.
—She said she wanted to go to school too? Well, I ended up being beaten badly! It was the uncle and aunt next door who heard the news, came to persuade them, and did ideological work again and again, but her parents did not agree to spend money to send her to school. In the end, Auntie taught her personally. She set aside half an hour every night to teach her to write her name and address first, and then excerpt a small piece of out-of-date newspapers every day… Slowly, Pearl learned to write.
——She also wanted to be like the girls in the big room, whispering a little intimately with her mother and sisters. Well, in the end, she was ridiculed by her mother and sisters in various ways, laughing at her for being self-sufficient, and laughing at her stupid and ignorant.
Gradually, Pearl’s heart became cold.
There was no male in the family, so Mother Pearl would often talk about keeping a daughter at home and bringing her son-in-law to the house.
——However, in this era, most of the men who are willing to join the family are not in very good conditions.
The Pearl sisters are not willing to spend their whole lives in this foul-smelling quagmire, so they each think of a way to marry themselves—the eldest sister listened to her aunt’s deceit and married and left home; the second sister ran away with the merchant, and her whereabouts are still unknown.
The responsibility of the son-in-law fell on the heads of Pearl and her sister Jade.
Jadeite is still young and fifteen years old this year. She looks prettier than pearls and has a sweet mouth. She is deeply loved by her mother.
Pearl is eighteen years old this year, and in the eyes of the rural people, she is already of marriageable age.
She has a big frame, tall stature, and strong strength. Since childhood, she followed her father in the fields, doing farm work in the wind and the sun, and eating bran vegetables. Her skin is dark and rough, and her hair is dry and yellow. The point is, she also had a men’s and women’s haircut, looking at the back, she was no different from a young man.
This is the biggest reason why Mother Pearl wants her to stay at home with her husband.
Mother Pearl has even started to speak out, trying to find a suitable son-in-law within the range of ten miles and eight townships. There were also a few young men from other places who came to see each other, but they all thought the pearl was ugly, but instead they fell in love with the more beautiful white jade.
Slowly, under the guise of looking at pearls, there are more and more men who actually come to see jade, and some even offer a lot of money to marry jade.
Mother of Pearl is happy to see it happen.
——She has four daughters. The eldest daughter is very resentful towards her. Her mother-in-law’s sister-in-law’s flickering marriage is far away, and communication is inconvenient. This made Mother Pearl unable to reach out to her daughter and son-in-law for some supplements. The second daughter shamelessly ran off with a businessman, not only did she miss a penny of the betrothal gift, but also damaged the reputation of the pearls and jadeites of the third house of the Bai family!
Now, even if pearls are ignored and trampled, it has raised the value of jadeite!
This is a good thing!
So Mother Pearl became more accustomed to emeralds and spoiled her little daughter in the same way that Tang Liren raised peaches.
Now Jade doesn’t do any chores at home every day, and can eat a hard-boiled egg every day. Pearl was angry, but asked why she and her father went to the fields every day to do farm work, and were they not worthy of eating boiled eggs?
Mother Pearl said contemptuously: “You want to eat eggs every day too? Then you must have the ability to earn an egg every day! Do you have it? You don’t! Besides, you can look good if you eat an egg every day. Are you prettier than Jade?”
“I tell you, I just want Jade to eat an egg every day, I want Jade to be beautiful, even better than that fool in the big room! Maybe in the future my Jade will be able to marry into the city! If I can Find a regular worker and son-in-law who works in a state-owned factory… That’s Jade’s creation and mine! Otherwise, who will I rely on for the rest of my life? You? Fucking dad?”
Thinking of this, Pearl clenched Bai Taotao’s clothes in her hands.
——Her mother wants her to stay at home as a son-in-law?
No.
She couldn’t do what the second sister did, and ran away with a businessman without a name and no share; but she could, like the eldest sister, ask her aunt to match up, marry her to a foreign country, and start a new life from now on!
Pearl went back to her grandmother’s house to find her aunt to explain her purpose.
But Auntie looked at Pearl and shook her head.
——Zhu Zhu is 18 years old this year. She is obviously the most delicate and splendid age in the life of the most girl. But Pearl, who has been working in the fields all the year round, has rough and dark skin, and the joints of the fingers (toes) of her hands and feet are thick. At the time of the hair, Pearl has been cutting men’s and women’s hair; moreover, because of long-term malnutrition, her body is shriveled and thin, and she has no female characteristics at all.
If it weren’t for the voice of a girl, no one would doubt that she was like a boy.
Auntie said earnestly: “Pearl, girls still have to take care of themselves. If you can’t, just see how your sister Jade takes care of herself. Cousins, apart from the stupid one who doesn’t work, pears and apricots also go to the fields to farm, but look…they both have good skin and good hair quality, their clothes are old, but they are neat and clean, and their nails Keep it clean and decent…you’d better learn more first!”
Pearl understands.
Aunt means that she is too ugly, and no one wants to marry her.
Pearl began to pay attention to the fruit sisters in the big room.
She found that Lizi and Xingzi were working in the fields in turn. When they were working, they would always wear a hat, which would be covered with gauze to cover their faces.
In fact, not only Lizi and Xingzi sisters wear this, but also many women in the village who work in the fields. But most people put a towel on the bamboo hat to block the sun and wipe off sweat.
Lizi and Xingzi are hanging gauze on the hat.
That kind of gauze, the kind of gauze used by nurses in hospitals to bandage wounds for patients, is not that rare.
Pearl also tried, and put on a whole bamboo hat and put a piece of gauze on her head. But when it’s hot, it’s really hard. She went to ask Lizi Xingzi: It’s such a hot day to bring this, don’t you think it’s sultry? Not uncomfortable?
The answer is: Of course it is very hot, but it is not worn every day, that is, it is only worn when going out, so bear with it. Besides, if you don’t cover your face, it will hurt even more if you get sunburned!
That’s right, the sisters take turns to work in the field, but the pearls go to the field every day.
The women in the big room all have long black, smooth and beautiful hair. Tang Liren was in her fifties, and her hair was thick and black and shiny. Pearl was envious. She ran to ask Bai Lili how she usually took care of her hair and whether she used the shampoo used by the city people.
Bai Lili said: “Our family is so poor, how can we afford shampoo! It was my mother who went to the oil workshop and picked up the tea oil residue that people didn’t want. We all use that for shampooing! A cloth bag, when shampooing your hair, knock a small piece of tea oil residue down, boil it in water, soak it, and use a small cloth bag to rub your hair when shampooing…”
Then he taught her in detail, “But this thing has a strong smell. After washing a basin of water, you can pick a few jasmine flowers and rub them on your hair, and you can cover the smell of tea oil residue!”
Pearl asked Tao Tao and Xing Xing again, and got almost the same answer. The difference is that in the final cleaning stage, some use honeysuckle, and some love wild roses.
So Pearl also went to the oil factory to find some waste residues from tea seed oil extraction, took it home and tried it out, and found that after washing her hair with the tea oil residue, her hair was particularly shiny and refreshing!
But when Mother Pearl heard that the girls in the big house wash their hair with tea oil residue?
From then on, the tea oil residues picked up by pearls have become special for jadeite.
Mother Pearl also specially found a jar, put the tea oil residue that Pearl picked up into the jar, and locked it in the cupboard.
Pearl:……
Later, Pearl tried to get close to the cousins in the big room. She asked them to borrow a good-looking headband and wanted to imitate her… Pearl mother saw it, grabbed it directly from Pearl, and tied it to Jade’s hair. on the tip.
Pearl borrowed clothes from the cousins in the big room, originally wanting to learn how they sew old clothes. The sisters in the big room are ingenious, they can sew a little flower on the old clothes, cut a little rabbit and sew it on, and a gray and simple old clothes are neat and beautiful.
But as soon as Mother Pearl saw it, she immediately grabbed Sister Tao Tao’s clothes from Pearl, took off those beautiful patches, sewed them on the jade clothes, and then threw the broken clothes back to Pearl…
Pearl hates and annoys her, but she doesn’t know how to do needlework at all. Although she tries to mend her clothes and return them to the sisters in the big room, she really doesn’t have the ability!
This kind of thing, almost all pearls come forward.
The sisters in the big room all hated pearls—for the sake of their cousins, they would borrow whatever she wanted, but she never returned it on her own initiative, and she was “unwilling to ask them to ask them three times.” I don’t want to”, and all those who came back were bad!
Pearl has nothing to say.
However, a few days ago, my aunt suddenly asked Pearl to avoid Mother Pearl, and sent a message to Pearl, saying that on the eighth day of this month, she must go back to her grandmother’s house, and remember to clean up herself!
Pearl knows it all.
——It must have been her aunt who arranged for her to see each other.
Pearl is eager to escape from this suffocating home, and suffers from not knowing how to take care of herself… Really desperate, thinking of the big house, Tao Tao seems to be very good at tidying up and dressing up. So she went to the door to find Taotao, and at a glance she took a fancy to the beautiful clothes that Taotao was wearing!
It’s a pity that Tao Tao refused her request to borrow clothes.
A few days later, I heard that the aunt from the big room took Lizi Taozi into the city… Pearl’s aunt sent her two messages, both of which reminded her that she had to go on the eighth day of the first lunar month, and that she had to go to the city. Dress up well.
Pearl couldn’t calm down.
She knew that even if she mentioned borrowing clothes and things again, the people in the big room would not agree at all. Why don’t she go directly to the Taotao House to get the clothes and leave when no one is around in the big room… Just return the clothes when she returns from her grandmother’s house. As long as she didn’t pass her mother and Bai Jade’s hands, Tao Tao’s clothes would not be damaged.
So on the eighth day of the first lunar month, Pearl deliberately avoided Bai Xingxing and went to the door.
She thought, the uncle’s waist injury is still not healed, and the sister-in-law in the hall is about to give birth with a child, and these two will definitely not stop…
But she didn’t expect that the little red bean usually looks well-behaved and sensible, but her personality is full of Tang Liren’s pungency!
“Aunt Pearl, we didn’t allow you to break into my fourth aunt’s house. You are so uneducated!”
“Aunt Pearl, if you don’t ask for it, you’re stealing. Even I know the truth. You don’t know it, right?”
“Aunt Pearl, put down my fourth aunt’s clothes! What you do is a robbery! You are here to steal something from my house!”
“Aunt Pearl, if you want to do this again, I’ll tell the village officials and let the police arrest you!”
But Bai Zhenzhu only had one thought in her heart: she had consigned herself, and hurried to see her uncle’s house. No matter what conditions the other party put forward, she would agree to it all! Then come back, return the clothes to Bai Taotao, and get married immediately!
She continued to rummage—
Xiao Hongdou rushed over and bit Bai Zhenzhu’s wrist fiercely!
White Pearl screamed in pain!
She lost her mind.
——At this juncture, whoever dares to stop her, who is the culprit who wants her to stay in this fetid quagmire for the rest of her life!
White Pearl stared at Little Red Bean with a fierce look in her eyes.
Xiao Hongdou was frightened, and when she was not paying attention, she snatched Bai Taotao’s clothes from her hand, and ran out of the house with a scream.
White Pearl chased out, and caught up with her in three steps, grabbing Xiao Hongdou and trying to pull the clothes out of her hands. But the red bean was protected tightly, and the white pearl tugged, but it didn’t come out…
Afraid of tearing the clothes, White Pearl simply grabbed the little red bean and held it up high!
“Pearl, you’re crazy, Red Bean is still a child!” The sister-in-law in the lobby screamed.
Bai Zhenggan also shouted, “Red bean, give her the clothes, give her… Pearl, calm down, it’s not just a dress, you can take it if you want it so much! Put the child down…”
As he said that, he saw Tan Fenghui rushing forward desperately to save the child, and hurriedly called his little grandson, “Soybean, hold your mother’s leg, don’t let her come over!”
Then I saw the white pearl holding the red bean high, and she didn’t want to put it down at all?
Bai Zhenggan stepped forward with a cane, “Pearl, put the child down…put it down!”
In one thought, White Pearl chose to kill the fish and break the net.
She threw the red beans down heavily, pushed Bai Zhenggan again, then bent down, took out Taotao’s clothes that were tightly held by the red beans, and ran wildly.
But the moment she escaped from the yard, she turned her head and saw Xiao Hongdou lying on the ground, bleeding from her nose and nose, and unconscious; she saw the sister-in-law in the hall kneeling on the ground with a big belly, calling her daughter anxiously and distressedly; The eldest uncle, who fell to the ground, holding his waist with a painful expression on his back, struggled to get up, and when he turned to look at her again, the angry expression on his face that was shocked and hated iron is not steel…
White Pearl thought to herself: What have I done just now?
She fled home in a daze, White Pearl tremblingly wanted to change into this beautiful dress and left immediately, but she spread out her clothes and took a look… The front of her clothes was already stained with blood!
Yes, it is the blood of red beans!
red bean she…
Yes, when she threw the red beans, she could clearly hear the skull knocking on the stone, making a crisp “dong” sound; she also clearly saw the small body of the red beans shake a few times.
Will red beans die?
In a panic, Bai Zhenzhu heard Bai Xingxing yelling outside…
Fortunately, Chen Juxiang was at home. She didn’t know what to do, thinking that Bai Xingxing was here to make trouble for the Chen family, so she scolded Bai Xingxing, and the flustered Bai Zhenzhu took the opportunity to escape from the back door.
Unexpectedly, Bai Xingxing kept pushing her relentlessly, and the two of them ran into the jungle!
Recalling what happened just now, White Pearl burst into tears.
Bai Xingxing, who was sitting under the tree, raised her head and said angrily, “You still have the face to cry?”
Pearl cried for a long time and asked softly, “Xing Xing, today…the ninth day of the first day, right?”
Bai Xingxing, “What? You’re crazy and have to pick a day?”
Pearl let out a desperate cry.
——The eighth day has passed, and there is no hope for her life.
Forget it, let’s pay the debt with blood! Isn’t it a life? Anyway, it’s not interesting for her to live, it’s better to die.
Pearl rolled over and climbed down the tree.
Bai Xingxing didn’t know what the **** she was trying to write, so she jumped to the side, stood aside with the clothes pounding stick, and stared at the pearl…
As soon as Pearl went down to the ground, Bai Xingxing rushed over with a pounding stick, and hit the Pearl across the face, scolding while beating—
“Are you still human, Bai Zhuxiang? Chen Juxiang tortured your mother and your sisters for so many years, when was it not my mother who came forward to be the master for your mother and your sisters? In the end, you took revenge for your kindness?”
“Your eldest sister got married, and she didn’t even have a decent dowry. It was my mother who took our family up the mountain to chop bamboo and wood, and gave your eldest sister four pots and four buckets, and four boxes and four beds of bamboo were weaved out of bamboo. Xi, your eldest sister has a dowry!”
“The year before last, your father had a perforated stomach and had no money to go to the hospital. It was my father who borrowed the money from the beginning of the village to the end of the village, and then he borrowed the money to send your father to the hospital… Did your family pay back the money? No! It’s our family that saves food. Only those who are thrifty will return the money to others!”
“And you! When you were a child, you picked up the leftovers that were used to poison mice on the ground to eat, and you were poisoned… Your mother would only cry, but your father said it was your life! My father beat him up for this. Your dad had a meal, and my mom went to find herbal medicine to hang you, but she fell and almost died! My brother Dongsheng ran barefoot in the mud with you for more than 20 miles. Taking you to the town hospital saved your life…”
“White Pearl, are you still human? How can you hurt Hongdou? She is the child of Dongsheng’s brother, she is only six years old! You hugged her when she was just born and said she was good-looking… White Pearl! You You are not a human being!”
White Pearl’s eyes were empty, and she stood upright, letting Xing Xing beat and scold.
Xing Xing chased her for a whole day today, her strength was getting weaker. Although she was angry, she was even more afraid that because of her poor protection, Xiao Hongdou had an accident, so she hammered the white pearl a few times, “Wow” After crying, he fell to the ground powerless, and roared angrily, “I’ll tell you Bai Zhuo, if something happens to my father or my red beans, I’ll tear you apart!”
White Pearl replied softly, “Okay.”
Bai Xing Xing: …
“Xing Xing, let’s go home quickly, don’t delay here,” Bai Zhenzhu said calmly, “I have to go and see how Uncle is doing, how is Hongdou.”
Bai Xingxing glared at her, “What do you want?”
Pearl said in a hoarse voice, “Let’s go!”
Having said that, he left first.
Anxious, Bai Xingxing chased after him again, “Do you still want to run?”
“I don’t run anymore, I can’t run away, and I don’t want to run away… After I go back, I’ll give you my life.” White Pearl said lightly.
Bai Xing Xing looked up and down the pearl.
Pearl looked back at her and smiled, “I can die for you to see now, I’m afraid… people will misunderstand that you killed me, but it hurts you instead.”
She walked in the direction of the village.
Bai Xingxing looked at her suspiciously and hurriedly chased after her.
At dawn, the two finally returned to the mountain behind the village.
The village is noisy.
Many people were carrying hoes, farm tools, etc., and were preparing to go to work. When they saw Xing Xing and Pearl, they asked Xing Xing in surprise: “Xing, have you found someone?”
Some people also said, “Xing, your mother, your sister, and the others are back! Also, your sister-in-law had a seizure last night… Let’s go and see, it’s not good!”
Xing Xing got anxious when she heard it, grabbed Pearl by the collar and ran, “Let’s go! Go!”
The villagers behind him shouted, “Xing ah, your mother and sister-in-law are at your second aunt’s house!”
“Hey, I got it, thank you Auntie!”
Xing Xing rushed to the intersection of the second aunt’s house and happened to meet Bai Taotao who was carrying an amphora.
It seems that the binaural pot is filled with food, which is very heavy. Tao Tao was weak, weak, and panting, “Xiaozi, come and help!”
Xing Xing hurried over, and together with the fourth sister, raised the double-eared pot, and asked, “Fourth sister, how is the sister-in-law?”
Taotao hated Bai Zhenzhu deeply, and glared at Bai Zhenzhu before she said, “After a whole night of tossing… Third sister and sister-in-law Yongjun walked through the middle of the night before they picked up Dr. Zhao from the town hospital…”
“On this side, our mother is sitting in the battle, and the sister-in-law is frightened and sees red, but the little nephew has not yet entered the basin – I don’t know what it means to enter the basin, and the midwife also said that the little nephew is not in the right position, our mother I walked around the house with my sister-in-law for most of the night, and finally, my sister-in-law gave birth to a little nephew, weighing five pounds. The child is all right, it’s the sister-in-law… but I suffered! It’s too pitiful.”
According to the rules of the countryside, Tao Tao is an unmarried girl and cannot enter the delivery room.
But through the thin doors and windows, what happened to the sister-in-law in the house, Tao Tao kept outside and heard it clearly!
The midwife said-
“Dongsheng daughter-in-law, you have to squat, squat…”
“Let’s turn sideways! If you turn sideways, the doll’s position will turn to the side little by little!”
“Dongsheng’s daughter-in-law, bend over, bend over!”
“Can’t stop, can’t stop! Keep going! Keep going!”
Tan Fenghui said –
“Mom, I can’t do it, I really don’t have the strength!”
“Mom, I hurt, I hurt!”
“Dongsheng! Dongsheng saves lives…”
“Where am I, Mom? Where is my red bean? Where is Dongsheng…”
Tang Liren said-
“Son, let’s hold on for a while, just for a moment!”
“Don’t be afraid! You have a mother to accompany you. Mom and you walk together, let’s turn sideways together!”
“Hui’er, work harder! The child is about to turn around. Look, you can touch yourself, and it’s coming over, right? Let’s work harder to help the child turn his head around!”
“Hui’er, you’ve worked hard. Mom knows you’re hurt and you’re tired. You’ve made it through tonight, and your child will be fine…”
After staying up for most of the night, sister-in-law Yongjun and Bai Lili brought Dr. Zhao over.
After another two hours of torment, Tan Fenghui was speechless and could only hum.
A loud, strong baby cry sounded—
Tao Tao’s heart suddenly tightened tightly!
The women began to get busy, sending basins of clean water into the house, and basins of blood pouring out…
After a long time, everyone’s faces turned pale, and they began to discuss in a low voice——
“Seventh aunt, fourth sister-in-law, thanks to you today!”
“Anywhere, when a woman gives birth to a child, she has stepped into the gate of **** with one foot. It is because your family members are used to being kind, and they have accumulated so much fortune. In short, I have never seen such a miracle as a daughter-in-law of Dongsheng. Even though he had already lost his strength, he was still struggling for most of the night, and finally the child was born safely… This is a miracle! A miracle!”
“In my opinion, it’s fortunate that Dr. Zhao is here, otherwise, the blood collapsed in the end… We can’t do anything about it!”
“Doctor Zhao, thank you!”
“You are also very experienced. If you hadn’t used earthwork to turn the child’s head… Then it would have been really miserable to talk about Fenghui and the child. I have seen many such tragedies in the countryside!”
At the end, Dr. Zhao explained to Tang Liren, “I gave Tan Fenghui stitches, remember, it’s best not to move or clean it for three days. Do you still have the iodine tincture I prescribed for you last time? You only use it three times a day. The one who smeared her wound… It’s better to let her eat liquid food, soup, porridge, etc., and avoid eating rice, noodles, etc. I will come to see her in three days, if the wound heals well, it will be fine Eat dry food.”
When Tao Tao and Xing Xing talked about what happened last night, Bai Zhenzhu stood aside, bowed his head, not knowing what he was thinking.
On the other hand, sister-in-law Yongjun became nervous after discovering White Pearl, “White Pearl! Do you still have a face?” Her voice was sharp and high, and her angry tone was mixed with strong alertness.
Tang Li and Second Aunt Bai rushed out after hearing the news——
Second Aunt Bai, “What, Bai Zhenzhu is here?” She was also afraid of Bai Zhenzhu’s murder, so she took a thermos and used it as a weapon. And suddenly realized that the thermos is a fragile thing? Then he put it down again, looked left and right, and found that there was really nothing to take advantage of, so he had to take off a shoe, hold it tightly in his hand, and look at the white pearl cautiously.
Tang Liren also hurried out of the Westinghouse and said angrily: “It’s just right! I want to see, they are all fed by grains and miscellaneous grains, how can they have such a rotten black heart! Yes! How did you get such a vicious hand!”
White Pearl knelt down with a “tom” sound.
Tang Liren: …
Tao Tao Li ignored White Pearl, “Mom, aunts, sister-in-law of the army, Doctor Zhao, you have also been tired all night. Let’s have some breakfast first! My third sister just cooked the noodle soup!”
Second Aunt Bai, “Hey, what are you going to cook, so what if you just cook something to eat at our house!”
Tao Tao and Xing Xing worked together to lift the soup pot to the table, lifted the lid, and said, “There are six eggs in this pot of noodle soup, two of which are whole poached eggs, specially made for sister-in-law to eat. Others The eggs are broken…”
I waved my sister-in-law to bring the bowls and chopsticks over, and my sister-in-law stood in front of the table to divide the bowls, add soup, and add gnocchi.
At this time, Aunt Bai got the news and hurried over.
As soon as I arrived, I saw Bai Zhenzhu kneeling in front of Tang Liren with her head down…
“White Pearl! You ungrateful white-eyed wolf! You forgot how your uncle and auntie treated you well? How dare you do such a thing? Are you out of your mind?”
Having said that, Aunt Bai gave Bai Pearl a few times in the past!
White Pearl did not dodge or dodge, so she knelt up straight.
Aunt Bai hit the white pearl a few times and suddenly smelled the aroma of poached eggs in the air? As soon as she looked up, she saw Taozi Xingzi and Yongjun’s daughter-in-law using a long spoon to divide the gnocchi soup?
Aunt Bai involuntarily looked at Tang Liren.
Tang Liren was staring at her angrily?
Aunt Bai lowered her head shyly, ran towards Taotao and the others, glanced into the pot, and smiled: “Yo, eating eggs hahaha… Well, Taotao, is your sister-in-law okay? Is it a boy or a girl?”
Tao Tao ignored her.
Sister-in-law Yongjun said, “The baby is a boy, weighing five pounds and six taels.”
When I heard that Tan Fenghui had given birth to a son, Aunt Bai was very envious and jealous, he laughed twice, looked at the pot again, and said, “Then you invite people to eat eggs… just eat this little bit. what?”
——In the current rural rules, when the daughter-in-law of a family has a child, the host will make red eggs for relatives and friends to eat. The practice is also simple. After the eggs are cooked with the shell on, cut a piece of red paper and dip it in water to dye the egg shell red.
And when the army was in chaos last night, how could the family have any intention of making red eggs? This morning’s pot of gnocchi soup is also a thank you gift to the two aunts and doctors who were busy all night last night.