Return to the small mountain village in 1986

It was only the next morning that Gao Mingcheng learned that Wang Xiuxiu had given birth to a daughter in the middle of the night.

When he arrived at the clothing store with Duo Mei and Xiao Xuxu, Gao Mingli had already gone to work in the factory, while Zhang Jinling was cooking porridge and eggs with brown sugar at home, preparing to send them to the hospital later.

As for Hu Yinchen, she came to the clothing store earlier than Gao Mingcheng. After hearing the news, she had already gone to the hospital and was responsible for the next task of taking care of the mother and child.

Gao Mingcheng knew that Zhang Jinling and Gao Shufang had been busy for most of the night and must be tired by now, so he said: "Jin Ling, go upstairs and take a nap. When you have had enough sleep, come down and do some work. I will go to the hospital to deliver porridge later." , after Shufang comes back, let Shufang sleep."

Zhang Jinling was indeed tired. After hearing what Gao Mingcheng said, she did not agree. Instead, she said: "I just ate porridge and couldn't sleep for a while. I will help look after the store first. When you come back, I will talk to Shufang." Let’s go upstairs and sleep together.”

Zhang Jinling was very considerate. If she went to bed now, when Gao Mingcheng went to the hospital to deliver porridge, Duo Mei and Xiao Xuxu would be the only ones in the store.

If a customer comes to the door, Duomei will not be able to look at Xiao Xuxu while selling goods.

It would be good for her to stay here and help look after Xiao Xuxu.

Gao Mingcheng nodded and thought this was okay, so after saying a word to Duomei, he took the packed porridge and brown sugar eggs and drove the tractor towards the hospital.

The tractor came back in the morning from Gao Mingli, and Zhang Jinling came back with him. Gao Mingli did not stay at home to eat porridge, but bought two buns to eat outside, and then rode his bicycle to the factory to work.

Since they were not far away, Gao Mingcheng arrived at the hospital ten minutes later. At this time, the food in the lunch box was still warm.

He had already asked which ward Wang Xiuxiu lived in, so he could just go there.

When he passed by, the baby who was just a few hours old happened to have stinky diarrhea. Hu Yinchen skillfully changed the baby's diaper and temporarily threw the dirty diaper on the ground. When Gao Mingcheng went in, he happened to take a look. , well, dark green stinky!

When a baby is born, the first bowel movement is dark green and smelly. This is the excrement formed by the fetus in the womb, which is medically called meconium.

But here comes the question. The baby absorbs nutrients from the umbilical cord in the womb, so why is there meconium?

The reason is that babies also swallow and urinate while they are in the womb!

Amniotic fluid is not a clean thing. There are many impurities floating in it, such as skin flakes, nail clippings and urine dropped from the baby!

So, meconium will naturally form.

Gao Mingcheng only glanced at it and then quickly looked away. Although he had cleaned little Xuxu a lot since he had him, the stinky smell of his own child was still the same as the stinky smell of other people's children. different!

"Second brother, you're here!" Gao Shufang was skillfully making milk powder. When she saw Gao Mingcheng come in, she greeted him happily.

Wang Xiuxiu had just given birth not long ago and had no breast milk yet. If the child was hungry, she had to eat some milk powder first.

Fortunately, the milk powder and bottles were prepared in advance.

Because the child was crying, Wang Xiuxiu was awake at the moment. She was lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, but it could be seen that she had been sweating and her hair was wet.

"I'm here to deliver porridge and brown sugar eggs to Xiuxiu." Gao Mingcheng put the lunch box he brought on the table beside the bed and asked Wang Xiuxiu if he could get up to eat.

"Yes." Wang Xiuxiu said, and then struggled to support her upper body. Gao Shufang, who was next to her, reached out to help in time.

After Wang Xiuxiu sat firmly, she started eating.

It is popular here to give brown sugar eggs to pregnant women, thinking this is good for the body.

Generally speaking, if Wang Xiuxiu didn't have a sudden seizure in the middle of the night, her family would have fed her a meal of brown sugar and eggs before giving birth, just for fear that she would lose strength during the birth.

Gao Mingcheng said to Gao Shufang: "I didn't bring you anything to eat. I'll go to the store to buy some food later."

Gao Shufang said: "No need to buy it, I will eat it when I go home."

After Hu Yinchen arrives, Gao Shufang can go back first.

After Wang Xiuxiu finished eating everything, Gao Mingcheng picked up the empty lunch box and prepared to take Gao Shufang back.

Hu Yinchen said: "Don't worry, I'm here!"

Gao Mingcheng was still very relieved about her. Hu Yinchen had taken good care of Duo Mei and Xiao Xuxu. He looked back at Wang Xiuxiu and said, "When Mingwan comes back, I will ask him to come to the hospital as soon as possible." .”

When Wang Xiuxiu heard this, a smile appeared on her weak face.

Giving birth to a child is a big event for a woman, and she always feels unhappy when her husband is not around.

But that’s life, when you’re running for money, you have to give up something.

Gao Mingcheng took Gao Shufang back to the clothing store. He wanted Gao Shufang to go to the breakfast shop to eat a bowl of rice noodles, but Gao Shufang refused and only bought a meat bun to eat with porridge.

After she finished eating, Gao Mingcheng urged her and Zhang Jinling to go upstairs to sleep.

"You've been tired for half the night, so go to bed quickly!"

When they went upstairs, only Gao Mingcheng, Duo Mei and Xiao Xuxu were in the store.

Originally, the store hired Luo Li, but Luo Li gave birth to a baby. One Luo Li was missing, but there were still Gao Shufang, Zhang Jinling, and Hu Yinchen, who could help with the baby and help, but who knew that Wang Xiuxiu was giving birth? Hu Yinchen was also kidnapped!
Gao Mingcheng thought that Wang Xiuxiu would have a second child in the future, and many beauties would also have a second child. He couldn't help feeling that it was really not easy for women.

Pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare take a few years in a blink of an eye. If you have a second or third child, you won't be able to do anything else for five or six years.

Just as he was sighing, he saw Gao Mingwan walking over in a hurry.

"Second brother, second sister-in-law." Gao Mingwan's face was filled with a smile, and he was holding two bags of specialties from other places. He handed one of the bags to Gao Mingcheng. As for the other bag, it must have been given to Wang Xiuxiu.

He stood in the store and looked around, but Wang Xiuxiu was nowhere to be seen. Just as he was about to ask a question, Gao Mingcheng told him that Wang Xiuxiu had started in the middle of the night and had been sent to the hospital to give birth.

Gao Mingcheng said: "Xiuxiu gave birth to a daughter. Mother and daughter are safe. Aunt Hu is taking care of her in the hospital. You can just go to the hospital directly now."

When Gao Mingwan heard this, his expression changed. He hurriedly hurried, but he didn't expect to catch up with Wang Xiuxiu's delivery. At this time, he didn't care what to say to Gao Mingcheng, and turned around and ran to the hospital without saying a word.

Gao Mingcheng ignored him, because soon customers came to choose clothes. …

Gao Shufang and Zhang Jinling woke up at around one o'clock at noon. To be precise, they woke up from hunger.

The two went downstairs and saw that there was no food in the kitchen. Duo Mei and Xiao Xuxu were not in the store. Only Gao Mingcheng was looking after the store.

Seeing them waking up, Gao Mingcheng said: "The business in the store is good today, and we don't have time to cook. You can use the money to eat at a restaurant outside!"

Originally, Duomei was preparing to cook, but Gao Mingcheng didn't want to be so tired. Since he had money in his pocket, it was natural to do whatever was convenient for him. Besides, restaurants nowadays are all made of real materials, but they don't have those technologies and hard work. .

It was indeed much easier not to cook, and it also saved time. After dinner, Duo Mei went upstairs to take a nap with Xiao Xuxu, so Gao Mingcheng was the only one in the store.

There was no food to eat at home, and there was no time to buy groceries in the morning, so Gao Shufang and Zhang Jinling had to go to a restaurant outside to eat. The two ordered one meat and one vegetarian dish, along with a large bowl of white rice, and ate everything. .

In the afternoon, Gao Mingcheng felt a lot more relaxed with the two of them looking after the store. He was a person who liked to run around and could not stay in one place. Therefore, most of the business he did in his previous life was speculation, and even He was wandering in a gray area and did not engage in serious business. He did not settle down until he returned to the county to develop real estate.

He was forced to look at the store for most of the day today, and he just felt uncomfortable all over. Now that he saw someone taking over the business in the store, he immediately found an excuse to go out for a walk.

It's not like wandering around like a street kid with nothing to do, but preparing to go to Maozi's side.

During the Chinese New Year, he decided to open a billiard room in the county. He opened a shop. He didn't like to rent a house and felt that the rented house was unstable. If he doesn’t have the money to build his own house, he will naturally have to rent a house, but isn’t he rich?
So after much thought, he decided to cooperate with Mao Zi. Mao Zi would provide the foundation and he would provide the money to build the house. When the house was built, he and Mao Zi would have one floor each. He would use the first floor to open a shop while Mao Zi would use the second floor to live.

Before going to the capital, he went to Mao Zi specifically and gave Mao Zi 2,000 yuan as the initial money for building a house. After that, he was only responsible for paying and checking accounts, and let Mao Zi be responsible for supervising the progress of building the house.

I don’t know if Mao Zi has started building a house. On the way there, Gao Mingcheng muttered something.

He was fast on his feet and walked like the wind. He did not forget to observe the situation on the roadside and make an assessment of the flow of people and the mental state of pedestrians.

Time has entered the 90s. From the perspective of the overall environment, everything is prosperous, but from the perspective of the small environment, there are quite a lot of unemployed young people.

In the past few years, cities such as Yangcheng have experienced a wave of migrant workers. People have flocked to Yangcheng from all directions, but the vast majority of them have not found suitable jobs in Yangcheng.

These people either move to other places to work, or they have no choice but to return to their hometowns.

There are not enough jobs in the county, and some factories with poor profitability have gone bankrupt and shut down one after another in recent years.

In order to seek opportunities for survival, some of the laid-off workers flocked to other places and some started to do business.

Suddenly, Gao Mingcheng heard the sound of billiards being played. He looked around and saw a simple billiard table in a spacious yard. A group of young people were playing billiards enthusiastically because there was only one billiard table. , unable to let others play together, so most people could only stand and watch.

Some people watched silently, while others gave advice to their friends holding sticks.

After getting away from the excitement, Gao Mingcheng passed by a small video hall where movies from Xiangjiang were played. If he wanted to go in and watch them, he needed to buy a ticket.

Gao Mingcheng would not enter such a place. Such places are often crowded with people, the smell is muddy, and idle young men are prone to fights.

But if he doesn't go in, it doesn't mean that no one goes in. The business of this kind of video hall is actually quite good, because even in the county, the penetration rate of color TV is not high.

People who have nothing to do always need entertainment. Watching movies and playing billiards are good pastimes.

Gao Mingcheng continued walking while observing. After a while, he arrived at Mao Zi's home.

Looking from a distance, I saw that it was quite busy there. A group of construction workers were busy at work. Some were mixing cement, some were transporting cement, and some were concentrating on laying bricks.

Gao Mingcheng was a little surprised when he saw that the walls of the new house were two meters high. He didn't expect that Mao Zi could do things very neatly!
Because the house is built on the original foundation, the old house must be demolished before the house is built, and then the foundation can be laid and the walls can be built.

Gao Mingcheng took one look at the house and wanted to find Mao Zi. He searched the crowd and quickly found his target.

Maozi was sifting river sand in the open space next to him.

After buying river sand, it cannot be used directly because there are still some larger impurities in it, such as small shells and larger pebbles.

Therefore, the river sand must be sieved before being mixed with cement.

In the open space, there are piles of river sand that have not been sifted, and a sieve as big as a door is supported on the other side.

Maozi holds a shovel, shovels up the river sand and pours it into the sieve. The fine river sand will pass through the small holes in the sieve and fall to the other side of the sieve, while the coarser impurities will slide along the sieve and fall to the ground.

Maybe he had been working for a while, so the thickness of the river sand on both sides of the sieve was clearly distinguishable.

Maozi's younger brother Yangyang was also with him, but the mentally retarded boy couldn't help with the work. Instead, he squatted there and played in the sand.

He was rummaging in the sand with one hand, and clenched the other hand tightly. Only when he opened his palm did Gao Mingcheng see a few beautiful pebbles placed in the clenched palm.

In addition to Yangyang, there are several other children who are also playing in the sand, but they are real children, the oldest is only five or six years old.

It wasn't until Gao Mingcheng was standing next to the sand pile that Mao Zi saw him. The first time he saw him, his eyes lit up.

"Brother Mingcheng, you are back from the capital!" Mao Zi put down the shovel in his hand and was about to lead Gao Mingcheng to see the new house under construction.

After arriving at the construction site, the foreman also knew Gao Mingcheng, so they greeted each other, and the foreman enthusiastically handed Gao Mingcheng a cigarette.

It wasn't until Gao Mingcheng declined that he handed the cigarette to Mao Zi beside him.

The contractors who have dealt with him naturally know that Gao Mingcheng does not smoke, but the social behavior of passing cigarettes has been imprinted in his mind.

Gao Mingcheng checked the progress of the new house. To be honest, he couldn't tell it now. After all, the walls were only about two meters long, and the first floor was empty except for the load-bearing columns and the toilet.

For this house, Gao Mingcheng did not ask a professional to draw him an architectural design. Instead, he found a contractor he was familiar with and told him his requirements for the house. Then the contractor knew how to build it.

These skilled construction workers may not have high academic qualifications, but their ability to build houses is not weak, especially when building houses that follow the trend.

Most of today's houses only have two floors. As long as there are no problems with the building materials, they are relatively safe. (End of chapter)