farmer's little girl

Chapter 108

As early as a few months after Lu Jiaoyue's pregnancy, Mrs. Mei told Mrs. Cheng to let her pay more attention on weekdays.

Mrs. Cheng was grateful to the couple of the master's family for giving her and her little granddaughter a way to survive. The family treated them as if they were their own, so they put their best effort into moving their bedding to Lu Jiaoyue's room, intending to lay their bedding on the ground every day. floor covering.

Lu Jiaoyue was upset, and she couldn't persuade the stubborn Mrs. Cheng, so she could only make a compromise and let Mrs. Cheng sleep on the kang with her.Anyway, this kang is big enough, not to mention sleeping two people, it is more than enough to sleep four or five people.Unexpectedly, Mrs. Cheng still didn't do it, she felt that she was too old to be dismissed, and Lu Jiaoyue couldn't persuade her.

Xiaocao decided to watch the night for her grandma. Anyway, there was nothing wrong with it. At most, Lu Jiaoyue woke up frequently at night, and she might drink some water at night, so someone needed to pour it.Xiaocao is not small anymore, a ten-year-old girl in the countryside can do half the labor of a child, she feels that she can do this job.

Lu Jiaoyue immediately agreed. Seeing her granddaughter's insistence, Mrs. Cheng observed that Xiaocao had done a good job, and she was alert enough at night to get up when there was any movement, so she acquiesced to this matter.

That night, as soon as Lu Jiaoyue groaned, Xiaocao got up, put on her jacket, and crawled to Lu Jiaoyue's side.

"Aunt Yue, what's wrong with you?" Xiaocao asked, reaching out to touch her forehead.

Lu Jiaoyue took a deep breath, felt the throbbing pain gradually disappear, and said, "It's nothing, just a stomachache."

Xiaocao frowned, and got off the kang in a hurry.

"Aunt Yue, wait, I'll call grandma." Without giving Lu Jiaoyue a chance to stop her, she opened the door and ran out.

Not long after, Mrs. Cheng came into the room in a cotton-padded jacket and holding a candlestick. Before the person arrived, the voice came first.

"Jiaoyue, are you okay?" Before, Mrs. Cheng wanted to call Mrs. Lu Jiaoyue, but she changed her name only after Lu Jiaoyue insisted.Country people, who have any wives and grandmas, don't make people laugh.

"Ma'am, I'm fine, I just have a stomachache. I wanted to say I'm fine, but Xiaocao called you here after running so fast. It's so cold, you should go back to the house and rest, I'm fine."

Mrs. Cheng came to the edge of the kang and sat down, "Xiaocao did the right thing. You are about to give birth, and you may not know when it will start. Let's pay more attention to it, it's better than catching blind when it happens. You don't know, this Giving birth to a woman is like going through the gate of hell, and a little negligence may lead to a big mistake."

Seeing that Mrs. Cheng was unwilling to leave, Lu Jiaoyue could only hold her eyelids to talk to her. In fact, she was not sleepy at the moment, she slept more during the day, and less sleepy at night. It was cold and tired, and she always felt lazy. Cheerful.

Just when Lu Jiaoyue felt drowsy, suddenly her stomach hurt again, this time the pain was very different from the previous one, the throbbing lasted for a few breaths before it stopped.

Thinking about what Mrs. Cheng said just now, she didn't dare to delay, so she told Mrs. Cheng about it.

Mrs. Cheng stood up immediately, "Oh, you are about to give birth. I'll go to the next door and get someone to go. Xiaocao, look at your Aunt Yue." After finishing speaking, she hurried out.

This is about to give birth?

Lu Jiaoyue was still a little dazed, but there was no chance for her to be dazed immediately.Erfang's family soon came over, and even Wulang rubbed his eyes and casually put on a big jacket and followed.

"Mom, I'm really fine." Seeing her family members taking things so seriously, Lu Jiaoyue couldn't laugh or cry.

"It's all right. It's the first time you have a child. It's normal if you don't understand. You are in labor pain before giving birth. Your mother gave birth to four of you brothers and sisters. Why don't you have more experience? You are now Just lie down for me, pay attention to the interval between labor pains, and I will ask your father to invite the midwife, don't panic, there are so many of us watching, I will let you give birth safely." Mei's speech speed Said very quickly, and then ordered the others to go to Zhang Luo.

Lu Minghai and Lu Guangyi were sent by her to set up a car to invite the midwife, Guiya was sent to boil water in the kitchen, and Mrs. Cheng was busy preparing all the things needed for delivery.As for the brothers Lu Guangzhi and Wulang, she drove them back to sleep, because they had to go to private school tomorrow morning, Lu Guangzhi and Wulang quit, and went to the west room to stay in compromise.

Soon Lu Jiaoyue knew that what her mother was telling was not lying, because the pain became more and more intense, at first she still had the energy to gossip with Mei Shi and others, but beads of sweat gradually appeared on her forehead.

"Don't be afraid, your fetal position is upright, and the baby's head is also in the basin. It's a matter of how long it takes. Listen to your mother, close your eyes and rest your mind. I will ask your sister-in-law to cook a bowl of noodle soup for you later. Come eat, don't scream if it hurts, save your energy and have a baby later..."

As expected, Mrs. Mei had given birth to four children, and she spoke clearly.The midwife heard this while she was still at the door, and hurriedly continued: "Yes, nourish your energy, the exhausting energy is yet to come, it's best to have a good sleep, it's probably too early for you to die." She While talking, he washed his hands in the basin brought by Gui Ya, and touched Lu Jiaoyue's stomach before coming to the kang.

Then she instructs Mrs. Mei and Mrs. Cheng to lay things on the kang. Seeing Mrs. Cheng bring out a thick stack of white cotton cloth, she still has the heart to chat with Mrs. Mei: "Your family is really willing, my wife, I have delivered so many babies, and it is the second time." This is the first time I saw someone who was willing to use such a fine white cotton cloth."

Speaking of this, we have to talk about women giving birth to children.

Most rural people are not rich, women give birth to a lot of filth, in order to avoid soiling the kang, they will put water-absorbing things under the mother's body.On weekdays, clothes are patched and patched, and most people are not willing to use cotton cloth as a pad, because after using this thing once, it will be thrown away, so generally a bed sheet is laid first, and thatch or wheat straw is spread under the sheet, dyed and dyed. When the blood is on, they are changed, and some don't even put the sheets on.

Lu Jiaoyue didn't understand this at first, but she once saw Mei's pick out dried thatch and wheat straw in the yard under the sun, and after asking a lot, she realized that these things were actually used for her childbirth.She was stunned on the spot, and hurriedly stopped Mei Shi, saying that she didn't need this thing at that time, and she asked her father to go to the town or county to buy some white cotton cloth for her in two days.

At that time, she was taught by Mei Shi that she was too delicate, but now, in front of outsiders, Mei Shi would not say that her daughter is delicate.

"This is the only girl in the family, and her man is away to do business. Why do men make money, not for the daughter-in-law and children at home, and having children is the top priority for a woman, and it cannot be saved."

The midwife had already seen that the family was not bad, and thought that after the child was born, it would be a lot of hard work, so she said along the way: "No, that's how it should be. I think this cotton cloth has been washed and exposed to the sun, right? I heard people say that rich wives in other counties use this thing to give birth to their children, your daughter is really lucky."

Mei's face was full of smiles: "It's not lucky, but this child has a good life and found a man who loves her."

Lu Jiaoyue who was lying on the kang was embarrassed, it had nothing to do with luck, she just thought the pile of grass was dirty.Also, why did Brother Jin dote on her again, and he was not at home, obviously she was the one who doted on her.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel some small complaints in my heart, why didn't he come back, he clearly promised her.

Lu Jiaoyue didn't know that Zhou Jin had just arrived at the pier, and after getting off the boat, he didn't care about anything, and threw a big mess to Mei Zhuangyi, and was rushing back desperately.

It wasn't until the rooster crowed twice outside that the midwife washed her hands with white wine and prepared to deliver Lu Jiaoyue's baby.

During this period, Lu Jiaoyue endured the pain and drank a bowl of noodle soup, and also ate two poached eggs, and let Mrs. Mei and Mrs. Cheng help her clean her body.

The midwife originally asked her to get off the kang and walk, but she couldn't stand the pain, so she could only lie on the kang and gritted her teeth to prevent herself from screaming.

Lu Jiaoyue felt that she was about to die. She finally understood why her mother always said that a woman's childbirth is like passing through the gate of hell. She felt as if she had been split open, and the pain was everywhere, so painful that she wanted to hit the wall, but it's a pity Two hands were pressed.

In a trance, she felt that someone stuffed something in her mouth, and she subconsciously bit it desperately.

Think of this thing as Zhou Jin's shoulder, as much as she hurts, she wants him to hurt as much.

Why isn't this heartless person coming back?
Next to her ear was the midwife telling her to exert herself, and her mother whispered in her ear that it made her feel pain, so exert herself, and don't exert force indiscriminately.But right now Lu Jiaoyue couldn't care less about these things, her body felt as if she had been picked up from the water, her mouth was bitten off, and every effort made her groan in pain, she tried her best to think of something Divert yourself.

He vaguely remembered that she had experienced such pain before, the time when her child was lost in her previous life.

At that time, she was pregnant, and she was forced by Widow Du to stay up all day and night doing needlework. She thought that she would be fine if she didn't have to work hard, but one night she was sitting under the lamp doing embroidery work, and suddenly felt a stomachache. pain.

The child was nearly four months old, and when it fell out, the midwife said that it had already formed and was a boy.She didn't know how Widow Du and Du Lian were feeling, she just felt that the sky was falling in an instant.

It really collapsed, she almost wanted to die.But death is not so easy, after more than a month of lingering sickness, she was still kicked out of bed by Widow Du, who had run out of patience.

In fact, it didn't hurt as much as it does now, it just hurt in my heart, so painful that I could barely breathe.Feeling very hopeless, like falling into a hole in the ice. At that time, she was thinking that it would be good if her mother was by her side at that time, but it was a pity that her elder brother died for her at that time, and she had already severed contact with her mother's family...

In a daze, she seemed to hear someone calling her.

She tried hard to identify it, only to realize that it was Zhou Jin's voice.

Her mother whispered in her ear, Jinzi is back, don't be discouraged, work harder to give birth to the baby.Suddenly, I felt my nose was so sore. After going through so many, she will definitely be able to get through this hurdle. She has her father, mother, brothers, sisters-in-law and brothers by her side, and him...

Thinking of this, Lu Jiaoyue finally felt some strength, and began to steady her mind and exert strength according to the midwife's command.

Zhou Jin counted the days every day, thinking that Jiaoyue should not have been born so early, but before he got to the door of the house, he saw the bright lights in the yard.

After he opened the courtyard door, his father-in-law told him that Yue'er had started.

Zhou Jin was dumbfounded on the spot, and it was only after Lu Guangzhi called him that he realized it.Immediately, he rushed into the house, but was stopped by Lu Guangyi at the door of the east house.

"You can't go in there. Don't worry, we're all waiting outside."

Zhou Jin had no choice but to sit and wait, but he couldn't sit still, it was Lu Jiaoyue who was screaming inside.

Lu Minghai is an experienced person, and comforted him: "Don't panic, women give birth like this."

That being said, there is a ghost if you don’t panic. Remember that when Mrs. Mei gave birth, Lu Minghai was no better than Zhou Jin.

It was not until it was bright outside that there was a loud cry of a baby in the room.

Lu Minghai stood up from the chair with a swish, "I gave birth."

Zhou Jin jumped up from the chair, because he had been in the same position for a long time, his body was already stiff, and he almost didn't fall.Lu Minghai hurried to help his son-in-law again, and waited for the two to stand at the door, and after a while, the door opened from the inside.

The midwife looked at the two with a hesitant expression: "Good luck, mother and daughter are safe, you are a daughter."

Nowadays, people who have children are looking forward to sons. Now that they have a daughter, I am afraid that their hard-earned money will be greatly reduced.Just thinking about this, I suddenly felt a weight in my arms, and saw a small silver ingot lying in my arms, about five taels in size. The midwife had never seen the silver ingot before, so she thought it was fake, so she picked it up immediately. It was stuffed in the mouth, and after biting it, it was confirmed that it was real, so I was happy to see my teeth but not my eyes.

"Where's the child?" Lu Minghai laughed so hard when he heard that his daughter had given birth.There are many boys in his family, so it's not uncommon for boys.

"It's inside, it's being cleaned up..." Because the baby was a daughter, the midwife didn't bring it out right away.If I had known this family was so generous, I would have embraced it. Maybe the hard-earned money would be doubled.

Before he finished speaking here, Zhou Jin squeezed in, and the midwife didn't stop calling.

Lu Jiaoyue was lying on the kang with a tired face, Mrs. Mei was busy wrapping the child, and Mrs. Cheng was cleaning up the mess in the house.

She was about to ask her mother to bring the baby over to show her, when a big black face squeezed in front of her.

Zhou Jin was black and thin.

"Yue'er, are you okay? Does it still hurt?"

Lu Jiaoyue answered irrelevantly: "Why did you come back?"

Zhou Jin looked anxious, "I was delayed on the road, and I rushed back as soon as I got off the boat. I didn't even bother to say hello to your little uncle."

"Are you okay on the road?"

"Everything is going well."

"That's good. I'm sleepy. Let me sleep for a while. I'll see the child when I wake up." Before the words fell, the person fell into a deep sleep, obviously extremely tired.

Zhou Jin wanted to touch her face, but thought of himself being dusty again, so he withdrew his hand.

Mrs. Mei came over, "Let her sleep, don't call her, I have been tossing and tossing since the middle of the night, and at the end I was in a daze of pain, but luckily it went well."

Zhou Jin stood up at a loss, "Mother, I'm late."

"It's good to come back, Yue'er has always been thinking about you, otherwise she wouldn't have launched it so early. Don't look at her smiling in front of me, in fact, I know she is thinking about you, although she didn't give birth to you this time. , but you have to remember her hard work." Don't look at Mei's stern face, but she is actually worried at the moment, and she doesn't know if her son-in-law will dislike her daughter and give birth to a son, so she acted first. Point out Lu Jiaoyue's difficulties and hardships.

"Daughter is good, I like my daughter."

Zhou Jin carefully took his daughter over.

There was a bright red person inside the big red swaddling baby. His small face was no bigger than his palm, his hair was thick, and the skin on his face was so tender that he didn't dare to breathe loudly for fear of blowing it apart.A pair of eyes are tightly closed, and the small mouth moves from time to time.

Zhou Jin felt his heart melt in an instant.

This is his daughter, his and Jiaoyue's daughter!
His nose was a little sour, and he felt a strange liquid gathering in his eyes. Zhou Jin closed his eyes tightly, took a deep breath, opened them immediately, and looked carefully again.

Seeing her son-in-law like this, Mei finally felt relieved, Ren Zhoujin held the child in his arms, and turned around to help Mrs. Cheng clean up the house.

When Lu Jiaoyue woke up again, she saw that little milk baby who looked like nothing.

Before she could even sigh, she was urged by her mother to breastfeed the child.

The little milk baby also seemed to know that it was in the arms of the mother, and started to suck.But after inhaling for a while, nothing came into her mouth, so she frowned, and burst into tears with a wow.

"Mother, what's the matter?" The new mother was panicked and at a loss.

"What's the panic? It's all like this. Your milk probably hasn't come down yet, so you'll have it if you suck more."

"But she cried..."

"Otherwise get something else to feed first, don't starve. The new father is no better than the new mother, giving random ideas.

"What are you feeding? Don't mess around. A newborn baby won't be hungry for three days. I asked your sister-in-law to cook for you. Eat and drink more and suck more. Otherwise, your milk will come out tomorrow."

Mrs. Mei has already said so, so she can only do so first.

Guiya came in with a bowl.There is a bowl of porridge in the bowl, the good white rice, the rice flower is boiled, sticky and sticky, and there are boiled red beans in it.

"You were boiled when you started it, and you are eating right now. Mother said that you can't eat big oil and meat now, and eat to nourish your stomach first, and then supplement when the milk comes down."

Lu Jiaoyue was already hungry right now, so she started to eat the porridge bowl.

After eating, Gui Ya packed up the bowl and left, and then Mei came into the house with the child in her arms.

"Mother is here to wait for you during the confinement period. You won't let you do anything, and you can just watch from the side, so as not to wait until the confinement period is over, and you don't know how to take care of the child."

She put the swaddle beside Lu Jiaoyue, and took out a stack of diapers.This diaper was also prepared in advance, rubbed and rubbed, and put it in the sun before putting it away for later use.

Mrs. Mei started, while the newly appointed parents watched how to change the diaper of the child.Zhou Jin looked at the slender legs, his heart trembled, his eyes kept on staring, for fear that his mother-in-law would accidentally pinch his daughter's legs.

Facts proved that his worry was unnecessary. The little guy didn't wake up until Meishi changed the diaper.

"Why doesn't she open her eyes?" Lu Jiaoyue asked.

"Don't be so anxious, the little baby's eyes open sooner or later, some open their eyes after birth, and some open their eyes after more than half a month. Anyway, you have nothing to do at the moment, let the baby breathe more Come down one day earlier, and your daughter will suffer less." With that said, Mei helped her daughter adjust her posture, and put the baby into her arms.

So after Mrs. Mei left, Lu Jiaoyue opened her clothes to reveal a section of white snow, and lay on her side for the little milk baby to suck.

And the newly appointed father just squatted aside and watched, not looking tired at all.

Lu Jiaoyue felt a little embarrassed, and couldn't help but tugged at her clothes to cover her chest a bit.Unexpectedly, she was pulled away by Zhou Jin again, "Stop covering our child."

Lu Jiaoyue thought about it, so she let him go.

The two of them kept this posture silently, the only thing moving was the little baby's fingertip-sized mouth.

"I feel that my daughter is not strong enough, so she probably can't suck it out, or I will come?"

Lu Jiaoyue was so shocked that she almost turned her daughter away, and stared at Zhou Jin with surprise in her eyes, but she didn't know that his eyes were very serious, without evil thoughts at all.

"Suck it out earlier so that my daughter won't starve." Zhou Jin said again.

Lu Jiaoyue endured and endured, before she said: "No."

"Don't starve our daughter."

"Anyway, no, nothing you say is useless."

Seeing his daughter-in-law's insistence, Zhou Jin could only change the subject: "Then what nickname and nickname do you want to give our daughter?"

To be honest, Lu Jiaoyue hadn't thought about this question, she originally planned to let Zhou Jin take it.

"look?"

"Let's call her a little name. You can see that she is small everywhere, and a little bit bigger. As for her first name, let me think about it."

Little Dian opened his eyes the next day.

The black and bright eyes are like purple grapes. When she looks at you quietly, she can almost melt people's hearts.

Regarding Lu Jiaoyue's birth of a daughter, the Mei family sent Lu Guangyi to send a letter to the Mei family on the same day, so on the day of Xisan, there were more than a dozen people from the Mei family, bringing many things in large and small bags.

There are oil cakes, eggs, brown sugar, and some aunts and aunts made small clothes for the baby. Liu's old age has given up sewing, and she even made some clothes for the baby.The exquisiteness of the clothes is simply breathtaking.

Lu Jiaoyue has always felt that her needlework is not as good as her grandmother's, although Liu always praised her as better than herself, but seeing these little clothes at this time, she feels even more so.

Mei Zhuangyi also came, and brought a little golden lock.

After coming, hang it around the child's neck, and put down the bold words: "Take it first, and when you are older, uncle and grandpa will replace it for you."

Now that Mei Zhuangyi has started a business, everyone in the family knows that he has made money, and the private conflicts in the past are gone. The two daughters-in-law of the Mei family's big house see him like the younger uncle and the younger uncle.

Just like what Mei Zhuangyi said to Zhou Jin before, silver is a good thing because it can solve many problems.Although it may seem vulgar to put it among family members, people are not gods. The seven things to open the door, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, everything must cost money, so sometimes it is so vulgar.

At least the conflicts are gone, everyone in the family is smiling, Liu's brows are no longer sad, and old man Mei is no longer frowning. The family's life is very happy and happy.Although there will inevitably be some small tricks in private, such as the two daughters-in-law of Dafang vying to curry favor with Mei Zhuangyi, or for example, when they saw that Mrs. Liu wanted to propose marriage to Mei Zhuangyi, they lured their relatives' daughters home, but at least In the big picture everything is okay.

Not only the Mei family came, but also the three-bedroom couple, Uncle Lu and Uncle Lu's family, all came today.

When it was time to add pots, the midwife narrowed her eyes with a smile. This business was worth more than what she had earned in the past few years.Before leaving, he kept saying that he would ask Lu Jiaoyue to call her again when she gave birth next time, and she appointed to come whenever she was called.

Zhou Jin specially ordered three tables of noodles in the town, inviting everyone to have a meal.

After eating, everyone went to their own homes.

Zhou Jin talked about business matters with Mei Zhuangyi who stayed outside, while Lu Jiaoyue talked with Mei Shi inside.

"Mother, what's wrong with the third aunt, I think she seems a little unhappy?"

Mei Shi was arranging Xiao DianDian's swaddling clothes, when she heard this, her hands paused.

"What happened? By the way, Lu Jiaoxing should have been born early at the Du's house, why didn't I see the third aunt say that Orion is still waiting." Seeing that her mother's expression was a bit wrong, Lu Jiaoyue asked.

Mei put Xiao DianDian beside Lu Jiaoyue, then sat down on the edge of the kang, sighed: "Your third aunt is upset because of this, that girl Xing'er hasn't been born yet."

"Not yet born?" Lu Jiaoyue stared wide-eyed, "The one she conceived before me, how could it not be born yet?!"

"My mother didn't want to tell you about this, since you asked..."

(End of this chapter)