I don't want to be wronged again

Chapter 2, Winter Solstice

The winter in the south of the Yangtze River has always been mild, not as cold as in the north, and it rarely snows.However, Yangzhou City in the seventh year of Yongle was an exception.

This day is the winter solstice in the 24 solar terms. There has always been a folk saying that "the winter solstice is as big as the new year". Every family prepares food and sacrifices to their ancestors. Let's celebrate together.

The sky has been gloomy since half an hour, the sky is covered with red clouds, and the north wind is also swirling and piercing into the cracks in people's bones.At the back door of a large house in the west of the city, two young men took a chicken coop from the car and carried it to the back kitchen.A Futai lady in charge greeted her: "Lai'an, Laishun, how many chickens did you buy?"

Laishun replied: "Aunt Fu, today is the winter solstice, everyone needs to drink a bowl of chicken soup, right? It looks like it's going to snow this day, and the hens in the chicken market are even more sought-after. A chicken costs one and two cents." What! Lai’an and I ran all over the city to grab these more than 20 old hens. It’s cold this day, but it froze us too much.”

Aunt Fu scolded: "You two beheaded useless things! What are these twenty or so chickens enough for? Madam is half a month away from giving birth. Who would have thought that they would be mobilized last night?" You can’t have ten or twenty chickens for a day of confinement? What are these chickens enough for? In the morning, you will put me in a car and go to the countryside to collect them! Don’t come back if you don’t have enough chickens!”

Lai Anzao scooped two bowls of hot soup and Laishun from the stove to drink, then took out a piece of pink plum blossom rice ball from the steamer and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed twice, stretched his neck and swallowed it, surprised Said: "Madam is such a curvaceous beauty, how can she have such a big belly, can eat more than a dozen chickens a day?"

A girl next to her, wearing an ink-and-ink silk jacket and a blue-green bijia, laughed: "Look at this ignorant thing! How can a chicken eat that much? A chicken can only use a little bit on the breast." It’s just meat, how many chickens are worth making a pot of soup?”

Lai An couldn't help but burst into tongues: "My mother! How much money do you need for this day!"

Aunt Fu curled her lips and said, "Hmph! Our Sun family is not only the richest man in Yangzhou, but there are also mountains of gold and silver! Are you afraid that you can't afford these chickens? Look at the stew on the small stove of your sister Huajiao over there. Madam's hundred-year-old ginseng for invigorating Qi costs several hundred taels of silver. I hope Madam's child will be a young master, so someone will inherit the Sun family's tens of thousands of wealth, right?"

Just as they were talking, a big girl in a silver-red bikini inlaid with rabbit fur inlaid with rabbit fur hurriedly ran in from the moon-hole door leading to the kitchen in the back house. The ginkgo pendant swings like a swing: "Hurry up, hurry up! Bring the old ginseng soup up to Madam!"

Aunt Fu saw that her face changed color quickly, and immediately poured the ginseng soup into a lotus cup with ice patterns in the official kiln, and then carefully put it into a delicate food box covered with a cotton sleeve, and then sent a maid to send it : "Su Ye! Hurry up and send it up carefully, don't miss it!"

He grabbed the big girl who was about to leave again: "Miss Jiangsha, how is Madam doing?"

Jiang Sha tears rolled in her eyes: "From last night to now, Madam has been in pain all night. The young master just didn't move. Madam's body is not good, and now she has no strength, and just fainted once. There must be a good or bad, but what should we do?" As he spoke, he began to sob and cry.Aunt Fu's eyes were also red, and she quickly patted Jiangsha: "Silly girl! That's how it is here! Women give birth to children, and it's not always the door of hell. Our wife has always been kind and generous, compassionate and compassionate. Those who only do good deeds will be blessed by gods and Buddhas!" She raised her hand and wiped her eyes: "Stop crying! There is no bad luck. Don't worry. Madam will be fine!"

It was dusk in a blink of an eye, and the sky was too dark to see anything ten steps away.The qidefeng lanterns under the eaves in front of the door had long been hung up, and waves of snow particles made the oiled silk cotton curtain on the main door of the Sun residence rustle.The door curtain was lifted continuously, and the shuttle-like girls and women went in with buckets of hot water, and came out with basins of bloody water, and bursts of pain came from the inner room from time to time.

Sun Zhang sat on the rosewood official hat chair in the outer hall, the sleeves of the ocher origami silk lambskin robe were tightly held by his fists, and he didn't feel wrinkled by the sweat in his palms.Hearing his beloved wife's gradually weakening sexual desire, he felt very anxious.He wanted to rush into the room several times, but the old nanny who was guarding the door rushed back honestly.A four or five-year-old girl next to her, wearing a rose-red woven gold brocade jacket and trousers, with pink makeup and embellishments asked, "Daddy, how long will it take for mother to give birth to a little brother?" Sun Zhangyang hugged her distressedly: " Zhanyi, be good, mother just put in more effort. Zhanyi must be hungry, right? Let the nanny bring you some food first, okay?"

"Zhanyi has to wait for father and mother to eat together."

Just as he was talking, he heard a cry of "wawa", and there was a burst of cheers from the inner room: "It's born! It's born!"

The door curtain was lifted, and Mr. Yang Yici, a famous expert in gynecology in Yangzhou City, came out. He first cleaned his hands carefully under the service of the girl, then took the hot towel handed by the girl and wiped his sweaty head, and stopped him from rushing. Sun Zhangyang bowed to the ground: "Congratulations, brother Sun, your wife, mother and daughter are safe."

Sun Zhangyang was stunned: "Ah, another girl? Alas! A girl is a girl! As long as the two of you are safe!"

Yang Yici hesitated for a moment before sighing, frowning and saying: "Brother, Mrs. Zun has a delicate body and a narrow pelvis. It is very difficult to give birth. Fortunately, the delivery was normal when the eldest daughter was born, but there was a hidden injury in the womb; this birth is difficult again. , Fortunately, the lives of the mother and daughter were saved, but there will be no rebirth in the future, otherwise the lives of everyone, big and small, will be lost."

Sun Zhangyang was heartbroken when he heard the words: "I can't reproduce? How sad Haizhu would be if she knew it. Hey! If you don't give birth, you won't give birth. It's okay. If Haizhu suffers again, I will feel sorry for you to death. I have I have two precious daughters, what else is there to be dissatisfied with?"

Hearing what he said, everyone in the room laughed secretly in their hearts, but no one noticed that the crying baby who had just been picked up by the midwife stopped crying and opened a pair of black eyes. , looking at her father, there was a look of scrutiny in her eyes...

Hearing that Sun Zhangyang didn't care about whether he was a boy or a girl, the midwife wiped off her cold sweat before she dared to hold the baby and said flatteringly: "Master Sun, your daughter may have a very rich background! Suddenly there was a strange fragrance from the air, and the fragrance mist has not dissipated until now! This is auspicious! Look again, how handsome the little lady is! Congratulations for adding a stunning beauty to the family!"

Yang Yici also nodded: "That's right, Brother Sun, you are a very human daughter. There is a strange fragrance when it falls from the fetus..." He wrinkled his nose and sniffed again: "It seems to be the fragrance of roses, my brother After practicing medicine for so many years, this is the first time we met."

At this time, everyone could smell the fragrance that permeated the air, it was indeed the fragrance of roses.The servants in the room were all overjoyed, and hurriedly kowtowed to Sun Zhangyang to congratulate him.A woman in charge smiled flatteringly: "Our young lady is so extraordinary, she must be a daughter of heaven. How can a mortal have such a fate! This is a very wealthy person, and she can still be an empress if she doesn't have it all! "

Sun Zhangyang frowned, and took the baby. The baby's fragrance was even stronger. She didn't cry or make a fuss, but just stared at it with her black eyes.Seeing Master Sun looking at her, he stared at Master Sun without blinking.Master Sun only felt that those eyes were shining brightly, and his tender mouth opened and he yawned. Looking at her made one feel soft in the bottom of his heart.He couldn't help feeling sorry for Dasheng, hugging her tightly in his arms, and the only trace of frustration flew away.

Master Sun held the baby and went forward to give a big gift to Dr. Yang, and then bowed to the midwife: "Thanks to the hard work of the two of you, we can keep her mother and daughter safe. Sun will never forget the life-saving grace. It's just that the scent is too strange today, if it spreads out, it may attract people's attention, and I'm afraid that my daughter will not be able to bear it. Please don't spread it."

He also ordered his servants: "It's just that Madam's western perfume bottle was spilled, so there's no need to make a fuss." A chill flashed between his brows: "From now on, don't talk about this anymore! If there is any more nonsense, the whole family will sell it immediately. Go!" Everyone said in unison, awe-inspiring.The woman who flattered and slapped the horse's hoof was even more ashamed and hid behind the people.

Sun Zhangyang waved his hand, he had already been waiting for the girl beside him to offer a thank you gift: 100 taels of silver for the newborn mother-in-law, two bolts of fine velvet rulers, two bolts of plain weave silk, and twenty catties of clear water cotton.This thank you gift is more than half a year's income for giving birth to a woman.The midwife was overjoyed, and hurried forward to thank her.

The gift for Yang Yici was generous, five gold ingots weighing twelve taels, two hundred-year-old ginseng, ten bolts of woven gold cloth, and ten altars of high-quality sweet-scented osmanthus thick wine.Yang Yici gave in and accepted: Knowing that his family is rich, although these gifts are generous, they are nothing in his family.

After receiving the generous gift, both of them understood in their hearts: there is also a hush money in it.Lamenting Sun Zhangyang's love for his daughter, both of them rotted what happened today, and they never said anything about it.It is worthy of such a generous gift.

Sun Zhangyang hugged his little daughter, Zhanyi tightly grabbed his father's clothes, and came to Mrs. Sun's bed.Li Haizhu's smoky eyes blinked, and tears of grievance flowed down her cheeks: "Master, it's another daughter..."

Sun Zhangyang hurriedly wiped away his wife's tears with heartache, and carefully handed the baby wrapped in a Baina quilt with beautiful patterns made of various pieces of cloth to his wife: "What's wrong with my daughter, look how beautiful our Zhanyi is, This little girl is also a little beauty, who else's child can be better than our daughter?"

(End of this chapter)