Traversing the good life of a peasant woman

Chapter 87

Although the wild boar that Fang Dachuan and Ge Dong hunted back was not big, it weighed more than 200 catties. Wen Yue discussed with Fang Dachuan, and finally decided to share seven or eight catties of pork with each of their tenants.Although it is possible to give more, Wen Yue and Fang Dachuan are both worried about the matter of Sheng Mi's kindness and Mi's feud, and they don't want to have good intentions and finally attract discussions behind them.

On the day of New Year's Eve, Mrs. Zhao and the others got up early in the morning to get busy. This year, the family has a lot of people, so there is a lot more food to prepare.Although Mrs. Niu can't speak, she is very good at cooking. Ge Dong's daughter-in-law Ge Erni is even more good at Sichuan cuisine. Seeing them show their skills there, Wen Yue couldn't help but cook a few past life specialties The Hunan cuisine has gained a lot of appreciation.

Children are always the happiest during Chinese New Year, this year is especially different for Man'er, because she has two friends who can play with her.Although Ge Yaner's brain is burnt out, she is only a little slow in response and not as stupid as everyone imagined. She will remember what everyone told her very seriously, and will execute it meticulously. A child at ease.

Mrs. Zhao looked at the bowl in front of her, which was piled up with vegetables like a hill, and kept nodding and said, "That's enough, that's enough, you can eat too, don't hold it for me. I'm getting old, eating It’s not enough, listen to me, while you are young, you can eat whatever you want, and when you are old, your teeth and mouth will not be good, and you don’t like to eat. At that time, it doesn’t matter how rich you are.”

Auntie Niu sat across from Mrs. Zhao, and she was deeply touched by Mrs. Zhao's words. Although she couldn't speak, she kept nodding to Mrs. Zhao, expressing her admiration.

Seeing her, Mrs. Zhao said cheerfully: "Sister Shi family, I have never felt that I am a lucky person. I was widowed at a young age, and I took great pains to raise my son with one hand. Don't be afraid. You are joking, my son was raised by me so incomprehensibly, he is a jerk, I thought that this is what I have done all my life, how could I have borrowed all my grandson when I am old. Look at me , now wearing a silk padded jacket, eating big fish and meat, living in such a spacious mansion, and someone respectfully calling me 'Old Madam', I never dreamed of this in the past!"

Niu couldn't speak, so he could only keep nodding, and gave Zhao a thumbs up to express his praise, while Shi Quanfu, who was drinking with Fang Dachuan, put down his glass and said to Zhao: "Old lady, you are a lucky man!" , What do we want at this age, don’t we just want to have a full house of children and grandchildren, and be healthy? As the old saying goes, suffering when you are young is not called suffering, but suffering when you are old is called real suffering.”

"Yes, yes, what you said is, oh, these truths, only we old people can understand. I, living such a good life now, I have to live at least another ten years. I'm not willing to die." Zhao said with pride and emotion.

"Grandma, it's New Year's Eve, what are you saying that you can't die? It's unlucky, you will live a long life." Upon hearing Zhao's words of death, whether it was Li, Fang Dachuan or Zhao, All of them changed faces.

"It scares you, I just want to say, everyone eats, everyone eats." When Zhao saw her words, Wen Yue's reaction was so great that even the Wu family couple and the Ge family couple put down their chopsticks. I can't help feeling that she is making a fuss out of a molehill, "Don't worry, I'm still waiting to give you your child back, and I still want to watch us get married."

"What is marriage?" Man'er, who was sitting in Mrs. Li's arms, was eating well, and when she heard her name, she immediately regained her spirits and asked curiously.

"Marry!" Mrs. Li took a chicken wing and put it in a bowl full of children and said, "Marrying means living a happy life with your father just like your mother."

"Oh!" Man'er seemed to understand, nodded and said: "Then I will marry mother too, so that I can live a happy life with my father forever."

"Haha", the people at the table were all amused by Man'er's innocent words, and it also broke the dull atmosphere in the room just because of Zhao's words.

Before the meal, Mrs. Zhao, who had vowed to watch the night with everyone, began to look tired before the banquet was over. When Mrs. Li saw her, she whispered a few words to her, but she shook her head. The head said: "It's okay to sleep, but don't drink the medicine. I am in such good health, but you make me suffer from taking medicine all day long. What do you think?"

"Grandma, it's all tonics. The reason why you are in good health is because of the tonics you drink." Wen Yue saw that she was arguing not to take the medicines again, and joined the ranks of persuasion. Seeing that Mrs. Zhao was still grimacing, she patted her His own stomach silently looked at Mrs. Zhao without speaking.Mrs. Zhao nodded her forehead bitterly and said: "You know how to treat me with my stomach, okay, okay, can I drink it?"

Seeing Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Li leaving together, Wen Yue thought to herself, Grandma, you must get better, be well, and accompany us to grow up with our children.

Years later, Fang Dachuan stayed at home as he said, and accompanied Wen Yue to find ways to make her happy with Mrs. Zhao.However, even so, Zhao's spirit is getting worse and worse, and he spends more and more sleepy time every day.Wen Yue and Fang Dachuan looked at her state, but there was nothing they could do except to be anxious. They called the doctor again and again, and the medicines they caught became more and more expensive, but all this was nothing to Mrs. Zhao. Useful.

When Fang Dachuan asked the doctor to visit again, the doctor finally refused, "I know you are a filial son, but your old lady's illness can't be cured by taking classics, and now it's all about her. If it weren't for the child in your wife's womb, she might not be able to survive it long ago. It is a miracle that she can persist for so long. You should stay with her well and let her survive in these last days If you can live happily, you really don’t need to let me go over again and again.”

Seeing that the doctor refused to make money even if he had money, Fang Dachuan understood that the Zhao family was really hopeless, so he went all the way to the dental clinic with a heavy heart. He lingered in front of the door for a while, and when he saw the doctor pretending to ignore him, he left in despair.

Fang Dachuan returned home and handed over the two stable women to Shi Quanfu to arrange, while he went straight to Zhao Shi's place. No surprises, Zhao Shi was still asleep.Seeing Fang Dachuan coming in alone, Mrs. Li hurriedly looked behind him, then stood up and went to the door, and when it was true that no one followed, she asked in a trembling voice: "Dachuan, why don't you leave the door?" Doctor? What about the medicine?"

Fang Dachuan didn't speak, and he didn't dare to look up at Li Shi's eyes full of expectation. Seeing him dodging like this, Li Shi's eyes turned red instantly, "Da Chuan, did the doctor say grandma can't do it anymore?"

Fang Dachuan nodded, and Li Shi numbly sat down on the stool, watching Zhao Shi silently weeping.

"What did the doctor say?" Wen Yue asked in a low voice.

Fang Dachuan said in a calm voice: "The doctor said, let's prepare for the funeral. Grandma is useless to take medicine now."

"Oh", although she had been psychologically prepared for a long time, Wen Yue still felt a little hard to accept when she heard the doctor's sentence.

No one was in the mood to talk, and the room was silent. When Ge Dong's daughter-in-law came in, she realized that the atmosphere in the room was not right, but she still bit the bullet and said, "Master, Mrs. Wen has made arrangements, but they said they want to see Mrs. , See the specific situation of Madam."

Only then did Fang Dachuan remember the two stable women he had just entrusted to Shi Quanfu to arrange, and said to Wen Yue: "Yue Niang, don't sit here anymore, let me accompany you there."

"Yeah, Yueniang, you go with Dachuan, don't guard here." Li said with swollen eyes.

Wen Yue nodded, stood up reluctantly with Fang Dachuan's support, and slowly moved out step by step. At this time, she was already full-term, and the big belly of the twins was very strong in everyone's eyes. The feeling of oppression is not only frightened by others, but she herself is often worried about whether she can give birth to the child normally.

In fact, she also understands that according to her situation, it is very lucky to be able to persist until full term without premature delivery.For multiple births, even in the materially rich and scientifically prosperous society in the previous life, there were only a small number of full-term births, let alone in this age of backward productivity.

When Wen Yue was seven months pregnant, Zhao's spirit was fine at that time, but she was worried about Wen Yue's stomach all day long, and once prayed every day that if Wen Yue gave birth prematurely, she would give birth in this month, and she would live seven or eight times. It's really dangerous to be born again at eight months.

But now Wen Yue has not only survived July, but also survived August, and when she can give birth normally, Zhao's can't.Thinking of this, Wen Yue's expression darkened a bit. It would be great if the child could be born earlier, and maybe Zhao could hold on for a few more days.

Wen Po was taken to Wen Yue's room by Mrs. Niu, and the two Wen Po were surprised when they saw Wen Yue's chubby stomach that seemed to fall to the ground at any moment.After inquiring about Wen Yue's basic situation, the two of them checked Wen Yue's stomach carefully, and then said to Fang Dachuan who had been guarding outside the door with a relaxed expression:

"Ma'am is really lucky. I'm not afraid to say something ugly. It's always a terrible thing for many wives to conceive twins. But you are different, Ma'am. You are lucky that this is your second childbirth, when you gave birth to your first child. The birth canal has already been opened; the second one is Madam, you have taken good care of your body and bones, and the two children have survived to full term, you can rest assured, sir, we two old ladies promise to let Madam give birth safely."

Fang Dachuan felt a little more at ease when he heard what the two stable women said. Of course it would be best if he could give birth safely. Now he looks at Yueniang's belly every day, and he is afraid that something will happen to her.These two midwives are already the most famous in the town. If they are not sure, he plans to go to the state capital to hire someone. "You two, don't you know what else I need to prepare?" Fang Dachuan was still a little worried, and wanted to prepare everything in advance.

"There is nothing to prepare, but it would be good if you buy some ginseng slices to boost your energy. No one can guarantee that it will be safe." One of the steady women thought for a while and said.

Fang Dachuan hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Then please think about it again, what else do you need to prepare, I will send someone out to buy it in a while."

When the two women saw it, they nodded and said, "Madam is so lucky, there is such a loving man as the master, then you can buy according to this list."

They have been midwives all their lives, taking births for rich families and poor ones. I have never seen any kind of puerpera with men, not to say that there are no people who love their wives like Fang Dachuan, but it is still rare. .If you buy all the things on this list, it will cost a lot of money, and it may not be useful.But it's a good thing for them that men actually want to buy it, at least they have a little more confidence when delivering the baby.

Fang Dachuan hurried out with the list, Wen Yue patted his back lightly, and asked, "Mother-in-law, how long will it take for me to give birth, can you tell?"

"Hurry up, it will happen within four or five days. Ma'am, don't be in a hurry. With the two of us here, you don't have to worry about anything." One of the round-faced women said with a smile.

The relaxed smile on her face made Wen Yue's heart that had been hanging around relax a lot. When she was not born, she hoped that she would give birth quickly and suffer less. When she really was about to give birth, she was afraid of this and that. I am afraid that people who have not experienced it will not understand.

In the afternoon, Mrs. Zhao woke up. Feeling in good spirits, she insisted on going out while the sun was shining. Fang Dachuan had no choice but to agree with her to walk in the yard.She walked around every courtyard in the house with high spirits, and finally sat down on the rocking chair that Fang Dachuan specially made for her, holding Wen Yue with one hand and Li Shi with the other, smiling lightly and not speaking .

A gust of wind blew by, Mrs. Zhao straightened up suddenly, pointed to a sunny place and said, "Look, it's spring and the grass is turning green."

Wen Yue and the others looked in the direction of Mrs. Zhao's fingers, "This year, it just goes by so fast. Unfortunately, I don't have the good fortune to see what our hundreds of acres of land look like when it's harvested in autumn." Mrs. Zhao kept looking at that place and said indifferently.

"Mom, what are you talking about? Why can't you see it?" Li said with a sore nose, unhappy.

Mrs. Zhao shook her head, "You, don't lie to me. How can you not know what I am? These days, I keep dreaming about your father-in-law. He said he missed me, and asked me why this dead old woman returned Don't accompany him. Listen, this dead old man never said such nice things to me when he was alive, and he either scolded me or scolded me, and I didn't care about him. "

"Mother!" Mrs. Li couldn't help interrupting.

As if immersed in her own memories, Mrs. Zhao murmured: "In my whole life, I have been strong and aggressive, but I have never done anything to offend my own conscience, nor have I ever done anything to offend others. But I Ah, but I owed two people, and I wanted to make up for it, but now God doesn't give me this time."

She turned her head to Wen Yue, squeezed Wen Yue's hand and said, "Yue Niang, grandma can only entrust this important task to you. Grandma hopes that you can help grandma make up for them. Is that okay?"

"Grandma, tell me." Wen Yue stretched out her hand to hold her trembling hand and said.

Mrs. Zhao breathed a sigh of relief before continuing, "I am sorry for the two people in my life, one is your mother-in-law, and the other is Da Chuan."

"Grandma", "Mother", Fang Dachuan and Li Shi yelled in unison.

Mrs. Zhao ignored them, panting and said: "If I hadn't been too arrogant to the father back then, I wouldn't have been able to develop his virtue, and if I hurt him, I would hurt your mother-in-law and your man. Your mother never enjoyed a day of happiness when she married into our family, and she never had a day of love with your father-in-law. She just followed me and endured all the time. The same is true for Dachuan. Everything was ruined by his father, and at this age, all the family property that had been saved so hard was taken away by him with a single sentence, and he also lost the reputation of being expelled from the family. All of this is my fault."

"Mother, don't say it, don't say it, what does it have to do with you, it's our own life, it doesn't matter to anyone else." Li Shi couldn't bear it anymore, and cried.

"So Yueniang, grandma wants you to be filial to your mother-in-law and take good care of Dachuan. Grandma knows that you are a good boy, so grandma will trust you." Mrs. Zhao looked at Wen Yue stubbornly, and the complicated emotions there made Wen Yue My heart shrank into a ball.

How could Wen Yue not agree? Seeing Wen Yue nodded in response, Zhao finally laughed, "Speaking of which, grandma is quite sorry for the child in your belly. I don't know how many days I can live , I was afraid that when I gave birth to a child with you, I couldn't be happy when I had a good wedding. It seems that I am destined to be an old lady who causes trouble to others."

"Grandma, don't say that. The mother-in-law said that my child is about to be born. Are you willing to leave without looking at the child? You don't want to hug them? So grandma, can you hold on for a few more days? , hold on longer, okay?" Wen Yue also held Zhao's hand and began to cry.

Mrs. Zhao patted the back of her head, and a drop of muddy old tears fell, "Silly boy, there is no one who is willing to die, but the King of Hades wants you to leave at the third watch. Who dares to delay until the fifth watch? You can't force it!" .”

Seeing everyone crying sadly, Mrs. Zhao comforted with a smile, "Don't cry, what are you crying for? How can anyone still live for thousands of years? Don't people have such a day? With those who can't even eat enough Renbi, this is my fairy life, what else is there to be dissatisfied with? Come on, don’t cry, Dachuan, take me back to the house, I want to sleep for a while.”

Seeing Zhao's eyes slowly closing, Fang Dachuan worriedly put his hand under her nose and probed. After feeling Zhao's weak breathing, he took a deep breath.

Perhaps because of the obsession in her heart, after Wen Yue successfully gave birth to the twin sons, although Zhao was extremely weak, she was still alive and strong. The child in her arms said, "Okay, that's great, Yueniang will give birth, look at these two children, they have only been born for four days, and they are so white."

"Yes, mother, you said that I always think it's amazing. How can this child look so similar? I can't tell who is the eldest and who is the second among them now." Li Shi was also very happy, watching Seeing this and looking at that again, the eyes are not idle for a while.

"Look around, and I'm sure you can find out where there is a difference. Nothing in this world is exactly the same." Mrs. Zhao was a little tired, leaning on the back, and said to Mrs. Li, "Okay, send the child to their home." Mother, don't stay in this room for too long. Is there enough milk for Mother Moon?"

When Mrs. Li was about to leave, Mrs. Zhao asked another question.

Speaking of this, Li Shi smiled even more happily, "Yes, yes, Yueniang has nothing else now, except that she has a lot of milk, these two little guys can't finish it at all."

"Okay, okay, she's a lucky one." After Zhao finished speaking, she slowly closed her eyes. Li Shi hurriedly touched her chest with her hands in fright, and wiped away her tears after feeling the ups and downs of her chest. left.

(End of this chapter)