After Picking Up the Lucky Girl, the Whole Village Became Prosperous

Chapter 1 Girl Film

 “It’s another girl movie!”

 Chen Fengshi put the newborn baby into Er Er's hand with disgust, snorted, turned around and left the house.

Going to the kitchen, I saw two bowls of brown sugar-poached eggs on the stove, and I was very angry.

He picked up a bowl and poured it into the pot, and said to the eldest daughter-in-law: "I will give the sugar-watered eggs to your fourth aunt first. Your second brother and sister can't eat them for the time being. We will wait until she is hungry. Add some water to the pot and boil them for Qiersong'er. Brother, how many points are there?”

"Yes, mother." Mrs. Zhao was delighted and quickly picked up a bowl of sugar-watered eggs and went to the second room.

　　Opening the curtain, I caught a glimpse of my second uncle standing at the door of the room, holding his newborn daughter in his arms, his expression unclear.

Handing the sugar-water egg in her hand to the midwife who was sorting out the medicine box, Mrs. Zhao said: "Fourth Aunt, you eat the mouth pad first."

Fourth Aunt Wu was not polite. She took the soup bowl and ate all six poached eggs and drank the brown sugar water in one go.

 Wiped his mouth, stood up, picked up the small medicine box, and said: "I'm going back right now. Later, let your third brother and sister rub their stomachs more and remove the lochia. If you need anything, just call me. It's not far anyway."

Ms. Zhao said quickly: "Okay, thank you for your hard work, Fourth Aunt. I will ask Dalang to see you off."

"Hmm." Fourth Aunt Wu put the medicine box on her back, glanced meaningfully at Chen Erlang who was standing there, and then lifted the curtain and went out with Mr. Zhao.

The mother lying on the kang turned her head, pulled up the quilt to cover her face, and began to cry.

 The man holding the swaddled baby pursed his lips tightly, with a gloomy and terrifying look on his face.

He already had two daughters, but he didn’t expect that this baby would be a girl. This made Chen Changping angry and ashamed.

Thinking of his three brothers, the eldest brother already has two sons, and even the third brother who just got married last year also gave birth to a son, but in his own house, all three babies were girls.

 No, it’s four children.

 The baby was born more than a year ago, not long after the birth. My wife was sleeping soundly at night and accidentally covered her head and face, and she ran out of breath the next day.

That is also a daughter.

Chen Changping felt his head was buzzing and he felt ashamed.

As the saying goes, there are three types of unfilial piety, the greatest of which is not having offspring.

 Is his second wife about to die?

 Thinking that he might receive strange looks from his relatives and friends, scoldings from his parents overtly or covertly, and all kinds of rumors, Chen Changping suddenly felt his blood flow.

 Looking at the baby in his hands again, his heart and eyes were full of disgust.

 He turned around and left the house.

At this time, the sky was filled with sunset, and there were only a few pedestrians on the road.

Chen Changping put his little swaddling clothes in his wide sleeves and walked quickly towards the back mountain.

The baby in the sleeve twisted its little head once, wriggled its little mouth twice, and fell asleep peacefully again.

Standing next to the grave for a while, I still felt that it was too close to the mountain road and not secluded enough.

It would not be good if this little evil beast was picked up by passing villagers and carried back to the village to spread the word.

His wife had just given birth, so it was easy for people to guess that it was lost at his home.

After thinking about it, Chen Changping walked dozens more steps inside before taking out the swaddling clothes and placing them in the thatch.

He stood for a moment longer, shook his hands, and finally did not dare to strangle the baby girl to death.

 Forget it, she might be snatched away by a wild wolf overnight, and she wouldn’t have to bear the debt of killing a woman.

Looking around and seeing no one around, Chen Changping turned around and walked down the mountain, walking in a hurry.

 …

 In late spring, the wild peaches all over the mountains have lost their flowers and are now covered with fluffy little fruits.

Wild cherries are already ripe and hanging on the treetops. Their red and yellow colors are particularly eye-catching.

 Dongchen Village, by the Xiaochuan River, several women were beating clothes and washing vegetables.

"Have you heard? Yesterday Jiang Sanlang's family picked up a female doll. I don't know which family lost it. Tsk tsk, the umbilical cord hasn't been taken off yet."

"Is it true? Second aunt, have you seen it with your own eyes?" A woman seemed to be unconvinced, "Who would lose a baby these days?"

"Is there still a holiday? I went to his house to borrow a bucket this morning and saw it with my own eyes." Aunt Wang wrung out the clothes in her hands and threw them into the basket. "The baby's face was red and swollen, and he said he was bitten by ants, tsk tsk tsk."

“Oh, what a sin.” Another woman raised her head and asked, “Where did you pick it up?”

“I don’t know, Jiang Sanlang’s family refused to tell anyone.” Second Aunt Wang looked around and said with a gossipy face, “I don’t know anyone from a few nearby villages. I don’t know anyone who is so wicked.”

  “No!”      Several women beat their clothes with ping pong bang.

“It’s not from our village anyway. There are only about twenty households in our village, and everyone knows when a mother-in-law farts, let alone giving birth to a baby.” A woman said.

 Everyone laughed.

 “There are no such cruel people in our village.”

Second Aunt Wang curled her lips and said: "It's a pity that she is a girl. If she were a boy, Xu Chunniang would be relieved."

Jiang Sanlang has been married for ten years, but his daughter-in-law Xu Chunniang didn't even lay an egg. Jiang Lao Niang was almost angry to death for this.

Several women looked at each other and smiled knowingly, "Yes, yes."

“Thanks to Jiang Sanlang’s benevolence and righteousness, he has not divorced his wife for so many years.”

"That is, if you leave me in my house, you may scold her all day long. Let alone ten years, she will divorce me if she doesn't get pregnant for three years."

 “No.” Everyone agreed.

A woman banged her clothes-beating stick and said, "Hey, Chun Niang is also blessed with a good life. She married a husband who loves others. If Jiang Sanlang wasn't there to protect her, would you still be considered Mrs. Jiang?"

"That's right, it's a pity that Jiang Sanlang is a talented person, capable of both literary and military skills. Tsk, tsk, tsk, he may be extinct in the future." Another person sighed.

 “Who says it’s not?”

All the women sighed, one moment they felt bad for Jiang Sanlang, and the next moment they envied Mrs. Xu for her good life and married a handsome and caring husband.

When I think about the unshaven and sweaty guy in my house, I immediately feel sour.

 “Girls are just right.”

A woman twisted her clothes and said, "As the saying goes, a baby will be born if you hold it in your arms. This baby girl might attract a fat boy to Jiang Sanlang."

 “That’s not necessarily true.” A woman retorted.

"Why is it not certain? Isn't it the case in Chen Ergou's house in Xicun? His wife has been silent for three years, and his mother brought back a baby girl from outside for them to raise. But guess what, Ergou's wife became pregnant within two years. "

“Yes, yes, I’ve heard about it too, it really does happen.”

"So, maybe Jiang Sanlang brought the baby from somewhere else. He deliberately said he picked it up because he was afraid that he would not be able to attract children in the future and would be laughed at."

 “Hahaha, that’s right…”

A few women chatted and gossiped for a while, washed their clothes, and each carried a basket and went home.

 Dongchen Village, the third room of the Jiang family.

Jiang Sanlang came into the house with a bowl of goat's milk and said to his wife: "Yesterday, my eldest brother's sheep gave birth, so I squeezed some milk and boiled it to feed the baby."

 “Hey, this is such a coincidence.”

Xu Chunniang was pleasantly surprised, "Now the baby has milk to drink."

I was worried about what to feed the children, but I didn’t expect that the ewe my eldest brother bought years ago actually gave birth to a calf.

He put the swaddling clothes in his hands on the bed, covered him with a thin quilt, rolled up his sleeves and took the bowl, and said to his husband: "I'll go cook it. Come and look at the baby. She was crying so hard just now."

Jiang Sanlang handed the pottery bowl to his wife's hand and stretched his head to look at the little baby on the bed. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it. "Maybe he is very hungry. He drank some sugar water since yesterday."

 The little baby on the bed opened his eyes slightly and suddenly grinned at him.

“Hey, my little girl will laugh.” Jiang Sanlang was pleasantly surprised. He touched his stubble and said proudly, “My little girl has recognized her father.”

"That's all nonsense." Xu Chunniang glared at him, "She's so young, how can she recognize you?"

 Jiang Sanlang chuckled, "It's hard to say, our daughter is very smart. She stopped crying as soon as I hugged her yesterday, she just kept crying, as if she was extremely wronged."

　　When he thought of the little girl's ants' face at that time, Jiang Sanlang felt heartbroken. He stretched out his hand to touch her head and sighed.

I don’t know who is so cruel as to throw their newborn baby into a grave because they don’t want her to live.

Had I not happened to be passing by there and heard the cry of a child in the cemetery and boldly gone to check, the child would have been eaten by snakes, rats and ants in another day and a half.

 Sigh, if you don’t want to raise her, you can give it away. Why would you want to take her life?

“It’s okay, from now on you will be my daughter-in-law, Jiang San.”

Jiang Sanlang picked up the baby, bumped it, and held it tightly to his chest. "As long as you have something to eat from me, you will never be hungry."

 (End of this chapter)