noffsinger Chapter 404 Giving birth
Chapter 404 Giving birth
After half a month of continuous sunshine, all the grain in the fields was finally harvested. This year is a bumper year, and the villagers’ faces were filled with joy of the harvest.
In addition to the harvest in the village, Xie Jiaojiao also had a good harvest from the 30 acres of land she had bought earlier. The entire granary was filled with grain. The happiest person was Sun Ruhua.
Because of last year's flood, the imperial court reduced taxes by 30% this year, and everyone looked happier.
The saved taxes were used to sell grain and buy tiles. The villagers were envious of the few families in the village who built tiled houses last year.
Therefore, during the dog days of summer, I also learned to use Xie Jiaojiao's method and dried a lot of earth bricks.
After the harvest, the village was filled with the scene of building new houses. The two sons of Mrs. Wu were busy at one house or another every day, and Mrs. Wu was so happy that her face was almost broken by laughter.
Seeing that all the houses in the village were being renovated except Niu Fusheng's, which was still a thatched house, Niu Fusheng was too embarrassed to go out for fear of being laughed at by others. But he was still angry in his heart. Seeing that every household in the village had built adobe houses, he returned home and scolded Li Lihua again.
"If it weren't for you, our family would have built a house long ago!"
Li Lihua knew she was wrong, so she pursed her lips and dared not speak.
These days, Niu Fusheng completely stopped touching her and went to sleep in the next room with Niu Erbao in his arms. She felt uncomfortable just thinking about it.
Although he kept her, she felt like a servant who cleaned the house for him, not his woman.
And there were some rumors in the village, so he would ridicule her when he came back, and sometimes, if he was drunk, he would even beat her!
She felt like she couldn't live like this anymore.
She wanted to go back to her parents' home, but someone brought her a message telling her not to go back, saying that a woman like her who had been abused by others would affect her brother's marriage.
Her brother is not young anymore and it is rare that he has a marriage this year. Her family members are afraid that the marriage will fall through once she goes back.
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As the days got colder, Xie Jiaojiao was about to give birth.
Xie Jiaojiao's ankles are all swollen...
Sun Ruhua is prepared every day to welcome her grandson or granddaughter at any time.
Manager Wang also found two midwives from the city and had them live in the Xie family, just in case.
Jiang Weinan also told Doctor Hu in the city that if Xie Jiaojiao gave birth, he should send someone to invite him to make time for it.
Everything is ready, just waiting for Xie Jiaojiao's stomach to attack.
Early that morning, Xie Jiaojiao had just washed her face and was about to sit down to eat when she felt some warm liquid flowing out from under her body and her lower abdomen began to ache.
Suddenly I felt something was wrong.
He shouted in a trembling voice: "Wei Weinan, go and call mother over."
When Jiang Weinan heard her voice, he was about to care for her, but he saw water seeping out from under her body, so he hurried over.
Sun Ruhua saw this situation as soon as she came up.
"Oh, it's time to give birth."
After saying that, he hurriedly handed the bowl to her mouth: "Eat something quickly, or you won't have the strength to give birth later."
Xie Jiaojiao quickly ate a few bites, but felt her stomach getting more and more painful. In the end, she didn't eat much, and Sun Ruhua helped her to the bed.
As soon as she heard that the baby was about to be born, the midwife came immediately and Jiang Weinan was driven out. The sound of Xie Jiaojiao groaning in pain was heard inside.
Sun Ruhua gave Xie Jiaojiao the ginseng slices she had prepared long ago and asked her to put them in her mouth.
From morning to night, Jiang Weinan was extremely anxious. He walked around outside the house, only to see basins of blood being brought out from inside.
Jiang Weinan stopped Cuizhu who was holding the blood and asked nervously, "Why is there so much blood?"
Cuizhu is busy.
"Hey, Master, could you please not block the way? I still need to get some hot water."
Jiang Weinan quickly moved aside again.
Mother Wu also came and joined the midwives. It was not until the second half of the night when Xie Jiaojiao was silent that the baby's cry was finally heard. Xie Jiaojiao was tired and sweating all over. The sweat wet her hair and stuck to her face.
Upon hearing that the baby was born, Jiang Weinan quickly opened the door and went in. He even remembered to turn around and close the door, fearing that Xie Jiaojiao would catch a cold.
The midwife stopped him and said to him, "Congratulations, young master, it's a daughter."
"Is there anything wrong with my wife?" Jiang Weinan asked anxiously.
"It's okay, it's okay. Madam is just too tired. She will be fine after she recovers."
Jiang Weinan was relieved then. He took the baby from him and walked towards Xie Jiaojiao with the baby in his arms.
The midwife wanted to say that the woman had just given birth and he couldn't see her, but Mrs. Wu stopped her: "Okay, they have a good relationship, it's okay."
Xie Jiaojiao was lying on the bed, her face pale. After a day, she was so tired that she couldn't open her eyes. She thought giving birth would be tiring, but she didn't expect it to be this tiring. It was more tiring than working in the fields for several days combined. Not only was she tired, but she was also in pain! She had no feeling in her lower body now.
"Jiaojiao, look, our daughter." Jiang Weinan held the child, walked to the bedside, looked at her and said.
As he spoke, he let the baby's face touch Xie Jiaojiao's face. Feeling the child's warmth, Xie Jiaojiao finally showed a faint smile on her face, and she couldn't help but shed tears in the corners of her eyes. But she was very happy in her heart, because she finally had relatives who were connected to her by blood in this world.
Maybe it was telepathy between mother and daughter. As soon as she shed tears, the child started crying loudly.
Jiang Weinan was a little at a loss for a moment, not knowing whether to coax Xie Jiaojiao or the baby first.
It was Sun Ruhua who came up and took the child from his hands: "You must be hungry. Don't cry, don't cry. Grandma will take the child to feed now."
After that, he said to Jiang Weinan: "I'll take her to drink milk first, Weinan, you feed Jiaojiao some porridge."
There was still a bloody smell in the room from a recent birth.
But the midwife said not to move the woman in labor, so as to avoid causing an avalanche or something.
So he didn't think about changing rooms. Seeing the tears in Xie Jiaojiao's eyes, Jiang Weinan stretched out his hand: "Jiaojiao, you've worked hard."
Xie Jiaojiao was too tired to talk and just shook her head slightly.
Jiang Weinan blew on the porridge in the bowl and fed it to her mouth. Xie Jiaojiao drank two mouthfuls and could no longer control herself and fell asleep.
When I woke up again, I had changed into dry clothes and moved to a new room.
Sun Ruhua came in with the soup, and when she saw that she was awake, she quickly helped her sit up.
Xie Jiaojiao had a headband on her head and her complexion finally recovered a little.
"Awake? Feeling better?"
"Much better, mother. Where's Weinan?"
Sun Ruhua smiled and brought a stool to her bedside: "My son-in-law has been guarding you for a whole day. Mother saw that he was too tired, so she let him go to rest."