Becoming an Old Country Girl: Heading to Flee the Famine with a Baby

Can anyone relate? How did I wake up and find myself time-traveled? Couldn't they have made me a princess? Who is so unlucky to be reborn as a country girl with a child out of wedlock?

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Chapter 77 A Close Call (tushumi.cc)

"Madam!" Siqin's scream pierced the eardrums, followed by her hugging Madam Fang and weeping bitterly.

"Waaaaah... Heaven is so blind! My wife has done so many good deeds, why does she have to suffer like this..."

Old Mrs. Li pursed her lips tightly and looked at Madam Fang with regret: "You'd better think this through. Not only will it hurt, it could kill you!"

Madam Fang gave a poignant smile and slowly nodded: "I've thought it through."

"Siqin, remember to tell the master that this was my own choice, and it has nothing to do with anyone else... From now on, you just need to be there for my child as he grows up. I only trust you..."

Siqin choked back tears as she replied, "Waaah... Madam... Waaah... I will definitely take good care of the young master."

As soon as Zhen Wanwan arrived, she heard the scene of Madam Fang entrusting her child to someone, and her heart ached. She lifted the carriage curtain.

"What do you mean, 'small' or 'big'? You better live a good life and raise your own children!"

"Wanwan." "What do you mean by that, Zhenniangzi?"

The voices of Grandma Li and Siqin rang out, and the latter looked at Zhen Wanwan excitedly.

Zhen Wanwan smiled confidently and nimbly jumped onto the car, with the others making way for her.

"Siqin, please give me the medicine. Sisters, please go and clean up the bloodstains. We'll need your help to deliver the baby later."

Although everyone was puzzled, they still did as instructed. Old Mrs. Li looked at her disapprovingly: "Mrs. Fang can't wait to go through all this trouble..."

Grandma Li's meaning was clear: she should go somewhere cool and stay there.

Zhen Wanwan winked at Old Lady Li: "Mom, have you forgotten what I thought I said..."

Grandma Li suddenly remembered that her daughter had received the inheritance of an immortal and had extraordinary abilities, which might really be able to save Madam Fang and her son.

She was secretly delighted, but dared not show it easily, for fear of arousing suspicion from others.

Zhen Wanwan took out a pill from her sleeve and put it into Madam Fang's mouth. Fortunately, it melted in her mouth and she didn't swallow it.

Mrs. Fang felt light and airy, her pain had lessened considerably, and her strength had returned significantly.

Siqin watched with delight as her mistress's face gradually regained its color, and kowtowed several times to Zhen Wanwan, saying, "Thank you, Madam Zhen, thank you, Madam Zhen..."

"Waaah... Madam, don't worry, Zhenniangzi will definitely be able to save you and the little boy in your womb."

Everyone was amazed by Zhen Wanwan's abilities; they had never heard of a single pill that could save a life.

It seems that Lady Zhen was pretending to be weak to deceive them, deliberately keeping it from them!

Who wouldn't want to curry favor with such medical skills!

Zhen Wanwan deliberately kept a cold face. The incident happened so suddenly that she didn't have time to think about whether the secret would be revealed. She could only save people first.

Just as she was on her way to the carriage, the mechanical voice of "Tmall Genie" in her spatial dimension asked her if she wanted to exchange for the elixir.

She agreed without hesitation.

Looking at the admiring gazes of the crowd, Zhen Wanwan sadly touched her empty pockets.

Her silver and jade pendant are gone...

However, saving lives was the most important thing, she kept reassuring herself.

Waaaaah... Why do I still feel like crying?

This is the money she's saving to buy a horse-drawn carriage!

Zhen Wanwan's heart was already filled with tears, but her face still showed a calm and composed demeanor.

A tear slid down Madam Fang's cheek, making her beautiful face appear even more pitiful. She looked at Zhen Wanwan gratefully and said...

“I will never forget your great kindness, Madam Zhen. From now on, whatever you ask for, our Fang family will grant it.”

Just as Zhen Wanwan was completely captivated by Madam Fang's beauty, she heard her make a vow-like promise.

"It's too early to thank me now. I've only given you Qi-boosting pills; you'll have to give birth to the child yourself."

Madam Fang did not believe that this was just an ordinary qi-tonifying pill. After all, she had personally experienced the effects of the medicine and could distinguish between good and bad pills.

But she wouldn't expose Zhen Wanwan.

Grandma Li agreed, "That's right. If the baby in your womb is breech, it will never come out. If you force the baby out, I'm afraid..."

Everyone understood what the second half of the sentence meant, but at this point, this was the only way. They couldn't let the child stay in the womb forever!

Wouldn't the child suffocate?

Zhen Wanwan fell silent. She could ensure Madam Fang's life with this medicine, but she couldn't possibly perform a cesarean section on the child here, could she?

She had never studied medicine in her previous life, so how could she dare to cut open someone else's stomach at will?

She thought about it and realized she seemed to have read a news article about a pregnant woman who had a difficult labor. The baby was lying at an angle and she couldn't give birth. The doctor had to press on the pregnant woman's belly to straighten the baby.

In the end, both adults and children were safe and sound.

At first, she thought the news was ridiculous, but now... maybe she could give it a try?

Waiting idly isn't a good idea either; if it drags on for too long, it won't be good for the other party's wife and children.

"Madam Fang, listen to me. The baby can't come out because it's not in the right position. I have to press on your belly and move it into place!"

Everyone else stared at her in astonishment, and Old Lady Li unconsciously asked in doubt, "Will this work?"

Without any hesitation, Madam Fang agreed almost as soon as she finished speaking, because she trusted Zhen Niangzi!

"It hurts a little, please bear with it."

To give her ample room to perform, Grandma Li and the others got out of the car and waited, leaving only Siqin to help.

"I'm starting."

Zhen Wanwan used stroking and pressing to locate the baby's head and feet in her womb, and then moved the baby's head into the birth canal in circles.

After an hour, the baby was finally moved to the correct position.

The three people in the car all breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhen Wanwan shook her aching hand and looked at Madam Fang, who showed no sign of pain: "It's settled. When you give birth later, just listen to my mother and have a normal delivery."

Madam Fang smiled, feeling extremely fortunate. If it weren't for Zhen Niangzi, she might have lost her life here. Thinking of this, she took Zhen Wanwan's hand, her eyes welling up with tears, and said, "It's all thanks to you, otherwise I..."

Zhen Wanwan waved her hand dismissively: "There's no need for us to thank each other. You've taken good care of the Zhen family along the way."

When Siqin saw that the baby's position had indeed been corrected, she burst into tears of joy. Then, disregarding her image, she wiped the sweat from her brow and looked at Zhen Wanwan as if she were a living Bodhisattva.

“Siqin will never forget your great kindness, Zhenniangzi. If you ever need anything in the future, just come to me.”

Although she was being too grand in her words, at this moment she only wanted to express her deepest gratitude to Zhen Wanwan for saving the lady.

Zhen Wanwan felt much better after receiving double the gratitude, and she no longer cared about the silver and jade pendant.

She will sell the grain to buy a horse-drawn carriage.

Seeing Madam Fang's relaxed expression, Zhen Wanwan felt relieved. She lifted a corner of the carriage curtain, revealing only Old Lady Li and Aunt Zhou standing outside.

Everyone's gone?

Isn't this a bit too realistic?

"Mom, Aunt Zhou!"

The two women had a smile in their eyes; they had already heard the commotion inside the carriage.

"Your mother and I will deliver the baby. Go help your second sister-in-law with some water..."

Grandma Li and Aunt Zhou rushed Zhen Wanwan off the bus, and then quickly climbed up themselves. Because Siqin was an unmarried woman, she was also ushered out.

Now only those three families are helping. The other families are worried that Zhen Wanwan won't be able to save the person, or they've already concluded that Madam Fang will die sooner or later, so they ran away to avoid suspicion.

They're not as foolish as Zhen Wanwan, taking the blame for nothing...