Women usually give birth at night, which is similar to other mammals, probably because it is relatively safer at night.

However, many women gave birth during the day because they were pushed or frightened, causing their water to break. But giving birth during the day also has its advantages. It is more convenient to call for help. In case the delivery cannot go smoothly, it is more convenient to send the person to the health center or call a doctor from the health center.

Gao Mingcheng couldn't help with anything else, so he was responsible for lighting the fire in the kitchen. From time to time, he would ask Aunt Liu outside the window so that he could know the situation of Xuanyu in time.

Fortunately, Xuanyu has been working in the fields for many years and has good physical fitness. In addition, she is not a first-time mother, so overall the process from labor to birth was relatively smooth.

Just like in her previous life, Xuanyi gave birth to a daughter.

When Xuanyue found out it was a daughter, she was a little disappointed, but having both a son and a daughter was a good sign, so she quickly accepted it.

Gao Mingcheng was relieved that many jades were successfully produced. He smiled and congratulated Zhang Chengyuan, who was also in a good mood with a smile.

He married into the family's family, so the child did not have his surname Zhang, but no matter what, the child was always his biological child. Zhang Chengyuan was open-minded about this, and deep down in his heart, he did not want the child to inherit his surname.

"Brother, I brought back some bullfrogs from the mountains today. I'll bring some to you later. Once you clean them up, you can cook them for my second sister." Gao Mingcheng stood up and prepared to go back.

After such a delay, it was already past five in the afternoon. After helping to clean up the child, Aunt Liu went back to her own home to do her own work.

But it is not over yet. Although the baby has been born, the mother cannot move yet. She has to wait until the placenta is expelled before she can clean herself up, change clothes, and lie down on the bed.

Nowadays, many women give birth while lying on the ground instead of lying on a bed. They spread a pile of straw and wood ash on the ground, and then cover it with an old mat. They lie there to give birth, and only after the baby is born can they go to the bed to rest.

Some families who are very harsh to their daughters-in-law will not allow them to go to bed at this time. Instead, they will let them continue to lie on the ground, or move them to the utility room and sleep on a simple bed made of wooden boards.

Because the mother needs to expel lochia, if she is not careful, she may make the bed dirty.

Xuanyu doesn't have to suffer this torture. She has no elders above her, and Zhang Chengyuan dare not disobey her, so she can do whatever she wants.

However, Xuanyu also cherishes things, so she asked Zhang Chengyuan to put his old bed sheet on the bed so that she wouldn't feel bad if it got dirty.

Gao Mingcheng returned to his home. The bullfrogs he had caught before were still in the bucket. Because the temperature was not high, the bullfrogs did not move.

Gao Mingcheng divided it into two, giving half to Zhang Chengyuan and the other half to Aunt Liu, because he had to have dinner at Aunt Liu's house.

When Gao Mingcheng brought the bullfrog over, Aunt Liu was amazed and said, "Mingcheng, where did you catch the bullfrog? I see that there are fewer frogs in the fields. In about half a month, there shouldn't be any frogs left."

Gao Mingcheng said: "I got it in the mountains. After climbing over two hills, there is a ditch with quite a few bullfrogs. Bullfrogs are different from frogs. They like to gather together. Also, there are few places with water, so they all gather together, making it easy to find them."

There are several reservoirs in the village, there is water in the rice fields, and there are many canals and ditches, so it is not easy to find groups of frogs except in midsummer.

After Gao Mingcheng put the bullfrog down, he looked around Chen Dasong's new house.

The new house is being built quite quickly. The beams and tiles have already been put up, and now it looks like they are preparing to make doors, windows and furniture.

Once the doors, windows and furniture are ready, people can move in.

After all, people don’t really care about the decoration of houses nowadays. It’s good enough if they can paint the walls white and install a light bulb.

Some poorer families don’t even paint their walls white or concrete. They just build their houses with blue bricks, simply install doors and windows, and then they can move in directly.

Chen Dasong's house was painted white. After painting the walls white, the house looked more spacious and brighter.

It is worth mentioning that Chen Duofu’s wife is pregnant!

This made Chen Dasong and Aunt Liu very happy. They had just built a new house and now they would be taking care of their grandson!

Chen Duofu was in a good mood. He worked hard and smiled all day long.

About half an hour later, Zhang Chengyuan from next door suddenly came over and said to Aunt Liu, "Aunt, the things are out. Can you please help me clean them up?"

"Okay." Aunt Liu stood up and asked Chen Duofu to continue cooking while she went to Zhang Chengyuan's house to help.

Not long after, Aunt Liu took out a bag of things in a plastic bag and gave it to Zhang Chengyuan, asking him to take it to the mountains and dig a hole to bury it.

Placenta is also called Ziheche, and in the past, it was a traditional Chinese medicine. However, the villagers did not prepare or eat the placenta, and they usually buried it in the mountains.

Later on, most people gave birth in hospitals, so there was no need to deal with the placenta themselves, just leave it to the hospital.

Hospitals usually treat it as waste, but some doctors may sell the placenta privately. After the dealers buy it, they make it into capsules in dirty and messy small workshops and then sell it to people in need.

As a man, Gao Mingcheng expressed his incomprehension of this.

There are thousands of delicious foods and medicinal herbs in the world, so why should we eat that kind of stuff!

Thoughts surged in his mind, and Gao Mingcheng sat on the bluestone slab, unconsciously falling into a daze.

It was not until Aunt Liu called him to eat that he came to his senses and went to the table to eat.

People eat at the table and dogs eat under the table, which is quite harmonious.

After dinner, dusk fell and the twilight enveloped the entire Gaojia Village. The dark grey tones inadvertently gave the mountains, forests and houses a touch of mystery.

In the thickening dusk, cool moonlight shone through. Gao Mingcheng looked up and saw a waxing moon hanging in the sky.

A cool breeze blew over from the other side of the hill, rustling the leaves. Some deciduous trees dropped their yellow leaves in the wind, but the pine, cypress, bamboo and other trees remained green and tall.

Frost Descent does not mean frost is coming, but refers to the last solar term in autumn. On the day of Frost Descent, the temperature difference between day and night is very large. When working in the fields during the day, people can only wear short sleeves because it is hot, but in the morning and evening, it is time to put on coats.

Gao Mingcheng was still wearing his daytime clothes, but he was in good physical condition, so although the wind on his face felt a little cool, it was not cold.

But there is a kind of coldness, which is when others think you are cold.

Aunt Liu couldn't stand it anymore, so she hurriedly called Gao Mingcheng to go back to the house and put on his coat to avoid catching a cold.

Gao Mingcheng had nothing to do here, so he simply took the opportunity to go home.

The black tiger and the elf immediately followed him and escorted him home.

After entering the yard, Gao Mingcheng found that the rice that had been spread out to dry in the yard had been collected and was being bagged and placed in the utility room.

As for the tea seeds still lying under the eaves, you don't have to worry about them for now. They are placed under the eaves where they are protected from wind and rain, and not many animals will steal them. You don't have to put them in bags every day. You can just take them to the yard to dry during the day tomorrow.

Gao Mingcheng turned on the light, went back to his bedroom, made his bed roughly, and prepared to sleep well.

However, he did not plan to sleep for the time being. He wanted to catch a wild rabbit this morning, but failed. He felt a little unhappy. He had originally planned to go for a walk in the mountains in the evening because at that time, most wild rabbits would come out to look for food.

But because Manyu had to give birth to a child, he couldn't leave and had no time to do it.

Gao Mingcheng found a flashlight from the cabinet, picked up a dagger and a javelin, and prepared to go into the mountains.

Gao Mingcheng seldom hunts at night, but his brother Gao Fuqiang, who has a bird gun, likes to go into the mountains to hunt at night. Of course, whether they catch anything or not is another matter.

There are animals in the mountains that are active during the day and those that are active at night, so you can still hunt prey by going into the mountains to hunt at night, but it is a little more difficult than during the day.

But Gao Fuqiang and his colleagues had to work during the day and had no time to wander around in the mountains, so they could only take their bird guns and walk into the mountains at night, which could be considered hunting.

Gao Mingcheng led Black Tiger and the Elf and planned to try his luck in the mountains. During this period of time, there were still wild rabbits wandering outside, wild boars would come out of their caves to look for food at night, and there were also small animals such as hedgehogs and weasels.

However, as soon as Gao Mingcheng entered the mountain, he saw an owl.

There are owls and bats in their mountains, but the number of bats is not large, and not as scary as described in some novels.

Of course, if you want to use bats to do something weird, Gao Mingcheng also knows a very harmful way.

If you have a feud with a family in the village and you want to take revenge on them, but you can't beat them, what should you do?

At this time, you can use the words of ghosts and gods to attack the opponent!

Everyone knows that blood has a fishy smell, and bats like to suck blood. The blood with the strongest fishy smell is the blood of eels.

At night, you just need to secretly smear the eel blood on the door of that household, and then it will attract a large number of bats. The bats will peck at the eel blood on the door, making a loud noise, which will definitely attract the household to open the door to check. As a result, when they open the door, there will be a large group of bats. Don’t you think it’s scary?

At this time, you can spread the word in the village that the family must have done something immoral, which is why the bats knocked on the door.

With bats knocking on the door at night and all kinds of rumors during the day, the family must be very miserable because of the fear they suffer.

Gao Mingcheng had heard about this method when he was hanging out in the outside world in his previous life, but the protagonist of the story was a so-called fortune teller.

The fortune teller first hired people to pour eel blood on the door of a certain household to attract bats to knock on the door. He then asked people to spread rumors. When the household became frightened, someone brought out the fortune teller, saying that the fortune teller could help the household get rid of the bad luck and change the feng shui.

By doing this, the fortune teller can swindle a lot of money.

Nine out of ten so-called fortune tellers rely on deception.

You think the fortune teller's predictions are very accurate, but in fact he has a team that is responsible for collecting information. In addition, the fortune teller also has a set of rhetoric, which contains many plausible but actually ambiguous words. After listening to them, you feel that although they are not particularly accurate, they are indeed correct.

In fact, this is similar to the personality theory, fortune theory of the twelve zodiac signs, and Western astrology theory.

When Gao Mingcheng saw the vole in the owl's claws, he knew that this owl had excellent hunting skills.

He ignored the owl; he wasn't going to eat that stuff anyway.

There is still some benefit in going into the mountains to hunt at night during this season, because nocturnal snakes are about to hibernate, and even if they have not yet hibernated, they are reluctant to move.

But before hibernation, snakes need to eat a lot. They don't like to move at night, so how can they eat? This is also easy to solve. At this time, many nocturnal snakes will be active during the day. When the temperature is high during the day, they take the opportunity to hunt for an hour or two. After filling their stomachs, they can wait for the temperature to drop and then go into hibernation.

There are more and more fallen leaves in the mountains and forests, and they make rustling sounds when you step on them.

The noises made by one person and two dogs were also clearer at night. Although Gao Mingcheng brought a flashlight, he chose not to turn it on. He put the flashlight in his pocket as a spare.

The moonlight penetrates the woods and falls down. When the sun shines through the woods during the day, it will form mottled light columns in the sky, but the moonlight will not, its light is softer, and when it falls down, it is like covering the woods with a layer of gauze.

There is a mysterious and graceful beauty.

In the silence, Gao Mingcheng's ears moved instinctively. He just heard some subtle sounds.

"Woof woof." The silly elf dog didn't keep his composure and ran towards a bush while barking, and then successfully blocked a hedgehog.

The hedgehog was frightened and curled up into a ball, not moving a muscle.

The hedgehog has hard armor, but it also has a weakness: its abdomen is very soft. Sometimes animals such as eagles and owls will catch hedgehogs and eat them.

Hedgehogs are so cute, why should we eat them?

Gao Mingcheng gently kicked the elf and said, "Go find the rabbit!"

Although the elf blocked the hedgehog, it still learned its lesson and did not bite it. Gao Mingcheng remembered that when the elf was young, he led the elf into the mountains. Once, the elf also caught a hedgehog and bit it!

As a result, the hedgehog was fine, but the elf's dog was screaming because of the thorns in its mouth!

Gao Mingcheng ignored the hedgehog and continued walking forward with the two dogs.

The hedgehog curled up into a ball of thorns and remained motionless. After a long time, when it realized that the danger was over, it slowly stretched its body and continued to look for insects to eat.

Gao Mingcheng led the two dogs and walked in the mountains for half an hour, but he still hadn't encountered the first rabbit of the night, which made him a little disappointed.

This is unscientific! With the reproductive capacity of rabbits, there are plenty of them in the mountains at this time!

It was not until the emergence of battery power grids in later generations that some people used the power grids to electrocute wild boars and rabbits, and the number of wild rabbits in the mountains gradually decreased.

Gao Mingcheng muttered to himself, praying for the goddess of luck to come.

Just as I finished praying, a hare appeared before my eyes!

Gao Mingcheng was shocked and immediately took out the dagger from his waist. (End of this chapter)