It hurts...
Shen Qing thought of himself as a person who could endure pain very well, but at this moment he felt as if his whole body was being torn apart. The midwives' hands kept pushing and kneading his belly, causing a dull pain that was almost numb. Outside the window, the fight was going on fiercely. Beside him, the midwife kept calling him to breathe in and out... But these noisy sounds seemed to be getting farther and farther away. Shen Qing's consciousness gradually became a little scattered. In the end, he could only see the midwife's mouth opening and closing in front of him, but he could not hear anything...
His eyes were unfocused, and his consciousness gradually fell into darkness.
No, he didn't pass out. Shen Qing bit the tip of his tongue, and his mouth was full of fishy taste. The world in front of me is familiar yet unfamiliar. It is the three bedrooms and two living rooms in the jade pendant space. But at this moment, the house gradually became transparent, revealing the brown land and the blue sky.
Have I... entered a different space? Shen Qing was shocked. Both he and Zhang Sujuan could only take things from the space and could never enter it. This experience was very novel to Shen Qing. He subconsciously rushed to the spiritual spring in the space, scooped up a handful of water and drank it - Shen Qing didn't notice that he was very agile and didn't seem to be pregnant.
This is just his consciousness, not his physical body.
However, when he picked up the spiritual spring water and brought it to his lips, the spiritual spring water seemed to have consciousness. It condensed into a white light and kept drilling into Shen Qing's body. At the same time, the spiritual spring pool on the ground became smaller and smaller, as if the white light was the essence condensed from countless spiritual springs.
When the white light filled Shen Qing's entire body, the pool was reduced to the size of a well, with only half of it filled with shallow water. The layout of three bedrooms and two living rooms also completely disappeared, revealing the original appearance of the empty land.
The next second, Shen Qing heard the midwife's surprised voice from a faraway place: "It's right! It's right! The baby's head is out, it's born!"
Immediately afterwards, Shen Qing was ejected from the space.
When he opened his eyes again, he was still lying on the bed where he gave birth. The midwives were extremely excited and delighted to see that he had opened his eyes. Just now Shen Qing looked like he had fainted. This was not a good thing! If a person faints, they cannot cooperate, which is dangerous for both children and adults. Now the fetus is in the correct position and the patient is awake. The baby is about to be born!
Sure enough, this time it took less than a quarter of an hour before the sound of a baby crying could be heard in the room. Shen Qing's condition at this moment is very different from before. He doesn't feel any pain anywhere, and he feels like he can get up and run a few laps at any time. He knew that it was the spiritual spring that saved him.
This spiritual spring formed by Li Aiguo's dying obsession saved his lover Zhang Sujuan, and now saved Shen Qing and his grandson.
Several midwives quickly wiped the child and Shen Qing clean, wrapped the child in a blanket, and placed him next to Shen Qing. A midwife said in a somewhat nervous whisper: "Congratulations, Mr. Shen, Mr. Shen, for giving birth to a daughter."
She was invited from the city and didn't know Shen Qing's temper. The child born after taking such a big risk turned out to be a girl instead of a boy. If it were someone else's family, the reward would be half as much. She glanced towards the window and saw that the fire was still on outside. She felt a little regretful about taking the job.
Shen Qing didn't care at all and touched his daughter's little face lovingly. Babies don't look good when they are born, they are red and look like a wrinkled monkey, but Shen Qing's eyes are full of tenderness and affection. She thinks the child's face shape is like Song Kaiji, his eyes are like hers, and his nose... The nose is still collapsed at the moment and can't be seen.
But he only looked at it for a short while before he calmed down and said to the midwives in the room, "Please help me carry me to the window."
Although he felt that he was fine and could get out of bed, there was an old saying that one should take good care of oneself during confinement, so he decided not to move if possible.
There is a couch in front of the window, and Haitang has been sleeping on it these days. The midwives looked at each other and understood that Shen Qing wanted to see the situation outside the yard.
It's cold now, and Shen Qing just gave birth, so she can't be exposed to the wind. However, Zhao Youwei brought only young and strong men, while Wu Guixiang brought only women and young men. Even though Miao Chunlei provided weapons, they were still at a disadvantage. Nowadays, we are just considering that we are all from the same village, and no one is a vicious person. Regardless of whether human nature is good or bad, few people have the courage to kill. Therefore, neither side fought cruelly and no one was killed, but there were many injuries.
If we continue like this, they might break into the house. After hesitating for a moment, the midwives did as they were told. They wrapped Shen Qing in a quilt and carried the quilt over. They then used a mattress, blanket and thick clothes to wrap Shen Qing tightly, leaving only his eyes exposed.
"Sir, do you want to open the window?"
Shen Qing shook his head: "No need to bother. There are some things on the right side of my bed, please bring them over for me."
The midwife hurried to take it. It was made of several pieces of wood and something unknown, and also a basket of feather arrows. Shen Qing held the pieces of wood in his hand and assembled them into a crossbow in no time. There was no need to open the window at this moment. He just poked a fist-sized hole in the window paper so that the cold wind could basically not get in.
Shen Qing looked out from the small hole and saw Miao Chunlei waving the knife in her hand wildly. Two dogs surrounded her and barked at the people outside. The knife was long and sharp, so no one dared to rush forward at the risk of their life, and it would take some time for them to reach the front of the house. But the situation outside the courtyard gate was a bit tragic. Many people did not have any suitable weapons and only had farm tools, which were snatched away by others and beaten to the ground.
Shen Qing took a few glances and then set his sights on a few of Zhao Youwei's most capable fighters. He shouted at Miao Chunlei, "Mom, get out of the way!" Miao Chunlei was stunned, but her body subconsciously obeyed and moved sideways. Immediately afterwards, an arrow flew past where she had just stood and accurately pierced the boy's knee.
The man screamed and fell to one knee on the ground. The husband who was being beaten by him was stunned for two seconds, then picked up the rolling pin on the ground and hit him on the head.
Then, the second arrow, the third arrow... the whole yard was suddenly filled with people falling down and wailing everywhere. Miao Xing and Miao Wang tied their hands together, at a loss. How come the enemy suddenly disappeared?
With the last shot, Shen Qing aimed at Zhao Youwei who was limping away and shot at his good leg.
It was Wu Guixiang who reacted first and was extremely happy. Qing Ge'er is really amazing. She can knock down everyone in the yard even when she is giving birth to a child! She quickly called out to the uninjured women and boys: "Get the ropes! Tie up these bastards!"
Then he realized it belatedly and poked his head into the house: "Is it the birth? What is it?"
After that, Shen Qing stopped looking at them and had the broken windows sealed up. "Ask the doctor to check on the injured people in the village, prescribe medicine and bandage them, and I'll pay for it."
The old doctor didn't enter the delivery room and was hiding in the kitchen at the back. A midwife hurried over to pass on the message that a man had a dislocated arm, an aunt had a cut on her forehead, and most of the others had skin injuries, with bruises on their noses and faces, but apart from the pain, there was nothing serious.
At this moment Miao Chunlei also reacted. She no longer cared about what was happening in the yard and quickly ran into the house.
He ran to the main room, but was afraid that the coldness from his body would infect Qing'er and the children, so he went to the kitchen to warm himself before going into the house to see Shen Qing.
Shen Qing was hugging the child tenderly at this moment. She did not look like someone who had just lost more than ten legs. Her whole body was glowing with maternal love. Seeing that Shen Qing was fine, Miao Chunlei burst into tears again, this time out of joy. After wiping his face, he leaned forward to look at the child again: "What happened?"
"It's a girl." Shen Qing was very happy. "Mom, please prepare the red envelopes for these people, as well as the doctor's red envelope and consultation fees. You have worked so hard today." His birth was really difficult because of the conspiracy of Wei the matchmaker. Several midwives were sweating profusely while pushing his belly.
Miao Chunlei said sincerely: "Girl, you are a caring and thoughtful girl who knows how to care for people." She quickly went to the room to get the money. Red envelopes had been prepared before, and now in front of several people, Miao Chunlei grabbed a handful of silver and stuffed more into each purse: "Thank you for your hard work today. My brother's safe delivery is all thanks to you."
They didn't expect that they could get such a generous gift for giving birth to a girl. They were all very happy. They also knew that this was a family with no men. Shen Qing was the head of the family, so any child she gave birth to would be her treasured treasure, unlike those men who only cared about incense and worship!
I took it with many thanks, saying auspicious words without asking for money. The room was full of joy, but suddenly I heard a commotion outside, and a strange male voice shouted, "Don't move! Crouch down, be quiet!"
Miao Chunlei and Shen Qing were both stunned, and then Zhao Youwei's voice was heard: "My Lord, help us! They are trying to kill people! Save us! My legs!"
Miao Chunlei ran out quickly to see what was happening, and saw that it was a group of police officers who had arrested all the men and women who had tied up people, and some were checking on the injured - Shen Qing only let the doctor treat the people on his side, and ignored the people on the other side. At this moment, Zhao Youwei, Shen Zhigao, Wang Liuzi and others were crying and begging the master to make the decision.
Lian Ou also squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, but he felt something was wrong. He mustered up the courage to look up and saw Lin Ning riding a mule following the soldiers in the distance. He waved and said, "Ning brother! We are here!"
Seeing that he knew Lin Ning, the officers ignored him and Lian Ou quickly ran to Lin Ning and said, "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding! Those who are being held are our own people. The ones lying on the ground are the bad guys!"
Lin Ning: “Ah? Ah?” Is he that good at fighting?
He saw from afar a pile of fallen leaves in the yard and his heart was broken. He thought that those who wanted to drown Qing'er in the pond were about to succeed and might have already captured Qing'er. Damn it, Qing'er was giving birth! The more Lin Ning thought about it, the angrier he became. He quickly ordered the soldiers to go forward and arrest the men, and he himself rode his horse to catch up. Lian Rong and the others were still sitting in the carriage at the back.
Lian Ou was a little embarrassed: "...We were not very good at fighting. We were suppressed by them before. It was only because Qing Ge shot arrows and injured their legs that we were able to turn the defeat into victory."
"He's really worthy of being called Qing Ge'er. He can beat people while giving birth..." Lin Ning murmured, and quickly asked the soldiers to release his people, and followed the uncles and aunts to tie up Zhao Youwei.
Zhao Youwei couldn't stand it anymore: "They are the ones who want to kill people, why are they arresting us! Look at the wounds on our legs!" Even if the two villages had fought over water during a drought and reported the matter to the government, the officials would have punished them with fifty lashes. But now, the county magistrate's brother is bending the law for his own selfish interests and is siding with Shen Qing and the others!
He failed to kill Shen Qing, nor did he seize the power of the village chief. Now even his other leg was injured. Zhao Youwei was extremely angry and resentful. He cursed at Lin Ning: "You are unfair in your official duties, you bully people by taking advantage of your power, you are a corrupt official! I will sue you, I will sue you all the way to the capital city!"
When Lin Ning heard him cursing the corrupt official, he naturally meant his own father and became very angry. He wanted to say that he and Qingger are good friends, so of course he would side with Qingger. If not with Qingger, would he side with you? But he couldn't say that, because if he did, his father's reputation as an official would be ruined. Today his father took Miao Yu and Tieshan to inspect somewhere else. As for these officers and soldiers, they were all secretly brought out by him at the request of his mother. They can only bring glory to his father and not leave any excuses for him to accuse them!
Lin Ning sneered, "How are we unfair? What is this place? This is Shen Qing's home. Whose name is the title deed to this house? Oh, it's Miao Chunlei's name. Then tell me who you are and what right do you have to break into someone's house? You bullied an orphan and a widow and even went to their doorstep. Are you wronged by arresting you?"
Zhao Youwei choked and said after a while: "We came here with Shen Zhigao. Shen Zhigao is Shen Qing's father. He brought us here, so we can come in!" Otherwise, why would he be so reluctant to bring this bunch of useless people from the Shen family with him? And they have to share their money. Just to be in the right!
"Besides, Shen Qing, an unmarried man, is pregnant. No village can tolerate him! According to the village rules, he must be drowned in a pond!"
"Qing'er is not pregnant before marriage. Qing'er is married, but you haven't seen it!" Lin Ning was not very clear about the affairs of the village. He didn't dare to say much at this moment. He just glared at Zhao Youwei fiercely. Miao Chunlei, on the other hand, went into the house and searched for a while, then came out angrily: "Bah! Shen Zhigao and I divorced a long time ago, and the child belongs to me. Why did he bring you to my house? According to what you said, this divorce letter is useless. All divorced women and men in the world have to do whatever their ex-husband's family tells them to do. Can the ex-husband just barge in whenever he wants? You wish!"
Miao Xing and Miao Wang said quickly: "That's right! He thinks that there is no one in our Miao family? Are we two brothers dead? If we get divorced, it has nothing to do with Shen Zhigao!"
Miao Chunlei shook out a household registration and held it in front of Zhao Youwei's face: "Qingge'er and I moved out of Lantang Village a year ago and settled in a house in the north of the county town. No matter what the village rules of your Lantang Village are, they have no effect on us people from Anping County! We are still living in the village because we care about our fellow villagers and opened a workshop to help everyone, but we ran into a bunch of ruthless people like you!"
Shen Qing and his family are not registered in the village, so the village rules are a joke to them. Otherwise, if one had to follow the village rules as long as he lived in the village, and those princes and dukes bought a farm in the countryside, and when they stayed there for a while, they had a mistress or got a maidservant with no official status pregnant, could the village rules still sink the princes and dukes into a pond? Bullshit! You really take your village rules as the golden rule!
Zhao Youwei could read a few words. Looking at the household registration in Miao Chunlei's hand, he widened his eyes in disbelief and his face became redder and redder. After a while, he suddenly snatched the household registration from Miao Chunlei and stuffed it into his mouth: "I don't believe it! I don't believe it!!"
Miao Chunlei: “…”
Lin Ning: “…”
Others: “…”
Miao Chunlei was so scared that she regretted it so much. She looked at Lin Ning helplessly: "He ate this, does our household registration still count?" Ahhh, she shouldn't have held it so close to Zhao Youwei!
Lin Ning chuckled, "Let him eat it! This red deed has the seal of the government, and the government has registered it. If you lose it, you can just go get a new one. At most, you'll have to look at the clerk's face. What's the big deal? How can it be ignored just because he ate it?"
Miao Chunlei finally breathed a sigh of relief and kicked Zhao Youwei in anger: "Believe it or not, there are many things you don't believe."
Lin Ning suppressed his smile and winked at a soldier who seemed to be the leader. The soldier coughed twice and stepped forward: "You unruly people, you are trying to steal the property of the wealthy merchants in Anping County and break into their houses to kill people. Mr. Shen was praised by the county magistrate himself for benefiting the village and was awarded a memorial archway, but you don't take him seriously at all. Arrest them all and put them in jail!"
Zhao Youwei listened stupidly and stopped talking. Instead, the others begged and wailed, thinking that they had been deceived and bewitched by Zhao Youwei and did not know that Shen Qing was no longer a villager. The leading soldier said sternly, "The village chief of this village should be appointed by the government. But our officials don't have time to deal with your trivial matters, and they don't understand the temperament of your villagers, so they agreed to it as soon as you reported it. I didn't expect such a mess to happen. Do you really think that the village chief can be replaced at will? Who do you think you are?"
Although Zhao Youwei looked stupid, his face became even more gloomy after hearing these words.
"Zhao Youdang has been the village chief for many years and has never made any mistakes. He has done a good job in collecting grain taxes and organizing corvee labor. But you can't even handle your own family affairs. Even your brother doesn't obey you--" the soldier said with a frown. This man had come to the village during conscription in previous years, and Zhao Youdang had dealt with him several times, so he was even more afraid of him. He was so ashamed that he couldn't even raise his head after hearing what he said.
"Well, seeing that you handled things well in the past, you should be the one." He glanced at Wu Guixiang next to him and said, "If you have any problems in the future, listen to the advice of the people in the room."
Zhao Youdang agreed with a wry smile, but Wu Guixiang was overjoyed. Isn't this equivalent to having a clear path forward, and from now on, Zhao Youdang will have to listen to her on village affairs? She looked at Lin Ning in surprise, and sure enough, Lin Ning winked at her secretly.
Congratulations to Aunt Wu Guixiang for starting the first “behind-the-scenes governance” in Lantang Village!
When the matter was almost settled, Lin Ning asked a few officers and soldiers to clean up the mess and he ran to the room to see Shen Qing. Shen Qing is in good condition. You can't tell at all that she just went through a near-death experience or had a difficult childbirth. Lin Ning praised him crazily: "Qing Ge'er, you are so awesome! I thought I didn't need to come. I came too late. The battle on your side is over!"
"No, it would be better if you came." Shen Qing sighed. Zhao Youwei was capable of drowning him in a pond, but Shen Qing couldn't do it. Although their legs were shot, no one was killed. What should we do next? Should they take care of him and let him continue to live in the village, with everyone seeing him around?
Shen Qing is neither that cruel nor that generous. Even if Lin Ning didn't come, he would send these people to the government. "Can you please talk to the county magistrate and sentence them to exile and send them to a poor place far away to open up wasteland? Out of sight, out of mind."
Lin Ning was a little nervous before he came, fearing that he would take sides with Qing Ge'er and be punished by his father when he got home. Before coming here, he only thought about saving Qing'er's life and taking Qing'er to the county town to protect him so that the people in the village wouldn't hurt him. He never thought about what he would do to Zhao Youwei.
But at this moment, Lin Ning's heart was completely settled: "Don't worry, I didn't know that your household registration had been changed before. Since you are not from their village anymore, they attacked and robbed the wealthy merchants from the city, and my father will definitely sentence you. Exile is a light sentence."
They talked for a while, and praised Lian Rong for being smart and brave, and for knowing how to go to the county town to call for help. Lian Rong hung her head shyly, mainly because she felt that even though she had run so far, she was not of much help as Brother Qing had solved everything by himself.
After that, several people lay on the bed to look at the child.
This is a very quiet little girl. Maybe it was because being born was too difficult and he used up all his energy, so he only cried for a while when he was first born. The sheep at home had given birth a long time ago, and the goat's milk was warm on the stove. After drinking the goat's milk, the baby fell asleep quickly and didn't make any noise at all.
"What a thoughtful child. She knows her mother is busy with work and doesn't cause any trouble." Miao Hexiang praised.
Lin Ning and Lian Rong frowned, and Lian Ou also frowned slightly, seeming to want to say something but stopping herself. They have never given birth, and their newborn babies are not very good-looking, they are bright red like a monkey. I guess Qingge’s man doesn’t look...that good, right?
well.
At Hongcheng Base, Song Kaiji sneezed violently several times. He sniffed and said to himself, "Qingqing must be missing me."
I don’t know how Qingqing is doing, but it’s about time for her to give birth. Song Kaiji looked up at the sky, feeling very sad.
Qu Weiwei glanced at him speechlessly. Shen Qing hadn't shown up for several months. She suspected that Shen Qing had finally dumped Song Kaiji... After carefully checking the contents of the box, Qu Weiwei gestured to Song Kaiji: "No problem, give me the money."
They are on the black market at the moment. There was a layer of hand grenades and another layer of hand grenades in the box, totaling more than seventy. This is a hot commodity, and it costs a lot of money. Seeing that Song Kaiji paid happily, the seller came up to him with a smile on his face and said, "There will be another batch of good goods in a few days. Do you want them, boss?"
Song Kaiji nodded: "Yes, I want as many as you have."
The last incident really taught Song Kaiji a lesson. The research institute has already developed shackles that can restrain superpowers, but if we encounter that kind of situation again, we will still have to rely on thermal weapons. And...Song Kaiji has been interacting more with Chen Jiaqian recently. He has always disapproved of Chen Jiaqian's style of doing things, but Chen Jiaqian was right in saying that these college students who have not yet left the campus are too immature and not ruthless enough.
They don't agree with Chen Jiaqian, maybe Chen Jiaqian also looks down on them...
Next time if you encounter that kind of thing, no matter who he is, throw a few grenades at him and save your own people first. Do you still have the chance to put handcuffs on them?
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