The young men who stayed outside the yard to run errands for Mengzi were dumbfounded. Why, they had to go to Wangjia Village?
"I'll go by myself!" Mengzi walked out of the yard.
When he arrived at Mrs. Feng's house, Mengzi bowed deeply to her and said, "Mrs. Feng, please save my wife!"
Old Lady Feng did not respond immediately.
Mengzi had thought it through along the way, and now he said to himself: "I know that our two villages are in such a state now that it is not convenient for you to go. I promise you that from today on, I will no longer participate in this land grab. I also promise to do my best to persuade others in our village."
Old Lady Feng sighed: "Young man, if you do bad things, you will be punished sooner or later!"
Mengzi lowered his head, his face flushed red: "You are right, old man."
Their village had been accustomed to being overbearing for years. The nearby villages had avoided provoking them if possible. They hadn't expected Wangjia Village to be so assertive this time, and they'd hit a snag. When they came to seize the land, they hadn't considered the possibility of someone in Zhoujia Village getting sick or having a baby. If they had been more considerate, they wouldn't have ended up in such an awkward situation.
Old Lady Feng took the delivery bag and said to Mengzi, "Let's go!"
Mengzi was filled with gratitude.
Mengzi's wife was in critical condition, struggling until midnight before giving birth to a baby covered in bruises. The baby didn't even cry when it was born. Zhou Xianyong's wife and several other wives who came to help knew the baby was doomed; it was unlikely to be saved.
But Mrs. Feng was not impatient. She pressed the baby's chest a few times and patted the soles of its feet. After a while, she heard a "Wow~".
Everyone in the audience breathed a sigh of relief, as if a stone had been lifted off their shoulders. Although the crying was weak, the baby was saved!
"Both adults and children must pay attention! The adults must take the medicine for seven consecutive days, and then I'll come back to check on the situation. The child must be carefully cared for. Since you don't have any elders at home, you can ask an experienced elder from your team to come to your house and follow the prescription I give you, and take good care of the child. In a year or two, the child will be as strong as an ordinary child."
Old Lady Feng explained everything to Mengzi in detail. Mengzi's eyes welled with tears. He had spent the entire day in sheer fear. Several times, he thought his wife and child were doomed, and he repeatedly called out to Old Lady Feng in the yard, urging her to save his wife.
At this moment, he knelt down with a plop and kowtowed three times to Old Lady Feng: "Old Lady Feng, I was the one who was in trouble before. Today you saved the lives of my wife and child. From now on, you are my adopted parents!"
Old Lady Feng waved her hand and said, "No, we are too different in generation!"
Mengzi...
The people in the yard were already very excited and about to cry, but when they heard what Old Lady Feng said, they actually cried—with laughter.
"I won't ask you to do anything. As long as you do it according to your conscience, it will be the best reward for me!" Old Mrs. Feng left with the delivery bag.
By the time Mengzi remembered to see her off, she had already walked a long way away at a brisk pace.
"This old lady Feng is truly extraordinary! With her around, pregnant women in the surrounding area don't worry." Zhou Xianyong's wife said, "If you ask me, what we did wasn't very honest. Look, hasn't that sandy land been allocated to Wangjia Village? Who brought up this idea of grabbing the land? Putting aside other things, if Old Lady Feng doesn't come to your senses today, what do you think will happen to this matter?"
The others nodded as well. "There are three pregnant women in the team. Two are due to give birth in a month or two, and one is still pregnant. Changming's daughter also said she was pregnant when she came back last time."
"And my younger daughter, who has to make a fortune, is also pregnant and has been pregnant for several months."
"Don't we have to look for Old Lady Feng from Wangjia Village for all this?" Zhou Xianyong's wife snorted. "What are you thinking?"
She married into Yanjia Village. Whenever Zhoujia Village quarreled or fought with other villages, she was always worried. After all, Zhoujia Village and Yanjia Village had often fought before.
"Or we can go back and persuade the head of the family. Anyway, we are going to grow crops ourselves, so we should stop worrying about other people's sandy land. This matter will be over then." Zhou Xianyong's wife suggested.
Mengzi said, "I told Old Lady Feng today that I will no longer participate in the land grab and will do my best to dissuade her from doing so in the future."
"That's right!" Zhou Xianyong's wife clapped her hands, "Let's go back and persuade her. Let's just leave it at that! We're from the neighboring village, we'll see each other every day. In the future, we'll have to ask Old Lady Feng for help when we need to have children or see a doctor, right? Let's forget about this!"
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