Chapter 129
“What is this doing.”
"I'll make you a blessing plaque."
Blessing plaques are a local specialty. After each child is born, a specialized craftsman will be asked to make one, engraved with the birth date and a blessing from an elder, and placed at home.
If some children cry every night after they are born or get seriously ill, their families will put blessing tablets in the ancestral hall and ask for the blessings of their ancestors.
"What about you? Do you have a blessing card too?"
"have."
There wasn't one originally, but when Shi Ye came to the town for the first time when he was 5 years old, Shi Mei asked Shao Ya to make one, but it was left blank without any words of blessing.
Soon, Jiang Zhinian's blessing plaque was also completed. The birth date could only be vague to the year, month and day, and the blessing words were also blank, which looked a bit desolate.
"Want to carve something?"
Jiang Zhinian didn't want Shi Ye to touch the carving knife too much because he thought carving was troublesome. He just shook his head and said, "Just like you, leaving it blank is fine."
Shi Ye looked at the blessing card over and over again, then stood up and said, "Wait for me."
After saying that, he took the blessing pendant to the back seat of the shop and fiddled with it. When he came back, the blessing pendant was strung with a hand-woven thin rope.
"Take a look, do you like it?"
Jiang Zhinian took it, touched the front of the blessing card and looked at it for a while, then suddenly she felt a smooth touch on the back, turned it over and saw a waning moon.
I don’t know what material it is made of, but it looks like a photo of the moon taken by an astronomical instrument one day was embedded in it.
"This is……"
"This is the moon on the day you were born."
He found the picture on the Internet and asked someone to make it into a small card, which he embedded in Jiang Zhinian's blessing card as his first birthday gift to her.
Jiang Zhinian held it in her hand, looking at it over and over again, unable to let it go. If Uncle Shao was not still in the store, she would have wanted to throw herself into Shi Ye's arms and kiss him hard.
"Do you like it?"
"I like it." No, I should say I like it too much.
After many children are born, their parents will leave something as a souvenir to commemorate the arrival of the child, such as fetal hair and footprints, which all carry love and blessings.
She was the only one who had no idea when she was born. There was only a piece of paper that seemed to prove something, but it was meaningless. But things were different from today. Shi Ye gave her the moon on the day she was born, as if her birth was also loved with expectation.
Shi Ye looked at Jiang Zhinian's sparkling eyes and simply hung the lucky badge around her neck: "Let's go, let's go eat."
Shao Ya snorted: "Why are you leaving? After all, you've come to my house once, and it's dinner time, so eat first and then leave."
He pointed to the yard next door and said, "It should be almost there. Come with me."
"Let's go, let's go have a meal."
After leaving the yard and locking the door, they walked into the yard next door. As soon as they entered, they saw a pregnant woman with a big belly sitting under a tree, leaning lazily, looking listless. When she saw Shao Ya coming in, she moved her mouth and called out "Father-in-law".
Shao Ya pointed: "My daughter-in-law."
A middle-aged woman came out of the kitchen upon hearing Shao Ya's voice: "You're back, wash your hands and have dinner. This is... Aye, right?"
"Aunt Wang, it's me."
Aunt Wang smiled and said, "You've brought your wife back. Come on, it's time for dinner."
After washing their hands, everyone returned to a long table in the living room. Aunt Wang said warmly, "It's a pity that Asen isn't home. He's gone up the mountain to collect materials. He always misses you when he's free."
She pointed at the pregnant woman and said, "Asen's wife, Ayun."
Shi Ye's eyes swept over Ayun's belly, estimating that the baby would soon be full term and about to be born.
Aunt Wang is a very good cook. She makes local specialties. In addition to the fresh ingredients, she also uses some special local seasonings. Jiang Zhinian is very accustomed to it and his appetite is whetted just by smelling it.
However, Ayun seemed to have no appetite and put down her chopsticks after eating only a few bites. Aunt Wang persuaded her to eat more, and Ayun picked up her chopsticks again, but she only took a few bites of rice before putting them down again.
After finishing the meal, Shao Ya dragged Shi Ye outside to drink tea under the tree. A Yun did not follow them. She sat under the corridor in the yard and soaked her feet with herbs. When she saw Jiang Zhinian turned to look at her, she turned away a little embarrassedly.
Aunt Wang came over and asked Ayun if the water was hot, then added some boiled herbs into the bucket.
Jiang Zhinian quietly asked Shi Ye: "Why do you use medicine to soak your feet? Is it a custom here?"
Shi Ye didn't understand, so he asked Shao Ya directly: "What kind of herb is that?"
Shao Ya waved his hand: "It's nothing, my feet are just swollen because of pregnancy. I asked someone to buy some herbal remedies to reduce the swelling. They feel better now."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Zhinian saw Ayun bending down with difficulty and scratching her calf with her hand. She scratched so hard that the skin, which was already red from being soaked in hot water, was scratched until it bled.
Jiang Zhinian felt something was wrong and patted Shi Ye's arm: "Shi Ye, look."
Shi Ye watched for a while, walked over to stop Ayun's actions, and asked her to take her feet out of the hot water and dry them.
"Is there a place with brighter lights?"
Shao Ya likes to use dim light bulbs at home, which always make people look blurry and unclear when shining on them at night.
"Yes, my son's room."
Shao Ya knew that Shi Ye was studying medicine. Seeing his expression, he knew that something might be wrong, so he took him to the room with incandescent lights without delay.
Shi Ye asked Ayun to sit down, and first looked at her eyes and skin, and found some slight yellowing.
"Have you been feeling tired lately, lacking energy and strength, unable to eat, and itching all over your body?"
Ah Yun nodded: "That's right, I'm just like that, I don't know what's going on."
She showed Shi Ye the scratches on her arms. Sometimes she would feel so itchy in the middle of the night that she wanted to scratch them until they were torn apart.
"Did you lose any weight when you went for your prenatal checkup?"
"One thing, my mother said it was because I couldn't eat."
Shi Ye asked again: "Have you had any abdominal pain recently, or slight discomfort?"
Ayun thought for a moment and said, "No, there's nothing wrong with my stomach."
Shi Ye nodded and said to Shao Ya, "Take her to the county for a checkup tomorrow and tell the doctor that he suspects she has intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy."
Shao Ya was a little worried: "Will there be any problems with this siltation?"
"It can cause liver damage in pregnant women, and some women may develop cholelithiasis, or gallstones."
Many pregnant women had normal gallbladder examinations before pregnancy, but were found to have mud-like gallstones after giving birth. There was a female doctor in their department who, not knowing she had gallstones, drank a large bowl of fat-rich, thick white fish soup to increase her milk production after giving birth. That night, she was in so much pain that she went to the emergency room - she had an acute cholecystitis attack.
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