Chapter 50 Alas! Why is it a girl?
Hearing Mr. Luo's anxious voice, he came personally to invite Wang Ziru, which shows that the Luo family is sincere.
Zhai Ximo looked at Luo Laosi outside the side room and instinctively swallowed a bowl of egg drop soup.
"Baoer Mama, can you help them deliver the baby?"
"I can deliver the baby, but Baoer hasn't had lunch yet, you have to watch him eat!" Wang Ziru gave the order, took the earthen bowl from the man's hand, scooped a bowl of egg drop soup, and drank it in one gulp.
Follow Luo Laosi to Luo's house.
Luo Laosi felt bad when he saw that Wang Ziru hadn't had lunch yet.
Along the way, we exchanged some polite words.
Wang Ziru followed Luo Laosi to Luo's house and was seen by many people in the village.
Hearing that the daughter-in-law in the hometown was about to give birth, many village women ran to the Luo family with their bowls in hand to watch the excitement.
When Wang Ziru arrived at Luo's house, she had just walked into the yard when she heard Zhao Junxia's screams of pain in the house.
A group of children from the village had gathered in the yard.
"Wang Ziru really came." An older child saw Wang Ziru really come to Luo's house, pointed at Wang Ziru and said loudly.
Wang Ziru walked into the yard and glanced at the boy. She didn't know whose naughty boy he was.
The Luo family is already very busy.
In the stove room, the sister-in-law was already boiling water.
The scissors are also ready.
Zhao Junxia's mother-in-law saw that her son had really invited the third daughter-in-law of the Zhai family, and she rubbed her hands excitedly, "Third daughter-in-law, you are here. Our fourth daughter-in-law came back from washing clothes and said she had a stomachache. You know how to deliver babies, so please come in and take a look at her."
Wang Ziru was speechless. The baby was about to come, and the Luo family had other manpower, but the whole family was so cruel as to let a full-term pregnant woman carry such a large basket of clothes to the stream.
The body of a pregnant woman is stimulated by cold water and the force of gravity, so she is about to give birth.
Wang Ziru said calmly, "You don't have to be so nervous. Let me check it out first."
Then, he walked into the dimly lit side room.
There are four brothers in the Luo family and so many sons. The fourth brother just got married last year and lives in the same place as them, which is a shabby side room that was unwanted by the older brothers.
Wang Ziru walked to the bed and told Luo Laosi to light the lamp, "It's too dark in the room, light the kerosene lamp."
"Why."
Luo Laosi hurriedly lit the lamp.
The eldest daughter-in-law of the Luo family quickly took the kerosene lamp, lit it, followed her mother-in-law into the room, and stood in front of the bed holding the kerosene lamp.
"Let me see what's inside your belly. Don't be nervous. Let me touch your belly." Wang Ziru lifted the quilt and said this while lifting Zhao Junxia's skirt and stroking the fetus through her belly.
The fetal head moves in the abdomen, causing the uterus to contract violently. The fetal head has entered the pelvis and the amniotic fluid should be about to break.
Then, she signaled to Luo's sister-in-law to bring the kerosene lamp closer.
"My pants are off."
Wang Ziru quickly took off Zhao Junxia's pants and checked the situation underneath.
With the help of kerosene lamp, Wang Ziru took a look.
Sure enough, she saw that the amniotic fluid had broken, there was spotting, and the baby's hair was faintly visible. "There's spotting! Get ready, where are the scissors? Boil them in hot water and bring them out..."
"Old Four! Take the scissors to the stove and heat them up!"
The eldest daughter-in-law of the Luo family turned around and instructed her younger brother-in-law.
Although she was a woman who had given birth to three children, she had some common sense about having children.
However, it was the first time she saw a midwife like Wang Ziru holding the fourth son's wife and examining her carefully, and she couldn't help but feel nervous.
"It hurts so much! It hurts so much..." Zhao Junxia's face was covered with cold sweat and she kept howling in unbearable pain.
Outside the door, there were villagers and children who came to watch the excitement.
The three daughters-in-law of the Luo family were all busy. After the boiling water was ready, it was also sent to the side room.
"Prepare another wooden basin."
"Well, Fourth Brother, come here and help your sister-in-law help your wife get up from the bed." Wang Ziru suddenly ordered.
The women present were all stunned.
The woman in labor is in so much pain that she can't even sit still. What's the point of helping her stand up at this time?
Zhao Junxia's mother-in-law was very nervous and asked nervously: "Old Third Wife, can you deliver a baby?"
"Stop talking! Just do it!"
Wang Ziru looked serious as she helped Zhao Junxia get up from the bed with great difficulty.
On one side, a man held the woman in labor firmly.
Then place the wooden basin in front of the woman in labor.
"Zhao Junxia, hold on a little longer. This pregnancy should be very smooth." Wang Ziru asked the woman to start pushing. "Use some strength, just like you are having a bowel movement..."
Maybe because it was the first time a child was born, there were many village women waiting outside the door to watch the excitement.
A group of children were blocking the door and chattering.
Zhao Junxia felt embarrassed at first, with her legs bare, and she could barely stand steadily, yet she was still remembering to close the door tightly.
"You don't have to worry about the other things. Just try hard and I will help you continue." Wang Ziru found a chair and sat next to it, playing the role of an assistant.
"Junxia, hurry up, your water has broken. If you don't give birth to the baby, it will be dangerous." said the eldest sister-in-law of the Luo family.
About five or six minutes passed.
The woman in labor felt a sharp pain and screamed heart-wrenchingly.
Amid the busy work of several people in the side room, the baby was born safely.
"Wow……"
The baby's clear and powerful cry seemed to tell his family of his arrival.
"She's a lady, and looks healthy."
Wang Ziru quickly checked the baby's body and looked up and spoke to the child's parents.
The expectant expression on Luo Laosi's face suddenly dimmed.
Zhao Junxia's mother-in-law was also disappointed, muttering, "How could she give birth to a girl with such a big belly? The elders in the village all said that her first child must be a boy."
"How could it be a girl..."
The old man was mumbling something.
"Old Four, what did your wife give birth to?"
Someone heard a baby crying in the house and asked by knocking on the door.
Wang Ziru first wrapped the baby casually in old clothes, put him on the bed, covered him with a quilt, and turned around to clean the woman in labor.
Then Luo Laosi loudly replied, "It's a girl."
"Girl? How can it be a girl and not a boy?"
The village women waiting at the door were unwilling to give up and were eager to squeeze into the house to see with their own eyes whether it was a girl or a boy.
Wang Ziru noticed that the Luo family members were not in good spirits, so she helped clean up the woman in labor and then carried her to bed.
Now I have time to wrap the baby properly.
Holding the young life in her arms, Wang Ziru smiled and said, "It's great to have a daughter. When she grows up, she will be filial to you two! What a blessing!"
Zhao Junxia's mother-in-law sighed, "Our Luo family has already given birth to three girls. What's the point of giving birth to all girls?"
Seeing that her daughter-in-law had also given birth, the old woman not only did not mention preparing food for the woman in labor.
Carrying the wooden basin, he opened the door and went out.
On the bed, Zhao Junxia bit her lip and sobbed softly.
I'm afraid she always thought her first child would be a boy, but she didn't expect her belly to be unreliable and she still let her man down.
"Why are you crying? Giving birth to a daughter is a great joy." Wang Ziru told Zhao Junxia and her husband some precautions for confinement, wrapped the baby, and tucked the child into the mother's quilt. "If you don't take good care of yourself during confinement and develop a disease, how can you have a second or third child in the future?"
Turning around, Wang Ziru said to Luo Laosi, "Ask your mother to cook two sugar-coated eggs and bring them to her! Your wife is in good health, and maybe she can give birth to a son for you in two years."