Chapter 178 Erni gave birth
"The Lin Fuqiang family seems to have become gentler, as if they have been reborn." It can also be said that everyone has calmed down.
This was the conclusion that Chen Chunhua and Lin Guoqing came to after they returned.
"You're not talking nonsense. After going through so much, you'll definitely have some enlightenment." Lin Guoqing said, wiping his face. "The past can't be undone. I can only hope that everything will be fine in the future."
After the autumn harvest, the winter slump begins. Traditionally, the period from now until the Lunar New Year is the most relaxing for rural residents. After a year of hard work, they can finally relax.
But now there are more opportunities to make money, and few people can really sit back and relax.
Lin Yulan couldn't wait to report to the farm as soon as she finished collecting the straw at home. Under the guidance of Shen Chunhua, she went through the things there one by one.
She was afraid that she would not be able to remember, so she asked her daughter for a notebook and wrote down the things she needed to do every day in pencil.
Actually, the work on the farm isn't that hard these days. Raising poultry is like a natural talent for rural people, except there are more chickens, ducks, and geese here. Chen Chunhua repeatedly reminded people to cover their mouths and noses when entering the mushroom house, not to stay inside for long periods of time, and to pay attention to hygiene and cleanliness.
Lin Yulan wrote down everything, and even wrote the key requirements in the largest font on the first page. In addition, Chen Chunhua and Liu Ni also came over at the appointed time every day, so she got the hang of it quickly.
After Lin Yulan went to work, Wu Ni completely withdrew from the management of the farm and focused on her studies. Like Lin Shuying, she really loves studying. The only difference is that one will feel sorry for her parents if she doesn't do well in the exam, while the other will feel sorry for herself.
Her dream was to escape the countryside, ideally to never have to work on the farm again, so that her children and grandchildren wouldn't have to worry about having money to go to school. So once she started studying with such single-minded focus, it was terrifying.
Even when Lin Shu came home from school, he would sigh to his parents and say that his fifth cousin seemed to have gone crazy.
After Wang Yong and Dani bought food for Sanni and her husband, she prepared to leave for the next county. For the past two years, every early winter, she would pack her bedding and live on a farm in the next county for half a month.
In early winter, they hire people to pick cotton, provide two meals, and you can earn 15 yuan in half a month.
Picking cotton is hard work. The cotton branches are covered with thorns, and even with gloves on, your fingers will often bleed. You also have to be careful not to get your blood on the cotton, otherwise the foreman will pick it out and not pay you.
Cotton trees are short, so to pick cotton from top to bottom, you have to bend over constantly. At the end of the day, it's more tiring than harvesting rice. Sometimes people even faint in the cotton fields from overwork.
The autumn harvest had just ended, and many people wanted to take a break and were not willing to do such tiring work. Only those who were really short of money or could really endure hardship were willing to go.
Ma Sanni was someone who could truly endure hardship. As long as the money was there, she would go, even if it meant sleeping in a straw hut and eating sweet potatoes every day. However, she started attending night school this year, and if she had to live on the cotton farm for half a month, she wouldn't be able to attend her Japanese classes.
Sanni asked her teacher for half a month's leave very politely, saying that she would go to pick cotton starting tomorrow, but she would bring her own notebook. Even if she could not learn more words, she would consolidate what she had learned before.
The Japanese teacher was a man in his early sixties. It was said that he had fought in the battlefield when he was young and learned Japanese from captured Japanese soldiers. He liked Sanni very much and felt that he could see in her the shadow of his generation, the ruthlessness they exuded in order to survive.
When Sanni first arrived, her Chinese writing was shaky, let alone her Japanese. But now, in less than three months, she can already translate a complete paragraph, haltingly. Even students who have studied for half a year can't progress as fast as her.
Even though the white words in her notebook are only understandable to her, so what? She just knows how to do it!
The teacher looked at her kindly and said, "Go ahead. When you come back, I'll make a special notebook for you. You can study it when you're free."
Sanni thanked the teacher happily, then went home to pack her things and waited to set off for the farm the next day.
As soon as I arrived at the village entrance, I saw Lin Yulan and several of her sisters hurriedly running out of the village.
"What's wrong?" Sanni stopped Si Ni and asked. Si Ni saw that it was her, grabbed her arm and ran to the next village together.
"My second sister has given birth, and the fifth brother said he wanted to go with her to see what's going on. Let's go, let's see if there's anything we can do to help."
Erni gave birth in the health center of their village. In order to implement the family planning policy in the past two years, rural births are required to be made in hospitals or health centers, and it is more troublesome to register the birth of a child at home.
Although the conditions at the rural health center are very simple, they can issue birth certificates. With the birth certificate, you can register your household registration on the same day.
Erni reportedly had a seizure before noon. They had originally planned to take her to the village hospital, but both she and Zhao Degang were first-time parents and were very nervous, and she kept complaining of pain. Even though her mother-in-law kept saying she was still hours away from giving birth, the couple, fearing the birth would be interrupted, went to the health center.
When we got to the health center, she cried for a long time until dark before the baby was born. It was a big fat girl.
The doctor who delivered the baby said that the baby was a little big because he had received good nutrition during pregnancy. He weighed 7.8 jin (16.3 catties), which is a very rare weight these days.
Everyone in the Zhao family was gathered at the clinic. Zhao Degang was holding his newborn daughter in his arms, adoring her so much that his eyes were almost invisible due to his smile. Erni's parents-in-law were also vying to hold her.
Even the fat boy from Zhao Degang's eldest brother's family kept jumping and saying that he wanted to hug his sister, but he couldn't get her away from Zhao Degang and he wouldn't let go!
Everyone was immersed in joy, and they had to sign and pay the fees as required by the doctor at the health center, and were busy taking care of Erni who had just given birth... No one in the family thought of notifying the in-laws.
On the way back home after being carried by Zhao Degang, Erni peeked out from under layers of thick quilts and asked her husband, "Does my family know that I gave birth?"
Zhao Degang: ...Emma, I forgot.
After putting his wife down on the bed, he hurried to Sihe Village to inform his mother-in-law's family.
Old Mrs. Ma’s first reaction was to ask whether it was a boy or a girl, but when she heard it was a girl, she curled her lips and lost all interest.
I can’t hold my grandson anymore, and I was hoping for a great-grandson, but it turns out to be another girl. Is the Ma family poisonous?
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