Chapter 184 Mother-in-law’s shock

The next day.

Poxin Village.

After the family had breakfast, Zhang Shouguo and Zhang Shoumin each rode a bicycle and took their wives to Longtan Street. Every day they would first send their wives to the shop to do business, and then the two brothers would ride their bicycles to the countryside to collect the goods.

Because today is not a market day, Zhang's father and Zhang Shoujun and Zhang Shoushan do not need to go to the store to help.

Zhang Shoujun and Zhang Shoushan had stopped studying a long time ago. How could they stay at home as young men? Seeing their eldest brother and his wife and their second brother and his wife busy with business, the two brothers excitedly went up the mountain with their slingshots to shoot birds.

When Zhang's father had nothing to do, he would take his eldest grandson and granddaughter for a stroll around the village.

As for Zhang's mother, she would carry one child on her back and hold one child in her arms as she visited neighbors and chatted about family matters.

Around 10:30 in the morning, when Zhang's mother was happily chatting with her neighbors, she heard someone shouting, "Auntie Afa, your son-in-law is here!"

Zhang's mother smiled instantly, said hello to her neighbors, and hurried home.

"Yun Tae!"

"mom!"

After returning home and greeting each other, Zhang's mother had just put the child on the homemade child chair when she saw her son-in-law handing over a pig's butt weighing more than ten pounds and a bag of candy biscuits. She couldn't help but complain, "Yuntai, you can just bring some candies for the children, why did you bring such a big pig's butt!"

“This is what my dad prepared.”

"Father-in-law is just polite."

Mother Zhang took the pig's butt and candy cakes, asked her son-in-law to sit down, and hung the pig's butt on the bamboo pole.

"Did Dad go to the store to help?"

"No, today is not a market day, your two sisters-in-law are enough to look after the store, your father took the two older ones to play somewhere!"

After the two chatted for a while, Zhang's mother turned the topic to her daughter and said, "Yuntai, according to the date, Xiuping should be giving birth soon. As a mother, I have to go over to take care of her in advance, otherwise her stomach will start to hurt and you won't know what to do."

"Mom, I came here today to tell you this!"

Deng Yuntai smiled and told his father's decision, "My dad said that giving birth at home is actually a bit dangerous. On the one hand, there are no professional midwives, and on the other hand, there are no medical equipment. If there is an accident, it will be too late to regret.

So, my dad wanted Pingmei to give birth in a hospital in the county town, which is the safest place."

Hearing this, Zhang's mother was so happy!

Although most rural people of this era give birth to their children at home, it does not mean that everyone does not understand that giving birth in a county hospital is much safer than giving birth at home.

It’s just that most people don’t have the conditions to give birth in a county hospital.

After all, if you want to give birth in the county hospital, you must go to the county town in advance. It is impossible to wait until you have stomach pain to be sent there. The expected date of delivery is just an approximate date calculated by the women in the village based on their own experience. It is normal to give birth a week earlier or later.

For so many days, we have to stay in a guesthouse in the county town, which is not a small amount of money for an average rural family.

Then, if you give birth in a hospital, the various expenses will be a very large amount.

For rural people, this money is totally unnecessary. They can save this money by giving birth at home. Who wants to go to the county hospital? As for whether giving birth at home is dangerous, compared with spending so much money to give birth to a child, taking a little risk is nothing for rural people. Anyway, women in the village have gone through this, and there are very few cases of accidents.

Now her in-laws have taken the initiative to ask her daughter to give birth in the county hospital. As a mother, Zhang's mother was naturally very happy and praised them repeatedly: "The in-laws are very thoughtful. If conditions permit, it is naturally best to go to the county hospital for the birth."

Deng Yuntai said, "According to calculations, Pingmei will give birth in about half a month, but my dad said that things like this can be advanced or delayed, and we can't wait until the birth to go to the county town, so he asked me to tell you, mom, that we will prepare to send Pingmei to the county town to give birth tomorrow."

Zhang's mother was surprised and asked, "We're going to the county town so early? How much will it cost to feed and house so many people?"

Deng Yuntai smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about this, Mom. My dad has already rented a house in the county town in advance." This is what Deng Shirong said to his sons, daughters and daughters-in-law. In order to keep a low profile, the matter of buying a house should not be made public for the time being, so just treat it as a rental.

Zhang's mother was even more surprised: "It's just to give birth to a child, why did my in-laws rent a house in the county town?"

Deng Yuntai let out a little hint and said, "Mom, my dad went to the county town to rent a house not only for Pingmei's childbirth, but he wanted us to go to the county town to do business next year, so this house can be considered as renting it in advance for us."

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Zhang's mother was shocked when she heard this and asked, "Yuntai, are you going to the county town to do business next year? Are you not working in the tile factory anymore?"

Deng Yuntai nodded and said, "Well, I won't work in the tile factory now. In my father's words, being a big vat master in the tile factory is a dead end. Although I can make a lot of money every month, I will be a worker for the rest of my life.

If you want to make a fortune, you have to start a business and become a boss."

If it was her own son who dared to give up his job that paid more than 200 yuan a month to start a business, Zhang's mother would definitely slap him in the face to make him sober up. But these were words spoken by her son-in-law, and the suggestion was made by her capable in-laws, so that was another matter.

She knew very well how good her in-laws' vision was. Before, they just gave some advice to their family for the sake of her daughter, and their business was already flourishing. Now they are giving advice to their own son, how could it be bad? Thinking of this, Zhang's mother said with deep conviction: "My in-laws are right. No matter how high the salary of a big vat master is, he can only be a worker for life. If he wants to make a fortune, he really has to go out and do business and be a boss. I wonder what business you plan to do in the county, Yuntai?"

Deng Yuntai was not afraid of being exposed in advance, and replied: "I am planning to open a restaurant like the Longtan State-owned Restaurant, but the scale should be larger."

Zhang's mother was secretly shocked when she heard this. Her in-laws were still as generous as ever! "But that's all next year. It's too early to talk about it now."

At this point, Deng Yuntai changed the subject: "Mom, if you are free, then you can go back with me today, and then we can go to Bobai together tomorrow, so that we can have a good time in the county town for a while."

Mother Zhang's eyes lit up and she nodded repeatedly, "I am free, of course I am free. Yesterday I mentioned to your two sisters-in-law that I would go and take care of Xiuping's childbirth. Your two sisters-in-law are very supportive. It won't have any impact whether I am at home or not."

(End of this chapter)