The days when I made money seemed to pass very quickly. In the blink of an eye, the golden ears of rice in the fields were so heavy that the rice stalks were bent.
After harvesting the red mushrooms in the morning, they were given to Zhou's mother and Jiang Yu to clean. Zhou Huaian pushed the chicken cart, Zhou Huaijun carried a basket, and in front of them were Zhou Huairong and Zhou Huaishan who were carrying fences and mixing buckets on their backs. The four brothers arrived at the rice field.
Yang Chunyan and her sisters-in-law have already harvested more than half an acre of millet. Now they are wearing hats and waving sickles. The rice fields are filled with the sound of rice stalks being cut.
Zhou Huaian put down the chicken bus and sat lazily on the wing, "Yan'er, we are here, come on!"
Yang Chunyan turned her head and glanced at a few people, "Keep up your efforts, you will definitely not be able to catch up with us today."
Zhang Xiuxiang said with a smile: "We have been out for quite some time, and you just found out. Wait until we cut another two acres, and then we will go back."
Zhou Huaijun put down the basket and said, "Don't worry, there are only three of you. We are four strong men. It won't take long for us to catch up with you."
"Boasting~" Zhang Xiuxiang buried her head and started cutting.
Zhou Huaian looked at the golden rice and said, "Brother, this year's yield should be better than last year, right?"
"This year, the weather was good during the grouting process, so the yield should be higher than last year." Zhou Huairong worked hard to put the fence in place. "In fact, the yield last year was also good, but it was mainly affected by the strong wind."
Zhou Huaishan inserted the other side, picked up a handful of grain, turned his head and looked at Zhou Huaian, "Youngest, are you threshing the grain? Or tying the straw?"
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes, "Third brother, you ask even though you already know the answer!"
Zhou Huaijun said happily: "The straw that the youngest tied fell apart before it could even stand up."
"Second brother, the straw you tied looks great, you come and tie it!" Zhou Huaian smiled and walked forward, picked up a handful of straw, and threw it on the half bucket with a "bang". The golden rice hit the fence with a rustling sound and fell into the half bucket again.
Zhou Huairong also picked up a handful, and the two brothers started fighting each other.
Zhou Huaishan and Zhou Huaijun handed them handles of grain on each side and started to tie straw to them.
Yang Chunyan and her three sisters-in-law also sped up their work, and the remaining half acre of rice was neatly arranged in the rice field like soldiers.
Several people were working hard when Zhou Jiaming ran over in a panic, grabbed Zhou Huaishan, and whispered, "Third Dad, hurry up, Third Aunt has a stomachache, and my grandma is calling you to go back quickly."
"Oh oh!" Zhou Huaishan threw the handle of grain in his hand and ran. When he reached the edge of the field, he tripped himself and fell on the edge of the field. Without even stopping, he got up and ran again.
Zhou Huaian hurriedly pulled Zhou Jiaming and asked in a low voice: "Is your third aunt going to give birth?"
Zhou Jiaming nodded repeatedly, "Yes! The grandfather is guarding the gate, my grandmother and Grandma Chen are in the house, Third Aunt is crying in pain in the house, Xiaolin is crying outside, and the grandfather doesn't want any candy or money."
The three Zhou Huairong brothers looked at each other and the villagers busy in the rice fields. "Jia Ming, help pass the rice when you get here!"
"Ah!" Zhou Jiaming glanced at Zhou Huairong, picked up a handful of grain resignedly, and muttered, "I should have known I wouldn't have come."
Zhou Huaian patted him and said, "Look over there, Xiaoping has already arrived!"
"He always compares me with him!" Zhou Jiaming solemnly announced, "The person I hate the most now is Li Xiaoping!"
Before he could finish his words, Zhou Huairong slapped him on the forehead and said, "Hurry up and get to work!"
Over there, Zhou Huaishan ran to the grove and met Zhou Xiaoru, "Old man, mom..."
"I know!" Zhou Huaishan held her up with his hands. "Don't be afraid. Your mother is fine."
Zhou Xiaoru hugged his neck and said, "My mother is crying, crying so loudly." She was very scared, afraid that her mother would not give birth to a brother, afraid that she...
Zhou Huaishan patted her on the back and said, "It's okay. Let's go back and look after her."
Zhou Xiaoru leaned on his shoulder, "Yeah!"
As soon as the father and daughter arrived home, the old man immediately closed the gate and said, "Don't panic, your mother and Aunt Chen are here."
Before Li Qiuyue's due date, they found the village midwife Aunt Chen, gave her a red envelope of 68 yuan, and invited her to come to their home to deliver Li Qiuyue.
When Zhou Xiaolin saw him coming back, she rushed over and hugged his legs, "Old man, I'm scared..."
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!" Zhou Huaishan picked up the younger one, led the older one, and ran to the door of the room when he heard Li Qiuyue's groaning, "Qiuyue is okay, it's okay..."
"I'm fine, stop bothering me..." Li Qiuyue shouted in pain.
At this time, Zhou's mother came in with a basin of hot water. Seeing him standing there walking in circles, she said, "It's always like this, can't you just sit there and wait? This is the third baby, it won't take long."
Zhou Huaishan put the child down and said, "I understand."
Zhou Xiaolin grabbed Zhou Huaishan's hand and said tearfully, "Old man, why hasn't little brother come out yet? Mom is calling me, I'm scared..."
"Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid!" Zhou Huaishan held one of them in each hand and sat on a chair. The father and his two daughters stared at the door of the room eagerly.
In the room, Li Qiuyue gritted her teeth and pushed hard under Aunt Chen's command. Zhou's mother waited anxiously on the side, secretly praying to the Goddess of Fertility and the ancestors for protection so that they could get what they wanted.
"Mom~~" Li Qiuyue grabbed her hand, "It hurts..."
Mother Zhou gently rubbed her sweaty hands and said softly, "Be good, bear with it, it will be fine in a while, the third baby will come quickly! Mom has put the chicken in the pot to stew.
Your sister-in-law and Chunyan also prepared a hen, eggs, fermented glutinous rice, and a lot of red mushrooms for you. Chunyan said that eating red mushrooms is good for confinement. You can see that she can tell. "
Aunt Chen smiled and said, "Qiuyue, you sisters-in-law are so lucky to have such a good mother-in-law!"
"Well!" Li Qiuyue's tears kept falling down due to the pain. "After giving birth to this baby, I will never give birth again..."
She didn't want to live the days of hiding from the extra births anymore, so she hid in the house day after day, and when someone came, she would hide like a thief...
This time, no matter whether it was a boy or a girl, she didn't want to have another one. Just like her mother-in-law said, it was all fate! Accept your fate, and life will be better.
Mother Zhou nodded, "Three kids now, that's enough..."
"This child is blessed. He was born while threshing grain. He has food to eat right from birth." Aunt Chen said and shouted, "Qiuyue, push harder. I can see the end. Push harder..."
"Ah~" Li Qiuyue screamed, and felt her stomach suddenly empty...
"Wow~~" The baby's loud cry rang out.
Outside, Zhou Huaishan, his daughter and his two children heard the baby crying, and they all crowded to the door, listening attentively to what was happening inside.
Zhou Xiaolin kept saying, "It's born, it's born, my mother gave birth to a little brother."
Inside the room, Li Qiuyue raised her head hastily, "Aunt Chen, is it a girl or a son?"
"Let me see!" Aunt Chen's joyful voice rang out, "Good, good, good, it's a guy with a penis."
Li Qiuyue suddenly felt her whole body lighten, and she looked at Zhou's mother with tears and smile, "Mom, I figured it out." Then she collapsed on the bed.
"Ancestors bless us, we have thought of it, we have thought of it..." Zhou's mother said repeatedly.
Li Qiuyue closed her eyes and said, "I want to sleep for a while."
"Don't fall asleep. Mom will bring you a bowl of fried eggs. Eat it before you go to sleep!" Zhou's mother happily took the thermos bottle and poured the hot water into the basin. She took the child wrapped by Aunt Chen and placed him next to Li Qiuyue. Then she opened the door and said to Zhou Huaishan, "It's born, it's born..."
"We understand." Zhou Huaishan quickly stepped aside and waited for Zhou's mother to go out.
Zhou Xiaolin shook Zhou Huaishan off and ran into the house. She leaned forward and kissed Li Qiuyue, "Mom, don't cry. My grandma is going to make you something delicious."
"Yeah!" Li Qiuyue looked tiredly at Zhou Huaishan and his eldest daughter who followed in, with a smile on her face, "Third brother, you also have a son, and Xiaoru and Xiaolin also have younger brothers."
"Hmm!" Zhou Huaishan looked at her and felt a little sour in the nose. He said hurriedly, "Don't talk. Close your eyes and rest for a while!"
Li Qiuyue smiled at him softly and closed her eyes to rest.
Zhou Xiaolin leaned forward to take a look at the baby in the cradle and said, "My little brother is so ugly."
Zhou Xiaoru gently touched his nose and said, "Xiao Jiuer was so ugly when he was born. How handsome he is now!"
Zhou Xiaolin looked at him again and said, "My brother will be as good-looking as Xiao Jiuer in the future."
Mother Zhou came in with hot water, "Third brother, give the red envelope to your Aunt Chen, I'll go get the poached eggs."
"Oh!" Zhou Huaishan took out the red envelope he had prepared early in the morning from under Li Qiuyue's pillow and handed it to Aunt Chen, "Aunt, thank you for your trouble, thank you for your trouble!"
"It's not a big deal. I'm just paying you." Aunt Chen happily accepted the red envelope. "I'll go through the back door of your house and ask your mother to take the afterbirth and bury it."
Nowadays, if you are caught having more children than allowed, you will be fined. If midwives help them deliver babies, they will also be punished if people find out.
"Got it." Zhou Huaishan happily sent her to the backyard, opened the gate and sent her out, "Come to my house for dinner in a few days."
"Okay, go back quickly." Aunt Chen went up the mountain with her basket on her back.
Zhou Huaishan went to the kitchen with a happy face and saw the old man helping to light the fire in front of the stove. "Grandpa, you have another great-grandson."
"Hey, hey!" The old man nodded happily. Looking at his happy look, he suddenly felt a little worried. He thought that he would have to talk to his daughter-in-law later and ask her to warn the two of them not to spoil the child.
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Yang Chunyan and the others in the rice field were also concerned about Li Qiuyue. She came over with a sickle and asked, "Brother, can we send the millet in the mixing barrel back to dry it?"
"Okay." Zhou Huairong tied the straw, took the scoop handed to him by Zhou Huaian, stepped into the mixing bucket, scooped out the millet and put it into the basket.
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Huaishan put the basket on the chicken bus and tied it up with a rope. "I'll go back and check the situation and tell you."
"Great!" Several people started working again.
Zhou Huaian pushed the chicken cart home. Zhou's father stood up at the door of the main hall and looked at Xiao Jiuer. "Put it in the yard. I'll rake it up and dry it in the sun."
"What did the third sister-in-law give birth to?"
Father Zhou said happily, "Son!" He was also very happy that the third son also had a child, and the couple would no longer have to worry about having no one to take care of them in their old age.
"That's good. Third sister-in-law won't have to suffer anymore." Zhou Huaian happily lifted the basket down with his father, fell in the yard, and pushed the chicken cart to announce the good news. (End of this chapter)
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