Chapter 381 Mother-in-law and Daughter-in-law Relationship 1

On the day of fishing, Feng Qingxue was not at home. She went to the production brigade next door to deliver a baby early in the morning.

Feng Qingxue didn't know the name of the woman in labor. The person who came to ask her for help was her neighbor. He didn't tell her about her family's situation in detail, but just called her a leftover wife. She had been in pain since the second half of the night, and she couldn't stand it anymore, so she came to ask Feng Qingxue for help, because the two production brigades were close to each other, and Feng Qingxue was famous.

Feng Qingxue arrived and found that her condition was not good.

No, it's very bad.

She was overworked and extremely malnourished. The fetus' heartbeat gradually slowed down, and the birth canal was open, but she did not have the strength to give birth. She said that she had not even had a hot soup or a full meal since this morning.

"We have to cook for the woman who has just given birth so that she can have the strength to give birth." Feng Qingxue said.

The mother-in-law, who could boil hot water and bring hot water, just sighed and said nothing after hearing this. The husband Gousheng stood far away outside the straw hut with his hands clasped together. The mother and son did not move at all, as if they were deaf.

Yes, there was a thatched hut, but the daughter-in-law was forced to give birth in the straw shed in the cold weather.

"I won't give birth to another child. I won't give birth to another child. If I give birth to another child, I will be hungry and suffer. There will be endless work to do during the day, and the bowl will be filled with watery soup and not even a piece of dried sweet potato!" Gousheng's wife cried and roared breathlessly.

Feng Qingxue said unhappily: "You endured all the pain of pregnancy for ten months, just to let him die in your womb?"

"I don't want to either!" Gousheng's wife burst into tears, clutching the dirty firewood under her body tightly with both hands. "But what can I do? What can I do? I gave birth to him, but I can't afford to raise him! I have 300 kilograms of food rations, but do I get to eat 100 kilograms? I have to serve the whole family, young and old, and work during the day to wash clothes at night, but the saved food is sent to the city to my eldest sister-in-law. Don't people in the city eat commercial grain? Why is she competing with me for food rations? She doesn't have a city hukou, but her family comes to work. If she earns work points, she will have food rations. Why does she want to eat my food rations? Why? Why? Why?"

She asked "why" three times in a row, which made her mother-in-law look very unhappy. She kicked over the wooden basin full of hot water with a bang, turned around and left. Her husband hurriedly followed to comfort his mother, leaving Feng Qingxue and the resentful woman in labor in the haystack.

Gousheng's wife smiled bitterly, "See? This is my fate! I can't even tell the truth."

Feng Qingxue said bluntly: "What are you complaining about? What's the point of complaining? In the final analysis, it's your own fault. Why can't you decide your own food rations? If you are strong, who dares to mess with you? My fate is in my own hands. If it were me, and they dared to make my life difficult, I would fight them. Anyway, if I don't fight, I will die. If I fight, maybe I can get a chance to survive."

As she spoke, she pretended to take out two eggs from the medicine box, peeled them and stuffed them into Gousheng's wife's mouth.

Gousheng's wife opened her mouth, bit off half of the egg, and swallowed it in big gulps. After eating, she wiped her mouth and used her upper body to pull out the strength she didn't know where she got from. The baby slid down smoothly, as skinny as a little mouse.

Feng Qingxue hurriedly scooped water from the pot on the stove next to her, gave the child a bath, and wrapped him in a few old swaddling clothes that had been prepared long ago.

She weighed it and found that including the swaddling clothes, it weighed no more than four or five kilograms.

Having delivered so many babies, she is very experienced and can estimate the baby's approximate weight. After all, not every family will prepare a scale in advance and wait by the side to weigh the baby.

(End of this chapter)