Chapter 610 Luo Cheng and Luo Lan (please vote and subscribe)
It is the last month of winter, but now is the time when the last wave of cold waves is exerting its power. It snowed a few days ago, and it is still freezing outside. However, in the small courtyard of Luo Chong's house, it is busy.
The woman hired by Luo Chong is carrying hot water in and out. The master bedroom inside has become a temporary delivery room. Xiaodie is lying on the big bed in pain, holding her mother with one hand and Luo Chong with the other, gritting her teeth and trying hard.
"Madam, push hard, the baby will come out soon, and the head can be seen."
When Luo Chong heard this, he quickly took a look and said silently in his heart, "Well, the head comes out first, so the fetal position is correct." So his heart was immediately relieved.
His hands were already white from being squeezed by Xiaodie, and he could clearly feel how much strength Xiaodie used.
But Xiaodie thought about Luo Chong's encouragement just now. She was the leader's woman, so she had to be strong. So she gritted her teeth and tried hard, but for some reason, the baby was stuck in the neck and couldn't come out.
The woman in charge of the delivery was anxious. If she continued like this, the baby might suffocate to death. Luo Chong took a look and found something wrong. Then he looked at Xiaodie trying hard, and suddenly slapped his forehead with his other hand, and heard him say to Xiaodie.
"Xiaodie, don't grit your teeth, shout out, shouting will help you exert force."
Xiaodie blinked, and then with Luo Chong's encouragement, she pushed again, and this time she shouted loudly.
Xiaodie shouted "Ah——" and it really worked this time. The baby's shoulder came out. Although it was very painful, it would be much smoother later after the shoulder came out. Sure enough, after Xiaodie continued to push twice, the baby was finally born smoothly.
The baby who had just left the mother's body seemed to sense danger, and cried with his eyes closed. Then, when the umbilical cord was cut, a stream of light yellow urine sprayed out from the little bird, soaking the two midwives next to him. However, the mother gave birth successfully, and everyone was very happy. This was a major event for the reproduction of the race and the most important thing in this era.
"Chief, Madam, it's born, it's a boy."
"Well, let me see." Xiaodie said weakly with heavy breathing, and her face could not hide the joy.
However, when Xiaodie and Luo Chong saw the child, they both felt that this was not their child, because the child was a little ugly, his skin was not white, and his hair was not short. The most important thing was that the child had grown two teeth when he was born, and his crying voice was particularly loud.
At this time, Shang suddenly interrupted the two people watching the child, "Don't watch, don't watch, go wash it first, apply medicine to the umbilical cord, wrap it with gauze and then watch it. Xiaodie, don't be idle, there is still the placenta that has not been delivered, try harder."
"Oh, yes, yes, there is still the placenta, you keep pushing, the child will be fine for a while."
Luo Chong cursed himself inwardly. He was so busy watching the child that he actually forgot that he had to give birth to the placenta after
giving birth to the child. Fortunately, the placenta was delivered smoothly afterwards. Xiaodie's delivery this time was considered to be safe. Several women were helping to clean up the messy big bed. The newborn kid cried for a while and was tired. After washing, he looked much better. The round belly was medicated, wrapped with two circles of old linen, and finally wrapped in the swaddling clothes prepared in advance.
On the other side, Shang was helping Xiaodie wipe her sweat with a hot towel, and kept on telling her some postpartum knowledge, such as not to take a bath or blow dry, and secretly warned Xiaodie in the direction of Luo Chong not to have sex.
Tired Xiaodie enjoyed her mother's care, looked at her son who was sleeping soundly in her arms, and then began to discuss the strangeness of the child with her mother.
"Mother, didn't you say that children are born without teeth? Why did my son have two teeth when he was born?"
Shang was immediately confused, and after holding back for a long time, she finally stared at Luo Chong and said, "Maybe the leader is different from others, maybe the leader also has teeth when he was born?"
Luo Chong looked at the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren, and couldn't help rolling his eyes, and said speechlessly, "This is because our Han tribe has a good life. Xiaodie ate good things during her pregnancy. I often stewed bone soup for her. That thing supplements calcium. It is normal for children to grow teeth when they are born, okay."
Xiaodie blinked half-doubtfully, "Is that so?"
"What do you think?" Luo Chong spread his hands and said helplessly.
But it was still dark, and they had just talked for a while before Luo Chong urged Xiaodie to sleep a little longer. But at this time, there was another shout from the study opposite.
"Chief, the second wife has also started giving birth."
Luo Chong heard this and hurried to Zhan Ying's side. Several midwives who had just delivered babies quickly arrived and began to teach Zhan Ying how to adjust her posture. With the experience just now, this time it was even easier. Luo Chong also encouraged and comforted her.
And when she learned that Xiaodie had successfully given birth to a child and that both the adults and the children were safe, Zhan Ying had more confidence in this time.
This time the birth was also very smooth. Perhaps it was because Luo Chong usually asked them to exercise and walk, and it worked. The two of them ate well, so the fetal position was very correct, and the two of them were also very healthy. They were very strong during the birth, and the midwives they found were also very experienced.
And with the negative example of Xiaodie holding back her teeth just now, Luo Chong directly asked Zhan Ying to start shouting this time. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Zhan Ying to successfully give birth to a baby girl.
Zhan Ying was a little depressed when she learned that she had given birth to a daughter, but Luo Chong was very happy because he had always wanted a daughter in his previous life, but no one was willing to have a baby with him, and he didn't have the time.
Luo Chong immediately comforted her, "Girls are good. They will definitely be as beautiful as you when they grow up. It is said that daughters are the sweetest little cotton-padded jackets of their parents. You can wait for this child to be filial to us in the future."
Zhan Ying was relieved to see that Luo Chong did not dislike her daughter.
After Zhan Ying had packed up everything, it was finally dawn. Luo Chong took her to the master bedroom. It was cold now, and it would be too boring for two women to stay in the house for confinement. Putting them together would help them chat and relieve boredom. The
two children, a boy and a girl, had just been fed colostrum under the guidance of the midwife. At this time, they were lying in the middle of the big kang and snoring. Xiaodie and Zhan Ying were leaning against the big wooden box at the head of the kang, eating the brown sugar water poached eggs that Luo Chong had someone cook.
"Husband, please give the child a name." Xiaodie said to Luo Chong while eating eggs. Zhan Ying next to her also looked over.
"Of course, I've already thought of the names, you two just wait."
As Luo Chong said this, he ran directly to the study, picked up the brush and wrote two names, then came back and put them in the hands of the two.
The paper Xiaodie received had the words "Luo Cheng" written on it, but she didn't recognize the words in Zhan Ying's hand. She only knew that the first word was Luo Chong's surname "Luo", but she didn't recognize the latter, so she asked Xiaodie next to her.
"Sister, do you recognize this word?"
Xiaodie shook her head after reading it, "Husband, what is Luo Cheng's sister's name? I have never seen this name before."
"This is Lan, a word that describes water. It can be used to form a word that means magnificent and grand, and is used to describe some magnificent scenery or historical events.
Ying'er and I are connected by water, and Lan'er is our crystallization. From now on, my daughter will be called Luo Lan."
"Cheng'er, Lan'er, your father has given you names, did you hear it?" Zhan Ying heard Luo Chong's explanation and said to the two children very happily.
However, the two children were born only a few hours ago, and they fell asleep after eating. When they heard Zhan Ying talking, they just hummed a few times, not giving her face at all.
When the two women finished eating the boiled eggs, they also went to sleep at Luo Chong's urging. Luo Chong sat beside the table, continuing to study the layout of the chemical plant while looking at the two adults and two children on the kang.
It was like this until noon, when a clerk suddenly came to the door, but he didn't dare to enter the inner room of Luo Chong's house. He was blocked by a woman at the door. Luo Chong came out after hearing the noise.
"Chief, a letter just came from You Fu."
"Oh? Let me see." When Luo Chong heard that it was a message from You Fu, he immediately took it. The letter was in a bamboo tube, and wax was poured on the lid to seal it. There was also a seal specially used by You Fu on the wax.
Seeing that there was no problem with the seal, Luo Chong directly twisted the lid open and took out the letter from it.
The letter was not long. It was just a routine report as requested by Luo Chong. The general meaning was that after sailing for several days and nights, the fleet was very close to the destination. However, because it had been so long, Youfu was a little unsure of the exact location, so he sent a reconnaissance boat to take a look.
After determining the target location, the fleet moved forward for a while and began to land when it was about a hundred miles away from the destination.
It was during the day when they landed. There were no people on the shore, but because it was in the wilderness and there was no dock, all the sailboats were too big to dock. They could only use dozens of small landing boats to send people to the shore. It took a long time to send more than 4,000 people ashore. It was
even more difficult to send the war horses ashore. The sunken sand ship also couldn't dock because of the problem of too deep draft. Although there were some unmelted ice on the riverside, it couldn't withstand the trampling of the war horses. Moreover, the river water was very cold at this time. If the war horses were allowed to wade ashore directly, it was estimated that the horses would not be able to bear it. This was definitely not possible.
Finally, You Fu had to line up the small landing craft, fix them, and lay wooden boards on them to make a simple floating bridge, so that thousands of war horses could be sent ashore.
According to Luo Chong's plan, the army rested on the shore for a day after landing, and then began to march the next day, quietly moving towards the destination.
At this time, You Fu led the original three schooners to continue moving forward. They would be a little faster by water, so they could set off later.
The content of the letter ended here, but Luo Chong knew that You Fu might have reached the destination now. After all, it takes time to send a letter, so no matter how timely the letter was sent, it was actually delayed news.
Sure enough, not long after the letter was sent, You Fu arrived at the destination, the shore of the barbarian tribe.
Although this place is located in the south of the Han tribe, it is still not warm. It snowed heavily a few days ago. Although the temperature has risen, it will take some time before all the ice and snow melt.
At this time, the grass had not yet emerged, so naturally no animals would come out to look for food. Therefore, even though the food of the Barbarian Tribe had begun to be short, they could only endure it by dieting, hoping that spring would come earlier so that they could go out to catch prey.
However, this beautiful wish was immediately bankrupt with the arrival of Youfu. Three schooners came to the shore of the Barbarian Tribe in a swaggering manner, and then did not lower the sails, but just adjusted the angle of the sails so that they could not bear the force of the wind. Then Youfu asked the sailors on the ship to beat the drums.
The sound of the drums was so loud that some mice hiding in the snow to look for food fled quickly. The Barbarian Tribe was not far from the shore, so they naturally heard the sound.
"What is this sound? It sounds so familiar." A woman who was hiding in a stone house and roasting fire asked her man. They had not eaten for a day. Now the tribesmen had started to eat every two days in order to survive until the beginning of spring.
"Well, it sounds like it's coming from the river. Listen to this sound, it's very regular. It must be someone who made it. Maybe it's those people who came up from the water with strange things last autumn. They have a lot of good things. You stay here and wait. I'll go take a look."
The man carefully distinguished for a while, made his own judgment, and then took out two short spears and a stone axe from the door, and prepared to go out.
When the woman heard it, she hurriedly called him, "Hey, wait a minute, eat this piece of jerky, you will have strength after eating it."
The man turned his head and frowned for a long time, and finally took the piece of jerky and ate it quickly. Although it can't be eaten casually, if you eat it and you can get something in a while, it's still very cost-effective, and you don't have to worry about food at that time.
After finishing the small piece of jerky in a few bites, the man took his weapon and went out. However, as soon as he went out, he found that many people in the tribe had already come out with weapons. They all walked towards the river. After walking a few steps, they found the three ships they saw last fall. Moreover, this time they stopped blatantly and kept making loud noises to provoke. What were they doing?
"Captain You, the group of people came out, they came out and came towards us." A lookout climbing on the mast reported loudly.
When You Fu heard this, he was immediately happy and immediately ordered the three sailboats at the same time, "All ships, let go of the landing craft, send one to test first, and remember to hold up the shield. We are just feinting, and we must avoid unnecessary casualties."
(End of this chapter)
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