Seeing this, Jiang Yuwei quickly found a thin blanket to cover Xiaoyun's body and said to Aunt Zhang:
"Aunt Zhang, this is a matter of life and death. At this time, let's not worry about formalities. Go and invite Uncle Ning in!"
Aunt Zhang was also frightened and hurriedly ran out to shout towards the outside of the yard:
"Uncle Ning, come in quickly! Something's happened to Xiaoyun!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Tianhe rushed into the room. He saw his wife's face was deathly pale, her hair soaked with sweat, and faint traces of blood seeping through the thin blanket. A chill ran through him. He ran to Xiaoyun's bedside, crying out:
"Xiaoyun, what's wrong with you? I don't want the baby anymore! Wake up, I beg you, wake up! Xiaoyun, I was wrong, I shouldn't have let you have the baby. I only want you, wake up!"
Seeing his clueless behavior, Jiang Yuwei stepped forward, grabbed his chin, and slapped him hard across the face, angrily saying:
"Xiaoyun has just fainted. If you delay her treatment any longer, she might really be gone forever! Quiet down! Let Uncle Ning take a look at her!"
Zhang Tianhe seemed to have been awakened by Jiang Yuwei's slap, and quickly got up to make room for Uncle Ning to come forward and check the situation.
Ning Bo frowned as he observed Xiao Yun's complexion, then took out her hand to take her pulse. After a moment, he took out silver needles and directly pricked the tips of Xiao Yun's ears to draw blood. Then he used needles to prick the ten acupoints on the tips of her ten fingers.
After the needles were inserted, Xiaoyun suddenly opened her eyes a short while later, breathing heavily as if she had finally released a breath she had been holding for a long time. Seeing this, Jiang Yuwei quickly said:
"Uncle Ning, please go out first. I'll look after things here."
He then glanced at Zhang Tianhe, who was visibly agitated, and shouted:
"Zhang Tianhe, you get out too!"
After the two men left, Jiang Yuwei quickly pulled back the thin blanket. The baby's face was already turning blue from suffocation. Jiang Yuwei knew that if she didn't give birth soon, the baby would likely suffocate. So she called out:
"Xiaoyun! Keep breathing, push, faster! Your baby's survival depends on you!"
Upon hearing this, Xiaoyun dared not delay and used all her strength to breathe heavily. She dared not stop for a moment, fearing that her child would die in vain because of her incompetence. Seeing this, Jiang Yuwei quickly increased the pressure of massaging Xiaoyun's stomach.
Just when the two were about to be exhausted, a loud cry rang out:
"Waaaaah..."
At this moment, Zhang Guang also arrived with the midwife, Sun. Both of them were covered in sweat. Hearing the loud crying, the midwife, Sun, finally felt relieved and smiled at Zhang Tianhe, whose eyes were filled with tears, saying:
“Your wife and child are very lucky. I’ll go in and take a look first.”
As she spoke, she opened the door and went inside. Upon seeing this, Jiang Yuwei quickly wrapped the child in a small blanket, placed him in the crib, and said to the midwife, Sun:
“Midwife Sun, I don’t know how to take care of children. Please wash your hands and face with hot water and go help take care of the child. I will wash Xiaoyun first.”
The midwife, Sun, smiled and nodded before washing her hands and holding the baby.
Aunt Zhang was busy making the bed, while Jiang Yuwei helped Xiaoyun tidy up before saying to her:
"You must be tired tonight. Get some rest. I'll come see you again in a few days."
Xiaoyun, holding Jiang Yuwei's hand, thanked her tearfully:
"Thank you, Sister Yuwei. If it weren't for you..."
Jiang Yuwei quickly took a handkerchief and wiped away her tears, saying:
"Don't cry. You can't cry during your postpartum period, or you'll ruin your eyes. Take good care of yourself and don't get too excited. I'll go now, you should get some rest."
After saying that, Jiang Yuwei withdrew. Now that the midwife was taking care of the mother and child, she didn't need to do anything. It was getting late, and she would have to make another trip to Uncle Ning's house tomorrow. After all that, Jiang Yuwei was exhausted and pushed the cart towards the courtyard.
When Jiang Yuwei arrived home, Ning Wu and Tie Zhu were busy making paper in the backyard with lanterns. Ning Huaizhi, worried that the lanterns weren't bright enough, lit a torch next to them to help light the way.
When Tie Zhu saw Jiang Yuwei return, he hurriedly stepped forward and said:
"Sister Yuwei, look how well we've done. We've finished pulping it now. We'll put it inside to air dry in the shade for a while, and then we'll put the pulp outside to dry tomorrow."
Jiang Yuwei nodded, stepped forward to examine the pulp, and smiled:
"Well done. It's getting late. Once you're done, go back and rest. You don't need to come so early tomorrow. The paper mill is running low on firewood. Tomorrow, when you come to dry the pulp outside, go up the mountain and chop some more firewood."
Tie Zhu and Ning Wu nodded, carried the pulp into the house, spread it out to dry, locked the paper mill door, and went out through the path by the pond.
Jiang Yuwei instructed them to use this gate when they came to work at the paper mill, and gave them a key to the main gate of the paper mill to keep safe. They could simply use the key to open the gate when they came to work in the morning.
Jiang Yuwei was too tired to move. Just as she was about to lie down, she suddenly remembered that the tofu she made today hadn't been properly coated with wood ash. So she struggled to get up and went to the yard. She saw that the tofu had already been cut into neat squares, wrapped in cotton cloth, and coated with wood ash.
Jiang Yuwei was deeply moved. She went to lock the courtyard gate and checked that the back gate was locked before returning to the house to find Ning Huaizhi.
"Huaizhi, did you make that tofu?"
Ning Huaizhi laughed and said:
"Yes, did I do it right? I tried it after seeing you do it once that day."
Jiang Yuwei stepped forward, patted Ning Huaizhi on the shoulder, and smiled:
"You did a great job, you seem quite smart!"
Ning Huaizhi's eyes lit up, and he smiled:
"Then I'll do it all from now on!"
Jiang Yuwei smiled and said:
"Okay, I'll grant your wish! By the way, I just helped Aunt Zhang's eldest daughter-in-law, Xiaoyun, give birth. She had a chubby little boy, he's so cute!"
Upon hearing this, Ning Huaizhi immediately grabbed Jiang Yuwei's hand from his shoulder and looked at her earnestly, asking:
"You...you want children too?"
Upon hearing his words, Jiang Yuwei quickly pulled her hand away, blushing as she said:
"What are you saying, Huaizhi? I have Ning Zhao and Ning Wan, that's enough. I... I don't want to have children. Today, Xiao Yun almost..."
Seeing his wife's complicated expression, Ning Huaizhi immediately interrupted her, saying:
"Okay, whatever my wife says goes, I'll listen to her!"
Jiang Yuwei nodded shyly and said to Ning Huaizhi:
"It's getting late, let's go to bed early. We need to get up early tomorrow to make some more tofu, otherwise we won't have enough to sell at the next market. Also, those pounded pepper preserved eggs were quite popular at the last market. We're out of eggs right now, and the chicks aren't laying eggs either. I'll have to go to the village tomorrow to collect some more eggs to make more preserved eggs."
Ning Huaizhi nodded and said:
"Don't overwork yourself, honey."
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