By reading lips, Chu Jingqiu saw Tong Yujuan say, "Raorao, Li Ziqiang is so good to you. I didn't expect him to be so thoughtful as to put the mung bean soup in the well to cool it before letting you drink it. I envy you so much!"
Liang Hongrao said shyly, "He's really good to me. No boy has ever pursued me like this before. Yujuan, it turns out that being in love feels so wonderful. I'm so happy!"
Chu Jingqiu saw the two of them holding a palm-leaf fan and sitting under a big tree in the yard to enjoy the cool air.
After a few minutes, Li Ziqiang also came over. He took a small stool and sat down in front of Liang Hongrao. The two began to chat as if no one was around.
Shi Aihong also ran to the big tree to enjoy the cool air out of curiosity. Chu Jingqiu and Lin Zishan did not go over to join in the fun.
The two men went out with flashlights to catch cicada monkeys. They took Jiang Jiang and walked along the road.
Because they were close to the village, many members of the cooperative brought their children out to catch them, so the two of them walked a little further away.
A little further away from the village, especially on the trees beside the farmland roads, there are many cicada monkeys climbing.
Chu Jingqiu and Lin Zishan filled a large lunch box before slowly walking back.
After returning to the educated youth camp, Lin Zishan soaked the cicada monkey in salt water, otherwise it would have shed its skin and turned into a cicada the next day.
Just as I finished soaking the cicada monkey, I heard someone calling Lin Zizishan loudly in the yard.
"Lin Zhiqing...Is Lin Zhiqing here?" Yu Qingmin shouted in the yard, sweating profusely.
Lin Zishan hurried out, "Qingmin, do you have something to talk to me about?"
Yu Qingmin wiped the sweat from his face and said, "Lin Zhiqing, Mingyue's stomach is aching. She might be giving birth soon. Please go over and take a look!"
Shi Aihong asked hurriedly: "Qingmin, why don't you go to the health center? It's so dangerous to give birth without going to the hospital."
Yu Qingmin panted and said, "Shi Zhiqing, women in the village give birth at home. In the past, our village would ask Aunt Zhang from Shannan Brigade to deliver babies.
Now that I have Lin Zhiqing, I won’t go to her anymore. After all, she’s not a professional doctor, she just learned this from her mother.”
Lin Zishan packed up the medicine box, took the delivery tools, and hurriedly followed Yu Qingmin.
Early the next morning, Chu Jingqiu cleaned the cicada monkey, especially its claws, and washed them several times.
Put it in a pot to dry out the moisture, then put it in a pan of oil and start frying. When it is twice as big as the cicada monkey, add garlic slices, dried red peppers and Sichuan peppercorns and continue to stir-fry over low heat.
Fry until the skin of the cicada monkey is golden brown, then add salt and cumin powder to season and serve.
Shi Aihong impatiently picked one up and put it in her mouth to taste it. "Hiss..." It was so hot that she quickly fanned it with her hands.
He mumbled, "So good... so crispy and crunchy, so good...!"
The two of them served the corn grits porridge, cut some pickles, and set the table, then they saw Lin Zishan coming back.
"Sister Zishan, have you eaten? We have fried the cicada monkeys. Come and try them. They are delicious!" Shi Aihong said with a smile.
Lin Zishan's eyes were bloodshot, and she waved her hands tiredly, "I had a quick bite at Yu Qingmin's house. I stayed up all night last night and I'm really sleepy. I'm going to go to sleep first."
After saying that, he pinched a cicada monkey and walked towards his room.
Shi Aihong hurriedly asked loudly: "Did Hu Mingyue give birth? Is it a boy or a girl?"
Lin Zishan said weakly, "She hasn't given birth yet. She's only two fingers dilated. It's still too early. She's too delicate. She screamed and howled all night, making everyone nervous.
I won’t talk to you anymore, I need to get some sleep, I guess I’ll have a long night tonight!”
After Chu Jingqiu and Shi Aihong finished their meal and washed the dishes, they went to work with the educated youth.
Today the team started preparing to harvest wheat, and everyone was busy threshing in the fields.
The so-called threshing is to cut a few rows of wheat at the edge of the field in the days before wheat harvest, and then use a stone roller to crush the wheat into a space.
The ground must be both flat and solid, and then the harvested wheat is piled on the ground and ground with a stone roller to grind out the grains.
Threshing can not only grind wheat grains, but also spread the wheat seeds on it to dry, and then pack them into bags for storage after drying.
Before the wheat grains are dried, they are usually not collected at night. They are just piled together, and someone sleeps in the field at night to watch over the wheat.
Chu Jingqiu and Shi Aihong were assigned to weed the peanut field. There was a lot of weeds growing in the spring peanut field, so the two of them joined Da Laba and a few others in weeding.
By the way, the pulled grass is collected and sent to the cowshed to feed the animals.
Da Laba and Chun Niang were very fast, and their chatting did not slow down their weeding.
The loud speaker smiled and said, “Do you know that Qingmin’s wife is about to give birth?
When I came to work today, I saw Qingmin's mother bought a basket of eggs and a few old hens that didn't lay eggs from Widow Zhang's house.
She said that Hu Zhiqing had been in pain all night and was about to give birth tonight.
She was grinning from ear to ear. From what she said, Hu Mingyue has always loved sour food, so she will definitely give birth to a big fat boy this time.
Chunni's mother stood up straight and pounded her waist. "Big Trumpet, you're right. I saw Hu Zhiqing had a pointed belly, so I figured he must be a big fat boy. This time Qingmin's mother must be showing off, and her tail is up to the sky again."
Shi Aihong asked in confusion: "Auntie, can you tell the gender of the baby by looking at the shape of the belly?"
Loudspeaker nodded. "That's right. The older generation said that a pointed belly means a boy, and a round belly means a girl."
Yu Shujie was directing everyone's work in the wheat field next to him. Everyone could see that he was very happy today and had a smile on his face all the time.
At this time, Yu Qingmin ran over in a panic. Because he was too panicked, he fell down when crossing the ditch.
He quickly ran to Yu Shujie and shouted, "Dad, Dad, please borrow the team's mule cart! Mingyue might have a difficult birth. We'd better go to the health center to give birth!"
Chu Jingqiu saw Yu Shujie's smile froze after reading his lips, and asked unhappily, "Qingmin, this was your wife's idea, right? Why is she so squeamish?"
When your mother gave birth to you, she was working in the fields in the afternoon. She gave birth to you in the evening, and then she rested for a few days before going out to work again.
Your sisters-in-law all gave birth at home, and I didn’t see any of them go to the hospital to give birth. So they gave birth smoothly, didn’t they?
You spent so much money on your wedding, and our family is still in debt. It will cost a lot of money to go to the clinic!
How could I have given birth to such a coward like you? You just do whatever your wife says and you don’t even dare to fart.”
Yu Qingmin said anxiously, "Dad, this time it really wasn't Mingyue who said that. It was Lin Zhiqing who suggested that we go to the hospital immediately."
Yu Shujie smiled disdainfully, "She's just a girl who's only been learning for a few months, what does she know? I asked you to go to Shannan Brigade to call that old lady Zhang, but you refused to go and insisted on asking her.
Now you're fine. You didn't listen to the old lady and are suffering now. She must be inexperienced and doesn't know how to deliver a baby. Don't listen to her.
Go to Shannan Brigade and bring Mrs. Zhang over to see her. If that doesn't work, go to the town health center."
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