Yu Qingmin opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but when he saw his father's face, he swallowed his words back.
He turned around and ran back stumblingly. Yu Shujie's face was so dark that water could drip out. He walked quickly towards home with his arms behind his back.
After finishing work at noon and returning to the educated youth site, Chu Jingqiu and Shi Aihong took off their straw hats, wiped the sweat from their foreheads, and took out the mung bean soup that was drying in the bucket from the well.
Each person poured a large bowl and drank it in one gulp.
"It feels so good! I feel cool in my heart!" Shi Aihong sighed comfortably with a flushed face.
Chu Jingqiu washed her face with cold water drawn directly from the well. The cold water instantly made her mind feel much clearer.
"Aihong, what are we going to eat for lunch? I feel tired and hungry, but I don't want to eat anything too hot."
Shi Aihong thought for a moment and said, "How about we pick some beans, tomatoes, and cucumbers from our garden, cook some dry noodles, and rinse them with cold water before eating? What do you think?"
The two walked to the backyard and found Lin Zishan busy in the kitchen.
She saw the two of them coming back and said with a smile, "You two are back. I was wondering why Jiang Jiang ran to the front yard!
I've prepared the meal, you two should wash your hands and we'll start eating right away."
Shi Aihong asked in surprise: "Sister Zishan, didn't you go to deliver Hu Mingyue's baby? How come she gave birth so soon?"
Lin Zishan said embarrassedly: "Qingmin brought a midwife from Shannan Brigade. Liang Hongrao happened to have heatstroke, so Li Ziqiang and Tong Yujuan came to find me.
Yu Shujie said that the infirmary couldn’t do without me and that I couldn’t stay at his house all the time, so he let me come back.”
"Sister Zishan, today Qingmin went to the field to call Yu Shujie and said that Hu Mingyue had a difficult delivery and wanted to go to the town health center to give birth. Yu Shujie refused. Did Hu Mingyue really have a difficult delivery?" Chu Jingqiu asked curiously.
Lin Zishan picked up a bowl of noodles from the cold water basin, poured some tomato, beans and egg sauce on it, and brought it to Chu Jingqiu and Shi Aihong.
"When I checked, I found that although the baby in Hu Mingyue's belly was head down, I felt that her baby was face first.
This can easily lead to prolonged labor or even dystocia, so I suggested that they go to the town health center for hospitalization. However, Yu's family didn't seem to believe what I said.
They brought the midwife over. I think they thought I was a newbie and had no experience, so they sent me away.”
Shi Aihong asked in confusion: "Sister Zishan, what's going on with the face showing first?"
Lin Zishan patiently explained: "Normal fetal delivery is head first, so the hair is usually seen first. However, in a face-first fetus, the head is tilted back extremely, with the occiput touching the back, and the face is often seen first.
This fetal position is prone to obstructive dystocia, and if it is anterior, it may lead to prolonged labor;
If the fetus is in the posterior position, it can lead to obstructive dystocia. If not treated promptly, it can cause uterine rupture, endangering the life of the mother and potentially resulting in two deaths."
"It was so dangerous, but Yu Shujie didn't rush to send Hu Mingyue to the hospital. He thought it was easy for women to give birth. He is so ignorant." Chu Jingqiu said with emotion.
Lin Zishan sighed, "Maybe I'm inexperienced and made a wrong diagnosis. That way, Hu Mingyue could have given birth to the baby safely."
After saying that, he smiled dejectedly, pointed to a big watermelon soaking in the bucket and said, "Okay, let's not talk about his family's affairs. It's annoying. I stayed up all night last night, and they didn't let me work in vain. They stuffed me with a bag of peach cakes, a bag of glutinous rice sticks, and a bag of trough cakes.
When I left, Yu Qingmin even gave me a big watermelon. We'll eat it after dinner."
After dinner, Lin Zishan cut the big watermelon into pieces. It was very juicy and the three of them enjoyed it very much. After Lin Zishan finished one piece, she picked up another one.
Yu Qingmin rushed over again, wiping his tears and crying, "Lin Zhiqing, Lin Zhiqing...are you there?"
Lin Zishan rushed out and said in a hurried tone, "Qingmin, what's the matter? Don't be anxious, just speak slowly."
"You should go and see it quickly! Mrs. Zhang said that the child is difficult to give birth to, and finally asked whether to save the adult or the child if it really comes to that. My parents are also scared and want you to accompany them to the health center." Yu Qingmin said with a choked voice.
"Okay, wait for me, I'll pack up and go with you right away." Lin Zishan ran into her room quickly, and ran out with a bulging shoulder bag on her back. The two of them trotted out of the educated youth site.
Chu Jingqiu and Shi Aihong took a short nap at noon. When the team bell rang in the afternoon, they went to work in the fields with other educated youth.
The fields have been threshed almost completely, and the wheat harvest will officially begin tomorrow. When work was over in the afternoon, the village gave each educated youth a sickle, and also asked the members to help everyone sharpen the sickles.
On the first day of harvesting wheat, most of the educated youth had never done this work before, so the old branch secretary asked the team leader to demonstrate the movements to the educated youth.
Everyone took the sickle and tried it out like the team leader until they were proficient in the movements. The team leader reminded everyone to be careful and then went to do their own work.
The team leader assigned each person three rows of wheat at a time, and whoever reached the end of the field first could rest first.
On Chu Jingqiu's left is Shi Aihong, and on his right is Da Laba. When they first started cutting, they were both a little bit curious and cut excitedly.
In a short while, all the educated youth were left behind by the other members of the commune. Shi Aihong was very envious when she saw Dalabao and Chunniang holding sickles and cutting wheat skillfully.
She felt that the sickle in her hand was not obedient at all, and looking at the blisters on her hands, she wanted to cry but had no tears.
After bending over and cutting for a while, Chu Jingqiu felt a severe pain in her waist. She picked up the kettle and drank a sip of the spiritual spring water, and instantly felt refreshed.
She straightened up and wiped the sweat from her face. She felt that she had tried her best, but she was still falling further and further behind the other members.
Shi Aihong looked back at Liang Hongrao who was at the end, and she seemed to feel a little more balanced. About twenty minutes later, Zhou Weidong started from the edge of the field and cut six ridges at once, helping Shi Aihong and Chu Jingqiu to cut.
Not long after, the two of them met up with Zhou Weidong. Shi Aihong's face was sunburned red. She sat down under a big tree at the edge of the field, picked up the kettle and started drinking water.
With the help of Li Ziqiang, Liang Hongrao was the last one to reach the end of the field. She covered her stomach and came under the big tree. Li Ziqiang unscrewed the lid of the kettle and handed it to her.
Liang Hongrao covered her stomach with one hand, took the kettle with the other and drank from it in big gulps.
The loud speaker asked curiously, "Liang Zhiqing, do you have a stomachache? Why are you holding your stomach?"
Liang Hongrao scratched her head embarrassedly, and said with an awkward smile: "I accidentally cut my stomach just now and cut a layer of skin."
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