Chapter 386 Childbirth
Yang Chunhua lay on her side on the bed, stroking her round belly, unable to sleep with her eyes open in the dark.
After spending a few days with her husband during her wedding, she went to Jinfengzhai to build a road.
Before the road to Jinfengzhai was completed, he was pardoned and appointed as a Deputy Director of the Ministry of Works, in charge of the construction of the Lingnan Road. He never returned home.
Although the sisters-in-law, mother-in-law, and niece in the Su family all took good care of her and she never suffered any injustice.
I've been pregnant for so long and am about to give birth, but my husband hasn't been able to come back to see me. It would be a lie to say I'm not sad.
But the Dayuling Mountain that this man has excavated is unprecedented and will never be surpassed. His name will go down in history and his career will be bright.
As a woman raised in a prominent family, she naturally knows what is more important. Children's personal affairs are all put second, and family honor and family interests are paramount.
Although I knew that my husband would not come back, I still looked forward to it.
The husband I was looking forward to didn’t come back, but my brother-in-law did.
At this time, I felt mixed emotions. I thought I would live a miserable and destitute life, but things turned out well and I was able to remarry. Not only was my husband's family forgiving me, but I was also promoted.
But at the age of just over 30, life has its ups and downs. When you seem to have no way out, there is always a new way out.
I have a husband I can rely on, but I don’t know whether the baby in my belly is a boy or a girl?
Yang Chunhua gently stroked her belly, "Little naughty girl, we're about to meet!"
"Ouch!" Yang Chunhua cried out softly as her belly was kicked hard, forming a bulge.
"What's going on? Is it starting?" Mrs. Du woke up in shock.
The second brother was not at home, and his sister-in-law's belly was getting bigger and bigger, so Du and Wei took turns to stay with Yang Chunhua in her room.
"No, the child kicked me." Yang Chunhua said softly, "Sister-in-law, you can sleep peacefully!"
"Well, go to sleep! Let me know if you feel uncomfortable." Mrs. Du tucked the corner of the quilt for Yang Chunhua.
"Well, I save it, sister-in-law sleeps..." Before Yang Chunhua finished speaking, she felt a hot current flowing out from her lower body.
"What's the matter?" Mrs. Du noticed something was wrong and hurriedly sat down and lit a candle.
"It seems like my amniotic fluid has broken!" Yang Chunhua struggled to sit up. As she moved, another stream of hot liquid flowed out, and this time it was confirmed.
"Sister-in-law, I'm afraid you're about to give birth!" Yang Chunhua stood up holding Mrs. Du's hand, and her abdomen began to ache.
Soon the Su residence became bustling with activity, candles were lit in the house, and hot water was boiling in the kitchen.
Doctor Mo took Yang Chunhua's pulse and said it was still too early, at least four or five hours before the baby was born. He asked her to eat more while the contractions were still going on.
Mrs. Wei and Old Lady Su, who had just fallen asleep, got up. Su Ying was also awakened and got up to check.
Atang opened his eyes and was pressed down on the bed by Su Ying. "Go to sleep, Second Aunt is about to give birth!"
Atang didn't understand and couldn't help, so he could only lie down and sleep.
Outside, candles were brightly lit. My elder sister, my mother, my third aunt, my grandmother, and Doctor Mo were all talking in low voices, but no one could hear my second aunt's voice.
The road is now flat and wide, so Dou Jing and others returned to the county town to stay after dinner.
There is no need to stay at Su's house. There are only a group of female relatives and no servants, so it is inconvenient to disturb them.
When Atang woke up again, it was already bright.
"Atang, Atang, Second Aunt is about to give birth!" Xiaotao told Atang the good news with an excited look on her face.
"?" Atang was surprised. It's been a whole night and she still hasn't given birth?
"Doctor Mo said that Second Aunt will give birth around the end of Si hour or the beginning of Wu hour." Xiao Tao seemed to understand but didn't really know what giving birth meant.
The two sisters came out and Su Ying made breakfast, including scallion pancakes and red date porridge.
Su Laosan rode past Old Man Yang's house and informed him.
Gao dropped the work in her hands and rushed over in a hurry.
He took the brown sugar egg from Su Ying's hand and fed it to his daughter.
"Mom, I can't eat!" Yang Chunhua looked tired. She had been in pain all night and was very sleepy.
I couldn't open my eyes, and just when I was about to close them, the contractions started again, making it extremely painful.
"Don't talk. Eat a few more bites while it doesn't hurt, otherwise you won't have the strength to give birth." Gao said softly, with joy and worry in her eyes.
After breakfast, Atang and Xiaotao came to their second aunt's door.
"You two go play somewhere else and don't disturb Second Aunt!" Mrs. Du blocked the door.
"Mom, why hasn't Second Aunt given birth yet?" Xiao Tao stretched her neck to look inside, but the door curtain blocked her view and she couldn't see anything.
"Ah!" Yang Chunhua groaned softly.
"Why so fast? Be good, take Atang to the village to play, and come back to eat red eggs at noon!" Mrs. Du smiled and pushed the two little girls out.
A'lu brought over some hot water, and Mrs. Du took it into the house but didn't let A'lu in.
Seeing that their cousin was also busy, Xiaotao and Atang had no choice but to wander around the village.
On the way, Yang Dalang's wife, Mrs. Wang, and Yang Erlang's wife, Mrs. Pei, were busy and hurried over.
Old man Yang was wandering on the road, worried about his daughter but not being able to go to her house.
"Xiaotao, Atang, come and eat some sugarcane!" Xie Qingyun had just cut a piece of sugarcane in her own field.
"Yes!" The two girls followed Xie Qingyun into the house without hesitation.
"Hey, why are you two here playing so early in the morning?" Madam Zheng was surprised. The two sisters rarely came to the village.
"Mom asked us to come out and play because Second Aunt is about to give birth!" Xiao Tao replied.
"What? She's going to give birth so soon?" Madam Zheng was stunned for a moment. "I'll go take a look!"
He originally planned to go to the vermicelli factory to work, but gave up and went to Su's house carrying a basket of eggs and a bag of brown sugar.
"Does it take a long time to give birth?" Atang couldn't help but ask.
"Of course! When did your second aunt start it?" Xie Qingyun chewed the sugarcane with a crunching sound.
Girls aged fourteen or fifteen would talk about these topics with each other. They had also seen women in the village giving birth, so they knew a little more.
"Start?" Atang suddenly thought of the commotion last night, "Probably around the beginning of the first hour."
"Ah?" Xiao Tao was surprised. "Isn't it morning?"
Atang glanced at his second sister, "At the beginning of the day, sister, mother and the others are all up."
"Oh!" Xiao Tao knew that she had fallen asleep again and knew nothing.
"If everything goes well, maybe you will become my elder sisters soon!" Xie Qingyun looked at the two little girls with a smile.
"Guess, will your second aunt give birth to a brother or a sister?"
"Brother, sister!" Atang said without thinking.
"Is he a brother or a sister?" Xie Qingyun asked, thinking that Atang was repeating himself.
"Brother, sister!" Atang still said the same thing.
"You are so greedy, you want both a brother and a sister!" Xie Qingyun said with a smile.
"Hmm!" Atang chewed the sugarcane silently.
"Xiaotao, what about you? Do you want a younger brother or a younger sister?" Xie Qingyun asked Xiaotao again.
Xiao Tao looked at Atang and said, "I want both!"
"Haha, you two are so funny!" Xie Qingyun laughed, "Let's go to your house and take a look!"
Outside Su's house, Old Man Yang squatted on the side of the road. After a while, he stood up and looked around, took a few steps and stopped again, feeling very tormented.
"Village chief, are you waiting for the letter?" Xie Qingyun greeted Old Man Yang.
"Hmm!" Old man Yang was absent-minded. His wife and two daughters-in-law had been in there for such a long time, but none of them came out to report anything.
"Wa wa..." Suddenly, a baby crying loudly was heard from Su's house.
"It's born, it's born!" Old Man Yang said excitedly after hearing the loud crying, "It must be a boy!"
"Village chief, can you tell it by the sound?" Xie Qingyun asked.
"Of course, the boy's voice is loud and powerful!" said old man Yang proudly.
"Wa wa..." Another baby cry, the voice was as soft as a kitten, small and delicate, not as loud as before.
"Gah!" Old Man Yang was stunned. "Two? Twins?"
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