People in the village and neighbors are all interested in this. When a baby is born, they will boil red eggs and send them to all the folks in the village to announce the good news and bring blessing to the newborn.
Regardless of gender, red eggs are given as gifts. The difference is that male babies are given two red eggs and female babies are given one red egg. This way, people will know whether the new baby in your family is a boy or a girl.
Even if you don't like the girl's movies, you have to give this red egg as a gift.
When Mrs. Chen gave birth to Zhang Lihua, Mrs. Deng was busy taking care of it. The red eggs sent to various families were not cooked. Taozhi, who was only two years old, ate it and suffered from diarrhea.
Jin Juhua is also a person who doesn't know what to say. She will say what comes to her mind without thinking about other people's face.
As soon as these words came out, everyone did not focus on the uncooked eggs, but they all remembered that pear blossoms are born on the ninth day of August?
It was really born at night, they all received red eggs the next morning.
It's just that I don't know what time it was at night, they were all asleep by then.
When Jin Juhua said this, everyone looked at Old Deng eagerly.
If it were pear blossoms, then the Zhang family would be rich!
The soon-to-be mother-in-law Man Ju reacted quickly and immediately lost her temper, "How could it be such a coincidence? It can't be Lihua's. Lihua is already engaged, so she is the daughter-in-law of my Zhou family. Don't talk nonsense."
Old Yuan also came to his senses and said with a smile: "That's right, Lihua was born by me. No one knows better than me. She was born well on the ninth day of the lunar month, but she was born before the first day."
When everyone heard this, how could anyone disbelieve Old Yuan?
At that moment, they all laughed and put the matter aside.
Song Qiu was also worried, but after hearing what she said, she hurriedly patted Lihua's hand.
She doesn't tell lies. If she says it's the first time, it's the first time. Who can know better than the midwife when the baby was born?
Even the mother who gave birth did not care about the specific time of awakening.
And the family outside...
Song Qiu quickly glanced at Old Deng and saw that she had no unnecessary expression, which was true after thinking about it.
In Songshan Village, far away from Chengjiazhuang, a group of women were chatting and laughing about whether the ninth day of the lunar month was not the ninth day of the lunar month.
At this time, in Chengjiazhuang.
Now that the busy farming season is over, all the food in the fields has been taken back home, and the long-term workers who have been busy for so long can finally have a good rest for a few days.
The host family is busy worrying about the young master's affairs and doesn't have the energy to take care of them. However, it is enough to have the steward watch over them and prevent them from running around.
It’s just a few days of leisure, and then there will be a lot of busy things to do. Once the fields are planted with food, they must be fertilized in the winter when they are not needed, so that they can grow more food next year.
After fertilizing the fields, they also need to plow and prepare the land. The Cheng family not only grows food, but also vegetables and fruits, especially brassicas, which are used to extract rapeseed oil. The Cheng family has always grown a lot.
Not to mention other places, most of the rapeseed oil used in Jingzhou Prefecture comes from the Cheng family's oil mill.
The land has been plowed, and there are also large and small villages, chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle, sheep, fruit, vegetables and fish ponds on the villages. These also need to be passed by long-term workers.
It was a rare few days of leisure, and the host was understanding that they had been tired for so long, and gave them a rest. As long as they didn't run around, they could stay where they lived, and no one would care what they did.
Zhang Donggua was sitting on a stool, drinking a bowl of water, while watching Mrs. Chen holding a sewing basket and mending his trousers.
Originally, he wanted to ask for leave to go back and visit his family, but it was not good for people who worked for others to always ask for leave. What's more, now that they had signed a ten-year contract with the Cheng family and took other people's money, it was even worse.
It's causing trouble for others.
In particular, the Cheng family is already worried about the young master.
I haven't seen that these days, the managers are so arrogant that they don't dare to do things honestly.
"Damn it, do you think this young master of the Cheng family can be well or not? Then what kind of Taoist priest from Chengyang is really good? He can also make happy weddings for others, but this is the first time I've heard of it." If he had nothing to do, he just gave up.
Take some time off, since they are the only two people in the room.
Ms. Chen raised her head and glanced at him, "I don't know if it's okay or not, but I still hope it will be okay. Young Master is such a good person. Last time I helped the ladies carry their things into the inner courtyard.
I met the young master. The young master was very polite. The maid accidentally poured tea soup on him and he didn't get angry. He also asked the maid if he had hit him. It was too bad for such a good boy to just go like this.
Pity."
Zhang Donggua also nodded, "That's right, God doesn't open his eyes, how can a good child suddenly become ill? I saw the young master from a distance a few months ago, and his face was still glowing, and he was very good. This means that he is ill.
I have a disease, I don’t know what it is.”
"I happened to overhear the chat between the first steward and the second steward. They said that the young master couldn't get up after a nap. He couldn't wake up no matter how much he screamed, but he was still angry. He had to call in so many doctors before he woke up.
I came here, but I still can only lie in bed and can't move, and I don't eat or drink much. I heard that I haven't had time to pee or poop for several days. Do you think this illness is strange?"
This is the first time Ms. Chen heard a man talk about this. She couldn’t wake up after a nap. When she woke up, she couldn’t move, couldn’t eat anything, and she had less urine and feces?
This sounds a bit familiar.
Something flashed through his mind, but Chen didn't catch it at the moment.
He just nodded and answered, "It's quite strange. He is such a good kid, but he has suffered so much."
Thinking that this young master is about the same age as his own son, the mother-in-law inevitably thought of her own son again, "I wonder how Yang'er is doing lately? The last time he came to see us, he gave us a dime and left. It wasn't much.
Tell us a few words, I'm not worried about Lihua now, I'm worried about him, they are the ones who should be married."
Seeing that his wife suddenly got involved with his son, Zhang Donggua put down the bowl and felt a little worried about his son.
"Yes, Lihua's marriage has been decided, and we feel relieved. Now it's Yang'er. This kid has big ideas and doesn't know where the marriage will be."
"But my mother is here, don't worry."
Hearing this, Mrs. Chen nodded, "Of course I feel relieved that my mother is here."
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Back in the courtyard of the Song family in Songshan Village, Zhang Hugua, who was munching on a sweet potato, heard the women talking and raised his eyebrows. He didn’t even bother to eat the sweet and juicy sweet potato. Anyway, it happened to be at his father-in-law’s house yesterday.
There were quite a few of the ones he caught, but none of his family liked to eat them. He ate them slowly by himself without anyone trying to snatch them from him.
He rolled his eyes and quietly went to the upper room.
"Dad, something big happened!"
Zhang Laodou, who had just fallen asleep, was startled by a shout close to his ear, and almost died in his sleep.
When I opened my eyes, my heart was still pounding, and I saw Hugua's enlarged face, I couldn't help but slap him in the face, "You want to scare me to death!"
Zhang Hugua, who had been slapped inexplicably, curled his lips and stepped back. Ever since his father asked him to secretly buy rat poison, he seemed to have discovered some big secret.
This old man is not what he seems on the surface. Anyway, he is not hiding in front of him now. Look at the force of this beating.
Tsk tsk, where have I beaten him before?
"Dad, something happened!" But he couldn't care about anything else at the moment, so Zhang Hugua quickly gossiped with bright eyes.
Zhang Laodou sat around and leaned against the bed. He was both sleepy and frightened due to the noise. He stared at him with a dissatisfied look on his face, "What's going on?"
Judging from this expression, it was definitely not a bad thing. He almost thought that rat poison had been discovered.