The painful moans of pregnant women continued to be heard in the cave.
In addition to a few women taking care of children, Ye and a group of young women also gathered at the entrance of the cave and waited nervously after cleaning up all the broken pots and pans near the fire pit and stove.
This kind of waiting is the most difficult.
And it’s still two or three hours.
From about two o'clock in the afternoon until the sun set in the west, the voices of the pregnant women in the cave were rising and falling, and their breathing seemed to be getting weaker and weaker. The mood of the group of young women guarding the entrance of the cave became more and more restless.
The tall woman went in and out several times, but she seemed helpless.
It seems that the situation of pregnant women is very bad.
A sense of sadness slowly spread in the cave.
Some women even sobbed uncontrollably.
Xu Chen also sat helplessly on the stone outside the cave, watching the gradually sloping sunset, with a look of frustration on his face.
Ye walked up to him and pulled his arm hard.
"Chen Ga...help...help!"
Xu Chen turned his head and looked at Ye, whose eyes were red, and shook his head with a wry smile.
Ye burst into tears.
"He should be called Rope!"
Xu Chen touched Ye's messy hair and sighed.
He didn't say it was okay, but when he said it, Ye became even more sad, put her head in his arms and started to cry.
Muba hurriedly came out of the cave and saw Xu Chen paused for a moment before walking over.
"Chen Ga, hurry... Ga!"
Mother Ba's face was tense and full of worry, and she kept pointing at the cave.
Xu Chen wanted to shake his head, but seeing everyone's eyes falling on him, Ye Ye pulled his arm and kept shaking him. In the end, he could only sigh in his heart and follow his mother into the cave.
The light inside the cave was already very dim.
The pregnant woman was lying on several pieces of animal skins. Her rough and dark face showed a kind of paleness that she had never seen before. Sweat had soaked her hair, and her whole body looked like it had been soaked in water. Her eyes were closed tightly, and only her breasts were still slightly moist.
ups and downs.
After struggling for several hours, she was exhausted.
The women surrounding her dispersed, and Xu Chen knelt down and held the pregnant woman's hand.
He didn't know what he could do if he came in. At this time, he couldn't do anything except help and comfort him.
The woman struggled to open her eyes, and when she saw Xu Chen, her eyes lit up slightly, and she struggled to sit up.
"Lie down, lie down!"
Xu Chen quickly pushed her down, then managed to calm down and smiled, stretched out his hand to touch the woman's bulging belly and said, "Shengga!"
A hint of excitement suddenly appeared on the woman's pale face, and she nodded and said in a weak voice: "Shengga!"
"Aunt Thirteen, don't give up. I hope the rope can be born healthy and I will give this to him!"
Xu Chen took off an animal tooth wrapped in gold inlaid from his neck and placed it in the woman's hand.
This tooth was given to him by a hunter from another tribe at the last witchcraft conference. It was the tooth of an unknown beast. It was not big, but it had a blood-red color that made it unique.
When he came back, he wrapped it in gold and made it into a pendant.
This is a unique ornament of the Ba people. It is small and exquisite, completely different from other wolf fang ornaments that are randomly tied with hemp ropes by other men.
Although the woman couldn't understand Xu Chen's words, she understood what he meant. She became excited. She held the animal tooth pendant tightly, closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths before opening them again. Her face seemed to have a strange brilliance.
Shangya showed a smile and said with difficulty:
"Shengga...learn..."
"Okay, study, I'll teach him!"
Xu Chen nodded vigorously, and gently stroked her belly back and forth with his hand to feel the movement of the fetus, when suddenly he felt his hand being kicked.
"The rope moves!"
Xu Chen smiled with surprise on his face.
It was the first time in his life that he felt the movement of his fetus.
The woman seemed to feel relaxed, closed her eyes and began to take deep breaths.
The tense expressions on the faces of the mother and several older women also relaxed a lot. Some squatted down to help rub their bellies, and some lifted up their skirts and kept observing. After a few minutes, the woman who was suddenly observing started shouting excitedly.
"Come out, come out!"
Then all the women in the group became excited and nervous.
"Aunt Thirteen, take a deep breath and exert force..."
Xu Chen quickly reminded him repeatedly.
Although he was unable to assist in midwifery, he also knew that a woman in labor would be unable to give birth smoothly due to excessive physical exertion, and that the cervix could not be opened due to tension. The combination of various factors caused difficulties in giving birth.
In fact, according to the calculations of Muba and others, the expected date of delivery of this pregnant woman should be around the dark moon.
According to the daily living conditions of this group of primitive people, even if a pregnant woman has a big belly, she is still busy working every day. The possibility of dystocia for such a woman who works all year round is relatively low. In addition, there is plenty of food recently and she has eaten a lot of fish.
By supplementing a large amount of high-quality protein and nutrients, the mother's strength should be sufficient.
I heard before that it would take a few days for women to give birth naturally, and two or three hours is definitely not a long time.
The reason why today is more dangerous is that, firstly, it takes a lot of physical strength for pregnant women to go down the mountain, and secondly, they are very nervous after being frightened by the monkeys.
Although these are just Xu Chen's own speculations, the things accumulated by human civilization for thousands of years are still enough for him, a man who has never experienced anything, to obtain this once commonplace information.
Xu Chen's arrival soothed the woman's nervousness, and her labor became smoother after her spirit relaxed.
With Xu Chen's encouragement, the pregnant woman continued to gather strength. The mother and the older women who helped deliver the baby also kept reminding her that the baby was about to be born. With the comfort and encouragement of a group of people, the pregnant woman finally returned to her role as a full-day person.
The strength and courage that a primitive female savage should have when working, must concentrate all the strength and spirit.
"Chu Ga..."
A few minutes later, an older woman with gray hair finally took out a naked and wet baby from her skirt, bit off the umbilical cord with her teeth, and then skillfully lifted her legs and patted her butt a few times.
"Wow……"
The baby cried loudly.
"Wow, wow~"
A group of women instantly burst into enthusiastic cheers, and Ye and a group of young women guarding the entrance of the cave also cheered, and many people cried with joy.
Gu Heju and several other men waiting outside the cave also had relieved smiles on their faces.
"Shengga!"
The mother-in-law lifted the naked and crying baby up high with excitement on her face.
"Shengga~Shengga~Shengga~"
Inside and outside the cave, a burst of excited voices of men and women suddenly sounded, including the clear and sharp voices of this group of children.
Amidst the cheers, an older woman soon found a clean animal skin to wrap the child, and then placed it in the arms of the mother who was soaked but had already sat up on her own.
"Sheng Ga, study!"
Although she was extremely weak after giving birth, the mother smiled extremely happily. She gently placed a gold-encrusted animal tooth pendant on the heart of the baby, and then handed the baby to Xu Chen with great solemnity.
Xu Chen:……
I've never held a child in my arms all my life.
Besides, I'm not his father.
Xu Chen hurriedly held the child in his arms.
Cautious and extremely nervous.
The light and airy feeling has no place to start... No matter how I hold it, it feels like it will leak out of my arms.
In addition, this child is too ugly, dark and wrinkled, and I don’t know which wild man is his father.
Xu Chen mentally went through all the adult men in the tribe and found that they all seemed somewhat similar because they were all ugly and dark.
The genes of the Ba people are not very good, and none of them are handsome.
But I didn't see clearly just now whether it was a boy or a girl.
He gently peeled off the animal skin and took a look. His face suddenly turned red. He quickly covered it and then his face twitched slightly.
A girl named Rope may be a little difficult to lead!