The milk in the earthen pot was boiling, and Xu Chunniang skimmed off the milk skin with a spoon. When it cooled down, she took the baby and fed her a spoonful.
The little kid was not in a hurry or fussy, swallowing mouthfuls, and when he was almost done eating, he closed his mouth tightly and closed his eyes, as if he wanted to sleep.
Wiping the corners of the little girl's mouth with a handkerchief, Xu Chunniang patted her back gently, raised her head and said to her husband: "Sanlang, give her a name."
Jiang Sanlang scratched his head and couldn't think of anything good to say after holding it for a long time.
"How about asking Sanshu Chen to pick it up? I, I can't think of a good name at the moment."
Uncle Chen's name is Chen Sanyou. He is the village leader of Dongchen Village. He is highly respected and proficient in writing. Many families in the village have asked him to name their children.
Xu Chunniang shook her head, "No need to go to such trouble."
She didn't want everyone to know that she had picked up a child.
Although this matter cannot be hidden at all, it is better to keep a low profile. When the baby grows up, everyone will get used to it.
"How about calling her Yingbao." Xu Chunniang touched her daughter's little face and said softly, "You met this treasure when you went to Beishan to pick cherries."
"Okay, let's call her Yingbao."
Jiang Sanlang patted his thigh and said cheerfully: "Chun Niang, you are right, you are a treasure you encounter while picking cherries."
Hehe, this name is great, auspicious!
In the blink of an eye, summer turns to winter and spring comes again, and when the grass grows and orioles fly, the little baby Sakura is already eleven months old. Not only can she crawl, but she can also walk a few steps while holding on to the wall.
"father!"
Ying Bao held the wall with one hand and opened her other hand to Jiang Sanlang who had just entered the room: "Hug!"
Now she can speak, but she can only pronounce one or two words.
"Hey, Baby Ying is learning to walk, are you tired? Come on, come on, let's see what daddy has brought for you."
Jiang Sanlang took out a wrinkled green-red fruit from his arms, shook it in his hand, bent down and teased his daughter, "Would you like to eat it? It's so sweet and fragrant."
Ying Bao's eyes lit up and she stretched out her chubby little hands to hug her, "I'm sure!"
Big Apple, although its appearance is not very good, it is rare to see it in the countryside at this time.
"Where did it come from?" Ms. Xu, who was sitting next to her, glanced at it and pulled out the thread to hold the sole of the shoe.
Jiang Sanlang chuckled, bent down to pick up his daughter, and sat next to his wife, "My mother gave it to me. She didn't want to eat it, so she secretly stuffed it into me, saying it was for Yingbao's sweet mouth."
Mrs. Xu rolled her eyes at her husband and said disapprovingly: "It's a New Year's gift from my eldest aunt to my parents. How dare you take it from your family? We have already separated. If others see it, it will be criticized or not."
The uncle's family also has children. If the sister-in-law knew that her mother-in-law secretly gave apples to her third son, she would not know what she would think.
"What's the point of this? It's not what I asked for. Why don't you accept it if you give it to me? It's a gift from the elders. You can't refuse it. Do you understand?"
Jiang Sanlang didn't care. Seeing that his daughter couldn't bite the peel with her small teeth, he took it and chewed it up, chewing away a circle of peel, and then stuffed it back into his daughter's hand.
Yingbao:……
Looking down at the gnawed fruit, I suddenly couldn't stop eating.
"Why don't you eat it?" Jiang Sanlang scratched his daughter's nose and said with a smile, "Do you dislike your father?"
Yingbao blinked and shook her head: "No problem!" After saying that, she bit off a big piece, took it out of her mouth and stuffed it into her father's mouth, "Daddy!"
Jiang Sanlang laughed heartily and took a bite of the filial piety offered by his daughter.
Mrs. Xu also laughed and touched her daughter's fluffy little head, "Our Yingbao is so filial and knows how to give the first bite to daddy."
Ying Bao nodded heavily, "Filial piety! Dad, Mom!" She bit off another piece and gave it to Chun Niang.
"Hahaha, what a good girl!" Jiang Sanlang smiled heartily, "When my parents grow old, I will rely on the Yingbao to see them off."
Yingbao shook her head, raised her chubby finger and pointed at grandma, "Brother! Yingbao! Give it away!"
"What did Ying Bao say?" Jiang Sanlang asked with a smile, not understanding what his daughter said.
Ying Bao got off her father's lap, stumbled to Mrs. Xu, threw herself into her mother's arms, touched her belly and said, "Brother! Mother, brother."
Jiang Sanlang seemed to understand this time.
Does his daughter want to say that her mother has a younger brother in her belly?
How can it be?
Mrs. Xu also looked confused, touched her belly and asked with a smile: "Yingbao said mom has a younger brother here?"
"Yeah!" Ying Bao nodded heavily, put her little hand on A Niang's belly, and said firmly: "Brother!" Two!
Jiang Sanlang was stunned, and suddenly remembered that his wife had been unable to eat in the past few days and often retched.
Could it be...could it be...
His eyes suddenly brightened astonishingly. He grabbed his wife's arm and said, "You've been complaining about gastrointestinal discomfort these past few days... How about we, let's go find a doctor?"
Mrs. Xu was also stunned and murmured: "It's impossible."
She has been married for almost eleven years. How could someone in her late thirties be pregnant?
Jiang Sanlang picked up his wife and said hurriedly: "It's easy to go and take a look, but...even if you're not pregnant, we still have to get a pulse. You can't eat these days, so it's not a problem..."
Mrs. Xu pondered and nodded: "Then, let's go and take a look. I'm sure I won't be able to catch up now. Let's go to town tomorrow."
"Yeah!" Jiang Sanlang picked up his daughter and spun around in circles, he was so happy that he couldn't see his teeth, "Good girl, your parents will take you to the town to play tomorrow."
Mrs. Xu pursed her lips and chuckled, put away the soles of her shoes, "Let's have soup cakes for dinner and make some custard for Yingbao."
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The doctor's wife, Mrs. Zhang, lives in the town, about five or six miles away from Dongchen Village. It takes half an hour to walk.
Jiang Sanlang was afraid of tiring his wife, so he planned to borrow a donkey from Chencun's house to travel.
"No." Mrs. Xu felt a little embarrassed, "Just leave like this, it's not like you can't walk."
Dr. Zhang is a well-known stable woman in the town. No one knows it from all over the country. The people who go to her to check their pulse are either pregnant women or women who are expecting to be pregnant.
A few years ago, I had many pulse tests and took a lot of medicine, but there was no movement in my stomach.
If I go this time, it will be fine if I am really pregnant. If not, others may make fun of me.
"That's fine." Jiang Sanlang held his daughter with one hand and supported his wife with the other, "Then you should be more careful."
Mrs. Xu chuckled and pushed her husband's hand away, "I went to fetch water yesterday, but now I can't walk on the sidewalk?"
Jiang Sanlang retracted his hand, hugged his daughter tightly, and said in a low voice: "Don't make any choices in the future, wait until I come back to do everything."
These spring planting days, he would go to the fields before dawn to be busy, and his wife would even send him rice to the fields.
After plowing the ground to loosen the soil, spreading fertilizer and sowing seeds, I was busy at home and at my brother's house. I couldn't go home until dark every day, so I had no time to fetch water for the family.
However, in the future, if he can get up half an hour earlier, he will definitely fill the water tank at home before going to the fields.
Mrs. Xu smiled at her husband and touched her belly, feeling very uneasy in her heart.
Ying Bao blinked and looked at her father, then at her mother, then pursed her lips and smiled.
It's great, my mother is already pregnant with my brother, and their family is finally reunited.
Ying Bao hugged her father's neck tightly, rested her head on his shoulder, and stared at the red birthmark on her wrist with lowered eyes.
It was this birthmark that separated me from my parents and brothers forever.
You have to find a way to get rid of it.
Before taking it off, she had to hide it carefully so that no one could see it.
She didn't want to be recognized by that family again a few years later, and experience abuse, plotting, and hanging again.
In his previous life, he struggled to survive for more than ten years, but he only lived to be twenty-one years old.
Just when she thought she had finally escaped and her sufferings were over, she was suddenly found by her biological father and mother, and they teamed up to hang her.
She clearly remembers that her birth mother tightened the rope in her hand while gnashing her teeth and yelling angrily: "You scourge! A vicious bitch! How do you have the honor to live? How do you still dare to live?"
Due to too much force, Han's face was distorted, foaming at the corners of his mouth, and he looked ferocious like an evil ghost.
Ying Bao couldn't stop trembling when she thought of the pain of her throat being tightened, her brain exploding due to suffocation, and her heart filled with despair and resentment.
