At noon on the sixth day of October, Chu Chu suddenly started.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Meng hurriedly borrowed a carriage from the Jiang family and went to the town to ask Doctor Zhang to deliver the baby.
Ying Bao and Chun Niang came over to help. They first boiled a large pot of water, then scalded and washed all the large and small basins at home, and then spread the maternity mattress on Chu Chu.
Yingbao saw that Chuchu had a severe stomachache and was afraid that she would faint, so she gave her a bowl of juice with Wudingzhi added.
Chun Niang cooked a bowl of brown sugar poached eggs and forced Chuchu to eat two of them to prevent her from collapse during the birth.
Doctor Zhang finally arrived. Seeing that everything was ready, she didn't hesitate and immediately delivered Chu Chu.
At this time, Chuchu's palace mouth had been opened four times, and Dr. Zhang helped her up and walked around a few times.
The delivery went smoothly after that, and not long after the amniotic water broke, Chu Chu followed Dr. Zhang's instructions and pushed hard along with the contractions, and the baby slipped out smoothly and cried loudly.
"Ouch! What a rich man!"
Dr. Zhang said cheerfully, and quickly cleaned out the placenta, gently dug out the baby's mouth with gauze, turned her over and patted her back and buttocks to make her breathe smoothly and cry louder.
Pick up the baby and wash it in warm water, and then wipe it clean with the cotton cloth that has been prepared.
Then take a piece of cotton cloth and wrap it around the umbilical cord, leaving a finger length, bite the cloth with your teeth, and then tie the broken part of the umbilical cord with a piece of cotton thread.
Ying Bao watched Doctor Zhang deliver the baby and felt amazing.
Doctor Zhang wrapped the baby, then slowly rubbed Chu Chu's belly, and then gently pressed to remove the remaining blood outside the uterus.
When no hard lump can be felt in the lower abdomen, then retract the legs.
"Suck the baby early, otherwise the milk will become engorged and inflamed." Dr. Zhang warned: "I'll go to bed later and relieve myself. Do you understand?"
Chu Chu nodded and looked at the baby in Chun Niang's arms with a gentle expression on her face.
After Dr. Zhang cleaned up Chu Chu, she changed the childbirth mattress on her body. Then she went to rest and called out the door: "Come in."
Zhang Meng lifted the curtain and walked in. He touched his wife's cheek and felt so distressed that he could not speak.
Doctor Zhang pointed to the lotus leaf bag on the bench and said, "That's the afterbirth. Find a place to bury it, and bury it deeper."
Zhang Meng agreed, picked up the lotus leaf bag and went out.
Chun Niang placed the baby next to Chu Chu and went to help pour out the blood.
After that, he went to the kitchen to cook a large bowl of pig's trotter noodles for Dr. Zhang.
Since Chu Chu has just given birth, you can give her some soft and light egg noodles.
In the second month, when the milk flow is smooth, you can give the mother some fish soup to stimulate lactation. Otherwise, the mother may develop lactation and inflammation.
Early the next morning, Zhang Meng went to Yue's family with red eggs to announce the good news. Jiang Sanlang also helped deliver red eggs to various houses in the village.
Chu Chufu, Chun Niang's goddaughter, was half a child of the Jiang family. After receiving the good news, the villagers also brought eggs or brown sugar to congratulate her.
For a while, Zhang Meng’s family was very lively with people coming and going.
In order not to affect Chu Chu and her children's rest, Chun Niang received the guests in the main room and asked Ying Bao to register the congratulations.
When Zhai Duimeng came back from Yue's house, he left those things to him.
Coming with Zhang Meng was Chu Qing, Chu Chu's younger brother.
It turned out that after Patriarch Chu learned that the school in Dongchen Village did not admit students from other villages, he asked Chu Qing to come to his sister's place and asked his brother-in-law to help. It would be best to study in Xiucai Gongmen East.
Because the scholar’s knowledge is definitely better than those old boys who fail the exams many times.
If one of the Chu family members is admitted as a scholar, it will be a matter of honoring their ancestors, and their family will have the hope of transcending social classes and being promoted from farmers to scholars.
Chu Chu was very happy to see her younger brother arriving, and even asked her husband to clean up a room for him and live at home from now on.
Chu Qing walked beside the bed, touched her niece's little face, and said to Sister Cui: "Sister, my mother-in-law asked him to tell me to ask Sister Chuman to take care of me, but he didn't agree."
Chu Man was so spoiled that he couldn't take care of others. Chu Qing would rather take care of his sister than ask cousin Chu Man to come.
What's more, the siblings are not familiar with Chu Man at all, and they won't shut up even if they walk in the wrong direction. There is no reason why she came to her sister's house with ulterior motives.
Chu Chu smiled and approved: "I did something wrong, he doesn't need them to take care of him."
Chu Qing scratched his head and said, "He told my grandma that he would take care of me and my niece. She was angry."
Chu Chu sighed softly: "Just be angry when you are angry. We will not return to the village from now on. We will stay with my sister."
Her younger brother, Fu, was the one she brought up since childhood and was the closest to her. He could live with her, which was what she wanted.
"Yeah." Chu Qing pursed her lips and smiled.
He had long wanted to live with his sister, but his father wouldn't let him.
Now that his father has married his bride, he doesn't care much about him, just so he doesn't have to go back.
At that time, Zhang Meng walked in and said to Chu Chu: "Jiang Cunzheng has agreed that Chu Qing will study to the east of Li Xiucai's family, and he will go to become a disciple tomorrow morning."
"That's great." Chu Chu was very happy.
But studying next to Li Xiucai's family, even for three years, would not be extremely lucky for my younger brother.
Because Li Xiucai said that he would like to take the scientific examination in three years, his energy is limited, and the number of Mendong students cannot exceed twenty.
There are more than twenty people coming to study, and Chen's children from the East Village alone have already taken up more than a dozen places.
Among the several places in Chengdong, which one is the best to choose from?
Even if the cultivation level is twenty taels a year, there will still be people flocking to it.
It is said that the 22-1 years of cultivation are nothing short of Yingbao Dingdong.
Firstly, it prevents someone from messing around with the scholar, and secondly, the scholar owes a lot of external debts, which means he is helpless and in debt.
The confinement passed day by day, and in a flash it was the end of October.
That day, Chu Qing, who came back from school, told his sister that he had seen Chu Man and Sun Erniang, who lived over there in the West Village.
They seemed to be renting at a villager's house in West Village, and they didn't know what they were doing.
Of course Chuchu knew what they wanted to do, but how could she explain it to her younger brother?
"I don't care. If you see them, just run away from Yuanji and ignore them!"
She told her younger brother: "I just want to study hard and pretend that I can't see anything else. Do you understand?"
Chu Qing nodded in confusion.
He didn't tell his sister that he had seen Chu Man poking his head at the door of the school and looking at their husband several times.
Oh, that's right. Look at Mr.'s friend.
My husband's friend lives in the West Village and comes to discuss knowledge with my husband every other day. The two of them often recite poems and paint, and spend a lot of time together.
Whenever that happened, Chu Man and her mother would come in and shut up with the husband's mother.
But my husband's mother was very polite and distant, and often said she was tired and asked for a rest.
But as soon as Chu Man and her daughter left, the husband's mother came out of the house and went to dig the ground in the backyard and make clothes in the yard.
The students nearby may not have noticed, but Chu Qing knew Chu Man and begged her. As soon as her mother and daughter came, she couldn't help but take a second look to see what they wanted to do.
Fast forward to the sixth day of winter, and Chu Chu's daughter was one month old.
Zhang Meng held a full-moon banquet for his daughter and invited the whole village to attend.
Of course, in order to show the respect of the scholars, we also invited Chen Changping, a scholar from the West Village, and Chen Changsheng, a village leader.
The weather was not very good that day, it was gloomy and cold, and there were very fine snowflakes.
Jiang Sanlang took several villagers to help build two wedding tents and placed several tables of running water mats in the east of the tents.
The Jiang family's sisters-in-law helped to cook, while several neighbor aunts walked outside the kitchen to pick vegetables and wash dishes.
The banquet had not yet started when Chu Chu's father came, accompanied by the Chu clan chief and Chu Cunzheng.
They braved the wind and snow, drove a blue car, and parked in front of Chu Chu's house.
