After a long time, Jiang Sanlang spoke again: "Chun Niang, how did Ying Bao know you had a brother in your belly at that time?"
Chun Niang paused and said: "I heard from the old man that children have spirituality since they were young. When they grow up, those spiritualities gradually dissipate. This is not surprising.
They also say that the younger the child, the easier it is to tell whether there is a boy or a girl in the mother's belly. I guess I am definitely carrying a boy."
Jiang Sanlang chuckled, "It's true, my mother asked Yuan Bao last time: Is your third aunt carrying a brother or a sister? Hehe, I hope it is a son and a daughter. Ying Bao will have a younger brother to protect her and a younger sister in the future.
keep company."
The two chatted for a while and gradually fell asleep.
Ying Bao didn't sleep and blinked in the darkness.
Rumors still started.
I guess that family will hear about it soon.
Ying Bao sank her consciousness into the cave and lowered her head to check her wrist.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but the color of the birthmark seems to be lighter, but it's still clearly distinguishable.
The size of a copper coin and the shape of a plum blossom are very unique and unforgettable.
Yingbao is worried.
I have been scrubbing it for several months, but the birthmark has not changed much. It can be seen that it cannot be washed away with Wudingzhi and pool water.
Then, there are only two other methods, either cutting with a knife or burning with fire.
Seeing that his younger brother was about to be born, he would soon become the focus of the entire village, so he couldn't delay it any longer.
Can……
It hurt so much to be cut by a knife or burned, and she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to do it.
But if you are afraid of this little pain, you will only get more pain waiting for you.
It's the kind of pain that cuts all over your body.
Otherwise, wait until the weather gets cold before doing it. That way, the wound will be less infected.
The next day, Ying Bao got up early, dressed and washed herself, and still tied her wrists with cloth bands.
First go and water the saplings, and then continue to cover them with wicker baskets.
Then go to the chicken coop to pick up two eggs and put them into the egg basket.
Then he picked up a small basket with a small shovel in it and took the two hens out for a walk.
I didn't go far, just wandering around my house.
"Hey, it's Yingbao." Second Aunt Wang was carrying the toilet and was about to go to the river to wash it. When she saw the little baby in shorts and a short coat, she asked with a smile: "Why are you going so early?"
Yingbao blinked her eyes, raised her head and said with a milky voice: "Second mother-in-law, I'm going to dig earthworms to feed the chickens."
"Oh, what a good boy."
Aunt Wang's eyes rolled around Yingbao's body, and her eyes stopped on Wazi's wrists, "Huh? Why are both wrists wrapped with cloth? Are they injured?"
"No." Yingbao said seriously: "It looks good wearing it."
In order to coax her daughter into not taking off the wristband, Chun Niang also trimmed the two strips of cloth and embroidered the pattern of plum blossoms intertwining branches.
In fact, Chun Niang didn't know that even if she didn't coax her or embroider the strips of cloth, she would still wear her baby so as not to give others a chance to discover the birthmark.
In her previous life, Ying Bao was still a naive and ordinary child. She didn't know what her mother meant by wearing a wristband on her, and she didn't follow her instructions seriously, which led to attracting that family.
Second Aunt Wang smiled and asked in a low voice: "Ying Bao'er, tell second mother-in-law, did your father or mother ever beat you? Did they deny you food?"
Yingbao secretly rolled her eyes and said softly: "My parents like Yingbao the most, so they don't fight me. They also leave the best food to Yingbao. My parents say that Yingbao is their favorite. Who dares to bully me?"
Just go beat her!"
Aunt Wang's face darkened, and the corners of her mouth twitched, "Hey, this little talker can really talk." She turned around and walked away.
Ying Bao stuck out her tongue at her back and took the two hens to Xiaohan Ditch.
Seeing no one around, he took out the jar of earthworms from the cave and knocked it over.
The earthworm that had been coated with Wudingzhi was also taken out, cut into sections with a shovel, and fed to the hens.
The two hens rushed over with a cooing sound and quickly devoured several earthworms.
Then his head tilted from left to right, and he kept looking at the owner, as if he still wanted it.
The earthworms poured out of the jar were crawling around, but were ignored by the two chickens.
Even if the little master cut off a few of them and pushed them forward, the hen would just take a few steps back and ignore them.
Yingbao was deep in thought, then picked out a handful of Wudingzhi from the stone wall of the cave and handed it to the hen.
The hen was very excited, stretched out her neck to peck at the baby quickly, and even pecked the baby's fingers back and forth with such light force that it made her giggle.
After that, Yingbao spent the whole day observing the two hens.
Seeing that there was nothing strange about them, I felt relieved.
A few days later, Jiang Sanlang finished harvesting Beishan ramie, carried it to the pond behind the house, threw the bundles into the water, and started retting the ramie.
These ramies had to be soaked for several days before being peeled, so Jiang Sanlang finally had a few days to relax.
"Yingbao, do you want to go to Beishan?"
Jiang Sanlang still remembered that his daughter was going to Beishan, and today he was going to fulfill her little wish.
"Think! Think!" Ying Bao raised her little hands, happily letting her daddy hug her.
Jiang Sanlang laughed loudly and brought a basket over, "Sit Ying Bao'er in the basket, so dad can carry it easily."
"Yeah!" Of course Ying Bao had no objection and happily stood in the basket.
Beishan is about three or four miles away from Dongchen Village, and the vegetation is denser than that of Xiaonanshan.
Jiang Sanlang pointed to a piece of mountain forest and said to his daughter: "This is our family's land, and next to it is your eldest uncle's and second uncle's family. Your grandfather's land is close to Xichen Village, which is a bit far from here."
Last year, he went to the old man's field to pick cherries. When he passed by a graveyard, he heard the cry of a baby.
So he ran over to check and saw a little swaddle in the grass. The swaddling clothes were covered with ants and they were biting the baby's face.
The baby shook his little head helplessly and cried loudly, very pitiful.
Jiang Sanlang couldn't help but feel heartache when he thought of the scene that day.
Fortunately, the baby's recovery ability is amazing. Within a few days after being brought back, the redness and swelling on the baby's face subsided and no scars were left.
"Let's go, dad will take you to see our mulberry tree." Jiang Sanlang carried his daughter on his back and walked to a mulberry field.
Although the villagers in Chuanhe Town are not good at raising silkworms, every household has planted some mulberry trees.
This is a rigid rule of the imperial court, which not only requires each household to plant a certain number of mulberry and elm trees, but also plants trees that are easy to grow into timber, otherwise the fine will be doubled.
Jiang Sanlang stood on tiptoe, pulled out a handful of mulberry branches and handed them to his daughter, with several purple mulberries hanging on them.
Yingbao narrowed her eyes with a smile, picked the largest and most purple mulberry fruit and stuffed it into her father's mouth, "Dad, eat it."
Jiang Sanlang smiled and found a few more trees. He broke off a large number of branches with mulberries and put them into a basket on his back. He told his daughter, "Don't be greedy. Let's take them back to give your mother a taste."
Eating less of this stuff can stop diarrhea, but eating too much will cause diarrhea, so Jiang Sanlang doesn't let his daughter be greedy.
"Yeah, take it back to mother."
Ying Bao said, but she still picked a few ripe ones and secretly took them into the cave to keep seeds.
Hehe, she has more fruit saplings.
The father and daughter wandered around in the forest and found many wild fruit trees, such as chestnuts, wild peaches, and wild mountain pears.
The fruits produced by these wild fruit trees are not only small, but the pulp tastes bad, so the villagers are not very interested. Only children occasionally visit once or twice.
Jiang Sanlang took his daughter around a lot and found a few ripe yellow apricots. When he opened them, he found that there were worms in the apricots.
Shaking his head, he asked his daughter: "Can we go home now?"
Yingbao couldn't bear to leave. She also wanted to see if there were mulberry ears, which are snow fungus that grows on mulberry trees.
That thing is very valuable. If it is dried, it can be sold for twenty taels of silver per catty in a big drug store in Fucheng.
Suddenly, two short-tailed deer came out from behind a clump of trees and looked over with their big eyes blinking.
"Dad, deer! Deer!"
Ying Bao excitedly tugged on her father's collar, pointed to the side and reminded him softly.
Jiang Sanlang also saw it and was even more excited than his daughter. "Dad saw it. Well, let's go home quickly and let your uncle and uncle hunt for you."
Saying that, he turned around and left.
The mountain deer was alert and had already fled into the woods and disappeared.
Jiang Sanlang hurried back home, handed his daughter to Chun Niang, took his bow, arrows and rope and went out.
I haven’t been to mountain deer in Beishan for several years, but I didn’t expect a group of them to come this year.
My wife at home is about to give birth, and I am worried that I have no money to prepare for it. I didn’t expect that I would encounter a God-given opportunity today.
Jiang Sanlang went to the old house and joined forces with his eldest and second brothers. The three of them took water bags and a few cakes, carried their bows and arrows, and quietly left the village.
Mountain deer are not easy to hunt. They are so clever that they will disappear into the woods before you can fully draw the bow. Therefore, you must first drive them to an open area before hunting them.
A lot of effort was expended before the hunt. Searching, driving, and rounding up took at least a day or two.
Some hunters go into the mountains for ten days and a half just to hunt down one or two big animals, such as deer or bears.
