After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

At noon on the sixth day of October, Chu Chu suddenly activated.

Seeing this, Zhang Meng hurried to Jiang's house to borrow a carriage, and went to the town to ask Mrs. Zhang to deliver the baby.

Yingbao and Chunniang came to help, first boiled a large pot of boiling water, scalded and washed all the large and small pots in the house, and then spread the maternity mattress for Chuchu.

Yingbao saw that Chuchu had a severe stomachache, fearing that she would faint, so she gave her a bowl of fruit juice with Wudingzhi added.

Chunniang cooked a bowl of poached eggs with brown sugar, and forced Chuchu to eat two, lest she collapse when giving birth.

Doctor Zhang finally came. Seeing that everything was ready, she delivered Chuchu immediately without any hesitation.

At this time, Chuchu Gongkou had opened four fingers, Doctor Zhang helped her up and walked around a few times.

Afterwards, the delivery went smoothly. Not long after the amniotic fluid broke, Chu Chu followed the uterine contractions according to Doctor Zhang's instructions, and the baby slipped out, crying loudly.

"Oh! She's a daughter!"

Doctor Zhang said cheerfully, and hurriedly cleaned out the placenta, gently dug out the baby's mouth with gauze, turned her over and patted her back and buttocks twice, so that she could breathe smoothly and cry louder.

Pick up the baby and wash it in warm water for a while, then wipe her clean with the cotton cloth you prepared earlier.

Then take a piece of cotton cloth to hug the umbilical cord, leave one finger long, bite off the cloth with your teeth, and tie the broken umbilical cord with a cotton thread.

Yingbao watched Dr. Zhang deliver the baby the whole time, and felt amazing.

Doctor Zhang wrapped up the baby, rubbed Chu Chu's belly slowly, and then pressed gently to release the residual blood pressure in the uterus.

I didn't stop until I couldn't feel any hard lumps in my lower abdomen.

"Suck the baby early, otherwise the milk will become engorged and inflamed." Doctor Zhang urged: "You should get out of bed and take a pee later, you know?"

Chu Chu nodded, looking at the baby in Chun Niang's arms, with a gentle expression on her face.

After Doctor Zhang cleaned up Chu Chu, she changed the puerperium under her body, then sat down to rest, and called out the door: "Come in."

Zhang Meng lifted the curtain and walked in, touched his wife's cheek, so distressed that he couldn't speak.

Doctor Zhang pointed to the lotus leaf bag on the bench and said, "This is 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 put the baby beside Chu Chu, and went to help drain the blood by herself.

Then I went to the kitchen and cooked a big bowl of pork trotter noodles for Dr. Zhang.

Because Chu Chu just gave birth, she can only eat some soft and light egg noodles.

Only on the second day, when the milk flow is unobstructed, can the puerpera be given some milk-promoting fish soup, otherwise, the puerpera may develop milk accumulation and inflammation.

Early the next morning, Zhang Meng took the red eggs to Yue's house to announce the good news, and Jiang Sanlang also helped to deliver red eggs to various houses in the village.

Chuchu is Chunniang's goddaughter, who is also considered half a child of the Jiang family. After receiving the good news, the villagers also came to congratulate with eggs or brown sugar.

For a while, Zhang Meng's family came and went, which was very lively.

In order not to affect Chuchu and the child's rest, Chunniang receives the guests in the main room and asks Yingbao to register the congratulatory ceremony.

When Zhang Meng comes back from Yue's house, he will do these things by himself.

Along with Zhang Meng was Chu Chu's younger brother Chu Qing.

It turned out that after the patriarch Chu learned that the school in Dongchen Village did not accept students from other villages, he asked Chu Qing to come to his sister's place and asked his brother-in-law to help, preferably to study under the scholar's family.

Because the scholar's knowledge is definitely better than those old boys who have repeatedly failed the exam.

If one member of the Chu clan is admitted as a scholar, it will be a matter of Guangzong Yaozu, and their family has the hope of crossing the class and being promoted from a farmer to a scholar.

Chu Chu was very happy to see her younger brother coming, and quickly asked her husband to clean up a room for him, and he will live at home from now on.

Chu Qing sat by the bed, touched her little niece's little face, and said to her sister, "Sister, my mother-in-law asked me to tell you to let sister Chu Man take care of you, but I didn't agree."

Chu Man was spoiled like that, how could she take care of others, Chu Qing would rather take care of her sister by herself than cousin Chu Man.

What's more, their sister and brother are not familiar with Chu Man at all, and they basically can't talk when they walk across. She came to her sister's house with ulterior motives at all.

Chu Chu smiled and approved: "You are right, I don't need them to take care of me."

Chu Qing scratched her head and said, "I told my grandmother that I will take care of you and your niece, and my grandmother got angry."

Chu Chu sighed softly: "If you are angry, be angry, we will not go back to the village in the future, and we will live with my sister."

Her younger brother was brought up by her, and she is the closest to her. He can live with her, which is his wish.

"Yeah." Chu Qing pursed her lips and smiled.

He had long wanted to live with his sister, but his father refused.

Now that Dad has married a bride, he doesn't care much about him, and it happens that he doesn't have to go back.

At this time, Zhang Meng walked in and said to Chu Chu: "Jiang Cunzheng agrees that Chu Qing will study under Li Xiucai, and I will go to apprentice tomorrow morning."

"That's great." Chuchu was very happy.

To be able to study under Li Xiucai, even for only three years, is extremely lucky for my younger brother.

Because Li Xiucai said that he will go to the scientific examination three years later, his energy is limited, and the number of students under his school cannot exceed 20.

There are more than 20 people who come to study, and the children of Dongcun Chen alone have already occupied more than a dozen places.

Of the remaining places, which one is not a thousand choices?
Even if the cultivation base is 20 taels a year, some people flock to it.

It is said that the Shu Xiu in the past 20 years was decided by Ying Bao.

One is to prevent people from messing around with Mr. Xiucai, and the other is that Mr. Xiucai owes a lot of foreign debts, and there is no way to repay the debts if there is less.

Days passed, and it was the end of October.

One day, Chu Qing, who came back from the school, told his sister that he had seen Chu Man and Sun Erniang, and they were living in the West Village.

They seem to be renting in a villager's house in the West Village, and they don't know what to do.

Of course Chuchu knew what they wanted to do, but how could she talk to her younger brother.

"Don't worry about it, just run away if you see it, and ignore them!"

She told her younger brother: "You just need to study hard, and you can't see anything else, understand?"

Chu Qing nodded in confusion.

He didn't tell his sister that he had seen Chu Man poking his head at the school gate several times, looking at their husband.

Oh no, it was looking at Mr.'s friend.

A friend of the husband lives in the West Village, and he comes to discuss knowledge with him every other day. The two often recite poems and paint, and stay for an entire afternoon.

At this time, Chu Man and her mother would come in and talk to the husband's mother.

But the husband's mother was very polite and alienated to them, often saying that she was tired and wanted to rest.

But as soon as Chu Man's mother and daughter left, the husband's mother would come out of the house and either go to the backyard to dig the ground, or sit in the yard to make clothes.

The students next to her might not have noticed, but Chu Qing knew Chu Man, and as soon as her mother and daughter came, she couldn't help but take a second look to see what they were up to.

In a flash, it was the sixth day of the winter month, and Chu Chu's daughter was full moon.

Zhang Meng held a full moon wine for his daughter and invited the whole village to attend.

Of course, in order to show respect for the scholars, Chen Changping, the scholar of the West Village, and Chen Changsheng, the village official, were also invited.

The weather was not very good that day, gloomy and cold, with fine flakes of snow.

Jiang Sanlang led a few villagers to help build two wedding sheds, and set up several tables of flowing water mats under the sheds.

The sisters-in-law of the Jiang family helped to cook, while the neighbors sat outside the kitchen picking vegetables and washing dishes.

Before the banquet started, Chu Chu's father came, along with the head of the Chu clan and Chu Cunzheng.

Braving the wind and snow, they drove an old horse-drawn cart and stopped at the gate of Chuchu's house.