Zhang Yun's ancient life

Mrs. Guan really didn't last long. She went there on the second day of the third anniversary of Father Guan's death. In the old house of the Guan family, the old mourning hall hadn't been demolished yet, and the new flowers were hung up again. Come here Most of the relatives and friends who expressed their condolences have not yet left. The Guan brothers took care of their mother's funeral together, and then, under the witness of the elders, distributed the things left by the old lady according to the wishes of the old lady during her lifetime.

When Guan Jing and Zhang Yun came over, they didn't see Second Aunt Guan. It is said that she fell ill due to excessive grief, and now she is recuperating in the house.

However, when Zhang Yun passed by the backyard, he saw a lot of maids and wives there, guarding three floors inside and three floors outside. It seemed that their posture didn't seem to be taking care of the patients, but they seemed to be preventing someone from coming out.

He Zhen and his family also came back a few days ago. At that time, the condition of the old lady was not very good. In name, he left his son and daughter at the eldest brother's house.

He Zhen still often comes to Zhang Yun's house as a guest, and this time she also brought her younger brothers. Those two children are very cute. When they first came, Guan Jing was afraid that they would not have fun, but they were clever. Very soon, I soon became acquainted with the soldiers who came to visit. A group of people rushed to the back of the mountain and went there. They didn’t come back until it was almost dark, and brought back a bunch of mountain goods and game. .

After that, these two boys found a place to play, and they were more precise about the rest time of these soldiers than Zhang Yun, the captain. When the time came, they would come over immediately, and the Zhang family was completely lively. .

It wasn't until Guan Lan brought them the news that Guan Rong was getting engaged and asked them to go to the engagement banquet that the room stopped.

Guan Rong's in-law's family is the Xu family living in the north corner of the town. The son of that family passed the examination of scholar four years ago. It is said that he is somewhat talented. His father died young and he was raised by his widowed mother. After entering school, he heard from the matchmaker that the Guan family was willing to give the girl a dowry of 24 liters, so he agreed to the marriage.

At the engagement banquet, Zhang Yun met Xu Xiucai, who looked like a scholar. He opened his mouth to talk about the way of Confucius and Mencius, but Zhang Yun heard that he was too confused to speak, so he put on a smiling face and joked with everyone.

Since she was going to get married in the hot filial piety, Second Aunt Guan began to buy dowry after the engagement banquet, and Uncle Guan sent some dowry, some silver jewelry and two bolts of silk cloth.

Second Aunt Guan scolded their family for being stingy, and Aunt Guan said to her coolly: "When our brother Jing went out, didn't the younger brothers and sisters also give these? These things have to be the same, and people can't let people say that we are Being partial to the elders, but don't worry, what you give is old, what we add to Rong'er is all new, and her husband's family will definitely not pick something out of things."

Second Aunt Guan almost didn't come over. When Guan Jing married Zhang Yun, she thought that the boy was helpless and would not have any great prospects in the future. She had always looked down on Guan Cheng and his family, so When Guan Jing got married, she dug out two bolts of old cloth from the warehouse, and picked out a few outdated silver jewelry from the jewelry box, and put them together as makeup and gave them to her.

Now that Guan Rong is married and needs a dowry, she originally thought that Guan Cheng's family had just acquired so many things from the old lady, and she would be able to produce some more things no matter how she recruited them. When Tian came back, since the Guan family was still in filial piety, Guan Rong didn't dare to make a fuss about her wedding banquet. She just invited some close relatives and close friends of the clan.

Second Aunt Guan invited cooks and helpers, and held a wedding banquet of twenty tables. Afraid that there would not be enough people to sit, Second Aunt Guan borrowed more than a dozen chairs on purpose, planning to combine tables when there were many people.

As a result, none of the dozen or so chairs were used, because none of the twenty tables were full when the banquet was held. There were seven or eight seats for each table for ten people, and only four for the few. , five, looking at the sparse crowd, Guan Ershu was very embarrassed, and forced himself to greet the guests who came to eat. After the wedding banquet, Guan Ershu sat in the study, and no one called. Yes, he didn't even go out when the Xu family's welcoming team came.

As a married woman, Guan Rong, after listening to Aunt Guan's admonition, was supported by her mother to the door of the study and kowtowed to Uncle Guan to thank her father for her kindness.

Hearing his daughter salute him outside the door, Second Uncle Guan was silent for a long time before he said, "You have been the daughter-in-law of the Xu family since the day you left the gate. Missed the auspicious time."

Guan Rong got up and was escorted into the bridal sedan chair with the support of the mothers, and was sent into the gate of Xu's house all the way.

On the day Guan Rong came back, Zhang Yun couldn’t go without a vacation. Uncle Guan was hired out of the car and never came back. Leaving his son with Guan Jing, he went back to the Guan family's ancestral house.

When Aunt Guan came home in the afternoon, she seemed a little unhappy. Uncle Guan, who had just returned home, looked at his wife's face and asked, "What's wrong? You have a calm face? Did the second child's family get mad at you again? "

Aunt Guan glanced at her husband and said, "No, they have a lot of lawsuits on their minds, so come and take care of me when they have time."

"What happened?" Hearing what his wife said, Uncle Guan asked curiously.

Aunt Guan sighed and said, "Rong'er came home alone. Her son-in-law didn't come. She said that the old lady of the Xu family was ill and her son stayed behind to take care of her."

Uncle Guan frowned when he heard this and said, "Why did the old lady call her daughter-in-law back when she was sick? It would be good to have one more person to take care of her. If someone came over to talk about it, no one would pick on him and send the girl alone. Go back to your mother's house, what is this thing called?"

After hearing this, Aunt Guan replied: "I look at Guan Rong's face, as if he had swallowed two catties of Coptis chinensis. There is no joy of being newly married. It doesn't look like the old lady is sick, but like a young couple. It's awkward."

Uncle Guan snorted softly and said: "The two of them are at odds, what's the matter with the elders, dare to feel that the elders in the room are waiting for them to come back, and there is something wrong with them, what kind of bad temper, and a scholar, who doesn't understand etiquette at all , I have read so many years of sage books in vain."

Aunt Guan said: "At first, the elders complained about Rong'er, but now it's even better. I offended the elders all at once. I really don't know how the two of them will live in the future."

Uncle Guan glanced at his wife and said, "If you have parents, why are you so fussy? I brought back a basket of sour pears from my trip. You can send it to Zhang Yun and the others tomorrow, and let Jing'er and the others eat it."

After thinking about it, Aunt Guan said: "I don't worry about them. I just saw the older child since I was a child. I hope she will be better no matter what. I'll go to Jing'er's house tomorrow to see what else he lacks. There can be no mistakes in the belly of eight or nine months."

"Yes, yes." Uncle Guan nodded repeatedly.

At the beginning of November, just after Zhang Yun and Guan Jing rested on the night of the winter solstice, Guan Jing felt some abdominal discomfort. As the pain intensified, Guan Jing understood somewhat. He pushed Zhang Yun beside him and said, "Brother Yun, I seem to be about to give birth."

Zhang Yunteng sat up suddenly, and asked in a hurry: "I'm going to have a baby? Didn't I say that I will wait until the end of the month? How do you feel now?"

Guan Jing looked at Zhang Yun whose hands and feet were messed up, endured the pain and said to him, "I'm fine, you don't have to worry."

Zhang Yun looked at Guan Jing's frown tightly, and a layer of fine sweat appeared on his forehead, so he knew that he was holding on. He quickly climbed off the kang, put on his clothes indiscriminately and said to Guan Jing: " Don't worry, I'll go out to find someone right now, just wait, don't move around, wait for me to come back."

With the wind under Zhang Yun's feet, he ran to Granny Wen's house in the back street and dragged the midwife over, and then went to Aunt Ma's house which was closer to pick up Aunt Ma.

The lady Wen invited here is very familiar with Uncle Guan's family. She delivered their two children. She was dragged all the way by Zhang Yun just now and didn't have time to ask clearly. She thought that something happened to Guan Jing.

When I entered the room, I saw that it was about to give birth, and when I turned around, I saw Zhang Yun brought Aunt Ma over again and said to him, "Go to your father-in-law's house and bring your mother-in-law over."

Then he said to Aunt Ma who was standing on the side: "Please help me, old girl, go to the kitchen and boil a pot of hot water for me."

Aunt Ma responded by going to the kitchen to boil water, and Po Wen looked at Zhang Yun who hadn't left yet and asked, "Why are you still standing there, why don't you go quickly."

Zhang Yun pointed to Guan Jing who was lying on the kang and said, "He..."

Before she finished speaking, she was picked up by Wen Po and said: "He's fine, this is just the beginning, and there's still a while to live, it's useless for you to stay here, go quickly."

Zhang Yun came to the stable, took the horse out, opened the back door, and rode the horse to Uncle Guan's house.

When he arrived at Uncle Guan's house, Zhang Yun knocked on the door, and said to the couple, "Jing'er is about to give birth, and Mrs. Wen asked me to invite my mother over."

Upon hearing this, Aunt Guan hurriedly followed Zhang Yun out, and at the gate Zhang Yun said to Aunt Guan, "Mother, I want to invite Mr. Wei to the barracks, so I won't send you there. Be careful on the way."

After hearing this, Aunt Guan replied: "Whatever happens in the town, you don't need to talk to me, go to the barracks and ask a doctor, it's important."

Hearing this, Zhang Yun got on his horse, leaned over to Aunt Guan and said, "Mother, the wild ginseng and ginseng slices are stored in the closet in our house, and the key is in Jing'er's hand. You can take it out if you need it."

Aunt Guan responded, "Hey, I see, you go quickly, and be careful on the road."

Zhang Yun said goodbye to Aunt Guan, and rode out of the town.

After leaving the town, there was no light from the lights. Zhang Yun took advantage of the moonlight to carefully control the horses to avoid the accumulated rocks and dirt pits on the road. It only took half an hour during the day, but it took a full hour at night. arrive.

Seeing him coming late at night, the sergeant guarding the gate thought that there was some urgent military situation. After the camp gate was opened, Zhang Yun threw the horse to them, and then ran out of the barracks of Old Wei at the military medical office.

The gatekeeper Wei Lao woke up across the barracks. Seeing him coming out with an oil lamp in his hand, Zhang Yun quickly said, "Wei Lao, my brother Jing is about to give birth, please come with me."

Elder Wei yawned and said to him: "This old man is not good at obstetrics, go find Dongfang Hao."

Seeing Zhang Yun staring at him in a daze after listening, Mr. Wei waved his hand and said, "Look, I'm specialized in surgery. I've spent most of my life in the military camp. I'm good at surgery and internal medicine. I also dabble in gynecology and pediatrics, but obstetrics only knows superficially. Take a good look at our camp, can you find half of the pregnant women or pregnant women? So don't ask me about giving birth, go Go find Dongfang, that kid has the true biography of his grandfather, and he has much more experience in this field than me."

After Zhang Yun heard this, he ran to Dongfang Hao's camp without saying a word.

When I got there, I saw that Dongfang Hao was still awake and was reading at night with the lamp on. Zhang Yun stepped forward, grabbed the medicine box with one hand, and led him out with the other. where?"

Zhang Yun said as he walked, "Your sister-in-law is about to give birth, so come with me."

When the two arrived at the gate of the barracks, the horses had already been prepared for them, and the two rode on the horses and ran back towards Qingshi Town.