I farmed in ancient times

In April, Aunt Shi became more and more restless as she approached the day of giving birth.

Aunt Shi couldn't explain this kind of anxiety, obviously the yard was tidied up by Xiao Hua and Xiao Hua's father, the house was full of rice and noodles, and the midwife was also invited, and a few women she knew well in the village were invited to help.

But Aunt Shi was still restless, and with her restlessness, Aunt Shi especially wanted to eat the sweet and sweet melons that she ate back then.

Where can I find melons this season?Uncle Shi's stern face, because of worry, looked serious and terrifying, Shi Xiaohua was terrified when she saw it, but her father had never been like this before.

Uncle Shi couldn't conjure melons out of thin air at home, he could only find Cassia Ming, and cheekily asked Cassia Ming if there were "cantaloupe" in this season?

Cassia hesitated for a moment, and said that the county had it and would give it to Uncle Shi tomorrow.

Uncle Shi, who had received the letter, had all his worries gone, and went home happily to tell his wife the news.

Aunt Shi was happy and relaxed when she suddenly felt a little pain in her stomach.

With the experience of giving birth to florets, Aunt Shi asked Uncle Shi to help her into the furnished west chamber, where she sat on the edge of the bed and felt the pain.

Uncle Shi asked Shi Xiaohua to watch Aunt Shi, and hurried out, first went to the village to meet the women Aunt Shi played well with, and then took Hu Tutu to pick up the midwife.

When the women heard that Aunt Shi was about to give birth, they hurriedly put down their work and went to Shi's house.

Aunt Shi sat by the bed, her temples were wet with sweat, Shi Xiaohua wiped her sweat slowly with a cloth handkerchief, while looking anxiously at the door.

Several women rushed over, and Hu Xiaopang's mother greeted her with a smile, she held Xiao Hua's hand and said, "Go to the yard and do some work, I and your aunts are enough here."

Xiaohua knew that it was not convenient for her to stay here, so she hurriedly responded and retreated to the yard.

When Aunt Shi's labor pains passed, the little fat lady helped Aunt Shi walk slowly on the ground, talking to her to divert her attention.After a while, someone went to the yard again, looking for Xiao Hua to go to the kitchen to cook brown sugar eggs for Aunt Shi to eat.

Uncle Shi rushed home with his midwife sweating profusely. Aunt Shi had just passed out of labor pains and hadn't had an attack yet.

Hu Tutu was afraid that he would rush to the women and children in the delivery room reeking of blood, so he walked around the door of Uncle Shi's house and went home to wait.

After the farm work in the field was over, the husbands of several women rushed over. They had a close relationship with Uncle Shi's house on weekdays. Seeing Uncle Shi anxious in the yard, they laughed unkindly at Uncle Shi. ,inexperienced.

He also hinted that Uncle Shi would work harder and add a few more brothers and sisters to Xiaohua.

Uncle Shi didn't care to talk to the strong man who was teasing him, he watched the midwife enter the west chamber intently, and instructed the woman to get busy there.Under the guidance of the midwife, several women helped, and by dinner time, Aunt Shi started to have a fit.

A few big men were embarrassed to stay here, so they made early excuses that their children were cooking and waiting, and after returning home to eat, they sat outside the courtyard and chatted, and when the wife finished helping, they picked her up and went home together.

The Shi family was small and couldn't spare manpower, so Cassia volunteered to help Uncle Shi cook, but Uncle Shi refused, and when Cassia cooked the meal and sent it to the small courtyard of Shi's family, several women and midwives ate a little.

Uncle Shi just took a few mouthfuls, put down his chopsticks with a heavy heart, and looked worriedly at the west wing.

Xiaohua also stewed the hen soup and sent it to her. Leaving aside the layer of oil on the soup, the hen soup was stewed whitish and not greasy at all.

Xiao Huaniang took only one sip and was so painful that she couldn't finish it.

Shi Xiaohua and Uncle Shi walked around the yard anxiously, their faces full of worry.

Hearing Xiao Huaniang's cries of pain, Uncle Shi regretted it and punched himself a few times, wishing he could rush in and say that we were not going to have a baby.

The curtain of the west wing was lifted, and the little fat lady came out and asked Xiaohua for hot water. Uncle Shi hurriedly went to the kitchen and put a bucket of hot water in front of the door.

Xiaohua then hurriedly collapsed beside the sewer in the house, going back and forth several times, Uncle Shi was worried.

He remembered that Xiaohuaniang was not like this when she gave birth to Xiaohua!

Seeing that Daddy was in such a hurry, Xiaohua pulled him back and said, "Father, Mother will give birth soon, the hot water is too much, you go to the kitchen to light the fire first."

"Yes, yes." Uncle Shi hurriedly turned and went to the kitchen to light the fire, but he was a little absent-minded when he heard the occasional cries of pain from the west wing.

At three o'clock in the unitary hour, a loud cry of a baby pierced the night sky.

Jue Ming, who was in the yard next door, patted Chao An's head, "Go to sleep, I have to get up early tomorrow to go to Uncle Shi's house."

Chao An rubbed his eyes and went to sleep in peace.

Uncle Shi, who was circling around in the yard, stopped suddenly when he heard the cry of the baby, his face was filled with uncontrollable joy and anxiety.

The curtain was lifted, and the little fat girl said with joy, "Congratulations to Lao Shi, little Hua girl gave birth to a big fat boy!"

Uncle Shi nodded without taking his eyes off the curtain, and asked, "When can I go in?"

The little chubby lady hurried back to help deal with the things in the house, and after waiting for a while, the house was cleaned up, the women withdrew, and Uncle Shi hurried in.

Aunt Shi was lying on the bed, her face was a little pale, she had just given birth, and she was a little tired, when she saw the gentleman coming in, Aunt Shi turned her head and whispered, "I want to drink some water."

Xiao Hua, who was following behind, hurriedly went to the kitchen to pour tea.

Uncle Shi glanced at the small cloth bag next to Xiao Hua Niang's pillow, and lifted the quilt up for her, covering her shoulders. When Xiao Hua brought the tea, he helped her lean on the soft pillow, took a small wooden spoon, and scooped it one by one. Shao feeds her tea with his own hands.

Xiao Hua glanced at her younger brother curiously, the little baby was red and wrinkled, looking ugly.

Uncle Shi had seen Xiao Hua before, and said to Xiao Hua, "You look exactly like him when you were born, but your mother is not too ugly, so take it easy and you will look better."

Shi Xiaohua touched her face, unable to believe it.

After drinking some water, Aunt Shi regained her spirits, leaned on the pillow and smiled and said to Xiao Hua: "Don't listen to your father's nonsense, wait a few days, it will look good when it grows."

Shi Xiaohua gently opened the small cloth bag, the baby was still ugly, not at all the same as the white and tender children she usually saw in the village.

Uncle Shi went to the main room to entertain a few strong men and women to have some cakes and talk, while Xiaohua stayed beside her mother, first serving brown sugar eggs for her to eat, and then fish soup for her to drink.

Uncle Shi wrapped a large bag of copper coins for each of the women present, thanked them for their willingness to help, and tried every means to persuade the midwife to stay at home until tomorrow morning.

It was late at night and the dew was heavy, so the midwife declined and agreed.

What's more, the kind Uncle Shi paid her three big pieces of silver, and she didn't earn that much in half a year.

A few strong men took their wives home, and the small courtyard suddenly fell silent.

Shi Xiaohua entertained the midwife to wash up, made her own bed for her to sleep in, hugged the small pillow, and went to sleep with her mother.

Early the next morning, the midwife got up and tidied up quickly, and sat in the room explaining to the little girl how to eat during the confinement period and how to take care of the newborn child.

People in the village heard that Uncle Shi's family gave birth to a fat boy last night, and the family they had been friends with couldn't sit still, so they came to visit with eggs early in the morning.

Relying on the advantage of being close, Jueming was the first to rush over, bringing the prepared sugar, eggs, and cloth, and then returning home, carrying a big blanket and a little golden pig wrapped in red paper.

This little golden pig was laid out by Cen's father before he left, and he told Caesar to send it after Aunt Shi gave birth.

Caesar Ming added six more small golden beans, this gift can be obtained in the county, but Aunt Shi resisted for a long time, and Jue Ming said that he wanted to return the goods and ask Father Cen to return them.

Cen Daonian has gone to Bianjing now, can he go to Bianjing to return the gift?Obviously not, Aunt Shi had no choice but to accept it with a smile, already planning to return this affection when the wife of Jueming's family gave birth.

Of course, she didn't return it in the end.

Jueming spread the blanket in the west wing, saying that when Shi Xiaohua's younger brother could crawl, he would be allowed to crawl on the blanket so that he would neither catch cold nor stain his clothes.

There were many people waiting to visit, and when Jueming came out of the yard, he happened to hear the midwife chatting with some women in the yard.

"It's different this month." The midwife said with a smile: "The baby is born with a sense of intelligence, and the small arms and legs are particularly strong."

How strong can a newborn child be?Caesar saw that the baby was wrapped in a small quilt, and its small claws stretched out on the edge of the quilt, just like a lucky cat.

A woman in the village lowered her voice and said, "That's right! I heard that there was a big family in the county who was picky, and the child was born before it was full-term, and the child was weak and sick, and I didn't see how good it was. "

Hearing such a shocking gossip, the courtyard became lively, asking how it was born, and discussing that the prematurely born children were not as healthy as ordinary people, but they grew up to be normal.

The midwife said: "When the melons are ripe, the roots will fall. This is in accordance with God's will. Let alone, the dew will recede, and the old man will go back."

The women sent the midwife to the door. When Uncle Shi heard that the midwife was going home, he rushed out to keep her for lunch. The midwife refused to say that there was still a grandson waiting at home. Uncle Shi took Hu Tutu to the car and sent the midwife home. .

Caesar touched his chin, thinking about the last words he heard from the midwife.

"It's ripe?"

After returning home, Jue Ming went to the vegetable garden behind the small yard by himself, stood in front of the apricot tree, tilted his head and looked at it for a moment, pulled out the blue bead from his neck, and walked to the lychee tree with the bead.

The blue beads gushed out a stream of water and fell into the soil under the lychee seedlings.

The lychee seedlings grew rapidly, and gradually crossed the cassia. Jueming held the blue bead and watched the lychee tree bloom and fade, but the lychees did not bear fruit for a long time.

Changed papaya trees, but still no results.

Sure enough, as Cassia Ming thought, because fruit trees grow outdoors, they are greatly affected by external conditions. It is difficult for fruit trees in the south to bear fruit in the north. The difference in taste is huge.

When the crops are small, this kind of influence is not very big, but for fruit trees, the longer it takes to grow, the greater the external influence will be. Moreover, the fruit produced by fruit trees is large, which cannot be reflected by a grain of rice or a bean. from.

Cassia looks at the tree and sighs.

It seems that the study of fruit trees can only be done step by step.