Chapter 2： rebirth

Chapter 2 Rebirth

The milk in the earthen pot was boiling, and Xu Chunniang skimmed off the milk skin with a spoon. When it cooled down, she took the baby and fed her a spoonful.

The little kid was not in a hurry or fussy, swallowing one mouthful at a time. When he was almost done eating, he closed his mouth and closed his eyes, as if he wanted to sleep.

Wiping the corners of the little girl's mouth with a handkerchief, Xu Chunniang patted her back gently, raised her head and said to her husband: "Sanlang, give her a name."

Jiang Sanlang scratched his head and couldn't think of anything good to say after holding it for a long time.

"How about asking Sanshu Chen to pick it up? I, I can't think of a good name at the moment."

 Chen Sanshu's name is Chen Sanyou. He is the village leader of Dongchen Village. He is highly respected and proficient in writing. Many families in the village have asked him to name their children.

Xu Chunniang shook her head, "No need to go to such trouble."

She didn’t want everyone to know that she had picked up a child.

Although this matter cannot be hidden at all, it is better to keep a low profile. When the baby grows up, everyone will get used to it.

"How about calling her Yingbao." Xu Chunniang touched her daughter's little face and said softly: "You came across this treasure when you went to Beishan to pick cherries."

“Okay, let’s call it Yingbao.”

Jiang Sanlang slapped his thigh and said cheerfully: "Chun Niang, you are right, it is a treasure you encounter while picking cherries."

Hehe, this name is great and auspicious!

In the blink of an eye, summer turns to winter and spring comes again, and when the grass grows and the orioles fly, little Yingbao is already eleven months old. Not only can she crawl, but she can also walk a few steps while holding on to the wall.

“Dad!”

Ying Bao held the wall with one hand and opened his other hand to Jiang Sanlang who had just entered the room: "Hug!"

Now she can speak, but she can only pronounce one or two words.

“Hey, Yingbao is learning to walk, are you tired? Come on, come on, let’s see what daddy has brought for you.”

Jiang Sanlang took out a wrinkled green-red fruit from his arms, shook it in his hand, bent down and teased his daughter, "Would you like to eat it? It's so sweet and fragrant."

Yingbao's eyes lit up, she stretched out her chubby little hands and hugged her, "Expiration!"

  Big Apple, although its appearance is not very good, it is rare to see it in the countryside at this time.

"Where did it come from?" Mrs. Xu, who was sitting next to her, took a look and pierced the thread to hold the sole of the shoe.

Jiang Sanlang chuckled, bent down to pick up his daughter, and sat next to his wife, "My mother gave it to me. She didn't want to eat it, so she secretly gave it to me, saying it was for Yingbao's sweet mouth."

Mrs. Xu rolled her eyes at her husband and said disapprovingly: "It's a New Year's gift from my eldest aunt to my parents. How dare you take it from your family? We have already separated. If others see it, it will be criticized or not."

The uncle’s family also has children. If the elder sister-in-law knew that her mother-in-law secretly gave apples to her third son, she would not know what she would think.

“What’s the point of this? It’s not what I asked for. Why don’t I accept it when my mother gives it to me? The elder gives it to me, so I can’t refuse it. Do you understand?”

Jiang Sanlang was nonchalant. Seeing that his daughter could not bite the peel with her small teeth, he took it and gnawed at it, chewing away a circle of peel, and then stuffed it back into his daughter's hand.

Yingbao:…

Looking down at the pitted fruit that was being chewed, I suddenly couldn’t stop eating.

“Why don’t you eat it?” Jiang Sanlang scratched his daughter’s nose and said with a smile, “Do you dislike your father?”

Yingbao blinked and shook his head: "No problem!" After saying that, he bit off a large piece, took it out of his mouth, and stuffed it into his father's mouth, "Daddy!"

Jiang Sanlang laughed loudly and took a bite of the filial piety offered by his daughter.

Mrs. Xu also smiled and touched her daughter’s furry little head, “Our Yingbao is so filial and knows how to give the first bite to daddy.”

Ying Bao nodded heavily, "Filial piety! Dad, Mom!" He bit off another piece and gave it to Chun Niang.

“Hahaha, what a good girl!” Jiang Sanlang smiled heartily, “When my parents get old, I will rely on the cherry blossoms to see them off.”

Yingbao shook his head, raised his little fat finger and pointed at grandma, "Brother! Yingbao! Give it away!"

“What did Ying Bao say?” Jiang Sanlang asked with a smile, not understanding what his daughter said.

Ying Bao got off her father's lap, stumbled to Mrs. Xu, threw herself into A Niang's arms, touched her belly and said, "Brother! Mother, brother."

Jiang Sanlang seemed to understand this time. Does his daughter want to say that her mother has a younger brother in her belly?

How can it be?

Ms. Xu also looked confused, touched her belly and asked with a smile: "Yingbao said mom has a younger brother here?"

“Yeah!” Yingbao nodded heavily, put his little hand on A Niang’s belly, and said firmly: “Brother!” Two!

Jiang Sanlang was stunned, and suddenly remembered that his wife had been unable to eat in the past few days and often retched.

Could it be...could it be...

His eyes suddenly brightened up astonishingly. He grabbed his wife's arm and said, "You've been complaining about gastrointestinal discomfort these past few days... How about we, let's go find a doctor?"

Xu was also stunned and murmured: "It's impossible."

She has been married for almost eleven years. How could someone in her late thirties be pregnant?

Jiang Sanlang picked up his wife and said hurriedly: "It's not troublesome to go and take a look, but...even if you're not pregnant, we have to get a pulse. You can't eat these days, so it's not a problem..."

Mrs. Xu thought deeply and nodded: "Then, let's go and have a look. I'm sure I won't be able to catch up now. Let's go to town tomorrow."

“Yeah!” Jiang Sanlang picked up his daughter and spun her around, he was so happy that he couldn’t see his teeth. “My dear daughter, your parents will take you to town to play tomorrow.”

Xu pursed her lips and chuckled, put away the soles of her shoes, "Let's have soup cakes for dinner, and make some custard for Ying Bao."

…

Mr. Zhang, the medical woman, lives in the town, about five or six miles away from Dongchen Village. It takes half an hour to walk.

Jiang Sanlang was afraid of tiring his wife, so he planned to borrow a donkey from Chencun's house to travel.

"No." Mrs. Xu felt a little embarrassed, "Just leave like this, it's not like you can't walk."

Physician Zhang is a well-known stable woman in the town. No one in the country knows it. The people who go to her to check their pulse are either pregnant women or women who are expecting to be pregnant.

A few years ago, I had many pulse tests and took a lot of medicine, but there was no movement in my stomach.

This time, if I go again, it would be fine if I am really pregnant. If not, others may make fun of me.

"That's fine." Jiang Sanlang held his daughter with one hand and supported his wife with the other, "Then you should be careful."

Mrs. Xu chuckled and pushed her husband's hand away, "I went to fetch water yesterday, but now I can't walk on the street?"

Jiang Sanlang retracted his hand, hugged his daughter tightly, and said in a low voice: "Don't make any choices in the future, wait until I come back to do everything."

These days of spring planting, he has to go to the fields to work before dawn, and his wife even delivers lunch to the fields.

After turning the ground, the soil is fat and sow, and after busy, I am busy with my elder brother's house.

However, in the future, he can get up half an hour earlier, and he will definitely fill the water tank at home before going to the fields.

Ms. Xu smiled at her husband and touched her belly, feeling full of uneasiness in her heart.

Ying Bao blinked and looked at her father, then at her mother, then pursed her lips and smiled.

It’s great that my mother is pregnant with her brother and their family is finally reunited.

Yingbao hugged her father's neck tightly, rested her head on his shoulder, and stared at the red birthmark on her wrist with lowered eyes.

It was this birthmark that separated me from my parents and brothers forever.

Have to find a way to get rid of it.

Before taking it off, she had to hide it carefully so that no one could see it.

She doesn’t want to be recognized by that family again a few years later and experience abuse, plotting, and hanging again.

In his previous life, he struggled to survive for more than ten years, but he only lived to be twenty-one years old.

Just when she thought she had finally escaped and her sufferings were over, she was suddenly found by her biological father and mother, and they teamed up to hang her.

She clearly remembered that her biological mother tightened the rope in her hand and gnashed her teeth and cursed angrily: "You disaster star! Vicious bitch! How do you have the honor to live? How do you still dare to live?"

Due to too much force, Han's face was distorted, foaming at the corners of his mouth, and he looked as ferocious as an evil ghost.

Ying Bao couldn't stop trembling when she thought of the pain of her throat being tightened, the explosion of her brain due to suffocation, and the despair and resentment in her heart.

(End of this chapter)