Chapter 269： Production

At noon on the sixth day of October, Chu Chu suddenly launched his attack.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Meng hurriedly borrowed a carriage from the Jiang family and went to the town to ask Dr. Zhang to deliver the baby.

Yingbao and Chunniang came over to help. They first boiled a large pot of water, then scalded and washed all the large and small basins at home, and then spread the maternity mattress for Chu Chu.

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

Chunniang cooked a bowl of poached eggs with brown sugar and forced Chuchu to eat two of them to prevent her from collapsing when giving birth.

Doctor Zhang finally arrived. Seeing that everything was ready, she didn’t hesitate and immediately delivered Chu Chu’s baby.

At this time, Chuchu's palace mouth had been opened four fingers. Doctor Zhang helped her up and walked around a few times.

The delivery went smoothly after that. Not long after the amniotic water broke, Chu Chu followed Dr. Zhang’s instructions and pushed hard along with the contractions. The baby slipped out smoothly and cried loudly.

“Ouch! He’s a rich man!”

 Doctor Mrs. Zhang said cheerfully, quickly cleaning out the placenta, gently picking out the baby's mouth with gauze, turning her over and patting her back and buttocks twice to make her breathe smoothly and cry louder.

Pick up the baby and wash it in warm water, and then wipe it clean with the cotton cloth that has been prepared.

Then take a piece of cotton cloth and wrap it around the umbilical cord, leaving it a finger long. Bite off the cloth with your teeth, and then tie the broken part of the umbilical cord with a piece of cotton thread.

Ying Bao watched Doctor Zhang deliver the baby and felt it was magical.

Doctor Zhang wrapped the baby, then slowly rubbed Chu Chu’s belly, and then gently pressed to release the remaining blood in the uterus.

When no hard lump can be felt in the lower abdomen, then stop.

“Suck the baby early, otherwise the milk will engorge and become inflamed.” Dr. Zhang warned: “You will get out of bed to relieve yourself later, do you understand?”

Chu Chu nodded and looked 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 childbirth mattress under her body. Then she sat down to rest and called to the door: "Come in."

Zhang Meng lifted the curtain and walked in. He touched his wife's cheek and felt so distressed that he could not speak.

Physician 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.

Chunniang placed the baby next to Chu Chu and went to help pour out the blood.

Then he went to the kitchen to cook a large bowl of pig's trotter noodles for Dr. Zhang.

Since Chu Chu just gave birth, she could only give her some soft and light egg noodles.

Only on the second day, when the milk flow becomes smooth, can the mother be given some fish soup to stimulate lactation, otherwise, the mother may develop lactation and inflammation.

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

Chu Chu is Chun Niang's goddaughter, and she is half a child of the Jiang family. After receiving the good news, the villagers also brought eggs or brown sugar to express their congratulations.

For a time, Zhang Meng’s family was very lively with people coming and going.

In order not to disturb Chu Chu and her children's rest, Chun Niang received the guests in the main room and asked Ying Bao to register the congratulations.

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

Coming with Zhang Meng was Chu Chu’s younger brother Chu Qing.

It turns out that after the Chu clan leader learned that the school in Dongchen Village did not admit students from other villages, he asked Chu Qing to come to his sister's place and asked his brother-in-law to help. It would be best to study under the scholar Gong's family.

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

In case the Chu clan has a talent for being admitted to Xiucai, it is a matter of Guangzong Yaozu. Their family has hopes to cross the class and be promoted from farming to a class.

Chu Chu was very happy to see her brother arriving and quickly asked her husband to pack up a room for him and live at home from now on.

Chu Qing sat by the bed, touched her niece's little face, and said to her sister: "Sister, my grandma asked me to tell you to ask Sister Chuman to take care of you, but I didn't agree."

Chu Man is so spoiled that she cannot take care of others. Chu Qing would rather take care of her sister than cousin Chu Man.

Moreover, the siblings were not familiar with Chu Man at all, and basically couldn't talk to each other even when they walked across from each other. She came to her sister's house with ulterior motives.

Chu Chu smiled and approved: "You did the right thing, I don't need them to take care of you." Chu Qing scratched her head and said, "I told the old lady that I would take care of you and my niece, but the old lady got angry."

Chu Chu sighed softly: "Just be angry when you are angry. We will not return to the village from now on. We will live here with my sister."

Her younger brother was the one she brought up since childhood and was the closest to her. It was a dream for him to live with her.

“Yeah.” Chu Qing pursed her lips and smiled.

He had long wanted to live with his sister, but his father wouldn't let him.

Now that dad has married the bride, he doesn't care much about him, so he doesn't have to go back.

At this time, Zhang Meng walked in and said to Chu Chu: "Jiang Cunzheng has agreed that Chu Qing should study under Li Xiucai. He will go to study under Li Xiucai early tomorrow morning."

“That’s great.” Chu Chu was very happy.

It was extremely lucky for my younger brother to be able to study under Li Xiucai, even for three years.

Because Li Xiucai said that he would take the scientific examination in three years and his energy was limited, so he could not have more than 20 students.

There are more than twenty people coming to study. Chen’s children from Dongcun alone have already taken up more than a dozen places.

Which of the remaining places, which one is not a thousand choices?

Even if the number of cultivation is twenty taels a year, there are still people flocking to it.

It is said that the period of cultivation for the past twenty-two years was decided by Ying Bao.

The first is to prevent anyone from messing with the scholar, and the second is that the scholar owes a lot of external debts, and there is no way to repay the debt.

The days passed day by day, and in a flash it was the end of October.

On this day, Chu Qing, who came back from school, told his sister that he saw Chu Man and Sun Erniang, who lived over there in the West Village.

They seemed to be renting at a villager's house in West Village, and they didn't know what they were going to do.

Of course Chuchu knew what they wanted to do, but how could she explain it to her younger brother?

“Don’t worry, stay away if you see them, and ignore them!”

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

Chu Qing nodded in confusion.

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

Oh no, I was looking at Mr.’s friend.

Mr.’s friend lives in the West Village and comes to discuss knowledge with Mr. every other day. The two of them often recite poems and paint, and stay there all afternoon.

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

But the husband’s mother was very polite and distant to them, and often said she was tired and wanted to rest.

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

The students nearby may not have noticed, but Chu Qing knew Chu Man. As soon as her mother and daughter came, she couldn't help but take a second look to see what they wanted to do.

As soon as the sixth day of winter arrived, Chu Chu’s daughter was one month old.

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

Of course, in order to show respect to the scholars, we also invited Chen Changping, a scholar from the West Village, and Chen Changsheng, a Muramasa.

The weather was not very good that day, it was gloomy and cold, with fine snowflakes falling.

Jiang Sanlang took several villagers to help build two wedding tents and placed several tables of running water mats under the tents.

Several sisters-in-law of the Jiang family helped with the cooking, while several neighbor aunts were sitting outside the kitchen picking vegetables and washing dishes.

Before the banquet started, Chu Chu’s father came, along with the Chu clan chief and Chu Cunzheng.

They braved the wind and snow, driving an old horse-drawn cart and stopped in front of Chu Chu’s house.