hiss!
so cold!
A gust of snowy wind blew by, and Tang Jiancheng shivered from the cold. He pulled the tattered cotton-padded jacket tightly around him, but it was still cold.
However, his heart was warm and his mood was extremely exciting.
Looking at the heavy snow around him and the old houses with mud walls that were buried under the snow not far away, Tang Jiancheng wanted to look up to the sky and laugh wildly: "Hahaha, I'm reborn! I actually went back to 1982! God is not kind to me!"
In fact, he didn't laugh, shout, or do anything. He just stood up silently, patted the snow on his body, and then walked quickly home with his head lowered.
If I remember correctly, today is the tenth day after the birth of his ninth daughter!
According to the custom of Daping Village, on this day, his ninth daughter will have her first 'fetal bath' since birth.
In Daping Village, every child will have three 'fetal baths' after birth, one on the tenth day after birth, one on the full moon day, and the last one on the hundredth day.
Every fetal bath is very solemn.
Not only do you need to boil water with mugwort, but you also need to boil two eggs.
The eggs are not for eating, but when bathing the children with mugwort water, peel the egg shells and roll them on the children.
It is said that this can absorb the 'toxins' from the child's body, enhance the child's resistance and reduce illness.
Tang Jiancheng didn't know what the principle was. Anyway, his ancestors had been doing this for generations, and the effect was pretty good. Children who had undergone fetal bathing three times were indeed much more disease-resistant than those who had not had fetal bathing.
"It seems there are no eggs at home. Where can I borrow two?"
Tang Jiancheng was thinking as he walked.
He remembered this day in his last life very clearly.
He had just returned from drinking in the countryside. Because the snow was heavy and the road was slippery, he fell into a ditch on the side of the road. His head was smashed and he bled a lot. He fainted and took a long time to wake up from the cold.
After waking up, he did not go home, but went to the countryside again. The excuse was that his head was broken and he wanted to go to the hospital to see a doctor.
In fact, it was because he didn't want to go home because his wife gave him another daughter!
In this era, and in rural areas, the idea of favoring boys over girls is very strong!
Not just him, the whole village is like this.
What's more, over the past ten years, his wife has given him one daughter after another, all of them daughters, a total of nine daughters!
This made him unable to hold his head high in the village again and again.
Everyone laughed at him when they saw him, saying that he was a poor man who could not give birth to a son, and that he was like Yang Bailao, who worked hard and worked hard, but all the food he raised was money-losing goods!
Tang Jiancheng in his previous life thought the same way, and thought his daughters were losers. Therefore, he didn't want to go home or see his daughters all day long. As long as he had money, he would rather go to the countryside to drink and play cards. I don’t want to buy anything for my daughter.
Whenever his daughter disobeys him at all, he will scold him or beat him at worst. All his daughters hate and fear him.
Today, because he did not go home, his ninth daughter did not have eggs for a 'baby bath', so she fell ill and had a high fever at night. She was not sent to the hospital in time the next day, and her ninth daughter died less than twelve days after she was born.
His wife felt very guilty. In addition, she was often criticized by others, saying that she could not give birth to a son because she wanted Tang Jiancheng to have no descendants. They said that she would not even have anyone to cry in her grave when she was old... She felt depressed. , before the confinement period was over, he drank pesticide and committed suicide.
In the later days, Tang Jiancheng also wanted to marry another wife, but all the women rejected him when they learned that he had eight daughters in the family. Even women who were not very innocent in their minds despised his family.
Tang Jiancheng felt very hurt and angry, so he blamed all the blame on his eight daughters.
One can imagine how miserable the life of eight daughters must be!
Decades later, when Tang Jiancheng celebrated his seventieth birthday, he discovered that the number of guests at his birthday banquet was pitiful. Only the big yellow dog at his feet accompanied him, and none of his daughters came back. !
Because his daughters were dead, disabled, and some had run away from home for decades without any news... Of the nine daughters back then, only three were really not far from him, and these three had long since Just cut off the father-daughter relationship with him!
It wasn't until this moment that he suddenly realized how wrong he had been in his life!
But now, God has given him another chance to forgive. He vowed to never let his daughters leave again, and he will protect them!
Thinking like this, he couldn't help but quicken his pace. The blood on his face had dried and hung on his face, looking a bit ferocious, but Tang Jiancheng didn't care at all at this moment.
Every time he thought about the past, he felt that the reason why his ninth daughter died was because he did not have a fetal bath... His wife would commit suicide, and his daughters would live a miserable life. It all started from this incident!
Therefore, he had to rush back today to give his ninth daughter her first fetal bath!
What to do if there are no eggs?
Tang Jiancheng still had a little money, so he could go to the countryside or village to buy two of them, but he didn't want to buy them because he had another thought deep in his heart, that is, what if his ninth daughter still had a high fever after taking a fetal bath? , he can use his remaining money to send his daughter to the township hospital for treatment.
In this way, the tragic fate of the ninth daughter's death when she was only twelve days old was avoided.
"Sister-in-law, do you still have eggs at home? Can you lend me two?"
Tang Jiancheng thought about many families who might lend him eggs, and finally chose his eldest brother's family.
He has six brothers in total, and he is the fourth.
Yang Cui glanced at him and asked in surprise: "Why did you borrow the eggs? Didn't you follow your elder brother to the brick factory to move bricks some time ago? Will you have no money to buy eggs?"
Tang Jiancheng rubbed his hands and said with a naive smile: "I drank all the money. Today is the tenth day since my little nine was born. I want to lend her two eggs to give her a fetal bath."
"Yo? Fourth child, when did you care so much about your daughter?"
Yang Cui was even more surprised after hearing Tang Jiancheng's words.
In Daping Village, everyone knows that Tang Jiancheng gave birth to nine daughters, and everyone knows that he hates his daughters and often beats and scolds them. Today, for the first time, he lent eggs to give his daughter a fetal bath. It is simply more annoying than the sun rising in the west. Shock.
"Fourth, you're not using your Xiaojiu's name to defraud me of my eggs, are you?" Then, Yang Cui looked at Tang Jiancheng with suspicion.
Tang Jiancheng touched his nose and didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Sister-in-law, there are only two eggs. Do I need to cheat? Even if I want to cheat, I can't just cheat these two eggs, right?"
When Yang Cui heard this, she realized the same thing and went back to the house to get two eggs for Tang Jiancheng.
I have to say that Tang Jiancheng was very accurate in judging people. If it were another person, he would never lend him the eggs so readily.
In this era of very scarce materials, although production has been distributed to each household, eggs are extremely valuable no matter which home they are in. It is difficult to buy them, let alone borrow them.
