Due to flash floods, the originally flat yard was piled with sand, branches and stones, and knee-high mud and water were in a mess.
Xiaoman and Xiaomanye were digging sand and draining water with hoes in the rain.
Seeing Jiang Zhi coming, the grandfather and grandson stopped.
Mr. Xiao Man touched the muddy water on his face and said, "It was windy yesterday. How is your house?"
Jiang Zhi looked around the courtyard, but did not see Xiao Mannai. He quickly said: "My house is not bad, but it was overturned and some rainwater got in in the corner. Uncle Geng, Qiao Yun is about to give birth. I want to invite my mother-in-law." Go help.”
"Oh, if you ask for such a big deal, just shout from the cliff.
Little full of his milk, little full of his milk, old lady, go and have a look! Don't let the kids be scared! "Little Man dropped his hoe and walked into the house through the muddy water.
Jiang Zhi followed him over, looking at the muddy water in this courtyard and the more he looked at it, the more worried he became.
At this time, Xiao Mannai was busy moving things inside. When she heard that Qiaoyun was born at this moment, she suddenly became anxious: "Oh, God, are you going to die?"
She dropped what she was doing: "Er Ruiniang, I'm going with you right now! These things are soaked in water anyway, so don't worry about it, people are still important."
Jiang Zhi felt hot in his heart: "Dazhu and the others..."
Flash floods come down from the mountain and go directly through the house. The roof of Xiaoman's house is strong, but the cliff on the side of the mountain turns into a waterfall.
Nini and Dazhu sat on the kang. The feet of the kang were soaked in water and were in danger. They felt like they were about to collapse.
"It's okay, Xiaoman and his father are here. Old man, don't worry about the outside, come and clean the feet of the kang!" Xiaomannai hurriedly looked for her sewing box and prepared to get the scissors inside.
On the kang, Nini held a bamboo tube tightly, with bee pupae crushed into powder inside.
She only knows that this is her father's medicine. Take a spoonful of it every day and you can play with her in the future.
Xu Dazhu was lying on the quilt, holding on to the edge of the kang with one hand and protecting Nini with the other. He raised his head and said to Jiang Zhi, "Auntie, it doesn't matter to us, it's Er Rui's wife who is in a hurry."
He now feels that he has some strength. If the kang collapses, he can still protect his daughter.
Jiang Zhi felt... These people are all good people, why do good people have such a hard time living!
When she and Xiao Mannai stepped on the flash flood and returned to the cliff, Er Rui was looking anxiously under the eaves.
He felt that his mother had been gone for a long time, so he said in a panic: "Mom, why haven't you come back for a long time?"
Jiang Zhi knew that he was flustered and scared.
I am scared of this situation, and I still need Xiao Mannai to be by my side to feel at ease.
Although Xu Errui is about to become a father, he is only nineteen years old after all, and in some aspects he still has the mind of a child.
The existence of Xiao Mannai is like a needle that calms the sea, calming down two generations of people at once.
The hot water in the pot was boiled and the scissor threads were cooked. Qiaoyun ate two poached eggs and began to have regular contractions, but depending on the situation, it would still take a while before she could give birth.
There was no time to waste, Jiang Zhi asked Xu Errui to go to the cliff to help Xiaoman first.
Now the flash floods on the road need to be blocked immediately, and they cannot rush directly to the cliff behind the house.
Xu Errui was also panicking here. When he heard that Xiaoman's house was flooded, he quickly went down the cliff with his hoe.
During the heavy rain, the two families began to rescue and provide disaster relief on their own, with Qiao Yun giving birth to a child in mind.
Time passed little by little.
Xiaoman and Xu Errui moved stones and finally blocked the flood from flooding the road, and the mountain wall of the house under the cliff was no longer a waterfall.
On the cliff, Qiaoyun gradually began to cry out in pain.
The birth was about to take place, and under the guidance of Xiao Mannai, Jiang Zhi grabbed the big red rooster from the chicken coop, put it in a basket on its back and put it in the corner of the door, and put a knife on the basket.
As for what this is doing?
Xiao Mannai said that there are many evil spirits in the mountains, and there is a rooster to keep them safe.
Jiang Zhi didn't ask, since Xiao Mannai said so, she would do it. The end of science is theology, and it would not interfere with the normal production process anyway.
I don’t know whether it was because Qiaoyun had been working all year round, was young and healthy, or it was something inexplicable, but she gave birth very smoothly.
There was only a brief labor pain, and a baby covered in fetal membranes fell to the ground crying loudly.
"It's a girl!"
As the child cried loudly, the rain soon stopped and the wind stopped, and a red sun once again shone on the earth, filling the sky with glow.
Mountains and streams are easy to rise and disappear. Once the rain stops, the flash flood will stop, leaving only the remains of the mountains showing its power.
Xu Errui held his daughter with stiff limbs and a dazed expression. He couldn't believe that he was already a father.
But the blood connection made him smile from ear to ear. Thinking of the rainbow after the rain, he personally named his daughter Caixia.
The child was crying and fussing, obviously dissatisfied with his father.
Although Jiang Zhi thought the name was a little tacky, he still happily accepted it as his own father had given it to him. At least the name fit the occasion.
After the child is born, it is time to have a good confinement period.
Jiang Zhi put the rooster that had made a great contribution back to the chicken coop, but caught one of its wives and concubines and killed them.
The four hens were originally used to prepare Qiaoyun for confinement. Now one hen is still hatching eggs and the other three are laying eggs every day.
Jiang Zhi was also reluctant to kill the egg-laying hen, but the mother needed a lot of nourishment after giving birth.
If there is no milk and even rice porridge, it will be difficult to raise a child in this barren mountain.
So, a chicken was quickly disemboweled and turned into a pile of meat.
There is a lot of food in the mountains and forests. Apart from a bunch of eggs of different sizes, this chicken also has two thick slices of yellow oil as big as a palm.
Chicken fat and chicken offal were refined into oil and divided between the two families. In the mountains, pheasants and rabbits ate a lot but had little oil and water, so the chicken fat was very precious.
The chicken was divided into portions, salted, and simmered with mountain spring water for only Qiaoyun to eat.
So I simmered a small amount of wild angelica, whitegrass, and wild yam in chicken soup every day, and then drank motherwort water to promote the discharge of lochia.
It is now early June, and the weather is getting hotter after the rain. The mother cannot go out to cool down, and she sweats profusely every day. Jiang Zhi uses the mugwort collected to boil water to wipe her body.
The conditions here are already difficult, so don’t get infected again.
After eating a chicken, Qiaoyun was reluctant to kill another chicken.
She felt that she had a better confinement period than anyone else. Even her mother-in-law and her sister-in-law, no one could eat a chicken each.
Moreover, those chickens are all laying eggs. If you kill the chickens, there will be no eggs to eat.
Qiaoyun ate well and had enough milk. It was true that the chickens could no longer be killed, so Jiang Zhi gave her the eggs every day.
Moreover, Xiao Mannai also brought her own eggs, but Jiang Zhi didn't want to accept them. These eggs were all saved from the gaps between his teeth.
The family, old and young, usually rely on a few chickens to lay eggs to supplement their nutrition.
The dried meat has no oil or water, and neither the elderly nor the young can bite it. Only Xiao Man can eat it.
But Xiao Mannai said that when giving birth to a child, you should give gifts, and you should give chickens and eggs.
But now my chickens are all laying eggs, and I can produce four eggs every day, so I can’t even kill the chickens.
well! well! How difficult it is!
Jiang Zhi only felt that nothing was suitable. The wheat was already blooming. If Qiaoyun did not grow until another month, she would be able to eat new wheat.
With new wheat, you can still eat chicken without eggs.
In fact, this is already the best situation.
Rebellion, famine, flash floods, and heavy rains have all been overcome, and everyone is still alive and well, and we can still import more children.
It would have been a happy event in previous years, let alone this year of disaster, so we should have fun no matter what.
It was indeed time to have fun. Although the flash floods had messed up the house, there were only a few things. The wet herbs could be used after drying, so the loss was not big.
The real loss is the crops.
