The starry sky in Dahe Village is beautiful.
The bright stars dot the night sky, and the moonlight shines generously on the earth. Even at night, you can see the road ahead clearly.
Cao Yingying sat down on a piece of grass, hugged her knees, and let her tears fall drop by drop.
She remembered what happened when she was very young. At that time, her mother was still there and she was happy every day. Later, her mother became pregnant and everyone said that her mother would give birth to a little brother for her.
But my mother didn't survive until her younger brother was born. There was blood everywhere that day, and basins of blood and water were brought out from the delivery room. She threw herself into her father's arms and cried heartbreakingly. He was also crying, but he didn't care about them. No matter how much she cried, my mother couldn't make it through. My mother died, and my little brother died in her belly.
For the past ten years, she had been trying to forget that scene, and she thought she had forgotten it.
But the female goat just gave birth to a baby, which reminded her of her dead mother.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?"
A voice suddenly sounded in the sky.
Cao Yingying quickly wiped away her tears with her sleeves, then looked up and saw Zhao Ergou.
She pursed her lips and stood up, saying in a muffled voice: "It's okay."
She stepped back and walked back.
Zhao Ergou didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but he always felt that this girl was pitiful.
He couldn't help but ask: "Why are you crying? What happened? Did Shen Zheng bully you?"
"It's okay, I'm okay!" Cao Yingying walked forward quickly, then suddenly stopped, turned around and said fiercely, "Don't tell anyone that I cried, do you hear me?"
Without waiting for Zhao Ergou to answer, she walked straight into the field to look for fat and juicy weeds, which she wanted to take back to replenish the ewe's health.
She stretched out her hand to pull out the weeds, but her strength was too weak and she couldn't pull them up at all.
Zhao Ergou went over to help, but he didn't say anything, just pulled the weeds silently, and the two of them went back holding a pile of grass.
Cheng Wanwan was cleaning up the sheep pen and laying it with clean hay. The two lambs had already stood up and were drinking milk.
The ewe was very weak, so she cooked some bran salt water soup to replenish the ewe's strength. The ewe probably knew that this was for its own good, and started drinking the salt water without saying a word. The smell of blood in the sheepfold gradually dissipated.
The lambs grew very fast. In just three or four days, they were completely different from when they were born. The two lambs were full of energy.
Everyone in Dahe Village also knew that Li Zheng's wife also delivered sheep.
Li Zheng's wife would tell everyone what happened that day: "That ewe was so miserable, her eyes were bursting with tears. She was begging me to save her. I was ready to give up. It was a big mountain." My mother reminded me to cut it with scissors and then sew it up, but I didn’t expect it to turn out..."
Aunt Wang asked: "Then if a woman has difficulty giving birth, can she cut it open and take out the child..."
"Oh, don't talk nonsense about this." Li Zheng's wife shook her head, "It's too scary to use scissors on people..."
Cheng Wanwan said: "If we really get to that point, we can only become a living doctor..."
In modern medical society, it is very normal to use scissors to assist in childbirth. Seven or eight out of ten mothers will be cut once, and some will directly have a caesarean section. As long as the mother and child can be safe, it doesn't really matter. However, this was a big taboo in ancient times. The ancients believed that the body, hair, and skin should be protected by their parents. Even if it was a matter of life or death, they would not think of using this trick.
What she said now was just a vaccination. If Huiniang had difficulty giving birth, she would have no choice but to break the taboo.
Of course, she didn't want that to happen.
The women in the village gathered around and chatted about giving birth to goats, and the conversation suddenly came to Cheng Wanwan's house.
After twenty days of hard work, the house has been completed, and now we are waiting for an auspicious day to move in.
Because of this house, many people in the village have made an income. An ordinary worker earns 30 cash a day, and 600 cash for twenty days. Some with a little technical content earn even more.
"The man in my family has made several hundred coins this time. Now I can collect the bride price for my son's wife."
"My son is still young, so I will save the money to make winter clothes for my family. There will be a severe drought this year, and I guess the winter will be very cold."
"My man didn't know his plan. As soon as he got his wages, he went to the town to buy a few kilograms of meat and then ate it all in one meal. What a sin."
"Da Shan Niang, what day did you choose to move in?"
Cheng Wanwan smiled and said, "It's just tomorrow. Then everyone will come and have wedding cakes."
There was a banquet during the ceremony, so there is no need to hold a banquet when moving. It is enough to congratulate those who come to congratulate them by eating some wedding cakes.
She went back early and started making wedding cakes. The so-called wedding cakes are flour, sugar, and a few eggs at most. They are made into round cakes, not big cakes. They give one to everyone when they come, and everyone is happy.
Make wedding cakes in one pot and cook braised food in another pot.
Even if they are moving, the braised food business has not stopped. We will wait for Dashan to come back after delivering the goods tomorrow morning, and then we will move together.
The whole family got up before dawn, and Mrs. Zhao and Mr. Zhao also rushed over to help. They are both old people and understand the customs of moving, so they helped prepare things together.
A bucket of rice was eighty percent full, and a red cloth was placed on it. Nine copper coins were wrapped in the cloth.
Get water from the water tank in the old house, fill it seventy percent, and put it together with the rice bucket.
Cheng Wanwan took out the new dishes and chopsticks that she had bought from the mall a long time ago. Each person in the family had a set of tableware tied with a red cloth.
There are also dustpans and brooms, these are also advanced items for new houses.
After everything is ready, it is time to move to a new home at an auspicious time.
Zhao Youyin and Wenshi were responsible for opening the door, because the old lady believed that these two people were lucky to have children, so they were responsible for opening the door.
After moving these things in, everyone else in the family goes in with something in their hands. Even the youngest Zhao Sidan must carry something. On the moving day, you cannot enter empty-handed, otherwise it will be unlucky.
Under the control of Mrs. Zhao and the old man, the move was finally over.
Although there was no need to entertain the villagers, their own family still had to stay and have a meal together. Both Wen and Sun went into the kitchen to help prepare lunch.
This new kitchen is very large, with two stoves, and a small pot behind each stove, which can be used for cooking, stewing, or boiling water.
Old Man Zhao kept nodding: "This stove is well repaired. It saves firewood and makes cooking faster."
After returning, he asked the second and third eldest brother to push the earthen stove at home and build a new one. Anyway, the eldest son's adobe was not used up yet, so he could just borrow twenty or thirty yuan.
In addition to the large kitchen, the other rooms are also large. Each room has window panes, which are wooden windows that are pushed out on both sides, allowing light from outside to come in, making the house look extremely bright and spacious.
The floor in the house is paved with better blue bricks, and the yard is paved with coarse bricks. Other houses have dirt yards, which look dirty and messy, but this new yard is very tidy, and two trees have been planted. There is also a stone bench placed under the tree, which was moved from the mountain. In summer, it is very comfortable to sit on the stone bench to enjoy the cool air.
Old man Zhao secretly thought that it would be good to go back to the mountain and walk a few more times to move down some flat stones and put them in the yard.
Old Mrs. Zhao was watching in the backyard. There were a bunch of livestock in the backyard, including a hundred chickens, ducks and geese, two wolves and a dog, plus three sheep and two rabbits. It was really It was very lively.
If other people's homes had so many animals, it would definitely be a mess, but the eldest daughter-in-law's backyard is well organized and divided into several sections with adobe blocks. These beasts all stay in their own places and don't run around... Well, there are still some. The ones that ran around were like Xiaodian, who jumped out of the kennel with a single leap, ran around in the front yard with his two little brothers, and rushed to the mountain after a while.
