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"Another little girl!"
Chen Feng stuffed the newborn baby in her hands into her second son's hands with disgust, snorted, and turned to leave the house.
When I arrived at the kitchen, I saw two bowls of brown sugar poached eggs on the stove, and I was furious.
He picked up a bowl and poured it into the pot, then said to his eldest daughter-in-law, "Give the sugar-water eggs to your fourth aunt first. Your second sister-in-law can't eat them for now, so wait until she's hungry. Add some water to the pot and boil it, then share it with Qi'er and Song'er brothers."
"Yes, mother." Zhao was delighted and quickly took a bowl of sugar-water eggs to the second room.
When I opened the curtain, I caught a glimpse of my second uncle standing at the door, holding his newborn daughter in his arms, with a gloomy expression on his face.
Handing the sugar-water egg in her hand to the midwife who was organizing the medicine box, Zhao said, "Fourth Aunt, please eat something to fill your stomach first."
Aunt Wu didn't hesitate to take the soup bowl and slurped down six poached eggs, then drank the brown sugar water in one gulp.
He wiped his mouth, stood up, picked up the small medicine box, and said, "I'll be back soon. I'll ask your second brother and sister-in-law to rub your stomach more to get rid of the lochia. If you have any problems, call me. It's not far anyway."
Zhao said quickly, "Okay, thank you for your hard work, I'll ask Dalang to take you there."
"Yes." Aunt Wu carried the medicine box on her back, looked at Chen Erlang who was standing there in a daze meaningfully, lifted the curtain and went out with Zhao.
The woman in labor lying on the kang turned her head away, pulled up the quilt to cover her face, and began to cry.
The man holding the baby swaddled his lips tightly together, his expression grim and scary.
He already had two daughters, but he didn't expect that this baby would be another girl, which made Chen Changping both angry and ashamed.
He has three brothers. The eldest brother already has two sons, and even his youngest brother, who just got married last year, has a son. But in his family, all three babies are girls.
No, it's four babies.
More than a year ago, not long after the baby was born, my wife was sleeping soundly at night and I accidentally covered her head and face, and she died the next day.
That's also a daughter.
Chen Changping felt his head buzzing and felt ashamed.
As the saying goes, there are three types of unfilial behavior, and the worst is to have no descendants.
Is his second branch going to have no descendants
Thinking of the strange looks he might receive from his relatives and friends, the veiled and covert slander from his parents, and all kinds of rumors, Chen Changping felt his blood rushing back.
Looking at the baby in his hands again, his heart and eyes were filled with disgust.
He turned around and walked out of the house.
At this time, the sky was filled with sunset glow and there were only a few pedestrians on the road.
Chen Changping put the small swaddling clothes in his wide sleeves and walked quickly towards the back mountain.
The baby in the sleeve twisted his little head, moved his little mouth twice, and then fell asleep quietly again.
After standing next to the grave for a while, I still felt that it was too close to the mountain road and not hidden enough.
It would be bad if this little beast was picked up by a passing villager and then taken back to the village and spread the news.
His wife had just given birth, so it was easy for people to guess that the baby was missing from his home.
After thinking for a while, Chen Changping walked a few dozen steps inside before taking out the swaddling clothes and placing them in the thatched grass.
He stood there for a while, clenched his hands, and finally did not dare to strangle the baby girl to death.
Forget it. Maybe she will be taken away by a wild wolf overnight, so I won’t have to bear the sin of killing a girl.
After looking around and seeing that there was no one around, Chen Changping turned around and walked down the mountain in a hurry.
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In late spring, the wild peach trees on the mountains shed their flowers and are replaced by small, furry fruits.
The wild cherries have already ripened and are hanging on the treetops, red and yellow, extremely mouth-watering.
In Dongchen Village, by the Xiaochuan River, several women were beating clothes and washing vegetables.
"Have you heard? Yesterday, Jiang Sanlang's family found a baby girl. I don't know which family lost her. Tsk tsk, the umbilical cord is still there."
"Is it true? Second Aunt, did you see it with your own eyes?" A woman seemed unconvinced, "Who would lose a child these days? It's not like we can't feed them in this famine."
"How could it be false? I went to his house this morning to borrow a bucket and saw it with my own eyes." Aunt Wang wrung out the clothes in her hands and threw them into the basket. "The baby's face was all red and swollen. They said it was bitten by ants. Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk."
"Oh, what a sin." Another woman leaned over and asked, "Where did you pick it up?"
"I don't know. Jiang Sanlang's family refused to tell me." Aunt Wang looked around and said with a gossipy face, "They are probably from a few nearby villages. I don't know which family is so wicked."
"That's right!"
Several women were beating clothes with bangs on their chests.
"Anyway, she's not from our village. There are only about twenty households in our village. If any woman farts, people will know about it, let alone giving birth to a baby." said a woman.
Everyone laughed.
"There's no such cruel person in our village."
Aunt Wang curled her lips and said, "It's a pity that it's a girl. If it was a boy, Xu Chunniang would have had it easy."
Jiang Sanlang had been married for ten years, but his wife Xu Chunniang hadn't laid an egg, which almost made Jiang's mother die of anger.
Several women looked at each other and smiled knowingly, "Yes, yes."
"It's thanks to Jiang Sanlang's kindness that he didn't divorce his wife for so many years."
"That's right. If it were in my house, she would probably scold me all day long. Not to mention ten years, she would divorce me if I didn't get pregnant in three years."
"That's right." Everyone agreed.
A woman knocked on the clothes beater and said, "Hey, Chunniang is lucky to marry a loving husband. If it weren't for Jiang Sanlang's protection, would you have been the old lady Jiang?"
"Yes, it's a pity that Jiang Sanlang was a handsome man, both literary and martial. Tsk tsk tsk tsk, I'm afraid there will be no more descendants of him in the future." Another person sighed.
"Who says it's not?"
The women sighed, feeling sorry for Jiang Sanlang at one moment and envious of Xu's good fortune for marrying a handsome and caring husband at another.
When I thought about the nasty guy with unshaven beard and sweat all over his house, I suddenly felt so jealous.
"Girls are just right."
A woman twisted her clothes and said, "There's a saying, 'If you hold a child, you'll have a child.' This little girl might give Jiang Sanlang a big fat boy."
"That's not necessarily true." A woman objected.
"Why not? It's the case with Chen Ergou's family in Xicun. He hadn't had sex with his wife for three years, so his mother brought a girl home for them to raise. But guess what, within two years, his wife got pregnant."
"Yes, yes, yes, I heard that too. It really is true."
"So, maybe that baby was brought by Jiang Sanlang from somewhere else, and he deliberately said he picked it up because he was afraid that he would not be able to attract a child in the future and would be laughed at."
"Hahaha, that's right..."
The women laughed and gossiped for a while, then washed their clothes and carried their baskets back home.
Dongchen Village, the third branch of the Jiang family.
Jiang Sanlang entered the house carrying a bowl of goat milk and said to his wife, "My eldest brother's goat gave birth yesterday, so I squeezed some milk and will boil it later to feed the baby."
"Oh, this is such a coincidence."
Xu Chunniang was pleasantly surprised, "Now the baby has milk to drink."
Just when I was worrying about how to feed the child, I didn't expect that the ewe my eldest brother bought before the New Year actually gave birth to a lamb.
She put the swaddling clothes in her hands down, covered the baby with a thin blanket, rolled up her sleeves to take the bowl, and said to her husband, "I'll go cook. You stay and watch the baby. She was crying so hard just now."
Jiang Sanlang handed the ceramic bowl to his wife, stretched his head to look at the baby, and liked it more and more. "Maybe it's very hungry, it only drank some sugar water from yesterday to today."
**The little baby opened his eyes slightly and suddenly grinned at him.
"Oh, my little girl can laugh now." Jiang Sanlang was pleasantly surprised. He stroked his stubble and said proudly, "My little girl has recognized her father."
"You're talking nonsense." Xu Chunniang glared at him, "How old is she? How can she recognize you?"
Jiang Sanlang chuckled, "That's hard to say. Our daughter is very smart. She stopped crying as soon as I picked her up yesterday. She just kept crying, as if she was very wronged."
When Jiang Sanlang thought of his little girl's face full of ants, he felt so distressed that he reached out to touch her head and sighed.
I don't know who is so cruel to throw a newborn baby into a grave. They don't want her to live.
If I hadn't happened to pass by there and heard the sound of a child crying in the cemetery, I would have dared to go and check. In a day or two, the child would have been eaten by snakes, rats, and ants.
Well, if you don’t want to keep her, you can give her away. Why do you want to take her life
"It's okay. From now on you will be my Jiang San's biological daughter."
Jiang Sanlang picked up the baby and shook it, holding it tightly against his chest. "As long as I have something to eat, you will never starve."