Yingbao died once and was reborn again, when Dad Jiang just picked her up.
She was both relieved and worried.
I am glad that I am back with my parents and can be a carefree and loved baby again.
I am worried that in a few years, I will be recognized by that family and go back to the same old path as in my previous life.
In this era of etiquette and law with the emperor as his subject and father as his son, she was a woman without any human rights, bound by the rules of blood relationship, filial piety and ethics, and had no way to protect herself.
Even though her biological father had abandoned her and never raised her, whenever they came to ask for her money, everyone would stand on the moral high ground, accuse her of blood relationship, use filial piety to pressure her, and even the government offices would speak for them.
She had seen the true faces of those people in her previous life. If she had the chance to do it again, she would never compromise even if she died again.
What is the saying that life is greater than heaven? Bullshit!
What favor could a man who was full of calculations and determined to kill her have done to her
Yingbao closed her eyes and her consciousness instantly entered a cave.
This is her territory, a magical place that she accidentally discovered in her previous life, a mysterious cave.
The cave was ten meters square, with a large almond-shaped pool in the middle, which took up about six or seven tenths of the cave.
The water in the pool is clear and sweet, with a hint of blue. There is a large round sphere in the middle of the pool, emitting golden light like the sun.
This is completely different from the cave in my previous life.
I remember when I was eighteen, I escaped from the Governor's Mansion and hid everywhere disguised as a beggar.
One day, she hid in the shrine of a dilapidated temple and shivered. The temple was drafty and cold to the bone.
She had a fever and was a little confused. In her daze, her consciousness suddenly entered this strange cave.
At that time, there was nothing in the cave except thick icicles, which made her think that she had fallen into an ice hole.
I didn't expect that when I came back to life, the ice on the walls had melted away, and there was a pool of water in the cave. There was also a round luminous object in the middle of the pool, which looked very extraordinary at first glance.
Yingbao came to the pond and buried the apple seeds she brought in yesterday in the soft black soil beside the pond.
The black soil is three feet wide and surrounds the pool. At first glance, it looks like someone has drawn a black eyeliner on the pool with a brush.
Such a strange place is exactly like the mysterious cave in the storybooks.
So Yingbao wanted to verify whether these black soils also have magical functions as described in the storybooks, and whether whatever is planted will grow.
If an apple tree really grows one day, then their family will have big, sweet apples to eat in the future.
After burying the seeds and watering them a few times, Yingbao's consciousness began to become blurred and he soon fell into a deep sleep.
When she opened her eyes again, she found that she had arrived at the doctor's house, and the doctor was taking her mother's pulse.
Doctor Zhang was in her seventies. Her gray hair was neatly tied behind her head and a silver hairpin was inserted in her bun. A tassel on the end of the hairpin swayed gently with her movements.
It is said that this old lady worked in the county government office when she was young, doing the work of a midwife. Later, when she got old, she returned to her hometown to retire.
She is very good at pregnancy and childbirth, and is also proficient in some difficult and complicated diseases of women, so many people come to seek medical treatment.
"How?" Jiang Sanlang couldn't help asking.
Doctor Zhang loosened her fingers from probing the patient's pulse, turned her head and said with a smile, "Congratulations, your wife is pregnant, and it's about three months."
"Ah? Is this true? Don't tease me." Jiang Sanlang was so excited that he was incoherent and a little bit unbelievable.
"Is this true?" The old woman doctor stood up with a smile, took out a stethoscope from her medical box, and said to Xu: "Madam San, come with me. I will listen to the fetal breathing for you."
"Oh." Mrs. Xu stood up, glanced at her husband, and followed the doctor into the inner room.
After a while, the doctor came out and said cheerfully, "Hey, Sanlang, your wife is pregnant with twins."
"Ah?" Jiang Sanlang was surprised. "These...are they really twins?"
"Yes." The old woman doctor put the stethoscope into the medical box, glanced at Jiang San, and whispered, "Your wife is almost thirty years old, and this is her first child, so you have to be more careful."
"Hmm," Jiang Sanlang became even more nervous and stammered, "Then...what's the big deal? What should I do?"
The doctor picked up a handkerchief to wipe her hands. Seeing that Xu had tidied her clothes and came out from the inner room, she said, "Have your wife eat more meat, eggs and fine grains to replenish her body. Do some light work and don't overwork yourself. After seven or eight months, you should eat less rice and more vegetables for each meal so that the delivery will go smoothly."
"Oh oh oh." Jiang Sanlang responded hurriedly.
"Also, when the baby is almost full term, hire a midwife as soon as possible. Don't delay until it's too late." Doctor Zhang said earnestly, "Twins are not as good as single babies. You can't be careless."
"Hey, hey!" Jiang Sanlang nodded repeatedly.
After coming out of Doctor Zhang's house, Jiang Sanlang was still a little dizzy. He held his daughter in one hand and held his wife's hand in the other, and whispered, "Let's go buy two pounds of brown sugar first, and then measure a few liters of rice to make porridge for you."
It's a pity that there is no market today and the butcher shop in town has closed long ago, otherwise I could have bought a piece of fat pork to take home.
"Rice is so expensive, and there are only a few dozen dollars left at home. It's better not to spend it recklessly." Chun Niang scolded: "It's only the beginning of spring, and there are still several months before the summer harvest."
Jiang Sanlang looked at his wife with pity and comforted her, "Don't worry, after we finish planting the crops underground, I will go to the county town and look around. I will be able to find a way to make a living."
"It's not that easy." Chunniang sighed, "It's more than a hundred miles to the county town. Where will you stay then? Are you going to sleep in a dilapidated temple like last time?"
After the autumn harvest last year, Sanlang and two of his fellow villagers went to the county town to find work, but they didn't find any work and the three were nearly beaten to death by a group of thugs.
Chen Cunzheng's nephew was beaten the worst and still cannot do heavy work in the fields.
Jiang Sanlang scratched his head. "I have to buy rice and brown sugar. The doctor told you to eat more refined foods that are easy to digest. Well, I'll kill an old hen when I get home and make soup for you."
"We only have two hens left at home. It's the egg-laying season now, so we can't kill them."
Mrs. Xu pinched her husband to interrupt his nagging. "Without hens laying eggs, what will our Yingbao eat?"
"Oh, haha, our Yingbao has to eat egg custard every day. I was thinking wrong." Jiang Sanlang scratched the back of his head and laughed foolishly.
Yingbao blinked, also at a loss.
The family was very poor. They had three thatched huts with a small kitchen and a yard surrounded by a bamboo fence. Just like in the previous life, the house was almost bare.
As for food, there is just enough to eat.
She once rummaged through a grain jar and found only a shallow layer of wheat inside.
Even the most unpalatable millet only weighs about one stone, which is barely enough for a family to get through until the summer harvest.
The two old hens in the house are probably the most valuable items at present.
But now I am a small kid with weak legs and feet, and I can't even speak clearly. Not only can I not help my parents, I have to rely on them for care.
Yingbao was worried, and her little face was wrinkled.
My mother was pregnant with my younger brother and needed nutrition. How could she only eat wheat and millet
Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind.
There is a river in the west of the village. Although the water flows fast, there are fish where there is a river.
"Daddy, I'm looking for fish!" She decided to give her silly dad a reminder.
If there is no meat, mother can eat fish.
As long as you borrow a fishing net, you can always catch some fish and shrimp.