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Chapter 431 Brother washes three
As the saying goes, when in the country, do as the Romans do. Since the child was born in the south and the midwife was also a native of the south, although Qi's mother was still a little uncomfortable, she thought about it and followed the custom of the south to give the child a baptism.
The family invited a theater troupe in advance, set up a stage in the yard, and set up tables and chairs along the corridor to entertain the guests. In the backyard, we also invited people to speak, write, and sing songs, just for the entertainment of the female family members.
Many people who had benefited from Qi Jintang and Lotus gathered around Qi's door early in the morning to send congratulatory gifts. Although they were not valuable things, most of them were rice, wedding cakes or children's clothes, shoes and socks.
Seeing the bustle at the door, Qi's mother was very happy. The more people came to congratulate her, the smoother her child's life would be. She ordered her servants to bring the boiled eggs to the door to distribute them. , the people at the door gradually dispersed.
Qi's mother had already invited a well-known Taoist priest from the Xuling Temple outside the city to come to her home to perform a ritual ceremony and pray for the child to ward off disasters.
The Taoist priest planned a good place according to the direction of the Qi family's house, arranged incense and candle offerings, and placed rice and incense bowls on the offering table. While walking around the offering table, he rang the bells and recited to pray to the gods.
Although Qi Jintang didn't believe in these theories about strange powers and gods, he still had an attitude of preferring to believe in their existence rather than their non-existence. At Qi's mother's request, he followed the Taoist priest and knelt down to worship the gods according to his instructions.
Finally, the Taoist priest held a bowl of water in his left hand and burned a water purification talisman in it. He held a cypress branch in his right hand and dipped it in the purified water. He walked around the delivery room, kitchen and other places that are prone to attract evil spirits and harbor dirt, and sprinkled the purified water all over the house. Entering the unclean place, he finally returned to the central hall, bowed and said: "The six gods from heaven descended to earth, and are not affected by filth. They originally came to the mother's house to protect the baby."
The whole family hurriedly returned the gift with straight faces, and kowtowed to the incense table to show respect.
After praying to the gods, everyone moved from the courtyard to the small courtyard outside the delivery room. In the hall outside the delivery room, the midwife made offerings to the thirteen gods including the Queen of Birth, the Queen of Delivery, the Queen of Beans, and the Queen of Eyes. In the incense burner It is filled with bright yellow millet, with a pair of small red wax wax sticks stuck on the wax skewers, and underneath are pressed yellow coins, ingots, thousands of pieces of gold and other godly money and food.
Then the mother-in-law went into the house and placed the statues of Kang Gong and Kang Mother on the lotus bedside, and five bowls of sweet-scented osmanthus oil cakes were lined up as tributes.
Qi's mother came forward to offer incense and kowtow, and the midwife also bowed three times. Miao'er took out the boiled mugwort soup in a copper basin, and put other things on the tray in a row beside the bed.
The wet nurse came out with the baby in her arms and handed it into the midwife's arms, and the third bath officially began.
First, my son stepped forward to refill the basin, and Qi’s mother without any ambiguity dropped two gold nuggets weighing one to two pounds, and they sank at the bottom of the basin. As the water rippled, the gold shone brightly on the faces of everyone in the room. Eye.
The midwife quickly raised her voice and said: "Add gold ingots, get a golden life, be granted the title of Duke, become a high official, and have both wealth and honor!"
Xiaoxiu couldn't go beyond Qi's mother, so she added a pair of silver anklets.
The midwife said again: "Add more silver, leave a person behind, live a hundred years, know your future, and have both happiness and longevity!"
There are only two of my family members, and the rest are the female family members who were invited. Those who are close to each other will step forward to add silver coins or silver coins, and the ordinary ones will add some Gui yuan, lychees, red dates, peanuts, etc. For happy fruits such as chestnuts, the mother-in-law also has a set of happy words in her mouth: "I will give birth to a precious son, win three yuan in a row, be granted the title of marquis and worship the prime minister..."
After everyone in the room had filled the basins, the midwife took a small silver mallet and stirred the basins, muttering: "Stir once, stir twice, stir three times, and the elder brother led the younger brother to run away. Seventy-year-old, Eighty-year-old, crooked-haired, naughty, and Xilihulu are all here!"
Then he dipped the water in the basin and smeared it on his head, lower back, buttocks, etc. to show that he had washed it. He still muttered congratulations. The child was so washed that he cried. Everyone laughed and said, "Sound the basin." It’s coming, it’s ringing the basin.”
Seeing this, Han Hongpei said to He Hua: "Although he was born a month early, this boy is still strong and his voice is so loud even when he cries. No wonder you were so thin when you were pregnant, and you let the brother in your belly eat it." went."
Qi's mother was very happy after hearing this, and she felt more and more that her grandson was kicking his legs and grabbing his hands very happily, and she was so happy that she couldn't open her mouth from ear to ear.
The midwife continued to take the things from the tray, combed the child's hair, rolled her face, put in gold and silver ingots, locked her hair, and looked at her buttocks... She took a few tied silk flowers and sifted them into the drying cage, sifting them over and over again and saying: " Gardenia, apricot, peach, apricot, rose, tuberose, flowers are sparsely..."
Finally, he took a green onion and lightly slapped it three times on his body. He handed it to the girl beside him and ordered her to throw it on the roof outside.
As soon as Xiaozhen went out with the green onions in his hands, he shouted happily: "Hey, the rain has stopped, it's going to clear up!"
Hearing this, everyone in the room stretched their necks and looked out. Han Hongpei said in a fun tone: "This brother is really a lucky star. As soon as he was born, Mr. Qi and my family came back safely. This time San'er came back again. Once the sky is cleared up, the future will be bright and bright!"
Everyone also spoke in response.
Mother Qi felt so happy after hearing this, it was like eating honey, it was sweet to the bottom of her heart. She took her grandson from the midwife's hand and kissed her little face several times. , and looks like he doesn’t have enough love.
"Have you got a nickname now?" Han Hongpei asked again.
"My father-in-law said, from now on we will call you Tuan Tuan." He Hua replied with a smile.
Han Hongpei nodded and praised: "Hello, Tuan Tuan, live happily together, in harmony and beauty."
Qi's mother also thought the name was good. She hugged Tuantuan and said to each other's foreheads affectionately: "Tuan Tuan, the apex of my heart!"
The midwife came over to invite Qi's mother and said, "Madam, please go and get the mother-in-law and the money and food to worship the gods from the incense table."
Qi's mother handed the child to the wet nurse beside her, knelt down in the hall and kowtowed, then took off the items on the incense table and carried them to the yard to be burned under a tree. The midwife took the sacred codes of Kang Gong and Kang Mother and burned them, wrapped the burned ashes in red paper, returned to the house and stuffed it under the mat under Lotus, muttering something about guarding the bedside and keeping safe. words.
After all this was done, the midwife went up to kowtow to Mother Qi and Hehua with a smile on her face, and said auspicious words: "Congratulations to Madam and Grandma!"
Qi's mother happily waved her hand, and the girl behind her immediately came over with the reward money. She also took the gold and silver incense, jewelry, copper plates and other objects in the copper basin and took them away, as well as the gifts offered everywhere. Fruits, wedding eggs, sweet-scented osmanthus cake and other items were also put in food boxes for her to take away.
As soon as the midwife came out of the gate of Qi's house, she was surrounded by many women who wanted to have a baby. The wedding eggs, fruits and other items were all sold out immediately, and even the oil cakes for Kang Gong and Kang Mother were divided up. A clean one.
Those who bought something went home happily, but those who didn't buy something or didn't have enough money had to disperse home in twos and threes with a sigh. The midwife weighed the heavy money bag and hummed a little tune. Twisted and went home. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe and reward. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
Chapter 431 Brother washes three