Chapter 263 Giving Birth to a Child in the Countryside 3

I don’t know if it’s because there’s less to do in winter, and young couples have more energy, so they all have babies in August and September.

This August and September refers to the lunar calendar.

Two days after delivering Niu Xiuying, Damao from the same production team came to Feng Qingxue and said that his wife was about to give birth. When Feng Qingxue rushed to his house, Sanmao, who lived two houses away from Damao, also came to say that his wife was about to give birth.

Well, the two sisters-in-law went into labor on the same day, and neither of them went to work.

Feng Qingxue looked at Damao’s wife’s condition. So far, there was no movement, and she was still talking and laughing with her. According to her estimation, it would take at least half a day for the birth canal to open completely, so she asked Damao to make her some food to nourish her strength, and then boiled hot water to prepare, and then passed the two families in the middle and arrived at Sanmao’s house. Sanmao’s wife couldn’t wait any longer, so Feng Qingxue delivered her first.

Half an hour later, Sanmao’s wife gave birth to a daughter, and Damao’s mother’s face suddenly fell.

Looking at the baby girl, the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck twice, her little face was bruised and she was dead. Damao's mother breathed a sigh of relief, "Since she is dead, just throw her away. It's a waste of my eggs for ten months."

Sanmao's wife burst into tears.

"This is a life. The leaders said that women can hold up half the sky and we must not favor boys over girls!" Feng Qingxue glared at them fiercely, quickly took the baby girl, and saved her with great effort. It was also because the umbilical cord was not wrapped tightly. When checking the fetal heart rate before, it was strong and powerful, so there was a chance to save her. If the umbilical cord was wrapped around one more circle or the fetal heart rate was weak, it would be difficult to save her.

Sanmao and his wife hugged their crying daughter and wept with gratitude, while Damao's mother went to see the eldest daughter-in-law angrily.

After the cleaning was done here, there was no sign of birth on Damao's side. Feng Qingxue was watching over her. It was not until the evening that the birth canal opened to ten fingers, and she gave birth to a son smoothly. This was Damao's wife's fifth child. Two of the first four were dead and two were alive.

Seeing her grandson, Damao's mother smiled and forced a big bowl of white flour to Feng Qingxue as a thank you gift.

Three consecutive births in three days, each time the mother and child or mother and daughter were safe, and even the child with the umbilical cord around the neck was saved. Feng Qingxue became famous all of a sudden, and many people rushed to do the work for her when she went to work.

It's not over after breaking the corn. The vacated land was quickly planted with wheat, and the corn cobs had to be threshed regardless of whether they were dried or not.

It's much easier to dry corn kernels than corn cobs, and it dries faster.

How to thresh without a thresher?

It's all done manually.

Feng Qingxue sat on the field like everyone else, guarding a pile of corn cobs in groups of three or five. She first used a sharp chopstick to drill a line from the bottom to the top of the corn cob, and then drilled a line every two rows of corn kernels. This line is where the corn kernels are separated from the corn cob, and then the corn kernels on the corn cob are easily rubbed off.

Some people used their hands directly, some used the soles of their shoes directly, and some people rubbed the corn cob core with the corn kernels rubbed off and the corn cob with the drilled line against each other. The golden corn kernels fell off like flowing water, and only a bare corn cob core was left.

The summer sweet potatoes were successfully stored in the cellar, and the strong laborers went to plant wheat. The people who rubbed the corn were the elderly, weak women and children.

Many people sat on the ground, only Feng Qingxue sat on a stool to avoid pressing on her lower abdomen. When others saw her posture, what else did they not understand? Pregnant and non-pregnant women have different walking and sitting postures, and experienced women can tell at a glance.

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I get up at four or five o'clock to write, o(╥﹏╥)o I go to eat first, and then go for the infusion. I go early and wait until after eight o'clock, otherwise there will be a lot of people. If I am fast, I can come back in more than an hour, and then continue to write and update.