Chapter 79: Chapter 79: Delivering Xu Zhaodi’s Baby
The two younger brothers immediately had a backbone, and went into action separately.
Su Xiaoxiao watched Xu Zhaodi clutch her stomach and wail, frantically circling around but with no other options.
She had no experience in this field before dying in her previous life, so she had no idea how to handle it.
"Sister, warm water."
Su Jianwen quickly brought a basin of water, and Su Xiaoxiao found a rag to wipe Xu Zhaodi, but after just two wipes, Xu Zhaodi let out a scream.
She instinctively looked down, and upon seeing the scene before her, she panicked a little.
The baby’s tiny head was already slightly visible.
Su Xiaoxiao instantly became even more flustered; why hadn’t the barefoot doctor arrived yet, the baby was about to come out.
"Xiaoxiao, I... I’m going to pass out."
Xu Zhaodi’s face turned pale from the pain, but the baby just wouldn’t come out, only half the head was showing.
Su Xiaoxiao was as anxious as ants on a hot pan, trying hard to take deep breaths to calm herself down, desperately trying to recall relevant knowledge she had seen in modern times.
"Sister Zhaodi, bite on the towel, use all your strength and push down... listen to my commands, take a deep breath, push..."
Su Xiaoxiao stuffed a clean towel into Xu Zhaodi’s mouth, directing her to continue pushing.
She had only seen these methods on TV, and wasn’t sure if they would work, she could only take it one step at a time.
Fortunately, not long after, the baby’s head came out a little more, Su Xiaoxiao was delighted, it seemed the method was effective.
Seeing Xu Zhaodi’s face getting paler and paler, she hurried into the room to mix some sugar water for her.
"Sister Zhaodi, drink some sugar water to replenish your strength first."
At the moment, Xu Zhaodi was unable to speak, and was half held by Su Xiaoxiao to drink half a bowl of sugar water, and continued to push.
Su Xiaoxiao couldn’t do anything to help besides cheer her on, just feeling helplessly anxious.
Luckily, perhaps thanks to the sugar water, accompanied by a crying sound, the baby was finally born.
Su Xiaoxiao clumsily found a cloth and carefully wrapped the baby up.
She looked down at the tiny bundle in her arms, the baby’s skin was all red, like a little red person.
She carefully carried the baby to Xu Zhaodi.
Xu Zhaodi had very little strength left at this time, using the last bit of strength to glance at the child before passing out.
Su Xiaoxiao jumped in shock, hurriedly setting the baby down: "Sister Zhaodi, what’s wrong with you?"
Oh no, could it be like those shows on TV where the mother gives birth and then can’t make it herself?
Imagining this, Su Xiaoxiao’s face turned pale instantly, throwing herself onto Xu Zhaodi’s neck sobbing: "Sister Zhaodi, why is your life so hard..."
Su Jianwen just changed a basin of water, came into the room and saw his sister holding someone and crying, immediately joined in, bawling and gasping for breath.
In the time they spent together, he had already considered Xu Zhaodi family.
While they were crying intensely, Su Jianwu brought the barefoot doctor in.
Seeing the situation, he was dumbfounded: "Third sister, fourth brother, what’s wrong with sister Zhaodi?"
Su Jianwen gasped haphazardly: "Sister Zhaodi... she’s dead, boohoo..."
He sobbed and wailed after speaking.
"What dead? The mother is fine, if you two keep pressing down like this, she’ll really be smothered to death by you." The barefoot doctor saw Xu Zhaodi’s face flushed red from being pressed down by them on the bed, and spoke urgently.
"What?"
Su Xiaoxiao hurriedly let go, realizing Xu Zhaodi was still breathing, just her face was a bit red from being squeezed.
Immediately, she awkwardly spoke: "Uh... sorry, I was too excited just now."
The barefoot doctor checked Xu Zhaodi and the baby, finding that Xu Zhaodi had been eating well at the Su Family, her body had become much healthier. It was just a bit weak from recent childbirth, but there were no big issues.
Su Xiaoxiao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Xu Zhaodi held the baby in her arms, looking at the tender-skinned infant, but tears couldn’t stop falling.
Initially, she felt more disgust towards the baby.
But now, looking at the little person in her arms, her heart suddenly softened.
She struggled to climb off the bed, knelt on the bed and kowtowed to Su Xiaoxiao: "Sister Xiaoxiao, your family’s great kindness and virtue, I’ll repay you as a cattle or horse in this lifetime."
Liu Cuilan entered the room just in time to hear this, hurried forward to help her up: "What are you talking about, child? Second son brought you home because we were destined, don’t talk about repayment."
While speaking, she saw the tender-skinned baby lying on the bed, instantly delighted as she held the baby in her arms.
"Look, isn’t this baby beautiful, just like you, sister Zhaodi."
Su Xiaoxiao leaned over for a look, frowned, she just saw a wrinkled bundle resembling a little monkey, couldn’t really tell who it looked like.
Liu Cuilan couldn’t help but sigh as she looked at the baby: "You know both of your brothers are not young anymore, yet not a shadow of a wife is to be seen, how will this ever be settled?"
Because of Father Su’s situation, several villages around were unwilling to marry into their family, resulting in the two brothers being of age but without a proper partner.
Liu Cuilan always fretted over this matter.
"Aunt Liu, Brother Fusheng and Brother Wenbing are good men, and work at the factory, surely they’ll find partners sooner or later," Xu Zhaodi hurriedly said.
Liu Cuilan set the baby down, sighing: "Let’s hope."
Just as she finished speaking, her gaze suddenly fell on a sack placed at the door.
Su Jianwu had run back and forth all day to find the doctor, and was now sitting on the sack to rest his behind.
She couldn’t help but ask: "Fifth son, what are you sitting on?"
Su Jianwu scratched his head: "Third sister told us to bring it in earlier, I don’t know what it is either."
Saying that, he adjusted his position, finding a more comfortable spot.
Su Xiaoxiao remembered the things she bought, seeing the brat using them as a seat, she spoke immediately: "Su Jianwu, get up quickly, those are good things to eat."
"What?"
Su Jianwu quickly stood up upon hearing this, opened up the sack, and seeing the fruit and braised beef inside, slapped his own face. He had actually used such precious delicacies as a seat earlier! He deserved a beating.
Liu Cuilan looked at the braised beef inside, feeling a bit hurt: "Why did you buy so much braised beef? How much raw pork is needed for all that beef?"
Su Xiaoxiao waved her hand generously: "Mom, if you want pork I’ll go buy it tomorrow, your daughter is not short of money now."
While speaking, she pulled out the money in her pocket, a total of five hundred yuan, and laid it in front of Liu Cuilan.
Seeing the thick wad of money in front of them, everyone’s eyes in the room widened.
"Third sister...you... you didn’t go rob a bank, did you?"
Su Jianwu swallowed his saliva, having never seen so much money in his life.
Liu Cuilan was also shocked, even when the family was doing well before, she hadn’t seen so much money, what did the third daughter do to bring back so much money at once?
But before she could recover from the shock, she heard news from someone even more surprising.