Chapter 115

Thanks to Lu Yuanzheng’s blessing, Xu Man’s progress had advanced a great deal

The remaining part of the project, which was more technical than laborious, was much less difficult for Xu Man and the others

In order for everyone to avoid the sun, Xu Man suggested changing the start time to four o’clock in the morning

This way, they could work for three hours until dinner time at seven o’clock

Then from eight o’clock to ten o’clock, they would finish their work, and from four o’clock to six o’clock in the afternoon

Seven hours a day, avoiding the hottest part of the sun

The sisters-in-law had no problem with this

The first few days, it is indeed difficult to insist, dry down a day’s work body and tired and painful

After insisting, I don’t know if it’s because the work is smooth or the body has adapted, but it’s not really tiring anymore

Xu Man’s palms are no longer blistered, and she doesn’t lie on the sofa at night

She was able to wash her own and Dongsheng’s clothes after the bath, and occasionally made herself a dessert

Getting used to this kind of labor intensity was no different from an ordinary office worker

This shows that all human potential is unlimited

The other sisters-in-law also said that although they were a bit tired recently, their spirits were much better

They used to be bored, but now they live a full life and are very happy

The most direct reflection is that the husband and wife relationship is much more harmonious

The man of the family is distressed about their own late-night work, that which woman can not be indifferent, certainly to their own men than usual better

If they understand each other, they will not fight anymore

The most obvious example of this is Shi Lei and Song Baoying

In the past, they were an estranged couple who respected each other as if they were guests, but now they have more or less regained the feeling they had when they were in love

Song Baoying’s face has become more smile, the whole person is no longer so old and dull, rosy cheeks

It looks like she has not been moisturized much

Slowly, the number of sisters-in-law who took a leave of absence became less and less, until there was not a single one missing

Xu Man was very pleased that the hearts of the people were united, which was more important than anything else

Everyone became more and more confident about building the house

Finally, enough trees had been felled and the land had been leveled

The next step was to cut the boards and tamp the ground to lay cement or stone slabs

Xiaoyu’s drawings were all ready, and as they wrapped up at noon on this day, she walked side by side with Xu Man, pointing at the drawings and explaining the data on them to him one by one

“Sister-in-law Xiaoyu!” A cry of alarm came from behind, “Why is there blood on your pants?”

If she didn’t know that Xiao Yu was pregnant, she would have thought that she was on her period

But seeing red in pregnancy was much more serious than having a period

Xiao Yu and Xu Man turned pale at the same time

Xu Man was busy supporting Xiaoyu, and turned back to call the other sisters-in-law, “Sister-in-laws, give us a hand, let’s carry sister-in-law Xiaoyu to the shade first” He also turned his head and instructed Dongsheng, “Go find your father and arrange for a fast boat Also go to the 7th Company and find Uncle Zhang Qinglong to come along Can you remember these two things?”

Dongsheng nodded, “Yes!” After saying this, he scattered his legs and ran

Obviously, he had just said that he couldn’t even walk

Xiao Yu was embarrassed to be carried, and busily said, “I can walk!”

Song Boying shook his head, “You can’t move easily now Don’t be embarrassed, special times are not polite”

Doudou’s mom also said, “Right! Seeing red is a big deal for a pregnant woman, so don’t be polite to us!”

Several sisters-in-law put down the things they were working on and carried Xiao Yu to the shade of the tree

After a while, Lu Yuanzheng rushed over with a few men

He took the lead, followed by the commander of the seventh company and Zhang Qinglong, and then the military doctor of the health company with a stretcher

The military doctor didn’t know much about gynecology, all he could do was to help carry Xiaoyu to the hospital in Haicheng, and also suggested that it would be best for Xiaoyu to land at the center island before she went to Haicheng, so that the local gynecologist could give her a look first

“Wife, are you alright?” Zhang Qinglong had a worried look on his face

Xiao Yu had a confused look on her face, “I don’t know, but I don’t feel any pain and I didn’t hurt myself”

I don’t know how I saw red

No one knew why

After all, it was true that Xiao Yu hadn’t worked on the ground

It was the first time Xu Man had seen Zhang Qinglong, the man who could make Xiao Yu willingly give up so much

They all had the same flat head and the same green uniform, and looking at their looks alone, they were not much more than outstanding, but could only be said to be of medium to high appearance

Xu Wen raised an eyebrow, a man with no money, no power, no culture, no appearance, can please the girl’s heart is generally a reason

Will come to things

Commonly known as high emotional intelligence

This kind of man tends to say sweet words of love, pay attention to rituals, and create a little romance from time to time

And these advantages in the future, is usually the basic configuration skills of the scum or sea king

Xu Wen did not want to judge a man by his appearance, and could only pray that he could afford his clothes

Everyone sent Xiao Yu to the boat

Xu Man asked Dou Dou’s mom to follow and check it out

This was a lot easier than going to work in the fields, so DouDouMa excused herself, “Sister-in-law XiaoYu is more familiar with you, why don’t you go take a look?”

Xu Wen shook her head, “I have to lead the work”

No matter how much or how little she did, her being here was an attitude, leaving was another matter

Xiao Yu was busy pushing back when she heard this, “You guys genuinely don’t need to care about me! I don’t want to drag everyone down In addition, my family is from Haicheng, if something really happens, I will ask my mom to accompany me”

Zhang Qinglong nodded, “Sister-in-laws, you all go back! There’s really no need to accompany I’m here”

Xu Man thought for a moment that it was indeed better for his own mother to take care of him, and nodded, “Then I’ll drop you off on land and come back”

He couldn’t let Xiao Yu’s family see that no one accompanied her to the hospital, could he? How chilling would that be!

It would take more than a day to go back and forth, so Xu Man discussed with Song BaoYing about giving everyone a day off to rest for a day, and waiting for her to come back to work together again

Song Baoying said she understood and told her to go ahead without worrying

Xu Man followed the boat to escort Xiao Yu to the center island

Lu Yuanzheng had contacted the center island in advance and prepared an ambulance in advance

As soon as they landed, they carried Jade to the ambulance and sent her to the local hospital for emergency treatment

After a preliminary examination, the doctor said that he could not monitor the fetal heart, their equipment here is too simple, there is no way to prepare to determine whether it is a fetal arrest, and suggested that Jade go to the hospital in Haicheng to take a look

Fetal arrest is the belly of the baby does not grow no heartbeat, to put it bluntly is fetal death

However, the time is still short, the nerves are not fully developed, so it should not be molded, so it is called the embryo stopped developing it?

So a line of fast and furious from the center of the island fast boat to the land, directly into the best hospital in Haicheng

Zhang Qinglong ran around paying the bill for Xiao Yu, while Xu Man accompanied Xiao Yu to wait for the examination

It was already the end of the day, and there were fewer doctors on duty, so they were too busy at the moment

Xiao Yu was a bit bored

Xu Man comforted her, “It doesn’t necessarily mean that the fetus has stopped! You need to be more confident”

Xiao Yu shook her head, “What if it really is? Qinglong loves this baby”

“It’ll be fine, just relax! As far as I know, this doesn’t usually happen with the first child With the exception of certain pregnant women with genetic predisposition, the occurrence of fetal termination will not be with the first child For example, if the first child is miscarried for some reason, it’s only the second child that can have an ectopic pregnancy or fetal eclampsia”

In fact, this was unfounded, it was just an unmarried, childless, single young woman in her previous life, Xu Wen, who had casually summarized such a sentence based on the experiences of a few of her friends, with the purpose of relieving Xiao Yu

People in the seventies were generally conservative, lesbians were not necessarily virgins before marriage but definitely not as open as they would be decades later Nine out of ten were still relatively conservative, and it was often only after marriage that they got pregnant for the first time

Who knows that Xiao Yu directly cried after hearing Xu asked, “But I did have an abortion once”

Xu asked, “”

What does it mean to be embarrassed?

What does it mean to be clumsy?

What does it mean to be slapped in the face?

Xu Wen felt that she had experienced all of the above words at this moment

Being too surprised, she didn’t know what to say for a while, her mouth opening and closing several times

In the end, she gave up

People who have never given birth shouldn’t open their mouths to comfort blindly, this is adding insult to injury

“Isn’t it particularly surprising? It doesn’t feel like I’m someone who would do such a thing?”

Xu Wen hesitated or nodded

Xiao Yu was especially like that kind of somewhat well-behaved neighboring sister

For a well-behaved sister to do something so rebellious, frankly, Xu Man was genuinely surprised

She was so open, and her relationship with Lu Yuanzheng still happened after marriage

It didn’t matter if it was counted as a wedding or a registration

Of course a big part of the reason was that Lu Yuanzheng was more conservative than her

And Xiaoyu and Zhang Qinglong were both genuine people born and raised in this era and bound by certain ideas of this era, but surprisingly they were so exuberant?

“But I did do it! I even eloped with Qinglong!”

Xu asked, “”

If you don’t say so, an honest person who usually seemed gentle and temperless could scare people to death once in a while when he lost his temper!

Usually a good girl, but when she rebels, she can destroy the heavens and the earth, and if she can’t destroy the heavens and the earth, she’ll have to destroy herself as well

Not waiting for Xiaoyu to expand, Zhang Qinglong came back with the bill

He sat down beside Xiaoyu, holding her shoulder and comforting her softly: “Don’t be afraid! I’m here, I’m here!”

Feeling a bit redundant, Xu Wen stated that he would go buy them some food

They hadn’t eaten since they were busy from noon to night!

Plus being here was too redundant, the vestigial feeling of being a high wattage light bulb

When Xu Man came back again, Xiao Yu had already gone in to check

Seeing that Zhang Qinglong was so anxious that he kept circling around the doorway corridor, Xu Man put his meal on the bench in the corridor

Under these circumstances, how heartless a man must be to be able to eat the meal?

Xu Man also didn’t have much of an appetite and was quite worried about Xiao Yu

After a while, Xiaoyu came out, her eyes red as rabbit eyes, as soon as she saw Zhang Qinglong, she jumped into his arms and cried her heart out

Xu asked to see from Xiaoyu here temporarily can not ask what, went into the consultation room and asked the doctor, “doctor, Xiaoyu’s situation how?”

“The lesbian who went out just now?”

Xu Man nodded

The doctor shook his head, “The embryo stopped developing and has been for some time We have to urgently schedule a time for surgery Otherwise it will have a very bad effect on her body”

Xu Man: “”

It was no wonder that Xiaoyu was always looking bad lately

Xu Man relayed the doctor’s words to Zhang Qinglong, who thanked him, “Sister-in-law, please take care of Xiaoyu for me first, I’ll go and do the hospitalization procedures, and make a call to the unit on the way”

Xu Wen nodded and answered, helping the still choking Xiao Yu to sit on the bench

“Don’t cry, it hurts!”

“Sister-in-law, the child is really gone! I’m so useless! Didn’t get to keep this child” Xiao Yu touched her hand on her belly and cried her heart out

“It’s not your fault! The doctor said that the fetal arrest was due to the poor development of the embryo, so it’s better to leave quietly now than to find out any bad symptoms later, right?”

What Down’s baby or missing arm or leg would be more cruel

“I know, but I’m still sad” Jade hid her face and sobbed

Everyone understands the big truth, but when misfortune happens to them, how many of them can really manage to become a sober innings without being sad or happy?

Xu Wen dug into his pocket and pulled out a square white handkerchief and handed it to Xiao Yu

This was the one that Lu Yuanzheng had stuffed into her pocket on his way out

Xiao Yu took the handkerchief and covered her face, crying, ”This is retribution! It’s the child’s punishment for me! It’s taking revenge on me for ever not wanting it! But it wasn’t that I didn’t want it, I couldn’t have it!”

“Why?”

“Because at that time, Zhang Qinglong and I weren’t married, to be exact, we hadn’t even met the parents” Xiaoyu remembered something, paused, and added, “We’ve only just gotten a license now, just after we came to the island”

Xu asked, “”

But Xiao Yu was already pregnant when she came to the island

Even though Xu Man wasn’t a curious person he still couldn’t help but ask, “What’s going on?”

“Actually, it’s logical that Zhang Qinglong isn’t even on this batch of lists for the island It wasn’t even his turn to change the defense It was he who begged his uncle for a temporary spot”

Xu asked, “”

One can only say that two people who are exceptionally different in every aspect of their conditions being together is either a story or an accident

Xiao Yu and Zhang Qinglong were clearly the latter

Xu Man no longer knew what else to say and listened quietly

Xiaoyu was now very sad and depressed, and she herself was a bit confused, saying one thing and one thing at a time

Xu Man struggled to distill a complete story from it

As Sister Li had said, Xiao Yu’s family was exceptionally well off, but, it was limited to material conditions

Her family had treated her more or less thinly, and in short, she was very unloved

When this kind of girl meets a man like Zhang Qinglong, she will definitely become a moth to the flame

The two met in a rather dramatic way

The family introduced Xiaoyu to a military officer

It happened to be the deputy commander of Zhang Qinglong’s company

At that time, Zhang Qinglong was still a recruit, the kind of Zhang Qinglong who hadn’t yet had the freedom to go out on his own leave

About to prevent new recruits from escaping on their own, so in the two years of new recruits, are not allowed to go out alone, either can not go out or have to have the old squad leader to take with them

On that day, Zhang Qinglong had to go out on an important matter, and their deputy company took leave to go on a blind date and brought him along, so that he could accompany himself on the blind date before going to do his business

The deputy company commander surnamed Shi was too shy, not as generous as Xiaoyu, so Xiaoyu was the one who spoke, and he kept his head down

Zhang Qinglong at first originally did not want to speak, and then felt that this is a blind date bureau, the other girl alone they two are already enough bullying, eat a meal is still all the girl to speak, they do not talk much, as if too rude, so he opened his mouth

Zhang Qinglong may not be erudite, but he will chat, know what topics female comrades are interested in, sentence not cold

More or less, he also meant to please their deputy company, so he gave them a message so that their deputy company could also participate in the conversation

The meal was a lively one with a lot of laughter

Later, Xiaoyu and the company commander surnamed Shi had no further conversation

Each felt that the other was not right for them

Jade is trying to find a cold and hot, Shi deputy company commander think Jade conditions are too good to match their own people, but also think that the best way to get married and live a home, the two families are the same

That time, Xiaoyu actually had a better impression of Zhang Qinglong

But she can’t go straight past that blind date to Zhang Qinglong, right?

Not to mention the fact that the two of them are comrades in arms, she is not so brazen to chase a man backwards

The more Xu Wen heard, the more he felt wrong, asked her: “Your blind date’s surname is Shi? At that time, he was a deputy company? What year was this?”

“Several years ago How come it’s been three or four years? What happened?”

“Do you remember what his name was?”

Xiao Yu shook her head blankly, “Time has passed a bit too long, I can’t remember much It seems to be called Shi Lei?”

Xu asked, “”

This world can’t really be that small, right?

Besides, Xiao Yu had definitely seen Shi Lei on the island

Also the age seems to be a bit off

Shi Lei and Song Baoying had been married for ten years Xiao Yu is only twenty-three four

Should be the same name and surname

Thinking clearly about this, Xu Man let out a sigh of relief and asked a follow-up question, “What happened afterward?”

“He didn’t even have the right to take leave, and going out once basically amounted to impracticality I also didn’t see eye-to-eye with that deputy company of his, so of course the two of us didn’t follow through

But people are destined for each other, whether it’s good fate or bad fate it’s all destiny

Half a year later, he and I met again in front of the department store”