Chapter 140 – Giving Birth

When Mother Su saw Su Danhong and Ji Jianyun’s marriage now, it was really good.

While sighing, Mother Su told her unpromising eldest son, “Continue to work hard. If you don’t, I’ll let Jianyun continue to beat you!”

Su Jinjun shuddered and went back to his room to sleep.

“Jianyun gave you meat buns and his mother gave you eggs. Is that why I don’t hear you saying anything when you come home?” Eldest Su sister-in-law complained when he came in.

“Say whatever you want. I ate over there, so what else is there to say?” Su Jinjun snapped back. He didn’t know what his wife meant.

“You know that you ate over, but don’t you know that you still have two sons and a daughter over here? Don’t you know that you still have a wife? Why are you only concerned with yourself?” Eldest Su sister-in-law questioned angrily.

“I said you’ll be fine. I’m working hard out there. Why does it matter if I eat more? I don’t get a cent of the salary for myself. You get half of it from my mother!” Su Jinjun retorted.

Eldest Su sister-in-law snorted, “Am I not doing this for our family? Look at the money I’ve saved. I’ll continue saving for two or three years. Then I’ll go to your mother to see if I can get some from her. We can build a big house. I went to the town and saw them with multiple floors!”

When she spoke of this, Su Jinjun became interested and he said, “I know about them, but it needs a lot of money to build, how can we have enough? You can forget about asking my mother. You can’t think of taking any money out of her hands.”

“That’s why you have to work harder. The money Jianyun pays increases once a year, and it will increase next year. You don’t have to worry about the money on my side. No one can take any of it. The children and I will eat at home. I don’t need to spend on anything except for some school books. We can save the 15 yuan a month!” eldest Su sister-in-law explained.

Su Jinjun said, “I can’t be the only one working. I’ve seen what the orchard’s situation will be like this year. It will definitely have a good harvest. You can also help and get paid.”

“Do you still have to tell me? I’ve already talked with mother. I’m going over when it’s time for the harvest. I did a good job last year and mother won’t have any objections. I should be able to earn more than ten or twenty yuan by then. If only mother didn’t come to take the money,” eldest Su sister-in-law sighed.

“Don’t worry. I’ll talk to my mother this year and tell her to stop taking the money,” Su Jinjun said.

This money belonged to both of them, and his mother shouldn’t be taking it.

“Then you talk to her,” eldest Su sister-in-law immediately said.

Su Jinjun nodded. As for whether his wife’s family would take money from his wife, he was not worried at all.

She was similar to his mother where she wouldn’t let anyone take a cent from her. Others shouldn’t even think about it, even if it’s from her biological family.

Because the couple had a common new goal, they both decided to work hard.

They didn’t want to work for a long time. All they wanted was to build a three story house where they could relax and never see anyone in the future.

With a goal in mind, Su Jinjun came to work the next morning after breakfast.

Ji Jianyun brought him two meat buns to eat because of his food performance. He said, “Brother, you have been working hard recently. My mother wants you to help in the strawberry garden. You should go.”

“If aunt has work for me to do, how can I be lazy?” Once Ji Jianyun finished speaking, he immediately answered. Although Su Jinjun ate until he was decently full at home, it was just a salted duck egg with white congee. How could it be as delicious as these big meat buns?

He also felt that as long as this brother-in-law told him work, he would do it. It would benefit him.

“All right, go.” Ji Jianyun was quite satisfied.

Su Jinjun went to the orchard with a bun.

Sure enough, Mother Ji wanted him to do some work. She asked him to weed the strawberry garden. It was not difficult, but it was tedious. Mother Ji didn’t want to use pesticides to get rid of pests. It costs money! And according to the people working in the hospital, it was good to have less contact with pesticides and it was unhealthy to eat food using it.

All the weeding was done by hand.

As for the insects, it was not something to be afraid of. It was fine having Hou Wazi, Xiaozhen and Xiaoyu bring the other children in the village to help catch them.

If the children caught bugs, they could exchange them for eggs.

No matter what kind of bug it was, as long as they caught enough to fit a small bottle, they could exchange it for an egg.

If they worked hard, they could exchange it for two eggs in one day.

But basically none of the children caught enough for two. The most was one and a half. As for the half, Mother Ji gave it to them using eggs with a double yolk.

The children in the village were happy, and their parents didn’t care if they saw them with eggs.

Anyway, the children in the village were all raised like that. It was safe to have them in Jianyun’s orchard. Of course, they couldn’t run around. The three big dogs on the mountain were not there for fun. The adults were scared when they looked at them, and so were the children.

Ji Jianchuan, Xu Aidang, and Ji Hongjun started work. They would clean the chicken coops or feed the chickens. They were all busy and on a schedule.

Su Danhong spent her days at home, quietly with the baby growing inside of her.

But this morning, she felt movement.

When she slept last night, she actually felt it, but it was not so serious. It was just a little uncomfortable.

But now that she was in the last month of her pregnancy, she took it more seriously. She didn’t think that this morning she would deliver the baby.

When she counted the days, it was almost 12 or 13 days earlier than the due date. The little baby had the guts to not stay put.

“Aunt Yang, go and ask Jianyun to come back. He has to take me to the hospital.” Su Danhong was still very calm.

Aunt Yang heard what she said and immediately helped her in and lay down. “Don’t be afraid, Danhong. You’ll be fine. I will go and call Jianyun down!”

“Aunt, you don’t have to be in such a hurry. Watch your step along the way,” Su Danhong said.

Aunt Yang agreed and immediately went up the mountain.

Ji Jianyun came down. Mother Ji came down with him.

Mother Ji quickly packed up her things, and then said to Ji Jianyun, “Leave the family to me and take Danhong to the hospital quickly. I will take Renren and Yan’er to your father, and then go to the hospital.”

“Okay, mother, please tell my mother-in-law,” Ji Jianyun said.

“I know,” Mother Ji said.

Ji Jianyun drove Su Danhong to the hospital first. He was very worried, but the nurses were not.

They were trying to finish something quickly and told them to wait. They said it wasn’t that fast.

“Jianyun, hurry, go and call them. I’m going to have the baby now!” Su Danhong said at once.

Ji Jianyun said, “Okay, I’ll go now!”

He pulled a nurse over and she said, “You didn’t listen to what I said. It’s not that fast. The earliest it’ll happen is this evening.”

“My wife said that she is going to have the baby now, so please hurry up,” Ji Jianyun said.

“That’s not right,” the nurse said with annoyance.

But she came reluctantly. This time, she saw the head and immediately said, “It’s actually happening now!”

After that, she immediately called for someone to come over and pushed Ji Jianyun out. “Please leave now.”