Traveling through time and encountering war, I took the whole village to escape famine

Chapter 206 Zhang 4gui's Background 2

When Zhang Erdan's wife saw the two yamen runners outside the door, she had a bad feeling. Her stomach started to ache, and she endured the pain, covered her stomach with her hands, and asked the yamen runners with tears in her eyes, "Sir, I am Zhang Erdan's wife. Sir, has something happened to my husband?"

The tall yamen runner looked at the woman with a bulging belly and hesitated for a moment. The shorter yamen runner saw his companion hesitating. Although he also felt it was cruel to say it out loud, he felt that he would have to say it sooner or later, so he continued his companion's words without hesitation, "You are Zhang Erdan's family, right?"

Mr. Zhang replied, "Sir, I am Zhang Erdan's father, and this is his wife."

The short yamen runner looked at the three people in front of him, took out a piece of paper and a purse from his pocket and handed them to Mr. Zhang, "Old man, please accept my condolences. This is the death notice of Zhang Erdan, and the fifty taels of compensation issued by the yamen."

Although Zhang Erdan's wife had guessed roughly what had happened, when the yamen runner told her the news that Erdan had died, she was still so shocked by the sudden news that she stood there in a daze.

The two yamen runners handed the silver to Mr. Zhang, asked him to put his fingerprints on it, and then left.

Erdan's wife felt even more severe pain in her stomach. As her stomach contracted, she collapsed to the ground and cried loudly.

The crying of Erdan's wife attracted the neighbors. When the neighbors learned that Erdan died on the battlefield, they were very sorry. The aunts and sisters-in-law also wiped their tears and comforted Erdan's wife.

Erdan's wife held her belly and cried. The neighbor Auntie Ma saw a pool of water under Erdan's wife. As someone who had experienced this, she knew that Erdan's water had broken. She hurriedly called a few women to help carry Erdan's wife into the house.

Everyone hurriedly carried Zhang Erdan's wife into the room. Aunt Ma and the old lady of the Zhang family had a good relationship. Although she didn't like Zhang Goudan and his wife, she still liked Erdan's wife very much.

Ma knew that the old lady of the Zhang family and the only midwife in the surrounding villages, Zhang Goudan's eldest uncle's wife, were both delivering babies at Zhang Goudan's wife's place. Zhang Goudan's wife was also giving birth.

She quickly called other women who came to help and quickly prepared hot water and clean towels. After all, almost every woman living in this village has experienced the difficult process of giving birth several times, and they are still capable of some basic delivery work.

It was really surprising! At the moment when Zhang Erdan's wife was extremely sad and nervous, the child was finally born smoothly with a loud cry - and it was a baby boy!

However, Erdan's wife fainted suddenly and lost consciousness due to extreme grief and physical fatigue.

Ma Da Niang swiftly helped to tidy up the baby. At this moment, Zhang's old woman and the midwife also came out of Zhang Goudan's wife's room. The two people looked extremely gloomy, as if covered by a thick layer of dark clouds.

After some questioning, we found out that Zhang Goudan's wife also gave birth to a little boy.

When Aunt Ma and several other women who came to help saw their ugly faces, they did not think too much about it at first and just thought that they were hit hard by the bad news about Zhang Erdan.

At this moment, the entire Zhang family was filled with a thick and depressing atmosphere of sorrow. Everyone was preoccupied and had no idea how to deal with this sudden and huge change.

After Aunt Ma and those warm-hearted women spoke some words to comfort the Zhang family, they got up and left one after another.

Before leaving, Aunt Ma told Grandpa Zhang that it would be better to find a doctor for Erdan's wife. Although the child was born safely, Erdan's wife was too sad and fell into a coma.

After the Zhang family closed the gate, Zhang Goudan happily asked the old lady, "Mom, my wife gave birth to another son for me, right?" Without waiting for the old lady and Zhang Dagui's aunt to reply, he ran towards their house. He looked so happy that it seemed as if the person whose death the bailiff had just announced was not his brother.

The old lady ignored Zhang Dagui and ran into the house to see her son. She came to her second son's room, looked at her second daughter-in-law who had fainted and her healthy grandson who had been wrapped up, and began to sob.

The old lady picked up her grandson and started to cry, "My dear second son! How come you are gone? Look, your wife gave you a son. My dear second son, you have a future!"

The old lady was holding her little grandson in the second room and crying bitterly for her poor second son. Zhang Dagui's scream scared the grieving old lady and old man Zhang so much that they woke up and forgot their grief for a while.

Zhang Dagui ran out of the house, "Mother, sister-in-law, didn't you say that Dagui's mother gave birth to a son? But what is that? Tell me what that is?"

Aunt Dagui, who was still in the Zhang family courtyard, turned pale with fear. It was the first time in all her years of delivering babies that she had seen such a monster.

It could be called a monster. She was also very scared when she first delivered the baby. It couldn't be called a child at all. It was blue all over when it was born, and it was very weak when it was born. It died within a cup of tea.

What terrified her the most was that the child had no facial features and only two holes on his head for breathing. Although he had male characteristics, he had no anus.

Zhang Dagui's aunt opened her mouth but didn't know what to say so she remained silent.

At this moment, a rapid and heavy knock on the door suddenly sounded, echoing in the quiet Zhang family courtyard.

However, at this moment, the Zhang family's old couple was still deeply trapped in endless grief. The sudden news of their second son's death was like an extremely sharp sword, piercing their hearts mercilessly.

The eldest son's daughter-in-law had just given birth to a deformed baby. What's worse, the second son's daughter-in-law is still in a coma and her life or death is unknown.

The series of unfortunate events hit the elderly couple like thunder, completely crushing them and plunging them into an abyss of despair and helplessness. It seemed as if the whole world collapsed at this moment, making them breathless.

The door continued to bang and someone could be heard shouting, "Dear relative, Goudan, open the door?"

When Zhang Dagui's aunt heard that it was her mother-in-law's voice, she calmed down, opened the door, and welcomed her mother-in-law and the two sisters-in-law who came to visit her younger sister-in-law.

When Grandma Dagui saw that it was her daughter-in-law who opened the door, she asked, "Eldest daughter-in-law, has your little sister given birth? Is it a boy or a girl?"

"Mom, big sister, come in now and talk."

"Sister-in-law, mother is asking you to tell me quickly. What did your sister give birth to?"

"Go in and take a look for yourselves!"

Soon, two more exclamations were heard.

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