Northeast: My Absurd Woman

Chapter 146 One mentally challenged father, one litter of mentally challenged mothers

Liao Zhi, pale and weak from overeating, cried out.

"Liao Zhi, bear with me. I'm going to find Zhang Changyao. I hope nothing bad happens to you. I won't be able to face Sister Lin Qiu."

Yang Wuni, clutching her stomach, ran off to find Zhang Changyao.

"He's eaten too much, just massage him a bit and he'll feel better."

Wang, the powder maker who was slapping powder on the side, answered Yang Wuni affirmatively after hearing her words.

"Ah! Ah? Okay..."

Before Zhang Changyao could speak, Yang Wuni lowered her head and hurried home.

Just as I arrived at Hou Da Yanjing's house, I saw Hu Xianfa riding his bicycle into his house.

After entering the courtyard, Hu Xianfa looked around repeatedly.

Only after making sure no one was watching him did he open the door and enter Hou Da Yanjing's house.

Hou Da Yanjing's house didn't have a backyard; the back of the house faced the main road.

Curious, Yang Wuni crept slowly along the back of the wall.

From the back window came Zheng Meizhi's coquettish reproach.

"You fearless wretch, aren't you afraid that Hou Big Eyes will chop you up with a knife?"

"My darling, I'm not bragging to you about this."

Even if he had eight times the courage, Hou Da Yan wouldn't dare to touch a single hair on my head.

Back when I was hunting in the mountains, he was still wriggling in his mother's belly.

Hu Xianfa said in a lewd tone, and with a "smack," he must have kissed Zheng Meizhi.

"Hu Xianfa, stop pulling my clothes. I'm asking you, did you do what you promised me?" Zheng Meizhi's tone was displeased.

"It's done, it's done. I'm a man of my word."

Hurry up, or I'll suffocate. Who will care about you then?

Inside the room, the sounds of a man and woman making love and the clattering of things could be heard.

Yang Wuni lost interest in listening and went home with a blush on her face.

Lying on the kang (a heated brick bed), eyes wide open, mind completely blank.

"Wu Ni, are you home?" Sun Fengying came over to visit, carrying Mendun'er in her arms.

"Fengying, she's in this room." Yang Wuni tapped on the window of the east room to signal Sun Fengying.

"Wu Ni, Qingming said you know how to make Guo Chuliu, and he asked me to come and ask you how."

"Now that we have this powder, we don't even know how to eat it properly."

Sun Fengying put Mendun on the kang (a heated brick bed) and let him play by himself.

"Oh dear! Look at my brain, I forgot something important."

When Yang Wuni heard the words "the pot is overflowing," she remembered that Liao Zhi was still in the other room groaning about a stomachache.

He didn't even have time to greet Sun Fengying, and hurried to the west room to see Liao Zhi.

Sun Fengying, without complaining, picked up the sullen child and followed him to sit down in the west room.

Yang Wuni smiled apologetically at Liao Zhi, and massaged him through the blanket.

"Wu Ni, is the person lying there dead or alive?"

Sun Fengying curiously craned her neck to look at Liao Zhi.

"Dead." Liao Zhi stuck out his tongue to scare Sun Fengying.

"Oh my god! This thing can move!" Sun Fengying was so frightened that she jumped back.

Yang Wuni had gotten used to Liao Zhi's unreliability, so she didn't care much and ignored him.

She briefly explained to Sun Fengying how to make the "Guo Chu Liu" (a type of sweet soup), and then used all her strength to massage Liao Zhi's stomach.

Mendun ignored that matter and ran and jumped past Liao Zhi.

"Wu Ni, do you think Wang Ga can make money by doing all this?"

Ten kilograms of rice noodle rolls from one family can add up to quite a bit of money.

Fengying, don't worry about this. Even if we don't make any money, we won't lose anything. At worst, we'll just keep the vermicelli.

It's your belly, you've been pregnant for several months, why isn't there any sign of pregnancy yet?

A while ago, Qingming came to see me and asked me to ask you why you couldn't get pregnant.

I'm wondering if you two can't even talk to each other, why do you need to ask someone else?

When Zhang Changyao came back yesterday, he brought up this matter again.

Qingming still doesn't dare ask you; he's afraid there's something wrong with him.

Yang Wuni stopped rubbing Liao Zhi's stomach and turned to ask Sun Fengying.

"Wu Ni, this isn't Qingming's problem, it's that I don't want to have the baby."

Wu Ni, you didn't see it. Every day, when I'm facing a bunch of idiots in the yard, I'm genuinely scared.

If I were to actually get pregnant, I'd probably be worried to death.

If an old fool is just like that, there's nothing you can do. But if the young one is a fool, then the sky is falling.

Rather than having a child who might be mentally challenged, it's better to take good care of the simpleton.

As long as Zhai Qingming treats Mendun'er well, Mendun'er will be his own son, and he will take care of him in his old age and see him off in his final days.

If he doesn't treat Mendun well, my marriage with him won't last long either.

"I definitely can't have his kids; it would be too distressing to have so many.

Sun Fengying, looking dejected, carried Mendun'er home.

"Wu Ni, this woman is very clear-headed, she is right."

If someone is born with a mental disability, it's a genetic issue, and it's best not to have them.

If a child is born mentally challenged, raising them will cause suffering for the adults.

Even if you don't raise them, a child is still a life; you can't just abandon them.

"Liao Zhi, you're not right either. Why aren't Zhai Qingming and Zhai Qingliang stupid?"

Yang Wuni picked up the things in the sand with a small shovel and blinked her eyes as she spoke.

"That's something ignorant people do, out of ten or eight children."

There's always one or two who aren't stupid; the father is stupid, the whole family is stupid.

That's like picking the tallest among the dregs; he looks like a normal person, but he's actually lacking.

"oh!"

Yang Wuni stopped arguing with Liao Zhi. After thinking about it carefully, she realized that Zhai Qingming was indeed a step below the average person.

"Liao Zhi, my stomach hurts so badly, am I going into labor?"

After feeding Liao Zhi water, Yang Wuni, who was about to get out of bed, held her stomach and dared not move.

"Wu Ni, don't scare me. I can't move and I don't know how to deliver babies."

Go find Zhang Changyao right away, or go outside and ask someone for help.

Liao Zhi couldn't see Yang Wuni's condition and anxiously told her to go and call for help.

"Oh no, Liao Zhi, my pants are all wet, I think I peed."

I can't walk, it hurts so much! What should I do... what should I do?

Yang Wuni looked at the water still flowing out of her crotch and didn't know what to do.

"Wu Ni, this is your first time giving birth, you can't do it without a midwife."

Is anyone outside? Is anyone passing by and able to come in and help?

Is anyone outside? Adults or children, please. Someone comes in…

The only thing Liao Zhi could do to help Yang Wuni was to shout at the top of his lungs.

But the new house was on the edge of the village, with no main roads in front or behind it, so there was no one to pass by.

"Stop...stop shouting, Liao Zhi...Liao Zhi...what do we do?"

Yang Wuni clutched the corner of Liao Zhi's blanket, her forehead covered in sweat from the pain.

"Wu Ni, I've never had a child before, and I've never seen one. I don't know how to do it."

Let me think, let me think about what's written in the book. My grandma seems to have said something like that before..."

Liao Zhi bit her lip, closed her eyes, and tried hard to recall.

"Liao Zhi, it doesn't hurt anymore. I'll go out and find someone."

Yang Wuni wiped the sweat from her neck with her sleeve and slowly slid down from the kang (a heated brick bed) to the floor.

"Wu Ni, you can't go out. It would be troublesome if you were born on the outside land."

I remember that women shouldn't be exposed to wind after giving birth, because babies have delicate skin and the ground is always covered in dirt.

"If you go down to the ground, won't you get covered in dirt?" Liao Zhi called out to Yang Wuni, preventing her from getting down.