In my 40s, the trading system took me flying

Xu Xiaoya has never given birth to a child, but she is not stupid. She guesses that Xu's mother is in bad condition.

Father Xu was in the town at the foot of the mountain at this time. It would take some time to go back and forth, even if Xu Xiaoya ran fast, and it would take quite a while.

Xiao Shitou and the others followed Xu Xiaoya down the mountain.

They are very familiar with the roads up and down the mountain, so they are not worried about getting lost.

"Aunt, there won't be any problem with my aunt, right?"

Xiao Shitou saw that Xu Xiaoya had a serious face. This was the first time he saw Xu Xiaoya so nervous. The last time they killed the Japanese devils, Xu Xiaoya was very calm.

"I don't know, let me go find my dad first!"

After all, Xu Xiaoya had short legs and couldn't run fast, so Xiao Shitou and Xu Shier accompanied Xu Xiaoya. They ran and stopped, trying to hurry up, but it still took them more than an hour to reach the foot of the mountain.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, they met the patrol brother. Xu Xiaoya was exhausted and lay directly on the patrol brother's back.

When the eldest brother learned that his youngest aunt was about to give birth, he rushed to the town without carrying Xu Xiaoya and found Xu's father.

Just as Xu's father was about to ask Xu Xiaoya why she came here, he heard that his wife had started the fire early, so he dropped the things in his hands and ran up the mountain.

"No, we can't run anymore!"

Xu Shier and Xiao Shitou were both exhausted. After all, they were still children. To be honest, it was already amazing for them to travel for two hours and an hour straight!

Xu Xiaoya looked at her eldest brother for help. How could the eldest son of the Xu family bear it? Everyone in the family was very concerned about Xu Xiaoya's affairs.

"I'll take you back!"

With her elder brother's words, Xu Xiaoya hugged her elder brother's neck obediently.

Compared to Xu Xiaoya's physical strength, her eldest brother, who is already fifteen years old, is already like an adult.

There was no pressure in traveling with Xu Xiaoya on his back.

Along the way, Xu Xiaoya would feed her big brother from time to time, which made the eldest son of the Xu family sigh with emotion: "Xiaoya, how many delicious foods are in your bag?"

Xu Xiaoya covered her small bag: "Not much, not much!"

The eldest brother was a little amused by her little actions, but he also knew how to be humble.

But thinking about the fact that Xu Xiaoya was able to exchange things with the ancestors, I think most of the delicious food in this small bag came from the ancestors.

"Brother, I don't want your snacks. Ask the old man if he can give me a machine gun instead? The kind the Japs use. Next time the Japs fly over, I'll shoot them down!"

My eldest brother still remembers this incident.

The results of several months of hard work were wiped out by a few bombs. Anyone would be furious.

Xu Xiaoya said, "Then you don't need machine guns. They waste bullets and have a low hit rate. They rely on sheer numbers to create an effect. If you want to shoot down the Japanese planes, you should use sniper rifles or rocket launchers!"

Due to technical problems, today's bombers have poor flying altitude and defense, and can actually be hit from the ground.

This is supported by data. Xu Xiaoya had read relevant information in her previous life, but if she wanted to achieve these, she would better hope to use better equipment.

Xu Xiaoya thought that next time she could see a bomber appear, she would take a picture and post it on the system to ask for help, to see if anyone knew what type of weapon could be used to hit it.

But this is not the time to talk about this. Xu Xiaoya's mind is full of worries about her mother's safety.

Fortunately, the eldest brother was very fast. When they returned to Huaishu Village, Xu's father had already entered the delivery room. Xu Xiaoya also wanted to go in, but was stopped by her aunt at the door.

"Auntie, I want to go in and take a look!"

Xu Xiaoya was very anxious, afraid that something might happen to her mother. Her aunt motioned for her son to hold Xu Xiaoya in her arms, "No, childbirth is not something a child should watch!"

It’s so bloody, and children have never seen it before. What if one of them gets scared and can’t handle it?

Xu Xiaoya still insisted, and her aunt-in-law refused to let her go. Just at this moment, Xu's mother's screams and Xu's father's worried voice were heard from the delivery room.

Xu Xiaoya crawled under her aunt's armpit and rushed into the delivery room, where she saw her mother Xu being held by her father and Old Mrs. Xu checking on her mother's delivery.

"Don't scream. This isn't your first time giving birth. Save your strength!"

The biggest fear when giving birth is wasting all your energy, which can lead to not being able to give birth and problems for both adults and children.

Xu Xiaoya anxiously leaned over to take a look, and saw a pool of blood and a pale face.

To be honest, in her previous life, she was just an eighteen-year-old girl until her death. How could she have seen such a scene?

"You kid, I told you not to come in, but you insisted on coming in. Are you scared now?"

The aunt picked up Xu Xiaoya and took her out.

Xu Xiaoya sat on the stool at the door: "Is giving birth really that scary?"

The aunt touched Xu Xiaoya's head and said, "How can it be scary? Giving birth is really not easy!"

But no one said much about the dangers of having children.

The aunt-in-law had to go in to help, so she asked her eldest son to watch over Xu Xiaoya and not let her enter the house again.

Not only were they at the door, but also the second brother who was at home nursing his leg.

The three brothers and sisters sat together, and Xu Xiaoya woodenly took out a bag of dried meat and handed it to her two brothers.

She was so nervous she kept chewing on some dried meat: "I'm definitely not going to have kids in the future. It's too scary!"

The eldest brother patted Xu Xiaoya's forehead and said, "How old are you? Are you worried about these things? Let's talk about it when you grow up!"

The second brother also teased her: "When you grow up and get married, you might want to have children!"

Xu Xiaoya: ...

No, she didn't want to at all.

Calculating the time, Xu's mother had been in pain for several hours. Just thinking about that process made Xu Xiaoya feel creepy.

It was so scary.

Fortunately, Xu's mother gave birth prematurely and it was her second child.

An hour later, the baby was born.

"Is she my sister?"

Xu Xiaoya heard a sound like a cat's meow and asked about it immediately.

Old Lady Xu came out holding the child. When she heard Xu Xiaoya's question, she immediately dispelled her hopes: "Our Xu family has a little girl like you. It's like our ancestors appeared in spirit. How can we be so lucky to have another one?"

"Is it the younger brother?"

Xu Xiaoya heard it.

This can't be my sister.

The eldest and second brothers also leaned over to take a look: "Why is it so small? It's not even as big as a palm, right?"

Xu Xiaoya was curious and insisted that her elder brother hold her to see her newborn brother.

The swaddled child is really small, like a pocket doll, so ugly and cute, with blood and vernix caseosa on his body!

Xu Xiaoya sighed: "So ugly?"

Old Mrs. Xu rolled her eyes at her granddaughter and said, "Whose baby isn't ugly when they're born? You were like this when you were born, too!"

Xu Xiaoya refused to admit it, she was definitely good-looking.

The little brother with his fingers wrapped cried twice and then stopped. It was obvious that he had no strength left.

"What's wrong with him? Is he hungry?"

Xu Xiaoya knew that it was actually very difficult for premature babies to survive. Even in her previous life, with such good medical conditions, they still needed to live in the neonatal ward to survive. But her younger brother was living in such harsh conditions.

"Well, but your mother hasn't produced milk yet, so I have to take him out and find someone to feed him!"

Fortunately, there are still breastfeeding women in the village, and I can ask for some breast milk. At least I can't watch my grandson starve to death.

Xu Xiaoya remembered that children can drink milk powder, but she had no way to trade for milk powder for the time being, so she could only let her grandmother go out first.

Xu Xiaoya wanted to go into the house to see her mother, but failed again. She could smell a strong smell of blood even when standing at the door.

He said it wasn't over yet and told Xu Xiaoya not to go in.

Since Old Lady Xu said it was not a big problem, Xu's mother should be fine, so Xu Xiaoya followed Old Lady Xu to ask for breast milk to feed her younger brother.

The people in the village all help each other. It was just feeding a newborn baby, which didn't consume much milk, so no one refused.

Old Mrs. Xu didn't ask for it for nothing, so she gave the other person some brown sugar.

Brown sugar is a good thing, as precious as salt.

Xu Xiaoya looked at her brother who had eaten his fill and asked Old Lady Xu, "Grandma, can he really survive?"

While Old Lady Xu was checking whether the little guy had urinated, Xu Xiaoya stretched out her hand to measure it. The little guy was only as long as her arm. It was really small, and as fragile as a newborn puppy.

"Seven alive and eight dead, this kid looks small, maybe he can survive if he can eat and sleep well!"

Raising children at this time is really casual, and there is not much to consider, because the child mortality rate is 50-50, and almost every mother has lost her child to a greater or lesser extent.

Like the Xu family, few of the children survived.

"Grandma, why can't our family have a girl?"

Xu Xiaoya finally asked what she was curious about.

Old Mrs. Xu didn't hide it from Xu Xiaoya: "Although our Xu family has not had any girls for the past five generations, that's known to outsiders. Our Xu family wives are all healthy, and the men are good too. Which family doesn't have several children? How could there not be girls? Yes, there are, but none of them survived a single day!"

The only surviving girl in the Xu family was Xu Xiaoya; the others died at birth.

"why?"

She was fine when she was born!

Old Lady Xu sighed: "It's a curse!"

Xu Xiaoya wanted to ask more, but Old Lady Xu stopped talking and told her to go out and play. She also had to boil water for the little one to wipe off the dirt on his body.

There was no other way, so Xu Xiaoya went to ask her aunt, but she shook her head and said, "I don't know either. Only your grandmother knows this!"

So I didn't ask any further questions.

However, Xu Xiaoya did not go to play with Chunya and the others. Instead, she remembered why her mother Xu gave birth prematurely and ran to find her.

She was frightened when she saw her second aunt-in-law carrying out a basin of bloody stuff.

"what is this?"

Xu Xiaoya thought that her mother had suffered a heavy hemorrhage and was dead, as there was such a big lump of stuff coming out.

Second Aunt hid the item behind her back and said, "You are such a reckless child! Why do you ask about everything? This is good stuff. Don't look at it intimidatingly. I need to eat it later!"

Xu Xiaoya: ...

She really didn't know what it was, but her intuition told her that it must not taste good.