I am the Odd One Out Chapter 9

After the wheat in the field was harvested, it began to be dried. Leo Lin and the Tian brothers selected some individual plants with neat ears and large grains. After threshing, they spread them out in the yard of their home to dry. Mia was sitting in front of the house sewing baby clothes. From time to time she looked up and glanced at Leo Lin who was busy with the five Tian brothers in the yard. He and the Tian brothers mixed the ashes of burned straw and wheat seeds together, put them into jars, stood up and told Mia to sow the wheat seeds into the fields after the white dew. Mia held up the finished baby clothes and said to Leo Lin:

"At that time, there was a little person inside the clothes."

Leo Lin came over and carefully took the baby clothes, as if taking over his child. He held it in his hands and looked at it again and again, laughing non-stop.

Leo Lin and the Tian brothers moved the jars into the house opposite, arranged them neatly, and planted sorghum and corn in the fields. Then Leo Lin felt that everything was in order and he should prepare for the wedding in the next few days.

Leo Lin demonstrated his superb carpentry skills in the yard. He asked the Tian brothers to move out the furniture that had been formed in the carpentry. He also knocked the original tables, chairs, benches, wardrobe boxes and other old items, packed them up as if they were new, and sat in front of the house. Mia, who was sewing baby clothes, cried out in surprise when she saw it:

"Yo!"

Leo Lin hired two painters from a neighboring village to polish the furniture over and over again with sandpaper, and then applied layers of paint to make the furniture shine. Mia said the furniture was as bright as a mirror.

Seeing the white dew approaching, Leo Lin decided to get married before sowing wheat. He hired a tailor and ordered him to make a red coat, red trousers, a red skirt and red satin embroidered shoes for Mia. When the tailor saw Mia, who was nine months pregnant, he shook his head and said that he could make red satin embroidered shoes. You can't make a red coat, red trousers, and a red skirt. Even if you make it, it would be inappropriate to wear it. Mia said that instead of making a red coat, red trousers and a red skirt, she would make a red robe and put it on her body.

After the tailor finished making the red robe and red shoes and left, Leo Lin said to Mia: "I must let you sit in the sedan this time."

Leo Lin called the Tian brothers, and the six of them turned a square table over and transformed it into a sedan. The four legs of the table are the pillars of the sedan chair, and the table top is the bottom of the sedan chair. Bamboo poles are tied to both sides, and the two poles tied to the ends of the poles are sedan poles. A red cloth was wrapped around the table legs, and a red top was tied on the table legs. Finally, the bottom of the sedan was covered with wheat straw, and a cotton mattress was placed on the straw. Within two hours, a sedan chair carried by four people appeared in front of Mia's eyes.

Leo Lin chose an auspicious day and invited Mia to sit in the sedan chair transformed from a square table. There was a small stool inside. Mia, supported by Leo Lin, entered the sedan with difficulty and sat on the stool. The four Tian brothers lifted the sedan and left Leo Lin's courtyard.

The sun was shining brightly on this day. Leo Lin said that he should go for a walk on the road outside the village. If he walked a little further, Theodore Tian led the way. The sedan chair creaked and went along the path. Leo Lin followed behind the sedan chair, and the villagers followed. Behind Leo Lin, the crowd followed the sedan to the main road, and the road began to become dusty. They walked towards Lizhuang in front of them. More than a hundred people in the village shouted in front of them and people passing by asked curiously:

"Who is sitting in the sedan?"

Brother Tian said: "There is a female Diao Chan sitting in the sedan chair."

When approaching Lizhuang, Mia in the sedan screamed, and the four Tian brothers who were carrying the sedan immediately stopped. They shouted to Leo Lin behind them, saying that the young lady couldn't hold it in anymore and that the young lady was about to give birth. Women who are about to give birth to a baby always scream. People passing by said, "Isn't that right? She screams when she's about to give birth." Theodore Tian said, you know what the heck, you only scream after giving birth.

Leo Lin hurried forward and leaned into the sedan with a red face. When he came out again, his face was pale. He said tremblingly:

"It's time to give birth."

The four Tian brothers carried the sedan and ran wildly on the road. Theodore Tian and Leo Lin were running in front. They wanted to run to Lizhuang in front, where there was a midwife who was famous for hundreds of miles.

Mia kept moaning in the sedan chair, and the six men were sweating profusely as they ran on the road. Leo Lin was running in front and urging, shouting that the four people carrying the sedan behind were as slow as a tortoise. These four people did not dare to say a word and ran with a mournful face and panting. After running two miles, the anxious Leo Lin asked the sedan bearer to stop, picked up Mia from the sedan, and started running on the road with Mia in his arms. Theodore Tian asked his four younger brothers to carry the empty sedan behind him. He said he was going to replace the young master and ran to catch up.

Theodore Tian failed to catch up with Leo Lin. Leo Lin, who was holding Mia in his arms, felt wind at his feet when he ran away. Theodore Tian couldn't catch up even if he chased behind him, and the four people carrying the sedan fell further and further behind. Leo Lin ran through a forest and turned a corner and disappeared.

When the five Tian brothers came to Lizhuang and arrived in front of the midwife's house, Leo Lin was already standing there, with sweat soaked all over his body. He looked like he had just been fished out of the water, his feet There were two puddles of water underneath. He stared blankly at the five Tian brothers running over. As soon as the sedan was placed on the ground, they fell to the ground one by one, gasping for air as if they were blowing bellows. At this time, a baby's cry came from the room, and Leo Lin's face couldn't help but twitch a few times, as if he was laughing or crying. After a while, the midwife came out with a smile and said:

"Here we are, a daughter of a daughter."