Hua Xiaomai made an appearance on the sixth day in the east village and inevitably exchanged a few earnest words with everyone before she stopped going to the shop.
Now her belly had indeed grown very large; she could hardly see her own feet when she lowered her head, and moving around was particularly laborious. She simply stayed home all day long, except occasionally going out for a walk with Old Madam Meng or waiting for Meng Yuhuai to come home in the evening to accompany her on a stroll; she basically never left the house.
After the 15th day of the first lunar month, the new year was considered over, and the villagers once again began their day-to-day hard labor.
