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Lin Yingtao had rarely had any health problems since she was a child, so when she felt nauseous and inexplicably uncomfortable, like seasickness, she left the office and went to the drugstore on the street to buy a pregnancy test stick.
The teacher's bathroom next to the office was divided into three small cubicles. Lin Yingtao sat inside and called her husband.
"It seems real..." She covered her mouth and whispered.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, Jiang Qiaoxi hurriedly parked his car and ran across the sidewalk. The kindergarten security guards knew him and invited him in directly.
Several teachers saw him coming and joked with him: "Why are you here so early to pick up Teacher Xiaolin?"
Jiang Qiaoxi passed by the entrance of the White Horse Class, where the children were learning English songs. A childcare worker who was on internship saw him and said, "Teacher Lin just returned to the office!"
When he opened the office door, there was no one else inside. Jiang Qiaoxi closed the door behind him and hugged his wife.
"Show me..." he whispered as he rubbed Cherry's shoulders.
Those two short red marks were the first signal that "Jiang Yulu" appeared in this world.
Lin Yingtao was obviously confused and even more uneasy - she was not even 25 years old yet, and although she had expected that this would happen sooner or later, it happened so suddenly that she was not fully prepared mentally.
Every time she was alone, she would start to have wild thoughts. She felt lost. She still wanted to be a baby. She wanted to be a mother again.
Only when Jiang Qiaoxi was with her would she realize that she and this little baby were probably the most important people in Jiang Qiaoxi's life. This was how her husband looked forward to the arrival of a close relative.
"It can't be really called 'Jiang Yulu', right?" Lin Yingtao said after thinking for a long time at night.
Jiang Qiaoxi slept sideways beside her. He didn't dare to hug his wife casually anymore. He just held her hand and stayed with her. "What do you want to call me?" he asked casually.
Whenever she had nothing to do, Lin Yingtao would look up the dictionary. No matter where she was reading novels or magazines, she would always pay attention to any names. When she was working in the kindergarten, she would also look down at the admission list, as if she was secretly looking at the answers of other candidates.
While eating, Electrician Lin suggested to the couple, "Give your child a name that is easier to pronounce. It will be important for the child to go to school, work and make friends in the future." He frowned and said, "Jiang Yuyu, that's too hard to pronounce. What a weird name!"
Jiang Qiaoxi lowered his head to eat and couldn't help laughing. Lin Yingtao, who was holding a bowl of rice beside him, turned her head to look at him. Jiang Qiaoxi picked up some food and ate without looking up.
Du Shang asked in the Qunshan Xiaofanzhuo group: "Cherry, when is the due date?"
Lin Yingtao replied: "The end of October."
Duchamp said: "Hey, maybe he has the same zodiac sign as me!"
Cai Fangyuan suggested: "Take a look at what you liked to eat when you were pregnant."
Lin Yingtao said: "I don't want to eat anything now!"
Cai Fangyuan said, "It won't be called Jiang Shrimp Flakes, right?"
Yu Qiao popped up and said, "Born in October, let's call him Jiang Jianguo!"
Du Shang seconded: "Jiang Aihua!"
Yu Qiao said: "Jiang Jianguo for the man and Jiang Aihua for the woman, that's enough."
Qin Yeyun: [Cover face][Cover face]
Lin Yingtao has left the group chat.
Cai Fangyuan invited Lin Yingtao to join the group chat.
Cai Fangyuan said: "Everyone, please pay attention. This pregnant woman's mood swings are easy to occur. Please take care of her."
Lin Yingtao said: "What kind of godfather or godmother are they [cry loudly][cry loudly]? There is no constructive advice at all [cry loudly][cry loudly]"
Duchamp sighed, "Ah, I'm only 25 years old, and I'm already going to be a godfather."
Yu Qiao said: "I am still a baby, but I am already going to be a godfather."
Qin Yeyun: "Lin Yingtao, there are still several months left, why are you in such a hurry? Isn't Jiang Qiaoxi a genius student? Let him think about it! Jiang Qiaoxi, you should think about it too!"
Jiang Qiaoxi came home from get off work with the documents he had brought home and a few pages of faxes from Hong Kong. He rolled up his shirt sleeves, sat at the dining table, and pulled his wife over.
The first few pages were about matters related to Lisa's visa application, and the last page was handwritten in traditional Chinese characters with more than a dozen names written on it.
Jiang Qiaoxi looked down, his eyes drooping slightly, as if he was smiling: "This was given by my uncle and his family, do you want to take a look?"
Lin Yingtao also brought her little notebook over. She had thought of a few names, but hadn't decided yet. The name she liked best was at the top, a girl's name, "Jiang Qingyi".
"Don't you think she's cute?" She looked up happily and asked Jiang Qiaoxi, "Huh? Is it Jiang Qingyi?"
The second tone, chosen very carefully, makes people feel happy when listening to it.
Jiang Qiaoxi looked at his wife's face and couldn't help but reach out and pinch it. He looked down at the names his uncle and cousin had chosen and said, "The last characters they chose are mostly in the second tone, and some have the first tone."
Electrician Lin liked the name given by Uncle Jiang Qiaoxi, "Jiang Youci".
"This name is great!" Lin Haifeng's eyes lit up, and he said softly to his daughter, "The meaning is also quite good, it's a good name."
Lin Yingtao raised her eyebrows slightly, very skeptical. Her mother smiled and said to her father, "It sounds cultured, much more cultured than the name you named 'Qile'."
Jiang Qiaoxi also liked the name, but Lin Yingtao couldn't explain why she was dissatisfied.
"I think this sounds like my ancestor's name," she said, turning from the passenger seat.
Jiang Qiaoxi had just taken a sip of water and before he started the car, he coughed twice and choked.
Lin Yingtao opened her hands in front of her and gestured to Jiang Qiaoxi: "It's the kind in Xinhua Bookstore, with a whole bookshelf full of the Collected Works of Jiang Youci! Do you think it looks like it?"
Jiang Yulu went from being a little fairy with colorful hair, standing on a somersault cloud and holding a magic wand, to being a little ancestor that made Lin Yingtao uneasy.
In her heart, perhaps only the post-90s academic god Jiang Qiaoxi can suppress the post-15 literary giant Jiang Youci.
On March 5, 2015, Lin Yingtao celebrated her birthday at home with her husband, just the two of them. The birthday cake was only 6 inches in size, because Lin Yingtao was pregnant, so even though she was very greedy for sweets, she only dared to eat one portion. She did not have a particularly strong morning sickness reaction, and she did not feel very uncomfortable from the time she confirmed her pregnancy to now. This may have something to do with her love of moving since she was a child, or maybe she is very lucky.
Dushan posted a message on WeChat Moments, sharing a video of Jay Chou getting married in a church in Yorkshire, England in January.
"Jay is getting married, and one of my best friends is expecting a baby," Dushanbe posted. "Time flies."
Jiang Qiaoxi stood tall beside the faucet, rolling up his sleeves to wash the dishes. Lin Yingtao sat at the dining table and clicked on the wedding video. She seemed to be looking at the male singer on the cover of "Fantasy" who had many worries but now happily married his bride. Her eyes unconsciously glanced at the man behind the phone who patiently wiped the dishes carefully.
Lin Yingtao hugged Jiang Qiaoxi's waist from behind. Jiang Qiaoxi finished washing the dishes and wiped his hands. His hands were very cold, and he held the back of Lin Yingtao's hands. He turned around again and stood in the kitchen with his wife in his arms. They hugged each other for a long time to rest as if they had just finished a dance.
The third month that "Jiang Yulu" appeared in this world.
There couldn't be a better birthday present.
Lin Yingtao has understood this since she was a child.
As girls grow up, they will face more and more pain in their lives.
She lay on the bed, her skirt was soaked, and she was very scared. The bed was pushed forward along the corridor, and her mother was beside her, trying to smile and comfort her, but she felt sorry for her daughter. Jiang Qiaoxi was talking hurriedly with the anesthesiologist, and turned her head and looked in her direction while talking.
Lin Yingtao could hear her own breathing very clearly. She thought that no matter what difficulties she encountered, she could get through them.
Her long hair was spread out, and she was sweating a lot, making the pillow wet. The anesthesiologist and obstetric nurse came to check on her from time to time. Jiang Qiaoxi lowered her head and asked her, "Does it hurt?"
Lin Yingtao was stunned and shook her head.
"It doesn't hurt anymore." He kissed her on the cheek.
It was getting dark in the provincial capital. It was early autumn and the weather was getting cold. Electrician Lin was so worried that he couldn't eat and was walking back and forth in the corridor. At this time, his old friend, Team Leader Yu, came and asked from a distance: "Are the cherries ripe?"
The baby's first cry was accompanied by the nurse's words: "Oh, big double eyelids!"
Electrician Lin's cell phone was out of battery, so he borrowed his son-in-law Qiao Xi's cell phone and squatted on the stairs in the hospital where there were few people. As soon as the call was connected, he said just two words, then reached out to wipe his face, and he smiled while choking with sobs.
My sister smiled and congratulated him on the phone: "It's OK, Yingtao is safe. Haifeng, you have been worrying about me for more than 20 years... You are a grandfather now!"
"I always feel like I just received a call from you telling me that Juanzi had given birth to a daughter," said the elder sister. She was silent for a while, "That was in 1990."
The author has something to say: Cherry's extra chapter has come to an end here for the time being. There are still some parenting contents after Jiang Yulu grows up, which have not been written yet (sorry that I am in a bad state recently, writing very slowly, and I feel that I can't write well). After revising the full text of Cherry, the remaining extra chapters will be placed in the author's words section of this chapter, which is the part of this paragraph, and no payment is required. The next time you see Cherry reminding you to update, it should be the time to post the revised draft of the full text and the new extra chapter. That's it.