Wang Ying has been doing well since she became pregnant.
And because of her pregnancy, Wang Ying also discovered one thing: as her belly grew bigger, her golden finger gradually dried up.
Wang Ying guessed that after the child was born, this golden finger would probably be gone.
But she didn't feel sorry at all. Ever since she traveled through time, she had been relying on herself to make a living. Whether she had a golden finger or not didn't have much effect on her.
At the end of May, Wang Ying was due to give birth.
Old Mrs. Xu was so excited that she stopped sewing and just stared at Wang Ying the whole day.
Wang Ying launched the movement on the last day of May.
Because her due date had already passed by more than ten days, Xu Shuang initially asked for leave to accompany her. Later, he was unable to leave due to work, so he had to go back to work. However, he told his neighbors to contact him if they had any news.
That afternoon, Wang Ying was eating the spicy chicken bone sticks that Xu Shuang made specially for her.
In the nearly one year since Wang Ying became pregnant, her appetite has remained stable, but her taste has also changed slightly. She used to like sweet food, but now she loves chili peppers. No matter whether they are sweet, spicy, sour, hot or spicy, as long as they are chili peppers, she loves them.
Xu Shuang was also happy to pamper his wife. She had been a little worried that Wang Ying might be bad for her health if she ate too much, but after asking at the hospital, she knew that she would be fine and then she started making snacks for her.
The four meals a day are basic, and we also keep various snacks at home on a daily basis.
This spicy chicken bone stick was what Wang Ying had been craving for a few days ago. Perhaps because she had a child, Wang Ying had been thinking back to her elementary school days. At that time, she would always see people selling spicy skewers and chicken bone sticks on the street after school, and she could buy a small bowl of them for a few cents.
Pour the sticky sauce from the big red thermos, add a spoonful of chili oil, mix it with the selected already cooked vegetarian bean curd, and the spicy skewers with a slightly sweet taste are both fragrant and spicy.
Wang Ying felt something was wrong when she was eating the chicken bone sticks. When she moved a little, she found that it was a bit painful.
Old Mrs. Xu was mentally prepared for Wang Ying's attack, and quickly called on her neighbors to find Xu Shuang.
After being sent to the hospital, Wang Ying waited for a few hours. When her cervix was almost dilated, she was sent to the delivery room.
Xu Shuang couldn't sit still. He kept walking back and forth outside the delivery room, asking every nurse he caught.
Even Old Mrs. Xu was shocked. When had she ever seen Xu Shuang talk so much
Xu Shuang kept asking questions and successfully annoyed the nurse.
The nurse originally thought that the man was good-looking and her heart was fluttering, but it turned out that he was so talkative!
"Comrade, your love life is going smoothly, don't rush it!"
Not long after I entered the hospital, my cervix dilated. Everything went smoothly and the baby was in the right position. I don't know why this person was so anxious!
Xu Shuang: "But we've been inside for more than ten minutes..."
Before the nurse could start to curse, Old Lady Xu pulled her son back and said, "Sit down!"
How can a baby be born in just ten minutes
In order to divert Xu Shuang's attention, Old Lady Xu asked, "You have time, think of a name for the child!"
He thought of countless names, and rejected all the ones Chen Dong suggested. Xu Shuang even looked up the dictionary whenever she had nothing to do, and almost tore the dictionary apart. Now the child is about to be born, let alone a full name, he hasn't even thought of a nickname.
Xu Shuang was so confused that he had no time to think about these things. He didn't even think about the child now. All he could think about was Wang Ying's pale face when she was sent to the delivery room.
As they were talking, Chen Dong also arrived.
When Xu Shuang heard that Wang Ying was going to give birth, she immediately dropped the dishes she was cooking. Chen Dong cleaned up for her before rushing to the hospital.
"Is it born? Is it born?"
Another fuss. Old Mrs. Xu rolled her eyes at Chen Dong and said, "It's too early!"
It has just been pushed in, and it will take at least a while.
Chen Dong sat down on the stool, panting heavily.
After a long wait, the sound of a baby crying was finally heard in the delivery room.
The nurse came out holding a swaddling baby: "Congratulations, 6.5 jin, it's a girl."
Old Mrs. Xu hurriedly took the child. She was disliking Xu Shuang's anxiety just now, but now she was the first to cry.
"Good boy, good boy..."
Xu Shuang pulled the nurse and asked, "How is my wife?"
Nurse: “He’s doing fine.”
Xu Shuang: "That's good, can I see her?"
At this time, Wang Ying had been pushed out, her hair was wet with sweat and stuck to her scalp, and her eyes were sleepy.
Xu Shuang held Wang Ying's hand tightly, choking a little: "Thank you for your hard work."
Wang Ying smiled without saying anything, then closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Xu Shuang escorted Wang Ying into the ward, and what she didn't say out loud was, we will never have another child.
Xu Shuang really felt that having one child was enough. One child had already made Wang Ying so miserable. If he had another one, he really couldn't bear to let Wang Ying suffer twice.
Old Mrs. Xu held the child tightly in her arms, and even Chen Dong came over to watch, and quickly sniffed her body to see if there was any smell of oil smoke, for fear that the precious child would be frightened.
Wang Ying fell asleep. Xu Shuang touched her cheek and then tiptoed over to see her daughter.
The tiny baby had some furry hair on his head that was red and wrinkled.
Xu Shuang stretched out her finger and gently touched her daughter, a soft little ball, and she hummed with her delicate little voice.
Xu Shuang suddenly felt a warm current flowing into his heart. How magical it was that he had a child related by blood.
Old Lady Xu pushed the child into his arms and said, "You two can spend some time together. I'll go see where I can get some hot water and some food. We'll go back later and you can make something for Wang Ying. We can have a bite first."
Xu Shuang hugged her daughter stiffly. Such a soft child, I’m afraid her bones haven’t even grown yet, right
Chen Dong's eyes were filled with jealousy: "Give me a hug?"
With the soft little baby in his arms, Chen Dong felt complete all of a sudden.
But he didn't hold her for too long, as Xu Shuang disliked the frivolousness of his master.
Chen Dong: “Just a little bit!”
Wronged…
Xu Shuang: "Not even a little bit."
This is a sweet and soft little girl.
Chen Dong was so envious that he could only watch.
Wang Ying had no family members in her mother's family, but during the few days she was hospitalized, even the medical staff could not find fault with the family. Old Mrs. Xu was busy running around, serving her daughter-in-law without any reluctance, and holding her little granddaughter in her arms and loving her so much.
Not to mention Xu Shuang, he took several days off in a row. Wang Ying only needed to move her fingers and he would know what she wanted.
Wang Ying was leaning on the pillow, with chicken soup and a combination of meat and vegetables specially made by Xu Shuang at hand, which made the pregnant woman in the next bed jealous.
During the three days that Wang Ying was in the hospital, many people came to see her.
The first were the medical staff, represented by Jiang Lin, who generously brought more than 20 eggs, two bags of brown sugar, and a bucket of malted milk. Then came Zhang Na, who also brought eggs and sugar.
There were also Xu Shuang’s colleagues at work who sent her few gifts, but they were all useful to pregnant women.
Wang Ying was a little dazed when she first saw her daughter. After she came to her senses, a strong attachment made her unable to help but pick up the child.
Xu Shuang: "Our mom said she looks like you and me, but I don't really see how they look alike."
Both he and Wang Ying are good-looking, but he couldn't say against his conscience that his daughter's red and wrinkled skin was from them.
Wang Ying: "Indeed, they are similar. The eyes are a bit like mine, the eyebrows are like yours... well, the mouth is like yours too."
Wang Ying felt that her eyes were like hers, but her eyebrows, mouth and face shape were like Xu Shuang
"… She doesn't look like me, but she looks like you."
Wang Ying herself has the appearance of an innocent little white flower, but Xu Shuang has a more aggressive and eye-catching appearance.
Old Mrs. Xu came in with hot water and agreed as soon as she heard this: "I said it's up to him! But you both look good, so it doesn't matter who you choose."
Wang Ying smiled and pointed at the baby that was blowing bubbles. Everything was fine. She had always wanted a daughter, and it was enough to get her wish. She didn't care much about appearance.
Xu Shuang originally thought that they didn't look alike, but after Wang Ying said that, the more he looked at them, the more he thought they looked alike.
Wang Ying: "By the way, I thought of a nickname for our baby."
Old Lady Xu pulled Xu Shuang away and said, "Hurry up and tell me. This kid has been pissing me off these past few days. All the characters he found in the books he read are unfamiliar characters! I can't even recognize them, but he still wants to use them as nicknames!"
When Xu Shuang saw his daughter being born, he really thought about naming her seriously, but Old Lady Xu didn't like any of the names he mentioned!
Xu Shuang seemed to be obsessed with rare characters, and she picked all those weird characters. Although the meaning was good, wasn't this cheating the child? If she learned such complicated characters in school, wouldn't she just be criticized by others
Wang Ying glanced at Xu Shuang, who looked a little aggrieved, and said, "Do you think the nickname Taotao is okay?"
My daughter has a small birthmark behind her ear. It is red and looks like a peach.
Old Lady Xu repeated it twice and slapped her thigh: "Okay!"
The mother is called Ying and the daughter is called Tao, isn’t that perfect
Xu Shuang also nodded. Taotao is a good name.
After staying in the hospital for enough days, the family took Taotao out of the hospital.
When she got home, Old Lady Xu kept muttering, "Fortunately, I didn't give birth in winter. It would be painful to be in confinement in winter. This time is just right. It's not too hot yet. The weather is just right."
After Wang Ying returned home, she started to take care of herself after the baby was born. Xu Shuang also fed her several meals a day, such as stewed pig's trotters with soybeans and peanuts, and stewed chicken with chestnuts. He even went back to the brigade to ask the brigade leader for fish. Now the fish pond on the mountain is shared by all. Tian Youfu manages the fish pond and plans to fish it out every year, fearing that someone else will fish it out and there will be nothing to eat. Xu Shuang went back and brought back three big fish, and cooked them for Wang Ying in various ways.
Wang Ying was originally worried that Old Lady Xu would not be able to handle the situation, so she thought that if it really couldn't be done, she could just spend money to find a young wife in the compound to help out.
But Taotao was unexpectedly easy to take care of. The child's sleep and rest schedule was very normal, and she did not feel exhausted or have to turn upside down day and night because of the child.
Old Mrs. Xu sighed: "She is much easier to take care of than Xu Ming when he was a child. Xu Ming, that brat, was a pain in the ass when he was a child. He is not like Xu Shuang at all. Xu Shuang is easier to take care of. She has no other problems except that she sleeps too much. Xu Ming cried and howled every day and every night..."
Speaking of Xu Ming, Wang Ying quickly asked, "I heard that my sister-in-law is also pregnant?"
Old Mrs. Xu was beaming with joy: "She's pregnant! You gave birth here, and she found out she was pregnant. The news came the day before yesterday, so I estimate she's four months pregnant now!"
Xu Ming had a hard time in the northwest during his years there, only in the beginning. Later, he became more capable and married into the farm director's family. Now he no longer needs any subsidies from Xu Shuang, and she would occasionally send back some local specialties.
Old Lady Xu: "It's so far away, I can't go there. I plan to make some children's clothes for him and send them to him when the time comes. It will be a gesture from our family."
Xu Ming has been sweet-talking and good at coaxing people since he was young. Xu Shuang told Wang Ying privately about it. At that time, his mother even went to a fortune teller, and the fortune teller said that Xu Ming was destined to be a gigolo.
Wang Ying smiled and said, "Make a few more. Oh, I have a few more ideas for making baby carriages and cribs. Let's make a set for Taotao in a few days. If everything goes well, we'll send the drawings to my brother and sister-in-law."
Old Lady Xu: "Sure, but don't rush to paint. Taotao is still young. We just need to get it over there before he's born."
"It is most important for a woman to take care of herself during the confinement period. You are a doctor and you know this. If the confinement period is not done well, it is easy to get sick. If the confinement period is done well, some old diseases can be cured..."
Wang Ying felt warm in her heart: "Mom, you are so kind."
She is lucky to have such a bond and kinship in this era.
Wang Ying's confinement lasted until early July. With careful feeding and care, little Taotao became fair and tender. Everyone who saw her, whether they came to see Wang Ying or were neighbors in the compound, would say something about it.
"She looks really good, just like Xu Shuang!"
Jiang Lin, who seldom comes here, expressed a different opinion when she came for the second time.
"Better looking than your man!"
Wang Ying: "It's all right. We don't expect her to act in movies. It's not like she can make a living just by looking good."
Jiang Lin laughed: "I forgot to tell you, I am now an official doctor!"
She puffed out her chest and said, "I'm not an intern anymore!"
Wang Ying congratulated her: "That's great."
Jiang Lin: "What I mean is... I will compete with you in the future!"
In fact, her status in the medical office is actually a little higher than Wang Ying's. Wang Ying took too long to be pregnant and give birth. During this period, it was difficult for Dr. Yang to find Wang Ying even if he had something to do. Jiang Lin had been stimulated by Yang Qing before, so she was eager to prove herself and was particularly active.
Gradually, I also made an appointment with Dr. Yang.
However, Jiang Lin was not too happy. She even felt that Wang Ying had given birth at the wrong time. She had just started working at the sugar factory and was pregnant. She couldn't do her job. Doctor Yang used to treat her as a trainee, but now he also took himself into consideration.
Wang Ying listened to Jiang Lin's words, but she didn't get angry. She said in a friendly manner: "Let's compete peacefully. Besides, maybe there will be other opportunities in the future."
Jiang Lin's competitive spirit was overcome by Wang Ying, and she puffed her cheeks: "I knew you were going to say that."
Over the past six months, she has been responsible for most of the consultations in the clinic, and has changed from a doctor who would prick people when speaking to one who has a gentler and more stable attitude.
Looking at Wang Ying again, Jiang Lin felt a little frustrated, as if the other party had never been angry.
I feel like I didn't win completely.
Wang Ying comforted her a few words, but it didn't help much, so she could only change the subject.
"I heard that Yang Qing is getting married?"
When talking about Yang Qing, Jiang Lin became interested.
"Yes! She said now that she is being transferred to the Propaganda Department."
Jiang Lin curled her lips and said, "We are looking for the son of our factory workshop director."
Wang Ying was a little confused: "The one she was talking about before?"
Jiang Lin: "She blew it. She was disgusted that we couldn't find her a better job."