"Okay, I'll take it. You eat quickly, I'll come back to check on it later."

The contractions arrived as expected shortly after the old doctor left. Jiang Ruyu grimaced in pain, but the pain subsided after a while.

The morning passed in Jiang Ruyu's labor pains. She showed no signs of giving birth yet, and the contractions were getting more and more painful, with the intervals between them getting shorter and shorter. She was in so much pain that she wanted to hit someone. Seeing her granddaughter in so much pain, Grandma Jiang turned her face away and secretly wiped away her tears.

Zheng Dali, as a father-in-law, felt awkward approaching his daughter-in-law. Sitting on a bench a little further away, he felt bad seeing her in pain; he had already come to regard Ruyu as his own daughter.

Jiang Ruyu held Zheng Yang's hand tightly. The back of his hand was covered with nail marks from when he pinched her in pain. He didn't feel any pain at all. He just felt heartache when he saw his wife's pretty face contorted in pain and her teeth biting her lip. He wished he could take her place.

"Ruyu, eat something." Zheng Yang handed over a large meat bun, which he had bought from a state-run restaurant. He felt bad for Ruyu, who was in so much pain.

"Give me something thin to drink." Jiang Ruyu's forehead was covered in sweat from the pain.

Zheng Yang quickly helped her up, and Zheng Xiaoyue brought her some pigeon soup to feed her. She ate during a break in the contractions, and soon after, the old doctor arrived.

"Come on, let me see how it is." She checked Jiang Ruyu's cervix: "Hmm, six centimeters, that's about right, let's go to the delivery room."

Zheng Yang quickly asked, "Can I go in?"

The old doctor turned to look at him, saw that his eyes were bloodshot, and sighed: "Alright, find a nurse to change your clothes and go in to see how hard your wife is working. You should be more considerate of her in the future."

"Thank you, thank you."

Jiang Ruyu was taken into the delivery room, and Zheng Yang changed his clothes and followed her in with the prepared blankets, clothes, and other items.

Because it was twins, the senior doctor came in as well. Jiang Ruyu was put on the delivery bed and her pants were taken off. Fortunately, the delivery room had a boiler and heating, so she wouldn't get cold.

Once on the delivery bed, Jiang Ruyu didn't know if it was due to nervousness or something else, but she felt her stomach hurt more, and the intervals between pains became shorter.

A doctor nearby heard her groaning in pain every two minutes and came over to examine her: "Your cervix is ​​dilating quite quickly. In the ward, it was only six centimeters dilated, but now it's fully dilated. Dr. Guan, you can give birth now, it's fully dilated."

"So fast, okay, let's begin the delivery."

The old lady didn't go into labor herself, but instead instructed the doctor from the side: "The difficulty of vaginal delivery of twins lies in the fact that the position of the twins will change as one of them is delivered, so we need to help the mother deliver quickly or correct the position of the twins in time."

"Xiao Jiang, don't worry, the babies in your belly are in a good position, both are head-down. Let's work harder and after the first one is born, we'll deliver the second one as quickly as possible. That way, they won't be in the correct position, and you'll suffer less."

"Okay, I'll listen to you. I'll do whatever you say." Jiang Ruyu gasped in pain.

"Okay, now listen to my instructions. When the contraction comes, push down hard, hold your breath, and don't relax. After the contraction passes, breathe normally, but don't breathe too fast. Do you understand?"

Jiang Ruyu nodded: "I understand."

When the contractions came, Jiang Ruyu pushed down as the doctor instructed, but since she had never given birth before, she didn't push correctly, so the doctor touched her perineum with his hand.

"Put your effort here. As long as you use the right amount of force, it will be born quickly. Don't rush, and pay attention to your breathing."

Zheng Yang couldn't help at all; he could only watch helplessly as his wife, gripping the bed frame with her hands and stepping on the footrests, gritted her teeth and strained to give birth, the veins on her forehead, neck, and hands bulging.

His eyes were red and swollen. It was the first time he had realized what it meant to have one foot in the grave when giving birth and becoming a mother. Ruyu had suffered terribly during her ten months of pregnancy. At first, she couldn't eat and felt nauseous all the time. In the first few months, she was so thin that she looked like she could be blown away by the wind.

Things got a little better around four or five months, but her belly grew too fast, putting a heavy burden on her. All the food she ate went into the baby's mouth, yet she still became incredibly thin. At almost 1.7 meters tall, she was even thinner than before her pregnancy, except for her belly.

As her belly grew larger, she started experiencing leg cramps, her feet became so swollen that pressing on them left a dent, and she frequently suffered from acid reflux. She would feel full after only a few bites of food and get hungry again very quickly. She had endured so much suffering, and she never imagined that she would have to suffer so much more when she was about to give birth.

He had no right to deserve Ruyu bearing his child. He would treat her even better in the future. If he ever wronged her in this life, may he suffer a terrible death.

Zheng Yang wiped Jiang Ruyu's sweat and whispered comforting words in her ear: "Don't be afraid, I'm here. We won't have any more children. After you give birth, when the baby is a little older, I'll take you out to play again. We'll also go visit Jiang Hui. Don't you like that island?"

Jiang Ruyu was preoccupied with giving birth and had no interest in listening to him: "Don't talk, you're disturbing my childbirth."

Zheng Yang shut his mouth with a wronged look on his face, and took advantage of the interval between contractions to stuff a piece of tea egg into his wife's mouth.

Jiang Ruyu was chewing on an egg when contractions started again, so she had no choice but to continue giving birth.

"I can see the head, give it your all, Xiao Jiang, don't let up, push, push, okay, stop pushing, the head is out, wait for the next contraction, and give birth in one go!"

Jiang Ruyu was in a terrible state; a baby was stuck in her lower body, making her feel like she was going to die.

With the next contraction, she gritted her teeth and pushed hard, and the midwife helped her pull the baby out: "Okay, stop pushing, you've given birth to one."

Zheng Yang looked over, his eyes filled with shock. The tiny child seemed smaller than two of his hands, his whole body was soaking wet, and there was something that looked like an intestine attached to his stomach.

Zheng Yang stammered, "What is this? Intestines? Honey, our child has pulled your intestines out."

The doctor, who was cleaning amniotic fluid from the baby's mouth and nose, almost dropped his tools: "What intestines? That's your baby's umbilical cord."

Zheng Yang immediately shut his mouth and lowered his head; it was too embarrassing.

Jiang Ruyu was so angry she almost laughed.

All that could be heard was a deafening cry coming from the tiny baby's mouth, as if she was angry about her father's slander against her.

"It's a little girl, weighing five pounds and six ounces. That's a very good weight for twins." The nurse handed the cleaned baby to Jiang Ruyu, and Zheng Yang also peeked in, and then the baby was in his arms.

Zheng Yang felt like he was holding a bomb in his arms, not daring to move. He could only look down and see his little girl squinting her narrow eyes and smacking her lips as if she wanted to eat something.

Jiang Ruyu only had time to glance at her daughter before her stomach started hurting again, a pain she was almost used to.

After the first child was born, the second one came much faster; Jiang Ruyu gave birth in just two pushes.

"Oh, it's another girl. You two are so lucky to have two daughters. This one is a bit heavier than the other, she weighs six pounds."