Chapter 377: Pregnant with Three Babies

The night drowned out the noise of the day. After the heavy rain, the wild grass in the mountains grew rapidly and bred small flying insects. Although the window screens and door curtains were drawn, there were still small insects that flew into the house and hit the yellow light bulbs with their weak bodies, making a slight crackling sound, a bit like the sound made by a candle flame exploding.

A hazy yellow light enveloped Jiang Wanwan's face. Her hair was spread out on her shoulders, soft and smooth. Her small face showed aggrieved expression and her red lips were pursed.

She held her belly and said, "Don't you notice that my belly is bigger than that of most women?"

"Grandma and the others thought I went home to secretly eat delicious food."

Shen Xingjiang gently held Jiang Wanwan's face with his bony hands, and pecked her red lips. "I'll take you to see a doctor tomorrow. Eat first. You don't eat much at all, especially very little. I'm afraid you're malnourished."

Jiang Wanwan sighed: "Okay."

Pig's trotters are so attractive to her, and they became even more attractive after she got pregnant. She is so adorable for the soft, elastic and lustrous pig's trotters.

Shen Xingjiang filled a bowl of rice. He put the top layer of rice in the basin into his own bowl, and poured two spoonfuls of braised pig's trotter soup over the hot, warm rice. The soup contained pieces of pig's trotter skin, which was more delicious when mixed with the rice than chewing the pig's trotter.

Shen Xingjiang took a small white spoon, mixed the rice, and put it in front of Jiang Wanwan: "Eat."

Jiang Wanwan obediently took the small spoon and ate.

"Honey, do you think I'm really okay?"

Shen Xingjiang thought she looked particularly cute like this, and couldn’t help but rub the back of her head: “It’s okay, maybe the child will be like me, and grow up big, and both of them will be tall in the future, so the belly is big.”

With a click, Jiang Wanwan's tears flowed into the bowl.

She looked up pitifully, still eating her pig's trotters and rice. "What should I do? They all say that babies are too big to give birth to. I'm not going to end up like Wang Qianniu. I'm so scared."

Her behavior made Shen Xingjiang more uncomfortable than stabbing him with a knife.

"I'll go see the doctor tomorrow, don't be afraid."

He was not good at lying to Jiang Wanwan, and he didn't dare to say anything when he was unsure about something.

Jiang Wanwan nodded and ate two bowls of rice honestly. She actually wanted to eat more, but she held back.

After eating and washing up, I soaked my feet and went to sleep. I had enough carbohydrates and fell asleep as soon as I lay down.

Shen Xingjiang turned off the lights and kept his eyes open until dawn.

The next morning, Shen Xingjiang went out and asked for a day off from the army. When he came back, he washed the sheets, quilt covers and clothes. He also prepared some meat for Jiang Yourou and put it in a basin in the backyard. It would come back to eat when it was free, but most of the time it would hunt in the mountains.

The sun was shining brightly, so he pulled out the weeds in the yard and also the ponds with many seedlings so that every seedling could absorb nutrients. It was almost nine o'clock when he finished cleaning up. He went into the house and called Jiang Wanwan to get up. After she had a simple meal of buns and porridge, he took her to the military hospital to see the old doctor who had taken her pulse.

The old doctor knew them: "Your belly is so big."

Jiang Wanwan nodded, sat next to him, and put her hands on the table.

"Doctor, my belly is a little too big, I don't dare to eat, I'm afraid it will be difficult to give birth to the baby."

The old doctor felt the pulse for a moment and took off his reading glasses: "What's big? It's still small."

Jiang Wanwan: “!”

"Is this still small?"

Who wouldn't say this is a big deal when seeing this?

The old doctor smiled and said, "I couldn't feel your pulse before. You are pregnant with three babies. Your belly looks big, but the babies inside are not big. You can eat more."

Three!

Jiang Wanwan was so shocked that she couldn't speak. She turned around to look at Shen Xingjiang. The man had a stern face and it was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry, but his eyes, which always suppressed emotions, showed no interest and were also shocked.

Oh my god, her first reaction was, how can I feed three babies?

Shen Xingjiang came back to his senses faster than Jiang Wanwan: “Okay.”

The couple walked on the road, their mood was different from when they came. In the morning, Jiang Wanwan was afraid that her belly would be too big to give birth, so she ate two steamed buns. Now she was hungry: "Hubby, I also want to eat steamed dumplings, steamed buns are also fine."

Shen Xingjiang: “Okay, I’ll go buy some beef.”

The beef steamed dumplings we had in the evening were paired with thumb-sized carrots that were picked from the nursery greenhouse. Chen Xingjiang bought them at a high price. The combination of carrots and beef made the steamed dumplings particularly delicious.

In addition to dumplings, there is also delicious vermicelli soup. At this season, many vegetables have not grown yet, and the food is repeated quite frequently.

Jiang Wanwan brought a lunch box of dumplings to Shen's house the next day.

Xu Lan knew that she had gone to see a doctor yesterday. She looked at her belly and asked with concern, "How is the baby? Did you feed it too much and make it too big?"

Jiang Wanwan pushed the lunch box into her arms, a little shy: "What's so big? The doctor said it's still small."

She deliberately didn't make it clear, wanting to see everyone's reaction.

Wei Shufen's eyes widened: "Wanwan, you can't say such nonsense."

Xu Lan's voice became anxious: "Did you see a quack? Change the doctor. Come on, I'll take you to see someone else."

Old Mrs. Shen also frowned, obviously unable to accept this matter.

Jiang Wanwan grabbed Xu Lan and said, "I'm just teasing you."

Xu Lan: "I was wondering, how could he still be young?"

Jiang Wanwan didn't keep the secret any longer: "I'm pregnant with three babies, so my belly is only a little bigger than yours. On average, each baby doesn't grow that big, so I need to eat a little more."

She didn't dare eat too much, for fear that her stomach would become too big and it would be difficult to recover afterwards.

Xu Lan was as shocked as Jiang Wanwan was in the hospital: "Three?"

Wei Shufen immediately calculated: "We need to prepare another set of things like diapers and rings. For three people, it may not be easy to carry them all together. The small kang in your house may not be big enough. How are we going to live there?"

Jiang Wanwan just learned the news and didn’t think about it.

"I'll ask Shen Xingjiang when I get back."

Their room is not big, and the kang they can make is not big either. Now one of them sleeps at the end of the kang, and the other sleeps at the head of the kang. The empty space in the middle is too crowded for two children. And they can't be the only ones there, as there are people to help take care of the children.

She couldn't use much strength during the confinement period, so she needed a few people to help look after the baby. Ling Xue and her father had already left Beijing and were living in Brother Han Zhang's former courtyard. They didn't live with them, so it was not easy to look after the baby at night.

Jiang Wanwan thought about it and decided that she really needed to think about where to live.

She told Shen Xingjiang about it during dinner.

The steamed spareribs made by Chen Xingjiang are easily boneless and crispy, and the fragrance fills the house.

"Our house won't be big enough for the two of us after the baby is born."

Shen Xingjiang: “How much money is there at home?”

Jiang Wanwan calculated: "I have about 2,500 yuan in cash on hand."

She keeps a record of every penny she spends, and although the amounts aren't always exact, they're not that far off.