Including the five months she was waiting to give birth, this was Chen Rou's sixth month of making salted fish.
Like an eagle, she couldn't soar in the sky or ride the waves at sea. Even after giving birth, she couldn't take the most basic walks outside. The farthest she could walk was on the treadmill.
Moreover, although only a few girls she liked had visited, she hadn't seen any outsiders during the month. However, the constant stream of servants was enough to make her dizzy.
Of course, the child was what Nie Zhao wanted, and he also took care of everything regarding the servants.
Chen Rou knew that there were three nannies, all around 35 years old, with babies, and all with master's degrees. They worked in three shifts, each for eight hours. There were also three postpartum nurses, all with babies and master's degrees, who were responsible for bathing her, massaging her body, and helping her with lochia discharge.
In addition, the female TCM doctor gave up her weekends to stay with her 24 hours a day, and also helped her with acupuncture and massage, and arranged a diet. As far as Chen Rou was concerned, she really hadn't changed much compared to before.
This reluctance to part with her has become a very bad example.
Bao Yuyan and her good friend Wu Jiayi came with Nie Han to visit the baby. As soon as they saw Chen Rou, they said, "Wow, Mrs. Nie, you haven't changed at all! So having a baby doesn't affect girls, right?"
In Chen Rou's opinion, even wealthy wives in this era inevitably change their appearance after having children.
One reason is that she has always insisted on exercising, which helped her lower abdomen recover relatively quickly. But the main reason is simply that she has the financial means, and even in Hong Kong, there are currently no professional postpartum care centers like those in the postpartum care center industry.
Nie Zhao was probably the first to do it. For his son, he transformed an entire floor of the Nie family's building into a professional facility specifically designed for new mothers to spend their postpartum period.
A person like him is both wealthy and professional; whatever he does, he can become a benchmark in the industry.
Of course, Nie Han knew best. Holding up one finger, she said, "Yu Yan, my uncle invested a hundred million here. If you really want to have a baby, and want to be like my aunt after having the baby, you need to seriously consider whether you want to marry into the gambling king's family in Macau. They should be able to help you, otherwise..."
Since the 1990s, Western conglomerates have been using short selling to siphon assets out of Hong Kong’s long-established companies. Of course, those who fall for it are either stupid or greedy. Unfortunately, the shipping magnate was one of them.
According to Nie Zhao, the shipping magnate currently has at most 500 to 600 million yuan in cash, but owes banks a whopping 2.1 billion yuan.
On a side note, because they wanted to get funds from Nie Zhao to help him solve his debt problems and turn his life around, according to Nie Zhao, Bao, the shipping magnate, even set up a scheme to send Nie a mistress into the company.
That very night, Nie Zhao had discussed and analyzed the matter with Chen Rou, saying that the shipping magnate's debt problem must be very serious. Just recently, the media broke the news, and sure enough, the shipping magnate was unable to obtain bridge financing and could not repay his bank loans. Several large intercontinental freighters were about to be auctioned off, which meant that his family was almost bankrupt.
Nie Zhao actually didn't want Bao Yuyan to come.
Actually, every family has a little kid, so it's not a big deal to look at them, but it's different for Boss Nie.
He not only firmly believed that his own child was the most handsome in all of Hong Kong, but also had a kind of protectiveness that was said to only occur in new mothers. In Chen Rou's opinion, the nannies treated the baby like a living ancestor, but he could always find fault with him. Whenever he came back, the little guy was in his arms. He was so used to holding him that he couldn't put him down.
He was probably worried that Bao Yuyan might have some impact on his son, so he didn't want her to come.
However, after hearing that the shipping magnate had financial problems, the first thing Chen Rou did was to find a husband for her daughter, and she wanted Bao Yuyan to marry the son of the gambling magnate's second wife, who was known for his shrewishness and cunning in Macau.
Although marrying him would definitely be a good thing, Nie Han secretly told her that Bao Yuyan actually quite liked Nie Jiajun.
Moreover, during the time she went to Colorado, Bao Yuyan visited her, and she and Nie Jiajun got along very well.
After returning, she also chose a university in Colorado to study for a master's degree. It was obvious that she was going after Nie Jiajun. But before she even took the exam, her father forcefully announced that the marriage was already arranged and she was just waiting to get married.
As for his studies, they were naturally interrupted; he would get married first.
Chen Rou sympathized with Bao Yuyan, but of course she couldn't change anything. After all, if Nie Jiajun really liked her, he would stand up against the marriage and propose to her. If she wanted to strive for independence, she could also leave her family, but neither path was easy. If they weren't determined enough, they wouldn't be able to make it.
After all, let alone whether Nie Jiajun loved Bao Yuyan enough, even if he did, it was probably unlikely that he could convince his shrewd uncle to support Bao Yuyan. And frankly, if Bao Yuyan didn't marry into Macau, she wouldn't be able to find such an outstanding family.
Even if she worked hard on her own, she could never earn a single hair on the head of the gambling tycoon's family in her entire life.
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The gifts the two girls brought were only left in Chen Rou's small living room for a short while before being moved away.
After exchanging a few words, Bao Yuyan spoke first: "Can we see the baby?"
Wu Jiayi rubbed her hands: "When President Nie was interviewed, he was all smiles, saying that he was the most beautiful baby in Hong Kong."
Yes, on the day Chen Rou was discharged from the hospital, Mr. Nie, unusually, faced the media directly regarding his family affairs, admitting that his family had grown. Moreover, he usually dislikes giving interviews and at most says yes or no. He was probably out of his mind that day and boasted in public that his son was the most handsome man in Hong Kong.
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