"The baby is about to come out!"
The room was so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of you. When you got up to light the lamp, your hands were shaking so much that you almost knocked over the oil lamp. When you heard that the baby was about to come out, Cao Xiangnan was panicked and didn't know what to do. He pinched himself twice to calm down and lit the oil lamp.
The lit oil lamp instantly brightened up the room.
"Wan, Wanfeng, why did you get up? Hurry, lie down." Turning around, he saw the person on the bed half-kneeling on the bed. Cao Xiangnan ran to the bedside in two steps and reached out to help the person who got up to lie down.
Yes, yes, I'll go and ask Hua Ama to come!
"I'll go call Aunt Hua." Cao Xiangnan wanted to run out, but he hesitated when he saw the person half-kneeling on the bed. He was at a loss for a moment and didn't know whether to go out to call for help or stay to take care of the person. He was struggling inside.
"Ah..." Qi Wanfeng raised his head and shouted. He could already feel the child's head coming out. He didn't expect the child to come out so quickly. He grabbed the hand of his husband who was about to run away and said with a breath, "Don't, wait, wait."
"Hurry, take off my pants." The child couldn't wait to come out. The pain in his stomach was getting more and more intense. Seeing that his husband was panicking, Qi Wanfeng forced himself to suppress the panic in his heart. He couldn't panic at this time.
This was the boy that his husband had been waiting for for so long. He must give birth to the child safely. This thought in his heart supported him. Qi Wanfeng endured the pain. At this moment, his mind was clear and he could direct his husband.
His husband was not by his side when he gave birth to An An. He came back from the town after he gave birth to the child. His husband had never experienced him giving birth, so he certainly didn't understand anything at this moment. The fetus was in the right position. Qi Wanfeng knew that as long as he gave birth to a child in the normal way, he could give birth to the child safely.
"Oh oh oh oh..." The person who caught him didn't know how hard he was holding on to the ground. But after being caught like this, Cao Xiangnan's mind was clear. He helped him take off his pants according to Qi Wanfeng's instructions.
"Ah... husband..." At the moment when the child was about to leave his body, the pain made Qi Wanfeng couldn't help but shout out.
As soon as Qi Wanfeng's pants were peeled off, a bloody ball fell down. Instinctively, Cao Xiangnan, who was kneeling on the bed, reached out with both hands and held the ball of something in his palms. The feeling of touching it almost made him throw the thing in his hands.
"Wa wah wah..." A cry announced the arrival of a new life.
"A child, a child, it's born!" Cao Xiangnan had thought about the scene of Qi Wanfeng giving birth thousands of times, but he had never thought that the child would come out to greet him in this way.
The palm-sized child kicked his little hands and feet in his palms and cried loudly with his mouth open.
It scared him, scared the father to death!
"Wow wow wow." "Wanfeng, are you okay?" Cao Xiangnan kept a stiff posture and did not dare to move. He held the crying child in his hands. He slowly turned his neck to look at the person with his back to him and asked.
When he heard the crying of the child, a smile appeared on the corner of Qi Wanfeng's mouth. He gave birth to the child safely. Leaning against the head of the bed, he half-knelt on the bed weakly. The whole person looked like he was pulled out of the water. Sweat wet his black hair and his clothes were all wet with sweat.
His chest rose and fell twice. Although Qi Wanfeng's voice was weak, it was full of unconcealed joy. He said weakly, "Go, go and call Hua Ama."
Hua Ama was called up at night. When he came over, he found out that the daughter-in-law of the host family had given birth to the child. He hurriedly took over from behind. When Hua A-ma got the baby, she smiled and said, "Congratulations, it's a boy."
"Wanfeng, it's a boy." They were so flustered just now that none of them noticed whether the baby was a boy or a boy. Now after hearing what Hua A-ma said, they noticed that the baby was a boy. In fact, Cao Xiangnan himself didn't care whether it was a boy or a boy, because it was their child anyway, but he knew that Qi Wanfeng wanted to give him a boy.
"Yeah." Qi Wanfeng smiled widely, because he finally gave birth to a boy for his husband. When the baby was in his belly, he felt that it was a boy, and it turned out to be a boy when it was born.
With Hua A-ma, who had experience, Cao Xiangnan finally found his focus and knew what he had to do.
Following Hua A-ma's instructions, he went to bring hot water into the house. Fortunately, there was always a pot hanging on the fireplace outside with boiling hot water in it. He put a few pieces of firewood into the fireplace to make the fire burn more vigorously. He took the lantern to the sheepfold and squeezed a bowl of goat milk to boil and give it to the child to drink later. Then he also caught a hen and prepared to kill the hen and stew it in soup.
Hua A-ma carefully washed the newborn child. He had done this kind of thing at least eighty times and was already very skilled. He wrapped the child in a soft cloth and placed it next to his brother who had just given birth. Knowing that the master's brother woke up in the middle of the night and gave birth to the child, he praised the child for being sensible and not causing his mother to suffer too much.
Indeed, although this child was impatient and could not wait to come out of his mother's belly, he did not cause his mother to suffer too much during childbirth. He was indeed sensible.
The bed had been made clean again. Cao Xiangnan wiped Qi Wanfeng's body, changed her into clean clothes, and replaced the dirty sheets and quilts with clean ones. Fortunately, there were extra quilts in the house, which came in handy at this moment.
The woman who had just given birth lay in bed in high spirits and did not fall asleep immediately. Qi Wanfeng looked at the child in her husband's arms with pity.
"Wanfeng, look how cute he is." After feeding the child half a bowl of goat's milk, the little mouth moved again and again, eating the milk fed into its mouth. Under the guidance of Grandma Hua, Cao Xiangnan fed the child the first meal of milk.
Holding such a small thing in his arms, his heart was still very nervous, of course, there was also an indescribable excitement and joy.
"Well, very cute." Qi Wanfeng smiled faintly, and his mood slowly calmed down.
"Thank you, you have worked hard..." After feeding the child, he put the child on the bed. Cao Xiangnan did not ignore Qi Wanfeng lying on the bed, and gave him a pious kiss on his forehead.
"Husband." Qi Wanfeng rubbed his face against his husband's hand, and he didn't feel tired at all.
The child was wrapped in a swaddle, with his eyes closed, his fists clenched, his mouth pursed, and he slept soundly, not crying or making any noise. Perhaps the child was well-fed in the womb, his face was wrinkle-free when he was born, his forehead was full, his hair was thick, but it was all red. Cao Xiangnan liked this little thing the size of a palm.
Qi Wanfeng looked at the sleeping child in the swaddle. This child looked much better than An An when he was just born. When An An was just born, he was very small, just like a kitten, crying and had no strength. He was worried about what to do if he couldn't keep the child alive.
This child is blessed. Our family is getting better and better. Even though the child was born in this cold winter, the family will not suffer any injustice.
After the child had eaten, he fell asleep. Not long after, the woman who had just given birth also fell asleep. Cao Xiangnan saw the person sleeping on the bed, covered him with a quilt, and could not help but kiss him on the brow and lips.
Everyone in the room had fallen asleep. Cao Xiangnan walked out quietly and closed the door, letting the adults and children in the room have a good sleep. When the people woke up and wanted to eat, he had to prepare the food now. What
he didn't know was that the white ball rolled up on the sofa disappeared at some point. When they were busy just now, the little white fox had sneaked into the room.
When the adults and children in the room fell asleep and everyone went out, the room became quiet. The little white fox came out from the corner, jumped from the ground to the bed, and looked at the newborn child. He just looked at it without stretching his claws to touch it. That look was not what a little wild animal should have.
"Grandma Hua, you go to sleep for a while, I'll take care of the rest." He woke people up in the middle of the night. After he was done, Cao Xiangnan asked Grandma Hua to go to sleep for a while. He was here, so there was no need for Grandma Hua to stay up with him.
"Then call me if you have anything. I'm old and can't stand the night. I'm going to sleep for a while." Grandma Hua didn't refuse. She gave a few instructions on things to pay attention to. Knowing that he had nothing to do here, she went back to her room to catch up on some sleep.
Roosters croaked outside. It was still a while before dawn.
It was still dark, but the oil lamp in the kitchen was lit, and the people who entered the kitchen started to work.
With one cut, the rooster died with a cluck.
The chicken was killed neatly, plucked, and put into a pottery jar. The family had a lot of bird's nests and ginseng as gifts, so Cao Xiangnan didn't dare to put too many tonic herbs. He put some red dates, wolfberries, and ginseng in the pot to stew the chicken soup.
After washing the rice and cooking it, he cooked porridge and rice, and then steamed the buns. After doing all this, Cao Xiangnan sat on the stool in front of the stove, looking at the jumping fire inside. He felt like he was dreaming. He pinched his face and laughed like a lunatic.
It was not a dream, it was real!
He really had a wife and a child. His wife gave birth to a second child for him. As a husband, he was also the father of two children!
"..." The two dogs next to him looked at each other. Is the owner crazy?
The buns in the cage were cooked. Cao Xiangnan ate two of them in one gulp. The two dogs who were watching him on the side also ate some. Each dog had a meat bun, which was barely enough to fill their teeth. After eating a full meal, he felt that he had endless energy even if he didn't sleep for a whole night. After
finishing his work outside, Cao Xiangnan couldn't help but go back to the house and sneak a look at his wife and child. Both the big and the small were sleeping soundly.
When he saw the little white fox sleeping on the bed, Cao Xiangnan's pupils almost stood up. He reached out and pinched the soft flesh of the back of the little white fox's neck and lifted the little white fox out. The little white fox, whose soft flesh was lifted in its sleep, said, "..."
"When did you run into the house? How dare you go to the bed?! You are not allowed to go to the bed, do you know?" Although he had bathed the little white fox, Cao Xiangnan was afraid that this wild animal might carry bacteria or something, not to mention how fragile a newborn baby is. How dare this little thing go to the bed! He deserves a beating!
"Next time I find you on the bed, you will have to sleep outside!" After warning the little white fox, Cao Xiangnan put the little white fox in a basket filled with old clothes. This was the nest he made for the little white fox, but the little white fox didn't like it very much and rarely slept here.
Sure enough, the little white fox jumped up after being put down, jumped onto the sofa, squatted and looked at him.
Seeing such a cute little creature, a pair of smart little eyes staring at him, Cao Xiangnan sat down on the sofa, picked up the little white fox, put it on his belly, and stroked the little white fox's pure white fur with his hand.
After being nervous for so long, his heart finally calmed down. He sat down to take a breath first. Cao Xiangnan emptied his mind and sat on the chair and exhaled, with a big smile on his face.
"..." The little white fox, whose fur was being stroked, looked disgusted, but still lay down and let the person holding him stroke it, and then closed his eyes in enjoyment.
I have to say, it is very comfortable to be stroked like this.