Chapter 96
"Okay, I'll take you to the hospital right away." Chen Shengqing immediately picked her up by the waist and ran hurriedly to the jeep parked outside the Fan family's yard.
When Li Xiu'e and Wu Shulian saw this scene, they were so scared that they put down their bowls and chopsticks and ran over to ask, "What's wrong? Is she going to give birth?"
"Yes, Qiu Jin was hit in the stomach, her amniotic fluid broke, and she is about to give birth." Chen Shengqing said as he started the car.
Yang Qiuyue and Fan Sui followed him out. Yang Qiuyue said, "Brother-in-law, send him to the farm hospital. It's only half an hour away from here."
This is because they are afraid that he will panic and rush the person to the military hospital.
All the farm officials, relatives and friends stopped eating and came out to see what was going on.
Such a big scene frightened Gou Dandan silly. He just lay there in a daze, watching the adults around him hurrying away.
Zhao Erfeng saw that it was his son who did this, so he rushed to Gou Dandan in anger, slapped Gou Dandan's butt hard several times, and angrily said: "You bastard, I told you to look at people and roads when you walk, but you just rushed forward with your eyes closed, and now you bumped into your Aunt Yang, if anything happens to her, I will beat you to death!"
Li Zhiyong said quickly: "Alright, stop hitting him. It won't help. Let's go to the hospital and see what's going on with Miss Yang."
He also came in a jeep, taking Wang Jianjun and his family with him, and both families rushed to the hospital.
After arriving at the hospital, Chen Shengqing rushed to the emergency room door holding Yang Qiujin, shouting, "Doctor, nurse, hurry up, my wife is about to give birth!"
The doctors and nurses in the hospital had never seen a husband with so much strength that he could run around the hospital carrying a pregnant woman with a round belly. They thought the pregnant woman was bleeding heavily or had encountered some other problems, so they did not dare to delay and hurriedly pushed out a mobile stretcher, motioning Chen Shengqing to put the pregnant woman on it.
When a group of doctors and nurses pushed Yang Qiujin into the emergency operating room, Chen Shengqing seemed to have been drained of all his strength. He stood at the door of the operating room, looking anxiously at the operating room that could not be seen from the outside, with his hands clenched into fists.
"Yue'er, your sister will be fine, right?" Wu Shulian recalled the scene when Yang Qiujin had difficulty giving birth to Chen Tianyou. Her legs were shaking and she couldn't stand steadily. She needed Yang Qiuyue's support.
Yang Qiuyue was very calm, "Mom, medical technology is much more advanced now than before, I will be fine, don't worry."
Li Xiu'e stood in the corridor outside the operating room, clasped her hands together, and kept chanting: "May God bless me, may Guanyin Bodhisattva bless me, may Qiu Jin be safe and sound, and may the baby be born smoothly."
Chen Tianyou stood next to Chen Shengqing, listening to Yang Qiujin's low cries in the operating room, his hands unconsciously clenched into fists.
Zhao Erfeng, who arrived later, saw this scene and said to Chen Shengqing with great guilt: "Deputy Captain Chen, it's all my fault for not keeping an eye on Gou Dandan. I've already beaten that damn kid. I'm sorry to the eldest sister and you..."
Chen Shengqing pressed his thin lips into a straight line, his clenched hands were bulging with veins, his forehead was covered with sweat, and he didn't hear what Zhao Erfeng was saying at all.
When Yang Qiujin gave birth to Chen Tianyou, he was a new soldier and on duty, so he could not rush back home. He only learned from the telegram his parents sent him later how dangerous the birth of Tianyou was and how she almost lost her life.
At that time, he didn't feel much except guilt and heartache.
But now, he loved Yang Qiujin deeply. When he heard Yang Qiujin's continuous cries of pain in the operating room, his heart ached, and he broke out in a cold sweat. His face turned pale and he could not hear what others said at all. All he could think of was praying to God to be nicer to Qiujin and let her give birth smoothly.
He didn't even dare to think about what he would do in the future without Yang Qiujin.
He stood outside the operating room like a log, ignoring everyone, his whole body filled with low pressure, as if he would explode at any moment.
No one else dared to speak and they all stood silently in the corridor. The atmosphere outside the operating room was particularly solemn.
Yang Qiujin in the operating room had no idea what was happening outside the operating room. After she was pushed into the operating room, the emergency doctor gave her a simple examination and found that she just had broken amniotic fluid and had signs of labor, but no other problems. He then asked the medical assistant to call the obstetrician and gynecologist to assist in the delivery.
The doctor who came was an experienced obstetrician and gynecologist, a female doctor in her late 50s who looked very capable and skilled.
After she came over, she comforted Yang Qiujin in soft words, asking her not to be nervous. She first chatted with her about some daily topics, asking her whether she had given birth to a child, whether her husband was good to her at home, whether her children were obedient, etc., in order to divert her attention.
Then I put on gloves and checked her cervix. I found that it was already two fingers dilated and the frequency of contractions was normal. I told her not to worry and asked the nurse to make her a cup of brown sugar water to drink so that she could conserve her energy for the delivery later.
From noon to night, although Yang Qiujin's contractions were normal, her cervix opened slowly, and by nightfall, it had not yet fully opened.
Yang Qiujin was sweating profusely from the pain. She heard the female doctor say, "This shouldn't happen. You've already had a natural birth. Logically, you have all the conditions for a natural birth and should be able to give birth quickly. Why is your cervix opening so slowly?"
Yang Qiujin raised her head with great effort and asked, "Doctor, I can't have a natural birth. Do I need a caesarean section?"
In fact, she was very reluctant to have a caesarean section. When she gave birth to Tianyou, she almost lost her life. A woman who was admitted to the hospital at the same time as her had to have a caesarean section because her baby was too big to be delivered.
In the end, the baby was born, but the woman suddenly suffered from amniotic fluid embolism during the operation and died. All the doctors and nurses in the hospital were running to save the woman. Her family members were crying and wailing, which left Yang Qiujin with a serious psychological trauma. She was afraid when she heard the word "caesarean section".
"It's possible." The female doctor said bluntly, "If you can't deliver the baby naturally, the baby will be suffocated in your stomach for too long and die. If it exceeds a certain time, you can only have a cesarean section. But don't worry, your cervix is not fully dilated yet. It's not that far yet. Maybe your baby is slow-tempered and is not willing to come out."
After she finished speaking, she heard the assistant who was doing the digital examination next to her exclaim, "Doctor Wen, the woman's cervix seems to be fully dilated."
The middle-aged female doctor called Dr. Wen was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up and said, "Quick, get the woman to the delivery bed and prepare for delivery!"
Yang Qiujin cooperated very well and stood up by herself, walked to the delivery bed, and cooperated with the doctors and nurses. She pushed hard when they told her to, and rested when they told her to. She never yelled or screamed loudly, wasting her energy on useless crying and yelling.
As time passed, she was in so much pain that tears were streaming down her face and sweat was pouring down her body. However, her mind was unusually clear as she cooperated with the medical staff. Every time she exerted force, it was as if she was burning up her life.
She didn't know how long it had been, but when she felt she couldn't hold on any longer, she heard the doctor shout with joy: "It's almost there, push harder, hold on for the sake of your baby."
She closed her eyes, gathered all her strength, let out a low growl, and exerted her strength for the last time...
Wow--
A baby's cry was heard in the operating room, and everyone waiting anxiously outside the corridor was shocked: "The baby is born!"
Everyone turned their eyes to the operating room. A nurse came out holding a swaddled baby and said with a smile, "Family of Yang Qiujin? Congratulations, it's a baby girl, weighing 15 pounds."
Zhao Erfeng laughed immediately, "Hey, Deputy Head Chen, congratulations, you got the daughter you always dreamed of!"
Chen Shengqing showed no joy on his face, nor did he reach out to hold the child. He immediately asked the nurse, "The woman in labor inside, how is my wife?"
The nurse said, "The woman is fine. The doctors and nurses inside are cleaning her uterus. Once she is clean, they will push her out soon. Don't worry."
Chen Shengqing breathed a sigh of relief, said thank you, and stood quietly at the door, waiting for Yang Qiujin to be pushed out. He was the first to step forward, holding her hands tightly with red eyes, "Qiujin, how do you feel? Is it painful or uncomfortable?"
Li Xiu'e, who was standing next to her, was holding a hot towel and wiping the sticky sweat all over her body from the effort of giving birth.
Yang Qiujin was wheeled into a solitary ward. After the sweat on her body was wiped off, she felt refreshed and said in a hoarse voice, "It doesn't hurt that much now. It's much better than before Sheng Tianyou."
Wu Shulian was holding her child, and a group of people were looking at the child. Chen Tianyou heard this, turned around and ran to the bedside, looked at Yang Qiujin with red eyes and said, "Mom, you have worked so hard. I didn't know it was so hard for you to give birth to me and my sister. I will try to be more obedient in the future and not make you angry. You must always be well and wait for my sister and I to grow up, and wait for us to honor you."
Yang Qiujin reached out and touched his little face with relief, "Little fool, I gave birth to you voluntarily, but I never thought about asking you to repay me. You grow up well, be an upright and kind person, serve the motherland, and don't be a bad person or do bad things. I think giving birth to you is a good choice."
Chen Tianyou nodded heavily, "Mom, I remember, I will never do bad things, I will definitely serve the motherland well and contribute to the country like my father did."
Chen Shengqing held Yang Qiujin's hand tightly and said with a gloomy face, "Now that we have both a son and a daughter, we should not have any more children in the future. You are just torturing me and killing me by having children. I heard you screaming in pain outside the operating room and I wished I could rush in and give birth to your child."
Yang Qiujin burst out laughing, "If you don't want to have a baby, then don't have one. It's not as exaggerated as you say."
"You're still laughing. Do you know how scared I was when you were giving birth? I've never felt that way, even if the enemy pointed a gun at my head." Chen Shengqing really wanted to help her give birth.
No matter how strong she appeared in front of others, in his eyes, she was always that weak woman who needed his protection. He couldn't bear to think about how much pain she had endured in order to give birth to his child. He didn't want to let her suffer like that again.
"Okay, I was just joking. We now have both a son and a daughter, which makes a good combination. If we don't want to have another child, then don't." Yang Qiujin gave him a weak smile and said, "I'm fine. Don't be nervous. Bring our daughter over and let us take a look at her."
From the time the child was born until now, Chen Shengqing has never even looked at her, let alone hugged her.
The child was held in Wu Shulian's arms. Everyone else had seen the child. Seeing Wu Shulian holding the child in front of Yang Qiujin, Liang Xueqing smiled and said, "Sister Yang, little Tianxing is so good-looking. He was born with big double eyelids and fair skin. He is not like other babies who have red and wrinkled skin. Little Tianxing will definitely be a beauty when she grows up."
Zhao Erfeng continued, "That's right. This child has very pretty facial features. I see that nose and mouth are exactly like Deputy Head Chen. The father and daughter look very much alike."
Yang Qiujin glanced at her daughter and said with a smile, "You are exaggerating. She has just been born, how can we tell whether she is pretty or not?"
But upon closer inspection, the daughter does look a lot like Chen Shengqing, even more like Chen Tianyou. Could this be the legendary son takes after the mother and daughter after the father?
This was Chen Shengqing's second time as a father, but it was his first time holding such a young child. When Wu Shulian put the child in his arms, he was at a loss and didn't dare to hold the child at all, for fear that he would accidentally crush or drop the child.
Wu Shulian saw him holding his hands up, not daring to hold the child. He was not as majestic and awe-inspiring as a military officer. She suppressed her laughter and taught him how to hold a child. "Let her little head rest on your left arm, and hold her little butt with your right hand, like this. Yes, very good."
Chen Shengqing followed his mother-in-law's instructions with his body stiff, carefully holding the child. Seeing the little girl in his arms half-closed her eyes, not crying or making a fuss, his hardened heart melted into a pool of water. He looked up at Yang Qiujin and said, "Qiujin, look at our daughter. She is so beautiful."
Yang Qiujin smiled but said nothing. No matter how pretty a newborn baby was, how pretty could it be? Only a father like her would treat her as a treasure and think that she was the prettiest in the world.
Chen Shengqing held his daughter in his arms for a short while before she started crying. Her cry was soft and gentle, totally different from the loud cries of boys. Chen Shengqing was at a loss and said, "What's wrong with her? Why is she crying all of a sudden?"
"He must be hungry." Yang Qiujin skillfully took the child from his arms, lifted his clothes and prepared to feed him.
Someone needed to breastfeed, and it was obviously not suitable for the others to stay here, so everyone left the ward one after another.
Zhao Erfeng saw that Yang Qiujin and her daughter were safe and sound. After walking out of the ward, he patted his chest and said, "Thank God, my elder sister and her daughter are safe and sound. Otherwise, I would never be able to repay them even if I died a thousand times."
The others found it very funny and turned their eyes to Gou Dandan who was kneeling at the end of the corridor.
The child was so frightened that he had been kneeling there since Yang Qiujin gave birth to the child. Although the kneeling posture was more like sitting, the child was still frightened out of his wits.
Li Zhiyong strode over, kicked Gou Dandan on the butt, and said in a stern voice: "Will you look at the road before you walk in the future? Are you just rushing around?"
Gou Dandan cried until his eyes were red. "Dad, I will pay attention to the road and never hit anyone again."
Li Zhiyong snorted, "Get up, luckily your Aunt Yang and your little sister Xiao Tianxing are fine, otherwise I would whip you to death! Remember this incident, next time, I'll show you how I'll deal with you!"
After a while, Chen Shengqing came out of the ward. Li Zhiyong said apologetically, "Mr. Chen, I'm sorry. It was my fault for not being able to discipline the child and bumping into my sister-in-law, causing her to give birth early. This is something we did wrong, and we apologize to you."
"Uncle Chen, I'm sorry." Although Gou Dandan was only five years old, he was very smart. He knew that he had made a big mistake and apologized to Chen Shengqing quickly. "I will never run around and bump into Aunt Yang again."
Gou Dandan is somewhat similar to Chen Tianyou, both are very naughty children. In the past, Gou Dandan played with Chen Tianyou and others at Chen's house, and Chen Shengqing noticed his naughty character.
At this moment, Gou Dandan looked at him timidly with red eyes, totally different from his previous silly and mischievous look, and it was obvious that he was very scared.
Chen Shengqing didn't want to blame him, so he just said, "You should stay away from your aunt Yang and your sister in the future. They are very delicate and can't stand your aggressiveness."
Gou Dandan nodded repeatedly, "I will stay away from them and never come to your house to play again."
Chen Shengqing laughed, "Uncle didn't mean that. What I meant was that your Aunt Yang is still very weak and Tianxing is still young. She can't stand your recklessness. I didn't ask you not to come to our house to play. When your Aunt Yang recovers and Tianxing is a little older, you can come to our house to play anytime."
Gou Dandan nodded, not quite understanding, "I understand, Uncle Chen, thank you for forgiving me."
Because the child had just been given birth, Yang Qiujin's milk had not yet come in quickly, and little Tianxing was crying with hunger. Yang Qiujin was in a hurry to give birth and had nothing else at home, so they could only buy a bag of Red Flag brand milk powder for the child.
After the child drank enough and fell into a deep sleep, Yang Qiujin felt that there was nothing serious wrong with her the next morning, and the doctor said she could be discharged from the hospital. Chen Shengqing carried his wife and child, carefully got into the jeep, and drove back home. Yang Qiujin's confinement period officially began.
Li Xiu'e felt sorry for her daughter-in-law, so she went to the grocery store every day to buy chicken, fish, pig's trotters and other meat to make soup for Yang Qiujin to increase her milk production.
In the first two days, she cooked a big pot of thick pig's trotter, peanut and kelp soup for Yang Qiujin to drink. Liang Xueqing, who was visiting, saw it and said that the woman had just given birth and was too weak to be nourished. It would be better for her to drink light soup and eat light vegetables for a few days. After her body had recovered a little, she could drink meat soup or something like that to prevent the woman from being unable to bear it, which would be bad for the child.
Women of Li Xiu'e's generation would wish to eat meat and drink meat soup every day when giving birth so that they would have milk for their children. However, Li Xiu'e's thinking was more open-minded than her peers. She knew that although Liang Xueqing was a capitalist lady, she was a serious university student in Shanghai. She listened to Liang Xueqing's advice and made light meals and vegetable soup for Yang Qiujin in the first five days.
It's no wonder that after drinking it, Yang Qiujin felt that her body recovered better than when she gave birth to Chen Tianyou. She excreted lochia faster than before and her milk came in quickly, which was more than enough for little Tianxing.
After she got through the days when she was the weakest, Li Xiu'e would make chicken soup, crucian carp soup, pig's trotter soup, pork rib soup, etc. for her. She had so much milk that little Tianxing couldn't finish it all, and many times she had to squeeze out the milk and throw it away to avoid milk blockage.
Chen Shengqing and Wu Shulian took turns holding and coaxing the child. Whenever the child cried, no matter how tired Chen Shengqing was after work, he was always the first to hold the child. He was also the one who gave the child a bath, changed his clothes, and washed his diapers. Yang Qiujin didn't have to worry about anything at all.
After eating well, drinking well and resting for more than a month, Yang Qiujin was in a good mood every day, with sufficient energy and blood. She looked more beautiful than before giving birth. She was much more energetic than most women these days who did not get enough rest after giving birth and looked tired, with big dark circles under their eyes, and looked haggard.
Little Tianxing probably came to repay her gratitude. Except for eating, drinking, defecating or urinating, and crying when she felt uncomfortable, she was very quiet at other times.
Because she had enough milk, she was better raised than other children. She was plump and fair, and her skin was very similar to Chen Shengqing's, which was white and glowing. Except for her eyes, which were like Yang Qiujin's, all other facial features were like Chen Shengqing's, with a high nose bridge, a small red mouth, and longer hands and feet than babies of the same age. Her hands and feet were pink and tender. She was obviously a beauty at first glance.
But Chen Shengqing is so fond of his daughter that the first thing he does when he gets home from get off work every day is to hold his daughter in his arms and make her laugh.
Yang Qiujin was initially worried that Chen Tianyou would be jealous, but little Tianxing was so lovable that no matter who teased her, she would grin with her toothless little mouth and laugh silently.
Because she is so cute and adorable, everyone wants to hug her, but she will cry if anyone else hugs her except the Chen family. Among the Chen family, she likes to be hugged by Chen Tianyou the most. As long as Chen Tianyou hugs her, she will look particularly happy.
Chen Tianyou is completely controlled by this pink-dumpling sister. He holds her in his arms whenever he has time. No one can take his sister away from him, not even her father Chen Shengqing.
So the father and son would perform the scene of snatching Xiao Tianxing into their arms every day, often making Xiao Tianxing laugh out loud.
Soon, Yang Qiujin was out of confinement, and her relatives, friends and neighbors came to visit her.
The first to come was Zhao Erfeng. She deliberately chose a weekend and made the children wash their hands thoroughly at home. She repeatedly reminded them not to make any noise, make any noise, or run around recklessly at the Chen family's house. Only then did she bring the children to the Chen family's house to see Yang Qiujin and the children.
At that time, Yang Qiujin was still breastfeeding in the house. She heard Zhao Erfeng coming over. After the child was full, she took the child out to greet the guests.
When Zhao Erfeng saw the little girl in her arms, he came up to her curiously and said, "I haven't seen little Tianxing for only forty days, and she has grown so beautiful. Oh, she is so adorable."
In Yang Qiujin's hometown, women who had the conditions had to observe the confinement period for 40 days. At the strong request of her two mothers, Li Xiu'e and Wu Shulian, Yang Qiujin had to observe the confinement period for 40 days. Her body recovered well, and the child was also raised well.
After eating and drinking her fill, little Tianxing lay obediently in Yang Qiujin's arms, staring around with her big grape-like eyes. No one knew what she was looking at, but she looked very cute anyway.
Gou Dandan, Li Sanni'er and other children came to Yang Qiujin. When they saw Xiao Tianxing's adorable appearance, they all liked him very much. The main reason was that Xiao Tianxing was so handsome, much more handsome than many babies they had seen in the military families' homes before.
Especially Li Sanni'er. In my memory, her two younger brothers were red, wrinkled and black when they were born. Even after her mother had finished her confinement, the two younger brothers were still as ugly as monkeys when they were one month old. They were nothing like the little Tianxing, who was fair and tender, with delicate features and black hair. He looked like a New Year picture doll on the wall, and was pleasing to the eye.
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