Chapter 336: Extra 8 (Life outside the palace, peaceful years)
This time, the pregnancy was not as easy as when I was pregnant with Yue Er.
Dizziness, morning sickness, leg cramps, frequent urination... Liu Yuetang experienced this terrible morning reaction thoroughly.
Especially in the first three months, she vomited almost everything she ate.
Xiao Heng specially paid a large sum of money to hire a cook who specializes in meals for pregnant women, and she made exquisite and nutritious dishes in different ways every day.
But Liu Yuetang still had no appetite, vomited acid all day long, and complained of chest tightness.
Xiao Heng was so anxious that he lost several pounds. He sighed, "You said! When you were pregnant with Yue'er, Yue'er still felt sorry for her mother and transferred her morning sickness to me."
"Why does this kid bother you like this?"
As he spoke, he squatted down, gently placed his ear against Liu Yuetang's belly, and whispered softly to the belly that had not yet shown its pregnancy, "Good child, be obedient. Your mother is weak and can't withstand this kind of torture. If you really need to feel uncomfortable, transfer it to Daddy. Daddy will bear it for your mother, okay?"
Unexpectedly, Xiao Heng's words not only did not work, but Liu Yuetang's morning sickness became even worse.
Xiao Heng was so angry that he kept calling him a rebellious son, and even regretted keeping him.
It wasn't until the fourth month that the morning sickness suddenly stopped.
Liu Yuetang spent two months comfortably.
Just when I thought I would be relaxed from now on, my waist started to feel sore and uncomfortable in the sixth month.
Every night, Xiao Heng needs to massage her waist before she can fall asleep peacefully.
On the eve of delivery, the back pain did not go away, and the pain of leg cramps came one after another.
Liu Yuetang was often woken up by pain in the middle of the night, which scared Xiao Heng so much that he broke out in a sweat. He hurriedly held her feet and gently massaged her stiff muscles.
I endured this torment until the full term.
One night, Liu Yuetang felt a tightness in her abdomen, accompanied by slight pain.
Having given birth once, she knew she was about to give birth and estimated that her cervix was already one finger dilated.
Everyone in the house had already been prepared. Everyone was doing their job, whether it was boiling water and preparing cloth, or calling in a midwife or an imperial physician. Everything was done in an orderly manner without any sign of panic.
Only Xiao Heng's heart was beating wildly. He held Liu Yuetang's hand tightly and refused to move away.
He said that he must accompany her this time.
As a man, he could no longer bear the pain of having ten broken fingers for her.
They have to stand by and watch with their own eyes what kind of pain their loved ones have to endure and what kind of difficulties they have to go through for the sake of their flesh and blood.
Fortunately, this was her second birth, and Liu Yuetang's contractions were frequent and rapid. After just over two hours, her cervix was fully dilated.
The midwife smiled and said, "Madam, please try harder! The baby is coming out soon!"
Liu Yuetang was trembling with pain, her teeth clenched tightly around her lower lip, and her hands tightly gripped the quilt to gather strength.
Xiao Heng watched and secretly wiped away tears several times.
He didn't dare to speak, and Liu Yuetang didn't let him speak.
He didn't dare to wipe her sweat, Liu Yuetang didn't let him touch her.
All I could do was stand by and watch over her quietly.
Following a low groan of pain from her throat, Liu Yuetang used the momentum to exert force suddenly, and then a loud cry broke through the air.
"Congratulations, sir, congratulations, madam, it's a little boy."
Hearing the clear cry and hearing that she had both a son and a daughter, Liu Yuetang's mouth corners slowly lifted up. Finally, she could not resist the surging tiredness, and in the warmth of his palm, she closed her eyes and fell asleep peacefully.
When I woke up again, the morning light was already dim outside the window.
The morning light slanted across Xiao Heng's profile. He was sitting on the edge of the couch with his elbows propped up, staring at himself quietly.
Perhaps because he hadn't slept all night, there was a faint blue shadow under his eyes and some red bloodshot in his eyes.
During these three years, day after day, I would see his figure when I opened my eyes. It seemed to have become commonplace and the most reassuring thing.
Seeing her open her eyes, Xiao Heng's face lit up with joy, "Awake? Are you feeling unwell?"
"Are you hungry? I'll go to the kitchen and bring you some porridge."
Liu Yuetang gently pulled his sleeve, her voice still a little weak: "No hurry..."
She looked at the bloodshot eyes and said softly, "Xiao Heng, sit down. I have something to tell you."
Hearing her call him Xiao Heng, Xiao Heng realized that something important was going on.
He sat down as he was told, still holding her hand, but his eyes were as gentle as if soaked in spring water: "You talk, I listen."
Liu Yuetang stared at him, her fingertips gently stroking the back of his hand, her eyes filled with half a lifetime of tenderness.
"Xiao Heng, I originally thought I would tell you these words if anything unexpected happened to me."
"But right now, I still want to tell you."
Hearing the word "accident", Xiao Heng's fingertips tightened.
Liu Yuetang smiled, her eyes and eyebrows tinged with warmth. She held his wrist with her backhand, "Before entering the delivery room, I was thinking that these three years with you have been the happiest and most joyful three years of my life. If... I really had an accident, I would not regret it at all. I don't regret meeting you, and I don't regret falling in love with you."
"But my only regret is that I didn't realize my feelings for you sooner, causing us to waste five years of our lives."
"Fool!" Xiao Heng's throat felt dry and he suppressed the heat in his eyes.
"There's no such thing as a waste. As long as the ending is you, even if it's fifteen or twenty years, it won't be in vain."
He stroked Liu Yuetang's cheek with his fingertips, his eyes burning, "Besides, we still have decades to come, and a next life."
"Next life?" Liu Yuetang asked.
"Husband, do you still want to meet me in your next life?"
Xiao Heng curled his lips slightly, "Guess what name I gave our son?"
Before Liu Yuetang could think about it, he whispered, "My name is Xiao Yutang."
"Xiao Heng...met Liu Yuetang."
"We met in this life, and we will meet again in the next life, in all the lives to come, year after year, and we will never let each other down."
Liu Yuetang smiled through her tears and held his hand tightly.
Over the decades since then, the peach blossoms in the courtyard have bloomed and faded, but the sight of them watching the sunset hand in hand has never changed.
From her youth to her old age, he drew her eyebrows and she warmed tea for him. Xiyue enjoyed his company and Yutang sat on her knees. The years were peaceful and there were no regrets.
over.
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