Chapter 15 Chapter 15 Your stomach is so disappointing!
With the help of everyone's concerted efforts, the woman finally gave birth to a girl at 4:30 in the afternoon.
Holding it in my arms, it weighed about 15 pounds, was pink and chubby, very pretty and healthy.
“Wow…Wow…”
The mother and daughter are connected by heart. When Wang Dongmei and Shen Miao were cleaning the child, the child kept crying. When she was wrapped up and placed next to the women, the crying gradually subsided.
After exerting her last bit of strength to give birth to the baby, the woman was so exhausted that she passed out in a daze without even having the chance to take a look at the child.
It was not until he heard a child crying that he forced himself to open his eyes again.
"Is it a little one?" The woman asked in a weak voice, looking at the chubby little face in the cradle beside her.
"It's a girl," Wang Dongmei wiped the sweat off her head, "She looks a lot like you, very pretty."
The moment she heard it was her daughter, the woman's expression froze for a moment, and the joy in her eyes disappeared completely, replaced by disappointment after her wish was not fulfilled.
She did not think about hugging her child as she had done before, but instead turned her head to the side and exhaled weakly.
Shen Miao and Wang Dongmei looked at each other and just silently tucked the blanket covering her.
Although the slogan "Women hold up half the sky" is now loud, in rural areas, giving birth to a boy who can carry on the family line is still the wish of every family. Especially now that family planning is being strictly enforced, the requirement for the first child to be a boy is even higher.
Judging from the woman’s disappointed expression, this probably isn’t her first daughter.
“Wow…Wow…”
“Wow…Wow…”
Without the warmth of his mother's arms, the child's cries became weaker.
The little girl was unaware of her mother’s disappointment in her. She just twisted her neck weakly and cried, trying to attract her mother’s attention.
But since she is a mother, how could she really dislike her own child?
Turning around again, a tear accidentally fell from the corner of the woman's eye. Then she put away her previous emotions, carefully held the child in her arms, and coaxed softly: "Be good, mother is here, don't cry, don't cry."
They were right. Their daughter really looked like them. The more I looked at her chubby little face, the more I liked her.
"Is it a little girl? Is it a little girl?"
The woman's mother-in-law was very anxious and stood at the door, asking questions inside.
Although the villagers who helped did not say anything, they followed her curiously, waiting for the good news from the inner hall.
Shen Miao: “It’s a girl, a little over seven pounds, white and plump, and well-proportioned!”
Shen Miao tried hard to praise the girl, but when the middle-aged woman heard it was "Ni'er", her face fell, and no matter what was said afterwards, she could not hear a word.
"Nier is good. People say Nier is a little cotton-padded jacket. She has grown up to be very caring."
"Yes, yes, yes, yes. Both mother and daughter are safe."
"Old sister, let me congratulate you first. Congratulations!"
After struggling for most of the day, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they heard that the mother and daughter were safe.
After all, this was the little girl that everyone helped deliver, so every cry of the baby coming out of the room sounded like a sincere thank you to them.
Listening to the congratulations from people around her, the middle-aged woman's expression became increasingly ugly.
She would not give up until she reached the Yellow River. Just listening to Shen Miao’s words was not enough. She had to come in and open the child’s swaddling clothes to take a look. It was not until she saw with her own eyes that the child was a girl that her expression completely changed.
"Tell me, you can't hold it in for another day?"
The middle-aged woman changed her concerned look when she came in the morning and complained to her coldly, "Didn't Doctor Ma tell us that we have to wait until the ninth day before giving birth? Look, you've ruined my grandson's little mer."
The woman had just given birth and was too exhausted to speak. She could only let her be scolded and her eyes, like those of a knife, kept scratching her body.
"Auntie, that's not the way it is said. You can't hold back the birth of this child just because you want to." As the director of the village women's federation, Wang Dongmei took the initiative to step forward and blocked the anger of the middle-aged woman for her. "Times are different now. It doesn't matter whether you have a boy or a girl."
The middle-aged woman didn't even take Wang Dongmei seriously. She took a step aside and continued to vent the resentment that had been pent up in her heart for the past few months.
"Just to let you have a baby, how much did my family pay for you? You have to be careful when eating and when drinking. Why can't you keep your belly in check?"
"I won't say goodbye to you anymore. How much trouble did my family go through just for your birth? We moved the graves and demolished the yard. How much money did we spend? Wang Qin, just for one day, just for one day, you can't hold it in? Are you deliberately trying to cause trouble for my family?"
Not to mention being a woman, Shen Miao, an outsider, felt suffocated just by listening to it.
In order to let her give birth to a son, they even dug up the ancestral graves and demolished the yard... Why should she waste the money on feudal superstition? Wouldn't it be better to spend it on her son and adjust him well?
After listening to her nagging for a long time, Shen Wanshan couldn't listen any more, and the chrysanthemum tea in the cup couldn't suppress the anger in his heart.
Although this is someone else's family affair and the quarrel between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has nothing to do with him, this is his clinic, his territory, and he has to take good care of his patients.
"Let alone one day, even if you let her hold it in for three years and six months, the baby she gave birth to would not be a Nezha."
Putting down the teacup in his hand, Shen Wanshan glanced at her and said coldly, "Do you think that little Mer can grow in one day? Doctor Ma said so. Who is this Doctor Ma? Call him and say that Nuwa wants to learn his craft from him to see how to choose the date to ensure that the baby is a little Mer."
Shen Miao was stunned when she heard Shen Wanshan scolding the middle-aged woman.
I didn't expect that my grandfather was so good at talking, and he really enjoyed talking insults at people!
Shen Miao had always been curious before, wondering who did she inherit this poisonous mouth from since her parents were both very peaceful. It turned out that it was inherited from her grandfather.
Seeing the middle-aged woman's face turning blue and red with anger, Shen Wanshan stopped insulting her, but changed the subject and said in a different tone: "Since it's a Ni'er, no one can do anything about it. If you really want to hold a grandson, then go back and let Nenxiao try harder. Maybe you can hold one in the next baby."
"Yes, Ni'er is very good, and it's easy to take care of her." In order to comfort her, Wang Dongmei continued, "If you train her well, she may become capable when she grows up. Look at my Ni'er, she is so promising now, and she is no worse than the boys in the village!"
Hearing her suddenly mention herself, Shen Miao couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment.
When she turned her head to look at Wang Dongmei, Shen Miao only felt an incomparable warmth and sense of security from her eyes.
Yes, although she was naughty, didn't like to study, climbed up the roof, chased pigs and beat dogs...she has always been the pride in Wang Dongmei's eyes. Even though she was a daughter who could not "carry on the family line", her parents and grandfather loved her like their own precious baby.
So, girls and boys are really the same, it all depends on how they are raised at home.
Seeing that the middle-aged woman didn't speak, Shen Wanshan said again: "It's a win, let her have a good rest in the house, you go home to find her some clothes, and get a tricycle, and see how to take her mother and daughter back to the party."
The middle-aged woman still didn't say anything. She just knocked the bag of plum bars in her hand on the table and turned away in a hurry.
The woman's back exuded a sinister resentment as she left, and even the sunlight could not warm it. When she disappeared at the gate of the courtyard, Shen Miao could not help but whispered, "Master, do you think she will not come back?"
Shen Miao usually ate a lot of melons in the village, and she always felt that her back looked somewhat familiar.
The determined steps and the lost emotions... Isn't it just like those scumbags who abandoned their wives and children in the mouths of aunts and grandmothers? It's nothing more than a change of gender and identity.
Shen Wanshan lowered his head and prescribed some warming and nourishing medicine to the woman in the room, and said disapprovingly: “No, they are not objects, how can they be thrown away just like that.”
Even if she dislikes her granddaughter, it is still a human life and human life cannot be abandoned at will.
But the facts proved that Shen Wanshan still overestimated her character and morality...
Shen Miao and the others waited from four in the afternoon until eight in the evening, but the woman did not come to pick them up. As the time was getting later, he realized that the woman might really be an inhuman "scumbag" as Shen Miao had expected.
The clinic is an old house that the family has built for decades. It is usually used for medical consultation, but there are no beds for people to sleep in. If her mother-in-law doesn't come to pick her up, she can't spend the night on this simple wooden bed.
But the family members were not around, and Shen Miao and the others could not easily move the mother. If she got hurt, it would be hard to explain.
It’s a headache to decide whether to leave or not.
There was no other way. Since the woman was still not coming to pick her up, Shen Miao had no choice but to wake her up and ask her about the situation at home to see if she could ask her husband or other relatives to come and pick her up.
"Sister-in-law, where are you from? How about I go to your house and see if I can get someone to pick you up?"
The woman probably understood what was going on, so she sighed, "It's useless. My husband is not at home because he is working in the city. My mother-in-law has the final say at home. If she doesn't give in, no one can come to pick me up."
The woman had just given birth and her emotions were already unstable. When she realized that she was going to be abandoned, tears couldn't stop flowing down her cheeks.
Hearing his mother's grievances, the child, who had just fallen asleep, also opened his mouth and started crying.
"Sister, can you let me stay here for a few days? I'll go back when I feel better." The woman held the child in her arms and coaxed her. There was a bitter taste between the lines of her words. "Don't worry, I will definitely make up the money. Even if I sell my blood, I will definitely not owe you a penny."
"No hurry, no hurry. Don't worry about money first."
Shen Miao looked at the dark sky outside and explained: "The main reason is that my clinic is not suitable for living. The doors and windows are leaking. It is easy to catch a cold if you live here at night. You are still in confinement after childbirth, so you have to be careful and don't get sick."
"It's okay. As long as we have a place to live." Looking at the child in her arms, the woman pulled up the swaddling clothes a little.
How could Shen Miao really let her live here, since she was sure that her mother-in-law would not come to pick her up, after asking Shen Wanshan for instructions, she decided to find someone to carry her home for the night, and then go to her house tomorrow to see what the situation was.
However, in order to avoid any disputes later, she should be asked to sign a waiver first.
Just as Shen Miao was writing the waiver letter in the outer hall, there were suddenly several knocks on the door in the courtyard.
“Ding-dang! Ding-dang!”
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