Chapter 212 So many packages!
Her scream startled Li Mei so much that her heart nearly jumped out of her throat.
"Mom, please keep your voice down, this is a hospital..."
"What's there to be afraid of!"
"mom--"
"Fine, fine, I won't say it then."
Grandma Xiang's face immediately lit up with a smile. "You know, if you had just said you were pregnant with a boy, you wouldn't have had to get slapped like that."
"Did I hurt you? It was my fault just now. I apologize."
She heard her mother-in-law apologize to her.
Li Mei was in a daze; she had been married into the Xiang family for eight years.
For the past eight years, she has worked like a slave, but her mother-in-law has never given her a kind look.
I never thought I'd hear her say sorry in my lifetime.
This is truly something I've never seen before.
"What are you waiting for? Come on, let's hurry home and tell Chunsheng the good news."
The old lady continued talking to herself, "This afternoon, Mom will go to the service center to buy you two cans of food, and tomorrow I'll kill a chicken and make you some soup."
"From today onwards, you don't need to worry about chores like laundry and cooking. Your important task is to give us a big, healthy grandson. Do you understand?"
Li Mei's initial anxiety subsided after hearing those words.
Suddenly it was settled.
This was the first time she had directly experienced how much benefit having a son brought her.
She couldn't imagine what it would be like if this baby was a girl...
No, this pregnancy must be a son... and can only be a son.
Realizing this, Li Mei straightened her pregnant belly and said calmly, "Thank you, Mom."
"No need to thank me. Just be careful when you go downstairs. You're seven months pregnant, so don't fall."
"Okay, Mom!"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law left happily.
Dr. Jiang, who had overheard the conversation between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, frowned deeply.
Li Mei is now seven months pregnant, and the ultrasound scan clearly shows whether it's a boy or a girl.
She's clearly not carrying...
Why did she tell this lie?
Yes, Dr. Jiang was certain that she was lying.
She was the only doctor on duty in the obstetrics and gynecology department today.
Given Mr. Li's character and skills, it's impossible for him to make such a basic mistake.
But upon reflection, Dr. Jiang suddenly didn't find it strange anymore.
Given that she was stuck with a family that favored sons over daughters, it's understandable that Li Mei was afraid of being beaten or scolded by her mother-in-law and had a momentary lapse in judgment.
But the truth will eventually come out.
Who knows what kind of trouble they'll cause on the day of the delivery?
However, this is someone else's family matter, and Dr. Jiang, no matter how much she sighs, would never bring it up in person.
Dr. Jiang didn't say anything, but Jiang Si still noticed her furrowed brows.
"Wife, what are you thinking about?"
On the way back, Huo Tingzhou noticed that she was silent, so he asked her a question.
Jiang Si looked up, her expression serious. "I'm thinking, what if someone wants to switch our babies on the day of delivery?"
"With us here, nothing will happen."
Although he didn't understand why his wife would have this idea, Huo Tingzhou still explained it to her seriously.
"I will be with you the whole time on the day you give birth."
"My third uncle, Uncle Zhong, and my mother are all here."
"I've already booked the room in advance. It's a single room on the fourth floor."
"There are no more than ten people in the entire military hospital who can get to the fourth floor."
"The child has been under our noses since birth."
At this point, Huo Tingzhou squeezed her hand. "Can you rest assured now?"
"Mm!" Jiang Si nodded.
You can't blame her for thinking that way.
After all, he had transmigrated into a book, specifically a historical novel.
Don't be fooled by the fact that Li Mei is in later stages of pregnancy; she's carrying twins, and there's a high chance this pregnancy will end prematurely.
If they encountered the supernatural phenomenon of transmigrating into a book, the two of them would coincidentally give birth on the same day.
Who knows, she might want to change it?
Lost in thought, Jiang Si suddenly remembered something else.
When I called last time, Huo's mother said that she would be coming over in early June.
I don't know if she bought her train ticket or not.
Considering that it had been raining for almost half a month, Jiang Si couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"How about we go to the communications unit and make a call to ask?"
"If Mom hasn't bought her train ticket yet, should we ask her to postpone her trip?"
Huo Tingzhou glanced at the dark sky; the weather this year was indeed rather strange.
At least in all the years he's been on the island, he's never encountered a temperature soaring to 37 degrees Celsius at the end of May.
Mrs. Huo had just gotten off work and was extremely anxious when she received the call from the young couple.
"I was just about to call you. I've been trying to buy tickets for days but haven't been able to."
"They say there was heavy rain in Guangzhou and some places collapsed, so the railway is still not repaired."
"I estimate I won't be able to get there until after the 5th."
Jiang Si said, "Mom, it's raining every day on the island now, and all the ferries to Guangzhou have stopped running."
"What Ah Zhou and I think is, why don't you come over again in a while?"
"We're doing well here, so you don't need to worry."
Knowing the seriousness of the matter, Mrs. Huo said, "Alright, I'll wait a while longer. As soon as the weather gets better, I'll buy the tickets immediately."
"Okay," Jiang Si replied immediately.
"By the way, I sent you some things a month ago, did you receive them?"
Jiang Si said, "Not yet, it's probably delayed on the way."
Hearing this, Huo's mother couldn't help but worry. It was alright if the package was slow, but she was afraid it might get lost.
It took her a long time to collect all those receipts.
If it's lost, it will take at least a month to prepare everything again.
Fortunately, what Mrs. Huo feared did not happen.
That afternoon, the young man from the mailroom came over pushing a cart full of things.
"Comrade Jiang, these are all your packages. Please check them and sign here if there are no problems."
Jiang Si glanced at the packages on the cart. "These...are all mine?"
Yes, these are all of them!
The young man smiled and said, "It's probably because of the previous flight suspension that many packages were delayed in Guangzhou for a while. They all arrived this morning."
Because there were so many items, their mailroom was busy all morning before they could deliver all the packages to each household.
Huo Tingzhou also came out at this moment, and he was obviously a little confused when he saw the packages all over the ground.
"so much?"
Jiang Si just smiled helplessly, "Mom said she sent us some things, but I didn't expect so many."
After she finished speaking, she glanced at the list that the young comrade in the mailroom had given her.
Needless to say, the Beijing item was sent by my mother-in-law.
It must have been sent by my elder brother from Xinjiang Province.
There was another one from Beijing, but it was from an encrypted mailbox.
Jiang Si didn't think too much about it, guessing that it might have been sent by Uncle Huo.
After all, when I sent the template back last time, it was in an encrypted email address, just with a different number.
After seeing off the young man from the mailroom, Jiang Si and Huo Tingzhou started unpacking packages together.
This time, Mrs. Huo packed the packages very securely; it took almost two hours just to unpack them.
The two largest bags were for the children.
Jiang Si took stock of the items: a fleece quilt, a patchwork quilt, a mattress, a bed sheet, a small mosquito net, and a buckwheat hull pillow.
A pure cotton bib, cardigan, pants, hat, socks, and tiger-head shoes.
Towels, bibs, prickly heat powder, petroleum jelly.
Cotton balls, and small nail clippers.
Glass baby bottles and nipples.
Old-fashioned baby bottles from the late 1960s
Each of these must be in at least two portions.
In addition to these, there are pure cotton fabrics, cotton, yarn, and small toys for children to play with.
There are rattles, cloth tigers, small balls, and building blocks for children, etc...
There was also a huge, pillow-like thing inside.
This must be what my mother-in-law was referring to on the phone: a soft pillow.
Later on, when your belly gets bigger, you can sleep while holding it.
Jiang Si: "No wonder Mom sighed for a long time on the phone when she heard that we hadn't received it."
I would be furious if I lost all of this stuff.
Huo Tingzhou hadn't expected his mother to be so well-prepared. "Wife, these two packages should be yours."
The first package contained tonics, including bird's nest, snow frog, and cordyceps, among other things.
The other bag was full of clothes.
Because Jiang Si is pregnant with twins, the temperature on Qiongzhou Island has been relatively high.
Therefore, most of the dresses prepared by Mrs. Huo were loose-fitting.
In addition, they also prepared a lot of underwear for her.
Huo Tingzhou's ears turned red instantly after seeing them.
These styles... are a bit different from what my wife has in her wardrobe.
Jiang Si, on the other hand, was overjoyed.
Her mother-in-law is so thoughtful!
After becoming pregnant, many of her bras became unwearable, and she was worried about whether to ask Teacher Hu to help her make some new ones.
I didn't expect my mother-in-law to have considered everything.
Jiang Si took a look and realized that the style of the underwear was not the common style on the market; it must have been bought from Friendship Store.
The key feature is the back button closure, which allows for easy size adjustment.
"Mom is so good!" Jiang Si couldn't help but exclaim.
Huo Tingzhou cleared his throat twice and quickly began to unpack the package his older brother had sent.
"Honey, my brother and sister-in-law sent a lot of dried fruit, as well as cheese and beef jerky."
After waiting for a while without receiving a response, Huo Tingzhou turned his head to look over.
At this moment, Jiang Si had already opened the last package.
What came into view was a letter.
There was another thing wrapped up tightly underneath.
Seeing that her expression was off, Huo Tingzhou immediately came over. "What's wrong?"
Jiang Si frowned. "This wasn't sent by my fourth uncle, it was sent by my master—"
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