That evening, Zhang Heping wanted to stay and help look after the animals, but Shen Yanming sent him back home.
The reason was simple: "Heping, you haven't slept for a day and a night. If you keep going like this, you might not have enough energy at work, and it could be fatal."
Zhang Heping knew that Shen Yanming was right, but he was still not entirely at ease.
Seeing his hesitation, Shen Yanming unleashed his ultimate move.
He looked at Zhang Heping with a disdainful expression, but his eyes were full of laughter. "I said you should go back to sleep. I feel embarrassed to share a bed with my wife with you here."
Zhang Heping was taken aback for a moment, then chuckled. He really was something else; concern made him lose his composure.
He could make do on the sofa for the night, but how could the couple possibly sleep together in front of him? Even if they did nothing, it would still be awkward enough.
What's more, it's really inconvenient to feed the baby and change diapers at night when there are outsiders around.
So he got up and said to Shen Yanming, "Okay then, I'm in the dorm. Call me if you need anything, and I'll be there in about fifteen minutes."
Make sure you lock your room doors at night. Even though the hospital is generally safe, who knows what might happen?
Shen Yanming nodded, took two pieces of bread from his suitcase and handed them to him, "You didn't eat well tonight either, take these back with you, you can fill your stomach when you're hungry."
Seeing that there were still a few pieces of bread in his suitcase, Zhang Heping didn't refuse and happily carried the bread back to his dormitory.
After he left, the two people in the ward breathed a sigh of relief. Under the cover of his backpack, Shen Yanming took out a thick piece of kraft paper from his spatial storage and taped it to the glass window of the ward.
Then, using the backpack as cover, he took out a box of lotus root and pork ribs and a box of stir-fried seasonal vegetables from his storage space and ate them with steamed buns.
Seeing him eating with great relish, Bi Qiaoan stared longingly at the food, unable to resist swallowing hard.
Shen Yanming felt her intense gaze, unsure whether to eat the ribs in his hand or put them down.
He looked up at Bi Qiaoan, seeing her on the verge of tears, and could only comfort her, "Darling, it's not that I want to mistreat you, but breastfeeding mothers can't eat salt. No matter how good the cooking is, food without salt won't taste good!"
Bi Qiaoan looked away and said in a muffled voice, "I know, I was just craving it, I didn't mean to ask for it."
Shen Yanming felt quite bitter. His wife had suffered a lot since she became pregnant in order to give birth to his child.
First came morning sickness, then swelling in my limbs, and I often couldn't eat anything. Within two days, my belly swelled up like a balloon, making it difficult to even walk.
Moreover, the babies inside are very precious, and she has to keep a close eye on their condition at all times. In order to give birth to a healthy baby, she exercises and has prenatal checkups, putting in a lot of effort.
After finally getting the cargo unloaded, thinking that I was finally free, I didn't expect that this was just the beginning of another kind of torment.
First, during breastfeeding, you can't eat salt, cold food, or catch a chill. Then, you bear a heavy responsibility: to take care of two babies as they grow up healthily, not only meeting their physical needs but also ensuring their mental well-being.
Thinking about it, it really is true; they endured a lot of hardship.
But what can we do? This is our own flesh and blood. No matter how hard or tiring it is, we have to take good care of it.
Shen Yanming put down his bowl and chopsticks, poured out the cooled fish soup from the bedside table, drank it all in one gulp, and said, "Wife, from now on I'll eat this tasteless food with you, we'll share joys and sorrows."
Bi Qiaoan smiled and said, "No need. One person is suffering, why make it so that both of us can't eat well? That would just be asking for trouble."
Looking at his considerate wife, Shen Yanming was deeply moved. He shook his head, "No, I'm happy to stay with my wife."
Bi Qiaoan didn't argue with him, and leaned back on the bed, seemingly lost in thought.
Seeing this, Shen Yanming took the bowl and chopsticks into the bathroom, washed them, and put them back on the bedside table. Then he sat down beside her, half-embracing her, and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Bi Qiaoan snapped out of her reverie and said in a very soft voice, "It just feels unbelievable that I became a mother in just one day. But actually, I'm only in my early twenties. At this age, you could call me a big kid."
Shen Yanming's arm around her stiffened for a moment, and after a long while he sighed and said, "Wife, think about your husband, he's almost thirty years old. If we don't have a baby soon, I'll be too old!"
Bi Qiaoan knew her husband was being self-deprecating, so she chuckled, "It's alright, I don't mind. I don't know if it's the transformative effect of the energy rain and spiritual spring water, but you look like you're in your early twenties. You could say you're in your prime, absolutely stunning!"
Shen Yanming felt a surge of warmth upon hearing this, and he gave his wife a quick kiss on the cheek. He then asked, "You only had a bowl of fish soup tonight, aren't you hungry?"
Bi Qiaoan shook her head, recalling the slightly fishy smell of the fish soup. "I can't eat it!"
Shen Yanming noticed that she said she couldn't eat, not that she wasn't hungry, so he knew that it was still because the taste was affecting her appetite.
He sighed, "If I had known, I wouldn't have troubled Heping with this. He wasted his time and effort, and we can't even finish our meal."
"It seems that having your appetite spoiled by this space isn't a good thing," Bi Qiaoan added.
Shen Yanming hummed in agreement and took out a bowl of white fungus and red date porridge from his spatial storage to feed her. "Have some. If you can't eat salty food, can't you eat sweet food? There's no added sugar in this. It's sweet because of the natural sugar in the red dates. I heard it can nourish your blood and regulate your stomach."
Bi Qiaoan didn't refuse, taking the spoonful of soup into her mouth. Then, looking aggrieved, she asked, "Since you knew all that, why didn't you let me drink some earlier?"
"I thought you were already full, so you..."
Shen Yanming was somewhat helpless, but he still said, "Wife, I will be more careful in the future. But you also need to be more honest, otherwise I might really misunderstand."
Bi Qiaoan was speechless for a moment. It was the first time her husband had ever accused her of being dishonest.
"I... I didn't want to offend Zhang Heping in front of him," Bi Qiaoan explained.
Shen Yanming continued feeding you, and said with a smile, "I know, that's why I'm not angry. But next time this happens, you should speak up as soon as the person leaves, otherwise I'll worry if you go hungry."
After he finished speaking, she denied it again, saying, "There won't be a next time. I'll still cook for you when I go home. It'll be a bit more troublesome, but the fishy smell in the space will be much less, so you can at least eat a couple of bites."
Bi Qiaoan nodded in agreement, because the taste of the crucian carp soup at noon and in the evening was so different that she couldn't help but complain.
Seeing that she no longer resisted drinking the fish soup as before, Shen Yanming breathed a sigh of relief.
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