Chapter 229 Torture
Lu Dongping was also worried about this. Wen Wan was suffering from morning sickness and hadn't left yet even after her busy vacation. She looked pale and haggard. He had never known that pregnancy could be so torturous. Watching Wen Wan vomiting and crying, he felt his heart being torn into pieces, like dough.
But he couldn't say that he didn't want this child. This was his and Wanwan's child. He didn't want it before he had it, but after he had it, he always felt different.
He thought again of Li Laiying and Zhou Lanhua who had miscarriages. He was not there to witness them, but they both nearly lost their lives.
Wen Wan hadn't really thought about it that much. She'd heard people say that it was just a little irritating during the first three months, but after that, it would go away. It had already been over a month, and there was still another month to go. She'd finally gotten through it.
As for this job, she plans to continue. She'll be giving birth in June next year, around the beginning of July, with exams due around then, so she can take time off. Her confinement will fall during summer vacation, which will be hot, but it's also well outside of school hours. Once school starts, she'll be fine.
After all, the conditions are like this. Most of the pregnant women in the team go out to work. Her job does not require exposure to the wind and sun, nor does it require physical effort. It is definitely better than staying at home.
She bought a brand new notebook and started writing in her diary. She wrote down how many times she vomited, how she felt, and how upset she felt.
She experienced all the hardships her mother had gone through while pregnant with her. Only those who have been pregnant know the pain.
For example, when it comes to work, she has good ideas, but thinking is one thing and doing it is another.
Morning sickness is really annoying.
I vomit when I brush my teeth in the morning. I vomit at any time after eating. I vomit at the sight of anything I smell. I vomit as soon as I eat a little bit of food in my stomach. My nose is full of food and there is basically no food in my stomach all day long.
Not to mention a month, she was so exhausted in just half a month that she was in a state of disarray. She was still okay in class, after all, she was standing on the podium, but during the ten minutes between classes, she would fall asleep on her desk.
Lu Dongping asked someone to get a bag of apples and put them in her office so that she could take a bite when she was hungry.
Lu Dongping would take her to school in the morning and bring lunch to her office at noon. After lunch, she could take a nap on the bed in the back for an hour or so.
In this way, after finally getting through three months, she was so thin that she was out of shape, and Lu Dongping also lost a lot of weight.
It wasn't until the twelfth lunar month that she finally recovered. Five months in, her belly wasn't noticeable at all because she was so thin. She could even wear the cotton-padded jacket she brought from home.
Zhang Hongying was extremely worried and sighed all day long: "Why isn't my belly growing? When I was pregnant with Dongping, the conditions were so poor. We were lucky to eat only coarse grains until we were 70% or 80% full, let alone fine grains. But my belly was so big during those five months. I remember that I had to wear Dongping's father's clothes and pants. I couldn't wear my own clothes at all."
"Look at her. Her appetite is still about the same as before. If she eats a little more, she'll feel full and can't sleep at night. She's already over five months pregnant, but her face looks like she's not pregnant yet, and her belly looks like she's only two or three months pregnant. I've never seen anything like this. I get so panicked just thinking about it."
Gao Xiulan had never seen anything like this before, but that didn't stop her from comforting Zhang Hongying: "Don't think too much about it, it's useless. People are different, just like children. Some start growing when they are five or six, some grow in their teens, and some only grow rapidly after they get married. It's the same principle. It's only January in the Gregorian calendar, and there are still four months to go. There's still a lot of growth to come, so there's no need to rush. At the end of the year, we'll distribute rations, slaughter pigs, and there will be subsidies for both of us. You can give her whatever she likes to eat. When it's time to grow, her belly will be like blowing air, it will grow big in no time." Having said that, when she was seven or eight months pregnant, Wen Wan's belly did grow a little, but compared to the pregnant women in the team, her belly -
Others thought her belly was small, but Wen Wan herself felt that her belly was so big that it seemed like it was about to explode at any moment.
Especially after seven months, there were movements in the belly. The longer it got, the louder it became. It felt like the baby was kicking and punching inside the belly. I often woke up in the middle of the night with stomach pain. Or I had cramps and frequent urination, and I kept getting up at night.
Wen Wan didn't know how many times she cried. When she was upset, if the child kicked her, she would kick Lu Dongping.
That's it. How can she grow? The only thing she grows is her belly. Her face is smaller than before, her chin is pointed, her complexion is sallow, and she has no color or spirit at all.
Probably only Lu Mingjiang and his wife were happy about this child. None of the younger children were free from worries. Even Lu Chun'e, who was studying in the county town, was uneasy. The hotter the weather, the more uneasy she felt. She even dreamed that her sister-in-law gave birth. Her dreams were a complete mess.
As for Lu Donglin, he has never been nice to Lu Dongping since Wen Wan became pregnant. It was as if his brother had done something unforgivable. When he spoke, his eyes and nostrils were turned up to the sky.
It has been nine months in total, but the baby in Wen Wan's belly seems to be no longer coming out.
She was not heavy during her pregnancy. After she was three months pregnant and felt a little better, she started making small clothes, blankets, and quilts for the child. She prepared everything. She even wrote a letter to Old Wen early on to name the child. Old Wen chose two characters, "Kang" for a boy, hoping that he would grow up healthily, and "Qing" for a girl. He probably thought that his granddaughter would be a beautiful girl like his daughter.
Everything was ready, and we were just waiting for the baby to be born. But we kept waiting, from early June to the end of June, and the whole family was waiting anxiously, but the baby still didn't come out.
Wenwan's attack occurred on Friday, June 28th. Final exams were not far away, and her due date was around June 20th. To avoid delaying the children's studies, the course was completed early, followed by a review focusing on key points.
In the last class of the morning, she was copying newly prepared review questions on the blackboard. Before she finished copying the questions, her stomach felt a drop. After a slight pain, it seemed that she was fine again.
She looked at her watch and saw that there were still fifteen minutes before get out of class ended.
There are still two big questions that I haven’t finished copying.
Then, my stomach started to hurt again.
It's not like a baby kicking in the stomach, but rather a kind of falling pain.
She squatted down, took a breath, and called a child in the class: "Go, help the teacher run to the armed forces department and help the teacher find Secretary Lu Dongping and ask him to come over."
"Teacher, are you going to give birth?"
Wen Wan squatted there, holding her stomach and nodding, breathing in and out deeply.
It’s time to give birth. It must be time to give birth. My stomach has never hurt so much before.
After catching her breath, she stood up again, took the chalk and started copying questions on the blackboard.
She was a little scared, and her hands were shaking as she held the chalk, but she would be even more scared if she did nothing and just stood there holding her belly and waiting.
The classroom was silent. Many children were not copying the questions, but sitting there looking at her.
Lu Dongping ran all the way from the commune compound to the school in one breath. With five minutes left before the end of the get out of class, Wen Wan could no longer hold on and curled up on the cement platform of the podium, hoping that this would make it less painful.
I felt warm all over and something was flowing down.
Lu Dongping ran to the classroom door, sweating profusely, and called out to her, "Wanwan!"
Wen Wan raised her head to look at him, her eyes were red and tears were welling up in them.
Lu Dongping walked into the classroom, picked her up and walked out.
Wen Wan grabbed his clothes and tried hard to keep her voice from trembling: "Have you told the principal?"
"Yes."
Then he asked her, "What's wrong? Does it hurt? If it hurts, you can bite me or pinch me."
Wen Wan said, "Don't talk. I'm holding two children. Be careful. Take me to the clinic and you go to the office. There's a pocket next to my bed. It contains the children's clothes and blankets, as well as the towels and paper I bought."
She was afraid of having an outburst at school, so she was always prepared, and it actually came into play.
The health center is not far away.
Wen Wan had already had an attack, and Lu Dongping directly carried her to the wooden bed inside.
The bed was as wide as a door panel and covered with a hard mat.
There was a female doctor in the clinic. Lu Dongping was kicked out just as he sent the patient in. "Where are the baby's things? Hurry up and prepare everything. There's no point in you staying here. You can't help her with the pain, let alone the birth."
Wen Wan also said: "Go ahead and get the food for me, and then help me get some food from the cafeteria. I'm hungry."
"Yes, yes, go get your wife some food first. Giving birth is hard work."
Lu Dongping looked back at her, walked out of the house, and ran towards the cafeteria.
At this moment, the people working in the fields are just getting ready to go home and cook.
Zhang Hongying and Gao Xiulan came out of the cornfield carrying baskets and walked back. Lu Donglin followed behind, with a basket full of pig feed on his back.
Just as I reached the back of the house, I heard someone shouting from below: "Lu Mingjiang, is anyone home? Your wife is about to give birth!"
Zhang Hongying was stunned for a moment, and Gao Xiulan pushed her: "Are you stupid? Hurry up, hurry back, haven't you been preparing for it for a long time? Go back and take the things to the commune!"
Zhang Hongying trotted down the slope. Although she was old, she was very agile at this moment.
Lu Donglin's legs went weak and he almost stepped on empty air. He also ran back, and the grass on his back seemed to have no weight.
Of the family, only Lu Mingjiang was still leisurely strolling back with his brother, carrying his hoe. It wasn't that he wasn't anxious; he was worried, but what was the point of his anxiety when his wife was giving birth? He could only go back, feed the pigs, cook, and take care of the logistics while he waited for his eldest grandson to return.
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