Chapter 278
The aunt had been worried about not having everything ready, but when she saw the piles of things, she couldn't help but admire the young lady's meticulousness. She was even more thorough than someone who had given birth. It was a feeling that if you're not from the same family, you won't marry. They were both incredibly meticulous. After all, Wang Jiazhi was an academic.
On the day of discharge from the hospital, the white and tender kitten, after having fed, went home happily wearing a light pink dress with peach blossoms made by his mother and wrapped in a pink peach blossom quilt made by his mother.
But less than a week after leaving, I returned to the house and everything seemed completely different. A moth, transformed from a rice weevil, flew out of the rice bag. The older woman on the second floor had tidied the house beforehand, leaving the windows clean and gleaming. The flowers and cat on the windowsill were well tended. The painting on the table lay quietly, dusted clean. But with no one living there, it still felt quite deserted.
Wang Jiazhi feels that popularity is something that is intangible but visible. Even if the same house remains unchanged, without anyone living there, it feels strangely deserted and lacks the presence of people. This is definitely not a psychological effect.
Wang Jiazhi lay down and said, "Thank you for taking the trouble to accompany me to give birth. I can be fine on my own during the confinement period."
The aunt and the elder sister were stunned and exclaimed "Ah" at the same time.
"That's not possible. How can I stay in confinement alone?"
"Having a chronic illness is a lifelong event."
"Someone needs to take care of the child, I can't do it myself."
"If not for yourself, then for your children."
Wang Jiazhi originally planned to go to the hospital to give birth and recuperate on her own. She thought she could do it, but things turned out differently.
She said, "I can walk and jump, so what can't I do?"
"Ah, it's a lifelong thing to take care of your body."
"That's me. I didn't take good care of myself during the confinement period, and now it's cloudy and rainy, and my legs hurt like hell."
"You can't take care of the child by yourself."
"My body can't handle it and there's not enough milk, so the baby suffers too."
Wang Jiazhi continued to ask them to take care of her during her confinement.
To everyone's surprise, the child was very quiet. He didn't cry much and was very quiet and didn't make any noise.
Wang Jiazhi felt even more indebted to her.
The child stopped making noises and someone was doing the housework, so she started studying parenting books in her spare time to see when the child would roll over, sit, crawl, and walk, when the child would grow teeth, and what to eat.
After watching for a while and seeing that the child was no longer making a fuss, she took him in and played with him for a while.
Even though the two women on the second floor were desperate, they still didn't stop her from washing her hair. After washing it, it was no big deal, everything was back to normal.
She thought her belly would go away after giving birth, but it wasn't like that at all. The doctor told her that she could wrap it up so that it would return to its original shape faster.
Wang Jiazhi recalled the favored concubines of ancient times who gave birth to one child a year. Unless they had exceptional recovery methods, they would get pregnant again before their belly even shrunk. Constant childbearing like that would likely severely deform their bodies. Wouldn't the emperor find it distasteful? It seemed she truly loved him. She even felt that the emperor's callousness was a valid point of appeal.
What would he think if he saw that his belly was still this big after giving birth?
Although the presence of the child distracted most of her attention, she still had the same old problem. The child spoiled her. The less troublesome the child was, the less troublesome it was. This gave her energy to think about random things.
She spent her confinement period with the two women making a fuss, serving her cautiously and admonishing her, but she didn't care and insisted on washing her hair and eating fruit.
Although she was allowed to go out after the confinement period, she refused to let the child out of her sight, not even for a moment. Even if she had to go downstairs and stand at the door for a while, she had to hold the child in her arms or on her back.
Because she was afraid that the child would catch a cold and couldn't go outside, she couldn't go outside either, and stayed in the house all the time.
The two women didn't find it strange. The older woman suggested taking a photo of the baby to commemorate the baby's first month. Since there was only one photo booth in town, and it was too far away, the older woman's son on the second floor brought a camera and took a photo of the baby to commemorate the baby's first month. The little one was incredibly cooperative, and the moment the shutter was pressed, he suddenly broke into a happy smile.
In the middle of the night, Lao Yi returned to his office, opened the envelope in the drawer, and took out a photo of his child. Looking at the familiar, sparkling eyes and thin lips under the light, he was petrified.
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