Chapter 198 A Child Was Lost at the Door
Yang Xiufen then looked at Zhou Xiaoqing again, "Sister, thank you. By the way, won't your family come over tonight?"
Zhou Xiaoqing's legs and hands couldn't help but become weak. The more Yang Xiufen talked, the more guilty she felt. She could only smile and say, "No, I'll be discharged from the hospital soon, so they won't come."
"Ah, are you being discharged now? Didn't the doctor say tomorrow?" Yang Xiufen remembered that when the doctor came to check on them, he also said that they would both be discharged tomorrow morning. Did she remember it wrong?
Zhou Xiaoqing sat on the bed holding the child, and explained with his eyes downcast: "I felt that I was not seriously ill, so I was discharged early. Staying one more day would only cost extra money, so it was not necessary."
"Oh, so that's it!" Yang Xiufen touched her nose embarrassedly.
"Xiufen, the child is awake and pushing his feet. He must be hungry. Please watch him while I make him some milk powder." Zhou Yu called out at this time. Yang Xiufen no longer cared about Zhou Xiaoqing and immediately turned around to take the child and started to coax him.
"That's not right. I remember we had just eaten when Jinsheng and the others came. It's been less than an hour. Why are you hungry again?" Yang Xiufen said as she reached out and touched the child's belly, which seemed to be a little deflated.
Zhou Yu shook the bottle and said, "Isn't this normal? Milk powder is soaked in water and it will be gone after you pee. It's normal to get hungry quickly. The temperature is just right. Come, son, drink some milk." As he spoke, he stuffed the bottle into the child's mouth.
Zhou Xiaoqing leaned over the bed curtain and looked to the left, looking very worried.
At this time, Zhou Yu's puzzled voice came from next door, "Hey, why don't you eat? Aren't you hungry?"
"I said you weren't hungry so quickly. Did you pee? Open it up and take a look." Yang Xiufen urged.
"Let me see," Zhou Yu said as he pulled open the child's diaper and touched it. "It's dry, no urine. Then why don't you eat?" As soon as he finished speaking, the child burst into tears.
Yang Xiufen was also annoyed by the crying of the child. She picked up the child and coaxed him, "Oh, baby, why are you crying? If you are hungry, we can drink milk. Daddy has made some for you. It smells delicious. Drink some!"
Zhou Xiaoqing looked at her swollen chest and pursed her lips. She knew in her heart that the child had chosen breast milk. This kid, who had milk powder but didn't drink it, really didn't know how to enjoy life. But she couldn't make a sound and could only listen silently to the movement next door.
After waiting for a while, the child was tired of crying and could only finish the whole bottle of milk with grievance, which made Zhou Yu keep muttering, "You kid, you are still feeling wronged. I, your dad, have to pay for the milk powder! Wait, when your mom starts to produce milk, you will have no milk powder left."
Yang Xiufen chuckled as she watched her son fall asleep again after drinking milk. Then, as if she remembered something, she asked the person next door, "Sister, do you have any milk? How about I have some milk powder here, can I save some for you?"
Zhou Xiaoqing's heart skipped a beat when she was suddenly questioned. She clutched the quilt tightly and quickly replied, "No need, big sister. I have enough milk for the baby."
"That's great, and it saves money."
Zhou Xiaoqing looked at the child lying beside her and felt more and more that she could not stay in the hospital any longer. She threw off the quilt and got out of bed. After thinking for a while, she picked up the child again and prepared to open the door to go out.
Zhou Yu, who heard the noise, quickly asked, "Sister, what are you doing? Do you need help?"
"No, no, I'll go ask the doctor if I can be discharged now. It's getting late and the car to go back will be gone soon."
Zhou Xiaoqing really didn't want to have any contact with Zhou Yu and his wife at this moment. Although all newborn babies look the same, it would be bad to have too much contact with them and arouse their suspicion. What's more, her own child had a fatal characteristic, so it was better to leave early.
After hearing what Zhou Xiaoqing said, Zhou Yu didn't insist anymore and just sat back.
Yang Xiufen was very energetic at the moment and didn't want to sleep. She started to look at the baby in the cradle out of boredom. The more she looked, the more strange it seemed to her. She quickly reached out and pushed her husband and asked, "Ayu, do you think our son has changed? Why did I feel like he didn't look like this before?"
When Zhou Yu heard his wife say this, he carefully looked at the baby in the cradle and shook his head. "You're overthinking it. How could it possibly change? It just looks like this. I think you're too tired. Just take a nap. Go lie down and sleep!"
"No, I really feel it's different. Did you see it's a boy when you checked the diaper just now?" Yang Xiufen asked again. It's not that she is mean-spirited, but she really feels that the child has changed, but she can't tell what has changed at the moment.
After hearing this, Zhou Yu directly opened the child's diaper, pointed at the little bird in the middle and said, "Look, that's it. Don't think too much. I'm guarding it! The child won't be lost."
Yang Xiufen heaved a sigh of relief after seeing this, and thought that maybe she was just in a bad mood and was overthinking.
"Okay, I'll take a nap first, you keep watch."
Over there, Zhou Xiaoqing walked around the corridor holding the child in her arms and then returned to the ward. She packed up her things carefully and left with the child in her arms.
Zhou Yu did hear the noise, but thinking of Zhou Xiaoqing's unwillingness to pay attention to him, he gave up the idea of helping.
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A few nights later, Jiang Xinbai was about to go to bed when she suddenly heard a knock on the door. She reached out and pushed her husband, "Jingsheng, did you hear that? Someone is knocking on the door."
"No way, who would come to our house so late? You must have heard it wrong." Yang Jinsheng said affirmatively after listening for a while with his ears perked up.
Jiang Xinbai didn't hear any sound at this moment, and she thought she had misheard, but soon the sound of "knock knock" was heard in the yard again.
"Listen, this time I didn't hear it wrong, someone is knocking on the door, go open it." As he said this, he kicked Yang Jinsheng with his foot.
After mumbling a few words, Yang Jinsheng got up and walked out the door, shouting as he walked, "Who is it, late at night?" He opened the door as he spoke, but there was no one outside. He looked down and saw that something seemed to be thrown on the ground. He squatted down and casually grabbed it, and was almost scared to death. He quickly turned around and ran inside.
"Xiaobai, Xiaobai, outside, outside..." Yang Jinsheng was so anxious that he stuttered at the critical moment.
Seeing how anxious he was, Jiang Xinbai also felt strange, "What's wrong? Who is that person outside? You are so scared that you stutter."
Yang Jinsheng took a deep breath and then shouted, "Child, there's a child left on the ground outside."
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