Lu Lin didn't care at all about He Qiuya being fired. It was her own fault. If she hadn't intended to harm others, how could she have ended up like this?
"Harming others will eventually harm yourself. She deserves it. Don't think too much. The important thing is to take good care of the baby."
Jiang Manyue nodded and stopped thinking about He Qiuya.
Half a month later, Xie Anbang's lover Pang Xinhui came from her hometown. She was new there and didn't know anyone, so she stayed with Jiang Manyue and Liu Xuemei every day.
The three of them got along very well, and in the blink of an eye it was the end of June, almost Liu Xuemei's due date.
Because Jiang Manyue was pregnant with twins, her belly was almost the same size as Liu Xuemei's, and it looked like she was about to give birth.
Pang Xinhui looked at the two women's big bellies every day, always worried that one of them would go into labor while they were talking.
And Liu Xuemei's action was exactly as Pang Xinhui had expected. On an ordinary afternoon, when the three of them were chatting, she suddenly felt something was wrong.
"I feel something is wrong. Did my water break?"
Liu Xuemei quickly got up and went to the bathroom, then quickly came out nervously, "There's blood!"
"Oh my god! Are you bleeding?! Xuemei, wait, I'll call Brother Cheng to take you to the hospital!"
Pang Xinhui quickly ran out and rushed all the way to Cheng Jianyong's office.
When Cheng Jianyong heard that Liu Xuemei was bleeding, he hurried back, picked up Liu Xuemei and went straight to the hospital.
Jiang Manyue was pregnant and could not help at the hospital, so she did not go with them and decided to wait for news from Liu Xuemei at home.
There was no movement until the evening, and Jiang Manyue became a little anxious. Later, when Li Hongxiang came back from the hospital, she quickly asked about Liu Xuemei's condition.
"Xuemei is still early. She didn't get her period until the afternoon. It's her first child, so she probably won't give birth until tomorrow."
Jiang Manyue was surprised. She had already seen blood in the afternoon, and she had to wait until the next day to give birth?
After all, she had never given birth before, and Jiang Manyue had no idea that the prenatal period was so long.
"So she just stayed up all night like this?"
Li Hongxiang took a look at Jiang Manyue's belly and gave her a heads-up. "Tonight is going to be tough. Xuemei's water started breaking around dinner time. We have to get through this before we can start giving birth."
Jiang Manyue's eyes widened. "Will it hurt all night?"
Li Hongxiang nodded. "Of course it is. Giving birth is always painful, but it gets better later on. It's just a little harder with the first child."
Jiang Manyue looked down at her belly and began to wonder whether the medical technology in the 1970s supported caesarean sections.
Thinking about this, Jiang Manyue sent Lu Lin to the hospital the next morning to check on Liu Xuemei and ask the doctor if a caesarean section could be performed.
Unexpectedly, Lu Lin didn't come back for a long time. He only came back at lunch time and brought bad news to Jiang Manyue.
Liu Xuemei had a difficult delivery. Her fetus was in an abnormal position and could not be delivered. She was just pushed into the operating room for a caesarean section.
Jiang Manyue was a little frightened. Even though she had never given birth, she knew that difficult labor was the gate of hell for pregnant women, and it might even result in two deaths.
"So, is a caesarean section okay? Is it safe?"
Lu Lin shook his head. "I don't know. The military hospital doesn't have much experience in caesarean sections. But I asked the doctor, and he said caesarean sections are only done in emergencies. Normally, vaginal delivery is the only option."
After hearing this, Jiang Manyue gave up the idea of having a caesarean section. The military hospital lacked experience and would not perform surgery unless it was an emergency. She did not meet the requirements and could only give birth naturally.
After lunch, Li Hongxiang finally came back and said that Liu Xuemei's operation was complete and she gave birth to a boy.
"Luckily, the surgery was performed early. The child's umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck. If it had been delayed any longer, he would have suffocated to death."
Li Hongxiang touched her chest, still feeling a little scared.
Liu Xuemei's baby was in an abnormal fetal position and the umbilical cord was wrapped around its neck. If the surgery had not been performed in time, the baby might have suffocated to death in the womb.
Jiang Manyue also touched her chest. Fortunately, fortunately, both mother and child were safe.
"How's Xuemei? Is she okay after the surgery?"
Li Hongxiang shook her head. "She hasn't woken up yet. The doctor said she's had surgery and been given medication. She won't wake up for a while. I'll come back and pack some clothes for the baby and send them over."
Jiang Manyue simply said, "Aunt, please pack up and let's go together. I want to see Xuemei."
Li Hongxiang agreed, and after returning home to pack her things, she took Jiang Manyue, Lu Lin, Cheng Bin and Lu Junan to the hospital.
The two children were supposed to go to school, so Jiang Manyue asked Sister Hong to help her ask for leave from the teacher so that she could take the two children to visit Liu Xuemei and her new brother.
When they arrived at the hospital, Liu Xuemei had already been sent to the ward, but she was still unconscious. Brother Cheng was holding the child and looked a little helpless.
The child seemed uncomfortable in Cheng Ge's arms and kept crying. When Cheng Ge saw Li Hongxiang coming, he quickly stood up and asked, "Auntie, why is he crying? I can't comfort him."
Li Hongxiang walked over and took the child, holding him in her arms skillfully and rocking him gently a few times. The child then smacked his lips and calmed down.
Jiang Manyue and Lu Lin both found it magical. Why did she keep crying when Cheng Ge held her, but stopped crying after her aunt held her and rocked her a few times?
Li Hongxiang demonstrated her own technique for holding a child while explaining, "He's holding the child incorrectly. It's making the child uncomfortable. This hand should be used to support the child like this so that the child feels comfortable."
Jiang Manyue quickly signaled Lu Lin to go and learn. In the future, there will be two children in the family, and he will have to take care of one of them.
Lu Jun'an and Cheng Bin looked at the child in Li Hongxiang's arms with curiosity. They wanted to touch the child but didn't dare to, for fear that they would hurt such a tiny child if they touched it.
"Come, show your brother, is your little brother good-looking?"
Cheng Bin and Lu Jun'an came over and took a closer look. Cheng Bin answered honestly, "Not very good-looking. He looks like a little monkey."
Everyone in the room laughed. Li Hongxiang touched the baby's face and said, "It looked like this when it was just born. It will look beautiful when it grows up. You two looked like this when you were little."
Lu Jun'an was surprised. "Really? Then are my aunt's brothers and sisters also like this?"
Li Hongxiang nodded. "Yes, children all look the same. You can't tell them apart when you put them together. They only change when they grow up."
Lu Jun'an nodded, not quite understanding, and reached out to poke his brother's face, "You have to grow up quickly, brother. When you grow up, we will take you to play marbles, iron hoops, and card games."
Cheng Bin nodded as well, but when he heard Lu Jun'an calling him "brother", he asked again, "Should brother be called brother? Why doesn't he have a name?"
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