After giving birth, it was like unloading a load for Chu Li... There are so few times in life when you can lose eight or nine pounds in the blink of an eye within 24 hours. She felt happy just thinking about it. However, when she returned to her room and touched her belly, she didn't feel beautiful anymore - even though she had given birth, her belly was still bulging, and when she touched it, it was all soft flesh.
Chu Li reached out and pinched it twice, thinking that all those things in novels about having a "flat belly" after giving birth were fucking lies.
Here, Zhuchuan leaned over the crib and watched his son for a while, watching him spit and groan while sleeping. No matter how he looked at him, he thought his son was the cutest in the world. He took a bunch of photos and short videos, posted them on WeChat Moments, then on WeChat groups, and finally on Weibo... to make sure everyone in the world knew that he had a son. Then he turned around and looked at Chu Li——
At first glance, he saw her sitting there with a sad face, her hands moving around under the quilt. Zhuochuan paused and asked, "What are you doing?"
As he spoke, he walked over and lifted the quilt——
Chu Li immediately grabbed the corner of the quilt, as if facing a powerful enemy: "Don't look!"
Zhuo Chuan was even more confused: "What on your body have I not seen before? After giving birth, have you become a saint again? Where do you feel uncomfortable? Let me see..."
Chu Li: "Go away, go away, tut tut!"
Zhuchuan: “…”
The two were pulling the quilt and glaring at each other when the door of the ward was pushed open. It turned out that Zhuchuan's parents brought Chuli's parents in from outside. As soon as the four adults entered the ward, they saw two people in the ward pulling the quilt and fighting against each other. Chuli took the opportunity when Zhuchuan turned around to grab the quilt and pressed it under his butt!
“Can’t you two take a break?” Chu Li’s mother came over and saw that Chu Li was in good spirits. She looked at her grandson for a while, and then after taking some photos, she turned to look at her daughter, “Are you feeling unwell?”
"Yes, why did you look at him first instead of me?" Chu Li kicked her legs coquettishly, but she didn't dare to use any force. "Why is my belly still so big?"
"After the confinement period, if you move more, it will be back," Chu Li's mother ignored her coquettishness and lifted the quilt to take a look. "Thanks to you for taking good care of yourself, there are no stretch marks. It's okay, why are you panicking? ...Are you producing milk?"
As she spoke, she picked up the baby, who was whimpering and looked hungry. Chuli's mother coaxed the baby twice and then held him in Chuli's arms. Chuli stretched out her hand and took it with a limp. In fact, she didn't dare to hold the baby. The baby was as soft as tofu and she was afraid that he would break if she touched him...
When Zhuchuan's father and Chuli's father saw that it was time to feed the child, they turned around and went out to smoke together. Zhuchuan sat there like a big boss, drinking tea as steady as a mountain, just as he said a few minutes ago: What on you have I not seen?
"He's got milk!" Chu Li puffed out his chest with great pride. "What the hell? Not long after I brought him home, he had milk. Quite a lot. I can't finish it. Am I too well-nourished..."
At this moment, Chu Li's mother turned around and was busy packing up the things in her delivery bag. The diapers and other things were in a mess, which was enough to show the chaos before. After hearing Chu Li's words, she didn't agree with them and said casually: "If the baby can't finish it, let Zhuchuan drink it."
Zhuchuan, who was drinking tea from a cup, spat out the water back into the cup after hearing this.
Chu Li cried out "Ouch" and his face turned red.
Madam Zhou laughed when she heard this. Chu Li's mother turned around and saw the two new parents were too embarrassed to look at each other's faces. She was speechless: "...The child is already born, why are you two acting like you don't know each other well?"
Chu Li blushed, lifted her clothes and fed the baby, still protesting: "You are not that mature."
As she spoke, she felt Chu Chuan's eyes scanning her body twice from a distance. His eyes clearly lingered on the part of her body that was exposed when she lifted her clothes, and they looked quite eager... Chu Li turned her head and glared at him as if warning, then picked up her phone -
[The monkey’s hired navy: My mom just said it casually, but you think it’s something you can think of! ]
【Actor Teacher: ...I didn't do anything, so I think it's not against the law.】
[The navy hired by the monkey: snatching food from his son, what a father! 】
【Actor Teacher: Without me, where would he come from? What's wrong with giving me a bite?】
[The navy hired by the monkey: …… ...
Not far away, Zhechuan crossed his legs.
【Actor Teacher: I am trying to save food, but you have a dirty mind.】
Chu Li put down his phone, too lazy to talk nonsense with him - legend has it that confinement is a woman's chance to be reborn a second time, and you can't do this or that, you can't even look at your phone for too long, it's especially harmful to your eyes.
At night, the grandmother and the great-grandmother wanted to stay to keep watch. Chu Li saw that they had come early in the morning and had been working like a top without stopping, so he sent them all back, and kept emphasizing that he could take care of the child himself. And there was still Zhuochuan -
Zhaochuan did what he said. When he was changing the baby's diaper in the afternoon, he watched very seriously and tried it himself. Although it was a bit rough, he could wrap it up to look like a human being.
So the women were reluctantly persuaded and left the hospital, looking back every few steps and feeling particularly worried.
Only Chu Li and Zhu Chuan were left in the ward. Chu Li heaved a sigh of relief and asked Zhu Chuan to put down the bed so that she could lean on it and sleep for a while... Before she fell asleep, Zhu Chuan was holding a computer, typing while watching over his son. He looked very hardworking, as if he was trying hard to earn money for milk powder, which made people like him very much.
Chu Li stared at him for a while, then fell asleep. When she woke up, she found that the man was lying on the side of her bed playing with his mobile phone, with one hand on her belly and half of his body almost on the bed.
Chu Li: "..."
The Weibo post that Zhechuan posted this afternoon about his son received warm blessings from many readers. I am reading it with great joy. I have read “Congratulations” and “The baby is so cute” thousands of times without getting tired of it. It is just like when I am writing an article, a reader’s casual comment of “good looking” can make me feel happy for the whole day…
Chu Li reached out and touched his hair.
The man turned around and asked: "Are you awake?"
Chu Li pulled Zhu Chuan's hair and said with great envy, "I want to wash my hair."
Zhuo Chuan slapped her claws away: "Don't be naughty."
Chu Li actually bought some kind of no-rinse shampoo spray, but she didn't want to use it. She just felt uncomfortable without washing with water: "I sweated a lot in the afternoon, and now I feel uncomfortable all over. If you don't tell me and I don't tell you, our two mothers won't know..."
Zhu Chuan was ruthless: "No."
Chu Li wanted to argue with him for a while, but at this time her son started to hum and wanted to drink milk again. Zhuo Chuan picked him up and stuffed him into Chu Li's arms... Chu Li lifted up her clothes to prepare to feed, and heard the sound of a stool next to her. The man sat down on the bed again with a small stool.
Chu Li was feeding, his chin rested on the armrest of the bed, he stretched out his hands to fiddle with it, pinched the other side and poked it twice... He had been thinking about this matter since he saw it that morning, the feeling of being unable to control it with one hand made him feel particularly novel, he weighed the weight in his hand and said: "You think this is a salted fish turning over?"
Chu Li glanced at him with disdain: "Take your hands away!"
Zhuochuan refused and held on tightly, refusing to let go.
In the last month and a half before the due date, the two of them didn't dare to do anything rash in order to avoid trouble. He was so depressed... Thinking that they had to wait for Chu Li to finish her confinement, he felt that life was so difficult: "If I can't eat, I can just look at it. I can't even look at it..."
This sincere complaint made Chu Li burst into laughter, and Zhao Chuan got so angry that he pinched her, and then pinched a handful of his son's dry food...
Zhuchuan: “…”
Chu Li: "Zhu Chuan!"
Chu Li's eyebrows were raised. Before being scolded, Chu Chuan quickly wiped his hands on Chu Li's clothes and retracted his hands with an expression of "I didn't do anything" -
It is said that a man becomes mature only after he has children.
……………………Now it seems that it is another lie.
…
They say time flies and the years pass by like a shuttle.
After giving birth and finishing the confinement period, when I was about to have my first bowel movement and walk around, winter came.
When snowflakes began to fall outside and their son's hair grew furry and he could roll around in bed, the title and outline of their collaborative work, "The Last Whale of the Pacific," were finally finalized.
The work was inspired by Hirokawa's original concept short story about kinki, using the technique of fish anthropomorphism, interspersed with moments of the growth process of a lone whale in the ocean and an oriental girl born in the war years.
The story is set in the war years that no one can forget. In that war-torn era, there is flesh and blood, love and hate, the feelings of a young girl and national justice.
When the lonely young whale insisted on staying in the original sea area waiting for the whale group to return, the girl stayed in the war city and refused to leave;
When the whaling ships entered this sea, corpses were everywhere they went. The young whales escaped death and were forced to leave. The girl's home was destroyed. She saw her home shattered in the air raid. She was forced to leave among the last refugees. She took a last deep look at the hometown where she grew up. Under the ruins were the bodies of her loved ones.
As the whale embarks on a long journey and begins to learn to grow independently, the girl searches for the direction of her life in the daily battle reports.
When the whale met another bird that had strayed from the group and became its companion, the girl met the boy she was destined to be with during the war...
When deciding on the subject of this work, Mr. Herman had some concerns. Because both Zhuchuan and Jiang Yucheng are contemporary young authors, he doubted whether they could accurately express the things that existed in history. However, after a period of searching for information, running-in and sorting, the work that came out was unexpectedly very good.
In the words of Mr. Herman, one can feel the love and hate, struggle and prayer that one is experiencing in the text...it is as if the writer and the protagonist are living in that era together, experiencing all the encounters.
Hence the short preface written by Zhuchuan for the book:
[We don’t really live in that era, but that memory, every minute and every second, truly flows in the blood of every descendant of the Chinese nation——
You shouldn’t forget, you can’t forget, you are not allowed to forget. 】
Chu Li watched the entire process of the book's creation. As soon as the outline was finalized and he saw the first draft, Chu Li felt that this book could really work. In addition, the theme culture it promotes is likely to receive official support and publicity, so it's hard not to be popular.
What a fucking bargain Yuanyue Society got for nothing.
…
In December 2015, due to Chu Li's temporary resignation, Yuanyue Publishing House was in chaos. After a long delay, someone was finally found to take over the editing work. New serials of Suo Heng, Guiwa and Suiguang started at the same time. For a time, Moonlight magazine reached a new peak!
For this reason, Liang Chonglang posted a special message on his Moments: The earth will not stop rotating just because someone is gone.
On December 31, 2015, at the turn of the year, the procrastinating parents who had to register their child finally decided on a name for the baby: Zhuoyueli.
...It sounds like he is very gentle and kind. I hope he doesn't inherit his father's fake gentleness and kindness.
In March 2016, The Last Whales of the Pacific began serialization in Moonlight magazine.
In April 2016, Chu Li officially resigned from Yuanyue Society, and his three-year work at Yuanyue Society came to an end.
In response, Chu Chuan expressed his joy.
In July 2016, the novel of the same name as the film and television series "The Last Whale of the Pacific" was published first. As expected, it was strongly supported and promoted by the National Writers Association because of its theme. In addition, the bloody and romantic plot of a girl in the war era made this book a best-seller for men, women, young and old across the country, regardless of age. According to Chu Chuan, the first batch of 450,000 copies printed by Yuanyue Publishing House were sold out in a short period of time. Yuanyue Publishing House, having tasted the sweetness, directly printed the second batch of 550,000 copies.
Industry insiders said that it was a resurrection and last gasp of the physical publishing industry.
In response to this, Zhuo Chuan, who received a seven-digit publishing fee that was close to the amount of film and television copyright transactions, did not take it seriously: "They said the same thing in my previous book. Why is it that this time the light is shining on me? Am I a spotlight?"
Chu Li: "..."
The Yuanyue Society was filled with joy. Chu Li watched Liang Chonglang reposting the exaggerated book reviews of "The Last Whale of the Pacific" from major Internet celebrity marketing accounts on WeChat Moments like beating drums and gongs. She felt so jealous that she gritted her teeth and comforted herself in her heart: Forget it, forget it. This is your husband's work. If it doesn't sell well, you and your son will have to eat bran. Be optimistic, be optimistic.
…
Until early August 2016.
One day.
Chu Li was helping his son learn to walk in the walker. It was the first time for the little guy to use a walker, and he was pushing the walker very fast. He clapped his hands crazily with joy, his chubby legs thumped, and his saliva was flowing... Chu Li chased after him with a tissue in his hand, looking disgusted: "Don't run, don't run, wipe your saliva, you just changed your saliva bag! I wash these broken things for you every day--"
Zhou Yueli was running in front with his bare butt, running wildly without looking back.
Er Gouzi followed beside them, jumping and shouting, and no one knew what he was excited about.
Chu Li: "..."
Chu Li gave up the chase and was holding his aching back. He thought that when he took Er Gou for a walk in the future, he could take the child with him to tire him out and avoid him from staying up all night tormenting him… At this moment, his cell phone suddenly rang. Chu Li picked up the phone and said “Hello”. Before he could say anything, Ah Xiang’s voice rang over there: “Hey! Chu Li? Damn, guess what happened… Something seems to have happened to The Last Whale of the Pacific!”