Chapter 94 Boy or Girl?
This year's Spring Festival was very lively. The whole family was together and we were happier than any other Spring Festival in the past.
The big red lanterns in front of Jiangshan Film Villa were lit all night long. The couplets posted on the front and back doors were all written by my grandfather himself. The vigorous calligraphy looked very powerful.
It was also the first time for Zhou Jinbai to feel the atmosphere of worldly life. He had never spent a Spring Festival like this with others before. Before Zhou Zexi's collapse, he didn't go home often during the holidays. He was alone and too lazy to join in the fun.
Only after having such a big family did he understand what family happiness meant.
It turns out this is what a complete home is.
Last night, with lights on in every house and firecrackers going off, he felt a warmth he had never felt before.
After sitting in front of the bedroom window with Su Li in his arms for a while, he felt that his happiness had become concrete.
He had never felt so stable before, as if this home gave him unlimited courage and strength.
Su Li didn't tell Zhou Jinbai about the fact that someone was looking for relatives. She thought it was just an abstraction, so she didn't care.
Everyone got up early on New Year's Day, except for Su Li, a pregnant woman, who slept until she woke up naturally.
Zhou Jinbai's family doesn't have any customs or taboos, but the elderly have a lot of customs and taboos.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, you cannot sprinkle water on the living room floor, sweep the floor or take out the trash, etc.
In some places, it is said that you cannot wash your face or comb your hair on the first day of the Lunar New Year, as it is said that you will throw away all your good fortune for the year.
When Su Li woke up, some people had already come to pay New Year's greetings. They were Hou Jiangyong and Zhang Qingchi. They came quite early.
A few days ago, I received a message from Miao Lan saying that she was divorced. After Su Li comforted her for a few words, there was no further news.
When Su Li saw Hou Jiangyong on the first day of the Lunar New Year, she felt a little weird. Zhou Jinbai was talking to him.
Three men put on a show, and all three of them talked excitedly. Hou Jiangyong had red eyes on New Year's Day and said some regretful words.
"I was really wrong and I have to bear the consequences of my mistakes, but she just doesn't want to come back."
Zhang Qingchi and Zhou Jinbai looked at each other and said nothing.
When Su Li saw Zhang Qingchi, she only asked, "How did the Shi Miao incident go?"
Zhang Qingchi replied, "I lent her money. I asked her to pay for her grandmother's treatment first. I'll let her join the crew to film and pay her back later."
Su Li nodded. "That's not bad. Human life is important. Shi Miao is still young and has a lot of room for development in the future. Don't put too much pressure on her."
Zhang Qingchi responded, "I know that."
Watching Su Li pour herself some water, Zhou Jinbai stood up and walked towards her. "Just tell me about this kind of thing. Look how dangerous you are."
He took the cup from Su Li's hand. The glass was a little hot. "You can also ask Auntie to help you. You take a rest."
Zhang Qingchi sighed, "Old Zhou, you really dote on your wife. It's absolutely right for Su Li to follow you."
Zhou Jinbai spoke calmly, holding a glass of water and helping his wife sit where he had sat. "How can I not treat this wife I spent so much money to marry? I don't want to be like some people who regret it only after losing her."
Hou Jiangyong knew who he was talking about, so he didn't respond.
Yu Luo poured them some tea and invited them to have dinner at home.
Hou Jiangyong looked at Yu Luo and said to Zhou Jinbai, "No wonder you married such a beautiful wife. Your mother-in-law is a beauty."
Zhou Jinbai replied without any emotion, "Sister Lan was also very beautiful when she was young, and she had many admirers."
Hou Jiangyong, “…”
Zhou Jinbai said, "Time has not spared her, and neither have you."
Hou Jiangyong, “…”
Hou Jiangyong couldn't finish his meal, and he didn't want to drink tea either. He stood up and was about to leave. "You are just deliberately making things difficult for me."
Zhou Jinbai said, "If you really feel you've made a mistake, then show your sincerity. Maybe she'll come back."
Hou Jiangyong replied, "Let her do whatever she wants. She said I was having affairs with other women, as if she hadn't found men behind my back. I've seen several college students she's supporting. It's not my fault alone."
Zhou Jinbai and Su Li, "..."
Hou Jiangyong was about to leave and asked Zhang Qingchi if he wanted to go. Zhang Qingchi took a sip of tea and stood up to leave. "I have to go to my father-in-law's house, so I won't stay for dinner. We'll meet again later."
Zhou Jinbai didn't try to keep them and stood up to see them off.
Su Li sat there, not knowing what she was thinking.
What is marriage? She doesn't know either.
Two people who have nothing to do with each other come together because of love to form a family, but if their hearts are not together, nothing they say will be of any use.
Su Li was wondering whether she and Zhou Jinbai would ever reach that day.
Zhou Jinbai often comforted her and told her not to think too much, the baby was about to be born, and Su Li should maintain a good mood.
Su Li also knew this, so she didn't want to think about those annoying things for the time being.
Three days passed without incident. On the morning of the fourth day, Su Li suddenly felt a contraction and felt a little pain.
Zhou Jinbai quickly ordered someone to pack up the delivery items and send Su Li to the hospital.
Zhou Jinbai knew that Su Li was due in the next few days, so he had already booked a separate delivery room in advance.
The cost of a separate delivery room is a bit higher, but it can make the mother feel better.
If it is a separate delivery room, Zhou Jinbai can accompany the baby during delivery.
But Su Li refused to accompany her during childbirth. She didn't want Zhou Jinbai to watch her give birth, even though Zhou Jinbai was her husband.
Human nature cannot stand the test. No matter how much a man loves a woman, he will still be traumatized when he sees her giving birth in front of him.
Besides, Zhou Jinbai had witnessed a woman die while giving birth in front of him. Su Li was afraid that he would be traumatized, and she was also afraid that it would cause some harm to herself.
Her stomach was getting more and more painful, and her contractions were getting stronger and stronger, but she endured it without saying a word. The whole family was waiting outside the delivery room, and her grandparents also came.
Zhou Jinbai insisted on going in, but the nurse wouldn't let him in, saying that the woman in labor didn't want to be disturbed by anyone.
There was a female doctor inside talking to Su Li, asking her to relax. Su Li sighed deeply and asked when she would give birth.
The doctor would check her dilation from time to time and said, "For a natural birth, you need to be 10 fingers dilated."
Su Li was in so much pain that after she was three fingers dilated, she finally couldn't bear the pain anymore. Her face was covered in cold sweat. She said she didn't want to wait any longer and wanted to have a cesarean section directly.
The female doctor was also gentle. She asked the family for their opinion. The grandmother said, "If we give birth naturally, the baby will be healthier. We'll have an epidural later, right?"
Yu Luo was silent for a moment, then agreed to a caesarean section. She asked Zhou Jinbai, "What do you think?"
Zhou Jinbai asked the doctor, "Which one doesn't hurt?"
The doctor said, "It hurts both ways. It depends on your body condition, but a caesarean section will be faster. If it's a natural birth, judging by her condition, it should take another two or three hours."
Zhou Jinbai immediately decided, "Then let's have a caesarean section. Don't let her suffer for so long."
In his heart, Su Li is the most important.
Su Li was eventually converted from a natural birth to a cesarean section. Zhou Jinbai hurried to pay the fee and hired the hospital's best surgical team.
She really couldn't wait to be opened like a torture.
Fortunately, after spending the money, the service technology is in place.
The doctors in this hospital have very advanced surgical skills. Generally, cesarean sections are intraperitoneal sections, which is the case for most ordinary people. After the anesthetic wears off, the pain is intense and heart-wrenching.
However, the team that performed the operation on Su Li used an extraperitoneal cesarean section, which caused minimal damage but was very demanding on the doctor's skills, which generally required the doctor to have very advanced skills.
If you are not careful, an extraperitoneal cesarean section may cause damage to the bladder, so it is a test of the doctor's skills.
Intraperitoneal cesarean sections are a bit painful, but the risks are low.
Su Li thought that the caesarean section would be very painful. She lay there for almost an hour until the baby was delivered. Perhaps because of the anesthesia, she didn't feel any pain. She just felt like someone was tearing her stomach.
She heard the baby crying. The doctor checked the baby's various indicators, put a number on the baby's wrist, wiped it clean, wrapped it in clean cotton cloth, and put it in Su Li's arms to keep him warm.
He was still crying, and Su Li was still lying there, but she no longer cared about her own condition. She lowered her head to look at the little baby in her arms.
The wound was sutured quickly, but it was not over yet. Su Li weakly called the nurse and asked her to take the child out to show the child's father.
The nurse took the baby and opened the door of the delivery room. The mother and grandmother were the first to come forward and want to hold the baby.
The nurse didn't give it to her, so she asked, "Who is the father of the child?"
Generally speaking, the first person a child is held by is either the mother or the father, but it is basically the father who will be the one to hold the child because the rest of the work will be done by the father.
Handing the child to the father is also to let the child's guardian know the situation as soon as possible. Whatever happens afterwards will have nothing to do with the hospital.
Of course, it is also to let the man know that he is a father and to shoulder the responsibilities of being a father.
Zhou Jinbai finally woke up from his dream when he heard the nurse calling him. He was still worried and didn't come back to his senses. When he heard someone ask, he took a few steps forward, "Is my wife okay?"
The nurse handed the child to him and said, "It's okay. Remember the child's number. Dad will have to watch over the follow-up work, vaccinations, etc. The number is very important."
Zhou Jinbai quickly wrote down the number on the child's wrist.
Yu Luo also looked worried, "Is Zhizhi okay?"
The nurse said, "It's okay, mother and child are safe."
Zhou Jinbai's hands were shaking a little, and his heart couldn't stop beating as he looked at the child in his arms.
He looked at her for a moment before asking, "Son?"
The nurse said, "Don't be biased towards boys. It doesn't matter whether you have a boy or a girl."
He wasn't biased towards boys, he just wanted to ask. After holding the child for a long time, he was a little anxious, "Can I go in to see her?"
The nurse said, "You can wait until the wound is sutured. Just wait a moment."
Newborns are all ugly, none of them are good-looking, and they are all red, and very few are white.
But Zhou Jinbai discovered that the child born by Su Li had fair skin, not as red as other children.
He still lifted the cotton cloth and took a look, and it was really his son.
After Su Li's surgery, the doctor asked her if she wanted to listen to some music.
Su Li thought, does the hospital have this kind of service?
After the anesthetic wore off, she felt pain, but not as much as she had imagined.
After waiting for a while, someone pushed the door open and came in. The doctor cleaned up the situation and told the family members not to get too excited.
Yu Luo's eyes were red as she walked over and held Su Li's hand. It was obvious that her mother was heartbroken.
"Zhizhi, are you okay?"
Su Li was a little weak, "It's okay, nothing happened, don't worry."
Zhou Jinbai held the child and handed the child to her arms, with a slight redness at the corners of his eyes.
"Does it hurt?"
Su Li shook her head.
"It's not very painful, better than a natural birth."
Zhou Jinbai thought she said this to comfort him, so he didn't ask any more questions.
The child needed to stay warm in his mother's arms. Su Li had just held him when she suddenly heard him fart. Su Li blinked and was still wondering what was wrong. While she was still thinking, she smelled a foul odor.
Su Li frowned and looked at Zhou Jinbai, "He pooped."
The nurse next to her carefully reminded her, "It's a good thing that you've had bowel movements. It means there's nothing wrong. You're still lucky. Many babies haven't been born yet, and some have even had bowel movements in their mothers' bellies."
Zhou Jinbai took the child from her arms, cleaned it under the guidance of the nurse, changed the cotton cloth wrapped around it, and handed it to Su Li's arms again.
The whole family watched and felt inexplicably relieved.
Su Li felt that having a child was not easy.
After almost a year of worry and fear, we finally welcomed this little elf.
Newborns must eat their mother's milk within one hour after birth, and mothers must also start breastfeeding after the newborn is born, otherwise there will be no milk for the child to eat later.
Su Li wanted to breastfeed her child, so the nurse was there to instruct her and asked the newborn to breastfeed the mother, and everyone else could leave.
Zhou Jinbai didn't want to go out, and Su Li saw that he really didn't want to leave, so she asked him to stay.
The nurse said, "Then you just watch as the baby takes his first sip of milk."
Zhou Jinbai responded and watched Su Li feeding the baby from the side.
The little thing always couldn't find a place to lie, and Su Li couldn't move, so Zhou Jinbai bent down, gently held the child's head, and slowly moved his little mouth next to the breast milk.
Su Li felt a little pain and a little shy.
Zhou Jinbai breathed a sigh of relief after watching the child eat milk. He sat next to Su Li and held her hand. Su Li found that his palms were cold.
He said whatever he wanted to say.
Just watch the baby sucking breast milk, making a little sound from time to time.
Like a dream, he became a father.
Su Li asked him, "Are you worried?"
Zhou Jinbai let out a long sigh, "I'm very scared."
Su Li smiled weakly, "It's okay. It doesn't hurt that much, actually. I don't know what happened, but the wound hurts a little. But compared to the pain of having three fingers opened, this pain is minimal."
Zhou Jinbai nodded, "That's good, I won't let you suffer anymore."
After the newborn finished feeding, she was taken away. Su Li asked Zhou Jinbai to watch over the baby and not to lose it. She was also worried when she saw people online saying that hospitals would lose babies.
Zhou Jinbai remembered the child's number and would check on them from time to time. There were still quite a lot of newborns.
Although all newborn babies look the same, Zhou Jinbai feels that his and Su Li's child is much whiter than ordinary children.
Later, Su Li was transferred to a single room. Her grandparents went back first, and Yu Luo went home to cook chicken soup and brought it to her.
Zhou Jinbai didn't go back and stayed with her all the time.
She felt that she didn't have enough milk, but she didn't know why.
After a busy day, Su Li was tired. When she woke up from a nap, it was time for her to eat, and it was time for the child to eat too.
Yu Luo brought the meal and left. Zhou Jinbai told her to go back and not to worry.
But when the nurse brought the child, Su Li felt something was wrong.
She asked Zhou Jinbai, "Isn't this a little wrong?"
Although she didn't remember what the child looked like, she always felt that her child was not so ugly.
Zhou Jinbai panicked after taking a look, "This is not our child."
Su Li was frightened by his words and started to cry. Her whole body began to tremble. "Where is my child?"
He took the child from Su Li's arms. Before the nurse holding the child had gone far, he shouted to the nurse, "Stop!"
The nurse thought something was wrong and stopped in her tracks. "Sir, what's wrong?"
Zhou Jinbai held the child up to her and said, "This is not my child. My child is not this red."
The nurse was also frightened. It was the first time Zhou Jinbai lost his temper in public, and his voice was terrifyingly loud!
"Who swapped my child? Find it for me now!"
The nurse was also frightened and cried, and took him to the nursery to look for it.
The nurse cried.
"I don't know. I don't know anything."
Zhou Jinbai went to the nursery and looked around. There were more than a dozen babies born at the same time.
None of them were his children, but two spots were empty.
Zhou Jinbai looked at the number and asked where the child with that number had gone.
The nurse said to send the baby to the mother for feeding.
Zhou Jinbai asked her to take him to see it, with the child in her arms.
The couple was also wondering why their child turned white just by taking a bath.
While the baby was being breastfed, the couple was still confused when the door of the ward was pushed open and a nurse came in crying, bringing a tall man with her.
The couple was frightened and thought something was wrong. When the woman saw a man coming in, she quickly tore off her clothes and stopped breastfeeding.
Seeing her husband about to get angry, Zhou Jinbai took a look, pointed at the child and said expressionlessly, "That's my child."
The couple were both stunned. Zhou Jinbai handed the child in his arms to the man, "This one is yours."
The man glanced at the ugly child in his arms, then at the baby in his wife's arms who had just finished breastfeeding, and denied it. "Impossible, the number can't be wrong."
Zhou Jinbai said, "Maybe the nurse made a mistake."
The couple held their child but refused to give it to Zhou Jinbai. The man handed the wrinkled, red-skinned child to Zhou Jinbai and said, "Don't be too ridiculous. Could we mistake our own child for our own?"
Zhou Jinbai was angry. "Then I'll ask the hospital to check the surveillance footage and see what's going on."
The man said, "Go ahead, or you'll always feel like someone else's child is yours."
Zhou Jinbai controlled his temper and went out to find the attending physician, asking him to check the surveillance footage. His child had been switched, and he called the police.
The police soon arrived at the hospital and checked the surveillance footage from the baby room on the fifth floor. They discovered that the nurse had made a mistake in the number when bathing the baby.
The nurse was scolded by the police, and Zhou Jinbai managed to get the child back safely.
Su Li was so anxious that she cried. Zhou Jinbai hadn't come back for a long time, and she endured the pain and got out of bed.
What if her child was really switched? Who would be so wicked?
I was still crying when I heard a loud noise in the corridor outside.
It seemed like the police had arrived, and she became even more frightened.
Tears couldn't stop falling. She opened the door of the ward and just took a step outside when Zhou Jinbai came over with the child in his arms.
He was also frightened when he saw Su Li getting out of bed, "Lizhi, why did you get down?"
Su Li couldn't stop crying, "Where is my child? Where did they take my child?"
Zhou Jinbai's eyes were red. He held the child in one hand and helped her in with the other. "It's okay. It was the nurse's carelessness that caused it. I found it."
Su Li glanced at his arms in disbelief and found that it was really different.
After taking a bath and removing the vernix, the little thing became whiter.
Su Li couldn't hold back her tears any longer and took the child from Zhou Jinbai's arms. "Although I don't remember what he looks like, my feeling was right. I was scared to death. When will these guys be more professional?"
Zhou Jinbai stood beside her, bent down and hugged her, "It's okay, I will always watch over him."
Su Li nodded, "It's so scary."
Zhou Jinbai was also scared. It was his first time to be a father and also his first time to experience such a thing.
He had already decided to call the police and seal off the entire hospital if he couldn't find his child.
The expectant mother Su Li was so scared that she came up with a lot of conspiracy theories.
Zhou Jinbai couldn't swallow this humiliation and caused trouble for the hospital.
In order to appease Zhou Jinbai's anger, the hospital fired the nurse as a warning to others.
Newborns are taken away to facilitate observation of their growth and health conditions and to facilitate vaccination.
I can't always be in my mother's sight, so I can only rely on my father at this time.
Su Li asked Zhou Jinbai to watch over the child and bring him back to her after all the examinations were completed. She did not dare to let the child out of her sight.
After a busy day, the child can finally stay safely with his mother.
Because it was a private ward, Zhou Jinbai paid extra for it, so their ward was relatively quiet.
There was an empty bed inside, so Zhou Jinbai didn't plan to go back and stayed in the hospital to accompany his wife.
Zhou Jinbai felt extremely guilty when he saw that such a healthy person couldn't even move because she had given birth to a child.
Worried that it would be inconvenient for her to go to the toilet, he directly ordered a portable toilet, which was delivered within ten minutes.
Although the ward is private, you have to go to the public toilet to use the toilet.
Su Li was embarrassed. She didn't want to go to the toilet in the ward, so she asked Zhou Jinbai to stop her work and she could go to the bathroom outside.
But Zhou Jinbai had already bought it, so she didn't feel pressured.
Su Li felt pressured. Even though she and Zhou Jinbai were husband and wife, she couldn't go to the toilet in front of him.
She refused. After feeding the child, who fell asleep, she asked Zhou Jinbai to watch over him while she went to the bathroom.
Zhou Jinbai asked, "Big one or small one?"
Su Li said, "Little one."
Zhou Jinbai looked at her distressed expression and sighed helplessly, "I'm not looking at you, so what's wrong with you solving it here?"
Su Li was too shameless to say, "No."
Zhou Jinbai asked, "What part of you haven't I seen? I also saw it when you peed in bed."
Su Li, “…”
He walked over and helped her over to the portable toilet, "Don't be shy, Litchi, it's nothing."
Su Li couldn't hold it in any longer and asked Zhou Jinbai to leave.
Zhou Jinbai helped her sit down, opened the ward door and went out.
It was night, but the hospital was still bustling with people.
Fortunately, this is the obstetrics ward, so there aren't so many wailing sounds.
He stood outside the door and heard the sound of water coming from inside.
Zhou Jinbai smiled helplessly and teased Su Li through the door, "I've never seen you so shy when you peed on the bed before."
Su Li told him to shut up, "How can that be the same? And I wasn't peeing, I was orgasming..."
tide.
But she didn't say it, the two are definitely different.
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