"Changzheng, could you please stop turning around? It's giving me a headache."
Outside the operating room, Lu Wanjun was also nervous, but at least she was not restless. She and Wu's mother sat on the bench and waited for time to pass.
Lu Changzheng was different. He would glance at the operating room door every few minutes. He looked at his watch several times. His feet never stopped moving and he kept walking around, which made people even more annoyed.
"She's been inside for a while, aunt, I hope nothing happens to Meiyun?" Lu Changzheng looked worried.
Lu Wanjun glared at him and didn't want to admit the fact that she raised Lu Changzheng.
"What could possibly happen? Can you be more capable? Look at yourself now. You don't look like a battalion commander at all!"
"These are two different things!" Lu Changzheng retorted righteously.
In the past, after so many years in the army, he had never felt scared even when he was shot through the back by an enemy bullet. But now he felt like every day was a year, as if someone was cutting his flesh with a blunt knife.
"You think it's easy for women to give birth. The torture you've gone through here is not even one ten-thousandth of what Meiyun has gone through. If you two have conflicts in the future, think about today and remember this feeling..."
Lu Wanjun took the opportunity to reprimand her nephew, hoping that he would stop being so tense.
"Aunt, please don't wrongly accuse me. When have I ever had a conflict with Meiyun?"
After being married for so long, Chief Liu has always had the final say in his family!
Lu Wanjun: "I said later"
"I won't do that again!" Lu Changzheng vowed, but he wasn't paying attention and hit his forehead on the glass of the operating room door.
Seeing Lu Changzheng like this, Lu Wanjun and Wu's mother smiled at the same time.
Back then, Lu Wanjun's elder brother, Lu Changzheng's father, also waited for Lu Changzheng to be born with a lost look on his face.
"Wow~~"
A burst of sonorous crying from a child finally broke the suffocating tension.
Then came another series of loud and clear voices that were just as loud.
"It's born!" Lu Changzheng walked briskly towards the door of the operating room, wishing he could just pass through.
"Don't block it, we won't be able to push people through later." Lu Wanjun pushed the person away with disgust and moved to the front.
After a while, Director Zheng came out with two young nurses, each holding a baby in her arms, with smiles on their faces.
"Wanjun, congratulations, all three boys are safe."
"Thank you! Thank you!"
Lu Wanjun and Wu's mother walked over and saw three little babies crying in the nurse's arms. They were so excited that they were speechless.
Lu Changzheng was dumbfounded after hearing what the doctor said, "Why is it a son?"
He stood there, his feet were like lead and he had no reaction. It was the baby's louder and louder cry that brought him back to reality. He asked the doctor, "How is my wife? Is she okay?"
Although he had just heard the doctor say, "Everyone, both adults and children, are safe," Lu Changzheng still wanted to confirm it in person.
"Well, Meiyun is doing fine too. She's still in a coma now. After she's out and recuperated for a while, we'll give her a comprehensive check-up." The smile on Director Zheng's face never faded.
In the past few years, cesarean section surgery has never made me so happy.
The three boys of the Lu family have absorbed a lot of nutrients. They have such loud voices that the doctors don’t need to help them. Even if they were born prematurely, they are much healthier and more lively than other premature babies.
"The mother was pushed out immediately. I'll have someone take the three children down for a checkup. If there's nothing serious, they'll be brought back to you later."
Lu Changzheng was worried about Liu Meiyu and had no time to care about the three boys. It was all thanks to Lu Wanjun who calmed him down and arranged for Mother Wu to go with them to look after them.
It's not that she doesn't trust the hospital, but she's afraid that someone with bad intentions will take advantage of it.
When Liu Meiyu woke up, she felt that everything around her was quiet.
When I opened my eyes, I saw Lu Changzheng staring at me with a pair of bloodshot eyes. He looked a little scary to say the least.
"Where is the child?" Not caring about the man, Liu Meiyu wanted to ask weakly how the child was.
"It's under examination. Aunt Wu is watching over there, and my aunt is taking Bowen to see Doctor Zheng to ask about your condition."
Liu Meiyu tapped her chin and saw that the couple who had given birth to a girl in the bed next to her were gone, and the bed of the unpopular woman in the bed opposite was also empty. There were only her and Lu Changzheng, and the woman diagonally opposite who was pregnant and had not yet given birth, left in the ward.
"The patient next to you has just been discharged. My older sister next door gave birth to a baby right after you." The pregnant woman looked shy. Seeing Liu Meiyu waking up and looking around, she even glanced at her curiously. Then she kindly told Liu Meiyu about the changes in the ward.
"Thank you." Liu Meiyu smiled at the person.
"Congratulations on giving birth to three boys in one pregnancy." There was a hint of envy on the woman's face.
Liu Meiyun was stunned when she heard this, and turned to ask Lu Changzheng: "Three boys?"
"Yeah," Lu Changzheng nodded, his tone somewhat regretful: "Not even a small cotton padded jacket."
Liu Meiyun: "..."
The woman sitting across from them heard that the couple really wanted a concubine, so she smiled and comforted them, "It's okay, you are still young, you can have another concubine in the future and your life will be complete."
Liu Meiyun looked at the man, and Lu Changzheng immediately stated: "We won't have any more children, absolutely not! We don't want any cotton-padded vests or anything like that. You've suffered enough this time, if it happens again, I can't bear it, not to mention you!"
Lu Changzheng was too embarrassed to tell Liu Meiyun that from the moment she entered the operating room until now, his clothes on his back were soaked, and his legs were a little weak...
Liu Meiyu raised her eyes and hummed with satisfaction.
Anyway, whoever wants a daughter can have one by themselves. She doesn't want to suffer that pain again.
The effect of the anesthesia from the operation was still there. Not long after Liu Meiyu woke up, she still felt very sleepy. She asked Lu Changzheng about the little boy's condition and learned that they were all in good health, with no missing limbs, and their voices were louder than the last. Mother Wu was also by their side, so she felt relieved and went back to sleep.
When I woke up again, the room was no longer as quiet as before.
There were more whimpering sounds of children crying.
Liu Meiyu thought it was her own child, and subconsciously opened her eyes to look for the source of the crying sound, but it came from the bed opposite.
"Meiyun" Lu Changzheng had been guarding by the bed. When he saw his wife wake up, he immediately leaned over to her.
Liu Meiyu, however, didn't seem to care about him very much. Instead, she lowered her voice and glanced across at him.
"The lady across the street just gave birth to a daughter. She must be hungry. Did she disturb you?" Lu Changzheng looked concerned.
"It's okay." Liu Meiyu shook her head. The effect of the anesthetic had worn off and she began to feel uncomfortable.
It was not time yet, and Liu Meiyu could not drink water or eat. She could only stare blankly.
Fortunately, Lu Changzheng was a perceptive man. He knew that his wife must be in pain from the wound and couldn't move, so he patiently stayed by her side and talked about random things to distract her.
"The three boys have been examined. The doctor said there is nothing wrong with them. They are all healthy. They will be brought to me for feeding soon. My aunt has also called my grandfather to tell him the good news. I have also sent a telegram to my parents..."
Listening to the man's chattering, Liu Meiyu felt that the wound was not so painful anymore, and she couldn't wait to see the three little guys.
It's fine if it's a boy, Liu Meiyu thought. She didn't care about the boy or girl anyway. As long as he was obedient and easy to discipline, and didn't make her angry every other day, and could be like her younger brother Liu Bowen, who could study hard on his own without her urging, that would be enough.
"Meiyun, look at your three little brats." Lu Wanjun and Wu Ma each held a baby in their arms, with a little nurse following behind them. The three of them lined up the little guys in front of her.
Liu Meiyu couldn't move, so she stretched her neck to take a look.
Good man, so ugly!
It was so ugly that it hurt her!
Before her mother could complain, the father of the child next to her blurted out: "This is too ugly!"
Lu Changzheng had been taking care of his wife for so long, and apart from a quick glance at the door of the delivery room, he only had time to take a closer look now.
The three little guys were really small, much smaller than full-term babies, wrinkled all over, with eyes tightly closed, like little monsters.
"You think your own child is ugly!" Lu Wanjun slapped Lu Changzheng on the back of the head without any hesitation.
Liu Meiyu pursed her lips, not daring to let Lu Wanjun see that she and the child's father had the same idea.
Mother Wu was holding Liu Bowen, and saw the disdain that Liu Meiyun was quietly retracting from her face. She just wanted to laugh, "The child is like this when he is just born. You and Changzheng are both good-looking, so how can your children be ugly? It won't be long before they are all good-looking!"
"Sister" Liu Bowen was also unwilling to look at the three little guys any longer. He gently touched Liu Meiyu's face, pouting his lips with red eyes.
"What's wrong?" Liu Meiyu noticed that the little guy was in a bad mood, so she temporarily shifted her attention away from the three little babies.
"Sister, are you still in pain? Let me comfort you." Liu Bowen hadn't spoken to his sister for the whole day, and all the adults around him were in a tense state. He vaguely knew that his sister was about to give birth to "Little Sister Baoya". Especially when he saw Liu Meiyu's big belly suddenly disappear and she lay on the bed unable to move, he was a little scared, worried that his sister would be in pain.
"Sister, I'm fine. The pain won't go away in two days." Liu Meiyu's face was warmed by the heartache in the little boy's eyes.
He is such a sweet boy at such a young age. I don’t know which girl he will be the lucky charm of in the future!
"Did you eat your meal well?" Liu Meiyu asked to divert the boy's attention.
"Well, good boy, eat the buns." Liu Bowen nodded his head, pointed at the three little guys on the bed, and said to their sister in a little adult tone: "Dabao, Erbao, and Xiaobao can't eat, they can only drink milk!"
Liu Bowen, who cannot have a "Sister Baoya", naturally gave the three little ones names, although he still can't tell them apart at all.
Which of the three little kids is Dabao, Erbao, or Xiaobao?
Liu Meiyu's eyelids twitched. Did these three little guys get nicknames so quickly, and so casually?
"I think this nickname is good and easy to pronounce." Lu Wanjun thought that it was easy to pronounce the baby by this name, since he would have a big name when he grows up.
"Yes, yes, yes, these three little guys are so precious to us, aren't they precious?" Mother Wu also agreed.
There are five people in the family, and three of them voted in favor. Liu Meiyu nodded indifferently. As long as the name is not Goudan, Gousheng, Gouwa... she can accept it.
As for Lu Changzheng, he didn't say anything for a long time. He looked at the three little kids and felt as if he was still dreaming.
His Lu handsomeness, Lu quietness, and Lu beauty are completely gone!
It was as if they had telepathy. As soon as Lu Changzheng gave up, another baby on the other side started whining and crying, and then the story spread from one to the next.
"Feed the baby first, the baby is hungry," the nurse reminded them, "If breast milk is not enough for three babies, you can feed the baby formula, just one at a time. Also, the mother cannot move right now, so it's best to have two people stay to help while she's feeding."
"Mrs. Wu and I will stay here. Changzheng, you take Bowen out first." Lu Wanjun decisively drove the man away.
"..." Lu Changzheng's face turned red and he gave Liu Meiyu a look before taking Bowen out.
"I see that you have enough milk. It should be enough for these three kids in the first month." Lu Wanjun put the second baby, who was full and not making any noise, back and picked up the youngest baby.
"Isn't that a big thank you to my aunt and Aunt Wu for taking care of me during this period?"
To be honest, if it weren't for Lu Wanjun and Wu's mother, Liu Meiyun felt that she might not have been able to get through the pregnancy so smoothly.
"When have you always been so sweet, kid?" Lu Wanjun smiled and rubbed her head. Seeing that her clothes were blocking the little guy from sucking milk, she lifted them up.
Although Liu Meiyun felt a little embarrassed in front of Lu Wanjun and Wu's mother, she found it quite magical when she saw the three little guys slurping their meals. Even though they were the ones who were well fed, she felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction in her heart.
The three brothers ate and drank their fill and then went to sleep.
Liu Meiyu has been sleeping most of the time these days.
Breastfeeding and nursing a wound is really exhausting. She can't get a full night's sleep and often has to feed the baby as soon as he cries.
The three brothers had loud voices, and with Lu Wanjun, Wu's mother and Lu Changzheng, it was normal for them to be in a state of chaos.
Moreover, Lu Changzheng had to return to the team within a few days of taking leave. If one hard-working person was missing, he had to take care of three at once, which was very tiring.
"You three have really loud voices. I could hear them from the porch."
Liu Meiyu's bed was diagonally opposite to theirs. The old lady who had been taking care of her daughter-in-law would come over to help them from time to time.
"Of course I am. I don't dare to be hungry at all." Liu Meiyu's head hurt from the noise these past two days. She felt like she was having auditory hallucinations. As soon as she closed her eyes, she could seem to hear the little guy's howling.
Because of this, the woman on the bed opposite glared at them several times.
Because she often coaxed her daughter to sleep, the three children would howl because of hunger, and her daughter would start crying again.
But there was nothing she could do. This was the condition right now. Liu Meiyu didn't want to cause trouble for others, but the hospital had no vacant single rooms. This four-person room was already considered good. There were seven or eight people living next door, so there was basically no peace all day.
Therefore, most people rush to take their babies home to raise them within a few days after giving birth, so that both adults and children can suffer less.
"He's pretty good, better than my Hu Zi. I hope he can howl more often so that his temper will not be like his parents in the future." The old lady's face was full of envy.
Her daughter-in-law gave her a grandson the day before yesterday. He is much easier to deal with than the three children in Liu Meiyu's family. When he is hungry, he just whimpers but doesn't cry much. When he is full, he falls asleep. He doesn't cry even if he is woken up, and he can fall asleep easily by being coaxed. This makes her day very relaxed, and she even has time to come and help Liu Meiyu and the others.
"Hu Zi is so nice and well-behaved. You should be content, old lady." Liu Meiyu felt that the old lady was just not grateful for what she had.
If even one of her three children could be as trouble-free as the old lady's grandson, she felt that she could sleep two more hours.
"What's good about him? He's just like his father when he was a child. You can't even make him fart even if you hit him with a stick." The old lady looked disgusted.
Liu Meiyu smiled but didn't dare to respond casually.
However, I think the old lady is a person with strong opinions. Her son has a gentle personality, but she is not like other families who specifically choose a strong and capable daughter-in-law for her son. Instead, she found a woman from the countryside who has a gentle personality, who is in tune with her son, and the two of them just happen to be attracted to each other.
According to the old lady's idea, she only has this one son, who has a formal job, is well fed and well clothed and is not starving. If she finds such a great daughter-in-law to marry, it is not certain whether the two can complement each other. What if the daughter-in-law is picky about her son and will bully him to death?
So it would be better to find someone with a similar temperament to his son. Both of them have gentle personalities and neither of them bullies the other.
The old lady dreams of having a grandson or granddaughter who is a bit tougher. But the eldest granddaughter has the same temperament as her mother, and is very gentle and polite. As for the newly born grandson, it seems that he will definitely take after his father in the future.
They were chatting happily here, but the woman opposite, who had disliked everyone since she gave birth to a concubine, pulled the curtain intentionally in annoyance, making a lot of noise to show her dissatisfaction.
Liu Meiyu thought she was annoyed by the noise, so she lowered her voice.
"Why hasn't she been discharged from the hospital yet?" The old lady didn't have a good impression of the woman.
Especially that day when she found that the woman had nothing to do after eating, and ran to her daughter-in-law to sow discord between them, saying that she was a wicked mother-in-law and taught her daughter-in-law how to gain a foothold in the family by giving birth to a grandson for her, and how to show off her power, she was so furious that she caught the woman on the spot and scolded her.
If the nurse hadn't stopped her, she would have wanted to slap the woman twice!
"I don't know. Maybe he was delayed by something else." Liu Meiyu guessed.
But I'm also quite curious. She was born by cesarean section, and the doctors said that she would be able to be discharged from the hospital and recuperate at home in two days if she recovered. But the woman opposite gave birth on the same day as her, and also had a single baby, and she was walking around like nothing happened in the past two days. It was obvious that she recovered well. As a result, she is still staying in the hospital now. Even the daughter-in-law of the old lady next door who gave birth a few days later than her will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow.
But that woman was not very likable and could barely say a few words in a ward. Liu Meiyu was too lazy to waste her thoughts on others and she couldn't even take care of these three.
Since Lu Changzheng returned to the army, it was only Lu Wanjun and Wu Ma who helped her take care of the three little guys. It was okay during the day, but at night, Wu Ma and Lu Wanjun took turns taking Bowen back to sleep, and there were only two of them to take care of the three little guys. Sometimes the three of them cried together in the middle of the night, and they had to feed them and change their diapers, and they also had to worry about disturbing others. It was really a headache.
Even Lu Wanjun, who could always maintain a well-mannered and well-mannered demeanor, looked haggard in just a few days. She no longer had the energy she had at the beginning when she was so fond of the three little guys.
"Aunt, you should take a nap. They just had a full meal and they won't wake up for a while. I'm not sleepy now. I'll call you if they wake up." Seeing that Lu Wanjun had yawned several times in a row, Liu Meiyu let her sleep first.
Lu Wanjun was worried and glanced at the three kids. Seeing that they were sleeping soundly, she lay down on the empty bed next to them. "You should go to sleep too. Otherwise, if they make a noise, it will be dawn."
Liu Meiyu nodded and closed her eyes for a while.
Until the second half of the night, she vaguely felt that the little guy was about to cry again. Her mind was still very sleepy, but her eyes were open first. She was relieved when she didn't hear any crying, but suddenly she saw a dark shadow who seemed to be hunched over and was quietly opening the door to go out.
The light was too dim and she couldn't see who it was. The curtains of the beds opposite her were drawn at night, so she couldn't see who was missing.
Liu Meiyu sensed something was not right. She felt that it was a bit strange for that person to be hunched over so late at night. She went over the person in her mind and realized that the old lady on the opposite bed would not be staying with her today and had gone home early to clean up the house. Only her son was left here to take care of her, but the person just now looked more like a woman.
"Aunt!" Liu Meiyu's head was in a rage and she called out to Lu Wanjun at the top of her voice.
"What's wrong?" Lu Wanjun was awakened by Liu Meiyu's voice. She thought something happened to the three kids and came over to see that they were still sleeping soundly in the basket.
"Go to the bed opposite and see if Hu Zi is still there! Wake them both up!"
When Lu Wanjun heard Liu Meiyu's tone was wrong, she reacted quickly. She pulled the curtain and saw the couple sleeping soundly. She reached into the basket and found it was empty!
"Stop sleeping! Where are your children?" Lu Wanjun used all her strength to slap the man awake, waking up his wife as well.
"Where's Hu Zi?" The man was stunned when the basket next to him was suddenly empty.
"Aunt, call for help! The child has just been taken away, hurry up and chase him out the back door!" Liu Meiyu's scalp was tingling as well. It was the first time she had encountered someone stealing a child right under her nose.
No matter how gentle the man was, he was still Liu Meiyu's father after all. He reacted quickly after hearing what Liu Meiyu said. He opened the door in two or three steps and chased after him.
Liu Meiyu: "Aunt, see if the woman opposite me is still there!"
Lu Wanjun understood what he meant and pulled open the curtain.
The woman, who had not yet completed the discharge procedures, had an empty bed, and all the clothes that she had piled up beside her pillow were gone.
"It should be her! She didn't run far, so hurry out to look for her. And her older sister too! She might be in the same group as them! Stop her if you see her!" Liu Meiyu shouted to the distraught woman who was staring at the basket next to her.
"My child!" The woman was awakened by Liu Meiyu's voice. She staggered and her usual gentleness disappeared. She followed the man with hatred in her eyes.
"Meiyun, you look after the kids. I'll go to the duty room to call for help and be back soon!" Lu Wanjun saw that the three little ones in the basket were still sleeping soundly and Liu Meiyun was very clear-headed. She quickly gave them a warning and went out to call for help to explain the situation.
When they were the only three of them left in the ward, Liu Meiyu's mind was still in a mess.
His eyes were fixed on the basket beside him, not daring to look away.
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