Chapter 143: Prosperity 143: I hope the little elm will grow into a big tree quickly
Time flies, and two months passed quickly.
Gu Qingqing has been visiting Xu Nian frequently recently, as the two homes are close and convenient.
Xu Nian's belly is already very big. The female military doctor said that she might give birth at any time in the next few days, so she asked her to walk more and move around more so that she would suffer less.
That day, Gu Qingqing supported her and walked slowly on the path outside. Both women's bellies were very obvious. She was carrying twins and looked like she was five months pregnant.
"Brother Ze has been running home several times a day recently, fearing that I might give birth suddenly..." Before she could finish her words, the smile on her face froze, and the hand that was holding Gu Qingqing visibly stiffened.
"Sister Anian?" Gu Qingqing saw that her face was not right, "What's wrong with you?"
"...I might be giving birth soon," Xu Nian breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that she was at a loss, he endured the strange feeling and the pain of contraction, "Don't worry, Qingqing. Help me to the toilet and walk slowly."
Gu Qingqing was extremely anxious and wanted to carry her directly to the clinic. He looked at his own belly and her belly, and then he obediently held her and walked slowly. Fortunately, they had already walked a long way, and it only took ten minutes to reach the clinic.
Xu Nian had been taken over by the female military doctors and taken to the operating room. Zhao Ze was originally on a mission in the cave with the team, and Gu Qingqing asked a soldier to call him back.
"Sister Qingqing, where is Anian?!" Zhao Ze was covered in mud and sand, sweat was dripping down his cheeks, and he was carrying a medicine box on his back.
Gu Qingqing sat down on the chair beside her and took a deep breath. "In the operating room, don't worry, you'll be a father soon."
How could Zhao Ze feel at ease? As the old saying goes, giving birth is like taking one foot into the gate of hell. Moreover, the medical level on the island is not even on the same level as that of Nanyang Provincial Hospital.
He was walking around in the hall outside. Gu Qingqing's heart started pounding as she watched him. She was extremely nervous.
Fortunately, the men had finished their tasks. Chu Dai knew she was here and came over directly. Seeing her sitting on a chair with one hand grasping the back of the chair and the other hand clenched into a fist on her chest, he didn't care about the mud and sand on his body and went to the side to pour her a glass of water.
"My dear." The man bent his long legs, squatted down and approached her normally, his eyebrows and eyes were gentle: "Don't be afraid, drink some water first."
"Brother." When Gu Qingqing saw the man appear, she wanted to throw herself into his arms. She had just been pretending to be calm, but it all collapsed at this moment.
"It's okay." Chu Dai comforted her softly, "These military doctors were transferred from the military district hospital."
After hearing what he said, the woman holding the enamel cup almost burst into tears: "The military hospital is just like Brother Zhao, they only care about scalpels and don't care about childbirth."
The man couldn't help laughing after hearing this, "In the army, military dependents also send their babies to military hospitals, not field hospitals. Those are the ones who are on the front lines like Zhao Ze."
Zhao Ze, who was originally circling around like a headless fly, heard what the couple said and shouted in silence: "I am not the only one who can pull a knife in a war zone!"
After shouting, his impatience subsided a little. He pulled a chair and stood guard at the door of the operating room, staring straight at the light on the door through the lenses.
Chu Dai stood up and let Gu Qingqing lean on his waist. He reached out and held the woman's right hand, silently supporting her.
Fortunately, Xu Nian's delivery was smooth. After more than 40 minutes, the baby cried loudly and a female military doctor came out carrying the baby.
As soon as the door was opened, they were shocked to see Zhao Ze standing there in a daze: "Military Doctor Zhao..."
Zhao Ze quickly stood up and looked at the child wrapped in an army green sheet without blinking.
"It's a boy, weighing 2.5 jin (6.2 jin), born at 12:23 this morning. I'll take him to wash first. You go see my sister-in-law and think of a name for him." After the female military doctor said this, she took the child and left.
Zhao Ze stood on tiptoe and tried to take another look, but he couldn't. Gu Qingqing was supported by Chu Daiyu and asked, "Can we go in and see Sister An Nian now?"
"The military doctor just said it's okay." Zhao Ze turned around and went into the ward again.
Chu Dai stood at the door and said to Gu Qingqing, "Go ahead. I'll wait for you here."
The woman nodded, and thinking of Xu Nian, she hurried to see how she was doing.
Lying on the hospital bed, Xu Nian's hair was stuck to her face and her body was very weak.
Zhao Ze stood there blankly, not knowing what to do. Finally, Gu Qingqing pushed him away and asked Xu Nian: "Sister Anian, how do you feel now? Are you hungry? I'll make you some chicken soup when I get home."
Xu Nian reached out from under the quilt and grabbed her wrist, shaking his head: "I'm not hungry, Qingqing, please talk to me for a while."
Zhao Ze came back to his senses now, "Anian, I'm going to the cafeteria to ask Lao Zhu to help stew some big bone soup, you wait, I'll be right there!"
After saying that, he turned around and ran away. Zhao Ze was still a little confused when he left the clinic, and his mind was in a mess.
It took me a while to realize that I was a father! I was overjoyed again.
"Qingqing, can you pour me a glass of water? I'm so thirsty." Xu Nian's voice was very weak.
"Okay, okay, I'll be right there." There was no hot water bottle in the ward, so Gu Qingqing hurried outside. When she met the man's inquiring gaze at the door, she nodded slightly to indicate that it was nothing serious.
He hurriedly poured half a cup of water, then took another enamel cup and rummaged through it. When he felt the wall of the cup with his fingers and felt that the water was almost warm, he passed it to Xu Nian.
Xu Nian drank in small sips, and Gu Qingqing didn't urge her. After she finished, she took the enamel cup and placed it on the bedside table.
"My dear, thank you so much for being here." Xu Nian had thousands of words to say but this was the only one left.
Not only because she was by my side when I was about to give birth, but also because of her companionship now.
Gu Qingqing comforted her gently, "You didn't know just now how anxious Brother Zhao was outside. He was also thinking about you in his heart, but he suddenly became a father and didn't react. I heard the sentry standing guard outside say that he knocked his head on the door when he went out."
Xu Nian's expression finally relaxed. "Where's the child? I just took a look and wanted you to see it too."
"The military doctor took the baby away to be cleaned and will bring it back to you later. You see, the military doctor told Brother Zhao to think of a name for the baby, but he thought nothing of it and went to the cafeteria to make soup for you." Gu Qingqing held her hand and said in a gentle voice, "What you worry about has not happened, and don't think about who he prefers. Anyway, I will take care of you during your confinement and no one else can interfere. It is even more impossible for you to go to the island now."
Xu Nian rested her head against the headboard of the bed. She saw Chu Dai standing at the door and nodded slightly to him.
The man nodded his chin slightly in response.
We only started eating after Zhao Ze came back from the canteen.
Fortunately, he still had some conscience and did not lose his mind. In addition to bringing bone soup to Xu Nian, he also brought food to Gu Qingqing and her husband.
Gu Qingqing and Chu Dai ate in the outer dining room, leaving the ward for the couple to talk for a while.
Her taste has changed a lot during this period. Sometimes she likes salty food, sometimes she wants sweet food. She usually rotates between sauerkraut buns and red bean paste buns at home.
There happened to be red bean paste buns in the cafeteria today. Chu Dai handed one to her. Gu Qingqing pouted and said, "Brother, I want to eat salted vegetable buns."
Chu Dai was not bothered. He picked out all the red bean paste with chopsticks and put it in his lunch box. He would eat it himself later and stuffed some salted radish cubes into the bun.
"Try it?" He smiled and handed the bun to her again.
Gu Qingqing hesitated for a moment, then took a bite of the salted vegetable bun with a new filling in his hand, "Hmm?" There was a hint of disbelief in her eyes, and then she took another bite suspiciously.
Just like that, she finished eating four pickled vegetable buns whose fillings had been replaced by the man, and Chu Dai was also full from eating the red bean paste.
"Do you want to eat more?" The man fed her another mouthful of millet porridge.
Gu Qingqing put her hands on her stomach and said nothing, but drank all the porridge the man fed her.
The female military doctor who came over with the child saw this scene and said to her comrade next to her: "If I were to look at the men on the island, Captain Chu is the best at treating his wife. He is considerate and patient. If I had such a considerate man, I would laugh out loud in my dreams."
"Captain Chu's wife is a nice person too," said another female military doctor. "She is very easy-going, warm and friendly. I like girls like her, too."
"You should think about who likes you first." The female military doctor holding the child laughed: "Military Doctor Zhao has given birth to a child, and Captain Chu's wife is pregnant with twins, but we are still single."
"If it's really not possible, please ask the organization to help arrange it." The female military doctor was more open-minded: "Hurry up and bring the child in. Military Doctor Zhao and his wife must be waiting anxiously."
They went in. Gu Qingqing touched her belly, lowered her ears, and smiled at the man who was packing lunch boxes: "Our Captain Chu is very popular."
"It's all yours. No matter how popular it is, it's your honor." Chu Dai stood up and asked her, "Come back with me? Xu Nian has Zhao Ze here. He won't go to the cave this afternoon."
"I'll go talk to Sister Anian." She grabbed the man's arm and stood up, the bone hurting her palm a little.
"No wonder my little nephew always feels that I have treated you badly and eaten up all your food. Why do you only get your flesh on me?" She couldn't help but sneer.
"You have two babies in your belly." Chu Dai had been in the Construction Corps for a long time, and his accent was a mixture of northern and southern accents. "Eat more. I'm afraid you three won't have enough."
Gu Qingqing sighed: "Brother, do I wake up laughing in my dreams every night?"
The man was amused and nodded seriously: "Yes, you are lucky to marry me if you talk in your dreams."
The woman gently pushed him and said angrily, "Soldiers can't tell lies."
"Oh, that might have been my dream. I remembered it wrongly." The man held the lunch box in his left hand and supported her with his right hand as he walked towards the ward. "I'm lucky to marry you."
Gu Qingqing was satisfied now. Her increasingly round face was glowing. Since she became pregnant, she looked more tender than before, and her eyes were particularly charming.
But the little woman is unaware of it and still thinks she is as naive as before, making the man's veins bulge every night.
She entered the ward and greeted Xu Nian: "I'll go home and make you some chicken soup and bring it over in the evening. Brother Zhao, you stay here."
"Qingqing," Xu Nian said, holding the child in her arms, "why don't you want to see your nephew?"
Gu Qingqing is heavy now and it is inconvenient for her to bend over, so Zhao Ze took his son from his daughter-in-law, stood up and held him in his arms to show her.
Gu Qingqing looked at the baby's red, wrinkled face and sparse hair in the blanket, was silent for a moment, and then asked: "Who of you does my nephew look like?"
Xu Nian chuckled. She was still in pain and couldn't move. She leaned against the pillow and said to her, "He must look like your brother Zhao. I'm better looking than him."
Gu Qingqing glanced at Zhao Ze who was wearing glasses and nodded in agreement.
"Like," she said seriously.
This time it was Zhao Ze who was depressed: "I said, have you two ever seen newborn babies? They are all wrinkled and ugly. Now I can't tell who they look like."
Xu Nian and Gu Qingqing were both happy.
"What's the name? Have you decided on one?" Gu Qingqing looked at the child again; he still looked a little ugly.
I couldn't help but worry about the two babies in my belly.
"Zhao Yu." Xu Nian said, "Your brother Zhao struggled for a long time between the two characters Yu and Yu, and finally felt that a man should be as strong and upright as a tree, so he named him this."
"Very good, Zhao Yu." Gu Qingqing took out the red envelope that she had prepared long ago and stuffed it into the little baby's quilt: "This is a meeting gift from auntie to Xiao Yu. I hope Xiao Yu will grow into a big tree quickly."
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