Lei Tingjun suddenly remembered a book by a philosopher that he had read before.
The book says that loving someone makes you a better person, rather than dragging you into a darker abyss.
Good love is based on mutual trust, understanding, respect and appreciation, mutual progress, and mutual encouragement, as well as striving towards a common goal.
Lei Tingjun was incredibly fortunate, because falling in love with Ji Wanmei made him a better person.
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After returning to Pingquan County, they drove directly to the health center to visit Zhu Shuangyan, who was hospitalized there. Aqiang was also at the hospital.
Upon arriving at the inpatient department, Ji Wanmei saw the baby sleeping in swaddling clothes.
"It's a boy." Zhu Shuangyan lay on the hospital bed, still looking a little weak, but she smiled happily. "He weighed over six pounds and seven ounces when he was born, he was quite chubby."
Upon seeing the soft, pink baby, Ji Wanmei's heart seemed to melt.
The baby is so cute.
"May I hug him?" Ji Wanmei asked cautiously.
"When you hold him, support his neck and head," Zhu Shuangyan instructed her, showing her slightly clumsy movements.
Ah Qiang stood to the side, grinning foolishly, praising his son as if he were a child prodigy descended from heaven, saying that he could open his eyes and smile at people as soon as he was born, while also busily greeting relatives and friends who came to see his wife and son.
Lei Tingjun sat to the side, holding an apple that A-Qiang had handed him, watching Ji Wanmei hold the baby in her arms, her eyes gently teasing him.
He couldn't help but wonder, if he and Ji Wanmei had their own child in the future, would she also look at the child's adorable face with a gentle and serene expression?
Just thinking about that scene made Lei Tingjun's heart race.
But Ah Qiang kept smugly saying, "Brother Lei, you promised to be my son's godfather! When you and your sister-in-law have a child, your brother can protect him!"
What A-Qiang is so proud of is that Lei Tingjun is his older brother now, hehehe, but in two years, when Lei Tingjun and Ji Wanmei's child is born, A-Qiang's son will be old enough to run errands.
Hasn't that position been reversed soon?
This is the advantage of having a son early; it makes his father proud.
Lei Tingjun glanced indifferently at the smug A-Qiang, took out a red envelope from his pocket and threw it over: "Alright, be satisfied with a few moments of smugness."
Ji Wanmei held the baby and reached out to touch the baby's little face.
The baby was searching for milk everywhere. When it touched Ji Wanmei's finger, it thought it was its mother's milk source. It opened its little mouth and started to bite and suck. When it couldn't get any milk, its little mouth twitched and it started to cry loudly.
Ji Wanmei was so amused by the baby that she couldn't put him down, but when she saw the baby crying, she had to quickly hand him back to Zhu Shuangyan so that she could breastfeed the child.
After saying goodbye to the couple, Ji Wanmei and Lei Tingjun left the hospital and drove back to Ji Xingguo's place.
Ji Xingguo had received a call earlier, knowing that they were returning today.
It takes about ten minutes to drive back from the clinic to the Dongfang Workers' Compound.
In the car, Ji Wanmei asked Lei Tingjun, "Do you like children?"
“I like it. What about you?” Lei Tingjun looked at Ji Wanmei.
Of course he wanted a child that was the fruit of his love with Ji Wanmei.
However, before they got married, Ji Wanmei had told him that they didn't want children for the next two years, and that they would wait until their careers were more stable before having children.
After they got married, they slept in the same bed every day, and they had taken family planning measures.
Although Lei Tingjun will be thirty years old in two years, he knows that Ji Wanmei is six years younger than him.
Lei Tingjun had read in some book that it was bad for women to have children too early.
Moreover, she has only graduated for a year. If she gets married and has a child right away, she will not have experienced her career and life yet, and will have to focus on her child from now on.
Therefore, Lei Tingjun respected and agreed with Ji Wanmei's opinion on this matter.
He also wanted to spend a few more years with her as a couple before considering having children, once they were both more mature.
Anyway, nowadays everyone follows the one-child policy, so whether you have a child early or late, you can only have one.
It's all the same sooner or later. As long as Ji Wanmei is with him, Lei Tingjun even feels that even if she doesn't want to have children, he won't force her.
I just feel that it would be even more perfect if I had a child.
Ji Wanmei probably knew a little about Lei Tingjun's thoughts, and always thought that he cared about and valued her opinions and ideas.
However, when she was at the hospital earlier, playing with A-Qiang's child, she caught a fleeting glimpse of envy in Lei Tingjun's eyes.
After thinking for a moment, she asked him, "I never really liked children before, but I just held one and I think babies are quite adorable. Especially—"
She turned to look at him tenderly, "A child conceived together with the one you love will surely be a child born carrying the love they both cherish."
Lei Tingjun gripped her hand tightly in return.
Ji Wanmei thought for a moment and then asked him, "If we want to have children in the future, would you prefer a son or a daughter?"
“Daughter,” Lei Tingjun said without hesitation.
"Don't you want a son?" Ji Wanmei teased. "Didn't you see how Qiang was showing off in front of you just now? He has a son."
Because of the special one-child policy, many places, not to mention backward rural areas, but even major cities, are the same: people hope to have a son as their first child.
This preference for sons over daughters is still widespread and serious in society.
Although Ji Wanmei disagreed and didn't think so.
But she wanted to know what Lei Tingjun was thinking.
"If we have a son, he'll be a little Lei Tingjun. Don't you like that?" Ji Wanmei asked deliberately.
Little Thunder Army?
Lei Tingjun frowned, recalling his disobedient and rebellious childhood self. With a serious expression, he shook his head without hesitation, "No. I'd rather have a little Ji Wanmei."
Ji Wanmei chuckled: "Dream on!"
Lei Tingjun is so biased, he's practically siding with the enemy.
But that's good too; at least he doesn't have the arrogant bad habit that other men have when it comes to procreation.
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