Z She now feels that every day is torture. If possible, she would like to dig a crack in the ground and crawl into it to escape from here.
"Huang Xiuxiu, why do you look so unhappy? Are you feeling unwell?" Zhao Xingmei asked Huang Xiuxiu when she saw the conflicted and painful expression on her face.
"Are you feeling unwell?" Aunt Jiang glanced at her daughter-in-law.
Huang Xiuxiu quickly restrained her emotions and controlled the expression on her face.
She held her stomach and took a deep breath. "Maybe I walked too fast just now, so my stomach hurts a little."
"Just tell me what you think. Don't be anxious. Xiu'er, let's walk slowly. When we get out of the alley, mom will stop a taxi for you to take us to the hospital." Aunt Jiang didn't realize anything at the moment and was still showing off in front of others.
"Okay, okay." Huang Xiuxiu forced a smile.
After the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law left the compound, Zhao Xingmei said to Ye Li and Aunt Liang, "Why do I feel that Huang Xiuxiu's expression is weird?"
"I find it strange, too." Aunt Liang hung up the quilt and came up to Li Zhaoxingmei and said, "Have you noticed that Huang Xiuxiu has been much more low-key recently? She used to talk about the baby in her belly all the time, but now she doesn't seem to mention it anymore."
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"Isn't she pregnant with a boy?" Zhao Xingmei made a bold guess.
"This... is not possible?" Aunt Liang was a little surprised, "Didn't you say before that you were pregnant with a boy?"
"That was Huang Xiuxiu's own estimate! Can her own estimate be trusted? The doctor's ultrasound has the final say."
Aunt Liang suddenly realized something: "Aunt Zhao, do you think Aunt Jiang took Huang Xiuxiu to the hospital to check the gender of the baby?"
“That’s very possible!”
Aunt Liang covered her mouth and laughed, with a hint of gloating: "If that's true, judging from Huang Xiuxiu's expression, the baby in her belly is probably not a boy, but very likely a girl!"
"She'd better pray that it's not a girl! Otherwise, with Aunt Jiang's temper, she will eat Huang Xiuxiu alive!" said Zhao Xingmei.
Along the way, Aunt Jiang talked a lot, chattering non-stop.
Huang Xiuxiu was absent-minded, but she had to deal with it.
Finally arriving at the hospital, Aunt Jiang went to the window to register, and then took Huang Xiuxiu to the obstetrics department.
"Doctor, we want to do an ultrasound to see if the baby is growing healthily."
The doctor wrote out a checkup list, and Aunt Jiang took Huang Xiuxiu to the ultrasound department with the list.
"Mom." Huang Xiuxiu was panicking. Seeing the door in front of her, she said to Aunt Jiang, "I'm a little anxious now because I'm hungry. Mom, can you buy me some buns to fill my stomach?"
"Okay, you want to eat steamed buns, why don't you just say so? After you finish the examination, we'll find a steamed bun restaurant and let you eat as much as you want!"
"Mom, I can go by myself. You can go buy me some buns, so we can both get in the way."
Huang Xiuxiu tried her best to get Aunt Jiang out of the room and didn't want her to enter the ultrasound department.
But Aunt Jiang was anxious to see whether the baby in Huang Xiuxiu's belly was a boy or a girl, so she had no intention of buying buns for Huang Xiuxiu.
"It doesn't take that long, let's go!"
Aunt Jiang gave the examination form to the doctor, and the doctor asked Huang Xiuxiu to come in and lie on the examination bed.
"Doctor." Aunt Jiang took out ten yuan from her pocket when no one was paying attention and stuffed it into the doctor's white coat. "Please take a good look at this child. How is his development? Also, can you tell me if this child is a boy or a girl?"
"Okay, don't worry, I'll take a good look at it for you."
The doctor took Aunt Jiang's money and examined her very carefully and seriously.
Huang Xiuxiu's heart was about to jump out of her throat, and her heartbeat was louder than the fetal heartbeat.
"Are you nervous?" The doctor saw Huang Xiuxiu's mood and comforted her, "Don't worry, you have twins, and the B-ultrasound shows that they are very healthy."
"That's great, that's great!" Aunt Jiang immediately asked, "Is it a boy or a girl?"
The doctor said, "Girl!"
Aunt Jiang's smile froze at the corner of her mouth as if it was frozen: "A boy and a girl?"
The doctor shook his head: "Girl."
"Ah?" Aunt Jiang felt a black screen before her eyes when she heard that, as if someone had hit her head with a hammer. Her heart seemed to be shattered. She was in so much pain that she couldn't breathe. "Both of them are girls?"
"Yes, all of them!" The doctor gave an affirmative answer, "Okay, it's over, just wipe it off yourself."
Huang Xiuxiu looked at her mother-in-law and her eyes turned red, and she felt even more upset.
She didn't dare say a word, for fear that if she said something wrong she would be scolded.
When the doctor saw Aunt Jiang's expression, he knew exactly what she was thinking.
This older generation still clearly has the idea of favoring boys over girls.
"Auntie, don't be sad. We live in a new society. It doesn't matter whether you have a boy or a girl!"
Aunt Jiang nodded: "Hey, hey, thank you, doctor."
As soon as she came out of the hospital, Aunt Jiang exploded.
She yelled at Huang Xiuxiu, "You evil bastard! You said it was a boy, where is this boy? I have been bragging for so long, and everyone in the alley knows that you are pregnant with twin boys. I have been bragging for so long, and today you have slapped me in the face!"
The sword that was supposed to fall finally fell.
At this moment, Huang Xiuxiu's heart calmed down.
"Mom, I didn't expect the baby in my belly to be a boy! You can see that I like to eat sour food... They say sour food means boys and spicy food means girls."
"Who knows if you said this on purpose to deceive an old woman like me?"
"Apart from this, many of the symptoms are the same as when I was pregnant with Dongliang and Chengcai! Didn't you also say that this belly feels like a boy..."
"Are you blaming me? You are so bad, Huang Xiuxiu! My son has been looking forward to a boy for so long, but in the end it turned out to be a girl! How are you going to explain it to him when he gets home?" Aunt Jiang said, and she couldn't help but burst into tears, "My poor grandson... My poor grandson..."
She felt upset, and Huang Xiuxiu felt bad too.
Who will comfort her?
How am I going to live in this compound from now on?
So, the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law started crying to each other. Passersby on the street looked at them crying, but they didn't know why they were crying, and no one dared to persuade them.
Occasionally a kind-hearted person would come over and give her some advice. It would have been fine if he hadn’t given her some advice, because after he did, she cried even harder.
In the end, Huang Xiuxiu stopped crying. She was a pregnant woman and could not let her emotions fluctuate too much, otherwise she would easily have a miscarriage.
Seeing that she stopped crying, Aunt Jiang stopped crying too.
She wiped away her tears and said, "I can't go back during the day. I have to wait until night to go back! If those people in the compound knew about this, they would laugh at my face!"
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