Postpartum

Since giving birth, Ye Min has not been sleeping well.

One reason was that her body did not recover so quickly after giving birth and she always felt dull pain. The other reason was that she always had to get up at night to feed the baby, so her sleep was intermittent.

Liang Juan, who helped take care of her in the hospital, also did not sleep well. Liang Juan was her neighbor after she followed the army to the army and lived in the family home. This time, it was mainly Liang Juan who helped take care of her when she gave birth.

Liang Juan went to the hospital to take care of Ye Min not only because of their neighborly friendship, but also because it was a task assigned to her by the organization.

After the big movement began, lifestyles became increasingly restrictive, and hiring a nanny could easily be labeled as a petty bourgeois lifestyle.

Although having a baby is a big deal and there is really no one to help, it is not a big deal to hire a nanny to take care of you during the confinement period.

But most of the military wives in the compound gave birth at home, and only sent the babies to the hospital in case of difficult deliveries. However, Ye Min had planned to stay in the hospital early, and would go home after giving birth. She did not act in a low-key manner.

If you hire a nanny to take care of the baby until the end of the confinement period, even if there are justifiable circumstances, there will inevitably be complaints.

Ye Min's biological mother passed away early, and her stepmother was sweet on the outside but bitter on the inside. When she was pregnant with her eldest child, her stepmother patted her chest and guaranteed in front of her father that she would take good care of her when she gave birth.

As a result, she couldn't see her stepmother at all after the birth. She was sent to the hospital by her neighbors, and it was her cousin Meng Xiaolan from Mengcheng who came to the hospital to take care of her after she gave birth.

Therefore, before joining the army, she ignored her stepmother and directly sold the job to Meng Xiaolan, who was about to go to the countryside after graduating from junior high school. Her stepmother was shameless and had the nerve to tell people that she had no conscience after receiving the news. She was so angry that she went back and had a big fight with her before she left, and their relationship has since hit rock bottom.

In this case, you naturally can't count on your mother's family.

It's hard to say about the husband's family. Meng Cheng lost both his parents when he was young, and grew up with his uncle and aunt. His uncle and aunt were not bad to him, but they were not very attentive to him either, otherwise she would not have arranged for a ten-year-old girl to take care of him during her confinement.

If we ask Meng Xiaolan for help, she might be willing to help. However, she is still an apprentice and needs to perform well. It is not easy for her to take two or three months off to take care of Ye Min during her confinement.

So when she found out she was pregnant, Ye Min told Meng Cheng to use all his annual leave this year and take it when she gave birth.

Meng Cheng is a soldier and has one month of annual leave every year. Although he is often unable to take this month due to his busy work, this year is special. As soon as he mentioned this to his leader, it was approved. He only needs to wait for the delivery date to formally apply.

Actually, having a man take care of you during the confinement period is not much more low-key than hiring a nanny.

After all, the idea that men should work outside and women should work inside was the mainstream at that time. There were many men in the military compound who would not even help a tired woman. So why would they take care of a woman during her confinement? They would rather work overtime in the barracks.

But there is an essential difference between the two. If you hire a nanny without carefulness, you will be criticized, but if a man takes care of his wife during the confinement period, it is a manifestation of his love for his wife.

Although soldiers must have the awareness of putting their country before their families, this does not mean that they will be single for their entire lives.

On the contrary, during the promotion process of military officers, the stability of their family and the harmony of their marital relationship are also important criteria for military leaders to judge.

The military leaders were pleased to see Meng Cheng ask for leave to take care of his wife during her postpartum period, otherwise they would not have approved the leave so readily.

So the person to take care of the baby during confinement was decided.

Considering that the expected date of delivery is not 100% accurate, the couple discussed and made corresponding plans.

They planned that Meng Cheng would no longer be on any missions after April, so that if Ye Min left early, he could apply for leave in advance.

It's just that plans can't keep up with changes.

At the end of March, Meng Cheng was assigned to lead a team on a mission.

The mission is not complicated. As long as nothing unexpected happens, Meng Cheng will definitely be able to return in early April.

This is what he told Ye Min before he left.

However, Ye Min was afraid that he would be too hasty in getting home when he was on a mission, so she pointed out that there were still about 20 days before her due date, and said that even if he was delayed on the road, it would not matter if he came back a few days later. The important thing was to return safely and steadily.

Who would have thought that what she said would come true. Meng Cheng really failed to return on time, and she set off more than half a month in advance.

Fortunately, the army would not mistreat military families. After learning that she had gone mad, the army leaders quickly arranged for someone to send her to the hospital to give birth. During this period, Li Yahong, director of the Women's Federation, was guarding outside the delivery room.

After the child was born, Li Yahong arranged for Liang Juan to take care of Ye Min in the hospital, and brought her eldest son back home to take care of him, so that she would not fall into the dilemma of being left unattended because her husband was not around.

But Liang Juan also has a family, and if she came to the hospital to take care of her, there would be no one to take care of her children at home. She also spent two days in the hospital and was mentally exhausted.

So after being able to get out of bed yesterday afternoon, Ye Min let Liang Juan go back to rest after dinner. She was responsible for feeding and changing diapers by herself at night.

Without Liang Juan's help, it was even harder for Ye Min to sleep well at night. In the morning, he woke up before dawn with dark circles under his eyes. He kept his eyes open until dawn, until Liang Juan brought Meng Zheng to the hospital.

The garrison was quite far from the county town, and it took nearly an hour to get there by car, and the road was very bumpy, so Liang Juan did not bring any breakfast with her. After entering the ward, she took the clean lunch box and went to the cafeteria to buy food for Ye Min.

Meng Zheng did not go with them. He came this time to see his mother and sister. After entering the ward, he walked directly to the bedside and looked up at Ye Min and asked, "Mom, are you okay?"

Ye Min smiled, touched his head and said, "Mom is fine. How about you? Have you been eating well these days?"

"I'm very good!" Meng Zheng raised his voice and said immediately, "I eat a full bowl of rice every meal!"

"So amazing!"

Meng Zheng touched his head and said a little embarrassedly, "Not that great." Then he thought again, "Mom, when are you coming home?"

"It will probably take another three or four days. Do you miss Mom?"

"Yes!" Meng Zheng nodded without hesitation, "I miss my mom and dad, but Grandma Li said that dad has to work and mom has to give birth to a younger sister, so they can't come back! Ah! Where's my younger sister?"

Meng Zheng's eyes widened, as if he had just remembered his sister's existence.

"Here." Ye Min pointed inside the bed.

Although Meng Zheng inherited his parents' tall genes and had long arms and legs, he was only three years old after all, and his head was barely above the hospital bed. Even if he stretched his neck, he could not see his sister who was sleeping on Ye Min's right.

As a last resort, he had to jump up with all his strength.

Ye Min couldn't help laughing when she saw this. Not wanting him to work too hard, she supported herself on the bed with both hands and moved her body, half leaning against the head of the bed. Then she picked up her daughter who was sleeping soundly on her side and showed her to her son.

The little girl was only three days old. Although her skin was not as wrinkled as when she was just born, it was not smooth either. Her face skin was still a little red. She didn't look ugly, but she wasn't very cute either.

At least that’s not the way Meng Zheng imagined his sister to be.

So when he looked at his sister, his expression was a bit complicated, like she was happy, but also a bit disappointed.

Ye Min knew exactly what he was thinking, but she wanted to tease him anyway, so she deliberately asked, "Why aren't you talking? Is it because your sister is not pretty?"

Although Meng Zheng was young, he was very considerate. Fearing that his mother would be disappointed, he said hesitantly, "...No, my sister is pretty."

"Really?"

"Really." As if afraid that Ye Min wouldn't believe it, the boy nodded vigorously while speaking, but he didn't dare look at his mother.

The more he did this, the more Ye Min couldn't help but giggle, so when Liang Juan came back, the first thing she said was: "What were you guys talking about that made you so happy?"

Ye Min looked up and said with a smile: "Meng Zheng said my sister is pretty."

Liang Juan put the lunch box on the bedside table, then went to the foot of the bed to get the medical table, then opened the lunch box and put it on the table. She took the child from Ye Min's arms and said, "Your daughter is really pretty. Look at her eyes, how big they are, and her nose is straight. She looks exactly like Xiao Fengzheng."

Little Kite is Meng Zheng's nickname.

I say it is because this nickname was first given by Meng Cheng’s good friend Ding Yang. He called him that so often that Meng Cheng’s comrades-in-arms began to call Meng Zheng “Little Kite” when they mentioned him, and then the nickname spread.

When Meng Zheng heard what Liang Juan said, his eyebrows almost wrinkled into caterpillars. He didn't think his sister's nose looked like his at all.

But looking at the smiles on his mother and Aunt Liang's faces, he sighed and thought, forget it, just let him give in to them.

Although he thought his sister was not good-looking, Meng Zheng still liked her very much. When Ye Min was drinking porridge, he had been lying beside the hospital bed and looking at his sister. From time to time, he would reach out and poke his sister's face, or touch her forehead, and he was having a lot of fun alone.

Seeing this, Ye Min felt even happier and unknowingly finished the dishes and porridge that Liang Juan had brought back.

Because of the discomfort after giving birth, Ye Min's appetite has not been very good. She did not finish the food she brought back several times. She could save it for the next meal.

So after going to the doctor to understand Ye Min's condition, Liang Juan returned to the ward and saw the empty lunch box. She looked a little surprised and asked, "Do you have a good appetite today?"

"Yes, it's OK."

"Then can I give you more food at noon?"

"That's fine."

After a brief conversation, Liang Juan took the lunch box out to wash it, while Ye Min leaned back on the pillow, lowering her head slightly to look at the two children.

But this time, the smile did not appear on her lips. Her pupils shrank and she saw words flashing above her daughter's head:

[Wow! Is this the heroine? So cute! ]

[Is this when the heroine was just born? The person sitting next to her is her adoptive mother? ]

The same light white color, different fonts, flashing from bottom to top at a constant speed.

At the same time, Ye Min noticed that her son, who was lying beside the hospital bed and staring at his sister, had no change in expression, as if he didn't see the two lines of words at all.

Ye Min thought about it and said intuitively: "Meng Zheng, did you... see anything?"

"What?" Meng Zheng sat up straight, looked up at Ye Min, with a look of pure confusion on his face.

Ye Min curled her lips slightly: "Nothing, maybe my eyes are blurry."

As she spoke, her eyes were still on her daughter. The two lines of white words had disappeared, or perhaps they had never appeared and she was just dazzled.

Ye Min raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, thinking that she might not have had enough rest in the past few days. When Meng Cheng came back, she must have a good sleep... Before she finished the thought, she saw the same light white font jump above her daughter's head again.

[As a seasoned reader who has read the novel three times over, I think this should be my mother]

[First, the adoptive mother was already in her thirties, so the woman sitting on the bed was not of the right age; second, the heroine's adoptive brother was seven or eight years older than her, and the child beside the bed was at most three or four years old, which was more in line with the age of the heroine's biological brother Meng Zheng]

[The last and most important point is that the heroine's adoptive parents had been relocated to the countryside at this time, and their financial conditions were not good. When the adoptive mother gave birth, she lived in a large ward, and this ward was a double room, which was obviously not suitable.]

【??? Wasn't the heroine in the novel taken away by the wrong baby at birth? The heroine has been born for several days now, right? Why is she still with her biological mother? If she was not taken away by the wrong baby at birth, how could she be taken away by the wrong baby later?】

[Thinking about the heroine's brother who suddenly became powerful in the later part and took revenge on the heroine's adoptive parents, I feel like there is something fishy going on behind the scenes! ]

[Could it be... Shit! Auntie, wake up! Your daughter is going to be taken away by the wrong person!]

[It's your daughter who's going to be replaced! ]