Su Ting had just given birth and was weak, so she could only eat light liquid food. Therefore, Aunt Wang brought back white porridge from the cafeteria, with two or three stir-fried vegetarian dishes.

The portion was quite large. Su Ting's stomach was bloated after eating so much, and one third of the porridge and vegetables were still left. He Dongchuan took the bowl and chopsticks and continued eating.

While he was eating, he slowly woke up because he was hungry.

The newborn baby couldn't open her eyes, and when she woke up she could only cry at the top of her lungs. The little girl weighed 25 pounds and was a very strong child, and her crying was quite loud.

Hearing his daughter crying, He Dongchuan quickly put down his chopsticks, picked up the daughter with one hand, and walked to the bedside table to prepare milk. But as soon as he took out the milk powder, Aunt Wang said, "You can't make milk. Let Xiao Su feed the child first."

Although Su Ting had already given birth, she didn't have much awareness of being a newborn mother. She was stunned for a moment and pointed at herself and asked, "Shall I feed the baby?"

Aunt Wang said, "No, you should have breastfed the baby one or two hours after birth, but you fell asleep and Xiaochuan didn't let me wake you up, so I didn't feed you."

Although Su Ting had planned to feed the baby mainly with formula before Manman was born, she didn't want to deny the baby any breast milk. After hearing what Aunt Wang said, she said, "Then..."

"I understand," Aunt Wang smiled and called He Yan, "I'll take Xiao Yan out for a walk and let Xiao Chuan stay to help you."

He Yan was very curious about how his mother would feed his sister and didn't want to move. However, he was smart and knew that if he told the adults his purpose directly, they would definitely not let him stay in the ward. So he held up his homework book and said, "I still have homework to do!"

"When can't you do your homework? Your mother needs to feed you, it's not convenient for you to stay here, come out with me quickly." Aunt Wang said as she walked forward and pulled He Yan's hand.

He Dongchuan also said: "Go out and play for a while, and do your homework later."

He Yan didn't dare to disobey his father and walked out reluctantly. When he reached the door, he glanced back to see if his mother had started feeding him.

But unfortunately, the father was still coaxing his sister, and the mother was lying on the hospital bed without moving.

He Yan sighed and watched helplessly as the ward door closed in front of him.

After Aunt Wang and He Yan left, the ward became quiet. Su Ting felt a little embarrassed and was reluctant to take her hands off the buttons of her clothes.

In fact, she didn't know what to be embarrassed about. After all, they both had children. To put it bluntly, they had seen everything about each other's bodies.

But her cheeks couldn't help getting hot, and she coughed lightly and said, "How about...you give it to me."

He Dongchuan did not move when he heard this and asked, "Can you hold the child?"

"I can hold the baby." Su Ting said. Although she was still a little weak, her hands had some strength after eating and drinking enough, and she felt that she should be able to hold the baby.

He Dongchuan still didn't move and continued to ask: "Can you hold a baby?"

This...Su Ting is really not very good at it.

The reason was simple. She had never held a newborn baby before, and she fell into a coma after giving birth. Unlike He Dongchuan, she did not have time to study.

"How about...you teach me now?" Su Ting asked hesitantly.

He Dongchuan looked down at the crying little girl and said, "I'm afraid it's too late."

"How do I feed my baby then?"

"I'll hold the baby, and you feed him," He Dongchuan suggested, and said very seriously, "Don't worry, I won't look at you."

He had said so much, if Su Ting continued to be shy, it would be a bit hypocritical, and the child was crying because of hunger... She pursed her lips and said, "Okay then."

After getting permission, He Dongchuan sat down beside the bed holding the child, then raised his hands, put the daughter to his wife's chest, turned his head and said, "Call me if you need to adjust the posture."

Su Ting nodded, raised her hand to unbutton her clothes, and then pulled down her bra.

The bra she was wearing was bought years ago. Her breasts grew bigger after she became pregnant, and her previous bra was a bit tight. So when she went to the city to mail a letter and withdraw money, she bought two bras in larger sizes while shopping in the department store.

When she first bought this bra, it was indeed much looser, thinner and breathable, and very comfortable to wear. But as time went by, her breasts grew from B to C, and the bra was no longer so comfortable to wear.

But after her belly grew bigger, she never left Pingchuan Island, and she was too embarrassed to ask He Dongchuan to buy her underwear, so she has been wearing it until now.

She had to say that after pulling her bra down, her chest felt much more comfortable, but she felt a little stressed about what she was going to do next.

Looking at the young lady who was still a little distance from her chest, Su Ting said shyly: "Pull her closer to me."

He Dongchuan hummed in a low voice, holding his daughter and leaning towards where Su Ting was sitting.

But it's not enough.

"A little closer to me."

Continue to send.

But there was still some distance, and Su Ting felt that this was still inconvenient. Whether it was her, He Dongchuan, or the child, they all felt a little awkward, so she stretched out her hand and said, "Why don't you just give me Man Man..."

Su Ting's voice stopped abruptly because she saw He Dongchuan turned his head and his eyes fell on her snow-white chest.

She quickly raised her hands and covered her chest with her arms.

He Dongchuan turned his head slowly, coughed and said, "I didn't mean it."

Su Ting blushed and whispered, "I know."

Although she blushed, after breaking through the layer of window paper, her shyness faded away a lot, and she calmly took the girl from He Dongchuan's arms.

The guy was a little heavier than she had imagined, but that wasn't the hardest part. The hard part was that when she was hugged, it would pull her lower body, causing a slight pain that made her hiss.

"Let me hold the baby." He Dongchuan said, taking the child from Su Ting's arms.

This time he did not turn his head and was facing Su Ting, so his posture did not look so strange. The little guy who had already drunk breast milk did not feel uncomfortable. He closed his eyes and tried hard to move his little mouth.

While slowly drinking milk, Su Ting kept her head down, but she could feel He Dongchuan's gaze lingering between her face and the child, with a burning temperature.

Time passed very slowly, and the room became very quiet. The only sound that could be heard was the sound of slow swallowing.

Because Su Ting had just given birth, she didn't have much breast milk, and the little girl had a lot of effort to drink, so every time she drank, she made a sound.

This made Su Ting's face heat up again. Although He Dongchuan couldn't see anything because of the child's obstruction, she felt as if her clothes were being stripped in front of him.

Fortunately, the little girl had a small appetite and was full in about ten minutes, and her movements became slower.

Su Ting spoke in a low voice: "That should be enough."

He Dongchuan responded and carried the girl away.

The newborn didn't know how to stop drinking when he was full, so he was not very happy when he was taken away from his mother. He cried for a few times with his mouth pursed. But a child who had eaten and drunk enough was easy to coax. He Dongchuan held the child and walked around the ward twice, and the little guy stopped crying and fell asleep with his eyes closed.

He Dongchuan put his daughter back on the empty bed and tucked her in. He turned around and saw Su Ting with her back to him, wiping herself with a handkerchief.

After wiping it clean, Su Ting pulled up her bra and buttoned it one by one.

After getting dressed, she turned over and lay down. As soon as she raised her head, she met He Dongchuan's focused gaze. She pursed her lips and asked, "Why are you looking at me?"

He Dongchuan said: "Because you are pretty."

"Liar." Su Ting snorted. She knew what she was like now.

Not to mention that she gained several dozen pounds during pregnancy and her face became rounder, just the fact that she sweated a lot when giving birth, and although it's dry now, her hair is definitely greasy and her body is sticky.

Such an image, even if it is not ugly, certainly has nothing to do with being good-looking.

"It's true."

He Dongchuan said as he sat down beside Su Ting's bed. He held her clasped hands on the quilt with his right hand, and touched her cheek with his left hand. He whispered, "Do you know what I was thinking about when you gave birth?"

Su Ting raised her eyes to look at him: "What are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking, maybe I'm not a good husband."

After He Yan's mother passed away, Cheng Xiaoman regretted it for a while, thinking that she shouldn't have been soft-hearted and listened to her husband and brought two unsuitable young people together.

A mother always sides with her own children, and Cheng Xiaoman is no exception. Even when her son and daughter-in-law come to the point of resentment and hatred towards each other, she does not think the problem lies with her son.

Yes, after the marriage, her son was away from home all year round, and the couple had been living apart. But her son was a soldier, and his rank was not high enough for his wife to accompany him in the army. Wasn't it normal for the couple to live apart? Zhou Yuan knew this before the marriage, so how could she accept it before the marriage, but blame her son after the marriage?

As for the death of Zhou's father, she had even more to say. It was not that their family had failed to take care of Zhou's father. They had arranged all the connections. After Zhou's father arrived at the farm, he lived in the best room among the people who had been reformed, and he did the easiest work.

They were taking risks in doing all this, and with the relationship with Zhou Yuan, if things went wrong, their whole family would be implicated. They were doing this out of consideration for the past relationship between the two families.

Zhou's father knew all this, so he didn't want to trouble them. He kept his illness a secret and by the time the news finally reached him, the person was already dead.

Zhou Yuan was sad without her father, which she could understand, but she couldn't understand why she blamed her family, thinking that her husband and son failed to take good care of her father, which led to his death.

It was clear that when Zhou's father was in trouble, only their family offered a helping hand. In order to better protect Zhou Yuan, her son married Zhou Yuan at the risk of affecting his future, but in the end, their family became bad people.

She can't accept it!

However, Cheng Xiaoman could blame Zhou Yuan for repaying kindness with enmity and not distinguishing between good and evil, but He Dongchuan could not think so because he was Zhou Yuan's husband.

During his marriage, he indeed neglected his family and failed to fulfill his responsibilities as a husband.

When the marriage came to an end, looking back, he had to admit that he was not a good husband, and he was no longer sure whether he could be a good husband.

After realizing this, He Dongchuan never considered remarrying.

He had encountered many difficulties and failed many times in his life. In the past, when he encountered difficulties, he always thought about overcoming them. If he failed, he would just get up, clap his hands and try again.

But when faced with marriage, he chose to escape.

Until he met Su Ting, was framed, and then was cheated.

He was not happy to have a new wife, and he did not know how to treat her, so he was indifferent, hoping that she would give up.

But he did not go down the wrong path and never return.

When he came back from his mission, he couldn't help but pay attention to her, smiled at the little smugness she showed after she confronted him, and felt happy for her servility in trying to please him for her own good.

He began to want to be her husband.

He also tried hard to be a good husband and someone she could rely on.

In the past year, he thought he had done it, but when he stood in the delivery room and watched her crying and screaming in pain because of giving birth,

He suddenly felt that it was not enough.

He Dongchuan held Su Ting's cheeks, lowered his head and kissed her lips, and said in a low voice: "Tingting, I love you."

Maybe what he is doing now is still not enough, but in the days to come, he will try his best to fulfill his responsibilities as a husband, and will work harder to love her and become her support.

…

In the past, Su Ting never thought that the three words "I love you" meant anything. In TV dramas and novels, every male protagonist would say "I love you" dozens of times.

So when she asked He Dongchuan whether he loved her, he just said politely that he liked her, and she thought that was okay.

Although love is an advanced word for liking, who made her meet an old-fashioned man born in the 1940s? According to his actual birth age, he is half a century older than her, so she has to forgive his conservatism.

Anyway, she didn't have any obsession with the three words "I love you", so she let him go.

But now when she heard him say these three words, Su Ting found that it was still different. Three words were much more touching than four words. Moreover, when someone who was usually conservative and did not say "love" talked about it, it was really deadly.

Su Ting raised her head and took the initiative to kiss He Dongchuan.

This was very rare in the past. Although Su Ting had read far more movies than He Dongchuan, who had never even watched TV, knew more positions than him and was more frivolous inside, she was still conservative by nature, so he was basically the one who took the lead in bed.

Because of this, the kiss between the two seemed to be out of control, and the temperature in the ward continued to rise until Su Ting screamed.

He Dongchuan stopped moving and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

"It hurts." Su Ting leaned on the bed and said softly.

He Dongchuan whispered an apology and asked, "Where does it hurt?"

Su Ting suspected that he did it on purpose, so she looked up and rolled her eyes at him without saying anything.

He Dongchuan reacted quickly. He coughed and asked, "Does it hurt? Do you want to call a doctor?"

Although all obstetricians at that time were women, she didn't want the doctor to look at her again after leaving the delivery room, so she shook her head and said, "No, just don't move too much." Then she glanced at He Dongchuan and said, "Do you want to solve it?"

She felt that he was feeling worse than she was.

"How to solve it?" He Dongchuan asked.

"Of course you have to figure it out yourself!" Su Ting's eyes widened. She had just given birth to a child.

In fact, He Dongchuan had never thought of asking Su Ting for help, but in this context, she said so, so he asked so casually. Therefore, after being rejected, he was not very disappointed. He just stood up and walked around the bed, turned his back to Su Ting, and tried to calm down.

…

When He Dongchuan was facing the wall, He Yan was already tired from walking below. He asked weakly, "Grandma, hasn't mom finished feeding me yet?"

"I think she's done feeding." Aunt Wang said uncertainly.

He Yan asked: "Can we go back now?"

"Go back."

He Yan shouted happily and skipped towards the hospital gate.

The obstetric ward was on the third floor. Su Ting lived in room 310, a double room. However, because there were few pregnant women in the hospital, she was the only one in the ward for the time being.

When He Yan reached the door of the ward, he was about to push it open, but Aunt Wang stopped him: "Let me listen to what's going on inside first."

Although he didn't know what was going on inside, He Yan still followed Aunt Wang's example and put his ear against the door to listen. However, it was too quiet inside. He tilted his ear to listen for a long time but didn't hear anything.

There is no sound at all.

He Yan was just wondering when he heard something, the sound of a door opening creaking. Then he felt a heaviness on his head and fell into a hard embrace.

"What are you listening to?"

Hearing the sound, He Yan raised his head in a hurry, and met his father's serious gaze. He pointed to the side decisively and said, "Grandma said to listen to see if there is any movement inside."

He Dongchuan looked at Aunt Wang.

Aunt Wang had to force a smile and explain: "I was afraid you two would have something to say."

They did talk a lot just now, but He Dongchuan didn't admit it. He just said, "I'll go get some water. You can talk to Tingting." Then he reminded He Yan, "Do your homework well and don't bother your mother."

He Yan thought, I can talk to my mom, but my dad was not easy to talk to today. He kept threatening to send him home. So he had to put on a straight face and said, "I know!"

She promised well, but after getting into the hospital bed, she didn't rush to do her homework. Instead, she took over Aunt Wang's work and asked, "Mom, have you finished feeding your little sister? Didn't your little sister just wake up? Why is she sleeping again? She can sleep so well."

Before Su Ting could speak, Aunt Wang said, "Newborns can sleep. They need to sleep at least 20 hours out of 24 hours a day. You were like this when you were a child."

"Really? Why don't I remember it?" He Yan asked doubtfully.

Su Ting smiled and said, "Children only remember things when they are three or four years old. It would be strange if you can remember it."

"No way! I clearly remember something from my childhood." He Yan was very unhappy about being looked down upon, and immediately told an incident that happened when he was a child, "I still remember that I haven't seen it!"

Su Ting asked quickly: "I haven't seen it before? What's going on?"

"that is……"

As soon as Aunt Wang opened her mouth, He Yan raised his hand and jumped up: "Let me tell you, let me tell you!"

Aunt Wang waved her hand and gave the stage to He Yan: "Okay, you go ahead."

"It was summer then," He Yan also knew the three elements of storytelling, emphasizing the time first, and then talking about the characters and locations. "At noon, I had just finished sleeping at home, and when I got up, I didn't see anyone, so I went out to look for him. I walked and walked, but I didn't see anyone..."

Aunt Wang said, "What do you mean there's no one there? There's clearly someone at the guard post."

"Is there?" He Yan scratched his head, obviously having no impression of it.

Su Ting wanted to know what happened next, so she asked, "What happened next?"

"Later, I walked very far and was very tired. Finally, I saw a grandma. I asked her, 'Grandma, do you know where my grandma is?'"

Su Ting asked: "Does she know your grandmother?"

He Yan nodded: "Yes, I know him."

Aunt Wang said, "Just listen to his nonsense."

"She said she knew grandma!" In order to prove that he was not talking nonsense, He Yan emphasized, "She also said she would take me to find grandma!"

Su Ting: ...Why does this direction sound familiar to me?

After being confused, Su Ting asked, "Did she take you to find your grandma?"

"Found it!" He Yan looked proud. If it had a tail, it would definitely flutter and shake.

Su Ting looked at Aunt Wang, who looked miserable, and asked, "Did you really find it?"

Aunt Wang said, "We found him!"

The story told by Aunt Wang was similar to what He Yan said except that the beginning was similar, and the process and ending had nothing to do with each other.

Originally, the He family lived in a military compound, and that area was full of military headquarters, so the public security was very good. But after He Yan left the compound, he did not take the usual route, but turned into a small road, out of the military area, and he did not meet anyone along the way until he ran into the old lady.

The old lady thought he was cute, so when he asked if he knew his grandmother, she lied to him and said he did and took him home.

Su Ting quickly asked: "Then when did you find out he was missing?"

"I was just going to the market to buy groceries. When I got home, I didn't see him. I was so scared that I went out to look for him. I asked everyone in the compound but couldn't find him. Finally, the young man on guard said he saw Xiaoyan, but he said he was going to look for his grandmother and went out."

Because there were military compounds and headquarters all around, the public security was very good. In addition, the children in the compound often came in and out, and the guard on duty was a newcomer. Seeing that he calmly said he wanted to find his grandmother, he thought he knew where his grandmother was, so he did not stop him and let him out of the compound.

As a result, He Yan had no idea. Soon after leaving the compound, he turned into a small road and went out of the military area. He was met by a strange old lady and tricked back home.

When Aunt Wang learned the whole story, she was so scared that her legs went limp. She quickly called Cheng Xiaoman, who then contacted her husband, and the couple went home together.

"That afternoon, Xiaochuan's father made so many phone calls that almost everyone in our compound went out to look for this little guy!"

Listening to Aunt Wang's story, Su Ting's hands were sweating. "How did you find him in the end?"

"It was Xiaochuan's father, a fellow soldier he knew. Through a series of acquaintances, they had seen Xiaoyan before and found the place where he was taken away. The old lady was not a trafficker. She saw that Xiaoyan was good-looking and there was no boy in her family, so she had a crooked mind and tricked him back home."

Su Ting thought that even if this man was not a human trafficker, his mind was crooked enough that he dared to bring home children he met on the street without even knowing whether the children had any family members.

Aunt Wang continued, "She is a local, and of course she couldn't keep it a secret that there was suddenly a new child in her family. But she probably didn't want to hide it either. She was very high-profile after returning home, which attracted all the neighbors to her house to see the excitement. We asked around about Xiaochuan's father and basically confirmed it, so we hurried over to look for him. Guess what he was doing when we arrived?" She pointed at He Yan.

"What are you doing?"

"He's sleeping, sleeping soundly!" Aunt Wang said unhappily.

He Yan said aggrievedly: "I was sleepy! And when I woke up, I saw grandma."

Aunt Wang said sarcastically, "Yes, you saw your grandpa and grandma as soon as you woke up, so you felt that the old lady really helped you find your grandma, right?"

He Yan scratched his head. He really thought so.

So he is a little doubtful about life now.

Su Ting discovered that He Yan was simply a fool with good fortune.

It was a pity that he met an old lady who was simple-minded and was so high-profile after kidnapping a child. Otherwise, if he had met someone with more scheming minds, he would have avoided people on the way back and hid He Yan when he got home. After that period of time, where could the He family find him?

Su Ting touched He Yan's head and asked, "Will you still go with strangers in the future?"

"I know now." He Yan looked embarrassed, and he regretted bringing this up.

Aunt Wang brought the topic back on track: "This happened when you were four years old."

He Yan recalled and asked, "Was I this old then?"

"What do you think?" Aunt Wang asked back.

"I thought I was only two or three years old at that time." He Yan also remembered the source of the topic. In order to prove that he could remember things very early, he thought about it and said another thing.

But as soon as he finished speaking, Aunt Wang said, "That happened when you were three years old."

He Yan refused to admit defeat and continued talking, but this time he was still talking about things that happened when he was four years old. In the end he had to admit that he really seemed to have no memory of things that happened when he was one or two years old.

Until He Dongchuan came in, He Yan was still muttering: "How is it possible?"

"How is that possible?" He Dongchuan asked as he put the bottle of boiled water on the bedside table.

Aunt Wang spoke up and recounted what had just happened. She joked to He Yan, "He still thinks that old lady is a good person. She really helped him find his grandmother."

Although He Yan had already been found when He Dongchuan learned about this, he did not personally experience the anxiety of his parents at the time, but he still feels scared when he thinks about it now, and he can't laugh. He asked with a sullen face: "Are you stupid?"

He Yan defended himself by saying, "I was too young then. I definitely wouldn't go with others now." He is not stupid. He has become smart a long time ago.

He Dongchuan was quite satisfied with his answer, said "You're the best", and then asked about his homework.

He Yan wailed, "I'll do it now!" He quickly took out his homework, sat on the empty bed and started writing.

Aunt Wang was woken up by Su Ting in the early morning. She had been busy for most of the day and had not had time to close her eyes. Now that she was free, she felt sleepy. After sitting for a while, she fell asleep on the empty bed.

He Dongchuan pulled a stool and sat down beside Su Ting's bed. He reached out and took out an apple from the fruit basket on the bedside table, then took out a fruit knife and started to peel it.

Watching his movements, Su Ting lowered her voice and asked about the follow-up of He Yan's disappearance: "What happened to the old lady later?"

He Dongchuan paused and said, "Nothing."

"She did such a thing, and you just let it go?" Su Ting asked in disbelief.

"She said she saw Xiaoyan walking alone on the street and suspected that he was abandoned by his parents, so she brought him home. She had no other intentions and refused to admit to kidnapping him."

The old lady not only said this to them, she had also said this to the neighbors before. In addition, He Yan had been missing for a short time, so it was difficult to make a conclusion. So in the end, the public security personnel only gave her a few verbal lectures and released her.

But later He Dongchuan returned to the capital, found the old lady's son, caught him and beat him up. Personally speaking, the person he wanted to beat the most was actually the old lady herself, but as she was getting older and was afraid of beating her up, he could only settle for beating her son. Anyway, she kidnapped He Yan for the same reason. To carry on the family line for her son.

Afterwards, he wrote down this incident, copied it into about a hundred copies, and distributed them near the old lady's home to those who did not know about it, publicizing what she had done.

For a long time, people around her were terrified at the mention of the old lady, and those who had children at home did not dare to pass by her house.

Later, the old lady was talking to a child she met on the road and was met by the child's parents. The two sides had an argument. The old lady became angry and collapsed when she got home. She was sent to the hospital for examination and was diagnosed with hemiplegia due to a stroke.

Knowing that evil deeds will bring evil consequences, He Dongchuan no longer paid attention to the old lady and did not tell anyone about what he had done. When facing Su Ting, he simply told her about the old lady's final outcome.

Although the old lady was not punished at the time, Su Ting was quite satisfied with her ending. After listening to the story, she ate the apple with relish and fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes.

…

The first time Su Ting was watched by He Dongchuan as she breastfed her daughter, she felt embarrassed and blushed, but she soon calmed down.

Anyone who breastfeeds four or five times a day, each time with the help of her husband, can no longer remain shy.

What's more, the day after giving birth, Su Ting took off all her clothes in front of He Dongchuan.

Don't get the wrong idea, they didn't do anything. She just asked He Dongchuan to help her wipe her body.

In fact, Su Ting really wanted to wash her hair and take a bath, but firstly, she still had a little pain down there, and her body couldn't bear the bath. Secondly, washing her hair and taking a bath was a taboo word for Aunt Wang. She had a lot of things to say when she mentioned it. To avoid Aunt Wang's nagging, she could only do the next best thing and choose a bath.

Su Ting couldn't wipe her body by herself. She could wipe her upper body by herself, but it was a bit difficult for her lower body. She didn't dare to bend down, so she had to ask He Dongchuan for help.

Su Ting felt that after taking a shower, it didn't matter how naked she was in front of He Dongchuan.

Well, the so-called one has been replaced by He Dongchuan.

Because there were not enough rooms in the ward, after Su Ting gave birth, He Dongchuan booked a room in the guesthouse next door for Aunt Wang and He Yan to stay in, while he stayed in the hospital to keep watch.

However, because it is inconvenient to take a shower in the hospital, he has been going to the guesthouse to take a shower these days, and the time is relatively fixed, usually after dinner.

In broad daylight, it was neither convenient for him to take a shower nor change clothes, so he could only sit quietly facing the window.

He Dongchuan felt that if Su Ting did not leave the hospital, he would see through the window in the ward.