◎Second update◎
Liang Baozhen's almond-shaped eyes widened slightly, as if she had heard some shocking news. She was originally beautiful, especially her eyes and eyebrows were lively, and the doubt in her eyes made Xu Shengjie laugh.
He reached out and pinched his wife's face, "Have you never seen the way Zhou Qingdang looks at Sister Hua?"
Liang Baozhen frowned and thought. She had been focusing on her children in recent months and had not paid attention to what was going on in the west room. Now that she thought about it, she had seen Zhou Qingdang playing with Xiaolong and Xiaohu several times. She thought the two families had a close relationship.
"You saw it?"
"I'm a man, and men understand other men's thoughts best. Zhou Qingdang's eyes are different when he looks at Sister Hua." Xu Shengjie was a meticulous observer. He saw Zhou Qingdang and Liu Nianhua talking in the yard several times. There were other people around them, but he always felt that there was some different emotion in their eyes.
"Is this really the case?" Liang Baozhen wanted to go out and ask, but then she changed her mind and thought that if Sister Hua didn't want to say it, she wouldn't ask too much. After all, her current situation was special and she probably wouldn't want to get involved with others.
Otherwise, she will be the one being reorganized.
"Auntie Luo said not long ago that she would introduce a guy to Sister Hua." Liang Baozhen sat on the chair, thinking of the man Luo Hongmei mentioned, and then compared him with Zhou Qingdang. "If Zhou Qingdang is really with Sister Hua, then it's not bad. He is young and a regular employee. He has good character and good looks. Even his family is not bad. Auntie Zhang has a very good temper."
The more Liang Baozhen thought about it, the better it seemed.
"I just don't know if Aunt Zhang will agree to this."
After all, in today's world, few families are willing to let their daughters marry divorced men. Similarly, they are unwilling to let their sons marry divorced women. Their conditions in all aspects are not bad, so there is no reason.
Liu Nianhua thought the same as he ran home with a red face.
She covered her chest with her hands and leaned against the closed wooden door, her face flushed red, not knowing whether she was anxious or embarrassed. She had just come home from get off work and met Zhou Qingdang. As usual, she greeted him and talked to him for a few words, but this man asked her about her blind date and started saying some outrageous things!
Thinking about it now, Liu Nianhua still finds it unbelievable and his heart is beating wildly.
"Sister Hua, if you want to find someone to live with again, what do you think of me?"
Listen to what this is saying!
Liu Nianhua was so shocked by these words. He was Aunt Zhang's unmarried son and the only son in the family. How could she say such things to him?
"Mom." Zhou Hu had just been playing in the room for a while when he suddenly heard a loud door slam. He slipped out in his cloth shoes and saw his mother leaning against the door in a daze. "What's wrong with you?"
"It's okay." Liu Nianhua looked at his son and calmed down. He squatted down and touched Xiaohu's face. "What are you doing in the house?"
"Looking for marbles." Zhou Hu smiled foolishly and showed his mother the marbles in his hand. "Uncle Zhou said he wants to play marbles with us today."
Uncle Zhou?
"You are not allowed to play with Uncle Zhou Qingdang." Liu Nianhua felt a headache when he thought of what Zhou Qingdang said today. If Aunt Zhang heard this, perhaps the good relationship between the two families would be broken.
"Mom? Why?" Zhou Hu looked at his mother pitifully. He had never heard his mother speak so fiercely. "Isn't Uncle Zhou very nice to us?"
Liu Nianhua then realized that he had overreacted, and took a deep breath to calm down. "Everyone has their own family and their own things. You can't always disturb others, okay? There are so many children in the yard. Go play with Xiao Wei and Biaozi."
Zhou Hu seemed to understand what was said and went out, his little head full of doubts. If he wanted to play with the kids, he could also play with Uncle Zhou. Only Liu Nianhua was determined that he should keep his family away from the Zhou family, especially Zhou Qingdang. They were all neighbors, so they should not cause any unpleasantness.
Liang Baozhen noticed something was wrong with Liu Nianhua. After dinner that night, Liu Nianhua did not come to the yard to talk, saying that he was not feeling well and lay down. Only Xiaolong and Xiaohu came out to play. As for Zhou Qingdang, he seemed to be fine and was busy at the door of his house, occasionally glancing at the closed door of Liu Nianhua's house.
Others didn't notice it, but Liang Baozhen saw it after listening to Xu Shengjie's words and couldn't help but pay a few more glances.
"Baozhen, what are you thinking about? You didn't even hear me calling you." Cheng Caili held the child and talked to the people in the yard. Everyone liked this sweet little girl and often teased her.
"Nothing." Liang Baozhen came back to her senses and teased the little girl in her arms, "Sister Caili, what's the matter?"
"Are you ready for having a baby?"
"Almost done. Grandma has been taking care of it, and my mother has also made small clothes and quilts for the child."
"It will be fine after you give birth. Our children will be about the same age then, and we can still play together." Cheng Caili looked at the children in the yard who were obviously older than her, and lamented that her own daughter would have no playmates of the same age. She felt so lonely.
"Then our baby will wait for Sister Chuchu to take him out to play." Liang Baozhen touched her belly, full of anticipation for the soon-to-be-born baby.
Liang Baozhen's stomach started to churn one evening in early May. She had just finished dinner and there was a gentle breeze in the large courtyard. Everyone was fanning themselves with palm-leaf fans to keep cool. The weather was gradually getting warmer and a group of children were already eating popsicles.
Xu Shengjie paid for his younger brother and sister to buy popsicles. The weather got hot early this year, so the city food factory increased production and started selling popsicles early.
Many children in the courtyard pestered their parents for money so that each of them could hold a popsicle worth a few cents in their mouths.
Liang Baozhen was also greedy. She hadn't eaten red fruit popsicles for a long time, and her saliva started to water when she thought of the taste. Now, seeing Xu Shengwei and Xu Shengya eating popsicles, she couldn't help herself.
"I want to eat too." She tugged at the hem of Xu Shengjie's clothes.
"You're about to give birth." It was a rare time that Xu Shengjie refused his daughter-in-law's request, and he felt quite justified in doing so.
Zhou Yun comforted her, "Baby, wait until you're done with the confinement period before eating."
"Hey~" Liang Baozhen patted her belly gently, lowered her head and muttered, "When will you come out?"
As a result, less than an hour after she finished saying this, she felt a sharp pain in her stomach and it was contracting uncomfortably. Zhou Yun was an experienced person and knew that she was about to give birth.
"Xiaojie, pull the cart in. Xiaowei and Xiaoya, take the delivery bag and take Baozhen to the hospital."
Because they had prepared in advance, the family did things in a leisurely manner. Xu Shengjie carried his wife onto the cart, which was borrowed in advance and was more comfortable than riding a bicycle. He let her lie on it and finally covered her with a thin blanket.
Xu Shengjie was pulling a cart with his grandmother Zhou Yun sitting on it. He could no longer take care of the two little ones and ran to the hospital by himself.
"Does your stomach hurt?" Xu Shengjie asked distractedly.
Liang Baozhen held her stomach with one hand and grabbed the edge of the cart with the other. A wave of pain came over her and she groaned softly.
She had been prepared for this, but she was still a little nervous. When she arrived at the hospital and was taken to the delivery room by her family, Zhou Yun held her hand and smiled lovingly, "Baozhen, it's okay. Just listen to the doctor."
Xu Shengjie gently stroked his daughter-in-law's forehead, with an anxious look on his face. He was also nervous, and leaned over to whisper in his daughter-in-law's ear, "Zhenzhen, I'll wait for you and the child to come out, don't be afraid."
"Um."
Liang Baozhen was pushed in, and the door of the production room was closed tightly, and no scene could be seen anymore.
Xu Shengjie stood at the door and paced back and forth, looking at the door of the production room from time to time, wishing he could go in and watch over it himself. However, there was still a lot to do, and he had to go through the hospitalization procedures.
Xu Shengwei and Xu Shengya came running in breathlessly, and seeing grandma waiting outside, they ran over quickly, "Grandma, is sister-in-law in there?"
"Yes, they are inside." Zhou Yun looked at his grandchildren running over, all sweating and wetting their backs. He quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat off the two children and said, "Why are you running so fast? Sit down and have a rest."
"Grandma, where's my eldest brother?"
"I went to complete the hospitalization procedures."
"oh."
It was only ten minutes after Xu Shengjie finished all the formalities and came back. The sky gradually darkened. It was pitch black outside, with only the full moon hanging high in the sky, casting a little silver light.
The people waiting in the hospital were all anxious and nervous. Except for Zhou Yun who had experience, the other three were all greenhorns.
This was the first time Xu Shengwei was waiting for someone to give birth. Seeing that more than an hour had passed and the baby hadn't come out yet, he couldn't help but get a little worried, "Grandma, when will my sister-in-law come out?"
"Did the birth go smoothly?" Zhou Yun thought back to her own childbirth. The first baby was the most strenuous. At that time, there were no good conditions to go to the hospital, so she gave birth at home. It took her seven or eight hours and almost took half her life. Later, the births of the second and third children were smoother and they came out in three or four hours.
Xu Shengjie remained silent throughout, pursed his lips, clenched his hands into a circle, and stared straight at the door of the production room.
Suddenly, the door opened.
The nurse came out holding a baby, and a group of people rushed over. Xu Shengjie squeezed in the innermost and stared at the newborn child...
"Li Hong's family is here."
Xu Shengjie sighed, took a few steps back, and saw a man next to him hurried in. Not long after, the door of the production room was closed again.
There are many families giving birth today. Zhou Yun asked the nearby nurses and found out that five expectant mothers came overnight. Liang Baozhen has been there for three hours. I wonder how she is doing?
When the nurse inside went in and out again, Xu Shengjie couldn't help but follow up and ask, "Comrade nurse, how is Liang Baozhen? I'm her man."
The nurse was busy looking for a doctor to come over and check on the situation. She had no time to deal with the family members who had too many questions. She just walked over quickly and casually said, "The baby will come out after the birth. Don't worry, family members, just wait patiently."
Xu Shengjie retreated back to where he was, feeling restless. He felt that he had never been so nervous in his life, even more nervous than going to the battlefield.
Four hours later, the door of the production room opened again. Xu Shengjie did not move, but only looked up at her and heard a sentence, "Liang Baozhen's family, come in."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Shengjie heard a loud baby crying and immediately walked inside!
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