Chapter 562: Daughter Reborn (17)
Zhou Lizhi was in the hospital and suffered in pain for more than ten hours in the delivery room. Finally, she gave birth to a skinny baby girl who looked like a kitten.
"How is it? Is the baby born? Is it a boy or a girl?" When Chen's mother saw the doctor coming out, she immediately went forward and asked anxiously.
"It's a girl, mother and daughter are safe," the doctor replied, handing the wrapped baby to her for her to see.
"What? It's a girl?! How unlucky!" Chen's mother immediately frowned, not even looking at her granddaughter impatiently, "She gave birth to a money-losing thing, how can she be so useless?!"
When the doctor heard her words, he immediately became angry and scolded her: "What nonsense are you talking about? How can girls be considered as money-losing goods? The Chairman said that women hold up half the sky, but I didn't expect you to be so feudal and decadent, and to favor boys over girls. You are really unworthy of being a woman! Aren't you a woman yourself?!"
Mother Chen was choked by the doctor's scolding. Unable to win the argument, she angrily hid away and didn't even think about holding the baby girl.
"Are you the husband of the woman in labor? Do you also favor boys over girls?" the doctor asked Chen Wenya who was standing by.
"No, no. Sons and daughters are the same to me. I don't favor sons over daughters." Chen Wenya still pays attention to his image in front of outsiders. Even though he actually likes his son more in his heart and thinks that his son is the one who can carry on the family line, he will not show it in front of the doctor now.
He pretended to be delighted and took his daughter from the doctor's arms and said, "Is this my daughter? She is so cute."
Seeing that he did not despise her because she was a daughter, the doctor's expression softened a little, and he advised him: "Because your daughter was born prematurely, she is relatively thin, but there is nothing wrong with her body. It is just that you need to spend more time and energy to take care of her. If she drinks milk, she should eat small meals frequently. If the mother has no milk, you can buy some milk powder for premature babies to feed her..."
Chen Wenya listened very carefully and said that he would take good care of the child. But as soon as the doctor left, the smile on his face disappeared immediately. He impatiently handed the child to his biological mother and said, "Mom, you take care of it. I am a grown man, how can I take care of a child?"
Chen's mother didn't want to take care of the child, but there was no other way. Zhou Lizhi was still in the delivery room for observation, and no one else in the family came to the hospital, so she had to take over taking care of the child.
"Hurry up and discharge your wife from the hospital and let her take care of herself. I don't have the patience to take care of a girl. She's not my big fat grandson!" Mother Chen said with a stern face.
"I know. She gave birth naturally and will be discharged soon. It's a waste of money to keep her in the hospital!" Chen Wenya said with a frown.
Neither the mother nor the son thought of preparing food and drinks for the woman in labor, nor did they care at all why Zhou Lizhi gave birth prematurely. They were just thinking about how to push the task of taking care of the child to the woman who had just given birth. Zhou Lizhi was quite pathetic.
As expected, Zhou Lizhi was urged to leave the hospital after only one night in her in-laws' house, saying that she had a normal birth, so why should she stay in the hospital? It was a waste of money, so they took Zhou Lizhi home without paying any attention to the doctor's suggestion of staying for three days.
Zhou Lizhi thought she could finally have a good rest after the confinement period, right? However, she didn't expect that her Chen family had no intention of taking good care of her during the confinement period. After taking her back from the hospital, they threw the child to her, saying that everyone in the family had to go to work or school and had no time to take care of her and the child, so she had to raise the child by herself.
"Mom, I just gave birth to a baby and my body is still in pain. How can I take care of the baby?" Zhou Lizhi said weakly. She was weak and sweating a lot. How could she work?
"Why can't you do it? When I gave birth to Wen Ya and the others, did I ever have confinement after giving birth? We had to get up and work on the day of giving birth. We had to do housework and take care of the children. Some women in the village even gave birth in the fields, bit off the umbilical cord and continued to work. Why can't you learn from us? You can't do this or that. You are spoiled. How can you be so spoiled? I think you are just being pretentious! Which woman doesn't give birth to children? You are the only one who is too fussy!" Chen's mother scolded Zhou Lizhi. In short, it was impossible for her to take care of the child.
Zhou Lizhi was angry and resentful, and wanted to quarrel with Chen's mother, but she was too weak to have the energy to quarrel with her, so she looked at Chen Wenya: "Wenya, can't you take half a month off to come back and take care of us? The child is your own, as a father, shouldn't you take better care of him?"
"Bah! What are you thinking, you bitch? You actually persuaded my son to take leave to come back to take care of you? How can you be so shameless? A man's career is so important, how can it be delayed because of such trivial matters? If his boss knew that he took leave because of something like this, he would definitely think that he is not worth much. Do you want to kill my son? Go out and see which man has to take leave because his wife is giving birth? Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?" Mother Chen put her hands on her hips and scolded Zhou Lizhi.
Chen Wenya came out to smooth things over at this time, saying, "Mom, don't be angry, I won't ask for leave, Lizhi, I'm just joking. And Lizhi, it's not that I don't want to come back to take care of you and the child, but I'm a little busy at work recently, and my boss is keeping a close eye on me. I can't ask for leave at this critical moment, otherwise I won't be able to get a promotion. If I can get a promotion this time, my salary will increase a lot, and then I will buy some supplements for you and the child. You have always been considerate, and you can definitely understand me now, right?"
Chen Wenya is indeed a playboy who is eloquent and has a silver tongue. With just a few words, he calmed down Chen's mother and Zhou Lizhi.
So in the end, Zhou Lizhi, the mother who had just given birth, had no one to help her. She had to do housework and take care of the child at home. The child was born prematurely, so she needed more energy. She was exhausted both physically and mentally after a few days, which was even worse than when she was pregnant.
Every time I coaxed the crying child, I had to wash a basin full of dirty diapers. After washing the diapers, it was already noon and I had to buy groceries and cook for my family to come back...
At the end of the day, she was so tired that she couldn't even straighten her back. Whenever this happened, she would masochistically recall the happy times when she was in the Sun family during her confinement after childbirth in her previous life.
Her first child with Sun Jianshe was a boy. Sun's mother was so happy to have a grandson that she took a month off to take care of her during the confinement period. She took the time to prepare delicious meals for her just so that she would have milk to feed the child.
She didn't have to worry about taking care of the child, washing diapers and other things. She only needed to feed the child every day and she could do whatever she wanted at other times. Therefore, her confinement period was very relaxed. After the confinement period, she gained more than ten pounds, all because she was too comfortable during the period.
In her previous life, she really didn't know how to appreciate the blessings she had. After comparing the experiences of giving birth to children in two previous lives, Zhou Lizhi found it increasingly unbearable what she has experienced in this life. She burst into tears every time she thought about it. Unfortunately, in this life, no one will feel sorry for her.
(End of this chapter)
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