Outside the delivery room of the hospital, Gu Shiqing paced back and forth like a trapped animal. Lin Banxia's moans could be heard faintly in the delivery room, and every sound was like a knife cutting into his heart.
"Sit down!" Gu Honglang scolded, "You're making me dizzy."
Gu Shiqing suddenly opened the door of the delivery room: "Why is there no sound? Banxia! Banxia you......"
The door suddenly opened, and Grandpa Lin came out wearing a mask: "I gave Xia Xia a pain-relieving injection."
He glanced at his grandson-in-law's pale face and said, "She is much older now. Stop yelling like that. She is upset."
Gu Shiqing quickly fell silent.
As time went on, the atmosphere in the corridor became increasingly tense.
Xu Minzhi kept looking at her watch, while Gu Honglang picked up and put down his cigarette. Gu Shiqing stared at the door of the delivery room with red eyes, and the sound of the second hand of the clock on the wall struck everyone's heart like a drumbeat.
"Wow--"
When the first cry broke the silence, Gu Shiqing's legs went weak and he almost fell to his knees. Then the second, louder cry sounded, and the door of the delivery room finally opened.
Tan Mengyuan came out holding two swaddling clothes, smiling so hard that her teeth were showing: "It's born! Twins! The brother weighs 5.6 jins, and the sister weighs 5.2 jins!"
Gu Shiqing didn't even look at the child, and rushed past her into the delivery room. On the hospital bed, Lin Banxia's face was as pale as paper, and her hair was wet and stuck to her forehead.
"Xia Xia, you've worked so hard..." Gu Shiqing knelt beside the bed, holding Lin Banxia's cold fingers tightly with both hands, his eyes red: "Xia Xia, we will never have another child again."
Lin Banxia smiled weakly and looked towards the door: "Where's the child? Let me see..."
Xu Minzhi and Grandpa Lin each came over with a swaddled baby. When the two red little faces came closer, Lin Banxia suddenly wrinkled her nose: "Why is it so ugly? Like a little monkey." She stretched out her index finger and gently poked her daughter's wrinkled face, "Is this really my child?"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Xu Minzhi smiled so hard that wrinkles appeared on the corners of her eyes. She carefully lifted up her granddaughter's face. "Look at how straight her nose is and how long her eyelashes are. When Shi Qing was just born, she was not as good as this. She looked like a molted chick."
Grandpa Lin also came over to show his great-grandson in his arms: "Look at this child's earlobes, thick and blessed. When he grows up in a few days, I guarantee he will be prettier than the dolls in the New Year paintings."
"Have you chosen a name?" Lin Banxia looked up at her grandfather.
Grandpa Lin pushed his glasses and said, "The boy is Gu Nanxing, and the girl is Gu Baizhi. They are both traditional Chinese medicines—"
"Wait," Gu Shiqing interrupted suddenly, "Banxia and I have discussed it. One of the two children will have the surname Gu and the other will have the surname Lin."
He looked at his wife nervously, "Who came out first?"
"Brother will come out first, sister will be two minutes later." The nurse interrupted at the door.
Gu Shiqing immediately smiled: "That's right, the son's surname is Lin, and the daughter's surname is Gu! Lin Nanxing, Gu Baizhi, listen carefully!"
Xu Minzhi and Gu Honglang looked at each other, and neither said anything against it.
Grandpa Lin looked at Gu Shiqing and Lin Banxia, stroking his beard with satisfaction.
As she was speaking, Gu Baizhi suddenly burst into tears, her little face turning red.
Gu Shiqing jumped up as if facing a formidable enemy: "He peed! He must have peed!" He hurriedly tried to unwrap the swaddling clothes, "I've learned this before, I'll change!"
Lin Banxia couldn't help but chuckle as she watched her husband's clumsy yet serious movements.
Unexpectedly, just after changing her daughter's diaper, Lin Nanxing suddenly released a stream of water, which accurately sprayed Gu Shiqing's face.
"Pfft——" Lin Banxia laughed out loud, accidentally tore the wound and gasped with a hiss.
Gu Shiqing, with a face full of boyish urine, looked at his wife aggrievedly: "This kid definitely did it on purpose..."
"You deserve it!" Xu Minzhi smiled and threw a towel over. "It's your fault that you were only paying attention to your daughter and ignored our Nanxing."
The sun shone through the gap in the curtains, casting a warm beam on the floor.
The two little guys finally calmed down, one grabbing grandpa's beard and the other holding grandma's fingers.
Lin Banxia leaned in her husband's arms, looking at this noisy and warm scene, and suddenly felt that this was the destination she was going to reach after traveling thousands of miles.
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