The Zhao Xin incident came to an end a few days later. Zhao Xin was secretly dealt with, Zhong Daren committed suicide by hitting his head against the wall in prison, Zhao Xin's husband was dismissed, and other families who were close to Zhao Xin were more or less negatively affected.

As a result, there were fewer people gossiping in the compound, and the gossipers all avoided Lu Nong. Sister Qin asked Li Lingyi to come home, and the three of them laughed heartily for a while.

Ever since Wang Hongmian followed Ye Yiming away, Li Lingyi and Sister Qin began to get closer, and Li Lingyi and Lu Nong also became familiar with each other. In addition, the three of them had jointly thwarted Zhao Xin's conspiracy last time, and their relationship took a step further. They would get together every now and then to chat and talk.

It was getting close to evening, and Sister Qin and Li Lingyi had just left. Mother Wu was busy packing things for the hospital. Lu Nong sat on the sofa and ate apples and snacks as if nothing had happened. It was not that she didn't want to help, but that she couldn't help. Sometimes she even made things worse. Mother Wu clearly forbade her to do anything again.

Little Huaizizi sat obediently beside Lu Nong, reading a picture book and learning words. He glanced at the plate of snacks on the table again and again, swallowed his saliva, and continued reading.

A few days ago, Gu Xiaohuai was taken by his brother Pei Zheng to do bad things, including but not limited to sneaking into the kitchen to eat snacks; destroying his mother's favorite cups and cosmetics; playing all day and getting covered in mud before going home...

Lu Nong settled the score later and converted the damaged cups and cosmetics into labor punishment. As for the two people who stole snacks, they were punished by not being allowed to eat snacks for the same number of days as the amount they stole.

Today is the third day. Pei Zheng is a snack lover. On the second day, he couldn't hold on any longer and asked for forgiveness from Mother Wu with a bitter face.

This rascal knew that Lu Nong would definitely not be soft-hearted, so he ran to do Wu Ma's work. In the past, every time Pei Zheng acted coquettishly, Wu Ma would agree to his request, but this time Wu Ma felt that he had gone too far and needed a lesson, so she firmly resisted Pei Zheng's coquettish offensive.

As for Xiao Huai, although he was only three years old, his mother did not allow him to eat snacks, so no matter how greedy he was, he would always force himself to eat and at most just swallow his saliva.

Seeing Xiao Huai swallowing his saliva, Lu Nong stood up, took the plate of snacks and put it in the kitchen, and did not eat himself.

While surfing the Internet, she once saw a suggestion that children should not be tempted to make mistakes. Since it is agreed that the children are not allowed to eat snacks as a punishment, snacks should not be put out to tempt the children. When the children see the snacks, they will want to eat them, and the adults will feel soft-hearted and compromise when they see the pitiful look of the children.

This practice is not conducive to the growth of children and is also a bad way of education.

Just after coming out of the kitchen, Lu Nong felt something wrong in his lower body. He looked down and saw water flowing down his thighs. Lu Nong's head buzzed and he stood there at a loss as to what to do.

It was Mother Wu who came down from upstairs and saw Lu Nong standing at the kitchen door with her head down in a daze. She walked closer and said, "Oh no, your water has broken. Hurry up and lie down on the sofa. Call your aunt. Oh, I don't know how to make a phone call. There's no one at home who can help. It's time for dinner, why hasn't Xiao Zheng come back yet?"

Lu Nong took a deep breath and calmed down. She followed Wu's mother's instructions and went to lie down on the sofa. Then she said to Wu's mother, "Don't worry. My stomach doesn't hurt. It's probably not time for me to give birth yet. Bring me the phone. I'll call."

Mother Wu quickly gave the phone to Lu Nong. The call went through, but the person in the office told Lu Nong that Pei Ji'an had already returned home.

Lu Nong hung up the phone, feeling aggrieved for some reason and almost crying.

The adults' nervousness was passed on to Xiao Huai, who terrified him and hugged Lu Nong's hand, as if his mother would never disappear if he did so. Lu Nong held back her tears, reached out and touched Xiao Huai's hair, saying, "Be good, Mommy's fine."

Lu Nong tried to control her emotions and turned to Mother Wu and said, "Mom, go to Sister Qin's house and ask her for help. She has given birth to four children and has a lot of experience. If we can't get to the hospital in time, we can only ask her to help with the birth at home."

"Okay, I'll go right away." After hearing this, Mother Wu hurried out and went to Sister Qin's house.

After a while, Sister Qin and Mother Wu came back, both of them were panting and running all the way back.

Sister Qin, who hadn't even caught her breath yet, walked in, lifted up Lu Nong's skirt and looked inside, then put the skirt down and said, "It's not bad, it's not bad, your cervix isn't dilated yet, there's still time to go to the hospital."

Lu Nong heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this and was no longer nervous. Perhaps it was because he felt more relaxed, or perhaps it was because he was lying flat, the amniotic fluid flowing from his body became less fierce.

"But how do we get to the hospital?" Mother Wu looked anxious and mentioned the most difficult problem at the moment. Pei Jinan was on his way back, and no one was driving Lu Nong to the hospital.

"Lao Zhang's car is at home. Lao Zhang and Lao Zhang went to the company headquarters in the morning. He left in Lao Zhao's car. There was a car, but no one was driving it."

Sister Qin frowned. Those boys were not at home. Zhang Kaiping joined the army as he wished two days ago. Pei Zheng, Shen Jiming and Jiang Yu were still studying in school.

"If it really doesn't work, we'll have to give birth at home." Sister Qin said gritting her teeth.

Pei Zheng walked in just as he finished speaking. He was stunned when he saw the scene in the room. "What... is going on?"

Mother Wu was overjoyed. Pei Zheng had stolen Pei Jinan's car many times. Now the driver had arrived, and Sister Qin also had a car at home, so she could finally send Lu Nong to the hospital.

"Lun Nong is about to give birth. Come to my house quickly and drive your Uncle Zhang's car to take her to the hospital." Sister Qin grabbed Pei Zheng's hand and pushed him out the door. Pei Zheng reacted and ran away.

"Auntie Wu, hurry up and pack some of Lu Nong's clothes and the baby's diapers. Oh, and we might have to stay in the hospital for a few days, so bring a washbasin and lunch box..."

Mother Wu was shocked and said, "It's all packed. I'll go up and get it now."

"Oh, and there's Xiao Huai," Sister Qin turned to Lu Nong and said, "How about sending him to my house and letting Niuniu play with him?"

Lu Nong turned around and asked Xiao Huai, "Baby, do you want to go to Aunt Qin's house? There is a little sister at Aunt Qin's house. You can take Xiao Bai to Aunt Qin's house and play hide-and-seek with the little sister."

The baby shook his head like a wave drum and held Lu Nong's arm tightly, "I want to be with mommy."

It was really hard to refuse Gu Huai like this. Even Sister Qin beside him was moved, not to mention Lu Nong, the biological mother. She held the little white hand of the baby and said, "Okay, let's go to the hospital together. Then the baby can see his sister first."

Mother Wu came down from the stairs carrying a large rattan box, and in her right hand was a net nylon bag filled with a washbasin, towel, toothbrush, etc.

Pei Zheng also drove the car directly into the yard. After leaving a note for Pei Jinan, Sister Qin helped Lu Nong from the sofa to the back seat of the car. Mother Wu held Xiao Huai and sat in the passenger seat. Sister Qin and Lu Nong sat together to take care of her more conveniently.

In the car, Lu Nong's lower abdomen began to ache, one after another, and she groaned in pain. Sister Qin wiped the sweat off Lu Nong's forehead and said, "It's okay, it's okay. The cervix is ​​dilated. It's not too late, not too late."

The car sped all the way to the hospital entrance. Pei Zheng picked up Lu Nong and rushed inside. Sister Qin followed behind and almost couldn't keep up. She grabbed a doctor in a white coat and said quickly: "Doctor, my sister is about to give birth, please help take a look!"

After hearing this, the doctor in white coat informed the young nurse to call the obstetrician and gynecologist, and also called for an emergency bed. He stopped Pei Zheng and put Lu Nong on it, and asked him to go and handle the hospitalization procedures for Lu Nong.

The obstetrician arrived quickly. She lifted Lu Nong's skirt and reached inside to take a look. Then she put her skirt down and said, "The cervix is ​​dilated to three fingers. Send her to the delivery room."

Lu Nong was pushed into the delivery room. Her stomach hurt more and more, as if a small hammer was hammering into her stomach. Every once in a while, the doctor would comfort Lu Nong and tell her how many fingers dilated she was. Lu Nong used to think that menstruation was the most unbearable pain in the world, but now she knows that compared with giving birth, it is nothing.

She never wants to have a second child in her life.

Outside the delivery room, Mother Wu paced back and forth, feeling very worried. She walked to the door and put her ear to it, trying to listen for any sounds inside. "Why is there no sound?"

Pei Zheng held Xiao Huai in his arms and sat on a chair in a daze. Xiao Huai was still young and didn't know anything, so he wasn't too frightened. Pei Zheng was the one who was frightened. He never knew that giving birth to a child could be so scary.

Sister Qin held Mother Wu and asked her to sit down. "Don't stagger around. It gives me a headache. I'll go to the door to pick up Old Pei. If he sees the note we left at home, he should come to the hospital soon."

At the hospital gate, as soon as the jeep was turned off, Pei Jinan immediately slammed the door and strode towards the hospital, no longer his usual calm and dignified look.

As a result, he bumped into Sister Qin who was coming out to greet him when he entered the hospital. Pei Ji'an helped Sister Qin up and asked anxiously, "Sister, where is Lu Nong? Is he okay?"

"You're finally here. Come with me quickly. She is giving birth." Sister Qin brought Pei Jinan to the delivery room.

"Aunt."

"dad."

Seeing Pei Jinan, Mother Wu and Pei Zheng stood up from their chairs.

Pei Ji'an didn't say anything, just stared motionlessly at the three red words "under surgery". If Pei Zheng hadn't seen his father's slightly trembling fingers, he would have thought that his father was very calm.

Giving birth is like going through the gates of hell for a woman. Pei Ji'an closed his eyes and clenched his fists to stop his fingers from shaking. When he was a child in the village, he witnessed with his own eyes Gu Weiguo's sister-in-law having a difficult delivery. Basins of blood were carried out and the people in the house went from screaming loudly to being silent, and finally the adults and children died together.

In the delivery room, Lu Nong's cervix was already dilated. A nurse came in and said, "Lun Nong, your husband is here and is watching over you. Just relax and have a good birth. After the birth, your family will be reunited."

When Lu Nong heard Pei Ji'an coming, tears welled up in her eyes and she cried, "Why didn't he come in? I was in so much pain giving birth, why didn't he come in?"

The nurse didn't expect that Lu Nong, who had just bit her finger in pain, didn't cry at all, but cried when she heard her husband was coming. She said helplessly, "Don't cry, he wanted to come in, really, but the hospital has a rule that family members cannot enter the delivery room, so I stopped him."

The doctor said, "Don't worry about anything else for now. Just listen and breathe in. Yes... push harder."

It hurt so much that Lu Nong screamed out in pain. The sound was heard outside the delivery room. Mother Wu stood up suddenly and said, "It's time to give birth. It's time to give birth."

Pei Ji'an couldn't bear it any longer, so he pushed open the door of the delivery room and walked in. The young nurse saw him first and glared at him, saying, "Hey, comrade from the People's Liberation Army, how did you get in? Even if it's..."

He hadn't finished speaking. Shocked by Pei Jin'an's cold gaze, he was too frightened to say anything.

Pei Ji'an walked to Lu Nong's side, leaned down, held Lu Nong's hand, and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

Lu Nong pouted in grievance, "Why did you come just now? I'm in so much pain."

Pei Ji'an: "I know, it's all my fault. I should have come in earlier."

Another round of severe pain came, and Lu Nong followed the doctor's rhythm and pushed hard. Halfway through, she shook her head and gasped, saying weakly, "It hurts so much, I don't want to give birth anymore."

The doctor said to Pei Ji'an, "The woman has no strength left. Comrade, you need to cheer her up. The baby will be born soon. If you delay, it will lead to a difficult delivery. Both the child and the adult will be in danger."

Pei Jinan held Lu Nong's hand tightly and said, "Okay, I won't give birth anymore. I won't give birth anymore in the future. Cheer up, the baby will be born soon. Our little A'xia, Nong Nong..."

“…Please.”

Pei Ji'an took out a silver ring from his pocket and put it on Lu Nong's ring finger. He kissed Lu Nong's finger and rested his forehead on the ring.

Lu Nong tightened her fingers that were painful from being squeezed by Pei Jinan. She heard it. Although Pei Jinan's voice was very low when he said those two words, Lu Nong still caught it. He said "please".

In a trance, Lu Nong seemed to be given courage by God. She followed the doctor's instructions and used every bit of her strength. Finally, in the last second before she passed out, she heard the doctor's joyful voice shouting, "It's born, it's a girl."

Lu Nong thought, well, Pei Ji'an is right, my little A-Xia is here.