Chapter 404: Exchange Canned Food
"You are their brothers and sisters, how could they not like you?" An Zhixia chuckled and said, "In fact, they are the ones who have taken advantage, as so many people love them."
The two little girls' watery eyes lit up when they heard this.
"I will love my little brother and sister," Fang Songyan nodded vigorously.
Fang Gexin also smiled and said, "I'm a young lady now!"
At this moment, Fang Yuan had already driven over, loaded all the things prepared for the hospitalization into the trunk, and was about to pick up An Zhixia.
She smiled and dodged it. "I'm just feeling the pain right now. It's still a long time before I give birth. It will be easier for me to give birth if I walk more."
Fang Yuan was so nervous that he was at a loss for words. He pretended to be calm and said, "Yanyan, Xinxin, you two should take the keys to your house, pack two sets of clothes, your textbooks and homework, and go to your uncle's house with your brother later."
The two little girls tugged at An Zhixia's clothes reluctantly, "Mom, can we finish our homework early tomorrow night so we can go see you?"
"Okay," An Zhixia stroked their soft hair, "Don't be distracted during class, mom will be back soon."
After a few words, An Zhiqiu had already run over to his nephew. Seeing that his sister was still in the mood to laugh, he took a breath and asked, "Have you packed your things? It's not even eight months yet, how come you're about to give birth?"
"Old Jiao said that multiple babies usually don't carry to full term," An Zhixia replied, not forgetting to tell the two children which clothes the three siblings should change into over the next two days, and gave them some detailed instructions.
An Zhiqiu also looked very nervous. "I just called our brother. He had asked someone to prepare an empty bed half a month ago. Otherwise, when the seasons change, there won't even be any beds in the corridor."
When they arrived at the hospital, Jiang Shiming was already in the ward with Aunt Zhang.
Aunt Zhang spread out the sheets and quilts she brought from home, and brought two more quilts because she was afraid they were not thick enough. "I just happened to have some chicken soup at home, and I wanted to send it to you tomorrow. I'll borrow some noodles from the canteen to make you noodles, so you can have a healthy body and have a baby."
An Zhixia thanked him with a smile.
She was well prepared to give birth, but when it came to the time, she was still afraid. However, as a prospective mother, she was braver than before and actively cooperated with the doctor. Like her sister-in-law, she gave birth to twins at five in the morning.
The two little guys curled up on either side of her, put their hands to their mouths and kept chewing, but they couldn't satisfy their hunger, so they opened their little mouths and started howling. Seeing this, her heart was softer than ever.
Even though she hadn't slept all night, she was still very energetic. She drank a bowl of millet porridge with brown sugar, ate two boiled eggs, and drank a large bowl of crucian carp soup. However, it was her first time giving birth, and her milk had not yet come in.
They checked in late yesterday and were busy with admission procedures, physical examinations and delivery, and did not interact much with other people in the room.
Now that the partition curtain was drawn and sunlight shone in through the window, they could see each other clearly.
An Zhixia was sitting near the window. There was a heater under the window with diapers being baked on it. There was a faint smell of fish in the air.
Fang Junzhuo and Fang Qingyun were lying in a delicate cradle that was twice the size of a standard one. Aunt Zhang skillfully took out two small bottles and prepared milk powder for them.
The milk powder was contained in an empty malted milk can, which was replaced by Stage 1 formula milk powder by An Zhixia.
A faint aroma of milk wafted through the warm ward.
The person who just moved into the middle bed was pregnant today. The pregnant woman was still in labor, so the family members brought their belongings in first to occupy it, leaving only an unkempt man sitting on the bed.
Aunt Fang and Aunt Zhang each held a baby and fed her.
"The one leaning against the door was born yesterday afternoon. It's a big fat boy weighing 7.5 kilograms. The whole family is so happy. I heard that this child has six older sisters!" Aunt Fang leaned close to An Zhixia's ear and whispered the news she had found out: "The parents-in-law are snobbish and very annoying."
Before they could finish their words, the woman with a long face, short hair and droopy eyes came over with her precious grandson in her arms, looking around at them, and said to Aunt Zhang who was wearing a half-worn military green coat: "Sisters, you are so lucky, your first child is a boy and a girl.
But I think it's better to have one baby. Look at my fat grandson. One baby is almost bigger than both of you."
The child in her arms cried particularly loudly.
"The child is hungry, and his mother hasn't produced any milk yet," the old woman stared at the can of milk powder and said, "Sister, can we lend you a few spoonfuls of milk powder? The child's grandfather is a master craftsman in the shoe factory, and I'm also from the neighborhood committee. The child's parents have jobs, so they definitely don't need these two spoonfuls. I'll return them to you when the child's father buys back the milk powder."
The man lying on the bed also sat up and said with a smile: "My wife will give birth later, and we don't have any milk powder at home. Can you lend us some? It's not much, just enough for the next two days."
As soon as he said this, the old woman's face fell. She looked at him critically, her eyes lingering on the patch on his elbow for a moment, sneering: "You are indeed a country boy, you take advantage of any bargain you can get. Can you afford to borrow it, but can you pay it back?
Do you still need your father-in-law to pay for your children?"
After saying that, she approached Aunt Zhang with an expression of "I am your best friend" and said, "Big sister, look at my baby, he is very hungry. He is also picky. I just fed him two mouthfuls of millet porridge, but he refused to drink it. His little nose only sniffed the smell of milk powder.
If you're worried, I can bring you some canned food."
As she spoke, she shouted "Old man". The old man who was sitting on a chair and reading a newspaper with reading glasses immediately stood up, took out a can from the net bag under the bed and walked over.
"The baby's mother gave birth too hastily, so we haven't prepared anything. But we have prepared the milk powder tickets a long time ago. After the baby's father finishes buying food, we will let him go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy it." The old woman raised her chin slightly. In that day and age, few families could afford milk powder.
People have talked about this much. Seeing An Zhixia nod slightly, Aunt Fang smiled and said, "Your child is really chubby and cute. It's just a meal of milk powder. Take the canned food back and feed it to the children."
She scooped two spoonfuls of milk powder into the bowl handed to her by the mother-in-law. In fact, a newborn baby can't drink too much, so one flat spoon of milk powder mixed with 30 ml is enough.
However, the old woman kept her hand stretched out and showed no intention of retracting it.
Aunt Fang felt sorry for the milk powder and said, "The child has a small appetite. These two spoonfuls are enough for him to drink for two meals."
"Our child has a big appetite, two spoons is not enough, seven or eight spoons can be enough." The mother-in-law said dissatisfiedly: "If you feel sorry for this little milk powder, we can use canned food to replace it."
An Zhiqiu took the can directly from the old man.
The old couple's faces froze. The woman stuffed the bowl into her husband's arms and said angrily, "You're fussing over a few spoonfuls of milk powder. What kind of person are you?" But she rudely snatched the can back and went back with the child.
The man in the middle got out of bed and rummaged around, then took out a jar and handed it to him, grinning with a row of yellow teeth: "My wife is about to give birth, and we don't have any milk powder prepared at home."
Aunt Fang rolled her eyes unhappily: "Let's talk about it after your child comes out!"
The man was not angry. He said "oh" and put the mug on the bedside table and went back to bed. Maybe he was sleepless, so he took off his shoes and snored in bed. The smell of his stinky feet instantly covered all the smells, making everyone in the room almost suffocate.
The old woman immediately got angry and walked up to him and started shouting, "Do you have any manners? This is a public place, don't you know how your feet smell? You're lying on the bed, dirty and smelling like garbage. I don't know what's wrong with this hospital that they let anyone in!"
The man didn't want to pay attention to her at first.
But the more he did this, the more rampant the old woman became, saying harsh words and pushing him hard.
The man got so angry that he sat up suddenly and pushed back hard.
The old woman lost her balance and fell to the ground. Her face immediately turned pale with pain. She gritted her teeth and looked at her son and the man, "What are you looking at? I'm almost being bullied to death!"
Before the two men came forward, the man clenched his fists. He looked like a brute force and said something very shameless: "Come on? I haven't fought with anyone in the village for a long time. Everyone avoids me when they see me. You are as skinny as a stick, you are not even worth one fist of mine."
The father and son were also bullies who only feared the strong and only shrank their necks as they pulled the old woman up.
The man continued to sleep with his head covered.
Fang Yuan stepped forward and said coldly, "Comrade, please put on your shoes."
"I wonder if you guys are done yet," the man impatiently lifted the quilt, met Fang Yuan's cold eyes and the scar on his forehead that made him look more ferocious, and his momentum suddenly shrank by half: "The hospital didn't say that you can't take off your shoes."
"Newborns are weak and need a fresh and clean environment," Fang Yuan said coldly, "I hope you can cooperate."
The man grunted twice, put on his shoes, felt bored staying in the house, and went out.
"Look at them," the old woman pinched her son and husband in frustration.
The room smelled so bad that they all held their children and stayed in the corridor for a while, opening the windows to ventilate the room.
The old woman came up to Aunt Zhang and said, "The man just now was very shameless. You may not know that his wife is an educated youth who went to the countryside to support construction. My sister's child went to the same place as her.
The man just now was a second-rate guy in their village. He did all kinds of things, such as stealing and cheating. He had a very bad reputation. No girl dared to marry him even though he was in his twenties.
He saw that the female educated youth had no one to rely on and wanted to ruin her reputation, so he married her home.
After marrying her, he didn't treat her well. He beat and kicked her all day long, and even made the girl a little stupid.
I don’t know who came up with the idea, but he brought the girl here to look for his relatives, and he refused to leave his father-in-law’s house.”
(End of this chapter)
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