"Shallow Joy" Fan Wai: Mother and Mother outside the delivery room

1

In March, spring blossoms.

After eating lunch, Eiko leaned back on the couch with her big belly and rested.

The due date is these days.

The fetus has been full term, the first few days of obstetric examination, the director estimated that it is about 7 pounds, and now it is waiting for the melon to ripen.

Throughout pregnancy, in addition to the second trimester is better, the first trimester and the third trimester are suffering. The first trimester vomited upside down, and the fetus in the third trimester was holding the stomach, unable to eat a few bites, and always felt depressed and short of breath.

Fortunately, there is Shen Antong and his mother to take care of.

Mother Shen, they don't live in Zhongguancun now.

Since the house in Huilongguan was renovated and dried for three months, the old couple thought that the house there was empty and empty, and it was not appropriate for Yingzi to move over to pregnant women, so they would live first, so that the small house in Zhongguancun would live in Yingzi's small family and not crowded.

In fact, Shen Mu did not want to live with Ying Zi.

Let her serve her grandfathers, she is willing. But let her serve Yingzi, her heart is still quite unbalanced.

Remembering when she herself was pregnant, she didn't still cook for her in-laws and brothers-in-law and sister-in-law, or did she still go to work? Where is someone who specializes in serving, so delicate and squeamish?

But this dissatisfaction in her heart cannot be said.

She had privately and euphemistically mentioned to An Tong once that An Tong didn't want her to do it, but she also didn't let Ying Zi do it, and he rushed to do it as soon as he got off work.

Seeing An Tong so tired, Shen Mu was so distressed that she couldn't do it, and she regretted how much was this mouth? It's not as good as doing it yourself.

Shen's father and mother live in Huilongguan, Monday to Friday is also the same as work, avoiding the peak period, taking the light rail to Zhongguancun every day, helping them clean, buy vegetables and cook...

The aunt was very satisfied with These performances of Shen Mu.

She said to Yingzi: "It is also very good to find such a foreign mother-in-law, and she will help you with her heart, if the mother-in-law in Beijing wants them to pay like a snail girl, it is simply a fool's dream." ”

Her married life, affirmed by her aunt, Ying Zi's happiness is even stronger.

Under the guidance of her aunt, Ying Zi will often buy some inexpensive things to give to her in-laws and do what she likes.

In this way, the family is even more happy.

There are also small contradictions, but the flaws are not hidden.

2

Eiko lay on the couch for a while, and the more she lay down, the more uncomfortable she felt, and she felt a pain in her stomach.

She told Shen Mother, who was full of surprise after listening to it: "It should be about to give birth, I will call An Tong and ask him to come back on leave, and we will rush to the hospital." ”

Ying Zi has been mixed in the mother group throughout her pregnancy, and she is already familiar with the signs and procedures of giving birth to a baby. She knew it was still early, and the contractions were not regular, so she wasn't in a hurry either.

But Shen Antong was in a hurry, and when he returned home with a gust of wind, he picked up the delivery bag and was going to send Ying Zi to the hospital obstetrics department.

When I arrived at the maternity hospital, the doctor on duty examined it and took Ying Zi to be hospitalized.

Ying zi's palace mouth opened slowly, and it did not open until four fingers until more than nine o'clock in the evening.

The aunt was particularly worried, she first walked anxiously in the corridor, then guarded the door of the delivery room, as soon as a medical staff came out, she immediately rushed up and asked: "What happened to the no. 3 woman?" ”

"Is it still early?" If you are born, you will call your family. "The paramedics are annoyed with her.

Comparatively speaking, Shen Mu was much calmer.

She sat in a chair in the hallway at the entrance to the maternity ward, chatting with an old aunt in a flower scarf, smiling wide-eyed.

Mother Shen asked, "Is it your daughter-in-law or your daughter-in-law who went in?" ”

The old aunt smiled and said, "It's a daughter-in-law." ”

Mother Shen asked again, "Do you know men and women?" ”

The old aunt said, "Ours is a boy, but what about you?" ”

Shen Mu said: "We don't know, I asked them when they had a maternity check, and the two of them were still unhappy, saying that what they were born was what it was." ”

The old aunt laughed. "The hospital should generally not tell us that we are daughters-in-law who went outside to do a four-dimensional, saying what fetal photography is ... I didn't quite understand, and then the other side told her the gender by the way. ”

Mother Shen was silent for a while and said, "Anyway, the second child has also been let go, and it doesn't matter if the first child is a boy or a girl." ”

The old aunt glanced at Shen Mu, smiled and said, "Hey, what boy and girl?" That's it, raise a good one, they ask me if I like grandchildren or granddaughters, I said it's all the same, can you still have a grandson, and your eyeballs can't count on the eye sockets? ”

Shen Mu smiled, but didn't say anything.

Shen Mu knew that if she said that she wanted a grandchild, this patriarchal idea would definitely be looked down upon, but she really thought it was good to have a boy.

If nothing else, take the matter of having children, men only need to provide a sperm, but women have to work hard to conceive in October, after giving birth to thousands of hardships, and then breastfeeding, parenting... Although you can ask your sister-in-law to raise children, there are still many things that need to be a mother's own efforts.

When Shen Mu thought so, she used the afterglow of the corner of her eyes to quietly pass over her aunt, only to see that she was usually on her toes like a proud hen, and now she was leaning against the wall, secretly weeping listlessly.

3

"Zhu Jiajie, Zhu Jiajie's family... Son, a little more than 6 pounds, come and help push the mother back to the ward. A nurse shouted at the door of the delivery room.

Duan Xiaoyang quickly stepped forward and looked at Jiajie, who was lying on the hospital bed, and his eyes were red.

Jiajie's bangs, wet against the door of her head, her face was pale and she looked particularly weak.

Jia jie chong Duan Xiaoyang smiled slightly and said, "I'm fine... Look at your son and see who he looks like? ”

Duan Xiaoyang quickly stretched out his head to see.

The nurse laughed. "Push back to the ward first and then look at it, there will be time for you to see later, you are living in the ward with the sister-in-law, right?" You go to the nurse's station and ask, see which room the bed is in? ”

When the baby pushed the bed past Shen Mother, Shen Mother glanced at the big fat boy who was pink and pink, which made her feel envious in her heart.

Eiko gave birth to her daughter at three o'clock in the morning.

As soon as the nurse pushed the mother and daughter out, the five adults in their family hula and hula went up.

The aunt choked and said, "Are you okay, kid?" Would you like to eat something? Your dad had it in his insulated lunch box..."

Eiko interrupted her and said, "It really hurt me to death, and I will never be born again." ”

Shen Antong nodded hurriedly: "No birth, no birth, no birth again." ”

Mother Shen only looked at the babies and did not pay attention to their words.

Looking at the sleeping baby, Shen Mu thought to herself, the Creator is really magical, this small and exquisite facial features, more similar to An Tong hours!

Shen Mu's heart suddenly gushed out an indescribable kindness and like.

This joy is accompanied by a faint sense of loss and regret...

4

Eiko and Jiajie live in the same ward.

Because there are too many women, there are few single rooms in public hospitals, and a few rooms are also reserved for high-risk women.

This kind of two-person ward, equipped with a sister-in-law, saves a lot of trouble.

In addition to Shen Antong, the four old people in the family also come every day.

Jiajie's side is much more deserted. Except for her husband Xiaoduan, there is only one month of sister-in-law.

Ying Zi asked Jia Jie privately.

Jiajie said: "My mother-in-law died early, and now she is the queen mother-in-law, and I have the same feelings as my husband, my mother's side, my grandmother is sick and needs to be taken care of, and she can't leave, so I can only rely on our own strength to have a child." ”

Eiko asked, "Then who will help you with your children?" ”

Jiajie said: "We plan to bring our own." ”

"Don't you want to go to work?"

"I now open a flower shop myself, I have two clerks, and I just need to explain some things, don't stare at it all day."

Ying Zi said: "That's very good, I have to go to work because I have to sit in work, and then I can only work hard with my mother-in-law." ”

"Someone can bring it, and it's more tiring to take children at home than to go to work." Jiajie said.

Eiko smiled and said, "That's true." ”

Ying Zi and Jia Jie saw each other as they were, stayed in the courtyard for two days, and the two had already talked quite hotly.

They were also surprised to find that the two families did not live far away, and they often moved in the same circle of life.

So they immediately agreed that they would go out together to walk the baby together.

In order to express the determination of the two to carry out their friendship to the end, Ying Zi named her daughter Conch, and Jia Jie gave her son a nickname dolphin, of course, this is the last word.

5

Eiko did not go to the confinement center.

She was reluctant to spend that money, and she felt that it was good for the family to ask for a sister-in-law and then have her mother-in-law take care of it.

The invited sister-in-law, many of her practices are contrary to Mother Shen's experience, which makes Mother Shen very unbearable.

She complained privately to Shen Antong: "I can do such a little work, why should I ask my sister-in-law to do it?" I see that she is often idle, and sometimes she sleeps with Ying Zi in the afternoon. ”

Shen Antong cried and laughed.

"At night, you and my dad don't live here, I don't know, the baby is very noisy, they are all sister-in-law up and coax, they don't sleep well at night, and they don't let people take time to sleep during the day, how can people stay up?"

Mother Shen was all kinds of scorn for Sister-in-law Anyway.

In her subconscious, her aunt asked Ying Zi to ask for a sister-in-law, which actually showed that she was not at ease with her mother-in-law.

The aunt really didn't trust Ying Zi.

She would come every other day to visit.

Sister-in-law is very shrewd, and whoever hires her, she will listen to whom.

Shen Mu was next to her to give her advice, and her mouth was actually windy in her ears. But for her aunt's words, she honestly carried them out.

After getting married and having children, Eiko also slowly felt the love that her aunt and uncle had for her.

This kind of good love of the biological parents, like the warm spring breeze, is easy to indulge.

Eiko felt that her mentality was much calmer.

A year later in the spring, Orson Park.

On the big green lawn, Eiko and Jiajie sit on the picnic mat and chat.

Not far away, Shen Antong was learning to walk while holding the conch. Duan Xiaoyang held the dolphin and watched from the side, and the dolphin pointed to the conch in his mouth and kept talking, not knowing what he was saying.

Bright sunlight, through the gaps in the leaves, fell on them...

Everything is dazzlingly beautiful.