Chapter 041.
Zhen Zhen was lying on her back in Shui Huai Ming’s arms, breathing slowly, like a dehydrated fish.
Her body was like being disassembled and reorganized, she was so limp that she couldn’t move at all, only her eyelashes were fluttering lightly.
After a few moments, she uttered in a weak voice, “Why don’t you ever get tired?”
Servant Huaeming wrapped his arms around her, “Tired from doing this?”
Zhen Zhen let out a soft hmph, “I’m exhausted.”
Not long after she finished speaking, she closed her eyes and fell into sleep.
Because her body was tired after being extremely satisfied, she slept very deeply after falling asleep.
Because there was no alarm clock and she didn’t need to go to work, Jenny slept until three o’clock in the morning.
When she woke up and opened her eyes, she was alone on the bed.
There was nothing urgent or important, so she lifted the covers and got up slowly, and went out to the restroom to wash up.
After washing up and tying her hair, she went outside and saw Shui Huaiming in the vegetable field through the window, so she opened the door and went out.
She opened the door and went out. Shi Huaiming was pulling carrots in the vegetable field.
When he saw Zhen Zhen come out, he straightened up and looked at Zhen Zhen and asked, “Have you eaten yet? There’s rice in the kitchen.”
Last night, he tossed her around again and lost all her strength. In the morning, he turned off the alarm clock and didn’t wake her up, letting her sleep until she woke up naturally.
Breakfast he warmed in the pot, bring out directly eat can.
Zhen Zhen asked him, “What are you doing?”
Serving Huai Ming still looked at her and said, “Didn’t you say you were pickling turnips and salted vegetables today?”
Zhen Zhen had just gotten up and her mind was still a bit foggy, but when she heard Shui Huaiming say this, she naturally remembered.
She not only wanted to pickle radishes today, she also wanted to make some salted meat, so she could pickle the salted meat and cook it for the winter solstice.
It’s almost winter, so it’s only natural to start stocking up on all kinds of food, and pickled vegetables and dried radishes and bacon and salted meat are the basics.
The stomach is still hungry, Zhen Zhen reacted and did not stand outside more, rushed back to the house to eat first.
After finishing her meal and cleaning up the dishes, Shui Huaiming had already pulled the radishes home and washed them.
The radishes were washed white and placed in a white enameled basin.
Shui Huaiming took the cutting board and put it on the table, then took the chopper and asked Zhen Zhen, “How are you going to cut it?”
Zhen Zhen brought her apron over, “Remove the head and tail, and cut it into long strips the thickness of your little finger.”
Zhen Zhen was planning to put on an apron and cut it herself, but Shi Huai Ming directly raised his arm and posed for her to tie the apron.
Seeing Shi Huai Ming like this, Zhen Zhen froze slightly with the apron in her hand and looked at him and blinked.
Servant Huai Ming thought that she didn’t understand the language of his posture, so he had to speak again, “Not helping me tie it?”
Zhen Zhen pursed her lips with a slight smile at the corner of her mouth, not being polite with him, she reached around his waist and tied the apron onto him.
After tying the apron, Servant Huai Ming stood at the table and cut the radish, while Zhen Zhen stayed by the side and watched him.
He held the knife to the radish and asked Zhen Zhen, “Is this thick enough?”
Zhen Zhen nodded, “Yes, this thickness is just right.”
After he finished cutting one radish, he took a second radish and continued cutting.
Zhen Zhen looked at him from the side and said, “When the radishes are dried and pickled, send some to sister-in-law Dafeng’s family and sister-in-law Li Shuang’s family, they all like to eat what I make.” Saying this, she muttered, “I also don’t know when sister-in-law Li Shuang will give birth.”
Then just as her words fell, a sharp knock suddenly sounded on the door of the house.
Zhen Zhen turned around and ran out to open the door, only to see that it was He Shuo standing outside.
Before Zhen Zhen had time to greet him, He Shuo directly opened his mouth and said, “Little Cotton, your sister-in-law has a stomachache and is about to give birth, I have to take her to the hospital right now. Zi Ran went to his classmate An An’s house to play, I don’t have time to find him back now, please help bring him later, okay?”
Going into labor?
Zhen Zhen’s nerves tightened as she listened, and she couldn’t help but follow suit.
She didn’t delay He Shuo’s time, directly nodding her head, “You hurry and take sister-in-law to the hospital, I’ll go find Zi Ran.”
After saying this, she went next door with He Shuo, and Squire Huai Ming naturally followed.
Li Shuang leaned on the sofa and covered her stomach, seeing Zhen Zhen enduring the pain she voiced out, “Little Cotton, Zi Ran is troubling you.”
Zhen Zhen went over and helped her up with He Shuo, telling her, “Don’t worry, leave Zi Ran to me.”
Helping Li Shuang outside, she helped her to get in the car again and sat down.
Serving Huai Ming helped take the things and put them all in the car.
He Shuo didn’t hesitate much and directly got in the car and drove towards the hospital.
Watching the jeep walk away, Zhen Zhen was just about to turn around to find He Ziran, when Wu Dafeng came running over again.
She curiously pulled Zhen Zhen and asked, “What’s wrong with Li Shuang? Is she about to give birth?”
Zhen Zhen nodded at her, “My stomach hurts.”
Wu Dafeng said, “Stomach ache that is going to give birth, the second child is born quickly, I guess to the hospital not a moment out.”
The birth of a child is a major event in the ordinary life, but it is also usual to say.
Wu Dafeng gossip two sentences did not ask, turned his head to see the service Huai Ming body apron, her attention to the service Huai Ming body, suddenly laughed and said: “Aigoo, small service comrades, how do you still tie on the apron ah?”
Shi Huai Ming didn’t feel embarrassed and simply replied, “I’m at home slicing radishes and preparing to pickle dried radishes.”
Wu Dafeng still smiled and said, “Aigoo, this is a woman’s job, why are you still doing it?”
She said and looked at Zhen Zhen, “Zhen Zhen, you too, how can you let a man do such work at home? Especially our men, their hands are for holding guns, not kitchen knives.”
Without letting Zhen Zhen make a sound to answer this, Shi Huai Ming continued, “Sister-in-law, a man’s hands can hold a gun to defend the country, and can also hold a kitchen knife to take care of his wife and children, no matter if it’s for the country’s big family or his own small family, it’s all a man’s responsibility, and it’s all appropriate.”
It was not expected that Servant Huai Ming would open his mouth to speak for Zhen Zhen.
The smile on Wu Dafeng s face slightly dried up and stopped, “Is …… it?”
It was also the first time she had heard such words from a man’s mouth, and it was truly rare.
If the kind of man who has no talent is also even if, but Shi Huai Ming to have the ability to have the ability, to have the talent to have the talent.
Such a man is actually willing to go home to tie an apron and take a kitchen knife to do housework, and even said that this is the right thing to do.
I don’t know what the expression on Wu Dafeng’s face means.
Servant Huai Ming still looked at her with a grounded look and replied, “Yes, sister-in-law.”
Wu Dafeng smiled even more dryly, “That’s it then ……”
After saying that, she added, “Zhen Zhen is truly blessed to have met a man like you.”
Because of Servant Huai Ming’s help in blocking the way, Zhen Zhen hadn’t been involved in this topic from the side.
Only after Shi Huai Ming and Wu Dafeng finished speaking did she speak up and say, “Sister-in-law, I have to go find Zi Ran.”
After speaking, Zhen Zhen turned around and went to look for He Ziran, and Shui Huaiming returned home to continue cutting radishes.
When everyone dispersed, Wu Dafeng naturally went back to her own home.
She returned home and sat down to do needlework.
While doing so, she first muttered that Zhen Zhen had completely lost the look she had when she first came to the city. At that time, Zhen Zhen was so simple, so hardworking, so simple, and so cute, but now Zhen Zhen, she was really petulant and willful, and did not have any of her simple and down-to-earth look.
But why did Zhen Zhen become like this now, one of the reasons is naturally brought by Li Shuang. And the other reason, come to think of it, it must be by the service Huai Ming out of spoiled.
Ever since Servant Huai Ming went back to the countryside and brought Zhen Zhen back, he had really indulged her.
She hadn’t really thought that the original cold and hard looking Servant Huai Ming would be so spoiled for his daughter-in-law.
He Shuo does not care about Li Shuang cook or not to care about the family, she already thought it was very rare, but she did not expect that the service Huai Ming is even more rare than He Shuo, will actually wear an apron and take a kitchen knife to drill the kitchen, so that his wife’s empty hands idle.
Her heart was originally muttering that women like Li Shuang and Zhen Zhen were really unlikeable.
But muttering muttering, the heart suddenly had a kind of sour feeling.
They are all women, how can they live so elegantly?
When I was sour, Lao Zhou and the four dolls came back one after another.
Wu Dafeng put down the needlework in her hand, got up and went to the kitchen to put up her apron and prepared to cook.
But she just put up the apron, the heart can not help but begin to mutter. Standing like this muttering for a while, she suddenly ran out and asked Lao Zhou: “There is nothing to be busy on Sunday, why don’t you know how to help me do housework?”
Old Zhou subconsciously froze when he heard this, feeling that he had misheard her.
He looked at Wu Dafeng and screwed up his face, “What did you say?”
Wu Dafeng had no bottom in her heart and braced her voice, “I said …… why can’t you help me do some housework if you’re fine?”
Hearing it a second time to make sure he heard it correctly, Old Zhou instantly wrinkled his eyebrows and his tone was harsh, “What kind of crazy are you suddenly having here? I work my ass off to support a family day in and day out, and I still have to come back to do housework? What did I marry you for? Is it to offer you up as a grandma? I think I’ve let you live too much and you don’t know what’s good for you! How do you think you got this life? I earned it with my life! If you think this life is too much for you, why don’t you just pack your bags and go back to the countryside?”
Wu Dafeng’s shoulders shrank at his admonition, and she also felt that she was having a brain fever.
Looking at Old Zhou’s face, she didn’t dare to speak out again and immediately sealed her mouth and went back to the kitchen to cook.
***
It was almost time to make lunch when Zhen Zhen retrieved He Ziran.
She held He Ziran’s little hand and walked towards the house, telling him, “Ziran, your dad just took mom to the hospital, it’s almost noon now, so auntie won’t take you to the hospital, you stay at auntie’s house for dinner first, and then after dinner auntie will take you to the hospital to see your mom, okay?”
He Ziran asked Zhen Zhen a little happily, “So has the little sister been born?”
Zhen Zhen looks at him and says, “Let’s eat first, and after we finish eating and go to the hospital, we might just give birth.”
He Ziran nods at Zhen Zhen, “Okay, auntie.”
Zhen Zhen leads He Zi Ran to the house, and Squire Huai Ming has already cut out all the radishes.
He spread out the cut radish strips into a large flat bamboo basket and sent it out into the sun. Zhen Zhen tidied up the house and started to make lunch, while Shui Huaiming came in and chatted with her and helped her out.
After steaming the rice, she fried three dishes and cooked a soup.
Zhen Zhen used a few slices of pork to stir-fry the oil and fried a plate of hand-torn cabbage.
Then she stir-fried a plate of scrambled eggs with loofah, a plate of sweet and sour lotus root, and a big bowl of tomato and eggdrop soup.
When the food was served, He Ziran sat at the table and said with a wow, “Auntie, your cooking smells so good.”
He ate meals from the cafeteria every day, going back and forth with a few things, and he was getting tired of eating them.
Zhen Zhen saw that he was craving for it and said with a smile, “Eat more if you like it.”
“Uh-huh!” He Ziran nods vigorously and opens his mouth to eat a large mouthful of vegetables plus a large mouthful of rice.
He still used a spoon to eat now, and he ate it all in one big spoonful.
When Shi Huaiming saw that he couldn’t scoop up some of the dishes, he gave them to him in his bowl.
Zhen Zhen looked at Servant Huai Ming and He Zi Ran and thought that if they had a child, it would probably be just like this.
I just didn’t know what the child they gave birth to would be like, whether it would be more like Shi Huai Ming or more like her. Thinking of the two of them creating a brand new little life together, there was something strangely wonderful about that feeling.
Under Shi Huai Ming’s care, He Zi Ran ate a full meal and drank most of a bowl of soup.
Leaning against the top of the chair after he had eaten his fill, he touched his small stomach and said, “Ah, I’m too full.”
Zhen Zhen looked at him and smiled, saying, “You’re so cute.”
He Ziran immediately sits up straight, “Auntie, I’m a boy, boys can’t say cute.”
Zhen Zhen looks at him and asks, “Then what do boys say?”
He Ziran thinks for a while, “Anyway, you can’t say cute.”
***
Zhen Zhen and Servant Huai Ming take He Zi Ran to finish lunch.
Servant Huai Ming got up to clean up the table and chopsticks, Zhen Zhen took her lunch box and filled another lunch box with food, then put the freshly boiled brown sugar eggs into a well-sealed lunch box as well, and together they packed it into a bag and took He Zi Ran to the hospital.
Servant Huai Ming rode his bicycle with He Zi Ran on the front bar and Zhen Zhen on the back seat.
Before stepping on the pedals and riding the bike, Servant Huai Ming reminded He Ziran, “You have to hold on tight.”
He Ziran answered, “Don’t worry, uncle, I’ll hold on well!”
Servant Huai Ming rode his bike to take Zhen Zhen and He Ziran to the hospital.
Finding He Shuo in the waiting area outside the maternity ward, Zhen Zhen went up to him first and asked, “Brother He, how’s it going?”
Seeing Zhen Zhen and Shi Huai Ming, He Shuo stood up, “It’s been a while since I went in, it should be soon.”
Zhen Zhen took out the lunch box and chopsticks from her bag and gave them to him, “I brought you some rice, you should eat something first.”
The baby hadn’t been successfully born yet, and Li Shuang was still in pain inside, so He Shuo didn’t have the heart to eat, but he still reached out and took the lunchbox next, and said to Zhen Zhen, “Thank you.”
With their minds on the labor room, Zhen Zhen and Servant Huai Ming didn’t say much to He Shuo.
He Ziran stood next to He Shuo, tilted his head up and looked at him, asking, “Dad, is little sister still not born?”
He Shuo pulled He Ziran to sit down with him and stroked his head, “Not yet, but soon.”
Then just as he finished saying this, he suddenly heard a sentence, “He Shuo’s family has given birth.”
Hearing this, He Shuo immediately stood up and went to the nurse, “How is my wife?”
The nurse looked at him and replied, “Your wife is fine, the baby is fine too, it will be out soon.”
Shortly after the nurse finished speaking and went in, Li Shuang and the child came out.
Li Shuang was lying on the bed, while the child was being held in swaddling clothes by Mother He, who had come over to accompany the labor.
He Shuo went over and held Li Shuang’s hand, coming up to her and asking, “How are you feeling?”
Li Shuang looked at him and said, “I’m exhausted, it’s finally easier after giving birth, but I just didn’t get what I wanted.”
He Shuo didn’t react to what Li Shuang was saying, and He’s mother, who was holding the child, answered out loud, “It’s not a girl, it’s still a boy.”
If it’s not a girl, then it’s not a girl, it’s his own child anyway. He Shuo didn’t linger much longer outside the door of the maternity ward, and first pushed Li Shuang to the hospital room, letting her lie down on the hospital bed.
After Li Shuang went to the hospital bed and laid down, the child was also put to her side.
He Ziran plopped down directly in front of her and asked her, “Mom, isn’t this the little sister?”
Li Shuang softened her voice and said, “This is little brother.”
There were a lot of things to do with giving birth, and Zhen Zhen and Servant Huai Ming had not said much as they followed along. Now that Li Shuang was lying down, Zhen Zhen took out her lunchbox and said, “I don’t know what I should eat after giving birth, but I remembered that it seems to be hard boiled eggs with brown sugar, so I boiled a little and brought it here.”
Hearing this, Mother He hurriedly said, “Aigoo, thank you so much, Li Shuang had an emergency birth, I rushed over when I received the news, just in time for her to enter the labor room, and I didn’t have time to prepare this.”
Li Shuang was helped to sit up, leaning back on the pillows, smiling, “Little Cotton is always so sweet.”
Zhen Zhen smiled back and brought the lunchbox and spoon to her.
Li Shuang ate the boiled egg with brown sugar, and her strength and color improved a bit.
She returned the lunchbox and spoon to Zhen Zhen, looked at Zhen Zhen and added, “When I’m out of the month, I’ll treat you to a delicious meal.”
Zhen Zhen reaches out and takes the lunchbox, not being too polite with her, “Well, then you should sit properly for the month first.”
Li Shuang had just given birth and it was not suitable for her to be disturbed, and she would not be discharged from the hospital until tomorrow, so Zhen Zhen and Shi Huai Ming left first.
Before they left, Shui Huai Ming asked He Shuo, “Do you still want us to bring Zi Ran with you?”
He Ziran looked like he really wanted to go with them, but He Shuo said, “No, his grandmother will take him back at night.”
Hearing this, the expression on He Ziran’s face instantly collapsed.
Servant Huai Ming smiled and stroked his head a bit, taking Zhen Zhen home first.
As the two rode their bicycles, Zhen Zhen held onto Servant Huai Ming’s waist and asked him with her head slightly stretched out, “Do you like children?”
Servant Huai Ming slowed down his riding speed and replied, “Well, quite like them.”
Zhen Zhen asked him again, “Then do you like boys or girls?”
Servant Huai Ming looked back at her, “If I were to give birth to my own child, then I would like a daughter.”
Zhen Zhen then asked, “Why?” She remembered that he had previously told He Shuo and Lao Zhou that both men and women were the same.
Servant Huai Ming said, “If I give birth to a daughter, He Shuo will definitely envy me to death, and I’ll have to show off in front of him at that time.”
Zhen Zhen: “……”