Chapter 070.

Granny Feng said, “I just arrived not long ago.”

Liu Zhi continued to walk towards the front of the house, “Where is Wen?”

Granny Feng: “I guess she went to the cafeteria to get food.”

As soon as her words fell, she heard Shizuku’s voice from the alleyway, “DouDouMiMi, it’s time to go home and eat.”

Not long after Shizuku’s voice fell, she and DouDouMiMi entered the courtyard gate together.

Liu Zhi turned around to take the lunch box in her hand, walked to the front of the house and called to Feng Mao Zi, “Mother, come inside to eat.”

Feng did not say anything, turned around and followed Liu Zhi into the house and sat down at the dining table.

Wen went to the kitchen to get the dishes and brought Doudou and Mimi into the house.

Doudou followed Wen and sat down at the table, while Mimi went to sit in Liu Zhi’s arms.

Granny Feng glanced at Liu Zhi and said, “She’s so big, why are you still carrying her, let her eat on her own.”

Liu Zhi looked at her and replied, “Holding her is a bit more peaceful, otherwise she will make a fuss.”

Wen sat at the table and ate with her head down, never saying a word.

Feng Ma’am, who had a very strong presence, asked again, “Is it true that the baby will be born in the next few days?”

Liu Zhi said, “According to the date, it is soon, but I’m not sure which day it will be.”

Granny Feng lowered her head to eat, “Then I’ll stay here for a few days.”

Hearing these words, Ah Wen’s hand pinching the chopsticks paused slightly.

She did not raise her head or say anything, and after a moment continued to move her chopsticks to eat, but she no longer had much of an appetite.

After eating, it was dark.

Because she was tired from all the running around, she washed up and went back to her room to sleep.

Wen and Liu Zhi freshened up DouDou and MiMi, washed their clothes, and went to bed.

Wen turned her back to Liu Zhi, her eyelids were not sleepy, so naturally she could not sleep.

Liu Zhi side leaning on the bed head, put Wen’s shoulder, whispered to her: “I did not let her come over, she should also be thinking of you will come over, in this can not stay long, you do not have pressure.”

Originally, he and Wen had agreed not to ask his mother to come over for the birth of the child, but who knew that she would come over on her own.

Since the person had already come over and had already entered and stayed, they naturally couldn’t say anything else.

No matter what, she was Liu Zhi’s own mother.

Ah Wen lay unmoving, speaking in a very soft voice, “She is thinking of the child in my stomach, right ……” How can she be thinking of her.

Liu Zhi said, “The child in your belly is her own grandchild, naturally, she is thinking about.”

A Wen lying silent for a while, half a moment from the throat to squeeze out a voice, “If it is not yet a grandson?”

Liu Zhi subconsciously lagged for a moment, and then relaxed his tone and said, “It’s impossible, they have three children, it must be a boy.”

Shizuku pursed her lips for a moment, she suddenly sat up propping herself up, leaned over the bed and looked at Liu Zhi and said, “I also want to give birth to a son this time, so that this matter can be settled, so that your family will be satisfied, but if this child is not yet?”

Liu Zhi looks at Shizuku’s eyes.

He inhaled softly, “Let’s not discuss this for now, let’s wait until the birth, okay?”

Shizuku pursed her lips slightly and pushed the surge in her heart down.

She held back from saying anything further and lay down on her side, closing her eyes and taking deep inhalations with a shuddering breath.

***

Next door.

Squire Huai Ming reaches over and pulls the light and lies down with Jen.

Zhen Zhen found a comfortable position in his arms and spoke to him in a loose tone, “Wen’s mother-in-law is here.”

Servant Huai Ming wasn’t interested in these parental matters, but as long as Zhen talked to Zhen him, he would talk to Zhen Zhen very seriously. He followed up on Jen’s words, “Shizuku’s about to give birth, so it’s only right to come over and take a look.”

Thinking of Shizuku’s look and state after her mother-in-law’s arrival, Jen couldn’t help but inhale.

For a moment she softly voiced, “Just be able to be at peace with each other and don’t make a fuss.”

In other people’s families, one can’t say what will happen without knowing the inner workings of the situation. Servant Huai Ming gently rubbed Zhen Zhen’s shoulders twice and didn’t say anything else.

Zhen Zhen changed positions in his arms again, feeling sleepy, closed her eyes and soon fell asleep.

Now that Xingyu and Dantong have been weaned off their nighttime milk and are able to sleep through the night, Zhen Zhen’s quality of sleep has improved.

She slept comfortably until the early hours of the morning, when she and Zhong Minfen stayed home with the children after Serving Huai Ming left for work.

Today, after breakfast, Ah Wen did not come over.

Zhen Zhen was a little worried in her heart, so she carried Dantong next door to look for Wen.

When she arrived next door and saw Granny Feng, she greeted her with a smile, “Auntie.”

Feng was very polite to Zhen Zhen, smiled and responded, looked at Dan Tong and asked: “How old is the doll?”

Zhen Zhen answered her, “Six or seven months.”

Feng asked again, “A girl or a boy?”

Zhen Zhen continued to answer, “A girl doll.”

Feng did not ask any more questions, she teased Dantong and said, “She is so handsome.”

After teasing, she looked at Zhen Zhen with a smile and said, “Ah Wen is in her room, you go find her.”

Zhen Zhen responded, “Yes, Auntie.”

After exchanging pleasantries with Granny Feng, Zhen Zhen carried Dantong to the door of Ah Wen’s room.

Raising her hand, she knocked on the door, and in a short while the door to the room opened, and the one who came to open the door was DouDou.

Doudou saw that it was Zhen Zhen and greeted her with, “Auntie.”

Ah Wen also saw Zhen Zhen, followed by DouDou and said, “Quickly come in.”

Zhen Zhen carried Dantong and Doudou into the room, and looked at Wen and asked, “What are you doing home alone? Why don’t you go play with me?”

Ah Wen smiled and only answered the first question Zhen Zhen asked, “I’m teaching Doudou to write.”

Zhen Zhen walked over to Ah Wen with Dan Tong in her arms and looked at the books on the writing table, “Let me see what Doudou has learned.”

Doudou came over and answered first, “Auntie, I learned mountain, water, and fire ……”

Indeed, he wrote about mountains, water and fire.

After looking at the characters that Doudou had learned to write, Zhen Zhen hugged Dantong and sat down next to Ah Wen.

Doudou and Mimi were both small, so she didn’t avoid anything and looked directly at Wen and asked, “Is everything alright?”

Knowing what Zhen Zhen was asking, Ah Wen simply replied, “Nothing.”

There was a gap between her and Granny Feng, most of the time she deliberately avoided Granny Feng, and Granny Feng didn’t look for trouble from her, so there was no conflict.

The main gap and conflict between her and Feng Mao Zi is all centered on the matter of her child having a son.

Seeing that nothing happened, Zhen Zhen didn’t ask any more questions.

Of course, she did not go back, and stayed here with Wen for half a day.

***

After Zhen Zhen carried Dantong to the next door, Zhong Minfen took Xingyu without going out.

She changed a diaper for Xingyu, put him on a soft mat to crawl and play, and did needlework by herself.

Just as she finished rolling a piece of nylon thread, she looked up and suddenly saw an old woman her age appearing at the gate of the courtyard.

The old lady, after seeing Zhong Minfen in the house, also stretched her head to look into the house for a while.

Do not recognize, but the people in this courtyard are all military families.

Zhong Minfen busily stood up and politely asked the old lady, “Who are you looking for?”

Seeing Zhong Minfen make a sound, the old lady went straight into the courtyard door and said with a smile, “I’m just wandering around, not looking for anyone.”

When people came into the house, Zhong Minfen brought her a bench and let her sit down, pouring water for her.

The old lady took the water and said to Zhong Minfen with a smile, “I heard that your family just moved here at the beginning of the year?”

Zhong Minfen replied politely, “Yes, it’s been half a year since we moved here.”

The old lady introduced herself to Zhong Minfen and pointed towards Wen’s house, saying, “I’m Liu Zhi’s mother, who’s next to you. I don’t usually come here often, so I’m here to take a look as my daughter-in-law is pregnant.”

When she said that, Zhong Minfen naturally knew who she was.

She introduced herself to Feng, and this was considered to be an acquaintance.

Feng was two years older than her, so Zhong Minfen politely called her Big Sister Feng.

After introducing each other, the two of them exchanged a few pleasantries.

Seeing Xingyu playing on the cushion next to her, Feng said with some doubt, “Your daughter-in-law just carried a doll next door, and this one here is about the same size as that doll.”

Indeed, it was about the same size. Zhong Minfen told her with a smile, “It’s a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses.”

Upon hearing dragon and phoenix fetuses, Granny Feng’s eyes lit up and she said, “Yo, your daughter-in-law is really something.”

She reached out to pick up Xingyu and held him in her arms, adding, “I wonder if this baby of ours is a boy.”

Since Zhong Minfen arrived in the city, she has not been involved in anything.

She didn’t care much about her family’s affairs, and naturally she didn’t say much about other people’s affairs.

She said to Granny Feng the same thing that Servant Huai Ming loved to say: “Men and women are both the same.”

Without hiding anything, Granny Feng directly said, “They say they’re all the same, but in reality, they’re still not the same.”

She then looked at Zhong Minfen and asked, “I see my daughter-in-law’s belly shape, it looks like she’s carrying a kid, do you think so?”

Zhong Minfen didn’t dare to say whether it was.

Whether she is pregnant with a boy or a girl can only be known after birth.

She didn’t want to offend anyone, and only said, “I’m used to not being able to read this.”

Granny Feng added, “You’ll know in a couple days when you give birth.”

Zhong Minfen nodded, “Yes.”

After chatting about Ah Wen’s stomach for a few moments, and not being able to get any results, Granny Feng didn’t talk to Zhong Minfen any further.

There was nothing else to do at home and no one to talk to, so she stayed and continued to chat with Zhong Minfen and asked her, “You’ve been living with your daughter-in-law like this all this time, haven’t you?”

Zhong Minfen told her, “I didn’t come here when I didn’t have a baby, but I came here after I had the baby.”

Feng looked at Zhong Minfen and said, “Your daughter-in-law looks so delicate and can’t take a bit of heat, so it’s not easy to get along with her, is it? In this house, are you the head of the family or is she the head of the family?”

Zhong Minfen said truthfully, “My daughter-in-law has a good temperament and gets along very well, I treat her as my own daughter and she treats me as her own mother. In the countryside I am the head of the family, but in the city I will not be the head of the family, tired and panic, it is better to not care about anything.”

Feng said: “That’s not good, you are here, you can not care about other things, the money must be managed in their own hands, in the end, daughter-in-law is still an outsider, the family’s money are given to her, can all rest assured ah?”

Zhong Minfen said, “I’m not familiar with the city, I can’t read a word, I’m just like a blind man, why would I put all the money in my family’s hands? I don’t care about anything, just tell her what you want, everything is done properly, I’m not bothered at all, I live comfortably.”

Feng granny smiled and said: “You are really thinking out loud.”

Zhong Minfen: “I’m getting old, what’s the point of arguing so much, my children are just filial piety.”

Feng said, “I can’t get along with my daughter-in-law, and I don’t come here to live, but I have no grandchildren, and I can think about everything else, but this grandchildren, they have to give birth to me.”

Thinking of how Ah Wen used to be, Zhong Minfen added, “Big Sister Feng, you shouldn’t put too much pressure on the child.”

Granny Feng did not accept this advice, “If I give birth earlier, I will naturally not put pressure on them.”

Seeing Feng’s attitude on this matter, Zhong Minfen didn’t say anything more.

In any case, it’s not her own family’s business, so she can just listen to it, and it’s not appropriate to talk about it or care about it, and it won’t do her any good either.

Feng and Zhong Minfen chatted until noon.

Wen and Zhen Zhen brought the children over, put down DouDouMiMi and DanTong, and went to the cafeteria in pairs to get their meals.

As Zhen Zhen and Ah Wen took their lunch boxes and left, Granny Feng retracted her gaze to look at DouDou and MiMi next to her, and said to Zhong MinFen: “You said, what’s the point of having these two girls? Sooner or later, they’ll be married off, and sooner or later, they’ll be someone else’s, and they’ll be money losers. The oldest one is not even willing to call me grandma, so it’s probably because her mom taught her.”

Zhong Minfen said to Feng Maozi, “Don’t say that, don’t look at the child as small, she understands.”

Feng didn’t care, “I’m telling the truth, there’s nothing I’m afraid they’ll hear. Raising a child is a good defense against old age, having a son is a way to continue the flame, what’s the use of raising a daughter? The girls will be buried outside when they die, and if they marry out, they won’t be part of their own family.”

Although Doudou can’t understand all of these words at this age, and won’t remember them, Zhong Minfen still rushed to change the subject.

If the conversation continued, Granny Feng poured out all the words in her stomach, not knowing what else she would say.

After the two of them had been chatting for a while, Zhen Zhen and Ah Wen returned from their meal.

Seeing Zhen Zhen enter the courtyard, Granny Feng got up and called Doudou, “Take your sister with you and go home for dinner.”

Doudou didn’t say anything and obediently picked up MiMi and went home.

As she walked out the door in front of Zhen Zhen, Granny Feng smiled and said hello to Zhen Zhen.

Watching Feng Doudou and Mimi leave, Zhen Zhen carried her lunch box into the house.

After entering the house and setting down the food at the dining table, Zhen Zhen went to the kitchen to get the dishes, and served the food in the lunch box.

Zhong Minfen helped Zhen Zhen together at the dining table and suddenly spoke out, “Ah Wen seems to be really not easy.”

Zhen Zhen raised her head to look at Zhong Min Fen, “What’s wrong? Did Dame Feng say something to you?”

Zhong Minfen said, “Said quite a bit, mostly about having a son.”

After sharing the dishes and putting down the chopsticks in her hand, she continued, “If Wen gives birth to a son, it’s fine, everything will be fine, if she gives birth to a daughter,……,” shaking her head and not going any further.

Zhen Zhen looked at Zhong Minfen silent for a moment.

She did not say anything more, the service Huai Ming came back from work.

Zhen Zhen and Zhong Minfen put an end to this topic and sat down to eat lunch first.

Before washing their hands and sitting down to eat, Mr. Huaiming first went to hug Xingyu and Dantong.

When he hugged Dantong he turned his head and said, “Spike has only been gone for a day, why do I feel like I’ve been gone for a long time, and it’s really hard to get used to coming home without her pouncing on me and calling me daddy.”

Zhen Zhen smiled and said, “If you miss your daughter, just say you miss your daughter.”

Serving Huai Ming put Dan Tong down and went to the dining table to sit down, “It’s thinking of my daughter, you guys say that this He Shuo, who couldn’t give birth to a daughter himself, had to come and rob me of my daughter.”

Hearing him say this, Zhong Minfen and Zhen Zhen laughed together.

Zhong Minfen: “Our family Sui Sui, is loved everywhere.”

Zhong Minfen and Zhen Zhen didn’t talk about Wen and her mother-in-law at the dinner table, but only talked about pleasant topics.

After dinner, Sai Huai Ming rested at home for a while before rushing off to work.

Zhen Zhen took Xingyu and Dantong for a nap at home.

When she woke up, Xingyu and Dantong weren’t awake yet. She was lying on the bed, napping, when she heard Zhong Minfen’s voice talking to someone from the crack of the open door, and after a moment’s hard listening, she could tell it was Ah Wen’s mother-in-law.

She couldn’t hear much, so Zhen Zhen didn’t pay much attention to what Granny Feng and Zhong Minfen were saying.

Of course, she didn’t really want to hear it. If she didn’t say anything about Wen, then it was just some irrelevant gossip, and if she said something about Wen, then it was definitely something she didn’t like to hear, so she might as well not hear it at all, so as not to feel uncomfortable listening to it.

When she woke up, Xingyu and Dantong were still awake, so Zhen Zhen took a book and read it in her hand.

When the two children woke up, she put down the book and teased Xingyu and Dantong for a while.

Then she carried Xingyu to Zhong Minfen, said hello to Granny Feng, and carried Dantong next door to find Ah Wen.

She went next door to find Ah Wen and talked to her so that she could stay relaxed.

Wen would indeed be very relaxed with Zhen Zhen.

As long as she looked at the bright smile in Zhen Zhen’s eyes, as long as she didn’t think of Granny Feng, as long as she didn’t think about the gender of the baby in her belly, she could be in a good mood.

But after Zhen Zhen went home, and Granny Feng came back from next door, her mood would sink a little bit again.

It was as if there was a big stone weighing on her heart, weighing her down a bit.

She wanted the baby in her belly to come out quickly, and she was afraid ta come out.

Liu Zhi could certainly tell that Shizuku was getting anxious again.

In order to make Ah Wen relax, he approached Granny Feng privately after dinner in the evening.

He told Granny Feng, “Mother, I know that you are bent on having a grandchild, but this kind of thing is not for me and Ah Wen to decide, no matter if Ah Wen gives birth to a boy or a girl this time, you shouldn’t be anxious, and don’t say those bad words, is that okay?”

Hearing these words, Granny Feng’s brows furrowed, “How come everyone else can give birth to a son, but she can’t give birth to a son?”

Liu Zhi lowered his head and inhaled, a moment later he added, “She also wants to give birth to a son very much.”

Feng looked at Liu Zhi for a long time, relieved and said, “Okay, no matter male or female I do not speak, the big deal is to continue to give birth, three can not give birth to then four, ten eight, always be able to give birth to a son.”

After chatting with Feng, Liu Zhi went back to his room and said to Wen, “Don’t be nervous, I believe that we can definitely have a boy this time, my mother is not so anxious now, even if she can’t give birth to a boy, she won’t say anything.”

Shizuku looked into Liu Zhi’s eyes.

She wanted to say something but pursed her lips and didn’t say anything.

For a moment she nodded her head silently and lay down slowly on her side without another word.

***

Zhen Zhen and Squire Huai Ming turned off the lights at about the same time and lay down to sleep.

Zhen Zhen sunk into Servant Huai Ming’s arms, blinking in the darkness and said, “I don’t know when Ah Wen will give birth.”

Servant Huai Ming closed his eyes and spoke in a soft and sandy voice, “It will only be in the next few days.”

Zhen Zhen sighed softly, “Before her mother-in-law didn’t come it was fine, since her mother-in-law came yesterday, I feel that her mood and state of mind is starting to get bad again, it’s really worrying.”

Zhen Zhen and Servant Huai Ming said these words and fell asleep when they said they were sleepy.

Then I don’t know how long I slept, but I was suddenly awakened by a sharp and heavy knock on the door.

Servant Huai Ming got up and went out to the courtyard gate to open the door.

Zhen Zhen sleepily took the alarm clock and looked at it, it was exactly three o’clock in the middle of the night.

After waking up for a while, Zhen Zhen also got up and put on her shoes to go out.

Zhong Minfen’s ears are not good at her age, so she was not woken up.

She just walked out of the door of the house, only to see Shi Huai Ming holding Mimi in one hand and holding DouDou in the other hand came in.

Seeing Doudou and Mimi, Zhen Zhen instantly woke up completely.

She reached out and pulled DouDou over and asked Shi HuaiMing, “Ah Wen is giving birth?”

Serving Huai Ming carried Mimi into the room, “It’s already gone to the hospital, Liu Zhi asked us to help watch the baby.”

Zhen Zhen’s heartbeat suddenly tensed up fast, “I didn’t expect it to be in the middle of the night.”

Outside the night was thick, the hook moon light was shallow and dark.

Doudou and Mimi were both still in a daze.

Zhen Zhen and Servant Huai Ming didn’t say much, first arranging for the two children to sleep.

After the two children fell asleep, they went to bed and lay down, and Zhen Zhen was no longer sleepy at all.

She said to Shui Huaiming, “It’s so sudden, my heart is in a state of turmoil, I’m not sure what to do.”

Shi Huaiming took her in his arms, “Don’t think too much, now go to sleep, tomorrow is Sunday, no need to work, I’ll watch the child at home, you go to the hospital to take a look.”

After hearing these words from Shi Huaiming, Zhen Zhen’s heart slowly settled down again.

She arched her head into Shi Huai Ming’s arms and responded with a reassuring, “Uh-huh.”

She fell asleep after her heart became steady.

When she woke up at dawn, Zhen Zhen hurriedly washed up and ate some breakfast before heading to the hospital.

When she arrived at the hospital, she found a nurse who asked her where Wen was.

After asking around, she got the answer – Shizuku was still in the maternity ward!

Hearing this, Zhen Zhen was shocked.

She didn’t have time to think about it and rushed over to the maternity ward.

When she saw Liu Zhi outside the maternity ward, she hurriedly went up and asked, “How long has Shizuku been in there?”

Liu Zhi’s brows knit into a high mountain mausoleum, his eyes full of anxiety and pain.

He looked at Zhen Zhen for a long time before spitting out a sentence, “Ah Wen she …… had a difficult labor ……”

Difficult labor?

Zhen Zhen only felt like an earthquake in her heart, with a loud bang.

She wanted to react, but couldn’t react to anything, and sat down on the bench as her legs went limp.

For the next half day, Zhen Zhen’s mind was groggy.

She waited outside the maternity ward with Liu Zhi, and instead of waiting for Ah Wen to successfully give birth to the baby, she first waited for Granny Feng.

When she came over, the first thing she asked was, “Have you given birth yet? Is it a girl or a boy?”

Liu Zhi did not want to talk to her, buried his head and shook his head, “It has not been born yet.”

Zhen Zhen didn’t listen much to what the two of them were saying, her heart was always gripped on Wen.

When she saw the door to the maternity ward, she felt nothing but fear in her heart, and kept pinching her palms with her fingers in an effort to hold back the fear in her heart.

Then she arched her back and buried her head, closed her eyes tightly, and prayed over and over again in her heart.

Time was like a sea of sand piled up, flowing grain by grain.

The tormenting rawness simmered until around noon, when she heard the nurse come out and say, “Liu Zhi’s family, the mother and child are safe.”

The moment she heard these words, Zhen Zhen tears instantly like pouring rain, fell all over the face.

Zhen Zhen and Liu Zhi got up together and quickly greeted the entrance of the maternity ward.

Seeing Shizuku’s pale face being pushed out, Zhen Zhen went up and held her hand, sniffling through her tears as if it were raining, and told her, “It’s okay, it’s okay.”

Ryuushi moved closer to Shizuku and asked nervously and anxiously, “How are you feeling now?”

Shizuku blinked weakly and didn’t say anything.

She glanced over to the side and saw Granny Feng go to the nurse and ask her, “Boy or girl?”

The nurse said to Granny Feng, “Congratulations, it’s a little cotton girl.”

Granny Feng’s face darkened and she turned her head away.

Ah Wen withdrew her gaze and closed her eyes feebly again.

Zhen Zhen asked Liu Zhi to follow and take care of Ah Wen, she herself went over and took the baby from the nurse.

Shizuku was wheeled into the hospital room, and Liu Zhi placed her in a hospital bed.

After she was settled, the doctor came over and told Liu Zhi and Shizuku, “She’s kind of got her life back, so it’s best to stay in the hospital for a few more days to get her body back in shape. Also with her body, it’s not recommended to have another child in the future, it’s dangerous.”

Liu Zhi froze for a moment, then responded, “Oh …… well well.”

Shizuku’s closed eyes never opened, her face and lips all pale and white.

Jen carefully put the baby next to her and sat down on the edge of the hospital bed, gently holding her hand.

When the doctor left, Liu Zhi also came to the side of the hospital bed.

Zhen Zhen gave the seat to him, he sat down and also held up Wen’s hand, calmed down for a long time out of the voice said, “not born, we do not give birth, never again ……”