Chapter 73 Giving Birth to a Money-Losing Child

“About to give birth?” Shen Zhiyu and Chen Cuijuan froze simultaneously. Wasn’t there still a week? “Have you two been walking a lot lately, and have you been eating heavier food?” In those days, women all thought giving birth was easy. Why? Because even when pregnant, they were still working in the fields, and some even had their babies fall out while working in the fields.

But Shen Zhiyu was different. Since she was born, the heaviest work she had ever done was probably the passive work she had been doing in bed this year. And it was twins. Chen Cuijuan was afraid that Shen Zhiyu wouldn’t be able to give birth easily, so she specifically went to ask her own mother how the ladies of old society used to do it. Walking, and there was also a squatting movement.

 Although Grandma Chen didn’t like to meddle in the affairs of her younger generation, she still loved her granddaughter Shen Zhiyu. Not only did she write down the pre-delivery labor exercises, but she also wrote down the post-delivery restoration and maintenance, and made some post-delivery maintenance honeydew herself. They were all handmade, and she heard that the recipe was used by the noble ladies in the palace. Knowing that her daughter and granddaughter sometimes didn’t have their heads on straight, she was afraid that they would think crooked, so she specially paired each movement and honeydew usage with a hand-drawn illustration.

 Shen Zhiyu blushed. Those who knew knew it was labor exercises and post-delivery maintenance; those who didn’t know would think it was some kind of forbidden book. But after blushing, she still secretly studied it in her room at night. “Yes, we’ve been walking a lot, and we’ve been doing squatting exercises! We’ve also been eating heavier food!” “That’s not good?” Shen Zhiyu had fair skin, and her eyes turned red when she was anxious or flustered, like a rabbit, making the doctor feel sorry for her, and she even said a few insincere comforting words: “Your physical condition is good, your butt is big, you’ll definitely give birth easily.”

 Shen Zhiyu swallowed, slowly exhaled, “I understand, thank you, doctor.” Chen Cuijuan reacted and immediately nodded: “Thank you, doctor, we’ll go to the hospital now!” Because of the special nature of the military hospital, the outpatient department and the inpatient department were in the same building. The wards were spacious, and the corridors were also wide. You have to walk a lot before giving birth, but you can’t walk around randomly when you’re about to give birth.

 Chen Cuijuan asked Shen Zhiyu to sit in the corridor outside the ward and wait for her, she went to get Shen Zhiyu’s admission procedures done. Chen Cuijuan, who couldn’t even read or write her own name. In the past few months, she had figured out how to take the train, and she had transferred so many times across provinces to get here. Afraid that Shen Zhiyu would go into labor when Gu Ye wasn’t home, she had run to the hospital several times, memorizing all the relevant admission procedures, and she had even learned to write Shen Zhiyu’s and her own names.

 The doctor said that she might need to sign at a critical moment. Looking at Chen Cuijuan’s busy back, Shen Zhiyu’s eyes welled up. Before the tears could fall, Chen Cuijuan came over with the admission form for Shen Zhiyu to confirm: “Yuzu, help Mom take a look, did Mom write it correctly?” When she said this, Chen Cuijuan’s voice was very low. She was afraid that others would hear her and laugh at her. Shen Zhiyu took a look, and the tears she had just held back were all squeezed back. Just sign her own name, write her gender and age, Chen Cuijuan had 9 out of 10 characters wrong! Even the “female” in the gender was written as “fork”.

Gender fork……. Shen Zhiyu silently stretched out her hand, and Chen Cuijuan also handed over the pen very consciously. Seeing that her daughter’s condition was still okay, she also had the mood to make up for herself: “It’s all your grandpa and your father’s fault, what kind of name did they give you, it’s so hard to write. If I had given you a name, I would have called you Shen Yiyi, how good is that!”

After saying that, Chen Cuijuan still felt unsatisfied, and she said again: “Shen is also hard to write, it’s all my fault, I didn’t find you a father with an easy-to-write surname.” Shen Zhiyu: “……” She felt sorry for her father. The emotion she had just felt was all bullshit. She raised her head, looked at her mother seriously, and said tactfully: “Mom, let’s leave the naming thing to Dad.” Chen Cuijuan coughed, “Okay, Xiao Gu’s name is definitely better than mine.”

 The military hospital mainly provides medical treatment and epidemic prevention for the garrison soldiers and their families. Compared to other public hospitals, there are not as many people, and the hospital is also quieter. Her daughter was about to give birth, and the mother and daughter were singing like opera singers, making the doctors and nurses around them laugh. Shen Zhiyu’s face was a little hot. She cleared her throat, filled in her information, and decided to wait until after she gave birth, when she wasn’t so busy, to sign Chen Cuijuan up for a literacy class.

 It didn’t really matter whether she could read or not now. But judging from the plot in that book, in a few years, the place they lived in would be completely different. It would be inconvenient to do anything without knowing how to read.

She didn’t want to see Chen Cuijuan feel embarrassed again because she couldn’t read. Chen Cuijuan had already figured out the process. After registering, she asked Shen Zhiyu to wait for her there for a while, and she went home to get things. The doctors and nurses were here, in case Shen Zhiyu suddenly went into labor when she went back, it would be convenient. The things needed for hospitalization had already been packed, and Chen Cuijuan took her bag and went out. On the way, she met Fu Chunmei. Fu Chunmei saw Chen Cuijuan carrying a big bag in one hand and holding a thermos bottle and a basin in the other hand, and immediately guessed that Shen Zhiyu was about to give birth.

She quickly followed her: “Auntie, is Xiao Shen in labor?” “Yes, the doctor said she’s going to give birth, I’ll go over first, when Xiao Gu comes back, you tell him for me.” Chen Cuijuan was worried that she wouldn’t be able to tell Gu Ye.

After Chen Cuijuan left, Sanni curiously asked, “Mom, is Auntie going to have a little brother or sister?” Fu Chunmei nodded, inexplicably feeling anxious too. “Yes, she’s going to give birth, she’s going to give birth. I hope everything goes smoothly!”

 Thinking that she should go back and make dinner first, Chen Cuijuan probably wouldn’t have time to come back and cook today, she decided to make a few pancakes for them to take to the hospital. Who knew, her mother-in-law came in the afternoon. When Ma’s mother saw Fu Chunmei making so many pancakes, the skin on her face trembled with anger. “Your brother and the others are almost starving at home, and you’re making so many pancakes!”

She said, reaching out and grabbing a pancake directly from the pan. Fu Chunmei clenched her fists, her face pale. She wanted to resist, but she had been brainwashed by her parents to listen to her mother-in-law, so she was even more afraid of her mother-in-law than Deputy Regiment Commander Ma. “Such a troublemaker and a spendthrift!” She ate the pancake while rummaging around the house for money, demanding that Fu Chunmei give her the money.

Knowing that her mother-in-law liked to rummage around the house for money from time to time, Shen Zhiyu had taught her to deposit the money in the credit cooperative. When Ma’s mother didn’t find any money, her words became even more foul.

 She simply packed all the pancakes and left. Sanni knew that these pancakes were for Grandma Chen and Auntie, and her eyes were red as she went to grab them back. “These pancakes are for Auntie to eat when she gives birth to a little brother.”

Ma’s mother had seen Shen Zhiyu’s big belly when she came last time, and she also knew that her usually honest daughter-in-law suddenly stopped sending money home, most likely because she had been corrupted by that slut. She squeezed her thin, mean triangular eyes and looked at Sanni with disdain, her thin lips moving up and down, like an evil spirit crawling out of hell.

“Give birth to a little brother? It would be better if she gave birth to a money-losing girl. I hope she has a difficult labor and just dies!” When Fu Chunmei heard this, she suddenly raised her head and looked at Ma’s mother. Thinking of the things she said when she was giving birth, she let out a heart-wrenching scream and lunged at her.