Chapter 89: What I lacked before, I got from her

Hearing his words, Shen Zhiyu thought he was thanking her grandmother for giving birth to her mother, and her mother for giving birth to her. He wasn’t very good at saying nice things. The nicest things he said were when they were doing it. Things like, “Yuzo is the best,” and “Yuzo is the most obedient.” He said those sweet things to coax her into doing what he wanted. Now that it was over, he suddenly said these things. Shen Zhiyu thought that her compliments hadn’t been in vain. He was finally coming around. The corner of her lips just started to curl up.

She was about to turn over and snuggle into his arms, praising him for his good luck in meeting her. The next second, she heard the man say something else with lingering satisfaction. Shen Zhiyu: “…” She had been touched for nothing! Shen Zhiyu gritted her teeth. Before she could lash out, he reached out and fumbled in the drawer beside them.

“What are you doing?” Gu Ye pulled out a second rubber pouch. “Let’s do it again.” When she was discharged from the hospital, he had specifically gone to the hospital to get this thing. The doctor had said that as long as they used this, she wouldn’t get pregnant again. It was even free. Each person could get a maximum of two. After using it once, they could wash it and use it again. It was just very thick and had no elasticity, making it uncomfortable. But thinking about her tear-stained eyes on the day she gave birth, Gu Ye felt that this little bit of discomfort was nothing.

 “Waa—” Shen Zhiyu was startled. “The baby is crying.” Gu Ye frowned. It usually took an hour or two, but he finished in three minutes. Shen Zhiyu couldn’t believe it. “You…” She spent every day with Fu Chunmei and the other women.

Fu Chunmei and those country wives were very open with their words. Shen Zhiyu, who had been so innocent that she didn’t even understand why Gu Ye had pulled down her pants on their wedding night, now understood what he was thinking with just a glance. Gu Ye’s scalp tingled. His mouth twitched. “…” “The baby is crying. If we don’t comfort him, we’ll wake Mom up.”

 That was true. But watching Gu Ye get up quickly to change the baby’s diaper, wash his bottom, and mix formula, Shen Zhiyu still felt a bit disconnected. This man had been like a wolf on her just a few minutes ago, unable to get enough. Now, he was like a different person. Both babies were awake. Usually, when Shen Zhiyu was asleep, Gu Ye would feed them in turns. Now that she was awake and couldn’t fall asleep for a while, she also got up to mix formula and feed Yuan Yuan. As she mixed the formula, she looked at Gu Ye with a hint of resentment.

“Poor Yuan Yuan. You haven’t eaten your mommy’s milk for two meals, have you?” Yuan Yuan leaned against his mother’s chest, gulping down his food. He had been so thin and small when he was born. Now, only two months old, he was chubby, his little arms and legs like lotus root sections. Shen Zhiyu touched her son’s chubby arm and glared at his father.

 “You can blame your dad for that.” Gu Ye: “…” He hadn’t thought about it at all while he was doing it. But now, hearing his wife say this, he felt very embarrassed. “What are you talking about in front of the children?” Shen Zhiyu wasn’t afraid of him anymore. She glared at him.

“You were doing it in front of the children just now.” Gu Ye: “…” He felt like his wife’s words had a double meaning. But watching his wife hold their child in her arms, feeding him formula and chattering away, Gu Ye felt a sense of fullness in his heart.

He had lacked something before, and it seemed like he had found it in his wife. “Yuzo.” This stinky man was looking at her with that sickeningly sweet gaze again. Shen Zhiyu felt a warm glow in her heart. She thought he was going to say something sweet and mushy. She was a little shy, and her voice unconsciously became a little coquettish. She pretended to be coy. “What do you want now?” But unexpectedly, the man said, “Don’t keep your head down. Keep your back straight. It’s bad for your neck.” Shen Zhiyu: “…” “Gu Ye, you’re so annoying!” Hearing his wife scold him, Gu Ye didn’t know why, but he felt completely relaxed and even laughed out loud. “Scold me some more.”

Shen Zhiyu: “…” This man was crazy! She didn’t want him to be so happy, so she secretly cursed him in her heart. But strangely, her mood inexplicably improved. When Gu Ye held her to sleep that night, she didn’t even mind his leg hair pricking her.

 The man was very efficient. He did what he said he would do. The next morning when Shen Zhiyu woke up, Gu Ye had already taken Gu’s mother to the train station. When Chen Cuijuan saw her daughter get up, she wanted to ask her if she had argued with Gu Ye last night. But when she looked down, her face turned red. What was there to ask?

Just looking at her daughter’s smiling face, there was no need to ask anything! But she had other concerns. She cleared her throat. “Yuzo, now that you’re out of confinement, you can do more things than before. But you still need to be careful.” “Mom knows you want a daughter, but your body won’t be as good as before after giving birth. It’ll take at least a year to recover. Don’t listen to those people who say you should have two children in three years. That’s bad for your body.” As soon as Shen Zhiyu heard this, her face turned red too. “I know.” “You know?”

 Shen Zhiyu nodded shyly and whispered that Gu Ye had gotten something from the hospital. Chen Cuijuan didn’t know what it was, but she understood from her daughter’s description. It was like the fish bladders and sheep intestines they used when they were young in the countryside. The rural health center didn’t provide these things. They had so many children that they couldn’t afford to raise them all, but there wasn’t much to do in the countryside.

 They could only use fish bladders and things like that to prevent getting pregnant again. The smell was terrible, no matter how many times you washed it. Chen Cuijuan sighed. “That’s good. I’ll go to the hospital and get two of those later. I’ll send them to your brother and the others.” Although Chen Cuijuan favored Shen Zhiyu, she was also very good to her eldest and youngest sons. Shen Zhiyu knew that her mother was thinking about them.

She nodded. “Okay. I have some extra cloth here. I’ll make Tiedan and Goudan some clothes and send them back. Dad loves the chili peppers and smoked meat from here, right? I’ll send some back too.” Chen Cuijuan had been taking care of her here.

Yesterday, she had heard from Gu’s mother that her father and Goudan and Tiedan had lost weight. Shen Zhiyu felt bad about it. But she couldn’t leave her mother for a while, so she could only send them some things. “Why make new clothes for Tiedan and Goudan? It’s such a waste. Just send them some food.” She had just argued with Gu Ye’s mother yesterday.

Now, she was sending things to their family. Chen Cuijuan was afraid that Gu Ye would feel uncomfortable. After thinking for a moment, she said, “Forget it. Don’t send anything. You and Xiao Gu are getting along well. Live a good life. Your father will be happy.”