“The child’s healthy.”
Liang Zhizhi took out a B-ultrasound sheet and handed it to Yan Chu, which was the report of a normal pregnant woman who was more than 20 weeks pregnant.
Yan Chu seemed very excited, pointing to the four-dimensional color ultrasound picture on the B-ultrasound list, and kept asking questions to Liang Zhizhi.
“I don’t know whether it’s a boy or a girl. It’s nearly six months now. We can prepare our child’s clothes in advance.” He acted like an ordinary first-time father, also had a strong interest even in front of a four-dimensional color hypergraph that he was unable to tell.
“I like girls. Girls are considerate and sensible. We can buy her lots of beautiful clothes, and-“
Liang Zhizhi interrupted Yan Chu before he finished speaking.
“Boy, I have a boy in my stomach.” She emphasized the gender of the child. What was wrong with the Yan family? People were crazy begging for a son, but this mother and son talked about a daughter every day. If the child in her belly did not strive for strength, perhaps he would have died prematurely by this broken reading.
“It’s the same when giving birth to children, knowing that, don’t worry, my mom and I are not patriarchs. You shouldn’t be under such great psychological pressure.”
Yan Chu’s voice is convincing, with a silly smile, looking like a good man and husband, looking at the awkward wife’s expression, indulging much.
Liang Zhizhi looked disgusted. He was not the director-general of a company or chairman of the board. He should learn to be a lover from the novel and stop embarrassing her.
“It’s a son. It must be a son in my stomach.” Liang Zhizhi emphasized repeatedly.
“Okay, okay, okay.” Yan Chu had a look of you are pregnant woman, what you say is right: “But you know, you’re also a girl, why don’t you like a daughter?”
Seeing Liang Zhizhi’s face changed again, Yan Chu quickly retracted half of what he said: “Don’t say it, a son, it’s a son.”
After Liang Zhizhi’s expression eased, Yan Chu queued up to fetch medicine for her, while Liang Zhizhi sat comfortably on the side chair and played with her mobile phone.
“That man’s temper is too good. It’s not like ours, who puts his time and energy into games and cards. He isn’t willing to accompany me for the checkup unless urged, as if the child is mine alone.”
“That’s right, and mine isn’t much better, quarreled with me before I came to check up today. The family is afraid that there’s still the title of Emperor to pass. Today they told me that if this fetus is a girl, he’ll have a second child. Does he have the money to support the child and wants a second child? It’s not necessarily one person’s job to bring the child up.”
Several women on the side complained about their men. Many people heard the conversation between Yan Chu and Liang Zhizhi, including the two pregnant women who were equating.
“That’s right, and forget about the elders. That girl seems educated too. How can she still attach importance to males and females? I can understand that if men are patriarchal people, naturally want it to be more precious. Why should we, women? Isn’t it helping men to abuse ourselves?”
The pregnant woman who had just complained about her patriarchal husband quietly pointed to the direction Liang Zhizhi was sitting in and whispered.
“Who knows, they maybe are good-looking, but their brains are impaired.”
Just now, Yan Chu was so gentle and considerate that he reaped a lot of hostility for Liang Zhizhi. When she did not know, her words got remembered by many pregnant women and their families.
Thanks to her beautiful face, which could be called county flower in a small county, and the appearance of being pregnant and still not forgetting to use make-up, this impression was particularly impressive.
Just like Mrs. Fang, these small bad impressions used now, that was, the effect of chatting after lunch, could at some point become the straw that broke the camel’s back.
“Mom, stop mopping the floor and wait for me.”
It was still early March, and the weather was still freezing. Liang Guifen got used to saving money. Even in the cold weather, she could not bear to use a pot of hot water to warm up, water bill, electricity bill, and gas.
As a result, she often used cold water to wash and clean. As soon as Yan Chu did not pay close attention, she forgot about it. This winter was freezing cold. Liang Guifen’s hands had frostbite early on. This thing was an old problem of her youth, so she was not paying attention to protection these years. In winter, that hand had no choice. No matter how expensive or good the ointment was, it did not work.
Frostbite was usually easy to relapse after one time. Yan Chu had no other way to stop the old lady from finding work and ruining her hands except for rushing to do housework when he was at home.
“No, you can’t wipe the floor. The floor will be slippery if you don’t clean it. If you fall, it’ll be bad.”
Liang Guifen waved to her son: “Don’t worry, Mom has heated the water this time.”
The old lady wrung out her cleaning handkerchief, knelt on the ground, and wiped the floor carefully. Yan Chu could not convince her, so he could only kneel to help with the cleaning.
Liang Zhizhi was eating potato chips in the room, and it was a little sick to listen to the mother and son outside the room.
“Mom, why don’t we hire an hourly worker? It costs only 20 Yuan an hour. If we ask people to come for two hours a day to help clean up and wash clothes, it costs just 1,000 Yuan a month. I’m going to give birth in two months, and it’s too late for us to take care of the child. If you continue to do the housework, I’m afraid you can’t bear it.”
Yan Chu wiped the floor very quickly. After the old lady wiped a small space, he cleaned the area from the living room to the bathroom.
“No need to spend that money.”
In Liang Guifen’s opinion, it was the business of large families to ask for a nanny to hire an hourly worker. In recent months, the expenses for the daughter-in-law’s pregnancy had been much higher. Also, the cost of milk powder after the child’s birth and the equipment money was even higher.
In the past, there was no nanny. Didn’t she bring up her son the same way? Now she had a daughter-in-law, who had a big belly and could not do anything. When she had a baby, she could not be an arm-flinging shopkeeper53arm-flinging shopkeepersomebody who asks others to work but does nothing herself, right?
“Mom, you don’t love yourself. I, as your son, love you. The money will come from my salary.”
What Yan Chu said was satisfactorily in the old lady’s mind. Where could she care about money? She was so touched that she surrendered before fighting.
“Your son’s certainly filial.”
What could the elderly talk about? It was not the children, daughter-in-law, grandchildren, or grand grandchildren. Liang Guifen went to the Fang family opposite the house and talked about what his son said during the day.
“But Yan Chu’s also right. You can see what your daughter-in-law thinks. It’s not your money to buy packages at home one by one every day, and the money isn’t yours. You’re silly, giving money and working to be an old nanny. It’s not your fault, alright? When young, that child Yan Chu, didn’t forget his mother when he had a wife. You should also loosen and relax. It’s good to hire an hourly worker, and the cost isn’t very high. Your daughter-in-law can buy two fewer cosmetics. If you have the time, you can travel wherever, and you may be able to develop a second spring54second springfalling in love for the second time.”
Since then, Mrs. Fang has been secretly observing the young couple. From this observation, something had happened. She always thought that the Yan family’s daughter-in-law did not seem to regard herself as a daughter-in-law.
However, her intuition was not enough. If Liang Zhizhi did not like Yan Chu, why would she marry him? Maybe she was young, and her heart had not settled down. But it did not matter. When a woman became a mother, she grew up naturally.
Therefore, Mrs. Fang did not tell Liang Guifen anything. She just made insinuations to let her have a snack, did not stick her silly hot face to her daughter-in-law’s cold butt, and thought about herself more.
Fortunately, the child Yan Chu had a little conscience, knew how much his mother had given him in this life, and also knew that he was a filial child for the sake of his mother.
“A—h”
While talking, there was a woman’s exclamation from the next door, that was, from the Yan family. Hearing the voice, it was Liang Zhizhi.
Liang Guifen and Mrs. Fang immediately stood up and rushed to the next house.
“What’s the matter?”
As soon as Liang Guifen entered the room, she saw her daughter-in-law lying on the aisle outside the bathroom, clutching her stomach and screaming. There was a pool of blood on the ground. She was so frightened that she almost fainted.
“Is this a fall?” Mrs. Fang was calm and called an ambulance immediately. Before the ambulance arrived, she helped Liang Guifen support Liang Zhizhi to the sofa.
“It hurts, Mom. How did you mop the floor? If, if anything happens to the child because of water on the floor, I’ll blame you. Aaah, it hurts, ah-“
Liang Zhizhi cried bitterly while explaining the reason why she fell carelessly.
“Impossible. I remembered to wipe the floor clean when I mopped the floor today.”
Liang Guifen was a little flustered. Looking at her daughter-in-law, she gave a flustered explanation.
However, when she went to the place where Liang Zhizhi fell, she did see a pool of less obvious water traces. The pregnant woman was heavy, and her legs were not flexible, so it was possible to fall.
Liang Guifen remembered that her son helped her clean the floor today. This area was the one he helped to clean.
All blame her carelessness. Her son did not help to check after cleaning the floor. Of course, she would not blame her son because of filial piety. After thinking about it, she could only blame herself. If she knew what accident happened to the child in her belly, the old lady might regret it to death.
She did not explain to her daughter-in-law. If the daughter-in-law knew that her son wiped that area, it would cause conflicts between the young couple. Since the daughter-in-law thought it was her, let her assume that she did it.
The old lady gritted her teeth and took this blame.
“Mom, Aunt Fang, come here.”
The study room at home suddenly opened, and Yan Chu walked out of it.
“Chu’er, are you at home? Did you not see that your wife fell?” Mrs. Fang frowned. She did not see Yan Chu just now and thought the other party was not at home, went out. She did not expect that the other party was there from the beginning to the end, which made her wonder.
Liang Zhizhi’s fall was not only fake but also a real one. The reason was artificial, and the fall was real. At this moment, she was in a daze of pain and could not think at all.
“If you want to talk, say it another day. The important thing now is to know. The ambulance will be here soon.” Liang Guifen was not in the mood to say anything now, only thinking about the child in the daughter-in-law’s stomach.
“It’s related to Zhizhi.”
Yan Chu’s expression was so ugly that Mrs. Fang and Liang Guifen did not understand what he was showing. Seeing Liang Zhizhi lying on the sofa and biting her teeth, she followed Yan Chu to the study.
About five minutes later, the ambulance arrived, and Liang Guifen and Mrs. Fang also came out of the study.
The expressions of the two old ladies had long gone from their nervousness and anxiety when they first entered. On the contrary, they were calm and somewhat frightening.
Yan Chu helped the nurse to carry Liang Zhizhi onto a stretcher. There were not many people in the ambulance. He did not get on the ambulance either. Instead, he chose to drive his newly bought Volkswagen car to the hospital with his mother and Mrs. Fang.
