When Lu Tao returned to my bed, it was already twelve o'clock in the evening, and I smelled his full body of alcohol. Writing "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Maybe he didn't go to his mother's place for dinner, but probably went to drink with his comrades again. But I didn't ask him what it was like there. I usually don't talk to him much when he drinks too much, because I can't speak clearly. Besides, I don't really care if he goes there, and he doesn't need me to care.

When Lu Tao went to bed, I vaguely felt that my stomach was a little uncomfortable, and when I focused on experiencing it again to judge what the problem was, this feeling disappeared again. I thought it was probably caused by me eating too much at night, so I didn't care about it and rolled over and went to sleep.

The second time I woke up was at two in the morning. I felt as if someone was wringing my stomach and it hurt terribly. Usually my child kicks me in the stomach or somersault and doesn't feel like that. The pain is spasmodic, bursting in bursts. Speaking of which, almost every adult knows that it is a prenatal pain, but I didn't understand it at all, as someone who had never been a mother at the time. I don't have any knowledge about having children, and I don't know how to go to the bookstore to buy a book on pregnancy and study it, thinking that children will be born naturally, so there is nothing to worry about. Didn't my mother give birth to six of us brothers and sisters in a row at home in the countryside? In the past, rural women never went to the hospital when they gave birth, but the midwives helped give birth at home. My mom and mother-in-law didn't teach me much about this, and as I mentioned earlier, they rarely asked me about my pregnancy. So even if my stomach hurts like this, I don't think about giving birth, because there is still half a month before the due date that the doctor said. I firmly believe that it is the stomach that has been eaten badly, that the stomach is cramping. I was holding back, I thought it would be good to sleep all night, and I told myself not to eat too much the next day, or my stomach wouldn't be able to handle it. But the bad thing is that the pain is getting worse and worse, and then the pain is so bad that I have to disturb Lu Tao.

"My stomach hurts terribly. I gently pushed him awake and said embarrassedly.

After hearing this, Lu Tao immediately sat up from the bed, as if he had suddenly woken up. As I expected, the first thing he did was call his mom. After reporting my situation, my mother-in-law told us to rush to the hospital immediately and not to ride a bicycle, saying that the bicycle would be bumpy and the child would fall upside down. She told us to walk to the hospital! I have a stomachache like this, and I have to walk?!

"Fifteen days before the due date, I'm having a bad stomach. ”

I reminded Lu Tao that I hoped he wouldn't blindly listen to his mother. But as soon as his mother spoke, my words didn't work. He ordered me to get dressed and go to the hospital!

As soon as I left the house, I squatted on the ground again in pain, and it took me nearly a minute to get up again. But just like that, we walked to the hospital as my mother-in-law had suggested. Don't think that the hospital is right outside my house, the hospital and my home are the relationship between the north and the south of the city, one in the north of the city and the other in the south of the city, which means that I have to travel a long way. Although it is now 1995, in the small county town of Taigu, it is impossible to get a taxi after 12 o'clock in the evening. Not to mention taxis, there is no one on the street. Only Lu Tao and I walked and stopped under the street lamp, like two night patrols, and like two people with bad intentions. Every ten meters or so, I had to crouch on the ground and wait for another labor pain, and when it was relieved, I got up again and continued to walk. I blame Lu Tao for not pushing his weighted bicycle out, so that he can push me with his bicycle once I can't walk in pain. But Lu Tao complied with his mother's will and resolutely stored the bicycle at home.

Let me emphasize again that at two o'clock in the morning, in the empty county town, the two of us were on the Long March. I was a little scared because I was completely defenseless if I was in danger. Although there were street lights, the lights made me feel more scared because I thought I was in the light and the danger was in the dark. The whole city was asleep, but we were the only ones on the march. I didn't believe there were ghosts in the world, but I always felt like we were getting closer to them. Now seems to be their time. It's not like big cities, where there are nightclubs on the streets that are open all night, and people here are not used to staying up late. The whole county was so quiet that only the footsteps of the two of us could be heard.

I watched every dark corner of the street, and I was always worried that something would suddenly come out. Although Lu Tao is by my side, I don't know how Lu Tao can protect me and resist danger alone. Luckily, after walking a little way, I saw a house with lights on. It is a tailor shop opened by Wenzhou people. They are still working on the sewing machine. The industrious Wenzhou people, the whole world is full of Wenzhou people's footprints, just like the Jin merchants of the year. But obviously, the current Shanxi people can't catch up with the Wenzhou people. I thought about it as I counted the number of times I had abdominal pain. I wonder how long I have to walk or how many more times I have pain to get to the hospital. Lu Tao held my arm and held me all the way. This makes me very uncomfortable. We're not used to sticking so tightly.

We had only been intimate for a year, when we were comrades in the trenches. And now we are comrades, and our common purpose is to wait for the birth of a child. We have long been in the same bed and different quilts, and we don't go to the street side by side. Neither of us hates anyone, we just don't like each other anymore.

One morning at work, he and I happened to set off at the same time, and when we got out of the gate, we both rode our bikes one after the other, and I pedaled a few steps to catch him and walk side by side with him, but as soon as he saw me catching up, he accelerated, and it didn't take a minute for him to throw me away. Although my own riding level and speed are okay, I still can't catch up with the veteran who has been on the front line of Laoshan in front of me. But I knew he was doing it to avoid the embarrassment of having nothing to say when walking side by side with me, and he knew he wouldn't me off because I was used to it.

Actually, I didn't particularly want to go with him, I just did it out of politeness. Because even if I meet an acquaintance on the road, I have to go with him for a while, let alone my husband? After that, I always remember to keep a certain distance from him, so that he can feel more comfortable, after all, our relationship is over, and now there is nothing between us except a little life. But now he's putting his arms around me. At two o'clock in the morning, on this deserted street, we hugged each other. But I wasn't moved, because at this moment I'm a woman, a pregnant woman, a woman with his baby, it's not a big deal for him to help me, he's just doing what a man should do, it's as simple as a traffic policeman helping an old lady cross the road.

After more than an hour of long marching, we finally reached the finish line. The doctor on duty in the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital gave me a simple fetal examination and told me to lie down in the ward and rest, saying that the attending doctor would come to see me after the doctors officially started work at 8 o'clock in the morning. I nodded in agreement. At that time, I was still thinking that maybe my stomach would not hurt in the morning, and then I could go home, after all, there was still half a month before the due date, and I didn't believe that my baby would be in a hurry to come out. But I completely forgot about the crash during the day.

Usually, there are two departments in a hospital where there is no rest: a surgical ward, where post-operative patients moan or scream in pain due to the pain of the incision after anesthesia, and an obstetrics and gynecology ward, where the entire corridor is filled with the voice of a woman crying out loud for contractions or the cry of a baby. When I followed the doctor into my room, I saw a woman with a big belly tossing around the room. She was rolling on the bed one moment, and the other she was jumping out of bed and walking around on the floor, while the man sitting in the chair next to her had already fallen asleep with his head tilted.

The doctor who ushered me in paid no attention to the painful pregnant woman, as if she didn't see what was in front of her, she just pointed to the bed by the window, told me to lie down, and then exited the room. As we entered the room, the man who was leaning his head back in his chair opened his eyes and looked at us, and then went back to sleep, ignoring the woman beside him who kept crying and rolling. I was stunned to see this, and I wondered why people didn't care about this woman who was dying of pain. The woman's cry shook me so much that I couldn't even feel the pain in my abdomen. After I sat on the edge of the bed for a while, I couldn't hold it anymore, and woke up the sleeping man, and asked:

"Do you need to call a doctor?"

"No, the doctor said she only opened her two fingers, and she was still early. The man yawned, slurred a word, and went back to sleep. I didn't ask any more questions.

It looks like it's a couple. This is the case in hospitals, although there are male and female wards, but the attendants do not care about men and women, there are female escorts in the men's wards, and male escorts in the women's wards. All in all, when you get to this place, you can't be too elaborate, and it's basically a mix of men and women. Here, both the patient and the family members suddenly became more open, and many of the most private behaviors were not completely shy away from others. And doctors don't take patients' privacy seriously in the name of medicine. For example, you will often see a doctor tearing off a patient's quilt to change a dressing for a naked patient in front of you, or a patient urinating loudly into the basin just a little over in front of you. But I'm still not used to men and women sharing the same room. Perhaps because of the presence of the pregnant woman's husband, I was too embarrassed to lie down and rest, just sitting next to the bed.

Lu Tao was completely unaffected by the surrounding situation, and soon fell asleep while lying on my hospital bed. I know he didn't sleep well, he got home at twelve o'clock, and I woke him up at two o'clock, can he not be sleepy? But men just love to sleep, I thought to the two husbands in front of me.

But the woman in front of me was getting more and more crazy, and I saw her picking at the skin of the wall with her fingernails, and after a while, several deep scratches appeared on the white wall of the ward. I was only worried that she would break her nails. In addition to destroying the walls, she kept cursing people in her mouth, and she called her husband a hooligan! She said that all the sins she suffered today were caused by her husband! After being scolded as a hooligan, her man finally woke up, came over and helped the woman to lie down, put his arm around the woman's neck, held the woman's hand, and comforted her. After a while, he turned around and poured a glass of water to feed the woman, but the woman didn't appreciate it at all, not only did she not drink the water sent over, but pushed him away, scolding and crying as usual.

"It's been two whole days, and I still can't give birth. The man finally spoke, looking at me helplessly.

"Two days?" I repeated, I couldn't believe my ears.

"Yes, she struggles every time she has a baby. The man said.

"Every time, you've already had several children, aren't you fined?" I was even more weird. I thought to myself that rural people are only allowed to have two, how can they already have several, could it be that they are ethnic minorities?

"Alas, several were born dead. The man sighed and said.

I didn't expect the answer to be like this, I looked at the couple in amazement and didn't ask anything more. No wonder the man didn't act in a hurry, it turned out that he had experienced this kind of thing many times, in other words, he was used to it.

"Do you have stomach pain?" the man suddenly asked me after three or five minutes.

"Yes," I said.

"How often does it hurt?"

"More than ten minutes. ”

"More than ten minutes, are you about to give birth?" the man asked, wide-eyed and surprised.

"No, your wife hasn't given birth yet, how can I give birth, she's been here for two days. I said.

"You're not like her, you better call a doctor. "Stand up and call a doctor for me.

"No need to scream, I haven't hurt her like that. I glanced at the screaming woman and said.

"She's in a little pain and it's like it's terrible, you can't compare to her. The man looked at his woman and smiled.

"You fart! Get out of here, the old lady won't live with you again!" the woman scolded again when she heard her man say this.

"Am I not right?" replied the man, unconvinced.

It's hard for me to imagine what kind of man is a man who quarrels with a pregnant woman who is about to give birth, and I'm glad that Lu Tao didn't do this to me, even though we were going to divorce. But then I think about it, some couples are like this, they can live a lifetime if they are noisy every day. Although Lu Tao and I are not noisy, we are going to separate. Sometimes I wonder if we are too rational? Isn't it too unreal? Maybe life should be noisy and noisy, and Lu Tao and I are polite to each other, does it mean that we have not entered life from the beginning and have always been passers-by? Thinking about it like this, I no longer rejoice for myself, but begin to envy the couple in front of me. Maybe being scolded by your husband is not the worst thing, at least it shows that he still cares about you.

It was nearly six o'clock in the morning, and the woman opposite gradually calmed down, perhaps because her pain was temporarily relieved, or maybe she was tired after a long night's tossing, and she finally fell asleep in bed. But I couldn't calm down, my abdominal pain was getting worse, the interval between labor pains was shortening, and I had to lie down and sit up again. But I still try to restrain myself from shouting, I don't want to lose my temper in front of outsiders, and I don't want to become the woman on the other side just now. But my labor pains are really tight, and it seems that I am really going to have a baby. Suddenly, the sheets under my body were wet in a big chunk, and I saw that my pants were wet. I don't know what's going on, but on the surface it looks like I'm peeing my pants. This made me embarrassed in front of other people's husbands, I didn't expect to be so ugly, so I quickly woke up Lu Tao.

"My pants are wet. I whispered.

Lu Tao was suddenly woken up from his sleep, and he couldn't react for a long time, and when his hand touched the wet sheets, he fully woke up. He sat up and looked at me in surprise, not understanding what was going on, probably thinking I was peeing my pants as well. It's no wonder that Lu Tao, who is only twenty-five years old, doesn't know anything about giving birth.

When the two of us were at a loss, the husband of the woman next to us came over and said to Lu Tao, "The amniotic water is broken, hurry up and call a doctor." ”

"The amniotic water broke?" Lu Tao didn't understand, and asked the woman's husband stupidly.

"It's about to give birth, go and call the doctor!" the woman's husband raised his voice and reminded Lu Tao again.

This time, Lu Tao finally understood what was happening, and he jumped out of bed and ran towards the infirmary.

After a while, the doctor on duty followed Lu Tao to the ward. But as soon as the doctor entered the ward, he went straight to the pregnant woman who had been crying all night. Seeing this, the woman's husband quickly stopped the doctor, pointed at me and said, "It's her!"

"She?" the doctor hesitated, then looked at the woman next to him, then at me, and walked over to me incredulously.

"Her water broke. The woman's husband reported the situation to the doctor, as if he were also a doctor.

When the doctor saw me lowering my wet sheets, he ordered, "Take your pants off!"

Hearing the doctor say this, my first reaction was to look at the woman's husband, and I thought I couldn't let me take off my pants in front of outsiders. Fortunately, the woman's husband went out with interest. After I pulled my pants off, the doctor parted my legs and lowered my head to do a pregnancy test, and then rushed out without saying anything. Lu Tao and I couldn't understand the doctor's actions, so we could only wait in place. Soon the doctor returned, followed by two female nurses.

"Caesarean section, the fetal position is not correct, the child's feet are under the head and above, and it can't be born!" said to Lu Tao in a non-negotiable tone.

"What? No, no, I don't want to go under the knife!" I replied before Lu Tao could say anything.

"If you don't have surgery, your child's life will be in danger!" the doctor continued to warn Lu Tao loudly, but he didn't look at me at all, as if it was none of my business at all, and completely ignored my statement just now.

"I'll call my mom and ask. Lu Tao hesitated for a moment, and finally burst out of his mouth with such a sentence that I am all too familiar with.

The doctor obviously didn't expect that this matter still needed another person who was not present to decide, so he was stunned for a moment before he reacted, and said to Lu Tao anxiously:

"Then hurry up and call your mother, the baby in the belly can't wait. ”

Just as Lu Tao went out to find a pay phone to call his mother, my abdominal pain became intense again, as if my belly was about to burst. I fell on the bed, my hands tightly gripping the iron railing at the head of the bed, my head buried in the pillow, and I tried my best to endure the trials I had to go through before becoming a mother.

"My mom said let's cut it. After a while, Lu Tao came back and conveyed his mother's instructions to the doctor.

"Then hurry up and go into the operating room, the child is coming out!" the doctor said, and the two nurses next to him pushed in a trolley table.