117. Giving birth to children

On the way back, Shandan looked at the surrounding scenery: the road was spotless, there was no flying dust, no one discarded fruit peels, waste paper, packaging bags, no fallen leaves and flowers, everything was so clean and tidy. Occasionally, when a leaf falls, someone will pick it up with a special tool, a long iron tongs, and put it in the trash can that can be found everywhere.

This is a different place from my hometown, the streets of my hometown are often dusty, waste paper, fruit peels, and fallen leaves are everywhere, although there are also sanitation workers to clean, but there is no way to fly the sand and dust in the air, and there are all kinds of garbage discarded by people everywhere. Everywhere you look, you can see sputum-stained, black-stained streets.

The trees on both sides of the street are green and full of flowers, and all kinds of birds land on the sidewalks along the street, bouncing and tilting their heads in search of food. The men sat leisurely, squatted, or stood under the shade of the eaves of the shops and the big banyan trees, each holding a large smoking gun made of bamboo tubes bowing their heads and smoking greedily, sometimes muttering and talking, sometimes there was a hearty laughter, a scene of a peaceful and comfortable life.

Shandan was infected by such people who enjoyed their leisure under the warm sun, didn't she want to live such a peaceful life?

Sitting leisurely in front of the window, teaching children to read, paint, sing, chant poems, accompany their lover to watch the flowers bloom all over, the warblers sing and dance, and enjoy the beauty of life.

She thought that her wish was about to come true, and such a life was close at hand. The uneasiness and trepidation she had had before were gone, and this was the place she loved, the wonderful home she had always dreamed of.

In front of the window was the big banyan tree she had read countless times in the book, and this was the big banyan tree she had sketched many times in her imagination. It's a hundred years old, but it's still so lush and vibrant. The trunk of the tree is as thick as three or five people hugging, the branches are flourishing, and it is as tall as a three-story building, and a fence of blue bricks is built around the roots of the tree to protect the old tree with an age tag. Below, there is a shade of dozens of paces, and there are often old people or nannies playing under the trees with their children, and the sound of laughter is endless.

Shandan took out her book and sat at the desk in front of the window, she wanted to review her professional knowledge, she wanted to learn English tutorials, she hoped that after giving birth, she would have the opportunity to take the postgraduate examination, and with her mother to help take care of the child, she should have time to go further. I don't know what the temperature is like in my hometown in late autumn? Have all the crops at home been harvested? I don't know if my father's old cold leg still hurts? I don't know how Xiaoyu's school is going? She is a little homesick.

He lowered his head and touched his belly, and said to the child in his belly: "Maotou, you have to be good, we will go back when you grow up, Mom has to study for exams, Dad has to go to school, Mom and Dad have to work hard, so that when you grow up and are sensible, you will have a good living environment." ”

Two months passed in a blink of an eye, and when Shandan was still 20 days before his due date, Shandan was already unable to move, and he even had to move slowly up and down the stairs, and his stomach was too big. It was so big that Shandan couldn't see her feet when she looked down, she held her stomach with her hands and moved step by step, and it fell to Gu Haiping to buy vegetables and cook, Gu Haiping was a person who couldn't cook, so she had to make a living.

Shandan's weight increased from 83 pounds before pregnancy to 126 pounds, an increase of 43 pounds. Since the beginning of pregnancy, there has been basically no pregnancy reaction, and the appetite has always been good, so the child has grown very well, and the doctors who received the consultation said that the child weighed at least 8 pounds. Therefore, I ate without moderation, and ate five meals a day, and added vegetables and fruits twice in the middle.

Every morning, I get up and wash a pot of cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes, and all kinds of fruits, and in the afternoon they are all wiped out.

In the late stage of pregnancy, he gained a pound of weight, and the doctor asked Shandan to moderate his diet, otherwise the child would be too big and would affect his future health, so Shandan was a little more restrained, but it was still a pound of weight in two weeks.

Seeing that the thin and thin Shandan had turned into a bloated, pot-bellied pregnant woman, Gu Haiping said: "How did you become like this? The original small and narrow back has now become as wide as a large panel, and the legs have become elephant legs. ”

"Hehehe, you've watched me turn ugly, haven't you? Then my child is healthy, I like it!

"No, no, you don't hesitate to go to the soup for the sake of the descendants of the revolution, I admire it! I deeply admire it!" Gu Haiping bowed his head as he spoke.

"Hahaha, Maotou, look at your father's funny appearance, does he look like a bear?" said Shandan, touching his stomach.

"This kid must not be small, our family of three is like a bear, but I am a skinny bear. Saying that, Gu Haiping made a stupid look.

"Hey, I can't turn over when I sleep these days, every time I have to hold my stomach and work hard, I feel that my hip joint is dislocated, and every time I turn over, it hurts a lot, if the child has developed well, we have to have surgery sooner." Shandan consulted Gu Haiping's opinion.

"Isn't there still 20 days left until the due date, can the child develop well? I won't take you to see it if I don't have class one day, if I can, I can do it in advance, you won't suffer so much." Gu Haiping touched Shandan's stomach and said angrily: "You little guy, you are so greedy, look at how tired your mother is?"

"You say hello to your classmates, don't run out of beds when the time comes. Shandan told Gu Haiping.

"I said it earlier, I have to grab a bed for you, don't worry. Gu Haiping squeezed his eyebrows and pretended to be horizontal.

"Hehe, I don't see that you still have these two moments? first make yourself stronger, and then horizontal is about the same, just like you are now? I don't think you can grab it. Shandan rolled his eyes.

"That's that, isn't it an extraordinary time now? If you two eat tightly, how can I have a chance? When you both grow up, I will strengthen my nutrition. Gu Haiping puffed out his biceps and said.

"Hey, you say, do we have enough money? Have you asked if you have the cost of the cestomy surgery and hospitalization? Shandan asked Gu Haiping.

"Asked, Lao Fan said that it would cost about 3,000 yuan, let's see if there will be less with his help? The money in hand is still enough, you don't have to worry, you can take care of it." Gu Haiping comforted Shandan. Lao Fan is Gu Haiping's graduate classmate, a doctor in the hospital's B-ultrasound room, and has helped Gu Haiping contact a doctor in the obstetrics and gynecology department.

Thinking of the embarrassment of life now and the pressure Gu Haiping is under, Shandan is very apologetic, "It's me who is not good, I shouldn't give you such a heavy burden, but I will also work hard, I will take care of my children, we all have to be good." She snuggled up to Gu Haiping's shoulder and muttered with her eyes closed.

"Silly child! What yours and mine? We are a family! The child is the two of us! I'm still embarrassed to let you suffer so many grievances, I have always been very guilty, I can't give you a decent wedding, and giving birth to a child has made you suffer such hardships, but don't worry, I will redouble my efforts to compensate you, never let you suffer grievances and hardships again, and I will take good care of and protect you and your children. Gu Haiping gently rubbed Shandan's short hair and said infinitely affectionately.

"I don't want you to make up for anything, I'm willing, you don't have a burden, I just want our family to live in peace and harmony. Now this kind of environment is also what I like, and if you can stay after graduation, we can live and work here in peace. I won't force you to do anything you don't want to do, you know I've never been a snob and vulgar person, as long as the two of us have a good relationship and the child grows up healthy, I'll be satisfied. Shandan looked at Gu Haiping's eyes affectionately.

"I know, but you believe me, I won't call me **, I believe that I am a character, and I will do something. Gu Haiping said confidently.

"I believe it, I believe that my vision will not be wrong!"

The two snuggled up in the warm sunlight of the twilight dusk.

Two days later, Gu Haiping took advantage of the absence of class to take Shandan to the inpatient department to find Lao Fan for a B-ultrasound. Find out how your child is developing.

Lao Fan saw Shandan's huge belly, thin belly, and an inch-wide black pigmentation in the midline of his abdomen, so he blurted out: "It is probably a son!"

Shandan once went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, and an old grandmother saw Shandan's pointed belly and said, "It must be a boy! ”

Shandan's heart has always been sure that he wants to give birth to a son, but Lao Fan carefully observed and told Sù Shandan: "It's a woman, but it doesn't matter, now there is a child in the family, the daughter is good!

"Okay! I like my daughter!" Gu Haiping looked happy.

The people in Yongshi and that area are patriarchal, some divorce because their daughters-in-law gave birth to daughters, and some of their in-laws never get along.

After hearing that the family was waiting outside the delivery room, and that it was a girl who was born, the mother-in-law's family left angrily and disappeared from then on, and the joy and form of preparing to welcome the grandson were gone.

The people of the Mongolian steppe have never had a patriarchal custom, but boys suffer more, while girls are pampered. The corresponding status of women is also higher, only responsible for husband and children, only responsible for household work, outside the hard work is a man's business, unless the August autumn harvest season women go down to the field to help show up, usually are pampered masters.

However, the local women in Yongshi are an important labor force in the family, in addition to giving birth to children, they also have to work in the fields at home, and it is common to see a working woman tied with a cloth bag behind her and carrying a child on her back. It is probably a square piece of cloth embroidered by home, and a few thick cloth belts to carry the child on his back.

The child fell asleep on his legs and his head tilted on his mother's back, who did not waste any time and energy on her own business.

The temperature is high all year round, and the temperature is above 35° in summer and autumn from May to October.

It is also common to see groups of young and strong men playing cards, smoking, drinking, and leisurely together. I never saw a time when the women were idle.

But every family wants to give birth to a child.

In order to give birth to a son, some rural families have the momentum of never giving up until they have a son.

At the gate of the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I often see a big fat and sturdy woman selling watermelons, followed by two girls, about four or five years old, one two or three years old, and a few months old on her back.

The melons sold by the women were very sweet and delicious, and Shandan often took care of her business when she saw her difficulties, and became familiar with it after coming and going. Once, when the woman asked about the child, the woman replied in her thick voice: "Alas, there is no way! If you can't give birth to a child, you have to keep giving birth! Look at it, these are three useless girls! There is also a seven-year-old girl at school at home." ”

"Can you afford to raise so many children?" asked Shandan.

"Isn't it just a matter of adding an extra scoop of water? People eat meat, and we have to live by drinking porridge." The woman was a little sad, perhaps she was also blaming herself for not being able to provide a good living environment for her children.

"Then the government doesn't care about you? Don't you pay a fine?" Shandan is a little incredulous, in the Mongolian steppe has long been implemented the one-child policy, each family can only have one child, if the first child is a girl, you can have a second child, if the first child is a boy, there is no chance to have a second child. Even Mongolians only have two children, so how can there be a family with so many children today?

The implementation of the policy is also quite in place, and whoever dares to give birth will be fined all your cattle and sheep, and all your family property. Therefore, Tie Dan'er only has Xiaoyu, and he does not dare to regenerate as a child.

Could it be that the policy here will be different? Then it is impossible to let go of ten or eight students.

"Punishment?!hmph! We have nothing to punish except for a pot!" a contemptuous expression appeared on the woman's face.

"Ah, your family is so poor that there is only one pot, so how can you raise so many children, how will you study and go to school in the future?" Shandan was a little shocked.

"What books to read? After two years of reading, you will write your own name, and you will know 1.2.3. When I grow up, I will go to work to support myself, how can I have the ability to support them? We are rural people, and it would be good to be able to survive, and we are as particular as you city people, and we have the conditions to study and go to university. "Women take it for granted.

Shandan felt deeply saddened: such conditions gave birth to so many children, raising them without educating them. The future will be a burden on society, and how much will it become a scourge to society? A child's life is destined for a life of misery from birth.

When Shandan heard the words of Lao Fan, who was definitely a daughter while looking at the computer screen connected to the B-ultrasound machine, she was somewhat disappointed, she wanted a son, because she felt that the boy would be responsible and stand up to the sky.

But there is nothing wrong with the daughter, she can go shopping with her mother, whisper together, grow and be happy together.

The child's development has matured, and Lao Fan has also been hospitalized for surgery in time.

So the two of them had things here, and they were admitted to the hospital in the class, waiting for the next day's surgery.