CHAPTER 346: 346. TIME PASSES QUICKLY, ABOUT TO GIVE BIRTH

This time, when the eldest son left again, it had already been four months, and it was inevitable that she would nag a bit, with her heart worrying about her and the unborn little brother.

Who would have thought that the speaker had heart, and the listener even more so?

Shuzhen cried, really wanting time to rewind to the day the brat left.

If she could, she would definitely slap him on the forehead, interrupting his endless chatter, and sternly declare: I’ve given birth to five and raised six, all smoothly and completely. In terms of nurturing and raising children, this old lady is even better than selecting and cultivating good breeding! A true expert at it, taking care of myself thoroughly, there’s absolutely no need for you to say a word!!

Heh, it’s not that she fails to appreciate her blessings.

But, the five of them, Chenchen and the others, hover around her every day whenever they have a bit of free time, always saying "Mom, you can’t do this" with the formula "Eldest brother said, we need to take good care of you."

As for chores, when she wrapped that farewell dumpling meal for Lian En and the others, they completely disappeared from her life.

Cleaning the room, cooking, and the like, were completely taken over by Lianshan and a few kids.

Now, Shuzhen even has someone bringing the perfectly warm water when she washes her face.

When she goes for a walk, there are people holding clothes, umbrellas, and even carrying a small stool for her to rest anytime she’s tired.

The degree of care is such that "extreme attentiveness" doesn’t quite capture it.

Alongside this meticulous care, there are also new rules in various aspects that need strict adherence.

For instance, meals are timed and measured, eating too much isn’t okay, and eating too little isn’t either. It’s all for better nutrition.

TV watching is also timed and curated, can’t watch violent or bloody shows, nor tragic or sorrowful ones, even "Three Strikes on the White Bone Demon" is on the banned list. They fear that the TV plot might affect her mood, and then her mood would influence the child in her belly, making the child’s future personality become wild and violent or sad and fragile.

As for why Journey to the West is banned?

Little Xinqing puffs her cheeks angrily: "It’s already annoying enough that the promised sister turned into a brother, do you still want to give birth to a little monkey like Sun Wukong jumping up and down? I don’t want it!"

Shuzhen is speechless, just wants to ask who agreed on what with her.

From eating and dressing to walking and sitting, everything is diligently taken care of and strictly controlled by the husband and the few children, and there isn’t anyone who doesn’t praise the children’s filialness and sensibleness and cast envious and jealous looks towards her.

Although "hundred and twenty thousand" or whatnot already sounds quite daunting.

But having another warm-hearted little guy like the brothers and sisters doesn’t seem like too much of a loss?

Only Shuzhen, the one experiencing how she’s being cared for and pandered to by the man and the children, doesn’t really enjoy it.

After all, just like drinking water, only she knows if it’s cold or warm.

People who haven’t been cared for and strictly controlled in every possible aspect probably can’t empathize with her full of helplessness.

Now she feels as though every day is precisely measured by a ruler, and all she has to do is fill in the most suitable content for older pregnant women and children according to the measured grids.

No matter how aware she is of her husband and children’s good intentions, it can’t offset the daily nagging.

Countless times after persuading her husband and a few children but only getting the response "We’re doing this for your own good," Shuzhen begins to hope for the days to pass faster each day.

So she can meet her old son sooner and end these troublesome days constrained by the team effort of him and the kids.

Lianshan, feeling helpless, smiles ingratiatingly: "Wife, you must believe that the kids and I really want the best for you. Although you’ll always be eighteen in my heart, in reality, older pregnancy is somewhat risky. And what the kids and I have to do is do everything to minimize the risk so you can get through this smoothly.

In front of the kids I feel embarrassed, but you must know, in my heart, there’s nothing more important than your safety.

We still have a long journey in life to walk together; you must be well protected!"

Alright, Shuzhen indeed doesn’t know why this silly man is so worried.

Clearly, she’s fit and strong, these past years she has rarely even caught a cold. Although her uterine position is severely retroverted, each pregnancy and labor has been going smoothly, hasn’t it?

She patted the man’s face, still with a tinge of worry, soothingly: "Rest assured, with mighty strength and being meticulously taken care of by you guys, a strong mom plus filial sons, it’ll be smooth sailing. Even if there’s a slight hiccup, hasn’t the eldest brother used that hundred thousand donation to update the village hospital’s equipment?

I heard now they not only do C-sections, but have added incubators, oxygen equipment, and so on.

Even if there’s any accident, with blood bank availability, blood can be transfused promptly.

Absolutely foolproof, just rest easy!"

Lianshan glares at her fiercely, then pulls her tightly into his arms: "Are you comforting or scaring me?"

From the bitter cold to the warmth of spring, the days finally sneak past as Shuzhen eagerly counts them down with her fingers.

Once stepping into June, Shuzhen, already being highly valued by her family, feels like she’s upgraded from a small panda to a giant panda, the preciousness level not just rising a notch.

Though she still doesn’t quite appreciate how her husband and kids follow closely with many demands, thinking about soon reuniting with her old son, Shuzhen can’t help but shift her mood from gloomy to bright, full of various cheerfulness.

Hehe, it’s already the 20th of June!

She remembers, her old son in a previous life was born on the 26th, the day of the temple fair on the 18th day of the lunar fourth month.

In the past, she was biased and superstitious, not to mention when her old son was born, he was small and weak.

Not long after the white-eyed wolf was taken by the Dai family, she followed into depression and madness. Bad things happened one after another, and many people said the child’s birth time was inauspicious, maybe causing harm to the mother, obstructing the family.

Living again, she doesn’t have that problem anymore, and she wonders if she can let the child be born a bit earlier or later.

It’s not about superstition or not, as a mom, inevitably wishing for the child to be a bit better, even better.

But when it came to breakfast on the 26th of June, the continuous tightening pain in the abdomen disrupted Shuzhen’s wild fancies.

With a clatter of a spoon falling, Lianshan and the children all look up, only to see their wife/mom’s face turning white with pain.

Seeing her husband’s eternally worried face and the children’s extremely nervous expressions, Shuzhen forces a light smile: "Don’t be scared, it’s just that the brat can’t wait to meet everyone. Pack up, drive me to the hospital, that’ll do."

"Is little brother about to be born?" Xinqing furrows her little brows: "Can’t mom wait a few more days? Big brother said he’ll come back during his vacation and surely catch the birth of little brother!"

But if little brother is born now, even if big brother catches a flight back immediately, he won’t make it in time!