Father's Land Mother's River

Chapter 146 Pregnancy
Married life, into a new model.

In the morning, the two woke up together, washed up and went to the cafeteria to have breakfast.After breakfast, they went back to the den, took their bags and went downstairs together.When Meng Xiangxiang rode his bicycle to go to work, Liu Xiaonan told him without exception, ride slowly and be careful.

At noon, they have lunch in the cafeteria of their respective units, and return to the small nest one after another after get off work.After dinner, I went for a walk, and when I returned to the small den, one person occupied a desk, one prepared lessons and the other wrote, chatting occasionally, it was very quiet.Meng Duoduo has been here a few times, and he will never come again if he is bored.

After returning to work after her wedding leave, Liu Xiaonan always felt that Gu Yu was a little abnormal, which seemed awkward no matter how she looked at it, but she couldn't see what was wrong.One day when he walked into Gu Yu's office, he saw that Gu Yu was wearing a windbreaker and a mask, with the doors and windows closed and afraid of the cold.He asked casually, "Have you caught a cold?"

Gu Yu also replied casually: "I don't have a cold, I'm afraid of catching a cold."

Liu Xiaonan said: "If you're afraid of catching a cold, you don't need to cover it tightly. If you wear a mask in the office, you don't have to worry about covering up maggots. If you're afraid of catching a cold, you need to ventilate frequently and change the air." window.

"Don't open the window." Gu Yu stopped Liu Xiaonan in time, and sat there looking at Liu Xiaonan meaningfully: "I seem to be a different person after getting married, and I know how to love women."

Liu Xiaonan sat across from Gu Yu and said: "There is indeed a small change in mentality, and I feel that I have to bear more and heavier responsibilities. The one in our family is not like a wife and a teacher. She pedals very fast and looks like a little girl. Same, I have to tell you a few words every day."

Gu Yu laughed and said, "Speaking of your little daughter-in-law, she has a smile on her face, she is so tender and loving."

Liu Xiaonan said helplessly: "I can't help it. Since the day I met her, I have always cared for her as a little sister. Now that I got married, I was infected by her and became happy, pampering her appropriately. It should be. Don't tell me, your vision is quite accurate, saying that she is suitable for me. I didn't know until I got married that she really brought me a lot of changes. "

Gu Yu suddenly retched, bent over and stretched his neck, desperately took a few sips of water to suppress it.Liu Xiaonan stood up and said, "Are you really sick? I'll accompany you to the hospital for a checkup."

"What's wrong?" Gu Yu stared at Liu Xiaonan: "I was afraid you would say that I'm an official fan, and I finally figured out that I want to have a child. On the day you got married, I felt something was wrong after I came back. I went to the hospital and found out that I was pregnant. "

"Really? I'm going to be an uncle." Gu Yu was pregnant, which made Liu Xiaonan inexplicably happy. He walked up to Gu Yu and said, "Stand up, let me touch it." Seeing Gu Yu's eyes widened again, he quickly said: " Feel through the clothes to see if my little niece and niece will kick me."

Gu Yu stood up, and Liu Xiaonan put one hand on the coat on her lower abdomen, turned her body sideways and tilted her head, holding her breath and concentrating.

Gu Yu said: "On the day you got married, I specially visited your new house. It has a floor and an indoor bathroom. It's really nice and convenient. You said it was built for me, but you really didn't lie to me."

"That's not it." Liu Xiaonan almost said that his mouth was bald—it was built according to the style of your house, but unfortunately the bride is not you—he changed his words and said, "In order to be on par with you people in the city? Why didn't you respond? There is no response in the book." There are many similar descriptions, saying that you can feel the fetus beating."

"If you say you're stupid, you're more than a little bit stupid." Gu Yu sighed, "You're still an embryo, how could you jump and kick someone? You nerd."

"Ah?" Liu Xiaonan quickly withdrew her hand and helped Gu Yu to sit down.Self-deprecating: "I only know one thing but not the other."

Gu Yu said: "If you like children, let your little wife get pregnant with one as soon as possible. If they are of different genders, we will be in-laws."

"I've been pregnant for three years, and I'm starting to feel confused." Liu Xiaonan can see this clearly: "I don't want to be in-laws with you, so don't even think about it."

Gu Yu threw a book on Liu Xiaonan's body: "You are so boring!"

Liu Xiaonan picked up the book, put it on Gu Yu's desk, and laughed together: "My good sister, you are pregnant, so you can't get angry."

Gu Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and waved his hands: "Get out of here as soon as possible, the farther the better, don't disgust me in front of me."

After Liu Xiaonan got off work, she would wait in the den for a while before Meng Xiangxiang could get home.When he came back to the den after get off work today, instead of taking the time to write a little as usual, he squatted on the ground to practice brush calligraphy. The first draft of "That Trombone" was finally completed, and he needed to reorganize his thoughts in his brain.

Meng Xiangxiang came back from get off work and went upstairs. As soon as he entered the house, he lay on Liu Xiaonan's back and said happily: "The results of the monthly exam are out. The overall math score of the class I teach is among the best in the school. I didn't expect it, your Mengxiang is okay, right?"

"That's great!" Liu Xiaonan stood up, and walked around the room a few times with Meng Xiangxiang on her back: "My little Meng Xiangxiang is extraordinary, so I have to reward her."

Meng Xiangxiang leaned on Liu Xiaonan's shoulder and said humbly, "I just got a little grade, and the final exam can only test my true teaching level, so it's not worth celebrating."

Liu Xiaonan said: "If you don't accumulate steps, you can reach a thousand miles. I'm tired of eating in the canteen all the time. Tonight, let's go to the restaurant and drink some wine to celebrate."

"I don't drink." Meng Xiangxiang jumped off Liu Xiaonan's back and said, "You can't drink either, I want a child."

Liu Xiaonan pulled Meng Xiangxiang to sit down: "We must have a common understanding of this matter, and we must not be dominated by the old man's thoughts. Whether or not to have children does not affect me much, but it is different for you. Your career has just started. If you Now there is a drag on the child, which is bound to affect future development."

Meng Xiangxiang said: "My idea is exactly the opposite of yours. When I first joined the work and while I was young, I completed all the tasks that should be completed in advance, and I can devote myself to work in the future. If you want to do it again in a few years Boy, the class I lead has to change teachers halfway, which is not good for students' learning, and my teaching has lost continuity. What do you think?"

Liu Xiaonan thought for a while, and reached out to pat Meng Xiangxiang's face: "You are smarter than me, you are very comprehensive and far-sighted."

Meng Xiangxiang jumped into Liu Xiaonan's arms, put his arms around his head and asked, "So, we have a unified understanding and reached a consensus?"

Liu Xiaonan smiled: "Let's start preparing. Next year is the Year of the Monkey. If there is an extra little monkey at home, we will have something to play with. Gu Yu is also pregnant, and she still wants to be our in-laws."

Meng Xiangxiang said: "Look, we have to work harder, we can't let her compete."

Liu Xiaonan really couldn't do anything about her: "Why don't you lag behind in everything?"

A month later, Meng Xiangxiang walked into the house after get off work, threw her bag on the bed, jumped up and hugged Liu Xiaonan's neck, her eyes were shining brightly, and said excitedly, "Big happy event, guess what."

Liu Xiaonan said: "In the mid-term exam, the math scores of the classes you teach are still among the best in your school or in the city."

"What, the midterm exam hasn't started yet." Meng Xiangxiang said impatiently, "I'm pregnant, and you're going to be a father."

"My little Mengxiang!" Liu Xiaonan hurriedly placed Meng Xiangxiang on the bed and sat down: "I'm pregnant, so I don't dare to jump around anymore."

A few days ago, Meng Xiangxiang had already noticed that there was no class this afternoon, so she went to the city hospital alone to find Fang Juan.Fang Juan made a comprehensive examination for her and confirmed that she was pregnant.She relayed the precautions that Fang Juan told her to Liu Xiaonan one by one.Liu Xiaonan expressed firm compliance, and at the same time put forward specific requirements for her. In the future, she should wear a mask and dress warmly when going out. She is not allowed to ride a bicycle to and from get off work, and she is not allowed to jump around like walking on a mountain road.

Meng Xiangxiang's pregnancy brought about a major transformation in Liu Xiaonan's inner world, and her emotions began to tilt to a certain extent.On Sunday, Meng Xiangxiang still thought about going to his "house" to clean up. He said that there was no need, and there were no people there, so he could clean it once a month.Everything in the past is gone, whether it is painful or beautiful, it is just one experience in life.But right now, a heavy burden fell on his shoulders, and everything that should be left behind had to be left behind, so that he could go into battle lightly.

My mother said that if a woman has savings in her hand, she will live without panic.The house problem couldn't be solved for the time being, but he felt that Meng Xiangxiang should be given the necessary sense of security.He withdrew 5 yuan from the stock account, deposited it for five years, and handed over the passbook to Meng Xiangxiang.

Meng Xiangxiang had already adapted to this situation. She put away her passbook and said, "Save it for our child, and we will send him (her) to study abroad in the future."

It's a long way to think.Liu Xiaonan said: "If your family or your brother have any difficulties, we will help as much as we can."

Meng Xiangxiang said: "My mother told me that helping relatives is not helping the poor. You have already fulfilled your responsibility, don't worry about the things at my house anymore, I know it well, and I will handle it myself."

Liu Xiaonan said, "When will you pay back the 350 yuan I sponsored you?"

Meng Xiangxiang couldn't stop laughing: "If I don't make it, I will owe you my whole life."

On Sunday, the two went back to Liuzi Street.Jiang Changling was overjoyed when she learned that her daughter-in-law was pregnant, so she took out another passbook and gave it to Meng Xiangxiang, but Meng Xiangxiang refused to accept it.

When the students were on winter vacation, two pregnant women were already pregnant.Liu Xiaonan often compares the two at home and in the factory. Meng Xiangxiang is a month later than Gu Yu, so why is it more obvious than Gu Yu?He took Meng Xiangxiang to find Fang Juan, and Fang Juan took Meng Xiangxiang to have a B-ultrasound, and then congratulated the two of them: they are twins, although it is not very clear now, there is a high probability that they are twins .

This unexpected surprise made the two of them excited for many days.After the excitement was over, a new problem loomed in front of me: how could a family of four live in a small house with a bigger buttocks?

Liu Xiaonan said: "The big deal is that I put two desks together, I sleep on it, and you and the child squeeze on the bed." Of course it was a joke, but it is also a real problem.He made up his mind: "It's really not possible, let's move to the house that Aunt Lin left for me."

Meng Xiangxiang said: "You have already said that you will never live there, and you want Dr. Fang to see your jokes? Even if Dr. Fang doesn't laugh at you, it will damage your dignity. Why do you suffer if you don't want to do things in your heart? For ourselves? It’s not our thing, we don’t think about it. Our family of four lives in this hut, is there any difficulty we can’t overcome?”

Meng Xiangxiang's understanding and comfort made Liu Xiaonan completely let go of all her worries, and stopped thinking about her own house that was not her own in essence.

The school was officially on winter vacation, and Meng Xiangxiang turned on the mode of gorging, and her appetite soared. A plate of fruit was placed in front of her, and within a long time, she saw the bottom of it, which made Liu Xiaonan stunned.She wrote a letter to her parents, explaining why she couldn't go home to visit them.

Liu Xiaonan's manuscript has been revised, and she wanted to transcribe it for him, but he didn't allow it, it was exhausting.She bought bamboo needles and wool and a hand-knitting book when she came back, leaning on the pillow to learn and sell, and knit a scarf for him.

The white scarf is still made of mohair, perhaps due to the unskilled hands. Even if it is a flat stitch, the tightness and stitching are still much different from the one in the closet.Meng Xiangxiang wanted to tear down and re-weave, but Liu Xiaonan wrapped it around her neck all day long without giving up.

Knitting sweaters is more cumbersome and complicated. After weaving and dismantling, I finally mastered the basic techniques.Liu Xiaonan encouraged Meng to think about it, the scarf was very warm, and there was no rush for the sweater, since winter was long anyway.

His body was getting heavier and clumsier, and the weather was cold, sometimes with ice and snow. Liu Xiaonan wanted to go to the cafeteria to get the food back, while Meng Xiangxiang insisted on going downstairs to exercise.Climbing up and down the five-story stairs three times a day, after all, I walked through the mountain road, and I didn't feel strenuous.

At work, Liu Xiaonan was more conscious than ever, and took the initiative to undertake all the writing work that Gu Yu assigned.Gu Yu sometimes deliberately teased him, saying that the child in her stomach was kicking her, but Liu Xiaonan just kept pretending to be deaf and dumb.

Before the Spring Festival, Gu Yu saw that Liu Xiaonan had comprehended her workflow and main points of work, and she was more enthusiastic. She thought the time was right, and decided to have a showdown with Liu Xiaonan.

She closed the door and had a private conversation with Liu Xiaonan: "After the Spring Festival, I won't be able to go to work for a few days, and my position will be vacant for a long time. The Propaganda Department can't be a mess. Who do you think can take over my job? ?”

Liu Xiaonan said, "That's a concern of your leaders, and it has nothing to do with me."

Gu Yu said: "I would like to recommend to the factory leader that you take over my job and take charge of the overall situation of the Propaganda Department."

"With the deputy minister here, where is my turn?"

"Our deputy minister is about to retire in a few years. He has no enthusiasm for work and is just dawdling all day. You have a diploma and ability, you have the title of writer, you have studied economic management, and you have the value and future of cultivation. Taking advantage of the opportunity of my childbirth and maternity leave, it is logical for you to take up the post of Acting Propaganda Minister, the leadership trusts you, everyone expects you, and the future will be smooth."

"I think you have misunderstood. I have done some work for you these days, but not for your position, but for the sake of my little nephew and niece. I hope he (she) can be safe Grow in your belly."

Gu Yu smiled: "How can I not know your thoughts? The key to the problem is that instead of waiting for promotion step by step, it is better to take this opportunity to get promoted in one step."

Liu Xiaonan asked: "After taking maternity leave and returning to work, will you return to the Propaganda Department?"

Gu Yu said: "If it was you acting as the propaganda minister, I will not come back. I have other arrangements for my work."

Liu Xiaonan understood that Gu Yu wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to give herself the position of propaganda director.

He said: "I like to be more free. I'm not interested in your position. I'm tied up. Besides, you and my family, Meng, are confinement. I can't devote all my energy to work."

Gu Yu caressed her swollen belly and said, "You uncle, everything is fine, but there is a knot in my heart, I have been fighting with your mother all the time, and I can't understand your mother's painstaking efforts."

Liu Xiaonan stood up and said earnestly: "I can fully understand, and I accept it. I'm not competing with you, but I'm really not interested in official career. You don't even think about it. If you have today, why bother?"

(End of this chapter)