Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

"Oh, I see your belly has grown a lot, you should be giving birth soon, right?"

Li Lanqiu didn't expect that when she passed by the trading company to see Chen Li, she met Lin Shu in the store again.

Gu Jiu was checking accounts with Chen Li. When Li Lanqiu came in, he just glanced at her and paid no more attention to her.

Lin Shu smiled and asked her to sit down. "How come you have time to come here today? Are you used to working in the restaurant over there?"

"It's a habit. Restaurants are busier during meal times. The time in between is a break, so you can go out and walk around."

"Oh, then sit down, drink a glass of water and rest for a while. It's still quite hot to walk outside today." Lin Shu picked up the kettle on the table and poured her a glass of water.

"Okay, thank you." Li Lanqiu's eyes moved around Lin Shu's belly: "I think you are pregnant with a son."

Lin Shu stroked her belly and laughed, "It's hard in the late pregnancy. Whether it's a son or a daughter, I'm wondering when they will come out. It's inconvenient to walk or work with a big baby. I can't do anything I want, and it's tiring."

Li Lanqiu couldn't help laughing: "Haha, you think he's tired in your belly now, but you'll know when the baby is born. By then, you'll be so busy that you'll want to stuff him back in and start over."

Although I am tired in my stomach, at least my life is peaceful without the noise of the children.

Once you are born, it is no longer determined by your will.

Lin Shu thought of the trivial things after the birth of the child and laughed, "You are right. After the child is born, you have to comfort him when he is hungry, poops, or cries, otherwise he will make a big fuss."

"Yes, it's not easy to raise a child." Li Lanqiu glanced at Gu Jiu who was working hard and asked with a smile: "He is worried about you and always takes you with him when he goes out? When are you going to give birth?"

"It's almost time. I'm pregnant with twins, so the due date may not be accurate." As Lin Shu was speaking, the baby in her belly kicked hard, causing her stomach to cramp a little.

"Twins? No wonder I saw your belly is bigger than a normal pregnant woman's. It turns out you have a double yolk. Congratulations!" Li Lanqiu was really happy for Lin Shu. At the same time, the risk of having twins doubled. "Have you been to the hospital for a check-up? Did the doctor say whether the fetus is in the right position?"

Lin Shu relieved the pain and smiled: "Everything is normal during the prenatal check-up."

"That's good." Li Lanqiu was relieved. "I came here to see Chen Li. Since she is busy, I will come next time."

"Sit down for a while. Anyway, there's nothing to do in your store now."

Li Lanqiu shook her head. "No, I have to go to the Hundred Floors Building to buy some things. I want to send something back to my kids tomorrow."

Chen Li turned around and said, "Come over and play when you have time. I can't accompany you today because I have something to do."

Li Lanqiu: "Okay, go ahead and do your thing."

Seeing that she really had something else to do, Lin Shu stood up and said to her, "Then I'll see you off."

Li Lanqiu looked at her big belly and hurriedly stopped her, saying, "No, just sit here and rest. I'll come to visit often in the future. You don't have to be so polite."

But just as she finished her words, Lin Shu felt a sharp pain in her stomach again, "Hiss, these two kids are a little naughty today."

Li Lanqiu noticed her slightly frowned brows and asked worriedly, "Are you okay? Sit down quickly. I really don't need you to carry me. The baby will move more frequently as the due date approaches."

This time, Lin Shu listened to others' advice and sat back down. "Okay, then take your time."

"Okay, take good care of your baby. I'll come to see you next time."

After Li Lanqiu left, Lin Shu felt the pain in his stomach again after a while.

"Have you two finished settling your accounts?"

Gu Jiu raised his head and glanced at her, then asked, "Right away, just a little while longer. What's wrong? Are you tired of waiting?"

Lin Shu held her huge belly and took a deep breath to stop herself from getting nervous. "My belly feels a little weird today. It's been cramping a few times. Do you think I'm about to give birth?"

When these words were spoken, everyone else in the store was shocked.

Gu Jiu had just finished calculating the accounts and had no time to sign. After hearing her words, he threw the account book to the ground and stood up.

He rushed to Lin Shu and asked nervously, "Are you about to give birth? How are you feeling pain?"

Lin Shu's stomach had recovered by now, and he rolled his eyes at him, asking as if he had experience. "I don't know either, it just hurts every once in a while."

"Don't worry about whether she's about to give birth or not, let's go to the hospital first." Gu Jiu had already rehearsed Lin Shu's attacks countless times in his mind during this period. What should he do?

He asked Chen Li to take care of Lin Shu first, and he had to go back to the compound to drive. It was impossible for a pregnant woman who was having an attack to ride a bicycle to the hospital.

"Stay here for a while. I'll go home and drive the car. I'll also bring the birthing supplies with me."

Lin Shu had prepared the delivery bag half a month ago, so when Gu Jiu returned, she only had to pick it up and go without having to look for it one by one.

"You go quickly, I'll take care of it here." Chen Li chased him away. She had given birth to a child before, so she was not panicking.

Gu Jiu ran out of the store, looked left and right at the street, and rushed to the gate of the courtyard opposite.

Chen Li looked at the figure running away and said jokingly, "Being tall and having long legs is an advantage. You can run fast without much effort."

Lin Shu smiled and asked Chen Li to help her pack some snacks. The baby would not be born so soon, so she could use them to replenish her energy later.

"Please use a bag to pack some canned fruit for me, as well as some White Rabbit candy, red bean cakes, biscuits, etc. If I don't have the energy to give birth later, I can eat these to replenish my energy."

"Oh, yes, yes, it's different in the hospital than at home. While giving birth at home, you can cook noodles to replenish your energy. I'll prepare it for you right away." Chen Li hurriedly got busy.

"How often does your stomach hurt now?"

"The birth is not that soon, don't be nervous." Lin Shu comforted her.

Chen Li had just packed the snacks when the sound of a car braking was heard outside.

Not long after, Gu Jiu strode in. Seeing Lin Shu's relaxed expression, he breathed a sigh of relief, "I'll help you to the car."

Chen Li followed with the bag of snacks. Seeing Wang Suzhen in the car, she smiled and handed the snacks to her. "Since my aunt is here, I will stay and look after the store."

Gu Jiu glanced at the store clerks. If Chen Li left, there would be no one to work the cashier in the store, so he waved his hand and said, "You don't have to go."

After Lin Shu sat down and closed the car door, he immediately went to the driver's seat, started the car and drove towards the hospital.

Wang Suzhen stared at Lin Shu's stomach, then observed Lin Shu's face and asked, "Does the pain happen more often now?"

Lin Shu shook his head. "It's not frequent, so the baby shouldn't be born that soon. Don't worry, drive slowly."

Gu Jiu swallowed and looked at Lin Shu's expression in the rearview mirror. She felt that he was more nervous than her.

Although most people like to give birth at home these days, there are still many pregnant women giving birth in the obstetrics department of the hospital.

An hour later, Gu Jiu completed the hospitalization procedures and settled Lin Shu in the ward.

Lin Shu's stomach dropped, the pain became more intense, and various symptoms began to appear.

After a while she said she wanted to go to the toilet, but when she got there she couldn't defecate. She couldn't sit or lie down. This time she finally experienced what it was like to be uneasy.

Gu Jiu accompanied her in and out, and before the child was born, he was already exhausted and out of breath.

There was no other choice, so Lin Shu started eating again to save up his energy.

Fortunately, her sister-in-law He Chunru knew that she was about to give birth, so she brought a bowl of porridge and a few large meat buns from home.

Lin Shu didn’t eat much of the porridge and meat buns because he really couldn’t bear the pain anymore.

At this time, Gu Jiu's comfort was of no use at all. Lin Shu felt as if his whole body was about to be torn apart.

Fortunately, this child was as lovable as the previous one. He was pushed into the delivery room and was born in just over an hour.

When the doctor cleaned the children, heard their cries, and told her that the eldest was a boy, Lin Shu was just about to ask the doctor to bring the child over for her to take a look.

But before she could open her mouth, she felt pain in her stomach again. It meant her second child was about to be born.

The birth of the second child went smoothly. Before the doctor had even finished cleaning her up, the two children had already been wrapped up and taken out.

Lin Shu was so tired that she fell asleep before leaving the delivery room.

In her dream, Lin Shu seemed to dream that her eldest son turned into a baby and grinned at her foolishly.

Just when she was about to reach out and hug him happily, for some reason the eldest son suddenly burst into tears without any care in the world and no matter how she comforted him, it was useless. It seemed that he was accusing her of abandoning him in the previous life and leaving him a motherless child.

Lin Shu became anxious and woke up immediately.

When I just woke up, I heard a loud baby cry in the ward. When I turned my head, I saw Wang Suzhen walking around in the ward holding a swaddled baby.

"I'm coming, I got some warm water. Mom, please give our daughter some water to clear her stomach first." Gu Jiu ran in from outside holding a cup.

Then the mother and son were busy taking care of the baby, and they didn't even notice that Lin Shu woke up.

"I don't know who you inherited your temper from, you're too impatient. When you're hungry, you start yelling. It's so scary."

"Whoever you follow, it must be me."

Seeing that the baby finally calmed down after being fed water, Gu Jiu let out a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and turned around to meet Lin Shu's eyes.

"Shushu, you're awake."

Gu Jiu's surprised voice diverted everyone's attention.

"Sister-in-law, you're awake. Come and take a look at your son. He's so well-behaved. No matter how loudly I yell at him, he pretends not to hear and sleeps so soundly." Sister-in-law He Chunru was sitting in the corner holding the baby boy. When she saw Lin Shu wake up, she hurried over with the child in her arms.

Gu Jiu helped Lin Shu lean against the head of the bed, poured her half a cup of warm water and asked her to drink it first, then let He Chunru put the blue swaddle in her arms.

The baby in the cradle was wrinkled and looked neither like Gu Jiu nor her. It should be said that he was a combination of the two.

Looking at the baby sleeping peacefully in the cradle, Lin Shu's expression was dull and his heart was beating wildly. How could the tiny baby look so much like the grown-up child in his previous life?

He Chunru smiled and said, "This child is really good at growing up. He has chosen all the good looks of both of you to grow up."

Lin Shu lowered his head and looked at him carefully, then asked uncertainly, "Sister-in-law, why can't I tell? How does he look like me? How does he look like Gu Jiu?"

"It's so obvious that you can't tell, these lips look like you, the ears look like you..."

"Wow wow wow..."

Before He Chunru could continue speaking, the other baby couldn't wait any longer and started crying again.

Gu Jiu had no time to study his eldest son's facial features, and hurried to help make milk. While making milk, he did not forget to explain to Lin Shu: "The doctor said that when the baby is born, we should feed water first, and then milk. My daughter is impatient, she must be very hungry."

Lin Shu looked at the baby who was sucking milk with clenched fists, "Is this a girl? Why is her cry so loud? If you don't know her, you would think it's a boy."

Wang Suzhen secretly laughed in her heart: "She has the same temper as her father, all talk and no action."

After the baby girl had finished her feeding, she fell asleep. Lin Shu quickly asked Gu Jiu to prepare some milk, thinking that she should not only focus on the little one but also forget about the sensible older one.

The two were born together. If the younger one is hungry, the older one should be hungry too.

Gu Jiu prepared the milk, took the baby from his sister-in-law He Chunru's arms, and tried to feed him himself.

He Chunru taught him the correct way to hold a baby, and it took him a while to finally get the posture right.

The little baby twisted his body and opened his eyes reluctantly, all he saw was blurry and shadowy.

He would be woken up every time he was sleeping, but before he could complain, a pacifier was stuffed into his little mouth.

"Is it because my breastfeeding posture is wrong? Why do I feel like he is a little disgusted with me?" Gu Jiu joked. In fact, he really felt a sense of being disgusted at that moment.

He Chunru: "He is drinking, just feed him like this."

Wang Suzhen put the sleeping baby on the empty bed next to her and joked, "Hurry up and learn how to make milk powder, feed the baby, change diapers and wash the baby's butt. Help out more during the confinement period. Lin Shu can't handle two babies alone at night."

They help during the day, so Lin Shu doesn't need to do anything, but at night they have to take care of the baby themselves. If Gu Jiu doesn't learn how to do it, Lin Shu will have a hard time during this period of confinement.

"I'll learn, I'll learn, please teach me more." Gu Jiu nodded with a smile.

Even now, when he looks at his two children, his mind is still a little confused and he finds it unbelievable from the bottom of his heart. Last year he was still a bachelor, but this year he is the father of two children.

Life is amazing.

After Dabao fell asleep, Gu Jiu handed the mother and two children to the care of Wang Suzhen and He Chunru, and then took the lunch box to the hospital cafeteria to help Lin Shu prepare a nutritious meal.

Wang Suzhen explained: "Shushu, you have to make do with this meal for now. We will send you a confinement meal in the evening."

Lin Shu looked at the lean meat vermicelli soup that he had brought back and smiled: "It's okay. Today was a sudden event. It's normal that my family is not prepared. This meat soup is not bad."

"Have something to fill your stomach first. I have some chicken soup at home. I'll bring it back later."

Gu Jiu took care of Lin Shu while he was eating, thinking that he should go back and pick it up quickly, because if he had to wait for the food to be delivered from home, he didn’t know how long he would have to wait.

A normal birth requires two to three days of hospitalization and observation. Lin Shu has been paying attention to the condition of his eldest son during these two or three days, but he didn't expect that the little guy only ate and slept, and usually didn't open his eyes.

When she was discharged from the hospital and returned home, she still hadn't figured out the little guy's condition.

Sometimes, Lin Shu even thought that the little guy was avoiding her on purpose, but when she saw him eating well and sleeping soundly, she felt that she was overthinking it. It was normal for babies to do nothing but eat and sleep.

Wang Suzhen and He Chunru also felt that the little guy was so sensible. He was much less troublesome than the second child who would only cry when hungry.