Little Assistant's Childhood Shadow

"Daughter-in-law, tell me, is this a son or a daughter?"

On the night of Laba, the northwest wind was blowing outside the window, and the seams on the four sides of the window leaked air. Zhao Changming just tore off the peeled tape two days ago, and re-attached a new one.

"What?! You don't like being a girl?" Wang Zhiyun pouted and knocked off Zhao Changming's hand on his stomach: "Zhao Changming, let me tell you, if you dare to patriarchate like your mother, I will , I will take the child back to my mother's house, and I will take my surname from now on. You can ask your mother to find you a wife who can give birth to a son!"

Wang Zhiyun looked annoyed, stood up dragging his back, walked to the bed and began to make the bed.

"Oh, daughter-in-law, what are you doing? Put it down, I'll do it!" Zhao Changming knew he had said something wrong, so he hurriedly greeted him with a smile: "I'll just say it casually, my mother is getting old, and she is full of old ideas. , I definitely won't."

After quickly making the bed, he went out to fill the kettle with hot water, put a footbath beside Wang Zhiyun who was sitting by the bed, and prepared to soak her feet.

"Don't think I don't know, I heard people say before I married you that you have a sister!"

Wang Zhiyun pointed to Zhao Changming's forehead and tapped it twice, and he almost fell to the ground when he was unsteady.

"That...that's not all my mother..."

"Hmph! I knew you wanted her in everything. You see, I have been pregnant for so long and she has visited me several times. Did she add a piece of clothes to me or buy me a fruit? She has been in your house for a year. I haven't even tasted her candy like a fingernail!" Wang Zhiyun became more and more annoyed as he raised his feet, splashing water all over Zhao Changming's body and face.

"Oh~" Zhao Changming wiped his face, but he was not annoyed.

"Pfft!" Wang Zhiyun didn't hold back when he saw his appearance, and the aura he had finally built up instantly let go, and he couldn't help laughing: "You, why did I fall in love with you? It's not good-looking. My brain is not working well, stupid."

"Daughter-in-law, if you say I'm stupid, I can bear it. If you say I'm not good-looking, that's not okay. Go out and have a look, ask me, I'm the most handsome in ten miles and eight villages!" Zhao Changming pulled a towel to wipe Wang Zhiyun's feet, every time The crevices between each toe were carefully wiped clean.

"Look at you..." Wang Zhiyun climbed into the bed and covered a quilt that Zhao Changming specially made for her this year with new cotton: "It looks good, you'd better look at it."

Zhao Changming cleaned up the bowls of Laba porridge for dinner, and went to bed after a simple wash, leaving only a bedside lamp.

Beside him, Wang Zhiyun had fallen asleep, snoring a little.

Since marrying Wang Zhiyun, Zhao Changming disregarded his eldest brother's objection and separated from the old lady, and moved to live alone in a side room in the yard.

Although the old lady loves her eldest brother, he is the one who understands the old lady best. The selfishness of the older generation, like to take petty profits, and being fussy and unreasonable are all branded on the old lady, but if it weren’t for these things, the old lady I'm afraid it will be difficult to bring him up with his elder brother.

As for his older sister, Zhao Changming thought silently: Dad was still there at that time, maybe it wasn't all Mom's responsibility...

In the long winter night, Zhao Changming listened to the wind coming in through the cracks of the window, making a rustling sound.Soon Zhao Changming also fell asleep.

"Mom, get up, Mom!" Zhao Changming was still asleep, when he heard someone screaming outside in the chaos, he jumped out of the bed, pulled cotton shoes and turned on the light, then walked towards the window in a panic .

Before he opened the curtain to look out, he heard his elder brother say again: "Mom! Hurry up, Xiaoxiao is about to give birth!"

"What's the matter?" Wang Zhiyun was also woken up, and wanted to sit up, but her body was too heavy. She tried it, and felt a pain in the back of her waist like an electric shock, so she stopped.

"It's the elder brother, I guess the elder sister-in-law is about to give birth..." Zhao Changming quickly put on his clothes, without any socks on, and stomped hard into his shoes: "I have to go and see, my mother can't handle it by herself." Sister-in-law."

"Oh, don't worry, don't you still have a big brother..." Wang Zhiyun saw that Zhao Changming was only wearing a jacket and no waistcoat inside, so he stretched his head and glanced out the window. Snow, "Come back!"

Wang Zhiyun pulled out the scarf stuffed by the pillow and shook it: "Wrap this around."

Zhao Changming carried out what his daughter-in-law said unconditionally, and immediately sat on the edge of the bed, tilted his body inward, and lowered his head to put on the scarf in Wang Zhiyun's hand.

While buttoning his coat, he waited for Wang Zhiyun to wrap the scarf around him.But the buttons were buttoned without falling off, and the scarf on his head still didn't move.

Zhao Changming's heart skipped a beat: he and his elder brother got married on the same day, and counting the days, his sister-in-law's due date was within a week of his daughter-in-law's...

"Changming..." The sudden colic in Wang Zhiyun's abdomen made her panic, her face was pale with fright, "What should I do, Changming?"

At this time, he didn't care too much, Zhao Changming lifted Wang Zhiyun's quilt, and there was a puddle of water stains on the bed, which made Zhao Changming's heart instantly rise to his throat.

"Don't be afraid, daughter-in-law, I'm here, I'm here..." Zhao Changming got off the bed, opened the drawer of the bedside table with a clear goal, took the wallet and ID inside, and then took the toilet paper and the usual things at home to Wang Zhiyun The usual spare snacks are spent, and finally the children's small clothes and quilts that have been prepared long ago.

Regardless of putting on the clothes one by one, Zhao Changming simply put on the outermost coat for Wang Zhiyun, and then simply wrapped his quilt around Wang Zhiyun's body.

"Daughter-in-law, wait for a while, just a little while, I will go to the second uncle's house and call an ambulance!" He was still not at ease when he walked out, so he rushed to Wang Zhiyun who moved to the bed and said loudly: "Daughter-in-law, don't move!" , don't move..."

When Zhao Changming came out, his eldest brother hadn't knocked on the old lady's door.

"Brother, stop knocking, mom is so old, she won't be able to help even if she wakes up in such a cold day..."

"Can't help with anything? Who said I can't help?!" The old lady, dressed in a well-washed blue cloth short jacket and holding a gray kerchief on her head, opened the door and stood in front of the two brothers, with her hands outstretched. With a tuck in the sleeve, he is full of energy and his eyes are full of light.

"Mom, come on, come with me to see Xiaoxiao."

"Brother, Xiaoyun has also broken his amniotic fluid. Let mom look after Xiaoyun for a while. I'll go to Erjijia and call an ambulance."

"What ambulance is it called? Don't be in a hurry just after the amniotic fluid broke. It's still early." The old lady walked two steps into the yard with a shrill voice, her chest bulging, and she turned her head and said to Zhao Changming, "Didn't you just buy the ambulance?" Did you get a tricycle? The two of them fit right in the back, so they won’t be squeezed together.”

So, in the last minute of Laba, as the clock struck midnight, Wang Zhiyun's heart-piercing roar came from the delivery room: "Zhao Changming, I hate you, you actually let me do three rounds to give birth, I hate you!"

At twelve o'clock the last hammer struck, and the cry of a baby was heard through the delivery room.

"Wang Zhiyun, Wang Zhiyun's family!" The nurse called out at the door of the delivery room with the baby in her arms.

"Here, here!" Zhao Changming was so excited that he almost lost his footing, seeing that the fingers of the little boy in the nurse's arms began to tremble non-stop.

"Male and female?" The old lady is short, so she can only stand on tiptoe slightly to get closer to the nurse. Finally, she is willing to show her hand that has been held all night, and stretches out two fingers to remove the bed towel that is holding the child. .

"Boy, born at twelve o'clock, six pounds and six ounces." The nurse fulfilled the old lady's wish and asked her to confirm the gender of the child.

"Ouch, good, boy!"

The old lady couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear all night, and she made an unprecedented decision with a smile on her face: "I'll go home and refill Zhiyun's stewed chicken soup!"

"Mom, Xiaoxiao..." Zhao Changsheng stopped the old lady with a sad face, he secretly glanced at his younger brother Zhao Changsheng, and said quietly to the old lady: "Look...you can drop by later to help I bought some children's clothes, quilts, etc., I didn't have time to prepare those..."

"Okay, I got it!" The old lady was in a good mood, she restrained herself a lot, and she just said indifferently: "The due date is just ahead of Zhiyun, Mr. Zhiyun will give birth to a big fat boy, I don't know what she can give birth to?"

After finishing speaking, before the eldest son wanted to argue for his wife, he rolled his eyes and walked away in small steps with his hands in his hands.

"Brother, this is for..." Zhao Changming pinched the extra small bag in his hand and thought about it. Now he doesn't know whether the sister-in-law will give birth to a nephew or a niece, so he can only change his words and say, "Prepare it for sister-in-law..."

Zhao Changsheng happily accepted the call, and finally didn't even say thank you.

At dawn, sister-in-law Gu Xiaoxiao's child was finally born, a girl weighing five and a half catties.

"What's the matter with you?" Zhao Changming's hand holding the chicken soup trembled in fright.

When he was outside when the child was born, he could hear Wang Zhiyun's "hate" clearly, but now he does everything lightly, afraid that something that he didn't do thoughtfully will chill the heart of his precious daughter-in-law again.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Changming carefully scooped up a spoonful of chicken soup to test the temperature before bringing it to Wang Zhiyun's mouth and asked.

Wang Zhiyun hated iron for being weak, grabbed Zhao Changming's ear and said in a low voice, "Sister-in-law is lying on the bed next to her. Your mother delivers chicken soup to me three times a day, and she doesn't care about anything. What do you make sister-in-law think?!"

Zhao Changming frowned, and put the chicken soup on the table.It was his negligence, his wife gave birth to a fat boy, and the old lady's attitude towards his wife made a 180-degree turn, which made him dizzy with joy.

Wang Zhiyun raised the end of his eyes lightly, with a smile in his eyes: "What are you doing in a daze! Hurry up and send half of the things to my sister-in-law, and send half of all the things my mother sends over!"

Within two days, under the insistence of the old lady, Wang Zhiyun and Gu Xiaoxiao were discharged from the hospital and went home.

Zhao Changming earnestly carried out his wife's orders, but fortunately the old lady gave only food, which was easier to share.However, as shrewd as an old lady, she discovered Zhao Changming's little hands and feet within two days, so when she got angry, she simply returned to her previous iron cock, and no one could eat a grain of rice or a drop of oil from her.

Instead of sending Wang Zhiyun off, he was happy and relaxed, just take good care of the child, and don't have to worry about taking care of the old lady.

The days went by so silently, some happy and some sad, anyway, Zhao Changming's family lived well every day.

In August, when the heat dissipated in the evening, Wang Zhiyun walked out of the house with Zhao Nan in his arms.

The two large wooden basins in the yard are full of water. After a day in the sun, the water is now warm and even a little hot.

"Nan Nan, let's take a bath..." Wang Zhiyun kicked one of the wooden basins towards the door when it was sunny, "We can change into the new clothes that Dad bought for Nan Nan after we take a bath."

Wang Zhiyun undressed Zhao Nan and sat on his lap. First, he splashed some water on the child from the basin, then soaked the towel on his shoulder in the water and wiped it on the child, and finally Slowly put Zhao Nan in the tub and sit.

The wooden basin is very big, which Zhao Changming specially made for the children.When he was a child, he worked as a handyman with the old master in the village for half a year. He was smart, and he could do everything he saw once or twice. It was not a problem to make small gadgets at ordinary times.

"Auntie~"

There was a childish voice coming from the door, and Wang Zhiyun responded without raising his head: "Hey! Xiao Feng, come here quickly!"

Wang Zhiyun shook the water off his hand, and waved to the child who was holding the door open and only showing a small face looking at home.

"Huahua, give it to auntie~" The child held a flower in one hand and handed it to Wang Zhiyun.

The flowers are small wildflowers common on the roadside, yellow with broken petals.However, the two flowers in the child's hands are large and regular, and it seems that they have been picked for a long time.

"Thank you Xiaofeng, Auntie likes flowers the most, they are so beautiful!" Wang Zhiyun took the flowers, touched Xiaofeng's small head and praised.

Xiaofeng's full name is Zhao Feng, and he is the child of Zhao Changming's neighbor.Less than two years old, which is the age when he can't speak clearly.He was shorter than children of the same age, with slender arms and legs, and his hair was soft and yellow. It seemed that he was malnourished.

"Piao Niang~" Xiaofeng learned what Wang Zhiyun praised him for, it may be the first time he came into contact with new words, and his pronunciation is not quite standard.He tilted his head and thought about it seriously for a while, and seemed to realize that the pronunciation just now was wrong, and soon he decided to try again.

"Beautiful, brother!"

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