Literary Master 1978

"What's wrong? What's wrong?" Lin Chaoyang immediately asked with concern.

"Stomach hurts." Tao Yushu held his stomach with a painful expression.

Lin Chaoyang's expression was tense. His stomach ached at this time, so he must be giving birth!

He immediately made arrangements to send Tao Yushu to the hospital, and then thought of a group of guests at home, so he said to Zhang Guangnian: "Old Zhang, please apologize to everyone for me. Take care of the guests and take them there." Let’s have a meal at a restaurant outside and I’ll reimburse you later.”

"It's already this time, why do we still have food to eat?"

Zhang Guangnian said, went back to the house to say hello, called everyone, and helped Lin Chaoyang take Tao Yushu to the hospital.

After a brief examination, the doctor confirmed that the conditions for delivery were met, asked Lin Chaoyang to sign the consent form, and pushed Tao Yushu into the delivery room.

A group of old, middle-aged and young people were waiting outside the delivery room. Only then did Lin Chaoyang think of informing his family.

Lin Chaoyang's family members could not leave, so Gu Hua and Li Guowen volunteered to notify the Tao family and the Lin family respectively to prepare necessities after the birth.

The time stretched out bit by bit while waiting. Lin Chaoyang was waiting at the door of the delivery room. From time to time he would run over to listen for any noise, but there was no movement at all.

By noon, Lin Chaoyang was very anxious.

Everyone originally came to eat today, but they didn't even get to eat. He apologized to a few people in embarrassment, and suggested that everyone go back to rest first, and he would treat everyone to a meal another day.

Yao Xueyin was over seventy years old and had a strong body. He laughed and said to Lin Chaoyang: "You can eat at any time, but the happy event of having a baby cannot happen at any time. Anyway, we have nothing to do when we go back to the guest house. Just stay here with you for a while."

Everyone could see that Lin Chaoyang was extremely nervous as he became a father for the first time. Everyone comforted him with a few words of comfort, and Lin Chaoyang gradually relaxed.

Not long after, Lin Erchun and his wife appeared in the hospital with anxious faces, followed by Tao's father, Tao's mother, and Tao Yumo.

Tao Yucheng was at work and had two children at home, so his sister-in-law Zhao Li stayed at home.

After briefly understanding the situation, Lin Chaoyang asked Father Tao to invite everyone outside for a meal, while he sat at the door of the delivery room and continued to wait.

When it got dark, he couldn't hold back the anxiety in his heart, and all he could think of were those scenes in movies and TV shows about "keeping the child alive or the child alive".

Seeing that he was upset, Tao's mother comforted him: "This is Yushu's first time giving birth, so it will definitely take a little longer. When I gave birth to Yucheng, it took almost seven or eight hours."

Zhang Guiqin also comforted him with a few words before Lin Chaoyang relaxed again.

Seeing that it was getting late, Lin Chaoyang asked a few guests to go back first.

But after such a long wait, these old men seemed to have made up their minds and wanted to see the child born.

Gay men sometimes have an inexplicable stubbornness, and as time goes by, this waiting is slowly condensed into a sense of ritual of joint participation in the event.

What kind of guesthouse should we go back to and what kind of food should we eat? Isn’t it more interesting to watch a little guy come into this world than those things?

Under the blessing of this inexplicable stubbornness, everyone has been waiting at the door of the delivery room.

At around six o'clock in the evening, Tao Yucheng came to the hospital with his wife and children. In addition to the Tao and Lin families, plus the guests waiting aside, there were nearly twenty family members of Tao Yushu's baby waiting at the door of the delivery room.

Another family came in the afternoon. Seeing their spectacular scene, they couldn't help but feel a sense of shame for their small population.

At around 7 p.m., the door to the delivery room, which had been closed for almost eight hours, was finally opened.

A nurse in plain clothes came out holding the baby, "Mother Tao Yushu's family!"

Lin Chaoyang jumped up and rushed to the nurse, and others rushed over.

"The father of the child?"

Lin Chaoyang was so excited that he couldn't open his mouth, so he just nodded fiercely.

"He's a boy, weighing eight pounds and two ounces, and 53 centimeters long."

As the nurse spoke, she was about to hand the child to Lin Chaoyang. He adjusted his posture clumsily, his arms as stiff as two stones.

When that soft little life fell into his arms, a strange feeling arose in his heart.

This is my son?

Lin Chaoyang looked at the little guy's face. It was wrinkled, black and red, and not pretty at all.

Lin Chaoyang felt a little regretful that he didn't follow his mother.

The disgust in his heart only lasted a moment, and he was enveloped in unprecedented happiness.

Little guy, so cute and cute!

"Eight pounds and two taels, what a big fat boy!" Lin Erchun looked at the child eagerly, with a happy face.

With Lin Chaoyang as the center, the family formed a circle around him and the child, looking at the infant baby with concern as if on a pilgrimage. Everyone had a kind smile on their face.

After everyone in the family took a look around, Lin Chaoyang took the child to several colleagues for a look.

"Chaoyang, congratulations on your great success, Lin'er!"

"Congratulations, Chaoyang! I just won the award and I have a son. It's really a double blessing!"

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"Thank you, thank you, thank you everyone!"

Lin Chaoyang grinned, looking much happier than when he won the award.

Everyone played with the newborn baby for a while, and the corridor was full of laughter. The nurse said angrily: "Don't even stand here, send the baby to the ward quickly."

Only then did Lin Chaoyang realize that the child's mother hadn't come out yet.

He handed the child to his parents and asked them to take the child back to the ward, while he continued to wait for Tao Yushu at the door of the delivery room.

After more than ten minutes, the nurses finally pushed Tao Yushu out of the delivery room. She was pale and sweaty after giving birth, lying on the bed weakly.

Lin Chaoyang stepped forward and held her hand distressedly. The couple said a few words, and Tao Yushu was pushed into the ward.

Lin Chaoyang excitedly held his son to her. She only glanced at him and couldn't help frowning in disdain.

"Why is he so ugly?"

"Do you think it would be prettier if it was a girl?"

Tao Yushu seemed to be hit by her son's ugly appearance and regretted not giving birth to a daughter.

"Children are born like this, and they will be fine after raising them."

Lin Chaoyang put his son next to her pillow, feeling the breath of the little life next to him, and Tao Yushu's disgusted heart softened.

"Look at him, is he ugly and cute?" Lin Chaoyang asked.

"What's so ugly about it? Where is it ugly?"

Women change their expressions faster than turning pages of a book, so Lin Chaoyang immediately changed his words and said, "Not ugly, not ugly."

After discussing Tao Yushu's appearance for a while, Lin Chaoyang went to see off the others.

He was supposed to treat everyone to a meal today, but he didn't expect that everyone would wait with him in the hospital for most of the day. Lin Chaoyang felt very sorry and kept saying words of thanks and apology to them.

Wei Wei's face was full of joy, "It's just a meal, it doesn't matter whether you eat it or not. We are also happy to witness your couple's joy of having a son."

Everyone nodded in unison, and Wei Wei's words expressed everyone's thoughts.

Compared with the desire for food and drink, witnessing the birth of a little life made everyone happier.

Everyone had just won an award and was in high spirits. This kind of joy without utilitarianism was completely different from the joy of winning an award, which made people feel happy from the heart.

After seeing everyone off, Lin Chaoyang returned to the ward, and Tao Yushu had already fallen asleep.

After spending half a day in the delivery room, her physical strength had long been exhausted.

"Dad, Mom, you and Big Brother should go back early." Lin Chaoyang said to Tao's father and mother.

"I'll stay here to take care of it tonight." Tao's mother volunteered.

"Mother-in-law, I'm here." Zhang Guiqin said.

Tao's father said, "Let's do this. Let's go back first. Chaoyang and mother-in-law take care of Yushu and the child tonight. You come to take over the two of them tomorrow morning."

"Dad is right."

After sending the Tao family away, Lin Chaoyang asked Lin Erchun to go back and come back tomorrow morning. He and Zhang Guiqin stayed in the hospital.

Tao Yushu spent a lot of physical strength to give birth to the child. She slept all night, but the newborn little guy was not quiet for a moment.

He cried every once in a while, either because he was hungry, urinated, or was hungry.

Under the guidance of Zhang Guiqin, Lin Chaoyang practiced various skills of taking care of the child.

He got used to holding the baby, preparing milk powder, and changing the diaper after doing it a few times, but he couldn't get used to washing the diaper at all.

It wasn't that he, as an old father, didn't love enough, it was just that the little calf was too good at pooping, and he would have a big poop every one or two days.

He wanted to throw away the diaper with shit on it, but Zhang Guiqin scolded him as a spendthrift. Lin Chaoyang had no choice but to dry heave while washing the diaper.

When he thought about doing this kind of work for the next few years, he was extremely upset.

He gave birth to a shitty child!

After tossing all night, he was completely confused in the morning.

When Lin Erchun and Tao's mother came, he was finally free.

He went home and slept for a while, and went to the hospital again in the evening.

After two nights of tossing like this, Tao Yushu was finally discharged from the hospital.

In order to take care of Tao Yushu during her confinement, they did not return to the courtyard in Xiaoliubukou Hutong after being discharged from the hospital, but returned to the Overseas Chinese Apartment.

There is collective heating here, and most importantly, there are 24-hour hot water and toilets, which can make you spend the confinement period comfortably.

In order to take care of her daughter, Tao's mother also temporarily moved to the Overseas Chinese Apartment. Together with Zhang Guiqin, the mother-in-law and mother-in-law together reduced Lin Chaoyang's pressure.

The only thing that made him uncomfortable was that he had to wash the diaper covered with poop.

That evening, Tao Yumo ran to see his little nephew.

The little guy was more than eight pounds when he was born. Newborn babies grow very fast. In just three or four days, he gained another two pounds and looked chubby and fat.

And his skin color has obviously become whiter and tenderer than when he was just born in the past two days, like a fat baby in a New Year picture.

Her hands couldn't stop pinching the little nephew's face, hands, and feet, "This little Dongzi is so cute!"

Dongdong is the nickname of Lin Chaoyang's son, taken from the meaning of being born in the tenth month of the first winter.

As she spoke, she shouted to Lin Chaoyang: "Brother-in-law, my nephew's nickname is the same as Cha Haisheng's nickname, can you change it?"

"Your nephew is called Dongdong, but you call him Xiaodongzi!" Tao Yushu said unhappily.

Lin Chaoyang looked at her like this and said to Tao Yushu: "This girl really likes children!"

"She is just fresh for two days, playing with them as toys, but she will get tired of them after two days."

While the couple was talking, Tao Yumo suddenly smelled a foul odor, and when she opened her nephew's diaper, she immediately shouted in fear: "Sister, your son has pooped!"

Tao Yushu said unhappily: "He just pooped, why are you shouting?"

As she spoke, she went over and skillfully changed the child's diaper, and handed the diaper to Tao Yumo.

"What are you doing for me? How dirty is it?" Tao Yumo looked disgusted and was about to throw him away.

When Tao Yushu heard this, he immediately became unhappy, "Did I wash enough of your diapers when you were a child? Go and wash them!"

Seeing his sister digging out old accounts, Tao Yumo looked reluctant, "Obviously it was the eldest brother who did the most laundry. How old were you at that time?"

"Go quickly!"

Tao Yumo went to wash the diaper slowly. When he got to the bathroom, before washing, he opened the diaper and smelled it, and he was so smoked that he retched.

"Ugh~ Brother-in-law, your son's shit stinks too much!"

Lin Chaoyang leaned against the door frame and said to her: "Wash well, who doesn't come here like this? You are his aunt, how can you dislike your nephew so much?"

"You're still his dad!" Tao Yumo said angrily while rubbing his diaper.

After finally washing the diaper, Lin Chaoyang smelled it specifically to make sure there was no smell before letting her hang it up to dry.

"Nice wash!"

Tao Yumo rolled her eyes at him, "Is it you who praises me?"

"Come and sit at home more often when you have nothing to do."

"Come and wash your son's diaper, right?"

After teasing each other with Lin Chaoyang, Tao Yumo was about to wash her hands off her bald skin. After coming out of the bathroom, she asked Tao Yushu:

"Sister, has my nephew thought about it yet?"