Rebirth: Don’t be a coward and be a mother’s baby

Xie Jianjia lay alone on the bed and stared at the ceiling. She closed her eyes and couldn't get rid of the imaginary scene of Huang Qiaoxiu giving birth.

Will she be covered in blood? Will her face be sweaty and her hair messy? Her face was ashen and her lips were purple.

Xie Jianjia shook her head and warned herself not to think so wildly. Huang Qiaoxiu would definitely give birth to her child safely.

"pat-"

In the dead of night, the door was opened by the key, and Grandma Dong and Zhou Chunyan came back.

Xie Jianjia got up from the bed and rushed to the living room in her thin pajamas.

"How is it? How are Aunt Qiaoxiu and the child?!"

The two of them thought that Xie Jianjia had fallen asleep, so they quietly discussed the matter of escorting her in a low voice without making any sound. Little did they know that the little girl was not asleep at all.

Zhou Chunyan buttoned the top button of her daughter's pajamas to prevent the cold wind from hitting her neck.

"It's a girl. She was born in less than three hours. Qiaoxiu's health has always been good, so she didn't suffer too much. She had already fallen asleep when we left. Your uncle Dafeng was with you, and the doctors and nurses were next door. , very safe.”

When Xie Jianjia heard that Huang Qiaoxiu had successfully given birth to her daughter, her heart dropped to her stomach all night, and she murmured in her mouth.

"As long as it goes well, it will be good, as long as it goes well, it will be good"

Seeing the happiness on her little face, Grandma Dong smiled and said, "I thought you would rush to the hospital after answering the phone, but I didn't expect you to be sneaking around at home alone and worried. Why, are you afraid?"

"Scared, very scared, giving birth is too painful." Xie Jianjia nodded honestly, her tone timid.

The smile on Grandma Dong's face deepened, and she joked: "Jiajia, giving birth is a hurdle that every woman must go through. Are you afraid of how you will start a family in the future? How can you be someone's wife and pass on the family line?"

After hearing this, Xie Jianjia immediately shook her head like a rattle, with rejection written all over her body.

"I don't want it! I don't want to get married, and I don't want to have children!" The tone was firm.

Grandma Dong, who has traditional ideas, heard the little girl's words and subconsciously retorted: "That's nonsense. How can anyone not get married and have children? Jiajia, grandma told you that people must get married and have offspring."

Before she finished speaking, Zhou Chunyan noticed her daughter's resistance and tugged on Grandma Dong's arm, interrupting her words.

"Aunt Dong, Jiajia is still young, so she doesn't understand what she said!"

Grandma Dong stopped talking, looked at Xie Jianjia and nodded in agreement, "Yes, the girl is still young, so it's normal that she can't figure it out. She will figure it out when she gets older."

Xie Jianjia wanted to continue to refute, but Zhou Chunyan pulled her elbow and signaled her to stop talking.

"Aunt Dong, I have to get up early tomorrow to go to the hospital to see Qiao Xiu, so hurry up and go to bed early."

The topic was changed. Grandma Dong clapped her hands and said, "Yes, yes, I have to get up early to make millet porridge. Jiajia, you have to go to school tomorrow. Don't stay up late and go to bed early."

After saying that, she went to wash up, and Zhou Chunyan took Xie Jianjia back to the room.

"Mom, what I said is true." Xie Jianjia's face was serious. "Mom knows." Zhou Chunyan touched her daughter's head and found that she had grown taller, probably over 1.6 meters tall.

"Grandma has the traditional thinking of the older generation. How can you argue with her? People of their generation will be scorned if they don't get married or have children. We are different from them."

Although Zhou Chunyan comforted Xie Jianjia verbally, she was actually torn between two factions in her heart. She was worried that her daughter would really not get married or have children, and her family would gradually leave her when they grow old. Who would be able to take care of her? But if she fell in love normally, got married and had children, she was afraid that her daughter would be bullied.

"But this concept is wrong! Yunlu City is a little better because no one knows our situation. When I was in Ningli County, I heard many times that people in the county were pointing fingers at us behind our backs. , it's obviously Xie Dahai and Wang Meihua's fault, why should I scold you." Xie Jianjia looked unconvinced.

Zhou Chunyan had always known that the neighbors in Ningli County liked to gossip behind their backs. She pretended not to hear them, but she didn't expect that her daughter would hear them.

"Jiajia." Zhou Chunyan said earnestly, "Many women in the county have never read books or received knowledge, and they blindly obey or are forced to be married off by their families. We can't blame them for this. They are the ones who have the most talk. Let them do whatever they want with their faces, we won’t lose a piece of flesh.”

Xie Jianjia pursed her dry lips.

Zhou Chunyan kept up her efforts, "You said Yunlu City didn't gossip behind our backs because everyone knew so little about our situation?"

Xie Jianjia nodded.

Zhou Chunyan pulled her daughter to the bed and denied her words.

"Actually, no, you underestimate the ability of the elders and aunties in the community to spread gossip. When we first moved here, I heard Aunt Wang, the vegetable seller, and several grandma who bought vegetables discussing our family's affairs. Although we don't live here, your godmother has lived here for more than ten years. Don't the neighbors know about her family's situation? Even if they don't, our mother and daughter live together, and no big man has ever lived with us. Come on, as long as you have some brains, you can guess what’s going on in our family.”

Xie Jianjia was puzzled, "But why have I never heard them talking about us two?"

Zhou Chunyan: "That's because they understand a truth."

Xie Jianjia looked at her mother with confusion on her face.

"They know that children are innocent. No matter what the adults do, it will not harm the children. Moreover, when our mother and I first came here, people were not familiar with us and it was normal for us to be curious behind our backs. Later, we stayed for a long time. Neighbors and neighbors can also feel it when you are dealing with people. If you treat educated people sincerely, others will also treat you sincerely."

Xie Jianjia remembered that when she went to school every day, the old man who collected waste downstairs would hold his local dog Jianguo and say hello to her to pay attention to her safety. He also recalled that Aunt Wang, the vegetable seller in the community, would give her stuff every time he saw her. When ordering food, it’s water chestnuts and chestnuts in winter, lotus seeds and crispy lotus roots in summer, and bananas and apples from time to time.

"But we can't beat him to death with a stick. Many people who have never read books are still kind-hearted. Just like a few grandmothers in the county who played well with Grandma Dong. When my mother was made things difficult by Wang Meihua, they helped me in private. A lot." Zhou Chunyan added.

Xie Jianjia nodded, and the originally confusing question seemed to have new ideas.

"Grandma has the perseverance of her generation, and I also have my own firm ideas, so I have to study hard. Only by studying can I understand things, can I understand right from wrong without being influenced by others, and can I have the opportunity to In a bigger and wider place, you don’t have to face people like Wang Meihua!”

Zhou Chunyan touched her daughter's little head and affirmed with a smile: "Yes, but it's not completely right. It's right to study to understand things. As for the other life, it's very long, and completely different ideas may appear in each time period. It can’t be fully defined right now.”

After saying that, he pushed Xie Jianjia to bed, "Go to bed early. We have to go to class tomorrow. After school, we have to go to the hospital to see your Aunt Qiaoxiu. She was still talking about you when she was pushed out of the delivery room today."

Hearing Huang Qiaoxiu talking about herself after giving birth, Xie Jianjia felt guilty.

She is still too timid.

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