Chapter 253

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Protagonist:

Lin Xiyu

"Rules are dead, people are alive......"

Grandma Gu glared at him in dissatisfaction: "Can't you think of another way to get the Nurse Head to agree?"

"You think too highly of me."

Guben helplessly held his forehead: "If I had that kind of ability, I wouldn't be worried."

"How about going to a Confinement Center?"

Liu Jie tentatively offered advice: "Confinement Centers have more care staff, conditions are better than the Hospital, care for the mother and baby is more thorough, and family members don't have to work so hard......."

"No."

Guben interrupted her before she could finish, his attitude cold and hard in a startling way.

Lin Xiyu lifted her eyelids, looking at him suspiciously.

"Why not?"

Grandma Gu also stared at him unabashedly: "This won't do, that won't do, what exactly do you want?"

"Grandma, you just stay out of it."

Guben smiled bitterly: "I can hold on, the babies are still small, I'm not at ease handing them to outsiders."

"You toughing it out alone, how many days can you last?"

Grandma Gu was choked with anger: "Even the hardest iron man can't withstand 24-hour non-stop rotation, you keep being this stubborn, before the babies are discharged you'll collapse first."

"Guben, listen to Grandma."

Lin Xiyu was also worried about his body: "Don't forget you still have old injuries, you really can't take this kind of torment."

"I'll go talk to the Nurse Head......"

Grandma Gu turned and walked out: "What's wrong with hiring one more person, what stupid Hospital rules, not a bit of human feeling......"

"Grandma, don't go......"

Guben gave Liu Jie a look, signaling her to quickly stop her, while he himself first carefully put Lele back into the incubator, only then chasing after to persuade: "Just trust me, I know my limits, if I really can't hold on I'll definitely hire someone, I still want to live a few more years, accompany my wife and kids more, I won't joke with my own body."

Grandma Gu didn't believe: "I see you're just hard-supporting right now......"

"No such thing......"

Guben quibbled: "I know my own body best, ever since the babies came, my cerebral cortex has been in a constant state of excitement, it's not that I don't want to rest, it's that even lying down I can't sleep, a kind of extreme excitement spirit is supporting me to persist until the babies are discharged, before that, absolutely won't collapse."

"You're just spouting nonsense......"

Grandma Gu still didn't believe: "If the body really collapses it'll be too late, no, this time no matter how you argue I can't listen to you, a Nanny must be hired, if the Nurses won't agree we'll discharge, go to a Confinement Center."

"Can't discharge......"

Guben, in his anxiety, nearly blurted out the truth: "The Doctor said they must stay a full month, only when the babies' physical indicators are all normal can they leave."

"A month?!"

Grandma Gu heard this and was even less calm: "Still have to stay that many days, no, no, absolutely no, you still want to persist alone for a month, how is that possible, a person would be worn dry......"

"Guben, you still listen to Grandma......"

Lin Xiyu's delicate brows furrowed slightly, sensitively sensing something was off: "Letting you bear the burden alone, I can't bear it either, if you're really doing it for me and the children, then take good care of your own body, and don't let me worry for you."

"Alright."

His beloved wife had already spoken to this extent, not listening wasn't an option.

Guben smiled helplessly, reluctantly agreed: "I'll go to the Nurse Station and ask if we can add one more companion carer."

"You've finally come to your senses."

Grandma Gu hurriedly urged: "Don't dawdle, hurry up and go, if they won't agree we'll transfer hospitals, not staying here anymore."

"Sigh."

Guben sighed helplessly again, turned and left the Ward.

Lin Xiyu watched his back, a complex, indiscernible light flashing in her eyes.

——

The Hospital had regulations, the Nurse Head initially disagreed, Guben had no choice but to stuff her a Red Envelope to get permission, then hired a Maternity Matron to come help watch the children together.

The newly arrived Maternity Matron was surnamed Xu, about the same age as Liu Jie, both in their forties, precisely the best age for doing Nanny work.

Lin Xiyu saw she was clean and efficient, very experienced in caring for babies, and was very satisfied with her own husband's efficiency in handling things.

Grandma Gu was also placated, no longer having the mind to argue with her Grandson, confidently entrusting the heavy responsibility of caring for the mother and babies to the two Nannies.

As for her old self, there was still a little great-grandson at home to watch, wanting to stay at the Hospital every day to help watch the children, she truly had the will but lacked the strength.

——

Ever since Lin Xiyu raised suspicions, the more she thought the more she felt something was wrong.

At night she slept uneasily, seeing Guben again sitting in a daze before Lele's incubator, in the end she couldn't hold back, and called him over.

Guben didn't want her to worry, still wanted to hide it: "Lele is the smallest, me as a father, doting on her a bit more, isn't that only right."

"I am your wife, do you think you can hide it from me?"

Lin Xiyu didn't believe from the bottom of her heart: "Hiding for a day is possible, a month, a year? Could it be you still want to keep hiding forever, not tell me?"

"I never thought about hiding it from you......"

Guben wanted to explain, his deliberately averted gaze betrayed him.

"This is the look of your guilty conscience."

Lin Xiyu saw right through him: "Nothing hidden from me, so why won't you look me in the eyes."

"I am looking..."

Guben deliberately flattered her, trying to muddle through: "Wife's eyes are truly beautiful, no wonder the babies' big eyes are all so bright and lively, they all take after you, Mother's genes are still the best..."

Lin Xiyu didn't smile, looking at him coldly.

"Truly very beautiful..."

Guben couldn't continue, embarrassedly coughed twice, and once again avoided her gaze.

"Tell the truth..."

Lin Xiyu couldn't wait, asked straight to the point: "Is it that Lele has some situation? Making you pay extra attention to her."

"Lele's fine..."

Guben subconsciously denied.

"If nothing's wrong, why are you acting guilty?"

Lin Xiyu laughed in anger, forcefully poked his forehead.

"I'm not acting guilty..."

"Still want to deceive me?"

Guben just wanted to explain, but was interrupted by his wife.

Lin Xiyu's pretty face darkened, she played her trump card: "If you don't tell the truth, I won't nurse anymore, you handle it yourself."

Guben: "..."

——

The couple's standoff ended with the children's mother winning completely, Guben helplessly had to tell the truth.

"Lele, my daughter..."

Lin Xiyu heard the truth, felt another pang of heartache.

"Doctor said surgery can be done around two years old..."

Guben forcibly endured his own heartache, tried his best to comfort her: "As long as within these two years, we do our best to take good care of Lele, there will be hope, Lele will get better..."

"Is Lele asleep? I want to hold her."

Lin Xiyu wiped the corner of her eye, propped herself up with her arm, peered toward the incubator.

Guben couldn't bear to refuse, brought Lele out, placed her beside her.

Lin Xiyu turned on her side, embraced her daughter, forehead gently pressing against her small face.

Lele seemed to sense her mother's love in her sleep, parted her little mouth, smiled happily.

"Lele smiled..."

Guben looked at mother and daughter with pampering affection, inexplicably felt a few points of regret.

Resented that he didn't have a video recorder in hand, couldn't record this warm and beautiful scene.

"Don't hard-support alone anymore in the future..."

Lin Xiyu gently kissed her daughter's small face, gaze gradually becoming firm: "Lele is our daughter, is our shared child, as her mother I cannot endure the pain of losing a child again, I will do my utmost, together with you, to take good care of our daughter, let her stay far from illness, grow up happy and carefree."

"Good."

Guben's nose soured, inexplicably a bit wanted to cry.

Beloved wife's strength made him feel relieved of a heavy burden, the heart tortured by daughter's illness for so long, also healed at this moment.

——

Knowing daughter's condition, Lin Xiyu same as Guben, put more energy on Lele.

Most of the time in a day, the couple revolved around their little daughter.

As time went on, also aroused other people's suspicion.

"Your female cousin isn't ignorant, seen those who favor daughters over sons, never seen a couple like you two who favor daughters over sons this much..."

Female cousin couldn't hold back first, using the opening to express her amazement: "Leaving two big fat boys unattended, single-mindedly doting on the girl, if those who can't give birth to sons saw this, their teeth wouldn't just turn sour."

"Our family just dotes on the girl."

Lin Xiyu didn't want outsiders' gossip to bring negative influence to daughter's young heart, made up her mind to hide from everyone, including her own relatives.

"Doting on the girl also doesn't need to be this clearly divided, right?"

Female cousin still very surprised: "Xixi is also a girl, didn't see you two doting on her this much, all affection given to Lele."

"Lele is the youngest."

Lin Xiyu smiled and scolded: "Grandma dotes on grandson, loving mother pampers the youngest, haven't you heard?"

"People say that about boys, right?"

Female cousin didn't know whether to cry or laugh: "Even though I read little, I still know the difference between son and daughter."

"You don't have kids, you don't understand..."

Lin Xiyu righteously: "Once you become a treasure mom you'll know, doting on the youngest baby is instinct, regardless of gender."

"Fine fine fine, I don't understand..."

Female cousin laughed in anger: "You're impressive now, one birth four treasures, you have many kids, you're right."

"You also hurry up and marry, have a kid."

Lin Xiyu smiled and teased her again: "Otherwise our kids' age gap too big, no common language."

Female cousin: "......."

Actually got disliked.

Sister who gave birth to baby not cute anymore, a bit heart-piercing.

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Guben and his wife were of one mind, keeping their daughter's condition strictly secret; apart from their own maternal grandmother and the two nannies, no one else knew.

Grandpa Gu learned the truth, and his attitude toward the doctors and nurses underwent a one-hundred-eighty-degree transformation; upon seeing the attending physicians on rounds, he smiled with an indescribable warmth.

The Nurse Head was also praised by her into a flower.

A middle-aged woman in her forties was insistently praised by the old lady into an eighteen-year-old Eldest Daughter, making her own grandson blush with embarrassment.

"Grandma, stop praising..."

Guben's mouth twitched: "You've praised the Nurse Head until she's embarrassed."

"What do you know, I'm doing this for Lele..."

Grandpa Gu gave him a dissatisfied glare: "If Lele ever has a headache or fever, with good relations sorted out, at the critical moment they'll run faster and pay more attention..."

You're older, you're right!

Guben understood, and decisively shut his mouth.

——

The four babies, under the family's meticulous care, grew fair and chubby, very pleasing to see.

A month passed in a flash, and the discharge day soon arrived.

"The four little babies didn't get sick once during the confinement month, it's simply a miracle..."

When the attending doctor came for the final rounds, seeing the four lively, adorable little babies who had grown noticeably sturdier than at birth, he couldn't help but click his tongue in wonder.

Especially Lele; when the heart disease was first diagnosed, she truly never thought this child could survive.

With a gambling mindset, entrusting her to the parents' personal care, she also wanted the poor little life to feel a few more days of familial warmth.

Unexpectedly, she actually won the bet; the effect was remarkably good, making her secretly delighted while also truly letting out a breath of relief.

"Still must thank the doctor's wise decision..."

Grandpa Gu was about to praise a few more sentences when the Nurse Head pushed open the ward door, leading a few people in with beaming smiles.

"Reporters have come to interview, wanting to seek the parents' consent to take a few photos, report this happy news, and incidentally give our hospital some publicity."

Reporters?!

Guben and Lin Xiyu exchanged a glance, simultaneously turning their heads toward the doorway; sure enough, among the group they saw a familiar figure shouldering a Camera.

"Guben, Xiyu, long time no see..."

Cameraman was still the same as ever, appearance not much changed, only the beard stubble on his chin was longer than before.

"Guo Ge, it's you!"

Guben felt a surprise delight, walked up and gave him a warm embrace.

"What about Sister Yan, she didn't come?"

Lin Xiyu saw the reporter who came to interview was a young, beautiful girl, and glanced away with slight regret.

"She went to BJ."

Cameraman set down the Camera, chatting familiarly with them.

"Promoted?"

Lin Xiyu was genuinely happy for Sister Yan from the bottom of her heart.

"No."

Cameraman gave an unexpected answer: "She got married, her husband is a Beijing native, she went there to develop too."

"Is that so?"

Lin Xiyu felt quite regretful for Cameraman; she had thought the two would be a pair, never expecting such an ending.

"What happened?"

Guben teased in a man's way: "Rejected? Back then it looked like Sister Yan had some interest in you too, why didn't you win her over?"

"Liking was useless, couldn't compare to him having money."

Cameraman, after these years, the pain in his heart had long faded; he could already tell the past embarrassment as a joke: "A poor lad like me, pockets shy, a gift I could produce was just a handful of fresh flowers; he made a move and it was a car, how to compare? Using flower buds to bump wheel rims, wouldn't they just be crushed to smithereens."

"What about you? Married?"

Guben patted his shoulder, by way of comfort.

"Married."

Cameraman hehe'd with a grin: "Kid's six years old, can run errands."

"Envious, you'll be free soon."

Guben glanced at the four little brats lined up on the bed, feigned a headache and rubbed his brow: "We're just starting, when will we ever see the end?"