Chapter 260: Men, stay far away!

After eating at Sister Qinghong's Jiaozi's full-month banquet, Shen Man and her sister-in-law's maternity leave was almost over.

The two of them had to return to work, and the burden of looking after the children fell on the group of elders.

Of course, they were happy to do it.

A dozen or so elders were more than enough to take care of the three little ones.

Besides the elders, the cat nanny Tangyuan also came online.

The three little ones all liked Tangyuan very much.

Lian Lian liked to rub Tangyuan's ears, Xiao Mantou liked to hug Tangyuan, and Xiao Nuomi liked to play with Tangyuan's tail.

However, none of the three little ones grabbed hard; they would occasionally "communicate" with the meowing Tangyuan, babbling non-stop.

When Tangyuan was around, the three little ones were very cooperative when drinking milk.

The elders found it even easier to take care of the little ones.

Tired?

Not tired at all!

There were so many people that if they wanted to cultivate some affection with the little ones, someone would snatch them away!

For the sake of taking care of the children, they could even cast their favorite fishing aside.

The small courtyard was too small?

Then they would push the little carts and take the children out to stroll around the Jiashuyuan.

Over fifty infants had their full-month banquets one after another.

They could all be brought out to sunbathe to avoid jaundice.

Elder Pei and the others were the most popular because they could treat the children's hiccups, loss of appetite, and other minor ailments quickly and accurately, saving a lot of trouble!

Some pregnant women with big bellies were also happy to move their little stools out to sunbathe, occasionally looking at the infants sleeping soundly with their butts in the air all over the courtyard, and the women doing needlework would smile knowingly.

The infants would wake up one after another after sleeping for an hour and a half to two hours.

Hungry, pooping, peeing—it was an endless stream.

No one minded the infants' poop and pee; everyone was busy with their own tasks.

The most eye-catching, naturally, was the elder group circling the three infants, making some military wives who didn't have mothers-in-law to help with childcare envious to death.

If you talk about happiness, it belonged to Comrade Shen Man and Comrade Pei Yan Ting; with elders by their side, and so many elders helping with childcare, they were truly happy!

Whether they were happy or not, Shen Man didn't really think deeply about that question. Right now, the concentrated outbreak of births had ended, and the external support team invited by the hospital was about to leave.

Before leaving, they held a training session to share the experience of the past two months.

She listened and benefited a lot.

In this day and age, there wasn't much fancy academic research, only the most simple and rustic exchange of experience.

As an emerging medical direction, obstetrics and gynecology would definitely be of great use in the future!

Zhou Hongyu had benefited a lot from helping in the obstetrics and gynecology department for the past two months and wanted to take an extra course, but there was no precedent for it, and the coursework for orthopedics and neurosurgery was complex, so she had no energy left and had to give up.

However, given her help over the past two months, the door to the obstetrics and gynecology department would be open to her in the future.

If she had children in the future, all the staff in the obstetrics and gynecology department said, "Don't worry, we will definitely take good care of our 'own family'."

Zhou Hongyu ran away as if escaping; she didn't want to get married young!

She was the first military doctor in her family!

She would only consider personal marriage issues after she had achieved success in her career!

She would absolutely not get married just for the sake of marriage, and she would absolutely not give up her career for marriage!

She would work hard, earn money, and be filial to her grandmother and aunts!

Men, stay far away!

"Zhou Hongyu, why are you running so fast? Who's chasing you?"

The speaker was Zhang Yibing, wearing a white coat and looking quite professional.

"It's nothing. Have you eaten? Call Brother Zhang and let's go to the canteen to eat together."

Zhou Hongyu rolled her eyes at him. The three of them had shared hardships and were all newcomers, so they had long since become "meal buddies."

"No, let's go together. Brother Zhang is resting tomorrow and going outside the Sea Island to visit his wife and children. What about you? Where are you going on your day off tomorrow?"

"Of course, I'm going back to my hometown to visit my grandmother and aunts. Let me tell you, I've made something of myself now. My grandmother can stand tall in the village, and my aunts—after they went home, their in-laws were much more polite when they spoke..."

"That's great."

"Yeah, it's great."

The two were about the same age and had many common topics.

Don't misunderstand; it was because their family backgrounds were similar, their growth environments were similar, and their work pressure was equally high, making it easy to huddle together for warmth.

It wasn't that the other colleagues weren't friendly, but they all had their own work to do. They were newcomers who needed to learn and memorize, so they couldn't disturb others; it was best to huddle together and supervise each other.

As for anything else?

Don't even think about it. If you have the energy to think about that, you might as well memorize another professional textbook!

Returning to work, Shen Man felt full of energy.

The busy Head Nurse Gao also had a quite prominent belly.

At lunch, they gathered at a table to eat and chat—

"My mother-in-law has finally left. I'm taking maternity leave next month, and my mother is coming to take care of me during my confinement..."

"Has your man figured it out?"

"He knows how his mother has been acting up for the more than half a year I've been pregnant."

Head Nurse Gao took a sip of soup and lowered her voice, "My mother-in-law just can't stand seeing me idle. As long as I get home, there's endless housework!

If I weren't pregnant, I would have just endured it. But I'm pregnant, I work during the day, and I'm still not idle when I get home at night!

So I found an opportunity to blow things out of proportion. I went to my man's unit to find his leader and asked the leader to make sure he gets off work on time every day. Otherwise, he gets home too late every day, and his mother won't let me, a pregnant wife, eat a hot meal...

And I asked their leader if the unit was out of money and was defaulting on employee allowances?

How come I haven't seen her man's allowance for over half a year? The whole family is relying on me, a pregnant woman, to support them?"

After a few times of making a scene, her man was left with no face.

Then she cried, not saying her mother-in-law was bad, just saying she was exhausted from work and couldn't even eat a hot meal when she got home, only eating pickled vegetables.

And so, now her man's allowance is in her hands, and the meddlesome mother-in-law has been sent back to the hometown by her man.

Her own man is afraid she'll ruin his job, so he's now obedient to her every wish, fearing she'll go to his unit to make a scene.

"You, you usually look so soft and weak, I thought you were soft-hearted. I didn't expect you to do such a great job!"

"That's right. If they act like the first day, I dare to act like the fifteenth. If they ruin his job, I'll just divorce him. I have a job; I can raise the child alone!"

Head Nurse Gao said that, but in reality, she was a bit nervous when she was doing it.

But as long as the mother-in-law was in the house, the couple would never have a good day!

So, she burned her bridges and just did it!