Daily life after marriage
After Luan Yan became pregnant, she never had an easy day. She always felt uncomfortable in some places. After all, she was carrying two babies in her belly. She could no longer jump around like before. She would feel tired after walking for a long time and would have difficulty breathing. She had morning sickness that did not ease until the second half of pregnancy. During this period, she regretted having children, but this thought disappeared in a second.
Lu Sheng now sleeps lightly. When Luan Yan calls out softly at night, he wakes up immediately, quickly turns on the desk lamp at hand, and asks her where she feels uncomfortable.
Sometimes it is the baby kicking her, and sometimes it is a leg cramp. It feels bad, but when she sees Lu Sheng so nervous about her, she feels very happy. The feeling of being loved can offset these pains.
Worried about depression during pregnancy, the doctor said that she could express her thoughts to her husband. Luan Yan never holds back, but she vents any emotions. This causes Lu Sheng to panic more and more as the month goes by. He often wakes up, and he feels better when he sees Luan Yan sleeping sweetly beside him.
Luan Yan is the most anxious person when she is pregnant.
When the due date arrived, she was going to have a caesarean section. Before going to the hospital, Luan Yan ate everything she wanted to eat at home, in case they didn't give her food during the confinement period.
On the day of the birth, almost the whole family was there, including Luan Suqing.
Luan Yan thought she wouldn't come, and she couldn't tell what she felt when she saw her. The mother and daughter didn't say anything and Luan Yan was pushed into the delivery room. She didn't know if her birth was expected, but she was looking forward to the baby in her belly.
Lu Sheng accompanied her in, and the others waited outside the delivery room.
Xi Shangchen was there too. He came to accompany Luan Ran. Seeing that Luan Ran was more nervous than Luan Yan, he put his arm around Luan Ran's shoulders and rubbed them, saying gently, "It's okay, the best obstetricians are here, don't worry."
Xi Shangchen also wanted to have a baby with Luan Ran, but when he saw the suffering Luan Yan had to go on the operating table, Xi Shangchen gave up the idea and decided not to have one for now and wait a few years.
Luan Ran's eyes were red: "My sister is most afraid of pain."
Luan Suqing's nose was also sour when she heard this. No matter how she treated the two sisters, she never let them suffer physical pain since they were young.
In the delivery room, Luan Yan was lying on the operating table, anesthetized, and had no feeling.
Before giving birth, she thought about this and that, how to give birth and raise the baby, whether she would repeat the same mistakes, and all the bad results. At the moment of giving birth, she suddenly stopped thinking about it. Luan Yan, the person who gave birth, can be said to be the calmest among all of them.
"Don't be afraid." She could still comfort Lu Sheng.
In fact, she didn't want Lu Sheng to accompany her to give birth. She must have looked bloody and ugly when giving birth, but on the other hand, she could see the newborn baby for the first time, which meant something different.
Lu Sheng didn't say a word, but just held her hand to his lips, staring at her, afraid that she would disappear.
The hospital took away Lu Sheng's two relatives, but also gave him two lovely babies.
At 3:20 in the afternoon, the baby egg in Luan Yan's belly broke out of the shell.
The elder sister was born one minute earlier and was named Luan Nuannuan. The younger sister was born later and was named Lu Lulu. Such creative names were thought up by Luan Yan during her pregnancy.
Luan Yan fell asleep after giving birth. When she woke up from the anesthesia, the incision began to hurt. She couldn't rest even if she wanted to. As for the two little cubs, Lu Sheng thought that the children couldn't run away anyway, and there was plenty of time to visit them at any time. He just had to concentrate on guarding Luan Yan by the bed. If Luan Yan was in pain, he could comfort her. If everyone went to see the baby and no one cared about her, she would be sad.
Luan Suqing and Luan Ran went to see them. Luan Suqing thought of when Luan Yan and Luan Ran were just born, she was very reluctant to hold them, but the two small and weak lives still left a deep impression on her.
"It's like you and your sister when you were little. Did you name them?"
"The older one is Luan Nuannuan and the younger one is Lu Lulu."
Luan Suqing frowned, thinking that the name was too funny. It was okay as a nickname, but she didn't say anything in the end: "I can tell that your sister gave it to you."
Luan Ran smiled. Like Luan Yan, she had always felt a thorn in her heart after years of disappointment.
There are not so many happy endings in life. Most of the time, everyone is whitewashing the situation.
Luan Yan cried in pain when her forehead was injured. It would be strange if she didn't cry with such a big cut on her stomach. Fortunately, there was Lu Sheng. He helped her relieve the pain, diverted her attention, coaxed her and went along with her, so she felt better.
After being discharged from the hospital, as Luan Yan expected, she was not allowed to do this or that. She was asked to drink hot water on hot days, and the thick carpets at home were not allowed to walk barefoot. She was also not allowed to eat many irritating foods.
Luan Yan was almost desperate. Being overly cared for was also a kind of trouble.
Nuannuan and Lulu are good at crying. As long as one of them starts crying, the other will cry no matter what they are doing. This is absolutely Luan Yan's fault.
It is not a human thing to coax children.
When the two children started crying at the same time, Luan Yan and Lu Sheng were at a loss and began to panic. After a while, they found that the one crying at the back was just thundering but not raining, just howling without tears, just howling to match the atmosphere...
Luan Yan suffered too much when she was pregnant with them. She didn't want to be a mother like Luan Suqing. She and Lu Sheng used their lifelong patience for the two babies.
The first time she bathed the baby, the first time she changed the diaper, and the first time she sang to the baby to coax him to sleep were all new experiences for her.
The two little ones are the best when they are sleeping. They close their eyes, have white and tender little faces, and their long eyelashes are like small fans. They are white and plump, and they are getting more and more delicate and beautiful.
Lu Sheng's favorite thing every day is to watch his daughter sleep by the crib. He often brags to Li Yifei and other people who don't have daughters, saying that he gave birth to twins in one pregnancy. He got married three years late, but he still completed the task of having two children in three years.
Li Yifei couldn't stand it, so he said to him: "It's great to be pregnant with twins. Your wife gave birth to them with great effort. What does it have to do with you? Why are you bragging?"
Although what he said made sense, Lu Sheng still blocked him.
The first thing Lu Sheng did when he got home was to kiss his wife and then go to see the baby. He took the children from the confinement nanny. As a father, he was already very skilled in how to take care of the baby's eating, drinking, defecating and urinating.
Luan Yan was still in the confinement period and couldn't go out for
the time being. She was also in pain from the wound, so she could only rest and was very depressed at home. Lu Sheng bought a grand piano and put it at home. He didn't buy it before because he didn't need it. Luan Yan had a music studio, and the music room at home only had some small things. Now she can play the piano with the baby. She will feel much better when she has things she likes at home.
He bought it secretly without telling Luan Yan. One day, Luan Yan woke up and found a piano in her house. She was stunned and thought she was hallucinating. Later, she thought that it must be Lu Sheng who bought it, and she was happy. She was
not happy because of the piano, but because Lu Sheng was thinking about her and knew her preferences. She could feel whether he was attentive to her or not.
So Luan Yan, who hadn't cooked for hundreds of years, cooked a bowl of her "specialty" clear soup noodles to give Lu Sheng a surprise. When Lu Sheng got home and saw the noodles on the table, he said in a boring tone: "I'm not celebrating my birthday today."
"Then do you want to eat it?" Luan Yan pretended to be angry.
Lu Sheng smiled and said: "Eat it."
In fact, Luan Yan's cooking skills are not really good. She often puts too much vinegar or cooks the noodles until they are mushy. But every time, Lu Sheng finishes the meal, leaving no soup. This reminds Lu Sheng of when his parents were still alive. His mother was not good at cooking, but she would occasionally cook, probably to "reward" his father.
Living with two people, most of the time there are no polite thanks, no corny sweet words, just plain warmth day after day, which makes up every day.
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