Chapter 473: The Birth of a Child (Part )

The New Year of 12 was peaceful and full of vitality. It was peaceful because Gu Jia was about to give birth and could not go anywhere, and there were no entertainment activities. It was full of vitality, of course, because the family was about to welcome the new life in Gu Jia's belly.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhou Jing stayed at home with Gu Jia, and asked Gu's father and mother to go out for a walk to feel the New Year atmosphere of the capital.

On the sixth day of the New Year, Zhou Jing had no activities and stayed at home with Gu Jia.

Gu Jia was originally scheduled to go to the hospital on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year to give birth. However, on the seventh day, Gu Jia's stomach was still normal. Gu Jia didn't want to go to the hospital, so she didn't go.

A single room for pregnant women was booked in the hospital a few years ago. On the seventh day of the first lunar month, Zhou Jing first delivered Gu Jia's daily necessities and pajamas to the hospital room.

The hospital Zhou Jing chose is the best obstetrics and gynecology hospital in the vicinity, and the single room she booked is the best room in the hospital, which costs more than a thousand yuan a day. You get what you pay for. The single room for pregnant women, which costs more than a thousand yuan a day, is fully equipped with a maternity bed, a crib, a sofa, a bathroom, and even a living room. It is certainly incomparable to home, but living in such an environment in the hospital can make one feel much more comfortable.

He brought some daily necessities from home. After delivering them to the hospital room, Zhou Jing looked around and decided to go to the supermarket to buy anything else. There was a supermarket next to the hospital. Zhou Jing bought two pairs of slippers and three basins. The basins were of different colors: one blue, one pink, and one green.

The pink basin is prepared for the child, the blue one is for washing the face, and the green one is for Gu Jia to wash other parts of her body.

I also bought towels, diapers, disposable cups, electric kettles, tea, etc.

Zhou Jing bought everything he could think of, so that he wouldn't be in a hurry when he needed them. It would be difficult to carry too many things. He also bought two large storage boxes, one medium storage box, and one small storage box. When Gu Jia is discharged from the hospital, there will be more things, and it will be much more convenient to pack them in storage boxes.

After the things were delivered to the hospital room, Zhou Jing told the person in charge of Gu Jia's department that Gu Jia would be hospitalized on the eighth day of the first lunar month.

After doing all this, Zhou Jing stopped by a maternity and baby store on the way home to buy some things that Gu Jia would need after being discharged from the hospital, including what the child needed. Then he went to the supermarket and bought a bucket of baby formula powder with a good reputation. Although he planned to let the child eat breast milk as much as possible, Gu Jia would feed the child formula powder when it was not convenient for her to do so. The formula powder was recommended by Gu Jia.

"My best friend's child has always used this brand of formula milk."

What Gu Jia was most concerned about was milk powder, so she checked the production date and ingredients of the milk powder Zhou Jing bought.

"You shouldn't stick to just one brand. If there's something wrong with that brand, it could be more harmful if you keep eating it."

Zhou Jing took the shopping to the kitchen.

"That's right." Gu Jia nodded and said, "If it's mainly breast milk, this bucket of milk can last for a year or so, and adults can drink it on weekdays."

The family doesn't have to worry about money for the child's milk powder, and Gu Jia doesn't want to feed the child milk powder that has been opened and left for too long.

"You can bring the bottle tomorrow, but you don't need to bring the water cup."

Zhou Jing opened the special storage box for children in the study, which contained bottles, nipples, cups, bottle cleaners, a disinfection cabinet, and so on.

Everything the child uses is carefully selected by Zhou Jing. The milk bottle and water cup are made of glass, and the straws in the cups are made of silicone. Zhou Jing chose milk bottles and water cups with simple designs that are easy to clean and not prone to hiding residues.

Breast milk or formula is enough for babies under six months old. When the weather is hot, you can feed them less water and no water cup is needed.

"You don't need to bring a water cup. What if the baby doesn't come out after the due date?"

Gu Jia couldn't help but think of this question.

"When the time comes, they will naturally come out, and Nezha is no exception."

Zhou Jing pinched Gu Jia's belly and smiled.

Gu Jia smiled and said, "We should choose a good day to go to the hospital tomorrow. It would be good if we can delay it until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month."

It was painful before, but now Gu Jia is not in a hurry to give birth sooner or later.

"Giving birth doesn't have to be a good day or a bad day. Any birthday is a good day." Mother Gu said to her daughter, "If you don't plan to go to the hospital today, stay in bed and don't move around too much."

"All right!"

Gu Jia couldn't sit still, so she had to go to bed.

"I'm bored and surfing the Internet for a while."

Zhou Jing opened the small folding table and placed it on the bed, took Gu Jia's laptop computer and went to the study.

The company will end its holiday on the eighth day of the first lunar month. Zhou Jing will not be able to go to the company tomorrow morning. He sent a message to the senior management group of Chuangzhi Technology Co., Ltd. to explain the situation and asked Wang Tao, Qin Zhengyu and others to give red envelopes to employees and organize work.

Afterwards, Zhou Jing called Bai Xiyao to talk about the official production of products after the electronics factory started operations.

Bai Xiyao asked first: "How is Gu Jia's health?"

Zhou Jing: "Very good, I will go to the hospital tomorrow to give birth."

Bai Xiyao: "Just stay in BJ and don't worry about Tangdu. The electronics factory will end the holiday tomorrow. The final pre-job assessment will be conducted the day after tomorrow. We plan to start formal production the day after tomorrow. As for sales, I have already contacted several electronics malls in Yu City. The products will be available on the market as soon as they are released. The sales department will send people to promote the products in other parts of the province in a few days."

Zhou Jing: "Sure, just promote the e-commerce mall. If the e-commerce mall sells well, those small stores will come to you on their own initiative."

Marketing is only one aspect of doing business. What is more important than marketing is the product itself. The market is very sensitive. Once you enter the market, as long as the sales are good, it will quickly attract the attention of other stores.

Bai Xiyao: "Okay, I will let go and work on Tangdu. I will find the relevant departments as soon as possible to allocate land to expand the production line."

Zhou Jing: "Just go for it. Failure doesn't exist in my dictionary."

Bai Xiyao: "Haha, I'm just your employee. If I make money, I'll share the profits with you. If I lose money, it's yours."

Zhou Jing: “.”

After arranging the company's affairs, Zhou Jing logged into another QQ to chat with Yang Wenwen. The remedial classes for the senior year of high school started on the eighth day of the first lunar month, and Yang Wenwen was on the train to Yulin City.

[We are approaching a mountainous area with many tunnels. The cell phone signal is not good. You go ahead and do your thing. I will tell you when we get to Yushi.]

Yang Wenwen’s cell phone doesn’t have a spare battery, so she has to use electricity sparingly.

【Uh-huh】

Zhou Jing logged out of QQ and cleared the login records. The scumbag must be cautious at all times. Zhou Jing had developed a habit of logging out and clearing all traces of QQ on BJ's computer every time he contacted Chen Jiaqian and Yang Wenwen.

For Zhou Jing, who is now proficient in computers and software, he can quickly delete the records on the computer.

With nothing else to do, Zhou Jing went to the bedroom to accompany Gu Jia.

"Does the company need to prepare anything for tomorrow's holiday?"

Gu Jia is always worried about the company.

"Leave it to them."

The business of Chuangzhi Technology Co., Ltd. is relatively simple. After the start of construction, it will continue with the projects from the previous year.

"Your mother is here, so go and take care of your company's business."

It is definitely impossible for one person to take care of everything in the hospital. It is enough for the two of them to have their mother to take care of it. Gu Jia does not need Zhou Jing to be with her all the time. Now that she has three companies, there will definitely be a lot of things to do.

"It's not that busy. Chuangzhi Technology and the others just need to carry out the project as planned. Bowei Network has people who can handle it on their own. Bai Xiyao doesn't need to worry too much. Bai Xiyao will have no problem managing the electronics factory."

Zhou Jing poured a glass of water for Gu Jia, took a can of herbal tea for himself, and went to watch a movie together on the bed.

"Bai Xiyao is such an amazing girl. Most boys are not as good as her."

Speaking of Bai Xiyao, Gu Jia admired her from the bottom of her heart, a girl of twenty-four or twenty-five years old was in charge of two companies independently.

"People are made through experience."

Zhou Jing knew how Bai Xiyao had come to where she was. She started out by opening a store in an electronics mall, then founded Bowei Network Technology Co., Ltd. and built it up from small to large, and now runs an electronics factory, taking one step at a time.

"Experience is one thing, character is another."

Gu Jia is also a woman. After training with Zhou Jing for quite some time, she still cannot stand on her own.

"What else do I need to prepare for going to the hospital tomorrow?"

Mother Gu walked to the bedroom door and said.

"I'm almost ready. I've bought some daily necessities and sent them to the hospital. I'll see what you need when we get there."

Zhou Jing looked towards the door and said.

"Xiao Zhou's parents will arrive tomorrow morning. Do you need anything to prepare?"

Mother Gu continued to ask.

Zhou Jing had forgotten about this, and after thinking for a while he said, "There's nothing to prepare. Just stay in the same bedroom as last time. Mom, take a rest. I'll get up and make dinner."

"I have nothing to do." There are many dishes to be cooked for the New Year's Eve dinner because Gu's mother is too old to handle it. It is no problem to cook two or three dishes at other times.

Usually, take care of your mother as much as possible without asking your son-in-law to do it.

After Gu's mother left, Zhou Jing searched for maternity recipes on the computer.

"If it's a natural birth, it's okay to eat anything, right?"

Gu Jia said with a smile.

"Try not to eat chili peppers and garlic, and eat light food."

Zhou Jing knew without checking that women who had just given birth should eat light food.

"You are so thoughtful."

Gu Jia thought about it and it was true. A natural birth would also cause some degree of trauma to the body.

"Let's just take this menu, what do you think?"

Zhou Jing found a maternity menu and recommended it.

"I'm not picky about food, this is very rich."

Gu Jia took a quick glance and saw that the menu had more than fifty kinds of menu combinations, such as loofah and egg soup, golden corn kernels, stir-fried vegetables, steamed fish, rice, stir-fried spinach, steamed corn, stir-fried shredded potatoes, boiled eggs, etc.

"My parents should have left home."

Zhou Jing saved the menu and picked up his phone to call his mother. His mother and father had just boarded the bus from Qing County to Sui County.

"We'll have to wait for several hours if we go so early in Sui County."

Gu Jia said after Zhou Jing hung up the phone.

"This generation of people is very proactive in everything they do. They would rather arrive early than late. It's hard to wait for the bus after 4 o'clock. If they take the train from Qing County, there is a train at around 5 o'clock, and they arrive in Sui County at 7 or 8 o'clock. They worry about being late."

Zhou Jing calculated the time. His parents would arrive in Sui County at around five o'clock and have dinner there at around six o'clock, so they would have to wait for about three hours. If his parents took the train, it would be the same train that Yang Wenwen took.

"That's right. One time my college roommate was late for his trip and got stuck in traffic and missed his train home. It's no use waiting anywhere, so the train station is safer. I'll go to the hospital after lunch tomorrow, and your parents will be here too." Gu Jia grabbed Zhou Jing's hand and put it on her belly and said, "Are rural midwives reliable for giving birth in the countryside?"

"As long as it's not a difficult birth, there won't be a big problem. The success rate is definitely not comparable to that of a hospital."

After staying in bed with Gu Jia for the whole afternoon, Zhou Jing got up to cook when he heard Gu's mother come back from buying groceries.

Dad Gu returned to Tangdu on the second day of the first lunar month. An official of Dad Gu's level must be prepared for emergencies at any time. Under normal circumstances, Dad Gu cannot leave Tangdu. If Gu Jia was not about to give birth, Dad Gu might not have come to Tangdu to celebrate the New Year.

Dinner was only for Zhou Jing, Gu Jia and Gu's mother and was very simple, with three dishes, one cold, two hot and a soup.

Before the Chinese New Year, Zhou Jing brought four local roosters, half a sheep, and seven or eight pounds of pork from his hometown. There was one chicken left, which he planned to eat at noon tomorrow. There was some mutton and pork left. Zhou Jing thought for a while and prepared to make noodles. He asked Gu Jia if she wanted to eat mutton noodles or shredded pork soup noodles.

"Lamb noodles!"

Gu Jia likes to eat anything and knows that Zhou Jing likes mutton noodles.

"Then I'll knead the dough."

Mother Gu went to the kitchen.

Zhou Jing cooked the mutton and his mother-in-law kneaded the dough, and dinner was ready quickly.

"No need to make cold dishes, I want to eat kimchi."

Gu Jia went to the kitchen and took a look. She was tired of eating meat for every meal recently.

Zhou Jing put the beef back into the refrigerator, took out the kimchi jar from the refrigerator, and took out a small plate of kimchi.

"Jia Jia, how do you feel now?"

Mother Gu said while looking at her daughter's belly.

"No reaction, the due date is tomorrow."

The meal was almost ready. Gu Jia sat down at the table first, picked up the chopsticks and tasted the kimchi.

After dinner, Zhou Jing and Gu Jia did not go out for a walk. Instead, they watched TV in the living room. After watching one episode, they made an excuse to go out shopping at around eight o'clock. Zhou Jing also called Yang Wenwen, who was almost in Yulin City.

Zhou Jing drove out and stopped outside the community to call Yang Wenwen. After two rings, Yang Wenwen's gentle voice came.

Zhou Jing: "Are we almost there?"

Yang Wenwen: "We just crossed the Yu River. We shouldn't be late. We'll arrive at the station at nine o'clock."

Zhou Jing: "Didn't you have dinner?"

Yang Wenwen: "I brought some snacks, so I'm not hungry after eating some."

Zhou Jing: "We have to eat after we get off the car. What are you going to eat?"

Yang Wenwen: "You bastard, you should take a few days off after you finish your work these days."

Zhou Jing: "It will be after the 15th."

Yang Wenwen: "What did you eat tonight?"

Zhou Jing: "Gu Jia's mother came to BJ this afternoon. I went to the airport to pick up the food we had at Gu Jia's house, stir-fried vegetables and rice."

Yang Wenwen: "How is Gu Jia's cooking?"

Zhou Jing: “So-so.”

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After chatting for a few minutes and hanging up the phone, Zhou Jing drove to the supermarket, bought some fruit and some things for his parents to use tomorrow and took them home.

Gu Jia was still watching TV in the living room. Zhou Jing went to the kitchen, cut a cantaloupe and brought it to the living room.

"Is it cold outside at night?"

Gu Jia shook Zhou Jing's hand and said.

"It's a bit chilly at night."

Zhou Jing held Gu Jia's hand and said.

"It's not that cold this year, but the weather in the north is unpredictable."

Mother Gu looked at the young couple and said.

Zhou Jing took a sip of water and said, "The temperature will drop in two days. It may be very cold around the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Spring will officially arrive when this cold wave ends."

"Will my dad spend the fifteenth day of the first lunar month alone?"

Gu Jia looked at her mother and said.

"If your dad doesn't come to BJ, he'll just stay at home. He may not have time to BJ."

There is Gu's father's cousin as a nanny at home, so Gu's mother doesn't have to worry.

At around nine o'clock, Zhou Jing called his mother and learned that his parents had boarded the train. Zhou Jing and Gu Jia took a breath and went to the bedroom to rest.

"I'll ask your mom to cook at home while I'm in the hospital. My mom will take care of me in the hospital. Junior high school will start on the 17th of the first lunar month. Can your dad stay in BJ until the 15th of the first lunar month?"

Gu Jia said while leaning on the pillow.

"It depends on the situation. If everything is fine at home, I'll go back after the 15th."

Zhou Jing turned off the lights and got on the bed. He sat next to Gu Jia and rubbed her legs for a while.

After a peaceful night, Gu Jia showed no signs of giving birth the next morning, so Zhou Jing planned to have lunch at home before going to the hospital.

(End of this chapter)