Hard work after winning the lottery

It was Sile's turn.

Si Le was much gentler now. He held a copy of "Andersen's Fairy Tales" and spoke in a soft, sweet voice:

"The little match girl struck the first match... and she saw a delicious roast goose..."

As Hua Yun listened, tears involuntarily streamed down her face.

"Lele, let's tell a different story." Hua Yun rubbed her belly. "This story is making Mommy hungry."

In this atmosphere filled with "love" and "torture," time drifted by until July.

However, a strange thing happened during the prenatal checkup in July.

The entrance to the ultrasound room.

Zhou Yanjin looked at the report in her hand, her brows furrowing into a deep frown.

"Hip position?"

The doctor nodded: "Yes, Mr. Zhou, the baby is currently head down and buttocks down. If it's still in this position at birth, the risks of a vaginal delivery are very high, and a cesarean section may be necessary."

Caesarean section.

Upon hearing those three words, Zhou Yanjin's face turned pale.

He had read in a book that a cesarean section involves cutting through seven layers of flesh, resulting in slow recovery and damage to one's vital energy.

"Can you turn it around?" Zhou Yanjin asked anxiously.

"It's only seven months, there's still a chance." The doctor showed a diagram. "You can try the knee-chest position exercise. Do it for fifteen minutes each morning and evening, using gravity to help the baby turn over. But this exercise is quite tiring."

Upon returning home, Zhou Yanjin immediately had the coffee table in the living room moved away and replaced with a thick yoga mat.

Hua Yun looked at the diagram, took a deep breath, and said, "Let's do it!"

So every night, a grand show would take place at the Zhou family's old house.

Hua Yun knelt on the yoga mat, her thighs perpendicular to the ground, her chest touching the ground, and her buttocks sticking up high.

This pose looks ridiculous no matter how you look at it.

"Ouch, I can't take it anymore, my brain is congested with blood." Hua Yun groaned after only two minutes.

"Hold on! Thirteen minutes left!"

Zhou Yanjin squatted to the side, holding a stopwatch, sweating profusely, looking even more tired than the people doing exercises.

While keeping track of the time, he also had to protect Hua Yun on both sides, afraid that she might fall headfirst.

"Go, Mom! Go, Mom!"

Sile and Sitao found it amusing and imitated Huayun, kneeling down beside her with their butts sticking out.

"Brother, do you think I'm sticking my butt out high?" Si Tao wiggled her butt back and forth.

"Not as tall as me!" Sile retorted, not to be outdone.

One adult and three children were lined up in the living room.

Lin Yi came downstairs with a face mask on, and when she saw this scene, she almost burst the mask with laughter.

"What are you doing? Are you paying respects to heaven and earth?"

"Grandma, don't laugh, we're helping my little sister turn around!" Si Tao shouted. "My little sister is such a lazybones, she won't turn her head!"

Perhaps the family's sincerity moved the heavens, or perhaps the three older brothers' butt-dancing had an effect.

A follow-up examination two weeks later.

"It's turned around!" the doctor said with a smile, looking at the screen. "Head down, in the perfect position."

"call--"

A sigh of relief could be heard in the ultrasound room.

Hua Yun sat in the chair: "This little devil, he's already causing trouble before he's even born."

That afternoon, Lin Yi took Li Guifen to Lingyin Temple outside the city.

They said they were going to fulfill a vow and also to ask for a peace charm for their unborn granddaughter.

The two elderly women, whose combined age was nearly 100, climbed the mountain with incredible speed, leaving their bodyguards exhausted.

With the arrival of August, the real heat of summer has begun.

City A has turned into a giant steamer.

For Hua Yun, who was in her late pregnancy, this was like going through a tribulation.

Her belly was so big it looked like she was carrying a watermelon, bending over was a luxury, and even turning over in her sleep required Zhou Yanjin's help, like flipping a pancake.

The worst part is that my feet are swollen.

My once slender, fair feet are now swollen like freshly baked buns; if you press them down, they leave a dent that doesn't bounce back for a long time.

I can't fit into my old shoes anymore, not even slippers.

"How...how do I get out of here?"

Hua Yun looked at her somewhat deformed feet, sat on the edge of the bed, and burst into tears of grievance.

A pregnant woman's emotions are so unpredictable; they come and go quickly.

"Don't cry, don't cry, it's all my fault. It's all my fault for getting you pregnant." Zhou Yanjin knelt on one knee, holding the swollen foot, feeling extremely distressed.

He gently massaged her to try to relieve the swelling.

"Honey, have I gotten uglier?" Hua Yun sobbed. "My feet look like pig's trotters, my face is rounder, and I'm getting stretch marks on my stomach..."

"Nonsense!" Zhou Yanjin said seriously. "Who dares to say you're ugly? This is a medal! Besides, in my eyes, you're the most beautiful right now, really."

"A man's words are deceitful." Hua Yun sniffed, but her mood had clearly improved.

The next morning, an exquisite gift box was delivered to my bedside.

Hua Yun woke up groggily: "What is this?"

"Open it and take a look." Zhou Yanjin smiled mysteriously.

Hua Yun opened the gift box; inside was a pair of shoes.

No, to be precise, it's a pair of specially made soft-soled shoes.

It uses the finest Australian lambskin, as soft as a cloud, with no rigid support, perfectly conforming to the shape of the foot.

Several delicate pomegranate flowers are embroidered on the shoe surface.

"I specially asked an old shoemaker to make them. I widened the shoe last and made the soles with non-slip rubber." Zhou Yanjin picked up a shoe and carefully put it on Hua Yun's foot.

Not too big, not too small, just right.

There was no feeling of constraint at all, like walking on cotton.

"How about trying to walk a few steps?"

Hua Yun stood up, took a few steps, and exclaimed with delight, her eyes widening in surprise, "It really doesn't squeeze my feet! It's so comfortable!"

Seeing the smile on her face, Zhou Yanjin finally felt relieved.

As long as my wife is happy, I'd be willing to do anything, not just make shoes, but even start a shoe factory.

As the due date approaches, the atmosphere at home becomes increasingly tense.

Especially Hua Yun's biological mother, Ms. Li Guifen.

A month in advance, she couldn't sit still any longer. She made arrangements at home, grabbed Hua Shu, and headed to City A with lots of bags and packages.

"Mom, are you moving?"

Hua Yun was stunned when she saw what was being unloaded from the truck.

There were seven or eight snakeskin bags and two cages for live animals.

"These are all good things!" Li Guifen said, wiping her sweat as she directed Hua An to move the things. "This is our old hen, and this is a rooster, we'll keep it to make soup for you to help with lactation! These are potatoes we just dug from our field, this is sweet potato starch, and this is..."

The most amazing thing was that Li Guifen also pulled out a large bundle.

When I opened it, it was full of diapers.

Not those disposable diapers, but cotton diapers.

"These are made from the triplets' old clothes when they were little. I washed them clean, boiled them to sterilize them, and then sun-dried them for almost half a month!" Li Guifen said proudly, touching the soft fabric. "These are breathable! They don't cause diaper rash! They're much better than those cheap diapers that cost hundreds of yuan a pack!"

Lin Yi watched from the side. Although she had grown up with a Western education, she knew that this was the old man's heartfelt wish.

"My mother-in-law is right! It's breathable! We'll switch between cloth diapers during the day and disposable diapers at night!" Lin Yi said with a smile, trying to smooth things over.