Addicted

Wanjiu/text

09/26/2020

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Two o'clock in the morning.

The screen of the mobile phone placed on the bedside table suddenly lit up, and then a sudden ringtone rang throughout the silent night.

Thunder was awakened by the ringtone and breathed a deep breath.

He comforted the woman who was lying in his arms and muttering, reached out to touch the phone and answered it.

After a while, he suddenly opened his eyes in the darkness.

He wiped his face with his hands to make himself awake, and responded with a very fast speed, "We'll be here soon."

"Wife—" Lei Ting hung up the phone, lowered his head and held Xu Jingyi's face and kissed her heavily on the forehead, "Wife, wake up quickly, we have to go to the hospital!"

Thunder's voice was impatient and hoarse, but his tone was also filled with an unconcealed smile and happiness: "Tiantian is about to give birth."

After listening to it, Xu Jingyi said in a vague way.

Turning over and turning his back to him and continuing to sleep.

Lei Ting didn't ask her again, turned over and got out of bed and went to the locker room to dress, and took her a condom.

When I came out, I saw the latter sitting up straight from the bed, staring at him with round eyes: "What did you say?

Tiantian is about to give birth?

!”

Lei Ting raised his lips and said "Yeah" and handed her the clothes in his hand, "Ouyang Gang is already in the hospital. If you put on your clothes, I will call the big guy and Sun Xue. We will meet directly in the hospital later."

The couple cleaned up as quickly as possible and went downstairs.

When we walked to the atrium of the stairs, a dry lightning flashed through the ink color outside the window, and a roar followed.

In the middle of the night, they didn't plan to take their son, so downstairs, Xu Jingyi went to the guest room to explain to Aunt Hong, while Lei Ting went to his son's bedroom to take a look.

But when Xu Jingyi and Aunt Hong briefly explained, they turned around and saw the son in her husband's arms, they unexpectedly raised their eyebrows.

Lei Ting didn't say much, nodded to Aunt Hong, and pulled Xu Jingyi with his other hand to walk towards the door, "A Jing probably listened to the movement. I pushed open the door and saw him sitting on the bed, saying he wanted to follow him."

Xu Jingyi didn't agree. She smiled and rubbed the little guy's head while wearing shoes, "It seems that our A Jing is really looking forward to having a little brother or little sister."

Since the past few months, seeing Xia Tian’s belly getting bigger and bigger like a ball blowing, this little guy has to ask her almost every day: Is Tiantian’s mother’s baby coming out?

When will it come out?

It seems to be more anxious than these adults.

Lei Jing heard Xu Jingyi's words and pursed her lips and smiled.

A few months ago, at their kindergarten summer garden party, a child's mother came to attend the mango class with his just one-year-old sister.

At the beginning, Lei Jing didn't realize anything.

Until the game was played behind, the baby was crowded with people. He recognized the wrong person and pulled the corner of his clothes softly and called "Brother" behind his back.

He turned around and looked at the little doll who realized that he had recognized the wrong person, turning around ignorantly and shyly amid the teasing of his mother, and stumbled into the latter's arms.

That look... it's really cute.

For the first time, at a young age, he had a "envious" mind in his heart that he would only understand after he grew up.

So, when he returned home from kindergarten, he sat on the baby safety chair in the back seat and asked his parents if he could also want a sister.

At that time, the two people in front of them were quarreling because of a song played on the radio station in the car, whether the singer was a man or a woman.

Just as Tiantian’s mother told him, the way his parents “contact” relationships has always been strange.

He is no longer surprised.

But I didn't expect that my father, who was still "quarreling" with his mother a second ago, simply refused, "What kind of sister is impossible."

"I don't want your mother to suffer another time."

At that time, he didn't know what his father meant, but he was still a little sad to be rejected so directly.

He saw his mother raise his hand and pat his father on his shoulder, and he disagreed: "Don't say such things to A Jing."

Then he looked back and asked curiously why he suddenly wanted his sister.

Lei Jing told the reason, and then heard his father laughing in the driver's seat, "That's hard to say."

"In two months, your father Ouyang's baby will be born. Maybe he's a little sister."

It was from that day on, he would ask them every few days when the baby would come out.

He was awakened by the thunder, and heard the rustling sounds outside the door. The next second, he saw his father pushing the door in—

*

Lei Ting's family of three arrived at the hospital earlier. When Sun Xue and Qiao Weiran arrived, Song Ouyang had already accompanied Xia Tian into the delivery room.

Lei Jing called out to the two of them "Weiran Dad" and "Learn from Dad".

The two patted him on the shoulder together and said, "Be good".

"How about it?"

Qiao Weiran then looked at the Thunder and his wife, and his innocent face showed nervousness, "Tiantian, have you gone in?"

What does the doctor say?

Didn’t it mean that the due date will be more than a week?”

"It's normal to be a week in advance, don't be so nervous," Xu Jingyi replied. She smiled and patted his arm, teasing, "If you don't know, you think your wife gave birth to a baby inside."

Qiao Weiran: “…”

What a familiar way of teasing.

"Who can you blame this?" Sun Xue heard this and reached out to scratch Lei Jing's little head, which was held by Xu Jingyi, raised her eyes and looked at her through the lens, "It's because you didn't go smoothly when you gave birth to A Jing back then, which made everyone panic outside."

Qiao Weiran heard this and nodded.

The year A Jing was born, Jingyi had not graduated from her senior year.

The tension and urgency of graduation thesis and defense, as well as the pressure of trivial matters at home, made her mental and physical condition not very good.

The six of them grew up together. After so many years, they are not brothers but better than brothers.

If, many years ago, when Xia Tian decided to attend Doctors Without Borders, they could not truly feel the distance between "death" and each other, the day when Jingyi gave birth was the deepest experience they felt from this.

Hearing Sun Xue's words, Xu Jingyi's eyes moved slightly, and she restrained the joking expression on her face. Her voice was rarely gentle, "Before entering, the doctor just checked, Tiantian and the baby were all normal, don't worry."

*

Three hours later, the delivery room door opened.

Several people hugged each other.

Lei Jing sat on Thunder forearm and watched his father Ouyang and two nurse aunts push his sweet mother out of it.

Next to Tiantian’s mother was a tightly wrapped man. From his perspective, he could only vaguely see a little man with a small nose and a small mouth.

All red.

Ouyang's father's eyes were also red. When he came out to see them, he smiled and said in a hoarse voice: "It's a girl."

At that time, Lei Jing could not understand why everyone was like Ouyang's father, with all their eyes red after hearing this sentence.

The air was quiet for a moment, and the father holding him suddenly laughed, breaking the silence.

He pointed at the red little man with his other hand and joked at him, "Look at A Jing, this is your future wife--"

Although Lei Jing always heard his father calling his mother "wife", he was too young at that time and actually didn't understand what this sentence really means.

I only knew that as soon as my father finished speaking, a burst of laughter suddenly sounded around him, and Ouyang's father also looked at his father and laughed and scolded, "Get out."

The father smiled and shrugged, "Okay, sister, it's sister."

Then he turned around and said to him, "A Jing, this is your most precious sister in the future--"

*

The weather in late autumn is already a little cold.

The single ward where Tiantian’s mother was staying was turned on.

She seemed very tired. Since she came out of the delivery room, she kept her eyes closed and she fell asleep without opening it.

Afraid that she would rest, everyone gathered in front of the hospital bed and looked at the little life that had just arrived in this world without any noise.

After a long time, Ouyang's father urged everyone to go back and rest as soon as possible, saying that it was almost dawn and A Jing was going to kindergarten.

My mother refused and wanted to stay with them. She also said that Ouyang's father, a big man, would definitely not be able to take care of them here.

Finally, I decided that before Aunt Hong came tomorrow, she would stay here forever.
To be continued...