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Chapter 250: Chapter 240 Production
"Hey, what are you doing? In the middle of the night, whose child are you holding?"
Shen Yunfang recognized the voice; it was the nurse on duty tonight.
Since someone outside had already stopped the child thief, she could stay and confront the thief with Dashuan’s wife.
Dashuan’s wife had already gone up to the man and started scuffling with him. The man probably hadn’t expected the woman inside to be so fierce; she immediately scratched his face, and hearing the voices in the corridor only made him more nervous and agitated.
He couldn’t be bothered to tangle with Dashuan’s wife any longer. He threw the big bag in his hands toward her and bolted out of the room.
At that moment, Shen Yunfang was about to join in, but considering her condition, she circled the two, her mind set on catching the thief off guard with a surprise move.
But before she found an opportunity, the man had run off.
"Yunfang, don’t move around in the room, I’ll go take a look," Dashuan’s wife placed the bag on the bed next to her and then chased after the figure, "Don’t run, catch the thief!"
Seeing the situation, Shen Yunfang, fearing that Dashuan’s wife might be at a disadvantage, decided to give chase as well.
Once out of the ward, she found the corridor even more chaotic.
Other patients on the floor had been awakened by the noise, and several men were standing in the corridor.
The commotion had been going on for a while when the hospital staff finally subdued the two thieves and successfully rescued the kidnapped child.
"Wuu wuu, give me back Chunya, that’s my daughter, give me back Chunya..." A woman’s crying and pleading voice emerged from the crowd in front.
Shen Yunfang and Dashuan’s wife heard her, but with the crowd being so large, Dashuan’s wife held Shen Yunfang back from getting closer.
"Didn’t I tell you not to come out? With your belly so big, what if someone accidentally bumps into you? Stand behind me; we can just watch from here, don’t push your way through."
They didn’t want to push through the crowd, but the crying woman struggled and stumbled her way out of the throng, heading straight in the direction of Dashuan’s wife.
"Sister, it’s me, sister. I know you all are good people, please help me. I am not a thief, I just missed my daughter, I came to see my daughter, wuu wuu..." The woman chose Shen Yunfang between the two and flung herself in front of her, grabbing Yunfang’s thigh and wailing, "Sister, you’re a mother too, we’re both mothers, you must understand me, please speak for me, I’m begging you, let them give me back my Chunya, I can’t be without her, I’m kneeling for you, I’m knocking my head on the ground for you."
Shen Yunfang hadn’t expected that the woman, having been caught, could break free and lunge at her. Caught off guard, she was knocked back, stumbled, and fell backward, startled and off-balance.
"Be careful!" Dashuan’s wife had the quickest reaction and stood closest to her. Noticing the bad situation, she instinctively stepped back to stand behind Shen Yunfang.
But when Shen Yunfang fell backward, the force and her pregnant belly’s weight was too much; Dashuan’s wife failed to stop her fall, and they both tumbled to the ground with Dashuan’s wife acting as a cushion.
By then, the people nearby had reacted. Some were grabbing the woman, while a few came over to help Shen Yunfang and Dashuan’s wife up.
"Don’t, don’t move, my stomach hurts, ah... it hurts..." In a matter of seconds, cold sweat broke out on Shen Yunfang’s face.
"What’s wrong, Yunfang, don’t scare me," Dashuan’s wife crawled out from under Shen Yunfang, seeing Yunfang’s pained and sweaty face and became terrified herself.
"Make way, make way, let the doctor through," a young nurse yelled from outside the crowd.
Only then did everyone remember they were at a hospital, where it was right to seek a doctor for abdominal pain. They all conscientiously cleared a path for the doctor to come through.
The obstetrician finally squeezed in and squatted down to examine Shen Yunfang. 𝓷ℴ𝓿𝓹𝓾𝒷.𝓬𝓸𝓂
She pressed on Shen Yunfang’s abdomen and asked a few questions. Shen Yunfang answered through gritted teeth.
"Hurry, push her into the delivery room, she’s about to give birth," the doctor finally said.
And so, on this thrilling and tense night, Shen Yunfang unfortunately experienced fetal distress again and was rushed into the delivery room.
Dashuan’s wife was stunned as she saw Shen Yunfang being pushed into the delivery room, not knowing what to do. When she gave birth herself, it was done at home, lying on the bed thinking she had to hurry because of the pain. Now standing outside waiting, she had no idea what to do.
"What are you standing there for? You’re the relative of the patient, aren’t you? Did you bring clothes and blankets for the baby?" the young nurse asked with a frown, seeing the woman unmoving.
"I brought them, I brought them," Dashuan’s wife quickly came to her senses and nodded.
"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and get them. The baby will be born soon, and if there’s no blanket to wrap it, that’s your problem," said the nurse, her attitude not very good.
In the middle of the night, having only slept a little before being awoken by the noise of a thief being caught outside, barely had they apprehended the thief when a pregnant woman went into labor. It was as if everyone was gathering for excitement. Sleep deprivation made people’s temper worse.
Right now, Dashuan’s wife had no time to care about the nurse’s attitude, overjoyed that someone was telling her what to do. Hearing the nurse’s instructions, she immediately turned and ran to the sickroom.
Returning to the sickroom, she saw the door wide open, the room empty, and even the big bag that the thief had dragged out lying unattended on the bed.
She immediately broke into a cold sweat. Yunfang had entrusted her with two hundred yuan and forty kilograms worth of ration coupons, which was to be used for buying meals at the cafeteria daily. They had only been in the hospital for a few days, and there was still quite a bit of money and coupons left in the bag. If someone had stolen it while the room was empty, she would have nowhere to cry.
She quickly went inside, closed the door, and checked everything in the bag, making sure the money and coupons were still there before she could relax.
However, she had to wait outside the delivery room later, and there would still be no one in the room. After a moment of thought, she rolled up the money and coupons and stuffed them into her shoe, then quickly found a set of baby clothes and a floral blanket Yunfang had prepared, and clutching them under her arm, headed back to wait outside the delivery room.
She waited until past three in the morning, when a baby’s cry finally echoed from the delivery room.
Not long after, the same nurse with the poor attitude came out with a baby swaddled in her arms. Handing the baby to Dashuan’s wife, she said, "The mother was admitted to the delivery room at one forty in the morning and gave birth at three forty-three. The delivery went relatively smoothly. It’s a boy, weighing six pounds and six ounces."
"Oh, it’s a boy," Dashuan’s wife was delighted. She remembered Yunfang mentioning she wanted a daughter. The old saying was right: you never get what you want. Look, it had come true, wanting a daughter but ending up with a son instead.
The young nurse, watching her beam with happiness, grew even more irritated. "The mother will be out soon. Are you the only family member here? If it’s just you, you might as well hold the baby and wait in the sickroom," she huffed, clearly annoyed by another person who favored sons over daughters.
Dashuan’s wife, misunderstood by others and unaware of it, joyfully cradled the baby back to the sickroom, content that Yunfang was fine.
Ah, such a handsome baby.
