Lin Anxin finally moved out of Zhuo's house and returned to his original place. Lin Ping had returned to school. Xixi's summer cram school was about to end and school would start in a few days. Everything seemed to be back on track.
Zhou Xiaoshuang and Lan Shen were still at a stalemate. Because the child was born prematurely, routine examinations had been postponed for a while.
On this day, Zhou Xiaoshuang was going to take her child for a hearing screening, and happened to meet Lin Anxin coming to chat with her, so he invited her to come with him.
Lin Anxin said: "The hearing screening is very quick, and it will be fine as long as the baby responds. Xixi was very naughty when he was a child. When the doctor put on earplugs for him, his little neck would twist around and he would not cooperate.
It will take a long time to get better."
Zhou Xiaoshuang looked at the baby in her arms and said, "Then my baby should be quite well behaved." After saying that, he sighed, "The baby is born with a weak constitution, so he often catches colds during the summer. I also hired a nanny at home, and I
Mom, there are so many people in a hurry around a child. I really don’t know how you brought up Xixi by yourself before. People say that you only know how kind your parents are when you raise a child. Only now do I understand how hard my mother is."
After saying that, Zhou Xiaoshuang regained his relaxed expression: "But my mother said that when I was a child, I was as strong as a calf and was very easy to raise!"
Lin Anxin looked Zhou Xiaoshuang up and down: "Well, you can still vaguely see it!"
Zhou Xiaoshuang glared at her: "You mean I'm fat? I've successfully lost weight."
Zhou Xiaoshuang is right. After the hard work of raising a child and the mental blow, she has now lost a lot of weight and has basically returned to her appearance before pregnancy. However, her face is not as good as before, which is probably due to long-term lack of sleep.
She often suffers from insomnia in the middle of the night and can't help crying whenever she thinks of Lan Shen.
The two took their numbers and queued up. After waiting for a while, it was finally their turn. The baby was very good in Zhou Xiaoshuang's arms, weak and small, nestling close to its mother.
The doctor spoke to him gently: "Baby, baby, wake up..."
After a series of examinations, the doctor's originally relaxed and gentle expression gradually became serious.
Lin Anxin felt something was wrong, but she didn't dare to disturb the doctor, so she could only look at him worriedly.
Zhou Xiaoshuang's heart was in her throat, and she asked tremblingly: "Doctor, my baby should be normal, right?"
The doctor said: "The preliminary examination shows that the baby's hearing reflex is very weak, almost non-existent, especially in the right ear. Generally, no conclusion can be drawn from one examination. We will check again in a month. Your baby is premature.
?”
Zhou Xiaoshuang's feet felt weak and her mind was in a state of confusion. She almost shook her hands and shook the child in her arms to the floor.
Lin Anxin quickly answered for her: "Yes, the baby was born prematurely at just over seven months old."
"That's right, premature babies are prone to various diseases, and the possibility of hearing impairment is higher than that of normal children. Well, you first go to the nurse to fill out a form, mainly to record the family history of the baby and parents.
And whether the baby has recently suffered from other diseases, because if there is effusion in the ear canal, etc., it may also cause a false positive. Other diseases can be ruled out, and then after reexamination, the final diagnosis of hearing impairment can be made."
Zhou Xiaoshuang had no idea what to do. She could only make notes accompanied by Lin Anxin, and worked for a long time to get a form.
It wasn't until she walked out of the hospital door that Zhou Xiaoshuang realized what she was doing and couldn't help crying "Wow."
She thought she had enough courage and ability to raise the child on her own, but only then did she realize that she could not bear any impact on the baby. She looked at the quiet and peaceful baby in her arms, like an angel, so beautiful and pure
How can angels not hear so many beautiful sounds in the world?
Zhou Xiaoshuang did not dare to go home. She held her child tightly in her arms, wishing that she could take all the pain he had to endure.
"An Xin, what should I do..." Zhou Xiaoshuang said helplessly.
Lin Anxin couldn't help wiping her tears, while comforting her: "Didn't the doctor say that we can't be sure yet, and we have to wait for a review."
"We have no family history, and there was no fluid accumulation after the ear canal examination. However, there is still no response from the hearing screening. You said... the baby is most likely..." She couldn't bear to say that word, covering her mouth to suppress it.
Stop your crying.
Perhaps the baby in her arms felt her mother's sadness and cried "Wow".
The child's cry made Zhou Xiaoshuang's heart break.
"Listen, his voice is so loud. If you can't hear it, you won't be able to speak in the future. My baby, my baby..."
Although Lin Anxin was also very sad, at this time, Zhou Xiaoshuang was completely at a loss. If she also panicked, neither of them would be able to return home normally.
She put her arms around Zhou Xiaoshuang's shoulders and comforted her and said: "Xiaoshuang, no matter what the outcome is, you must be stronger at this time. You are a mother now, not the little girl who did things based on her own whim before."
Yes. I believe God will bless the baby and he will be healthy. Even if God does not favor him, you are his mother and you will spend your life protecting him, right?"
When Lin Anxin said this, Zhou Xiaoshuang immediately stopped crying, and her heart was suddenly filled with strength. Just like every mother who sees her child injured, she developed a strong maternal instinct.
Only Lin Anxin can speak to her heart, because Lin Anxin is also a mother.
"You are right, no matter what the outcome is, I will make him the happiest child in the world." Zhou Xiaoshuang said, wiping away tears.
The two talked some more, and Zhou Xiaoshuang was no longer as excited as before. Lin Anxin asked carefully: "Do you want to tell your family about the child? Especially...Lan Shen?"
Zhou Xiaoshuang thought for a moment, and from the bottom of her heart, she didn't want to tell Lan Shen. But now she was also facing a very real problem. If the baby really had hearing problems, maybe the Lan family needed a healthy child.
The child in Nana's belly may be the Lan family's only hope.
Zhou Xiaoshuang felt that he was going to really push Lan Shen towards that woman.
This child of hers is probably going to be abandoned by the Lan family...
Tears burst into her eyes again. Seeing this, Lin Anxin hurriedly said: "Forget it, let's not mention this for now. Let's go home first, the baby is hungry."
On the way back, the two of them were sitting in a taxi. Zhou Xiaoshuang just held the child tightly, and the child slept peacefully in her arms. She had been silent and thinking, as if a century had passed, and she finally
Said: "An Xin, tell him so that he can be mentally prepared."
Lin Anxin was regretting her rashness just now, and was a little surprised when she heard this: "Xiao Shuang, what are you thinking?"
She thought, does Zhou Xiaoshuang want to reconcile with Lan Shen? Because she alone can no longer bear this reality.
Zhou Xiaoshuang said calmly: "If he knows, maybe he will keep that woman's child. I can't let Lan Shen accept an unhealthy child for my own sake."
Hearing this, Lin Anxin was so angry that she said "Bah!" several times: "I have already said that first of all, you must have confidence, then the baby will be healthy. Even you always think that there must be something wrong with the baby, how can the baby feel your power?
?Hide this matter for now and wait until the re-examination results come out before making any plans."
Zhou Xiaoshuang didn't insist anymore, she just looked at her child and brought his little face close to hers.
This night was the longest night Zhou Xiaoshuang had ever experienced. She deliberately hit the baby's left and right sides with many objects, hoping that the baby would hear the sound and move to the place where the sound came from. She wanted to hit louder, but was afraid it would be too loud.
My hearing is damaged, but I’m afraid the children won’t hear it if it’s too quiet.
Sometimes the baby will turn in the direction she wants, and then she feels extremely happy: "The baby can hear it, he is a healthy child!"
But sometimes the baby just looks at things he thinks are interesting and ignores Zhou Xiaoshuang. At that time, Zhou Xiaoshuang becomes worried: "Baby, turn over quickly, turn over and look at mom."
After struggling all night, the baby finally fell asleep. Zhou Xiaoshuang could not get a definite result. Thinking of the doctor's words, he couldn't help but cry.
She didn't dare tell her mother, but the nanny noticed something was wrong and secretly told Zhou's mother: "Why is the lady so babbling? I don't know what she is talking about."
Zhou's mother came to ask her, but she said nothing.
In the dead of night, Zhou Xiaoshuang still couldn't sleep. She wanted to call Lin Anxin to chat, but she was afraid that she was already asleep and calling her would affect her and Zhuo Xi's rest.
During the long night, she had no one to talk to.
What was Lan Shen doing? Was he accompanying another girl? He was leaning on her belly and talking to his other child? Such an intimate scene was something Lan Shen had only experienced in the early stages of pregnancy. Later, Lan Shen
He even ignored himself, and then Zhou Xiaoshuang became lonely.
The more Zhou Xiaoshuang thought about it, the sadder she became and she shed tears for a long time.
She took out her cell phone, dialed the number skillfully, and hung up immediately.
She didn't have the courage to tell Lan Shen because she was afraid that she would burst into tears when she heard his voice. She was even more afraid that another woman would answer the call.
But Lan Shen came back after seeing the number.
The moment he saw Zhou Xiaoshuang's number, he was extremely excited. It was the first missed call after their separation. Although Lan Shen was worried, worried that Zhou Xiaoshuang was urging him to go through the divorce procedures, he still called back.
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Zhou Xiaoshuang looked at the phone and wondered whether she should answer it. She thought she would burst into tears as soon as she answered the call. In fact, as soon as she saw Lan Shen's call, she could no longer restrain her emotions.
Thinking about the phone persistently, looking at the cute baby, Zhou Xiaoshuang finally pressed the answer button.
"Xiao Shuang? It's so late and you haven't slept yet?" Lan Shen's gentle voice came from the other end of the phone.
Zhou Xiaoshuang just kept crying and crying. At first, she tried her best to suppress it, but later she couldn't suppress it and hurriedly ran outside to the balcony.
Lan Shen became nervous: "What happened?!"
"Lan Shen... our baby..." Zhou Xiaoshuang choked and told him the test results.