The unexpected situation left the two girls at a loss.
Nia leaned against the bed, her body supported by the hard stone pillars. She held her mother's hand, hoping to gain some strength from her mother, and asked: "Mom... are you okay?"
Yuffie didn't answer her, or she didn't have the energy to answer the question. But the mother's frown, and the large beads of sweat that kept appearing on her hot skin, told the two girls how serious the problem was.
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At this time, Nia was completely panicked. She turned to Lisa for help with a cry: "I, what should we do?"
"I, I don't know!"
Lisa, like Nia, had a blank mind at the moment. Although she had heard about it, she didn't know how to deal with it.
"Nia..."
A weak call called back the two panicked girls.
Yuffie tried hard to concentrate her consciousness. But her vision was blurry, and the dream just now made it difficult for her to distinguish between reality and illusion. She asked the girl in front of her who was holding her right hand tightly:
"Is that you? Nia."
Nia quickly responded: "Yes, it's me, mom."
"Remember the note mom asked you to put in your luggage?"
While Yuffie felt the movement of life in her belly, she estimated how many minutes and seconds were left before the child that made her and them heartbroken would be born.
"Yeah, remember."
"That's what Mr. Poros left behind. Just take a look and you'll know what to do."
As soon as Yuffie finished speaking, Nia immediately stood up, ran on tiptoes, and rushed to the duffel bag. She rummaged through these scattered items to find the thing they urgently needed now.
"Where? Where? Where did I put it?"
The mother began to moan in pain, which made Nia even more confused. She tore the neatly folded clothes in the luggage bag into a mess, and she also pulled out several long skirts that Nia once loved and threw them away.
On the ground.
"Where did I put that note? Why, I can't remember it."
Nia almost turned over her luggage, but in her hurry, she could never remember where she put the inconspicuous note.
"Let me help you, Nia."
Lisa also squatted aside, helping Nia find the note among the messy items. She took out a sheepskin notebook from under a small bag full of bread.
Lisa was a little curious: Why should something of little use be placed in luggage that usually only contains clothes, water, food, and some belongings?
When she was still wondering, Nia, who was also rummaging around next to her, caught a glimpse of the notebook and immediately said in surprise: "Yes! This is it."
Then she dropped the things in her hands and hugged the note in her arms. Nia opened the note and shook it vigorously, and the note that they had found easily came out.
"I forgot, I stuck it in here."
"Then take a look and see what's written on it."
Lisa urged. Of course, she didn't need to say anything more. Nia took the note and started to read it.
"Towel compression, scissors to cut the umbilical cord, hot water and hot compress..."
She read the above steps and caught a few key words from these dense fine print.
"Lisa can you find hot water?"
Yuffie seemed to be unable to bear it any longer, and her painful gasps continued to increase. Time was running out. Nia knew that Lisa was illiterate and could not read the contents of the note, so she asked her to be her assistant.
"I'll try."
Lisa naturally accepted Nia's command and immediately ran out the door. She had to find the hot water Nia mentioned as soon as possible.
"Mom, take a deep breath. Don't worry, I'm here."
Nia walked to the bedside with the note and held Yuffie's hand. Yuffie also held her tightly. Yuffie's hand was not weak at this moment, and her white fingers pressed tightly against her.
Ya's petite hands clasped it.
"Don't worry about anything, Mom, it will be fine."
Her mother's nails were embedded in her flesh. Nia endured the pain and softly comforted her mother. Yuffie herself could no longer think about anything more, and she didn't realize that she had caused harm to the girl.
The convulsions came one after another, the pain coming from the expulsion of foreign objects in the abdominal cavity, which seemed to be tearing her body apart, which was enough to make her usually strong become fragile.
Nia helped her take off unnecessary clothes and wiped the sweat from her body.
She tried her best to do everything she could, but what really determined the outcome was Yuffie's own will.
There were many "unexpected" situations written on the note in his hand, and the author specially marked them with thick lines.
If it happens, they are completely unable to solve it now.
"I can only leave it to fate..."
Nia held her trembling right hand. She didn't know whether it was because of nervousness or because of the bloody wound on it that was pinched by her mother.
"I'm back!"
There was a bang on the door outside the house, and Lisa came back from outside holding a basin of steaming hot water.
It didn't take much time, and finding a basin of hot water was something Lisa was already used to doing housework.
Lisa found a house whose door had been pried open and went straight in. She found a pot of boiling hot water in the kitchen.
Lisa quickly found another basin and filled some cold water to mix it. She stretched out her hand to test the temperature of the water to make sure it was not too hot, and then she quickly returned to the woodshed with the basin of water.
However... the problem itself does not lie in whether the problem is difficult or not, but in what you encounter when solving the difficulty.
"Lisa, just put the water here."
Nia had nothing to do now, so she pointed to an empty space at the end of the bed and asked Lisa to put the water on it.
"That... Nia."
Lisa looked very worried, as if she had something to say but she couldn't say it.
"Hmm?! What's the matter?" Nia might have wanted to ask Lisa what was on her mind, but the new situations that appeared from time to time during Yuffie's delivery prevented her from being distracted, "Lisa, please come to me.
Here’s a hand.”
"good…"
Should she tell Nia or not? Lisa was hesitating. She understood that even if she told Nia at this time, there was nothing the two girls could do.
"..."
Lisa remained silent. She and Nia changed places, and she was now wiping Yuffie's sweat. The only sounds in the room were Yuffie's painful gasps and moans. The two girls were silent for a while and began to focus their efforts on the task at hand.
In the matter.
"Mom, it's almost time! Come on! I think I can see the child's head."
Nia squatted on the ground to check the progress of the delivery. Fortunately, everything went well and none of the terrible situations marked in thick lines on the note occurred.
"Uh-huh!"
Yuffie's pupils suddenly dilated, and now she had reached a critical moment. At this moment, she focused all her energy on the birth of this child.
Finally, just before she was about to give out her strength, a childish and high-pitched cry sounded in the room.
She successfully pushed the child out, and this new life was brought into the world by her.
"Come out!!"
Nia took out the scissors, and the hand holding the scissors was still shaking a little. But Nia was still heartbroken, and she suddenly cut off the umbilical cord that was still connected to the mother's body.
The umbilical cord was severed, but the crying baby did not cry louder, and of course it did not stop her stubborn behavior.
The still crying baby was wrapped in a large towel slightly moistened by Nia with hot water.
Lisa beside her brought another wet wipe dipped in hot water to help Nia wipe the child's body. The two attentive girls also did not forget to deal with the bloody dirt on the child's mother.
"Show me that child..."
Although Yuffie was exhausted, she still reached out her hand and tried to take the child from Nia's hand.
"Mom, she is my sister, a very beautiful girl!"
Nia immediately handed over the little one who was still calm in her arms, while Yuffie carefully took the child with narrowed eyes.
"It's true!" Lisa joked, "Would she be more beautiful if she didn't cry?"
"The light blue hair looks like my mother!"
Although Nia handed the little girl to her mother, she still couldn't help but stand on tiptoes to see what features the baby huddled in her mother's arms had. Nia couldn't get enough of looking at this girl who was born in front of her eyes.
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"Yes. Thanks to you, the child was finally born safely."
Looking at the child in her arms who stopped crying and even started to sleep soundly, Yuffie regained her smile. For the successful birth of the baby, these two girls who had been busy all the time were indispensable.
"ah!"
Lisa suddenly screamed, which shocked everyone in the room.
"What's wrong? Lisa."
Nia patted her chest. She was almost frightened by the scream, and her eyes looking at Lisa were a little more reproachful.
After all, what if Lisa is making such a fuss and scares the baby?
Lisa rolled her eyes, looking absent-minded, silently thinking about what she should do. However, she still thought of a topic that diverted everyone's attention:
"Did we forget something?"
"What?"
"Aunt Yuffie, what is this girl's name?"
"Her name is..."
Faced with this question, Yuffie hesitated for a moment.
In fact, she should have thought of a name for this girl a long time ago, and this was discussed with Belkas.
This matter caused the couple to argue for several days, and they finally came to a satisfactory result recently.
But at this moment, she couldn't pronounce the name. It was like something was strangling her throat, so she had to swallow back the words she had just woven.
I don’t know if this is fate, but I guess... this is it, right?
This inescapable nightmare clung to her, strangling her until she could breathe.
destiny.
At this time, she was confused. She looked up at the sun that turned into a cross star outside the window, and she couldn't help but pronounce this name that seemed to be cursed: