My Happy Daily Life After Being Reborn-Chapter 253 - 51 Shen Xiu’s Emotions

Perhaps it was because there was hope the child would survive, Chen Liqin had quite a bit to eat, finishing nearly half the pot of chicken soup.

After tidying up, Lin Xiaoguai did not leave right away but was pulled by her aunt to go for a walk and chat downstairs at the hospital.

"How is it living in the Capital?" Li Fangmei asked while tightening her cotton coat around her.

"Pretty good." After thinking it over, Lin Xiaoguai spoke of Shen Chi’s background, "Shen Chi and his brother and sister have been reunited. His biological father is General Han Kuang, so our life in the Capital has been much easier compared to Shanghai."

"What biological father!?" Li Fangmei looked shocked and incredulously asked, "Isn’t Shen Chi the biological son of the Shen Family?" People of her generation, no matter how uninformed, knew of General Han Kuang.

Lin Xiaoguai nodded, "He got lost at the age of three and was adopted by the Shen Family."

Seeing her expression, Li Fangmei guessed that the matter was probably not that simple but she just muttered under her breath without saying more. After all, Shen Chi was capable, and he truly cared for Wanwan. They needn’t worry about him making Wanwan suffer.

"Are his brother and sister easy to get along with?"

"Both the sister and the elder brother are decent people." Lin Xiaoguai smiled and changed the subject, "Is Xiao Xue’s health still good?"

"Yes, thanks to the medicine you sent over. Ever since that bout of meningitis, her complexion had not been as good as before, but once she started taking the medicine you sent, she gradually got better. This time in the final exams, that girl scored double hundreds, and along with Qi Qi and her siblings, she went to spend the New Year with her grandparents." Li Fangmei said with a smile.

She had always been burdened by the guilt of almost letting the main lineage of the Lin Family peter out, but now with grandsons, it was as if a weight had been lifted from her shoulders.

Involuntarily, her thoughts turned to the recently born triplets, and she sighed, "Xiao’an’s three children are truly at great risk. I hope they are blessed by the heavens. That Wang Si’s family is heartless, making Li Qin nearly perish with all three, yet they haven’t even shown their faces."

"What, was Sister Li Qin also in danger during childbirth?" Lin Xiaoguai was taken aback.

"Indeed, she hemorrhaged. It took three hours of surgery to save her life, and who knows how many bags of blood were transfused. Luckily, she was sent to the provincial hospital. If it had been in the county hospital, there wouldn’t have been enough blood in storage." Li Fangmei looked horrified and, holding her hand, said, "It’s also fortunate that our family’s situation has improved, and your second aunt and I guessed that there was more than one baby in her womb. We prepared all sorts of nutritious foods for her to eat, otherwise the three children might not have been so lucky."

Lin Xiaoguai shook her head in empathy; indeed, in this era, it wasn’t like later on when finding out about multiples would be cause for celebration. Nowadays, the first reaction to multiples was fear, because material conditions were limited and more than one child might not survive, and one might end up losing all of them in the worst case.

In her memory, she recalled her brother mentioning a family in their village who had twins; one was born healthy while the other was all flesh with no skin and died shortly after birth. Even in her previous life in Shanghai, she heard about someone who had triplets, two boys and a girl, who spent most of their family savings on incubators, yet only the girl survived in the end. In the end, it all came down to the pregnant woman’s insufficient nutritional intake for the fetuses.

Sister Li Qin’s case, when spoken of, could really be considered fortunate.

"You’ve always been calculating, so since you say that the medicine will let the children survive, I trust you. But with Li Qin’s weakened body, I’m worried that her own health might give out while nursing the children with her milk," Li Fangmei said with concern.

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiaoguai immediately replied, "Don’t worry, Aunt, the medicine also has a restorative effect on Sister Li Qin’s health."

"But there are three babies, and if the medicine’s effects go into the breast milk, what will be left for the adult?" Li Fangmei frowned.

Lin Xiaoguai went to great lengths to convince Li Fangmei that the medicine would indeed benefit Chen Liqin.

The next day, Chen Liqin’s milk supply truly increased, and the doctors agreed to let her bring the triplets out of the incubator to breastfeed each day.

By New Year’s Eve, the three little ones were visibly putting on weight, and though they still looked premature, they were no longer as frail as before. The obstetricians also found this quite astonishing.

And finally, both Lin Xiao’an and Chen Liqin felt the huge weight in their hearts lift.

At the same time, the two branches of the Lin Family could finally settle down and celebrate the New Year.