Chapter 45

Edited by genesis & Erin

The doctor comforted Chu Xun. His expression didn’t need to change so much after hearing that he had be born with a heart disease. The baby’s condition was not serious. Perhaps he could even heal naturally without surgery, but there was also the possibility that he wouldn’t. Now his baby is too small to do surgery on. But he could still undergo surgery when he was older if needed. The technology for this operation in the country was very developed and the success rate was very high.

Even then, every baby was the darling of its parents. If it had just a little ailment, it was even worse than falling ill themselves.

Chu Xun was willing to bear that pain himself. The baby was still so small.

Old comrade Chu Shan — who had always believed in materialism— secretly bought a wooden bodhisattva. He prayed to it to bless and protect his little grandson so that he would be healthy and safe.

Chu Xun thought that he had converted to Buddhism. After a while, he also bought a wooden statue of the God of Longevity, placed it elsewhere and began to also pray to him separately.

A few days later, Teacher Chu found rosary beads that were blessed by some holy saint.

Chu Xun couldn’t continue watching this: “We can just believe in the power of science, Dad. Otherwise, just pray to only one God. If they find out how many boats you are stepping on, what if they fault our baby instead? I’m afraid you’re going to mess with some witchcraft next, don’t bother with it anymore, ah.”

Teacher Chu said, “Witchcraft can’t be done. That was just superstition in the feudal period.”

Chu Xun: “…”

The baby stayed in the incubator for a full two months.

His jaundice symptoms subsided and his health improved. However, there was peristalsis in his gastrointestinal system which was not good. He was growing very slowly, and there were a few problems with his lungs.

Although it was a bumpy road, he grew little by little.

Because his baby couldn’t sleep beside him, Chu Xun bought a blank notebook. He took a photo of his baby and wrote a diary entry every day; he recorded how much weight his child gained today, when he yawned, when he could open his eyes, when he would smile with his little mouth curved.

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This pair of eyes was exactly the same as Lin Yanchen’s.

Chu Xun truly loved them and was also very sad.

Who could not like such a little baby?

Father Chu boasted, “Jiu Jiu’s hair is curly, he’s inheriting my traits.”

Chu Xun thought about it. It was true, he and Lin Yanchen had straight hair. He took after his mother. Unexpectedly, the baby inherited his hair from his grandfather, jumping a generation.

Mother Chu joked and said: “Before, you still worried about Jun Jun giving birth to a monster, you’re at ease now right?”

Father Chu blushed bewilderingly: “I was letting my imagination run wild… our Jiu Jiu is very beautiful and lovable.”

Jiu Jiu was the pet name they gave the baby, it didn’t have much of a deeper meaning. At that time, they had thought about it for a long time. Now it seemed that it was quite popular to use plants to come up with a pet name. Chu Xun looked at other people’s babies in his circle of friends: there were ones called Xiao Wandou (Little Pea), Xiao Digua (Little Yam/Sweet Potato) and Xiao Pingguo (Little Apple). Conforming to society, he decided to select a pet name. But thinking back and forth, he thought that it was better to come up with a simple and common nickname. If there were many babies nicknamed similarly, it would not be easy for Lord Yama to find his baby, so he would not take him away.

The baby was very obedient and didn’t cry very much. He would only cry quietly when he had soiled his diaper or if he was hungry. But Chu Xun was also willing for him to be a troublesome baby like other healthy babies he saw in the hospital, crying “wah wah” loudly. Crying so loudly that it shook the world, shouting themselves hoarse. His baby cried powerlessly. To say its good side, it sounded cute, but the bad side… sigh, he felt that it didn’t have much living spirit.

The baby’s reaction was somewhat slow. When teasing him with a small toy, he wouldn’t immediately chase after it with his eyes, it took awhile for him to smile in reaction at you.

Chu Xun… Chu Xun had already prepared himself for a beautiful little idiot.

Two months later, the baby grew to 4.9 jin (6.48 pounds), and his small medical problems were almost all cured.

They could take the baby home. The new house had already been prepared. The baby products had long been purchased when Chu Xun was still pregnant.

Chu Xun took his baby to their residence, so naturally he would take his surname.

His formal personal name had been thought of a long time ago. When the baby was still in his belly, he didn’t know whether the child would be male or female. No matter if it was a girl or a boy, he would love it. He had prepared a name that could be used by both genders: Chu Yu.

Yu is like “treasure”, but also “unyielding gold”: the baby was his most precious treasure, he did not ask too much, only hoping for the baby to grow up healthy.

As the saying goes, first look, second listen, third lift its head, fourth stretch, fifth grab, sixth turn over, seventh sit, eighth climb, ninth stand with support.

Jiu Jiu was a little bit slow to enter each stage by one or two months, but generally speaking, it was relatively normal. This was to the extent that it made Chu Xun doubt that the baby “seemed a little slow-witted? Or maybe it was not too slow-witted? “.

Even though Jiu Jiu was a lovable little baby, in the first half of the year, Chu Xun couldn’t look after him alone. He took turns with his parents. The baby’s rest and awake time was chaotic, and there were even entire nights spent tossing around.

And originally, Jiu Jiu’s body was not in good health and needed special care. Such a small baby, one couldn’t be careless at all. The little life was very fragile.

Within the scope of his ability, Chu Xun, as much as possible, gave the best for his baby. Most of the parents in the world were like this. This should be the instinct in all living creatures’ blood. If he wanted to give good things to his baby, he should spend money. He would never fret over saving money. He would research which brand of milk powder was good, which brand of disposable diapers had good water absorption and wouldn’t cover his baby’s small buttocks with heat rash.

Chu Xun’s days wholeheartedly revolved around his baby. He was very satisfied to see that the baby was finally growing fatter, which was especially adorable, while he himself was rapidly losing weight.

As the baby became more and more energetic, so did he.

His heart was full of taking care of his child. Every day, he was busy with Chu Yu and had no time for idle thoughts.

Only occasionally when the baby was asleep, Chu Xun would look at the baby’s little face and sigh with sorrow that he was looking more and more like Xiao Lin.

Thinking of Lin Yanchen, Chu Xun felt complicated. He didn’t know where to look for Lin Yanchen, and whether he should even find him.

At the beginning, he wrote a letter to confess to Lin Yanchen that he was ill and asked him not to look for him. At that time, he really thought that his life would not last long. Who knew that it was just a misdiagnosis… As a result, Xiao Lin really listened, and didn’t look for him? Otherwise, maybe he wasn’t able to find him? At that time, he has given his documents to Lin Yanchen before. Although there was no home address on them, if he looked, he should still be able to find him right?

Chu Xun didn’t dare to think about whether Lin Yanchen had come searching for him anymore. What if it was just him imagining that his love was being reciprocated?

Thinking like that, he would also think about Lin Yanchen’s tearful accusation: “You can like me not as much as I like you, but you can’t wrongly accuse me of not liking you.”

Alas, he didn’t even know where Lin Yanchen was right now or what he was doing.

Chu Xun felt that it was one thing for them to date. It was another for him and Lin Yanchen to have a child.

If Lin Yanchen knew that he had a baby, he might either be pleasantly surprised or horrified.

However no matter what, Chu Xun would care for this child.

Chu Xun’s head hurt when he settled the accounts. Being pregnant and having this child for around a year, money flowed out like water with all the expenses he needed to pay.

He could be frugal himself but couldn’t make his baby live poorly! His baby must eat, drink and use the best. He couldn’t skimp on that money… The baby was a premature birth. Initially, when Chu Yu stayed in the incubator, he was also medicated which amounted to about one or two thousand a day. Chu Yu might have to undergo a VSD surgery in future too. Just feeding and clothing him was not enough, there must also be a large amount of money for his education expenses and so on.

Although Chu Xun also wanted to accompany his baby, their savings really couldn’t afford for them to just spend without bringing in income. Chu Xun calculated that it was almost time to go out and find a job.

The pressure to survive was back.

Chu Xun felt that he was really courting disaster. He had squandered all his savings. He even had to thicken his face and ask his parents for money to buy milk powder. But on second thought, if he didn’t run around spending carefreely, there absolutely would not be a baby ah.

He had to work to raise his child; he had no spare time to think about love.

In the past, Chu Xun had once put Xiao Lin first in his heart for several days, but since he saw Jiu Jiu’s smiling face and his finger was grabbed by that soft little hand, shouting “D-Dad” with his toothy words, Chu Xun’s whole heart melted.

What Lin Yanchen? He couldn’t remember! Now he loved his treasured son the most every day!