Chapter 51 Chapter Sixteen The Red Faced Baby

Our city has always been short of news.Regarding the birth of the red-faced baby, the social news column of the evening paper, the entertainment channel of the TV station, and even some reading materials on the street have all made reports.Many people have seen images of red-faced babies in different media, one front and one opposite, and the editors blurred the face of the red-faced baby and put a mosaic out of legal awareness of protecting children.Mosaics often cause a certain degree of regret to readers and audiences, and at the same time, they can easily arouse enthusiasm for exploration. Since autumn, people in almost the whole city are eager to know how red the face of a red-faced baby is, is it fiery red, purple red, or scarlet?Or just peachy, pink?In fashionable words, there is no truth without pictures, so everyone can only imagine the truth.

Admittedly, imagination is sometimes a breeding ground for rumors.Gradually, rumors spread everywhere.The most romantic rumor is that the mother of the red-faced baby traveled to the Amazon rainforest and fell in love with a wild Indian. The so-called red face is actually a sign of mixed blood and a commemoration of a transnational love.The most pragmatic rumor is that the red face of a red-faced baby is just a large area of ​​​​birthmarks, and the birthmarks of other babies are dotted on the buttocks, and the birthmarks of red-faced babies happen to be spread evenly on the face, that's all.The most widespread rumor is also the shortest, almost a naming, calling the red-faced baby Shame, Shame of Shame, Baby's Baby.Shame baby.This is a synthesis of the negative impression of the mother on Toon Tree Street, and summarizes the inseparable relationship of honor and disgrace between mother and child. Perhaps it is not a rumor, but a prejudice. This prejudice tells us that the red face of a red-faced baby is caused by the shame of the mother. pregnancy.

There is a female nurse in the nursery of the maternity hospital, who is an Internet celebrity, and her online name is I have seen your child.In pursuit of fans' clicks, she secretly uploaded many private photos of red-faced babies from the Internet.Different from the scale of the media, the young female nurse focused on the baby's red face, just to fill in the gaps. We were able to see the red-faced baby at seven o'clock in the morning. His face was bright red, similar to the color of a rose in full bloom.We saw the red-faced baby at 12:30 noon. His face was fiery red, hotter than the flames.We meet the red-faced baby in the evening, his face glowing scarlet, subtly echoing the evening glow on the horizon outside the window.We even saw the red-faced baby at night, his face like a small coal burning in the dark, radiating a transparent orange light.We see his thick curly hair and big beautiful ears, we see the baby's normal creamy body and even a cute belly button, but the regret remains, we can't see his eyes because either Day or night, the red-faced baby in the photo is crying.Crying is not crying, but crying.It was not the feeble cry common to premature babies, but the pathetic cry of an old man.The red-faced baby clenches his fists, cries with his hands raised, cries with his face on his back, and cries on his side. He always cries with his eyes closed, looking irritable and desperate.

Not only the mothers of those newborns, not only the residents of Toon Tree Street, but also many intellectuals followed the hot post of I have seen your children.A well-known lyric poet followed the post, expressing his impressions of the red-faced baby. He used poetic language to call it an angry baby.Angry baby.Almost all netizens who have seen photos of red-faced babies were moved by this name. Soon, Nuying replaced Shaying as the most popular nickname for red-faced babies. I heard that Ms. Bai suffered from severe postpartum depression, she didn't think about eating and drinking, and refused to feed her child.When she left the maternity hospital, there was a large crowd of farewells behind her. The crowd tacitly wanted to take the opportunity to see the face of the red-faced baby with their own eyes, but this simple wish was not easy to come true.Miss Bai tightly covered the child's face with a red silk scarf. People escorted the mother and child to the car all the time, only to see the red silk scarf dancing in the wind, like a cluster of flames, except for the violent crying of the child. Sound, the senders got nothing.Someone noticed that the name of Jingting Hospital was printed on the Santana car and asked, why didn't she go back to her mother's house?Isn't it postpartum depression?Why go to Jingting Hospital?Some people knew a thing or two about Miss Bai's life experience, saying that she grew up in Jingting Hospital, and now she has no relatives and reasons, and Jingting Hospital is her natal home.

Her return to Jingting Hospital is indeed similar to going to her hometown.Dean Qiao can be regarded as her elder, and Jingting Hospital can barely be regarded as her natal hometown.Dean Qiao and his colleagues extended an olive branch to her, but they were afraid of the reputation of angry babies, and they were afraid that the mother and child would be improperly arranged and cause unnecessary trouble.Many patients in Jingting Hospital have the habit of reading newspapers and watching TV, and also have a habit of chasing celebrities. The female ward is obviously not suitable for this special mother and child. The hospital does not know how to arrange wards for them.She herself suggested to Dean Qiao whether she could live in the hospital's rehabilitation gym?Of course, Dean Qiao remembered the old gardener's tin shack, where she spent her girlhood on that land.Dean Qiao was very embarrassed, saying that there is a small room in the gym, but you live there with your children, and the patients have to do exercises every day, don't they affect each other?She immediately said, I'm not afraid of their influence, what kind of patients have never seen living here since childhood?Dean Qiao smiled and said frankly, you are not afraid of their influence, but the patients have poor self-control, they will be affected by you.Dean Qiao pondered over and over again, testing whether she would like to live in the water tower.Maybe that residence was too special and too sensitive. She suspected that Dean Qiao had ulterior motives, so she blushed and said, Dean Qiao, what do you mean?Dean Qiao sincerely stated the many benefits of the water tower. She thought about it for a while, and finally agreed, saying that she has fallen into this situation, and there is nothing to be picky about. inside.

In this way, Miss Bai lived in the water tower. In this way, the former fairy returned to the water tower. Not long ago, the water tower was Baorun’s dormitory.Baorun left in a hurry, leaving her with a lot of instant noodles, a lot of dirty clothes, and a dormitory that needed to be cleaned urgently.She spent two days cleaning the water tower, washing the moisturizing shirts and trousers, and drying them on the branch of a big pine tree, and drying her own clothes and children's clothes on the other shorter pine tree. diaper. She is a mother now. Although her maternal love for the angry baby is not publicized, it cannot be doubted. Dean Qiao often sees her holding the baby sitting at the entrance of the water tower and nursing, while listening to music.I don't know if she wants to hear it herself, or let her children listen to it.The sad and dull melody of popular songs echoed in the water tower, sometimes it was Na Ying, sometimes it was Tian Zhen, and sometimes it was Faye Wong from Hong Kong.She remembered that she was a depressed patient, and she also remembered that she was a mother, going to the doctor's office to get medicine, or going to the cafeteria to get food, holding the legendary baby in her arms.Even in Jingting Hospital, people can't see Nuying's red face. She seems to be very concerned about protecting the child's privacy. Nuying always wears a small homemade mask on which two white Rabbits, one on the left and one on the right.However, many people have seen Nuying's eyes, which are said to be azure blue, the color of the sea in the dark, and the color of the sky in the bright.

Later, the woods near the water tower began to lose their leaves, and autumn was deep. On the day of consultation with Miss Bai, the weather suddenly cooled down.Dean Qiao and the others did not wait for her in the consultation room. A group of people went to the water tower to look for her, and saw her grandfather sitting at the door of the water tower holding the angry baby.There was a square stool at the door, and there was a pile of washed and folded clothes on the stool. Looking through it, all the clothes belonged to Baorun, and one of the brand-new spring and autumn overalls of the nurse had obviously not been worn by Baorun.A large snakeskin bag was thrown behind the stool, which was bulging and exuded a fragrance of plants. Dean Qiao opened the bag curiously, quickly closed it again, and said to his colleagues, I guessed it was The rope, it really is a rope, it is a moisturizing rope.

The grandfather said that Miss Bai went to buy milk powder for the child, and she gave him Baorun's clothes and snakeskin bag, and her child.Grandpa complained to them, she asked him to hold her for a while, but he held her for a whole morning, why didn't she come back?Dean Qiao and the others guessed that she was gone, and the possibility of her return was extremely slim. Her depression might have worsened, or it might have been cured.They discussed her whereabouts at the gate of the water tower. Some were optimistic, some were pessimistic, and some were interested in the child.This is a red-faced baby, this is an angry baby, this is a miracle in the local birth history, the mother is not here, but there is a chance to verify the miracle, a young doctor took off the child's mask, wanting to take a look at the mysterious red face , the grandfather tightened the child's mask in time, and said, Miss Bai took care of it. She is not here, so the child's mask cannot be removed. When she comes back, you can look at the child's face again.

However, Miss Bai is gone, and Nuying's mother is gone, no one knows if she will come back, no one knows when they will see Nuying's red face.Dean Qiao and the others noticed that the angry baby was snuggling in his grandfather's arms, very quiet.When the angry baby nestled in his grandfather's arms, he was very quiet, which was not the same as the legend.