Chapter 42 Section VIII

At the end of the month, Xu Xin officially moved into the new house.According to the local customs, except for Jiang Mingbo who works overtime, everyone else went to Xu Xin's new house to "warm the pot" - this is probably an old custom, that is, a group of friends and relatives cook a meal at home together, which means that the new house has finally ushered in The new owner, wish you a safe and auspicious life from now on.However, Xu Xin's kitchen was too small, and he installed a European-style range hood that was not useful, so after being teased by everyone, he still ordered takeaway.

During the dinner, Duan Fei asked Gu Xiaoying: "Who will take care of your confinement child? Your mother or your mother-in-law?" Gu Xiaoying regained her energy when she saw that Guan Tong was not around, and hurriedly complained: "Don't mention it, my mother-in-law said that she had to drink a large bowl of pig's trotter soup without salt every day during confinement. How horrible! It doesn’t talk about science at all—I read in the book that you don’t need to drink pig’s trotter soup every day when you’re in confinement, it’s better to have comprehensive nutrition. As a result, she and my father-in-law joined hands to give me a half-day class, I talked a lot about the rules of confinement, such as not washing your hair and taking a bath, I felt dirty when I heard it."

"Let your mother come." Duan Fei suggested. "My mother has to go to work." Gu Xiaoying raised her eyebrows, "Besides, it's so tiring to serve confinement, how can I tire my mother?" "Woman," Jiang Yueyang sighed, "You don't care about your heart at all... You can't bear to bear your own mother, but you can bear to tire your mother-in-law." "So it's better to have a daughter," Xu Xin concluded, "The daughter is the mother's caring little padded jacket. The son will belong to the daughter-in-law in the future and has nothing to do with the mother. As the saying goes, 'If you have a daughter-in-law, forget your mother'. "

"Then I must not forget my mother in the future," Du Yibei hurriedly climbed up the pole, "I want to be my mother's good son, and I will have food according to my mother's words...Daughter-in-law, do you really appreciate my filial piety now? ?” "Bah," Xu Xin glanced at him, "I don't want to marry a man who is not weaned psychologically as a wife, and I must say 'what my mother said'. With such a serious Oedipus complex, who knows whether to marry a wife or find a wife? Mom?" Everyone roared with laughter, and Du Yibei also cheerfully dismantled Xu Xin's stage: "Daughter-in-law, you are really contradicting yourself. You think that I am not a good son, and you want me not to have an Oedipus complex. Let me tell you all."

Xu Xin ignored him, turned to Gu Xiaoying and said, "Actually, there are many ways to avoid trouble, such as hiring a confinement lady, as long as your parents-in-law don't interfere with the confinement lady." "That's hard to say," Gu Xiaoying shook her head, "My father-in-law likes to point fingers, as long as he sees it, don't plan to retreat." "That's easy, isn't there a confinement center?" Xu Xin raised an eyebrow, "Our colleagues are confinement in the confinement center, and a family of three lives in it. 24-hour full-time maternal and child care, meal expenses, and accommodation expenses , Service fees are all included in it, but the charges vary according to the size of the room, the cheap ones cost eight or nine thousand a month, and the expensive ones cost tens of thousands."

"So expensive?!" Gu Xiaoying stared. "Actually, it's not too expensive." Duan Fei was the only person who came here, counting with his fingers, "It costs four to five thousand a month to hire a five-star confinement lady here. Although the confinement lady is responsible for cooking for the mother, the raw materials You still have to buy it by yourself. And although the confinement wife changes the diapers of the children, she is too busy to wash diapers... Anyway, the whole family is busy and chaotic around a mother and a child, and being a man is exhausting. , it’s not bad without panda eyes.”

"As long as you don't worry, a little more money is acceptable," Jiang Yueyang said, "After all, the difference in concept between the two generations is the biggest trouble. It's like a fuse that will explode at any time." "Yeah, sometimes it's really not about money," Gu Xiaoying sighed, "If spending money can eliminate disasters and ensure the safety and harmony of my family, I'm willing to spend money. But the problem is... my father-in-law is willing to let me spend money?" Everyone looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

Therefore, this matter still has to start with Guan Tong. On weekends, when Guan Tong came home as promised, Gu Xiaoying tempted him: "I'll take you to a fun place!" Guan Tong looked at her stomach, very suspicious: "You are like this now, where can you go to play?" "You'll know when you get there," Gu Xiaoying dragged him to drive, "Go to the neighborhood to the east of Xu Xin's house, remember the way?" "There seem to be new communities near her home," Guan Tong recalled while driving. "There are no large shopping malls, no playgrounds, no parks and cultural venues. What's so interesting?"

Gu Xiaoying pretended not to speak, but just watched Guan Tong with a smile all the way.Guan Tong glanced at her, then looked at her again, and saw that she was laughing foolishly from beginning to end, so he could only sigh: "Gu Xiaoying, look elsewhere, you always look at me, I can't drive anymore." "Oh," Gu Xiaoying obediently turned her face to the front and asked, "Husband, how many days can you take maternity leave?" "Seven days," Guan Tong replied while driving, "It's a bit short, but I feel at ease with my mother at home."

Don't worry about it, but I don't worry about it——Gu Xiaoying said while slandering: "I heard that serving the confinement child is very tiring." "My mother has been waiting for this day for a long time, she won't be tired." Guan Tong replied. "But, that," Gu Xiaoying muttered, and said after a while, "there may be differences in living habits, of course, this is mainly due to the differences in the concepts of the two generations, and it will be the same if my mother is changed... In case I have the disease What about postpartum depression?"

"Are you suffering from depression?" Guan Tong looked at her in surprise and shook his head, "I think the possibility of this is too small. People all over the world are depressed, and I don't think you can be depressed either." "What are you talking about?" Gu Xiaoying was unwilling, and pouted, "I can't say for certain about this matter. After giving birth to a child, there will be a big psychological change. If you live in a life of drinking pig's trotter soup every day, you will not be allowed to take a bath. The miserable life of hair, it's no wonder it doesn't break down." "With me here, I will tell my mother when the time comes," Guan Tong patted Gu Xiaoying with one hand, "Don't be afraid, so many people have children, and not many are really depressed." Gu Xiaoying stopped talking, just looked out of the window, then pointed to the gate of a community not far ahead and said, "There, Lvjing Jiayuan, tell the guard that we are going to 'Xinran Yueziyuan'." "Xinran Yueziyuan?" Guan Tong repeated in bewilderment, then lowered the car window and repeated it with the guard, and followed the instructions of taking care of Xiaoying all the way to the community: turn, turn again, go straight for 50 meters, building No. 3, take the elevator , to the top floor... The moment the door opened, a girl in a pink nurse uniform greeted you with a smile.Guan Tong walked in with Gu Xiaoying, and looked at the baby's full moon photo hanging on the pink wall in the room in surprise, feeling as if it had been a lifetime ago. That day, under the guidance of a mother and child nurse, Guan Tong knew for the first time that there was such a magical place in the world—a family of three lived in the mother after giving birth, and there would naturally be someone to replace her for a month or more. When you take care of your wife, you don’t need to be so guilty, you don’t need to follow up every day, and the most important thing is that you don’t need to worry about how to settle the conflicts, differences, and differences between your wife and mother... This is really a hole in the sky! Of course, the price is a bit expensive. It costs 10,000 yuan to choose an ordinary room for confinement, and tens of thousands of yuan to choose a VIP suite for confinement—this is not a small amount for anyone.Especially for the working class, quite a few families cannot accept this consumption pattern.But Guan Tong immediately understood why Gu Xiaoying brought him here to experience it first-hand. , Guan Tong has to admit that the service here is really thoughtful and worry-free.According to this service standard, if it is placed in a larger city, the price will be at least several times higher. At this time, the experience of being the deputy county magistrate clearly dominated Guan Tong's thinking direction - he almost immediately began to think about the significance of this new type of place from the perspective of economics and helping entrepreneurship and employment.He habitually looks at the layout and equipment here... He vaguely foresees that maybe after many years, high-end confinement clubs and cheap confinement centers will become a common thing, plus the ubiquitous mothers in the community Baby service agencies, how many people have to provide opportunities and jobs for entrepreneurship and employment, and at the same time, how many families with different economic levels can provide convenience!Of course, it takes time to accept this concept, but just like the current "Yuesao", didn't many people think it was expensive and unnecessary when it first appeared?However, it didn't take long. Right now, in cities above medium-sized, hiring a confinement wife has become the most common thing... "Guan Tong! Guan Tong!" Putting it in front of Tong, Guan Tong came back to his senses suddenly, seeing Gu Xiaoying asked in bewilderment: "What are you thinking?" Guan Tong smiled and said, "I'm thinking that maybe many families still can't accept this consumption model, at least many elderly people can't accept it." Gu Xiaoying grinned happily, and said meaningfully while laughing: "This is your business..." Guan Tong didn't speak, but continued to look around at the people coming in and out, thinking, in fact, whether it is hiring a confinement lady or booking a confinement center, there will be an uphill battle in the process of persuading Guan Liming and Xie Jiarong . But the battle didn't start—surprisingly, wasn't it? Gu Xiaoying didn't expect it at all. On the day when I went to pay the deposit, Gu Xiaoying looked at Guan Tong wonderingly: "I didn't see any communication between you two, why did you just agree?" "I thought about it, but I didn't report it at all." Guan Tong confessed truthfully. "What?" Gu Xiaoying was taken aback, thinking that Guan Tong had made a big mistake this time, and when she leaves the hospital and enters the confinement center, sooner or later something will happen. ! "I think he will definitely disagree with what I tell him, and it's not enough to waste my time if I don't tell him." It was the first time that Guan Tong risked the dissatisfaction of the world and commented on her father, which made Gu Xiaoying feel that the world was a fantasy... She was stupid She stared blankly at Guan Tong, watched him pay the money, sign, and issue a receipt, and then explained to her when he went out: "Anyway, it will be half a year after you give birth, and it will be too late for him to be happy at that time, so he won't care about it." These little things. He is stingy, and it’s not unreasonable. Seeing that you are sitting well during confinement, your child is eating milk, sleeping soundly, and growing up well, he won’t say anything, right? Besides, If I can't even do this, am I still the head of the family?" "Honey, I've never looked up at you like this..." Gu Xiaoying dreamily looked up at Guan Tong and sighed, "The head of the family, you really have a strong aura." "I've been thinking about a lot of things in City B during this period, and I feel that if the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is to be good, the men must have the right to speak," Guan Tong explained while driving Gu Xiaoying back, "This kind of right to speak From a proactive point of view, it means actively coordinating the relationship between the two generations. We cannot be passive, and we cannot wait until problems arise to make up for them. Some foreshadowing can actually be done in the front; Being able to get out of the original small environment and live in a bigger city naturally has much wider knowledge than our parents, so we must establish this kind of prestige and let our parents be willing to listen to our opinions when necessary, so that we can live a better life. Take it easy and not be so tired. Don't you think?" While talking, he turned his head to look at Gu Xiaoying, and saw that she was leaning on the passenger seat, with her hands folded, her eyes blinking non-stop, and her eyes were smug: "Husband, I decided to look at you with a new look from today! I will never say that you are stupid, stupid, or demented..." Guan Tong couldn't laugh or cry: "It turns out that I used to have such an image..." Gu Xiaoying smiled "hehe". In fact, what Guan Tongya didn't say in his heart was that with the continuation of his married life, he seemed to have a new understanding of the word "family"—he now felt that a man might not only be a piece of "double-sided tape", but also It must be the "fire fighting team" between parents and wives.This may be a burden, but it is also a responsibility.After all, for a man, if the relationship between his parents and his wife is in conflict, no matter how successful his career is, he will still fail in life. But Guan Tong didn't know, in fact, his status as a "fire fighting team" is also the most fortunate thing for Gu Xiaoying - she never expects her man to speak for her at any time, but as long as he is willing to understand things in a fair and reasonable way , she is willing to reason with him.As long as he is willing to make do with it and let the conflicts be resolved slowly, then she doesn't bother to care about how he resolves the conflicts. After all, what she wants is actually a stable and worry-free life. Therefore, Gu Xiaoying often thinks like this: the man she likes should be loyal to love and filial to her parents, but it is neither stupid loyalty nor filial piety. "Reason" still communicates. As long as this is the case, it is a great blessing for this "family".