Wen Qiang gave birth to Zhou Tainan, which made Zhou Weihan and others relieved. After the arrangements for Wen Qiang and the child were made, his uncle Wen Hao immediately proposed to send a telegram to Wen and Zhou's family.
Zhou Weihan had no contact with his family since he left home. It was only after Wen Qiang arrived in Tainan that the elderly at home learned about Zhou Weihan's whereabouts.
Considering that having a child in the family was a major event, Zhou Weihan agreed to the matter, and in the end he only sent a telegram in the name of Wen Yu.
In the ward, Wen Qiang was pale and lying weakly on the bed, while Zhou Tainan was lying quietly on the small bed next to him.
At dawn, Tian Defu rushed to the hospital with his lunch box. As soon as Tian Defu entered the ward, he found Wen Qiang lying on the bed with her eyes closed. He whispered: "Commander, the cooking class made clear soup noodles. The squad leader said that pregnant women have just given birth."
The kids can’t eat anything too greasy, but the monitor has prepared the old hen and pig’s feet!”
Zhou Weihan nodded and didn't say much. All lesbians who gave birth to children in the army had this treatment.
These days, clear noodle soup is a good thing, not to mention that it also has two poached eggs in it.
When Wen Qiang just gave birth, she spent a lot of energy. This was when her stomach was empty. After a while, her lunch box was empty.
Zhou Weihan handed the lunch box to Tian Defu, returned the pillow under him to the proper position, and said to Wen Qiang: "Keep your eyes closed for a while, I'll keep an eye on the child!"
Zhou Weihan was lying on the edge of the bed, staring at his wife and children with a silly smile. The happiest time in the world is nothing more than this!
More than half a month later, inside the headquarters.
"Commander **, there is a call from the Zhinan Military Division. Yesterday, the special forces secretly sneaked into the headquarters of the fourth brigade of the Asian Alliance Autonomous Army and destroyed its command center in one fell swoop. Early this morning, the main force of the Zhinan Military Division annihilated the troops who were confronting our troops on both sides of the Zhang River.
The main force of the enemy's fourth brigade is more than 2,000, and a large amount of money, food, weapons and equipment have been seized. The remaining two units of the East Asia Alliance Autonomous Army have withdrawn from Zhanghe and are shrinking their forces towards the Daming County area!" Xu Dalihui reported.
"Okay, a bunch of rabble-rousers have learned how to fight with their noses. This time the people in the Zhinan base area can spend the New Year in peace and contentment!" Zhou Weihan said with a smile.
"Is there anything else?"
"No more!" Xu Dali was stunned and then replied.
Zhou Weihan looked at the time. In fact, Xu Dali was in the Tainan Second Division and Xing Zhiguo was in the headquarters. Whether Zhou Weihan was there or not, it really didn't matter.
It was now eleven o'clock, and Zhou Weihan felt as if grass had grown in his heart: "Okay, if you need anything, come see me in the division headquarters compound!"
After Zhou Weihan left, Xu Dali realized: "It's different after having a wife and children!"
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At home, Wen Qiang was still in confinement, and the stove in the main room had been lit. Since Wen Qiang became pregnant, the two of them changed houses, instead of sleeping on a wooden bed, they slept on a heated kang.
A clothesline on the wall of the main room is covered with urine mustard seeds. This little guy is good at everything. He sleeps when he is full and eats when he is asleep. The only bad thing is that he likes to wet the bed.
After Zhou Weihan entered the house, he stamped his feet and did not rush to hug the child. Instead, he waited for the coldness on his body to go away.
"Did Tainan cry this morning?"
"Don't cry, the little guy is so good!"
Zhou Weihan took off his coat, first put his hands under the mattress at the head of the kang and covered his hands. Feeling the temperature rising, he hurried over and hugged Zhou Tainan for warmth.
"Don't bother him, he'll wake up later!"
"Didn't they say that it's not good for children to sleep too much during the day, and they are prone to making noises at night?"
In the days after Zhou Tainan was born, neither Zhou Weihan nor Wen Qiang had any experience as parents, and they didn't know how to change the baby even if he wet the bed.
Wen Qi also specially found a eldest sister who had given birth and took care of her for a few days, and then the two of them figured out the way.
Zhou Weihan put the little guy on the rocker, and he woke up after a while. The little guy opened his eyes, neither crying nor fussing, and stared at Zhou Weihan with his big eyes.
"Don't tell me, this little guy looks quite similar to me. Our dad already said that he looks exactly like me!" Zhou Weihan touched Zhou Tainan's ears with his fingers: "It's just that the base of the ears is a bit soft!
"
The little guy looked after Zhou Weihan and stretched out his hand, shaking his own hand as if to say hello to Zhou Weihan again.
"Isn't it good to be like you? From now on, I will go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese just like you!" Wen Qiang said with a smile.
"Well, when he grows up, the little devil will have been beaten away!"
Shortly after Wen Rong took a telegram announcing the good news to his family, both Wen and Zhou families called to say they wanted to see what Zhou Tainan looked like. In the end, Zhou Weihan could only get two photos and mail them home.
After a while, Zhou Weihan's parents sent someone to deliver the rocker Zhou Weihan used as a child, along with a lot of clothes and nutritional supplements.
The Zhou family has three children. The eldest brother Zhou Weihan has two sons and one daughter. The eldest is already in middle school, and the youngest daughter is seven years old. The second brother is probably not married yet, and it is unclear whether he has any children.
Zhou Tainan is the fourth child of the Zhou family’s grandchildren.
Zhou Weihan stretched out his hand to take the little guy out of the stroller, touched his buttocks and saw that the urine mustard was dry. Then he put Zhou Tainan on his lap, deliberately making noises with his tongue, and holding a rattle to tease the little guy.
Have to laugh.
Unfortunately, this warm picture of a loving father and a filial son was quickly broken, and Zhou Weihan felt a stream of heat flowing down his thighs.
"Here I go, peed again?" Zhou Weihan lifted the little guy above his head with both hands. He saw that the cloth bag he was wrapped in was already soaked, and his pants were also soaked.
Children cannot pee until they are one month old, which leads to the habit of peeing every time someone touches them.
Zhou Weihan couldn't help but smile bitterly. He quickly put the little guy on the kang, took out the soaked urine mustard seeds, and then took out a piece of the new hot urine mustard seeds from the head of the kang, folded it and stuffed it into the little guy's cloth pocket.
At the end of the day, the little guy can wet six or seven pieces.
Wen Yu was still in confinement, and it was too cold to touch the water. Zhou Weihan quickly put the few pieces of urine and mustard seeds he had accumulated in a basin with hot water on the stove. After washing, he hung them on the clothesline to dry.
"Comrade ***, today the cooking class is making pig's trotters and soybean soup, it's very fragrant!" After the monk came back, he had been watching from the cooking class, and now he entered the main room with a pot of steaming soup.
"Okay, put it on the table!" Zhou Weihan said without raising his head.
"Commander, let me wash it!"
"Go on, wait until you have a child, and wash it off for your child!" Zhou Weihan said and hung up the last piece of urine mustard.
"But I don't even have a wife now?" The monk changed his previous careless demeanor and looked rather shy.
"What? You're talking to your wife? She's going to be twenty this year, right?"
Before Zhou Weihan had time to change his pants, he wiped the water on his hands with his pants and handed the monk a cigarette.
"Well, I'm just twenty this year!"
After the two of them smoked the cigarette, the monk went to eat. Zhou Weihan had a lot of thoughts in his mind. Now he was a wife and child, but most of the cadres and soldiers didn't even have a wife.
Among the top brass of the Tainan and Hebei-Shandong-Henan military regions, apart from Zhou Weihan, Tan Lin's wife and children were in Yanzhou, and only Li Yunshan and Ding Dabaan, who had been specially approved by the boss, had married wives.
Zhao Gang and Zhang Yuanlan were in love with each other, but there is no explanation yet. The remaining cadres and soldiers were married before joining the army, but few of their family members were with them.
It's not a problem if things continue like this, Zhou Weihan thought to himself.
According to Zhou Weihan's thinking, although the Japs are surrounding him, the situation in the Tainan base area is currently relatively stable. After the Japs are driven away, the situation may not be as stable as it is now.