Put Your Head on My Shoulder (致我们暖暖的小时光) - Extra 2: First Chapter

Title: Put Your Head on My Shoulder (致我们暖暖的小时光)
Author: Zhou Gangan
Translation credit: Jia

Extra 2 - Baby Gu: First Chapter

[First]

Baby Gu was very difficult to bring when he was a child. He cried several times a night, sometimes until dawn.

 

When Gu Weiyi was there, he would get up and coax the crying baby at night. In order not to disturb her, he would spend the whole night walking around in the living room with the baby in his arms.

 

But Gu Weiyi went back to the United States in two weeks to finish his last semester of study.

 

Six months after Gu Weiyi left, Mo's mother also helped take care of the baby. Later, Mo's sister-in-law gave birth to a child, and her mother went to take care of her sister-in-law. Gu Weiyi's mother had no time and did not know how to take care of the baby, so the responsibility of taking care of the children fell entirely on Mo's shoulders.

 

It's so tired to take the baby with her. She often held the baby by the bed at midnight and fed it by herself when she dozed off. As soon as she loosened her hands, she would suddenly wake up out of scare. And if she was too tired, she would suddenly lose out of mind, when and walked out the door listening to the baby's crying, she would forget what she was going to do for her baby.

 

Mo felt that she was challenging the limits of human beings every day and told herself repeatedly every day that the crying creature in front of her was her son and that you couldn’t throw him away.

 

The first breakdown of her nervous was when the baby was seven months old. One night, the baby had a high fever, she was so scared that she rushed out with the baby in her arms. The baby trembled because of the fever, and she trembled because of scaring. She tried to drive, but she just couldn't start the car. So she had to stop a taxi. How hard it was to stop a taxi at 2 a.m.? She clenched her teeth and stopped a private car. Fortunately, the owner was very kind and sent them to the hospital without saying a word. It was four o'clock in the morning when she returned home. She forced the baby to take medicine, but as soon as the medicine juice touched his lips, he cried and spat out. Although Mo knew he could not understand it, she kept pleading, ‘Baby, please take medicine, mom is really tired...’

 

The last time she tried to pour the medicine into his mouth, the baby threw it out again with his tongue on top and cried.

 

Mo threw the spoon away and cried alongside the crib. A big one and a small one were crying hard in the room.

 

After crying, Mo had to feed him the medicine again, and Mo hardened her heart this time. She broke his mouth, pressed his tongue and poured the medicine inside. The baby drank the medicine, but he cried bitterly. The cry was like a knife, cutting his mother's heart.

 

Mo thought she needed to calm down and then went out of the room, closing the door. She thought, I'll just calm down for two minutes, just two minutes would be enough, two minutes without hearing the cry.

 

Two minutes later, when she went back, she found that the door was locked. For a moment, she felt that her heart was going to stop beating. She searched all over the room for keys, No, no, no. There was no key anywhere.

 

Then she broke down completely, leaning against the door to listen to the intermittent cries of the baby inside, and she cried loudly, ‘Don't cry, don't cry...It's Mom fault, I’m a bad mom...’

 

She cried to call Gu Weiyi, ‘Gu Weiyi...where is the key to the room? I can't find it anywhere. I...I locked the baby in the room...He's still feverish...He must be scared...Don't scold me...’

 

Gu Weiyi grabbed the phone and bounced off the bed, forcing himself to calm down, ‘Situ Mo, don't cry, don't cry, don't be afraid, the key is in the drawer of my previous room.’

 

‘He's locked in your previous room.’ She cried while saying. The sound of sniffing was particularly clear in the phone receiver, ‘What should I do? Shall I smash the lock with a hammer?’

 

Gu Weiyi took a deep breath, neglected his heartrending feeling, saying, ‘No, you'll scare the baby. Calm down, do as what I say. Now you go to the kitchen, open the kitchen window, the window cover is connected to the window of my previous room, I've climbed before...’

 

Mo pushed open the window and just tried to climb up when she heard Gu Weiyi calling on the other side of the phone. So she picked up the phone again.

 

‘Situ Mo, turn on all the kitchen lights first. Be careful when climbing up. Don't climb over if you are afraid. Look for a locksmith to unlock the lock tomorrow. The baby will sleep when he is tired of crying, understand?’

 

‘I see. I'll call you later.’ Mo hung up the phone, took a deep breath and climbed up.

 

Fortunately, Mo climbed over smoothly, opened the window successfully, and found that her son had fallen asleep with his thumb sucking. It was so peaceful that she wanted to beat him. Mo found the key and put it in her pocket. She vowed to make 10 keys in every corner of her home tomorrow.

 

Before she could call Gu Weiyi back, he called first, ‘Situ Mo, how is going?’

 

Mo cheered up and said, ‘It's all right. The baby is asleep.’

 

After a long silence, Gu Weiyi sighed softly and said, ‘I'm sorry.’

 

I'm sorry, I couldn’t be with you. I'm sorry, you're so afraid but I couldn’t even give you a hug. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have let you take everything alone.

 

‘Um.’ Mo answered in a low voice.

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