Bai Chenggang, oblivious, rode his bicycle with the verve of a motorcycle, racing to the county hospital at lightning speed. He didn't even bother to park it properly before breaking into another sprint.
And running wasn't enough. He started hollering at the top of his lungs—"Doctor Tian! Grandma Tian! Doctor Tian Dongmei!" On the short path to Doctor Tian's office, he was just shy of shouting for her ancestors.
That morning, He Peiyin had seen off her son, who she couldn't have held back even if she tried. She had just learned from her husband, Shen Mingquan, that their Xiao San had found a sweetheart. Being the hot-tempered woman she was, she had rushed right over to get the details.
She hadn't even had time to warm her seat. Using a postpartum check-up as a pretext, she had finally managed to learn from Doctor Tian that the wife of her second sister-in-law Xu Chunxi's third brother was coming to the county town to await labor. And now what?
