Chapter 85

At this moment, everyone had gone to eat, and the beach was not crowded, just a few kids
Lu Yuanzheng drove Xu Man, but in fact, it was more like pushing her, changing speeds along the way, moving forward and backward, and testing the car’s performance by making sharp stops and starts
But Xu Man suffered, and got out of the car halfway and refused to sit back in it
This is at least a convertible!
It was also an open-topped electric car, and Lu Yuanzheng gave her a hard time
Xu asked to come down when there is not too something, walked for a minute or two, hard to get up, a hand on the tree a cover the heart, a guilty of nausea
A passing sister-in-law saw her and came over to ask her, “Ask your sister-in-law what’s wrong with you?”
Xu Wen waved her hand and simply said “nothing”
Her stomach churned and she let out a dry heaving sound The sentence that followed, “I’m just a bit seasick!” It didn’t come out
As a result, this sister-in-law misunderstood and let out an ah, “So you’re pregnant? I told you that you should stay in bed for the first three months of pregnancy Especially you just married couple has little experience, more must cherish “
After she rattled off a bunch of early pregnancy precautions, she grabbed her arm and pulled her back, saying with special enthusiasm, “Let’s go, let me take you home first”
Xu Wen was busy saying, “Sister-in-law, I’m fine, I’m just a little carsick” She lifted her finger and pointed down to Lu Yuanzheng, who was still galloping on the beach without paying attention to this side, “He spun around and made me dizzy”
Her sister-in-law obviously didn’t believe her, but also looked at her with a face of “I understand everything! I’ve been there before, I know you’re too embarrassed to admit it!” But she didn’t insist on sending her home again
Xu Wen couldn’t help but laugh and cry, but he couldn’t explain She couldn’t tell her sister-in-law, “I’m not pregnant, I’m on birth control!”
After telling her not to stay out too long, she left
Xu Wen shook her head and found a shade to sit down
Contraception was her request, she felt that she had only just established a dependent relationship with Dongsheng, and getting pregnant and having another child now would easily make Dongsheng feel insecure In addition, the island life is not stable enough for the time being, the lack of this and that, Xu Wen selfishly do not want to add a child to suffer at this time
She can, but she can’t let go of the child
Lu Yuanzheng has no opinion, just feel aggrieved her, and not satisfied with this time of the little umbrella
Production conditions on this here, some too thick, not painful, sometimes the mood is not want to wear
Speaking of which, it seems to be very true that there are so one or two times did not wear
Will not really win the lottery? Xu asked uncertainly thought
She didn’t have the habit of keeping track of her period, and couldn’t remember the last time she had a period
What if she really got pregnant?
This question made Xu Man a little panicky
Although she already had a son like Dongsheng, he was already three and a half years old at the time
Basically, he didn’t need to be taken care of too closely
But if she gave birth to one herself, could she be a good mom by bringing herself up from scratch?
What about menstruation?
There’s no sister-in-law here, and no parents to help out
Sometimes you can’t see anyone for a day or two when you’re busy in your profession
There are no diapers, and they have to be changed
What if I don’t have enough milk? It’s not convenient to buy milk powder
The more Xu asked, the more she thought about it, the more she had a headache
When Lu Yuanzheng came over to look for Xu Man, she just leaned against the tree trunk with a confused and aggrieved face, her face was ugly, and her big eyes were a little lifeless
He was startled and squatted in front of Xu Man, patting her face, “Daughter-in-law, what’s wrong?”
Obviously, she was still talking and laughing when she got out of the car just now
Xu Wen grabbed Lu Yuanzheng’s hand, her tone a little panicked: “Lu Yuanzheng, I may really be pregnant”
Lu Yuanzheng was petrified on the spot, followed by great joy, picking her up, “Really? That’s great! I’m going to be a father!”
Finished reacting to already Dongsheng’s father, added another word, “I’m going to be a father again!”
Just a smack or feel a little wrong
But it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t prevent him from being happy, holding Xu Man and walking back, “Go, go home and rest! You can’t be tired”
“Car! The electric car is still on the beach!” The two of them had been dividing their labor to do this for quite a while now!
“It’s fine, it can’t be lost! I’ll come back and drive it later” Lu Yuanzheng’s footsteps did not stop This island was full of his people how could he lose anything
“Don’t be so exaggerated!” Xu Wen cried a little, “I’m just saying it’s possible And it’s no longer uncomfortable at this moment maybe it’s just that you’re swaying the car sick”
“Then it’s always right to go back and take a rest”
Having said that, Lu Yuanzheng still carefully placed Xu Man on the bed, turned on the fan, put fruit on the bedside for her, and took away the paper and pen
Xu Man was a little thirsty, and once she touched the fruits, they were all warm, protesting, “I want to eat ice”
“No way Eating cold at this time is not good for you or the child, so bear with it for now”
Xu asked: “”
Looking at the whole large write hyperactive Lu Yuanzheng for a time do not know what to say
The night Xu asked a bit of insomnia, Lu Yuanzheng is not good to go, over and over again told her to sleep well to get a good spirit to go to the checkup tomorrow, but their own flip-flopping pancake like
The two of them went to the health company to see, but the health company’s people to save a good hand, on the pregnancy of this really do not know too much about it, and no inspection equipment, and will not be Chinese medicine pulse
We can only wait for tomorrow after dawn, to the center of the island
There is a small public hospital there
It was not easy to stay up until dawn, Lu Yuanzheng climbed up to make breakfast
Making the meal to wait for Xu Wen to get up
It was really serving, and she didn’t even need to put on her own clothes
“Lu Yuanzheng”
“Uh-huh” He squatted by the bedside to put on her shoes
“With you like this, if you check that you’re not pregnant, it’ll make me feel like a sinner”
Lu Yuanzheng stood up and rubbed the top of her head, “I should be nice to you whether you’re pregnant or not It’s just that I should treat you better if you’re pregnant After all, the child of two people you suffer yourself, you have to let me do something, right? Don’t think too much”
Xu Wen slapped his hand away, “Are you touching my head with the hand that just lifted my shoes?!”
Lu Yuanzheng: “”
Seems like it!
“Forget it!” He wants to think about looking askance at Xu Man, “You dislike your own feet too?!”
After eating, Lu Yuanzheng said hello to Shi Lei and followed the boat to the hospital on the center island
Fortunately, the hospital is not big, all five departments, but also really want an obstetrics and gynecology
Xu asked to follow the doctor to go in for a checkup, Lu Yuanzheng stayed outside the door, back and forth in the corridor to turn, the naked eye can be seen in the anxiety, with the usual calm and collected
As soon as Xu Man came out, he greeted him, “How’s it going?”
Xu Wen shook her head and asked him, “Will you be disappointed that I’m not pregnant?”
Lu Yuanzheng didn’t rush to reply, only looking at Xu Man as if he was afraid he was just teasing her
Xu Wen handed him the checklist she had pinched in her hand, “Really not pregnant”
She should really just be seasick, but the doctor said that Xu Man had some uterine cold, making it difficult for her to conceive
If she really wanted to have a child, she really needed to regulate it
When Lu Yuanzheng looked at the checklist, Xu Wen was looking at him
After reading the checklist for five minutes, Lu Yuanzheng only said to her, “Let’s go! Pick up the bear child and go shopping!”
If it wasn’t an illusion, Xu Wen vaguely heard him let out a soft sigh of relief
The woman’s irrationality got the better of her again, and Xu Man pulled at him, “What do you mean? Are you not wanting a child?”
Lu Yuanzheng sighed and explained good-naturedly, “How could I not want a child?”
“Don’t think I didn’t hear you breathing a long sigh of relief!” Xu Wen exaggerated
Lu Yuanzheng didn’t deny it, “How can I put it? If you’re really pregnant! I would definitely be the happiest person in this world! I’ll try to learn to take care of you during the pregnancy and take care of you mother and child when the baby is born
But not pregnant and not disappointed When I couldn’t sleep last night, I kept thinking, “How can I be a good father?
We don’t have any experience and we don’t have any old people to teach us
Mostly, I’ve never thought about having kids before I’ve always said I’d wait until you graduated from college
I was surprised and apprehensive when you suddenly said you were pregnant
The actual fact is that the actual actual actuality is actually a lot more than the actual actuality!
It doesn’t matter if you’re not pregnant, you can have another baby when you’re ready”
Xu Wen grunted as she walked ahead, “The words are all yours”
Although she was also slightly relieved, she was willing to give birth to a child for Lu Yuanzheng, it was just that like Lu Yuanzheng, she preferred to have a child when she was prepared
Not being pregnant, she, like Lu Yuanzheng, was a little lost and a little grateful
Lu Yuanzheng held her hand and squeezed it, “Don’t think about it! I really like children, I’ll go back at night and try my best to get you pregnant sooner!”
Xu asked, “”
She pulled her hand out, “Who wants to give you a child! You’re dreaming!”
“I don’t just think beautifully! It’s also beautiful when I do it!”
Xu Wen gouged her hand upwards and pinched his palm with her nails
She didn’t believe that he still had muscles in his palm
However, although Lu Yuanzheng didn’t have any muscles in his palms, his long hours of labor had left his palms with a layer of old skin, and there were also thick calluses on the roots of his fingers and the belly of his palms
It still didn’t hurt him
Lu Yuanzheng regarded her as scratching an itch and smiled as he led her forward
Xu asked to pinch for a while loosened his hands, fingertips touched those calluses after only heartache
A family of three, wearing the parent-child clothes they bought last time, wandering around the island
This is the largest island in the archipelago, each island officers and soldiers are on vacation here, plus because of the new policy many sisters-in-law with children also come to the island, obviously more than the last time a lot of lively
Even in the supply house, the goods were much more plentiful than last time
This is a gathering place for ethnic minorities, not quite like a production team, but rather a bit like family farming, and the way of business is also similar
Xu Wen even saw someone holding a cow to sell milk on the street, but business is not good
Nowadays, the consumer view is that for non-essential goods, you should not buy them if you can
Lu Yuanzheng saw that Xu Wen’s eyes kept glancing at the cow and asked her, “Do you want to try it?”
“That one has to be cooked before you can drink it It can replenish protein, and drinking it often is good for the body and can also make children grow taller” Xu Wen did want to buy it
Unsure if it was due to eating a hundred meals, Dongsheng wasn’t tall compared to children of his age
Although Xu Wen had brought him along for the past year, he had grown quite a bit, but still almost
Lu Yuanzheng caught the point: “Drink often?”
“Uh-huh Drinking it only once or twice isn’t much use”
“Then why don’t I buy you a cow to go back?”
Xu Man immediately let go of his hand and made a please gesture
His allowances were in her hands He’d buy one for her to look at
Lu Yuanzheng squinted at her
Dongsheng was unsure and coaxed, “Dad, go ahead! Buy it back and I’ll go herding cows every day!”
Lu Yuanzheng finally found a way down and hit Dongsheng on the head, “Don’t say anything until you put yourself in a good position!”
Dongsheng rubbed his head and mumbled, “You said you wanted to buy it”
Xu Wen chimed in, “That’s right! If you promised, you have to do it Lying to children is a bad habit”
Lu Yuanzheng let out a light kinder, remembering the line when they first formally met and she defended Dongsheng accusing him of violently punching a child
“Okay!” He nodded and quite literally went to the old farmer, “Old uncle, how do you sell this cow?”
The old uncle couldn’t understand, thought he wanted to buy milk especially happily took the milk bottle and filled a bottle and handed it to Lu Yuanzheng, also pointed to the wooden sign next to him
On the sign was written the price of the milk, as well as the money that could be refunded after the bottle was sent back
Lu Yuanzheng waved his hand, indicating that he didn’t want the milk and pointed to the cow
The old man saw that he did not want the milk anxious, his mouth rattled a bunch of
Although he couldn’t read it, he could guess that he was praising how good the milk was
Xu asked to see two people wide-eyed, obviously communication difficulties, also followed forward, thinking first buy a bottle to cope with a little
Before she could open her mouth, the young man squatting next to her, who was responsible for milking the cow, opened his mouth, speaking in not-so-standard Mandarin: “This cow was bought by my dad from the clan We don’t have any on the island, so we have to go on land My father didn’t know that there were so many breeds of cows, so he was tricked into buying a cow and couldn’t work Our patriarch made our family pay this money to buy the cow saying the clan didn’t want it The cow cost a hundred dollars!
What do you think we need a cow for? No one will buy it even if we sell it every day I can’t even go to school because of this We can’t afford to pay for it
Why don’t you do me a favor and buy a few bottles of milk? It’s good milk”
Lu Yuanzheng and Xu Wen looked at each other, buying a cow was just a joke, but this time they really wanted to buy it
They did not doubt the words of the young man, because this cow is not a common black and white cow, but a yellow cow with a special resemblance to the kind of yellow cow, only the head and stomach some white
Xu asked and pointed at the cow, “So do you want to sell this cow? How much do you want to sell it for?”
The young man’s eyes lit up and he abruptly stood up, “Do you really want to buy it?”
Lu Yuanzheng nodded
The young man rattled off Xu Man’s words to the old farmer, who bowed to Lu Yuanzheng and Xu Man, saying something they didn’t understand
The boy said, “My dad said the cow would cost ninety dollars”
Xu Man was curious, “Didn’t you say you bought it for a hundred dollars?”
“We’ve been selling milk here, and recently a lot of new people came to the island and sold it for ten dollars So it’s still ninety dollars short”
Xu Wen looked at Lu Yuanzheng, “Can we buy it back?”
Lu Yuanzheng asks her, “Can I say anything about this?”
Xu Wen smiled
“Okay! My suggestion is that we can buy it”
Now that Lu Yuanzheng had quite a bit of allowance, there wasn’t much pressure to buy this cow But, Xu Man sighed, a little helpless, “I also want to buy it But I didn’t bring that much money”
She only had fifty dollars on her
“I’ll go borrow from Uncle Song, you wait here for me”
It didn’t take long for Lu Yuanzheng to come back with ten sheets of Duanjie
“Why so many?”
“Don’t we still have to shop after buying the cow?”
“Stroll with a cow?” Xu Wen gave the money to the old farmer
The old farmer’s father and son bowed repeatedly
After buying the cow, Xu Man had another problem, “Hold the cow and go shopping?”
The young man heard and said that he could watch the cow here until Xu Man returned
Xu Man thanked Lu Yuanzheng and led Dongsheng to go with confidence
The young man called out to them, “Aren’t you afraid I’ll take the cow away?”
They didn’t know each other, and Xu Man had paid for the cow, so they couldn’t find him if he took it home
Xu Man said, “I’m sure you guys aren’t like that”
Lu Yuanzheng didn’t say anything, just smiled
Nowadays, the archipelagos were under military jurisdiction, and if the precincts had to let people cheat and still couldn’t find the crooks, he could switch careers
There wasn’t really much to buy
Xu Man was only interested in some industrial goods, but the island was obviously backward, and there weren’t many things she wanted
After half a day of shopping, she only bought some snacks for Dongsheng and some eggs and flour
Lu Yuanzheng asked her, “Flour and eggs are available in the cooking class, why did you buy this?”
“Because for the next while, I might waste a lot of eggs and flour”
“Hmm?”
“Toshio will have his birthday next month, and I want to make a birthday cake for him But the tools and everything aren’t complete right now, so I’ll have to do a little bit of research, so it might be a waste”
Wasting the cooking class’s was the same as wasting the warrior’s rations, something Xu Wen couldn’t do
Dongsheng was born on the winter solstice
Lu Yuanzheng nodded, his eyes looking towards Dongsheng who was picking toys in front of him, “That was fast! Dongsheng will soon be five years old!”