There was darkness all around.
Mu Yanzhu vaguely heard the sound of sobbing, the sound was very small and showed obvious restraint.
She groped her way along the dim light and opened up a huge black net. Only then did she see an old lady squatting in the corner.
The old lady's shoulders were shaking, as if she was crying.
Moving forward, Mu Yanzhu was stunned.
The old lady turned out to be her late grandmother.
"Grandma, why are you crying?" Mu Yanzhu squatted down and said.
"Oh, I'm so worried, I'm so worried!" The old lady patted her forehead.
"What are you worried about?" Mu Yanzhu took her hand and held it in his palm, and asked again.
"Hey, the doctor said you can't have a baby. What should I do? People outside have to make irresponsible remarks, pointing fingers at you and denouncing you as a hen that doesn't lay eggs. How will you and Jiang He live? I'm so worried. Got it!"
Mu Yanzhu couldn't laugh or cry.
"Grandma, are you mistaken? Why can't I give birth to a child? Jiang He is sick. I don't know how to tell him about it."
As he spoke, Mu Yanzhu's tears flowed down uncontrollably.
She hugged the old lady and cried, telling her that she missed her so much and that she was really scared because it was painful to lose someone and she didn't want to lose Jiang He.
Then crying, Mu Yanzhu woke up.
She was pulled up and woken up.
What came into view was Jiang Qingchi's enlarged version of his handsome face.
Seeing that she was finally awake, Jiang Qingchi finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then hugged Mu Yanzhu with such strength that he almost choked her to death.
"You finally woke up, you scared me to death!"
"I...what's wrong?"
"You must be having a nightmare. You were crying while calling grandma's name. You didn't respond no matter how I called you. It really scared me."
Like a lost child, Jiang Qingchi hugged Mu Yanzhu and rubbed her hair hard.
It turned out to be a dream.
Mu Yanzhu felt the dryness at the corners of her eyes. They were her tears that had not had time to evaporate.
Thinking of the dream just now and what grandma said to her, Mu Yanzhu felt a little more thoughtful.
She patted Jiang Qingchi's back and said, "I'm fine, I'm here."
"I know you feel bad when grandma is gone. It will get better. Wife, don't worry, everything will be fine. I swear on the name of all the ancestors of the Lao Jiang family."
This sentence made Mu Yanzhu laugh.
"Stop swearing by your ancestors. Your ancestors provoked you."
"Aren't I afraid that something will happen to you..."
"I'm fine. By the way, didn't we have a pre-marital check-up last time? I forgot to go to the hospital to get the report. You can go to the hospital to get it after get off work today."
"Oh... didn't you take it?"
"Yes, I don't have time right now, go get it and then pick me up."
"That's okay."
Jiang Qingchi didn't suspect anything.
He let go of Mu Yanzhu, and after talking to her for a while, seeing that her mood had stabilized, he got up and went to cook.
…
Mu Yanzhu came to the magazine office and contacted the doctor from yesterday immediately.
However, it was another person who answered the phone.
"elder sister?"
"Chu Xiangchen?" Mu Yanzhu frowned, no wonder the voice sounded familiar, "Why are you answering the phone?"
"Oh, are you looking for my uncle? He just came to my house for dinner and left his mobile phone at my house."
"I see… "
Yesterday, the doctor said that he wanted to introduce his nephew to her, saying that his nephew was a good person and he liked her type.
She didn't take it seriously at the time, and never expected that the other party's nephew turned out to be Chu Xiangchen.
"Is that so? Do my sister and my uncle know each other?"
"Okay, can I trouble you with something?"
"Sister, just tell me."
"Help me forge a hospital examination report. Whether it is a hysteroscopy problem, abnormal hormone secretion, or the fallopian tube is blocked, or all indicators are abnormal, it will say that I can't get pregnant."
"elder sister… "
Chu Xiangchen didn't know what she was going to do, but he could guess a little bit, "Can't you tell the truth to him? I think he should be happy to spend his old age peacefully."
"Shut up!!"
The last words irritated Mu Yanzhu. It was the first time that she had lost such a temper towards Chu Xiangchen. Her torn voice was on fire, and the last sound was only trembling.
"He can live a long time, he can live a hundred years, do you understand?"
"sorry."
"It's okay, if it's inconvenient for you, I'll find someone else to do it for me."
"Let me help my sister do this!"
Chu Xiangchen said hurriedly.
"Sister can trust me with confidence. Except for me, if anyone else stabs my sister in the back, I can't believe it, and neither can I."
That's just right.
Because now only Chu Xiangchen knows about the premarital examination report. Of course, the fewer people who know about this kind of thing, the better.
…
afternoon.
Jiang Qingchi drove to the hospital where he went for a prenatal check-up and got the report.
In fact, he really felt that premarital examination was unnecessary, but Mu Yanzhu was cautious, so he went along with it.
The doctor responsible for the examination was not there at the time, and it was another doctor who handed the examination report to Jiang Qingchi.
Jiang Qingchi didn't care about this, took the report and left.
As soon as he walked out of the hospital, he saw Chu Xiangchen standing at the door.
He was wearing a white coat and light blue jeans, looking very fresh and clean.
Jiang Qingchi glanced at him, his tall eyebrows frowning slightly. He did not deny that he was very angry, especially towards the man who had coffee with his wife yesterday.
But Mu Yanzhu explained that he didn't want to find trouble with Chu Xiangchen, and it seemed that he was very careless.
Jiang Qingchi wanted to let Chu Xiangchen go just once, just once, pretending not to see him, and unlocked his Bugatti Veyron with the car key.
"Wait a moment!"
Chu Xiangchen was here specially to wait for Jiang Qingchi. He walked over in three steps and stopped in front of Jiang Qingchi.
"Boy, a good dog doesn't block the road." Jiang Qingchi said this without politeness.
Chu Xiangchen calmly glanced at the inspection report in Jiang Qingchi's hand. This was the inspection report he forged according to Mu Yanzhu's instructions...
"I want to tell you that I want to compete fairly with you."
"ha??"
As if hearing a joke, Jiang Qingchi leaned on the car and leaned sideways, "Why are you so crazy? She is already married! You don't understand after we received the certificate?"
"I see."
Chu Xiangchen suddenly softened his tone again, and then hugged Jiang Qingchi.
All the accumulated tears and snot flowed down.
"Brother Jiang He, I also want to give up on my sister. I was about to give up! But you know, this person is fate. Everything is fate. God has decided that I will stay with my sister in this life. It’s destined to be me, it’s all arranged!”
What nonsense are you talking about? !
Before Chu Xiangchen's nose wiped him, Jiang Qingchi hurriedly pulled him away, with a look of disgust and anger.
"I don't know, why did you use your sympathy card on me? Or do you want to get close to me first, bend me over, and make me like you, and then you take the opportunity to conquer your little sister?"
"...You are so narcissistic!"
Chu Xiangchen sniffed and wiped away his tears.
"Anyway, I just want you to know that I don't mean to destroy you. I just want to compete fairly with you, and you will be grateful to me in the future."
hehe? !
In the eyes of Jiang Qingchi, the current Chu Xiangchen is like a third party who wants to take over. He is still acting in a high-sounding manner, but in fact, what he really means is:
I've fallen in love with your wife, and I want to steal her from you, but I have to find a name for myself as a fair competition to make me feel better. Then if I cuckold you, don't blame me, you will be grateful to me.
"I think you're farting here, get out of here!"
Jiang Qingchi's patience ran out and he was ready to get in the car.
Chu Xiangchen sniffed again, took a deep look at Jiang Qingchi, and then left.
That complicated look made Jiang Qingchi see a lot of emotions.
Resentment, reluctance, sympathy, pity.
Is this the emotion you should show towards your love rival
Jiang Qingchi was too lazy to pay attention to him. He was going to pick up Mu Yanzhu, but he was afraid that Chu Xiangchen would secretly pick him up.
…
"Did you get the premarital examination report?"
After getting into Jiang Qingchi's car, Mu Yanzhu pretended not to know and asked.
Before Jiang Qingchi had time to open it, he handed it over and said, "Here it is."
The reason why he was so casual was because he knew that there was nothing wrong with his and Mu Yanzhu's health, and the examination was just to make her feel at ease.
Mu Yanzhu opened the file bag as if nothing had happened.
Then his face darkened.
When the light turned red, Jiang Qingchi looked sideways at her, but met her frosty eyes, "What's wrong with you?"
"Let's... talk about it when we get home."
Seeing her serious face, how could she go home and talk about it!
Jiang Qingchi quickly parked the car on the side of the road and turned off the engine, "What's wrong? You've been scaring me these past two days."
"This is our premarital examination report..."
Jiang Qingchi took the premarital examination report and immediately looked at Mu Yanzhu's examination items.
He couldn't quite understand it, but Mu Yanzhu pointed at the above column of data and told him that the examination was a hysterosalpingogram.
"Bilateral fallopian tubes are blocked."
"So? What does this mean?"
"It means it's hard to get pregnant, idiot!"
Jiang Qingchi was stunned and blinked. He looked innocent, as if he had thought of something. Before he could speak, Mu Yanzhu took out his inspection report.
"There is nothing wrong with all of your indicators. Look, your quality is also very high. The data here shows that your average quantity is 6.5."
6.5 is followed by two words: excellent.
Jiang Qingchi packed up the report and coughed twice, "Daughter-in-law, this kind of thing is also related to genetics, you know. Actually, I'm not that powerful. I'm just an ordinary man."
“…”
Mu Yanzhu said nothing, looking at him with sad eyes.
Jiang Qingchi sighed and patted her shoulder comfortingly.
"It's okay. Medical technology is so advanced now, why can't you get pregnant? To tell you the truth, my mother couldn't get pregnant before, but she still got pregnant later. This proves that the power of love is great, as long as you love me , I love you, and we can overcome everything!”
"You are so childish and...stupid!"
So stupid, so big!
She also took a fancy to his stupidity and took advantage of his stupidity to blame everything on herself.
Even if she understands, he doesn't care at all, because in this man's eyes, as long as she is with him, everything can be solved.
Mu Yanzhu had nothing to say, so Jiang Qingchi touched her hair.
"Little fool, it's okay. Go to the hospital for a good check-up tomorrow."
"I'm not going to the hospital!"
"Okay, okay, I won't go."
Thinking that she had a shadow against the hospital, Jiang Qingchi followed Mu Yanzhu's words, "Then let's go home for dinner, be good."
…
In the evening, after dinner, Mu Yanzhu lingered in the bathroom for a long time.
She didn't want to come out, the water was filled with moisture, and she couldn't tell whether it was the hot water from the shower or her tears. She only knew that her heart hurt so much that she was suffocating because she had already made a decision.
This decision is difficult, extremely difficult...
She would not tell anyone about this decision, including Jiang Qingchi.
Maybe years from now he will blame her, and that's okay.
"Dong dong dong!"
It had been half an hour and Mu Yanzhu hadn't come out yet. Jiang Qingchi couldn't wait any longer and knocked frantically on the bathroom door.
Mu Yanzhu took a deep breath, put on a bathrobe and walked out.
Jiang Qingchi pulled her over and looked down at her, "Your eyes are so red, what are you doing in there? Huh?"
Mu Yanzhu shook her head and hugged his waist in silence.
She buried her head in his arms, clearly feeling his strong heartbeat and the sound of her teeth chattering.
"What if I really can't get pregnant?"
"Are you talking about this again? Don't say it anymore, let's just let nature take its course!"
Jiang Qingchi carried Mu Yanzhu to the bed.
Two hours later.
He hugged her from behind and said, "I'll take you to take a bath, okay?"
“I don’t want to go…”
Mu Yanzhu's eyes were still red.
"What if I really can't give birth?"
Jiang Qingchi didn't say a word.
He turned over.
It's like being angry.
Mu Yanzhu also turned over. She couldn't see anything clearly in the darkness, so she could only hide her head under the quilt and cry silently, swallowing all the words she couldn't say.
Sorry Jiang He.
Forgive me for my deceptions and lies.
I just don't want to see you in pain.
I don’t even want to see your despair...
Just as she was thinking, Mu Yanzhu's back suddenly pressed against a warm chest. Before she could recover, familiar fingers touched her face. Her cheeks were cold, which was in stark contrast to the warmth of his fingers. contrast.
"Stop crying." There was a helpless and conniving sigh above the head.
"Aren't you asleep yet?"
"Nonsense, can I fall asleep? You are like me."
"… sorry."
"Why are you saying sorry to me? What's wrong with you?"
Jiang Qingchi's voice sounded a bit like iron.
"My good wife, let's just let nature take its course. It's useless to think about it so much, huh?"
"But I still feel uncomfortable. What will you do if we don't have children?"
"Oh, let's take a step back. If we don't have children, we can adopt or have in vitro fertilization. What a big deal!"
“…”
The smoke and candles are stuck in the throat.
He actually knows about test tubes and even talks about adoption. Even if there is no blood relationship, does it not matter
How could he say such a thing...
"Are you kidding me?"
"No! I mean everything I say. We just got married, the wedding hasn't been held yet, and our parents haven't met yet. The future is so long, God will definitely give us a child, so don't think about anything else. Did you sleep well?"
Mu Yanzhu found that he was always more optimistic and positive than her.
He is always more open-minded and cheerful than her.
Perhaps God had already arranged that an optimistic person needs to guide a pessimistic person, so she was assigned to Jiang Qingchi.
Jiang Qingchi turned Mu Yanzhu's body around so that she faced him.
In the darkness, he had excellent vision. He locked her face, reached out his hand to cover her eyelids accurately, and gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
"Stop crying, it's not good for your eyes."
"How do you know I cried?"
"Your shoulders are shaking. Do you think I can't notice it?"
After saying this, Jiang Qingchi hugged the person in his arms tightly and rubbed her cheek with his chin.
"Okay, okay, please relax. Pregnancy has a lot to do with your mood. It's difficult for depressed people to get pregnant. My mother used to be like that. As soon as she relaxed, she got pregnant with me immediately. My godfather also said that I was the son of the Dragon King."
"Oh, have you been so narcissistic since you were born?"
"Ahem, I have sufficient self-awareness, how can I call it narcissism? Go to sleep!"
…
In the next few days, Mu Yanzhu spent the most painful days in her life.
The real premarital examination report was hidden in her place, and she took it out from time to time to look at it. Jiang He's examination report was there, every word in detail, like a rope tightening around her neck. She often woke up from nightmares in the middle of the night and saw the person sleeping on the bed. Beside him, he wanted to touch his face, but was afraid of waking him up.
She was almost exhausted and out of breath while working. Sometimes she would suddenly feel angina during a meeting, and then she would stop the meeting and walk to the window sill to get some air.
The pain is overwhelming.
She has handed over many tasks to her employees, including the current and future deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine, and has been frequently in and out of Mu Yanzhu's office recently.
It's the same today.
"Editor-in-chief, I think you've been a little weird lately!" The deputy editor-in-chief couldn't help but curse.
"What's weird about me?" Mu Yanzhu asked with a smile.
"It's like... it's like handing over a will and arranging everything."
"Why should I hand over my will? Do you want me to die?" Mu Yanzhu asked.
"Don't dare, I'm just making an analogy. Then, the editor-in-chief, I'll go out and get busy first!"
"Um."
After the deputy editor-in-chief left, the smile on Mu Yanzhu's face suddenly faded.
The clouds are gathering.
Mu Yanzhu is the only one who has been so busy these days.
And Jiang Qingchi.
Mu Yanzhu would send a message to Jiang Qingchi almost every half hour, intentionally or unintentionally mentioning "pregnancy" or "having a baby". Jiang Qingchi was already impatient.
At noon today, he called her.
"Jiang Yan, if you talk about this again, let's stop talking to each other in the future!"
It was so cruel and cruel, he was really angry.
Mu Yanzhu's voice was calm: "Okay, then we won't talk."
“…”
This made Jiang Qingchi even more depressed!
Jiang San'er happened to invite him to dinner that night and said he was going to be a guest at Jiang Qingchi's house. Jiang Qingchi refused to let him go and took San'er to the bar to drink.
San'er doesn't go to the bar. It's not that he can't drink. He just considers that Jiang Qingchi is a married man and it's better not to go to the bar.
Jiang Qingchi also realized this problem, and finally the two chose a quiet teahouse.
The tea house only has tea, including black tea, green tea, and jasmine, but no wine.
Jiang Qingchi took out a stack of bills from his wallet and gave it to the handyman girl, asking her to buy wine.
"What happened to you? Did you have a fight with your sister-in-law?"
"That's right."
Jiang Qingchi briefly talked to Jiang Jingming, and after buying the wine, he opened a bottle of beer, poured two full glasses, and handed one to Jiang San'er.
"San'er, let me tell you, when you have a partner in the future, you must never do any premarital examination. Your sister-in-law made trouble with me because of doing this."
"You said that we are so young and have great years and youth, why are we still worried about having children? It will happen when it comes. Isn't it good to just let nature take its course?"
Jiang San'er nodded, "Have measures been taken?"
"Now I want her to get pregnant immediately, and you still want me to take measures?"
"...I mean, haven't you seen a doctor? I heard that Chinese medicine is very effective in treating infertility."
"She's not going!"
The more Jiang Qingchi talked, the more irritated he became.
"She just spent so much time with me. I don't know what she was thinking. She refused to see a doctor, so she sentenced herself to death."
"My sister-in-law has a very calm personality. Since she knows there is a physical problem, why didn't she get treatment earlier? Don't you ask her?"
"She is extremely pessimistic now, and it doesn't work for me to coax her with all my words."
Jiang Qingchi didn't drink, but just tightened his grip on the glass.
The young girl serving tea came in, dressed fashionably and revealingly, and winked at Jiang Qingchi.
She doesn't like the delicate type like Jiang San'er, but likes the masculine and unruly man like Jiang Qingchi.
Jiang Qingchi was furious. When the other party was pouring tea, she leaned on his arm and smiled sweetly at him. However, before he could do anything, he threw away his hand and poured the tea on her.
"roll!"
"..." The girl ran out with red eyes.
Jiang Qingchi looked disgusted and didn't look at what he was.
The men in Lao Jiang's family are all the same. Even if they quarrel with their wives, other pheasants will not have the chance to take advantage of it, because -
They are mysophobic!
Jiang San'er didn't move at all, still maintaining the same expression as before, "You should ask her why she doesn't receive treatment."
Saying that, Jiang San'er paused.
"Try to feel her pain. Comparing your feelings to my own, you are already married, brother."
“…”
Jiang Qingchi fell into silence, his fingers holding the wine glass tightened slightly, he pursed his lips for a moment, then pushed the glass of wine aside and drank tea instead.
…
Mu Yanzhu's heart ached when she received a call from Jiang Qingchi.
The pain was abstract, spreading along the heart to the internal organs.
She picked it up and gave it a feed. There was a smile on the end, a smile that made her heart beat no matter how many times.
"Daughter-in-law, I was wrong."
"...Didn't you say you won't talk to me?"
"How can I be willing to give up? My daughter-in-law, who finally got the certificate, I am a fool and I am leaving you alone?"
"Is there a problem?"
Jiang Qingchi pretended not to hear the coldness in Mu Yanzhu's tone and said with a smile, "Are you in the office now?"
"What's wrong?"
"Come out for a moment."
“…”
As soon as Mu Yanzhu went out, he faced Jiang Qingchi who was leaning against the wall.
He was wearing a black jacket with a brown inner layer. He smelled faintly of alcohol, and his eyebrows were raised.
Seeing her, he smiled and raised his chin with her, like a big kid showing off, "Good wife, I'll show you something nice."
"what?"
Mu Yanzhu reluctantly raised the corner of her mouth and asked, God knows, looking at this face now, it was like a knife cutting through the heart, cutting open the bright red blood, and flowing gurglingly in the heart.
"You'll find out if you follow me downstairs."
It's a bit of a sell-out.
Jiang Qingchi even pretended to be mysterious and blindfolded Mu Yanzhu. After pulling her downstairs, he held her waist from behind and asked her to count down to three.
"Stop being childish."
"Quickly, count down to three, and have a sense of ceremony."
Mu Yanzhu couldn't defeat him, so she had to count down...
"3-2-1-"
…
(End of chapter)