"Sister Li, where do you feel uncomfortable? What did the doctor say?" Zhu Ping'an held Li Shu's little hand and asked with concern.
"I... ... "
Li Shu wanted to say something but hesitated. She blinked her watery eyes and looked at Zhu Ping'an reluctantly. Her long eyelashes trembled slightly. A layer of mist instantly brewed in Li Shu's eyes and spread.
How come this scene is so much like the farewell scene between the hero and heroine in a TV series? ! Seeing this, Zhu Pingan's heart skipped a beat, as if someone was holding him, and his face turned pale with nervousness.
"Sister Li..."
Zhu Pingan reached out and held Li Shu in his arms, comforting her, "It's okay, it's okay, I'm here, everything will be fine."
"Brother Zhu... Doctor, the doctor said that I have... a serious illness that may threaten my life." Li Shu leaned in Zhu Ping'an's arms, clutching his clothes with her small hands. She slowly raised her little face, her eyes filled with mist, and she seemed about to cry. She looked so pitiful, like a little white flower drifting in the cold wind.
Suffering from a life-threatening illness? !
Is it so serious?!
When Zhu Ping'an heard this, he felt like he was struck by lightning. His heart seemed to be tied with a stone and sank straight into a deep pool.
The scenes of bickering when we were kids, the scenes of laughing and scolding, the scenes of borrowing books, the scenes of cutting wrists and feeding blood when we were in a shipwreck at sea, the scenes of preparing delicious food for ourselves in different ways every day... ...
A flood of...
"The doctor said, there are still eight months left. After eight months... I will..."
Li Shu leaned tightly against Zhu Ping'an's chest, her voice trembling inaudibly. Zhu Ping'an could feel Li Shu trembling.
Eight months!
Eight months left!!!
Upon hearing this, Zhu Ping'an felt as if he had suffered a fatal blow. His heart spasmed and stopped beating, and his face turned pale instantly.
How could this happen?! Was it because Li Shu was frightened and worried about being in prison that she became ill from overwork?!
Why?!
It was clearly me who caused the trouble, why did the punishment fall on Li Shu? ! If God has eyes, please transfer all the misfortunes to me.
Zhu Pingan hugged Li Shu tightly. Looking at the once charming Li Shu in his arms, now sick and weak, Zhu Pingan regretted that day. He regretted visiting Yang Jisheng and suggesting that he revise the memorial... ...
"The doctor said, there are still eight months left. After eight months... I will... I will..." Li Shu said weakly while lying in Zhu Ping'an's arms. As if she was very cold, her body was shaking more and more violently, "I... am about to give birth... giggle..." After she finished speaking, Li Shu could no longer hold back and started to giggle.
Qin'er and other maids in the room had been feeling uncomfortable for a long time, and now they could not hold back any longer and started to giggle, covering their mouths.
"Quack, quack, what you said, Sister Li... Ah?! You're going to give birth...?" Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but comfort Li Shu when she said tremblingly and weakly that she would give birth in eight months. But Li Shu's next sentence, "I'm going to give birth", was so sudden that Zhu Ping'an's waist was sprained.
In eight months... ... the baby will be born... ...
Zhu Ping'an was so shocked by Li Shu's words that his mouth opened wide enough to fit a fist. He was stunned for a second, swallowed his saliva, and asked in a trembling voice, "You... You mean you're going to give birth in eight months?!"
"OK."
Li Shu blinked her big watery eyes and nodded innocently, just like a little fox.
After getting Li Shu's affirmative answer, Zhu Ping'an's heart was so excited that it felt like a volcano erupting and reached its peak in an instant.
The baby is due in eight months.
That is to say, Li Shu was already pregnant before she was imprisoned.
I'm going to be a dad!
Zhu Ping'an was so excited that he couldn't express it in words. Boom, boom, boom, it was as if every cell in his body was erupting like a volcano.
As for the fact that Li Shu had just teased him with a life-threatening illness, Zhu Ping'an had already forgotten it. And Li Shu wasn't lying. Being pregnant was a matter of life and death, since she was carrying a little life.
"Look at you, you silly one~~" Li Shu rolled her eyes and said angrily.
"Hehe..." Zhu Pingan grinned foolishly.
"You just giggle!" Li Shu said coquettishly, stretching out her small hand to push Zhu Ping'an, "You smell so bad, but you keep trying to get close to others. Qin'er, go and set up a red charcoal basin at the door, and let Brother Zhu step over it to burn away the bad luck; Mozhu, go and prepare pomelo leaves and nectar water, the one we got when we went to the temple to pray last time, mix it with the bath water; Mosheng, go to the kitchen and ask Liu Ma and the others to prepare a table of wine and food that Brother Zhu likes to eat, oh, and pickled side dishes, pick a small dish too..."
In the blink of an eye, Li Shu arranged everything in an orderly manner.
"Just take good care of it and don't worry about these things. I can do it well."
Zhu Pingan carefully helped Li Shu lean against the pillow, as if Li Shu was a fragile doll. Zhu Pingan's cautiousness made the girls around him cover their mouths and laugh.
"Miss, the medicine is ready..."
Baozi's maid Hua'er just came into the room with the boiled medicine...
Cross the fire basin, bathe in grapefruit leaf nectar, change clothes...
When Zhu Ping'an changed his clothes and came out of the bathroom, a table full of delicious food had been prepared.
"Son-in-law, when you were captured by those vicious Jinyiwei and left the house, Miss held on to arrange things, and then she fainted. We were all scared... Doctor Zhang came to check Miss's pulse and found out that Miss was pregnant. In addition, she was overworked, worried, overly nervous, and angry, so she fainted..."
During the meal, Zhu Ping'an learned the whole story from Baozi's maid Hua'er.
"Doctor Zhang wrote a prescription and prescribed some medicine. Miss, you took a few doses. The last time Doctor Zhang came to see you, he said that you are a very lucky person and the pregnancy is already stable... Miss, you took this dose today, and you can ask Doctor Zhang to come for a follow-up tomorrow."
"Only Miss and our personal maid know about the young lady's miscarriage of justice. Oh, yes, now the uncle-in-law is also involved. No one else has been told. The uncle-in-law cannot tell anyone in the first three months, otherwise the 'fetal god' will be unhappy. Only after three months can we tell anyone else. That's what the old people say."
"Sixth Miss and the others thought that the young lady was ill, and since the son-in-law was arrested and imprisoned, they said a lot of sarcastic things, just to make fun of the young lady. Now that the son-in-law is out of prison, when they find out that the young lady is pregnant, they will be so surprised that their teeth will fall into their stomachs."
When the maidservant Baozi served Zhu Ping'an with her meal, she kept smacking her lips. Thanks to the maidservant's chatterbox nature, Zhu Ping'an learned all the big and small things that happened in the Linhuai Marquis' Mansion during the week he was in prison while eating.