"What do you think?" Jiang Jinyao asked Shen Qiaoyue, raising an eyebrow.

"I just came to see you. How are you feeling?" Shen Qiaoyue was Jiang Jinyao's family member, and Lu Chen usually cared about his younger sister's life.

This put immense pressure on An Lude whenever Jiang Jinyao was wronged, because Lu Chen's death stare made him feel even more pressured.

"Qiaoyue is here, please sit down. Have you eaten yet?" Lu Lanyang warmly welcomed Shen Qiaoyue, who was not only the eldest sister-in-law of Jiang Jinyao's family, but also the wife of An Lude's petition.

"Please help me persuade Yao Yao. There are only a few pieces of braised pork left, and I want her to eat them all, but she refuses, saying they are too greasy."

Lu Lanyang was also worried about Jiang Jinyao's health. When she came from Beijing, she brought a lot of nutritious supplements, such as ginseng and lingzhi. She bought quite a lot, but after arriving here, she only stewed them once. The remaining ingredients could not be used because there was no meat for them to stew.

"I really can't eat anymore." Jiang Jinyao looked at Shen Qiaoyue with a pleading expression.

“Aunt Lu, if Yao Yao really can’t eat anymore, just leave it for now. Maybe she can eat it for supper later, right?” Shen Qiaoyue said to Lu Lanyang.

"Okay, let's save it for a late-night snack." Lu Lanyang took the few remaining pieces of braised pork and put them in the cupboard in the kitchen.

Anlude said, "Sister-in-law, why did you come all of a sudden? Where are Da Nian and Xiao Nian?"

Take out the fruit I just bought today and put it on the table.

Shen Qiaoyue responded: "I just came to see Yao Yao. Da Nian and Xiao Nian have been playing very well with Xiang Xiang recently. They are inseparable. Xiang Xiang is closest to her older brother and sister. My aunt is giving them a bath and it's almost time to put them to sleep."

When talking about her two children, Shen Qiaoyue's face always shows a happy expression.

"How's the factory doing lately?" Jiang Jinyao wasn't feeling well and had been resting for over a week, now staying home to prepare for childbirth.

Shen Qiaoyue said, "It's nothing. Recently, many factories around here have been working hard to resume production. I heard that there are a lot of orders, and they're even working overtime."

"Working overtime is good, that way they can get overtime pay and their living conditions can be better," Jiang Jinyao said with emotion.

Jiang Jinyao touched her belly, filled with anticipation for the child.

When Shen Qiaoyue saw Jiang Jinyao looking down at the child, the smile on her face was exactly the same as when she was pregnant.

"Yaoyao, are you already looking forward to the baby's arrival?" Shen Qiaoyue noticed that Jiang Jinyao had already started making clothes for the baby.

"How could I not be excited? This is my child." Jiang Jinyao had always wanted a child, and now that the child was finally here, she couldn't sleep at night because she was so happy.

Touching her belly, she looked at Shen Qiaoyue and said, "I don't know why, I'm just very happy, and I can feel that the baby is happy too."

“This child is always fussy at night. My mom says it might be a boy. Look at Yao Yao, she’s vomiting so much. In the early stages, she couldn’t eat this or that.” An Lude was starting to complain about the unborn child. “Dr. Xinlan, I didn’t have this much of a reaction when I was pregnant!”

“When Xinlan was pregnant, she vomited more than Yaoyao. Daughters are just more delicate. When I was pregnant, I could eat anything.”

Shen Qiaoyue recalled that when she was pregnant, she could eat anything, and when Lu Chen went out on missions, she was the one who took care of herself at home.

"Hey! It's okay, I love both my son and daughter, they're just too noisy. I just feel sorry for Yao Yao." An Lude sat down next to Jiang Jin Yao and held her hand.

Jiang Jinyao suddenly became shy. This unexpected and affectionate confession caught her off guard.

Shen Qiaoyue felt that she was superfluous.

"Oh right, I brought back your salary from last month. Take a look." Shen Qiaoyue took out a few ten-yuan bills, a few one-yuan bills, and some other fare from her pocket.

"This month we only have 10 catties of coupons and 30 catties of grain coupons. There's less and less meat available!" Shen Qiaoyue couldn't help but complain.

"No need to count, I still trust you." Jiang Jinyao took the money and put it directly into her pocket, saying, "So what if you have meat coupons? You still can't buy it!"

"Hey! I heard today that in the village ahead, there's an old lady who raises delicious ducks. They just had babies, and when the people came to check, they killed all the little ones! You know, a big reason why we don't have meat to eat is like this. There are no merchants, productivity is low, and with so many people in the country, how can we raise them all?"

Jiang Jinyao heard that the old woman almost ended up in the hospital when she cried.

"I heard about it too. It's about that old lady's daughter-in-law. She finally got pregnant, and all she wanted to do was raise a couple of ducks to supplement her nutrition. But then!" Shen Qiaoyue said, almost embarrassed, "she got criticized! Those people forced her daughter-in-law to have a miscarriage!"

Jiang Jinyao was very angry when she heard Shen Qiaoyue say that, but she quickly realized that she was powerless to change the current situation.

I can only imagine how desperate the woman who had her miscarriage must have felt.

Those people won't feel guilty; they'll just continue doing what they always have.

Jiang Jinyao didn't react for a long time.

My palms were sweating profusely.

Seeing Jiang Jinyao's expression, Shen Qiaoyue worriedly took Jiang Jinyao's other hand and comforted her, "It's okay, things will pass."

"Yaoyao, don't overthink it. They'll get better and have their own children. Those people will get their comeuppance and pay the price in the future." An Lude held Jiang Jinyao's hand tightly, hugged her, and comforted her softly.

Since becoming pregnant, Jiang Jinyao has always been in this mood, sentimental and melancholic.

Shen Qiaoyue truly regretted telling her all this.

“My father and second uncle have been targeted by them, and I feel helpless and desperate at times. My father is already that age, and he did nothing wrong in order to do his job.” Jiang Jinyao was very worried when she thought about how her father had been criticized by those people for hours and days over the past year.

Hearing about what happened today, Jiang Jinyao became even more frightened, clutching her belly tightly, afraid that she wouldn't be able to protect her child.

My second uncle was also criticized several times because of my father.

Shen Qiaoyue was also glad that Lu Chen had refused when she wanted to promote him, perhaps because he had thought that this day would come.

Shen Qiaoyue looked at Jiang Jinyao, who used to be such a strong-willed person, and realized that she was actually afraid.

Gently patting Jiang Jinyao's shoulder, he softly comforted her, "Don't cry, it's not good for the baby. You have to stay happy every day now, and you're not allowed to cry anymore."

Jiang Jinyao listened to Shen Qiaoyue and stopped crying, nodding hard and trying to hold back her tears.

"Yaoyao, Mommy peeled some apple slices for you!" She brought in the apple slices and saw Jiang Jinyao crying. "What's wrong? An Lude, did you bully Yaoyao?"

“Mom, I didn’t,” Anlude immediately explained.