Chapter 110: Freedom Restricted
Ye Xiaomei had just taken out her money and was about to call again when the phone rang.
The boss thought it was for him, so he picked up the phone and looked at Ye Xiaomei: "It's for you."
"Answering the phone is free, right?" Ye Xiaomei confirmed tentatively.
“It’s free.”
As soon as Ye Xiaomei picked up the phone, she heard the long-lost voice, deep and slightly magnetic. Her heart suddenly trembled through the phone, and a tingling numbness like an electric current spread throughout her body.
Ye Xiaomei was dumbfounded. Could it be that the feelings between her and Ma Qijun were transmitted through the phone line?
"Brother Ma, I do have something to do..." The voice suddenly became soft.
Even the stationery store owner, who was in his sixties, was confused when he heard this and subconsciously took another look at Ye Xiaomei.
Ma Qijun on the other end of the phone began to breathe rapidly. He took off his military cap and scratched his scalp out of heat. He found that his hair was damp and he was actually sweating.
If he had not been leading his troops in training during this period, he would not have been able to sleep at night. As soon as he closed his eyes, he always felt that there was a lack of tenderness in his arms.
"What? Pregnant?" Ma Qijun regained his sanity the instant he was struck by lightning, and the image of him hugging a woman in his mind suddenly stopped:
"How could this happen?" What went wrong? They had already taken measures, and his woman had great ambitions and wanted to study.
After hearing the following words, Ma Qijun's face darkened completely, with dark clouds visibly covering it, and it was so gloomy that water could be squeezed out of it.
"I understand, Xiaomei. You should take care of yourself at home first, and I will take care of it."
After hanging up the phone, Ma Qijun was not as happy as an ordinary father. He could hear the grievance in the woman's heart from the phone. Her voice trembled several times. If he heard it correctly, the girl was crying out of grievance, but she didn't cry out loud.
On the contrary, it was this feeling of not being able to cry out that made Ma Qijun feel so distressed, as if a knife was stabbed in his heart and twisted back and forth several times.
Damn, he is so confused.
Ye Xiaomei felt much more at ease on the way back. Although she didn't know how Ma Qijun would handle this matter, that sense of security was like the scent of a man.
Ye Xiaomei put away her thoughts. In an instant, Ye Xiaomei's face turned red all the way to her neck as she pedaled her bike in the cold wind.
As soon as I got home, I saw Wang Lan pacing back and forth at the door from a distance. She looked extremely nervous. When she saw Ye Xiaomei coming, she quickly came over to her:
"Xiao Mei, where have you been? You haven't figured it out yet and are going to the hospital yet, right?"
As he said this, he pulled Ye Xiaomei off the bicycle, observed her back and forth, and even touched her belly.
Ye Xiaomei let her touch her like this: "I didn't go, don't be surprised."
Ye Xiaomei put her bicycle in her pocket and went into the house. Wang Lan followed closely behind her: "Even if you didn't go, you can't ride a bicycle. It's too dangerous."
Wang Lan was an experienced person. When she was pregnant with her first child, the brigade was in the midst of a production boom. Everyone was treated like horses and cattle, working day and night from dawn to dusk. Many women gave birth to their babies in the fields while they were working, and the babies were lost in the early stages of their lives.
Ye Xiaomei didn't say anything. She tidied the table, picked up a book and started writing and drawing.
Wang Lan approached cautiously: "Xiao Mei, why don't you say anything? Isn't this also for your own good?"
Ye Xiaomei then looked up at Wang Lan and said softly, word by word:
"Mom, don't worry, I'll be fine. I'll take care of myself."
Wang Lan felt warm at the sound of "Mom". "That's good, that's good. If you want to read, go ahead. I'll serve you food. Today I'm going to make you crucian carp and tofu soup. I bought fresh tofu early in the morning."
Ye Xiaomei took the bowl and said with a smile, "Thank you, Mom."
Wang Lan looked Ye Xiaomei up and down in surprise. Why was this girl in such a good mood? Well, if she was in a good mood, the child would grow up healthily.
"Eat slowly, and don't go to the watermelon field. If you're worried, I'll go and help your mom."
Having said that, Wang Lan swung her arms and went out.
Ye Xiaomei sat in the yard with her bowl of rice. The evening wind was very cold, and it felt stinging on her face. She didn't know when Qijun would be able to help her solve this problem. It would be great if he could come back.
Just as she was thinking about it, as the last leaf fell from the tree, Zhao Mei came in a hurry. Ye Xiaomei didn't expect why her mother came so late.
"Mom?"
"Xiao Mei, I heard from your mother-in-law that you are pregnant. Mom came to see you right away."
As they talked, the mother and daughter went into the house. Ye Xiaomei felt a headache the more she listened as Zhao Meizuo kept insisting that she shouldn't leave the house.
"Did my mother-in-law ask you to come?"
Zhao Mei noticed her daughter's resistance: "What's wrong? Xiaomei, you don't understand. The first three months of pregnancy are the most important for a woman. Your mother-in-law means well. From now on, don't go out. Just eat, sleep, and eat when you wake up. I, your mother, don't have such a good life as you. You have a good mother-in-law like Wang Lan. Just look..."
As she spoke, Zhao Mei pointed at the fish soup that Ye Xiaomei had left over and said, "This fish soup is so white. It took a lot of effort to make it."
Don't go out? Ye Xiaomei felt aggrieved. Wang Lan was very nice to her, but she couldn't just lock her up. Now she even brought her mother here as a lobbyist.
Ye Xiaomei felt dizzy. Why did women have to have children after getting married? This world suddenly seemed incompatible with Ye Xiaomei.
In the past, she thought that this was a conservative way of thinking, but now Ye Xiaomei actually felt like she was not herself.
——Who am I?
"Xiao Mei? What's wrong with you? Why do you look so bad?" Zhao Mei panicked and rushed over to support her daughter. She saw her roll her eyes and faint.
This frightened Zhao Mei: "Xiao Mei? What's wrong with you? Don't scare your mother."
Ye Xiaomei's pale face was frowned. She listened to her mother calling her over and over again. She felt that the woman calling her was not Zhao Mei at all. Her voice was particularly strange.
Ye Xiaomei suddenly opened her eyes, her blurred vision overlapped, and her mother's appearance gradually became clear: "I'm fine, Mom."
Ye Xiaomei's voice was weak.
"You said you were fine, but you were bleeding."
Seeing Zhao Mei so anxious, Ye Xiaomei realized that there was a hot current coming out of her nose. She wiped it subconsciously. Zhao Mei quickly went over to wipe it with a handkerchief and stuffed some toilet paper into her nose.
After a long while, Zhao Mei finally calmed down: "You scared me to death just now."
"It's okay, Mom. Nosebleeds are normal." Ye Xiaomei didn't say much. She always felt that there was a voice echoing in her chest.
It seems like what I’m saying is - I’ve been waiting for you for a long, long time.
Ye Xiaomei was scared at first, but fortunately when she came back to reality she found that it seemed like an illusion.
Ye Xiaomei looked at Zhao Mei, and her eyes suddenly became sharp: "Mom, Xiaoya has to pay tuition for the new semester, right? Is Dad going to come back?"
Zhao Mei was stunned. Xiaoya had to prepare for tuition fees every year, but how did Xiaomei know that her father was coming back? And this year he came back earlier than before because the mine laid off employees and directly fired Ye Daxiong: "How did you know?"
Ye Xiaomei pinched her brows and said, "I don't know either. Maybe I feel that Dad will be back soon."
Zhao Mei thought that it might be the connection between women. There are always many reasons in this world that cannot be explained.
Zhao Mei nodded: "Your father has been laid off." As she spoke, there was obvious panic on her face.
Ye Xiaomei said bluntly: "Are you worried that dad will come back and cause trouble for you?"
"..." Zhao Mei's pupils suddenly shrank and he looked at his daughter with strange eyes. How could she know what he was thinking?
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