Love is the best nourishment for people, regardless of gender.
Take Li Xia for example. She's still quite young. After meeting her husband, whom she hadn't seen for almost two years, she was a completely different person. She was radiant and has gradually learned to enjoy life. She made herself dinner and sat on the sofa, watching TV while eating.
Pregnant women have such strange tastes; at home, Chen Rou couldn't even stand the smell of cooking fumes.
But upon entering Li Xia's small apartment, he immediately exclaimed upon smelling the aroma, "Wow, braised pork!"
Li Xia said with a smile, "It's cooked with chestnuts and quail eggs. You haven't eaten yet, have you? Let's eat together."
Chen Rou looked up and said, "You're so professional."
She came to check on Li Xia because she was worried that Li Xia didn't have experience dealing with high-altitude typhoons. When she saw her, she found that the windows were covered with tape and the gaps in each window were stuffed with towels, making it look very professional.
Li Xia laughed and said, "What do I know? When the wind blows normally, this house shakes like crazy. I'm terrified. I was worried when I heard a typhoon was coming, but Xiao An came to my door and brought people to help me."
Chen Rou had already picked out three large pieces of braised pork; they were oily, sweet, and delicious.
But she ate too quickly, and when Li Xia handed her some rice, she gagged and couldn't help but vomit.
Li Xia, having been pregnant herself, immediately exclaimed upon seeing him, "Oh dear, you must be experiencing morning sickness!"
Chen Rou wanted to go to the toilet to vomit, but Li Xia said, "Quickly give me your hand."
She grasped Chen Rou's wrist and gently rubbed it: "I knew it, I felt something was off the moment you walked in."
She didn't know it, but she saw it immediately.
Moreover, after she rubbed it for a while, Chen Rou miraculously stopped feeling nauseous and regained her appetite.
She asked, "How did you know I was pregnant?"
Li Xia thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "Take off your clothes."
Chen Rou rolled up her T-shirt, revealing her still-muscular physique. There was no indication of pregnancy from her appearance. Li Xia, however, laughed and said, "Look closely at the downy hair on your belly."
Chen Rou had never paid attention to her belly before. Looking down, she said, "I don't see anything."
Li Xia smiled again and said, "If you look closely, you'll find that all your downy hairs are forming a circle towards the baby. Also, your breasts have gotten bigger, haven't they? I noticed something was wrong as soon as you came in."
After thinking about it again, she said, "Oh, what a pity. If Chen Ke had left a few days later, he would have heard this good news. The Nie family is small, and according to him, Hong Kong is not very peaceful. He worries about your child every day."
Chen Rou didn't care about that, she only asked, "If I feel nauseous, where should I press to feel better?"
It's quite amazing, Li Xia felt comfortable as soon as she pressed, there must be a trick to it, but even the doctors hired by Nie Zhao, whether they were traditional Chinese medicine practitioners or Western medicine practitioners, didn't know, so Chen Rou naturally had to ask.
Li Xia thought for a moment and said, "It should be called Neiguan acupoint."
He added, "This was passed down to me by a female TCM doctor in Shenzhen. You know, there aren't many female TCM doctors, but they are much more effective at treating illnesses than male doctors. It's a pity that we women are not very smart, and there aren't many who study TCM, even in Hong Kong."
From Chen Rou's perspective, what Li Xia was saying was actually a dilemma faced by women.
It's not that women are inherently stupid, but rather that society says women are stupid. For jobs with high social status, like medicine, people have naturally reached a tacit understanding not to let women do them.
In her view, pregnancy nausea was an illness, but for thousands of years, there have been ways to treat or alleviate it. However, even in Hong Kong, even in the homes of the richest men, she could not find a doctor who would pay attention to women's pregnancy.
Women themselves have to make themselves comfortable.
Thinking about it this way, Chen Rou felt a sense of crisis. She didn't have a career now, but she couldn't give up her abilities. Her return was imminent, and she had to find a job that matched her skills in the future.
For women, pregnancy and childbirth are not scary; what is scary is losing the ability to earn a living.
Chen Rou had been experiencing morning sickness for quite some time, so it was a rare treat to have a comfortable meal today. She ate a whole bowl of rice with relish. Seeing that the wind was picking up outside and fearing a typhoon, she decided to go home.
Since a typhoon was coming, Li Xia didn't dare to go out. She just saw her downstairs and then threw her back inside.
Chen Rou went downstairs and rode her motorcycle out of the basement. She had only ridden a short distance in the rain when a man suddenly rushed out and stood in front of her.
One foot was on the ground, and the other hand was already touching his lower back.
Chen Rou always carried a gun when she went out, but upon closer inspection, she exclaimed, "Boss Nie?"
She was surprised because Nie Zhao was soaked to the bone, his leather shoes splashing in the water, his glasses were covered in water, and both trouser legs were wet up to his knees.
Given his disheveled appearance, even Gui Tou Chang, who hated him to death, would probably not recognize him upon seeing him.
Boss Nie staggered toward his wife, climbed onto his motorcycle, and put his chin on her shoulder: "Take me home!"
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Every household in Repulse Bay is already putting up sandbags to waterproof the area.
They were all wealthy people, and there were crowds of people outside each house, busy working in the rain.
Seeing that the boss was soaked to the bone, Uncle Ming hurriedly instructed the servants to make ginger soup and sent Kuang Zai upstairs to serve him. But Nie Zhao waved Kuang Zai away, wrapped him in a towel, and said timidly, "If you want, then terminate the pregnancy."
Ever since she announced her pregnancy, Nie Zhao has been on high alert.
He also possessed an ignorant and arrogant self-confidence, believing that his offspring must be a genius.
Every day they plan to welcome their little genius, and they even changed the music they play at breakfast, something like Mozart 448 or 447. It's said that if children listen to it, their IQ will increase. Why don't they want children now?
Chen Rou was surprised and reached out to touch his forehead: "Why did you suddenly say that?"
Nie Zhao wrapped himself in a towel and held it for a long time before catching his breath and said, "I saw an ambulance."
Chen Rou was even more confused: "So what?"
Nie Zhao said firmly, "Let's end it. I don't want you to be in an ambulance in the future."
Chen Rou sensed something was wrong: "Did you stumble upon something bad today?"
Nie Zhao almost never walks out. He only exercises in special occasions. Today, he went to find his wife to stop her from terminating her pregnancy. However, the narrowness and confinement of Hong Kong is that even though it is only a few hundred meters away and he can see the building, he can't find the entrance.
Just after he got lost, as he passed a building, he saw a pregnant woman being carried out of the building on a stretcher and put into an ambulance. At that moment, Nie Zhao suddenly woke up and was terrified.
He had always wanted a child because he wanted a child with Chen Rou, one who would possess her strong spirit and his earning ability to continue his family business.
But the moment Nie Zhao saw the pregnant woman get into the ambulance, he suddenly came to his senses.
If that child would affect Chen Rou's health or cause him to lose her, he would give it up without hesitation.
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