Chapter 127

pregnant?

Lin Tao was stunned. According to the time, she should have had her period a while ago. However, she had just been to Beijing and had some difficulty acclimatizing to the climate there. She thought that this was the reason for her irregular period. But after hearing what Li Chengxi said, she thought about it and suddenly felt that she might be pregnant.

"Xiao Tao, go to the health center." When Li Chengxi saw Lin Tao's expression, he knew that he must have guessed right.

Xiao Tao responded, turned the steering wheel, and drove towards the health center.

Arriving at the clinic, Lin Manman saw them and called out, "Sister, brother-in-law, why are you here? Are you feeling unwell?"

Lin Tao shook her head and whispered, "I might be pregnant again, so I want to check it out."

"Really?" Lin Manman's eyes lit up and she looked happy. "That's good news. Yueyue will be very happy if she knows about this. Sister, go get checked quickly. No one is here right now, so you don't have to wait in line."

Yueyue had long been clamoring for a brother or sister, but pregnancy is something that happens naturally. Sometimes the more you want to get pregnant, the harder it is to get pregnant. I stopped thinking about it, but I got pregnant anyway.

After the test results came out, I looked at the list and found that I was pregnant again.

The doctor knew that this was not Lin Tao's first pregnancy and that she had experience with many things, so he just gave her a few instructions and told her to come for the check-up on time.

When Lin Tao walked out with the prescription, Lin Manman had already gone to the pharmacy. She was alone there, so only Li Chengxi was waiting outside.

Li Chengxi saw her coming out and asked, "How is it?"

Lin Tao handed him the list and said, "What else can I do? I'm pregnant, but we've agreed that after I give birth to this baby in my belly, I won't have any more children."

"I'll do whatever you say." Li Chengxi supported Lin Tao.

Before they left, they went to tell Lin Manman, who couldn't wait to ask, "Sister, are you pregnant?"

"Yes, I'm pregnant." Lin Tao smiled, "Come to my house for dinner tonight. You're getting married at the end of the year and won't be here next year. You don't know how to go home more often."

Lin Manman hurriedly said: "I will definitely come today."

After getting in the car, Li Chengxi asked Xiao Tao to drive slower.

Lin Tao glanced at him. This man was still as careful as he was a few years ago when she was pregnant. She couldn't tell what she felt in her heart, but she was always very happy. They had been married for so long, but their love for each other only grew and they would spend the rest of their lives together.

very nice.

When she got home, Yueyue was playing with the little duck at home. The mother duck had hatched a few ducklings a while ago. Since then, Yueyue had a new toy and she always played with the little ducks.

Seeing the mother coming back, she let the little duck go. The little duck ran away quickly, fearing that the little master would come and pull it again. Its fur was almost pulled off.

"Mom, you're back." Yueyue rushed over and wanted to hug Li Chengxi.

But Li Chengxi hugged her and said, "Mom is pregnant now. You can't be so reckless in the future. You might bump into the baby in your mom's belly."

Especially in the first three months, you have to be careful, because the tire is not stable yet and cannot withstand strong impact, otherwise it will easily slip.

"Mom is pregnant?! Oh, there is a baby in mom's belly!" Yueyue was happier than anyone else when she heard that Lin Tao was pregnant again. She struggled to get out of Li Chengxi's arms and carefully put her ear to Lin Tao's still flat belly, "Let me listen to see if the baby is talking."

Seeing this, Lin Tao was about to say that the baby couldn't speak yet.

As a result, Yueyue said seriously: "I heard it, the little baby is calling me sister!"

Lin Tao and Li Chengxi looked at each other. Lin Tao couldn't help but laugh. It was obvious that this kid was talking nonsense, but he spoke it as if it were true.

Yueyue asked: "Is the baby in mommy's belly a brother or a sister?"

Lin Tao: "Does Yueyue like her younger brother or younger sister?"

Yueyue thought about it and said, "It's OK. I like them all."

Two days ago, Lin Changhai took Yueyue to go swimming. Lin Tao was not at home these days, and Yueyue was in a low mood. Lin Changhai tried various ways to make Yueyue happy. He made a bamboo dragonfly for her and took her to go swimming again. They had so much fun these days that it's no wonder that Yueyue got a little tanned.

Lin Changhai is preparing oysters and clams in the kitchen. We will have seafood for dinner tonight.

Yueyue couldn't wait to run in and tell Lin Changhai the good news: "Grandpa, Grandpa, Mom is pregnant. I'm going to have a little brother or sister!"

When Lin Changhai heard this, he was also happy, and the wrinkles on his face were all smiling: "Okay, okay, our Yueyue is going to be a big sister."

Lin Tao had been studying hard for the past half month, and she felt a little nauseous after sitting on the boat. Lin Changhai and Li Chengxi asked her to sit down and rest, and left the dinner to them.

The processing method of seafood is relatively simple. Even if you just steam it and eat it with soy sauce, it will taste good. You don't need great cooking skills. Seeing that they were so nervous about her, Lin Tao couldn't help but smile, touched her flat belly, and sat down to play with Yueyue.

When Lin Manman came, she brought some vitamin tablets and calcium tablets for Lin Tao, asking her to take them regularly, which would be good for both her and the baby. Calcium deficiency is most likely to occur during pregnancy, so she should start replenishing it now.

"Yueyue, you are going to have a little brother and a little sister soon, are you happy?" Lin Manman sat on the chair, holding Yueyue in her arms.

Yueyue nodded hurriedly: "Happy, I am very happy."

When it was time for dinner, Lin Changhai served Lin Tao a lot more rice than usual.

Lin Tao looked at the bowl full of rice and felt a little hesitant to pick up her chopsticks. She said, "Dad, why is there so much..."

Lin Changhai smiled and said, "You are pregnant again now. We are eating together, not just one. Eat more."

When Lin Tao was pregnant with Yueyue, Lin Changhai was unable to take care of her all the time. In fact, he still felt sorry for his daughter. Now that he lives here, he can help their Tao more.

Lin Tao was helpless. She said that, but she was only two months pregnant, so it was not the time for her to eat more. It was true that they ate together, but it was in the later stages when the fetus in her belly needed to absorb more energy, so she felt particularly hungry and ate more. If she had eaten so much in the early stages, it would not work.

Li Chengxi said, "You eat first, and give me the rest."

Lin Manman said, "Uncle Lin, the more you are pregnant, the more you should pay attention to the amount you eat. The bigger the baby is, the better. A few years ago, there was a woman in our clinic who ate too much and her baby was too big to be born. She had heavy bleeding and almost had an accident. Sister Tao just needs to eat like she did when she was pregnant with Yueyue. Babies of that weight will be born healthy and the adults won't have to suffer. The doctors in our clinic say this is the best way."

Lin Manman has worked in the health center for a long time. Although she is an unmarried girl, she knows all about these things.

After hearing what Lin Manman said, Lin Changhai, a grown man, quickly said, "Then A Tao, if you can't finish it, give it to Cheng Xi. Dad is a man, he doesn't understand these things, and he thought that eating more would be good for you and the child. Dad will understand in the future."

"Well, it's okay, Dad." Lin Tao nodded.

Lin Tao didn't finish her bowl of rice, and left more than half of it, which she shoveled into Li Chengxi's bowl. Li Chengxi ate very quickly, and finished it in just a few bites.

The last time she went to Beijing, Lin Tao bought a piece of beautiful cloth with elegant patterns. Now she took Lin Manman to look at the cloth: "What do you think of the color of this cloth? Is it nice?"

Lin Manman nodded: "It looks good and feels comfortable to touch."

"As long as you like it, I plan to use this cloth to make you a set of bed sheets and quilts and give them to you when you get married." Lin Tao said.

Lin Manman: "Sister..."

Lin Tao: "Look at you. As your sister, it's not my duty to give you something. You're getting married in a few months, this is great."

After dinner, Lin Changhai asked Li Chengxi to accompany Lin Tao for a walk while he went to wash the dishes.

After the walk, it was time to take a shower. In the past half month, Lin Tao felt that taking a shower was not that convenient in the dormitory of No. 1 Middle School. The main reason was that she was used to using the shower at home, and she was not used to using a bucket to shower.

After taking a bath, Li Chengxi asked her to lie down and he gave her a massage. Yueyue, like a little adult, also wanted to give Lin Tao a massage. She even divided Lin Tao's body into two with Li Chengxi, and each of them massaged one side, and neither of them massaged the other's side.

"Are you feeling better?" Li Chengxi asked.

Lin Tao nodded: "Yeah, much better."

My body felt like it was falling apart before, but now I feel much more comfortable.

Yueyue brought her own picture book and said she wanted to tell stories to the little brother and sister in Lin Tao's belly. Seeing that she was so interested, Lin Tao let her go.

Yueyue spoke with great emotion. After finishing a page, she even stuck to Lintao's belly and asked if her little brother and sister were happy listening to her: "Mom, the little baby said that I spoke very well. He also said that Sun Wukong was very powerful. When he comes out, he will become as powerful as Sun Wukong."

Lin Tao couldn't help laughing when she heard this. Yueyue is really a smart girl.

Lin Tao was pregnant, and Li Chengxi entered a period of confinement again. At night, he would hold Lin Tao in his arms, rest his chin on her shoulder, kiss her fair and delicate neck, and then sleep with her in his arms.

The next day, Chen Shuifen and Xu Yuting both came.

"Teacher Lin, congratulations on being pregnant again. Yueyue is so happy this time because she is finally going to be a big sister." Chen Shuifen said.

Xu Yuting said: "There is no reaction this time, right?"

As someone who vomited during the early stages of pregnancy, Xu Yuting was most concerned about this. She knew how difficult morning sickness was and didn't want her friend to experience it too.

Lin Tao shook her head: "No reaction, I just vomited a few times when I was on the boat yesterday. But if I hadn't vomited, I might not have known I was pregnant."

It's embarrassing to say that this wasn't the first time I was pregnant, but I still didn't know I was pregnant at the first time. But it was also a coincidence that I happened to go to Beijing during the period, and I was not used to the climate, so Lin Tao thought it was caused by the climate. Otherwise, her menstruation was always quite regular, and she would have discovered it during the days when her menstruation didn't come.

Chen Shuifen asked: "Teacher Xu, you see that Teacher Lin is pregnant, are you really not planning to have another child?"

Xu Yuting did not deliberately provoke Chen Shuifen this time. Instead, she smiled and said, "To be honest, sometimes I do think about it. After all, I really want to have a daughter like Yueyue. But when I think of the suffering I went through during Qingming Festival and the risk of having another son, I give up the idea."

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On the other side, Yueyue went out to play with Zheng Hongxing and Wang Qingming early in the morning.

The adults are relieved that the children have grown up. Besides, there is a seven or eight-year-old Zheng Hongxing following them. Although Zheng Hongxing is usually naughty, as long as he is around, his younger brothers and sisters will not get hurt.

It was summer vacation and all the children on the island were playing together. Yueyue was skipping rubber rope with a few girls, but she saw a girl named Fangfang from the fishing village running over crying.

Yueyue had played with Fangfang before. Fangfang was two or three years older than Yueyue and about the same age as Zheng Hongxing.

Yueyue said a few words to the girls who were skipping rubber rope, and then went after Fangfang: "Sister Fangfang, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying?"

Fangfang wiped away her tears and choked up as she said, "I went fishing today, but everything I found was snatched away by Liu Gangzi and his brother, wuwu."

Yueyue frowned angrily and said with her fists clenched: "Sister Fangfang, don't cry. I'll go find Brother Hongxing and Brother Qingming, and we'll get your things back together."

After that, Yueyue reached out and patted Fangfang on the back. This is how her mother comforted her when she cried as a child: "It's okay, Sister Fangfang. My brother Hongxing is very good at fighting. He will definitely be able to get your things back."

Zheng Hongxing was playing marbles with a few boys. Wang Qingming was sitting nearby and watching. He saw Yueyue running over in a hurry, her face flushed and her eyes full of worry. He asked, "What's wrong?"

Yueyue told Wang Qingming about Liu Gangzi stealing Fangfang's things, and Wang Qingming went to call Zheng Hongxing.

Zheng Hongxing hid the marbles he won in his trouser pocket. His trouser pocket was already full of them, and you could hear the swaying sound when he walked: "Liu Gangzi dared to steal a girl's things. Let's go and take care of him."

There were four people in the group. Yueyue held Fangfang's hand and told her not to be afraid.

When they found Liu Gangzi, he and his brother Liu Tiezi were picking up the things Fangfang had brought. "This little girl actually found a few abalones. She's really lucky. Let's go back and ask our mom to cook abalone for us."

Yueyue ran over and said angrily, "This was found by Sister Fangfang. It doesn't belong to you. You can't steal other people's things!"

Liu Gangzi glanced at Yueyue and said, "I stole it, what can you do to me?"

Liu Tiezi said, "Your mother doesn't want you anymore because she has a little brother. You are a little girl. In our hometown, little girls are thrown into the mountains to feed the wolves. When your brother is born, your mother will throw you into the mountains to feed the wolves."

Yueyue gritted her teeth in anger: "My mother will never abandon me. My mother loves me the most."

Wang Qingming said, "Isn't your mother a little girl? Why wasn't your mother thrown into the mountains to feed the wolves? I think your mother deserves to be thrown into the mountains to feed the wolves. And you, you stole the things of other girls, you are thicker-skinned than pigs. Who are you? You might as well just become pigs."

Liu Gangzi glared at him and said, "Wang Qingming, say it again, don't think I won't hit you just because your mom is a teacher!"

Zheng Hongxing waved his hands and protected his brothers and sisters behind him, clenching his fists: "How dare you fight with my brothers and sisters? Just say it, what can you do to us? Is there anything wrong with what Qingming said? Aren't you pigs?"

Yueyue shook her head: "Eh, if they were pigs, I wouldn't dare eat braised pork in the future... Everyone says that Liu Tiezi doesn't take a bath and his body stinks..."

Liu Tiezi rushed over to hit Yueyue, but was knocked to the ground by Zheng Hongxing.

When Liu Gangzi saw his brother being beaten, he also rushed over to help. However, neither of them was a match for Zheng Hongxing alone. Although Wang Qingming always refused to admit that Zheng Hongxing was Sun Wukong, it must be said that Zheng Hongxing was really good at fighting.

Liu Gangzi and Liu Tiezi were both pinned down by Zheng Hongxing and beaten. Yueyue also wanted to help, but was pulled back by Wang Qingming: "You are a girl, don't fight."

Yueyue said: "Girls are also very good at fighting."

As she said that, she kicked Liu Tiezi's butt a few times.

Both brothers Liu Tiezi and Liu Gangzi suffered a bad fate. Liu Tiezi got a bump on his head and Liu Gangzi had a nosebleed.

As they left, they were still threatening: "Zheng Hongxing, just wait for me!"

Zheng Hongxing snorted: "Just wait, if you don't come, you'll be my grandson!"

The two brothers left, and Fangfang thanked them: "Yueyue, Hongxing, Qingming, thank you."

Zheng Hongxing scratched his head in embarrassment: "What's the big deal? The next time those two little bastards dare to bully you, just come and tell me. I won't kill them."

Yueyue saw that Zheng Hongxing's pants were covered in mud, so she patted him and nodded, "Yeah, Brother Hongxing is really good at fighting."

Wang Qingming snorted, and Yueyue quickly said, "And my brother Qingming, he...he is particularly good at scolding people, next time I will let him scold Liu Tiezi and the others."

After she finished speaking, Yueyue secretly glanced at the expressions of Wang Qingming and Zheng Hongxing, and breathed a sigh of relief. This time she was fair! She actually praised them all!

Wang Qingming: “…”

What's the point of being able to curse people? I really don't know what's so good about it. But I don't know why, there was a smile on his face, and his expression was not so stinky anymore.

The children helped Yueyue get her things back, and they were all very happy because they felt they had done a good deed. It was noon, and it was time to go back for lunch, so the three of them went home together.

Wang Qingming knew that his mother should still be at Yueyue's house at this time, so he followed Yueyue back.

Coincidentally, Lin Tao asked Xu Yuting to stay home for lunch today, and the three of them rolled out dough together, planning to make hand-rolled noodles. Seeing the children coming back, Lin Tao said, "Go wash your hands and eat noodles later."

Yueyue: "Yeah, mom's hand-rolled noodles are the best!"

Zheng Hongxing first returned to his home and found that his mother was not at home and had not made lunch yet, so he shouted from the next door: "Mom, why haven't you made lunch yet? I'm almost starving!"

"Are you the reincarnation of a starving ghost? Normally, I told you to come back for dinner, but who knew you would come back so early today?" Chen Shuifen said angrily.

Seeing that it was almost time, Chen Shuifen also said that she would go back to cook.

Lin Tao said, "Okay, big sister, let's all eat together at home today. I made a lot of noodles today, so it's enough."

Zheng Hongxing urged Chen Shuifen to prepare the meal now. It would take at least half an hour, so they might as well just eat at Lin Tao's house.

Then he said, "There are some leftovers at home from yesterday. I'll take them over."

Yesterday was Zheng Xiangyang’s birthday. Last night, Chen Shuifen killed a chicken at home and made a hotpot chicken. There was some left today, so we brought it over to eat together.

The noodles rolled by Chen Shuifen are very chewy and taste very good. In terms of rolling noodles, Lin Tao is not as good as Chen Shuifen. The noodles rolled by Chen Shuifen and the ingredients prepared by Lin Tao are really delicious.

"The noodles rolled by Auntie Lin are so delicious." Zheng Hongxing said while eating.

Chen Shuifen glared at him. This damn boy, this dough was obviously rolled by himself. He never said that the noodles he rolled at home were delicious, but now he said they were delicious here.

Lin Tao smiled and said, "This dough was rolled by your mother."

Zheng Hongxing: "Oh, the noodles Auntie Lin mixes are delicious."

Sesame oil, chopped green onions, soy sauce and a little salt are added, and some fried sour beans are added in to mix together. It tastes especially delicious.

Chen Shuifen: “…”

Yueyue followed up by saying, "The noodles rolled by my aunt are the most fragrant, and the noodles mixed by my mother are also delicious. Both my aunt and mother are amazing."

Chen Shuifen glanced at Yueyue. When she looked at Zheng Hongxing, her eyes were full of disdain, but when she looked at Yueyue, they were full of love: "Yueyue is really good at talking. Auntie is very happy to hear you. Unlike your brother Hongxing, he always makes me angry with his words."

"Actually, Brother Hongxing is very powerful. Today he..." Before Yueyue could finish her words, Wang Qingming coughed and signaled her not to say anything.

Lin Tao asked: "Yueyue, what happened to you today?"

Yueyue looked at Wang Qingming and said, "Today we are the living Lei Feng. Brothers Liu Gangzi and Liu Tiezi bullied Sister Fangfang and snatched the things that Sister Fangfang had worked so hard to find. So we helped Sister Fangfang get the things back."

Zheng Hongxing said: "Those two little bastards actually stole the girl's things, so I beat them up and made him scream."

Chen Shuifen tapped his hand with chopsticks: "Zheng Hongxing, is your skin itchy? I told you not to fight, but you don't have ears, right?"

Zheng Hongxing took his hand back, somewhat unconvinced: "This is not an ordinary fight, I am upholding justice. I am the embodiment of justice."

Chen Shuifen: "Isn't that still a fight?"

Yueyue whispered, "Aunt, I asked Brother Hongxing to go, and it was Liu Gangzi and the others who wanted to fight first."

Wang Qingming: "Well, it was Liu Gangzi who wanted to beat Yueyue, and Brother Hongxing started the fight to protect Yueyue."

Chen Shuifen heard this and immediately said, "Hongxing, you did a great job today. Mom will make you something delicious tonight. The two Liu Gangzi brothers are really shameless. I guess it's because of their mom. Their mom is shameless. Last time when Teacher Lin was going to Beijing, the skinny guy came to ask Teacher Lin to bring something back."

As they were talking, Liu Gangzi's mother came with the two brothers.