"Besides, the train ride to Beijing takes so long. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and there must be many educated youth who want to go home. I'm pregnant again, so I'm sure I'll be very uncomfortable on the journey..."
"Wait! You said you were pregnant?!" Tian Tian interrupted Shen Lingling and asked in disbelief.
Shen Lingling said calmly: "Yes! I am pregnant, almost four months."
"Do you remember that my waist was really painful before? I was already pregnant at that time. Thinking about it now, I am really scared. I didn't know anything at the time and was still working hard. Fortunately, the baby was not lost, otherwise I would have felt so depressed."
Tian Tian nodded in a daze, "I still remember that you endured the pain in your waist and went to work in the fields. I also advised you to take a rest. But you are pregnant?"
Shen Lingling nodded. "I was stupid at the time. I didn't even know I was pregnant for two months. Later, after the autumn harvest, my waist pain was unbearable. I couldn't lie down or sit down. I couldn't stand it anymore, so I went to the clinic for a check-up. That's when I found out I was pregnant."
"I originally thought that since I was three months pregnant, shouldn't I take good care of myself? This time I didn't go back, but now I'm four months pregnant," said Shen Lingling.
Tian Tian was still in shock at finding out her best friend was pregnant, and didn't know how to react. "If you're worried, why don't you just not go to Beijing? The child is the most important thing. You've been working hard all winter, and now you don't have to work anymore. You should take a good rest. And you had such severe back pain before, are you sure it won't do any harm to your health?"
"No, the barefoot doctor checked me out and said that some people will have back pain and headaches when they are pregnant, which is normal. For example, after I knew I was pregnant, my back pain didn't really happen. But I am also a little worried about my health. I also want to have a good rest at home and don't want to go to Beijing. Here I have my mom and grandma looking after me, and I can be more comfortable by myself. If I go there, I won't recognize anyone, and I will be blind as soon as I go out. I'm not in a good mood!"
"But Fang Siwen said that my mother doesn't have time to take care of me, and he is worried about me being alone at home. He will take care of me on the way, and my old lady will also look after me when I get home." Shen Lingling said.
Tian Tian is now like a fence-sitter. When she first listened to Shen Lingling's words, she thought they made sense. Now, after listening to Fang Siwen's words, she also thought they made sense.
Shen Lingling's eldest brother got married a few years ago, and now her sister-in-law's child has just been born. She has to take care of the confinement and the child, so she really doesn't have much time and can't spare the time.
Shen Lingling also told Fang Siwen that she could go back to her parents' home when he was not around, but now there is no place for her to live in Shen Lingling's parents' home.
Before, her parents lived in the west room, her grandmother lived in the east room, her second uncle's family built another room, and Shen Lingling lived in the small room.
Now her eldest brother is married and lives in the small house with her sister-in-law. After the child was born, her sister-in-law, the child and her grandmother live in the big house, leaving no place for Shen Lingling.
"If you don't want to go to Beijing Province, you can ask your mother to come to your house to take care of you!" Tian Tian said.
Shen Lingling's eldest brother is the child of her second uncle. Although Shen Lingling's second aunt and Old Lady Shen mostly took care of the child after he was born, Shen Lingling's mother couldn't just sit there and do nothing. She still had to help wash diapers, cook, etc. She couldn't be idle all day. Tian Tian felt that if Shen Lingling's mother went to live with Shen Lingling, it might be easier for her to take care of her daughter.
"But Fang Siwen asked me to go to Beijing with him. After the college entrance examination results come out, he will take me to college and we will live together. If I fail the exam, he will bring me back." Shen Lingling said.
Tian Tian also realized that although Shen Lingling didn't want to go to Beijing Province, it was only because she would have to live with Fang Siwen's family after going there. However, if she didn't have to live with Fang Siwen's family, Shen Lingling would not be unable to accept going to Beijing Province.
Tian Tian shrugged her shoulders and said, "Then I don't know what to do."
Shen Lingling obviously wanted Tian Tian to make a decision for her. "But I'm just worried that taking the train will be bad for my health. Think about it, there are so many people on the train. If something happens, there will be no village or store to go to."
"I don't know! I'm not even married and I've never been pregnant. There are some things I don't know." Tian Tian said.
"Or you can go ask your mother!" Tian Tian suggested sincerely.
She didn't want to make decisions for Shen Lingling. If Shen Lingling was unhappy in the future, wouldn't it all be her fault?
Shen Lingling complained to Tian Tian about a lot of trivial matters at home, saying that Fang Siwen had helped with housework these days, but she didn't do the work properly and had to redo the work in the end. She also didn't cook properly, wasting food, and the meals were inedible. In the end, all the work fell on her again.
Tian Tian listened silently, and was a little confused. Why did Shen Lingling and Fang Siwen love each other so much before? Even before she got pregnant, Shen Lingling was willing to work for Fang Siwen and wanted to feed her food to Fang Siwen. But now she thinks that everything about her is not good.
After Shen Lingling finally finished complaining to Tiantian, and got up and went home, Tian Tian finally breathed a sigh of relief and got up to go to Old Lady Tian's house.
Everyone in the family was weaving straw mats. Although all the brigades around them had started weaving straw mats and selling them to the supply and marketing cooperatives, the money they earned was indeed a little less than the first year, but a little bit is still meat, and Mrs. Tian and her family didn't think the money they earned was low. They still worked very hard.
Seeing Tian Tian coming in, Old Lady Tian said casually, "Lingling is back home?"
Tian Tian let out a breath, sat on a small stool at the side, and said exhaustedly, "Well, we're finally gone."
She had just heard a lot of complaints, and now she had lost all her strength and felt that the world was dark.
"What did she say to you? It felt like you had been up all night for three days." Chen Guihua glanced at the haggard Tian Tian and asked in surprise.
Tian Tian complained to Chen Guihua that Shen Lingling always complained to her every time she came to see her, and her ears were callused from listening to her.
"And now Shen Lingling is pregnant. I always feel weird when I hear it. I feel like I'm still a child, but Shen Lingling is going to be a mother." Tian Tian said depressedly.
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