With a lot of doubts and confusion in his heart, Qi Wanfeng followed Fang Ziye into the house. Knowing that this person had something to say to him, he closed the door.
Facing Qi Wanfeng's undisguised gaze staring at him, Fang Ziye smiled. The two looked at each other and just stared at each other. He had nothing to hide anymore. He took two steps forward, took Qi Wanfeng's hand and put it on his belly. The bulging belly under his clothes had already told him the answer, "It's just what you think." He said.
Qi Wanfeng was a person who had been pregnant before, so he naturally knew what his hand touched meant, "...How many months?" He heard his own voice and asked. He
was not surprised that Fang Ziye was pregnant, but he was surprised that this belly was several months old.
"More than seven months." Fang Ziye lowered his head, looking at his belly, his eyes were a little complicated.
"You came here with such a big belly?" Shouldn't you be at home taking care of the baby? Why are you driving around in a carriage in the snow? Qi Wanfeng suddenly felt overwhelmed and thought he should slow down.
Staring at the man who came out with a smile, Qi Wanfeng felt that he was going to faint from anger. He knew that the other party asked him to follow in because he had something to say to him, so he asked, "Sit down, do you have anything to say to me?"
Ershun at the side came forward and carefully helped his master sit down by the bed. Qi Wanfeng pulled over a chair and sat down, and the two sat facing each other.
It was easier for him to accept the fact that Fang Ziye was not a boy but a brother than he thought. When he first met Fang Ziye, Qi Wanfeng saw something familiar in Fang Ziye. He didn't expect that this man was a brother like him. No wonder he had an indescribable liking for this man since the first time they met. He thought it was their destiny.
And indeed, they met because they were destined.
"This child... I plan to give birth to the baby here with you. I still have important things to do, so I'm afraid I will have to leave the baby with you. Wanfeng, are you willing to help me take care of this child?" Fang Ziye reached out and grabbed Qi Wanfeng's hand, and asked seriously.
He knew that the man was at a crucial juncture, and he had to help him.
This child came at the wrong time, but since he came, he decided to give birth to the baby. This was the only thing that the man left for him. If he gave birth to the child and left it with Qi Wanfeng, he could retire after everything was settled, and then come to Cao Xiangnan to take the child back.
"You want to leave the child with me?" Qi Wanfeng was even more confused after hearing this. Who is the father of this child? Seeing Fang Ziye's expression, he asked doubtfully, "Does the father of the child know the existence of this child?"
"This child is mine, no one else's." This was Fang Ziye's answer, and he was serious, not joking at all.
This is his child alone, no one else's, and no father.
"..." Qi Wanfeng.
"Knock knock--" At this time, someone knocked on the door, and Ershun went over to open the door.
"Ershun, have you cleaned up your room? Is Wanfeng still here?" Cao Xiangnan went back to his room and didn't see anyone, so he looked over here. Seeing Ershun opening the door for him, he asked.
"It's cleaned up, and the person is here." Ershun replied.
Hearing her husband's voice, Qi Wanfeng turned around and replied, "Xiangnan, I'm here." He said.
"I didn't see you when I went back to my room, so I thought you were still here, so I came to look for you." Cao Xiangnan walked into the room and saw Wanfeng and Fang Ziye sitting face to face. The atmosphere was a little strange. He asked, "What big thing are you guys plotting?"
"No, nothing, we just talked casually and chatted for a few minutes." Qi Wanfeng replied with a smile.
"As for you, your son Ziyu is tired now. It's not good for you to stay here and disturb Ziyu's rest. If you have anything to talk about, you have to wait until Ziyu has rested before you talk to him." Cao Xiangnan didn't think of anything wrong by locking the door for the two of them to be in the same room. This was his own home, and there was a half-grown boy in the room. What could go wrong?
He saw that there was still a light layer of blue-gray under Fang Ziye's eyelids, and he was afraid that he hadn't slept well recently.
"Well, what my husband said is right. I didn't think it through." Qi Wanfeng's expression also returned to normal. He stood up from his seat, stood beside his husband, and tried to soften his tone to Fang Ziye, "You stay in the room... have a good rest, and we'll talk after you wake up, okay?"
Fang Ziye understood the meaning of Qi Wanfeng's words, nodded gently, and replied "Okay".
The two of them came out and went back to their room. The child was still sleeping in the room. Now that the child was older, he could sleep for a while before waking up to ask for milk. Qi Wanfeng sat on the bed, stretched out his hand to touch the child's face, feeling a little complicated.
He was also a mother, so he naturally knew that the child he gave birth to was the flesh and blood of his body, so how could he bear to leave the child to be raised by someone else. And looking at Fang Ziye's appearance, he was afraid that before coming here, he had decided to give birth to the child with him and leave the child with him.
"What's the matter?" Cao Xiangnan, who had a sad face, stretched out his hand to touch his brow and asked with a smile.
"I'm thinking about something." Qi Wanfeng was struggling with whether to tell his husband about this.
"Well, what are you thinking about? Even I can't tell you." Cao Xiangnan raised his eyebrows and asked curiously.
Qi Wanfeng was thinking that the baby in Fang Ziye's belly was already so big, it was not appropriate to leave at this time. It was okay to give birth to the baby in his house, they could take good care of him and the baby in his belly.
It seemed that he wanted her to stay with him until the baby was born. If everyone lived together, it would be difficult for Fang Ziye to hide the fact that she was pregnant from everyone. Her husband would know about it sooner or later, so she couldn't hide it. What
made him more embarrassed was that Fang Ziye said that she would stay with him to raise the baby after giving birth, and this matter needed to be discussed with her husband. So after thinking about it in his heart, Qi Wanfeng also told his husband that Fang Ziye was a boy and that she was pregnant, and discussed it with him.
"So this is what happened. Ziyu wants to leave the baby with us when he has one. What do you think we should do about this?" This was the most difficult thing for him. Qi Wanfeng looked at his husband and asked. "
...This matter is a bit complicated." After listening to it, Cao Xiangnan's mind was hit by so many big things and it was difficult to answer for a while.
After thinking for a while, he said, "How about this, let's sit down and talk about this problem later and see what Ziyu means. If he really has trouble leaving the child with us, it's okay for us to help him raise the child." Anyway,
the family already has so many children, so it's okay to raise one more.
However, Fang Ziye came to him with such a big belly. She must have encountered some difficulties, so she came all the way to him. She also wanted to entrust the child to them for care after she gave birth.
"Come on, go to bed first, and we'll sleep for a while." At this moment, all the adults and children in the room had fallen asleep. While they had some time, they also wanted to take a nap. Cao Xiangnan helped his wife to get up to bed, and then he took off his outer clothes and got up. He held the woman in his arms and briefly told her his guess. There were
some decisions that they could not make for Fang Ziye, and only Fang Ziye could make the decision himself. At this time, the only thing they could do was to take good care of that man and the unborn child in his belly. If he really decided to leave the child with them, they would not refuse.
"Well, OK, then we will take good care of Ziyu and the unborn baby in his belly." After listening to her husband's words, Qi Wanfeng felt a little uncomfortable and distressed when he thought of Fang Ziye's thin figure, a boy who came to him alone with a child.
"Well, go to sleep." Cao Xiangnan kissed the person in his arms, probably knowing what he was thinking, and coaxed the person in his arms.
Knowing that Fang Ziye was originally a boy, it was no wonder that he always had an inexplicable sense of similarity when he saw him and Wanfeng standing together. Now he could explain where this feeling came from.
In the winter, the two people leaned against each other in the quilt to keep each other warm. The quilt was warm, and the person in the arms closed his eyes and fell asleep, and he fell asleep later. Not long after he fell asleep, he woke up when he heard the kid next to him groan.
No wonder some people call their kids "ancestor" or "grandfather". Isn't it more considerate and attentive to serve kids than to serve ancestors? ! Fortunately,
the child didn't wake up the people who were still sleeping in the bed. After Cao Xiangnan fed the child goat milk, he stuffed the child, who was full and drowsy and closed his eyes, into the quilt and let the father and son sleep together.
He didn't plan to continue sleeping at this moment. He kissed the big and small, tucked in the corners of the quilt for them, put on their clothes for going out, and then Cao Xiangnan came out. It was time to prepare dinner.
At this time, the room was still quiet and everyone was still asleep. It would take a while for everyone to wake up.
The door creaked open, and Ah Wu walked out of the house, followed by Xiangzi, whose face was still red from waking up.
"Is there anything I can do?" Ah Wu heard the sound from inside and knew that someone had gotten up. He came out and saw Cao Xiangnan standing in front of the cooking table, so he asked.
"Uncle Xiangnan." Xiangzi called out.
"Yeah." Cao Xiangnan reached out and touched the child's head, and adjusted the hat on his head. "I was thinking about what we should have for dinner tonight." Several people came to the house now, and one of them was pregnant.
However, since Wanfeng gave birth to the child, because Wanfeng's body still needed to be well taken care of, the family would stew some soup every day, so this soup was there, that is, two more dishes were fried to make enough for everyone to eat.
"Is there anything that Zi Yu particularly likes to eat, or particularly dislikes to eat?" He looked at A Wu and asked.
A Wu looked confused. He really didn't know if he was asked this. "You should ask Er Shun." Er Shun was the one who followed and served the master. Er Shun knew these things, but he didn't understand.
"Okay." Then he would decide. The most common animals raised at home were chickens. If not now, when would they be slaughtered? Cao Xiangnan led A Wu and Xiang Zi to the back and caught a hen to prepare for stewing soup.
It was still snowing outside. After such a long time, a lot of snow had accumulated on the ground. The mountains in the distance looked white, and were covered with a thick layer of snow.
The two dogs followed them, jumping around. Their thick fur made them not afraid of the cold at all. They were really enviable.
"I'll leave this to you. I'll go kill the chicken first." Xiangzi followed him to do these tasks every day. The child also knew how to do it. Cao Xiangnan took the hens he caught back home, and Xiangzi led Ah Wu to do the backyard work. He went to stew the soup first.
The chicken was killed and plucked neatly, and the internal organs were dug out and processed. The chicken offal was cleaned and ready for cooking.
At this time in the afternoon, the adults and children in the house got up one by one, the two little ones came together, and Ah Ning also got up. Ershun came out of his master's room. He had made a small bed in his master's room to sleep on, so that he could take care of his master at night.
"You want hot water? Here it is." Aning saw Ershun coming out and poured him the hot water from the stove.
Ershun thanked him and went into the house with the hot water.
At this time, Fang Ziye in the room also woke up and leaned lazily against the head of the bed. He slept very well this time. He sat against the head of the bed, wearing only a layer of underwear underneath. The quilt slipped down, revealing his bulging belly.
There was no need to burn several charcoal fires in the room. It was warm enough to sleep under the thick quilt.
These days, he has been traveling in a carriage. No matter how thick the cushions are, the carriage will still be a little bumpy, and sleeping on the ground is not comfortable. He has to hurry on when he stops on the road. He has been rushing all the way here, and now that he has arrived at Cao Xiangnan's place, he feels at ease, and he has also slept the most peacefully in such a long time.
The house began to get lively, and the children who woke up began to make noises.
The killed chicken was stewed in the pot, and dinner was cooked. The meat to be fried was cut and just waiting to be fried in the pan. Cao Xiangnan entered the house and saw that everyone was awake. He told everyone that it would take a while before they could have dinner, and then went back to work.