The Chen family has been living a very comfortable life these past few days, and Chen Mengqing has also been going out to make friends more frequently.
Luo Mei boasted about their good life to everyone she met in the village, which only increased the villagers' annoyance with them.
However, Su Luo only sneered at these things, throwing the silver notes and blood letter into the empty room.
She knew perfectly well what had happened between Master Xu and Chen Xique that night.
Knowing that she was going, Xu Kong had doubled the dosage of medicine that night to please Su Luo.
"Luo Luo, our new house is taking shape every day, and I'm so happy to see it."
Zhao Ruyun returned with water and stood at the village entrance watching Fan Gaocen and the busy bricklayers.
In about a month, the roof beams will be able to be erected. With more people, it will be faster to build.
“Mother-in-law, Master Fan said that we will definitely have a new house to live in before this winter, and we will no longer be afraid of the cold.”
Zhao Ruyun smiled with a touch of melancholy and nodded: "The end of this year will definitely be a good year."
The two returned to the kitchen, where Li Niu and Aunt Li made tofu and delivered it to Fu Man Lou. Aunt Li would come over to help Su Luo and the others with the fire when she had free time.
Sometimes I would help them out, and I've long since become close friends with Chen Yan and Liu Fangfang.
"Ms. Zhang, I'll help you cook that meat later," Aunt Li said to Zhang Xiujuan.
Zhang Xiujuan said with a smile, "Li Rufan, we are paid to do things. If we do everything for you, what are we supposed to do?"
"I'll do it later, you just need to start the fire."
Seeing Su Luo and Zhao Ruyun come in, Aunt Li took Su Luo's hand and said, "Yan Chuan's mother, start the fire, I'll stir-fry the meat."
Su Luo doesn't have time to cook every day, and even when she does, her aunts don't like her disrupting their routine.
Su Luo mostly assisted them.
Aunt Li is alone at home every day, but she can't stay idle. She likes to go to places with lots of people, like Zhao Ruyun's.
"Aunt Li, aren't you afraid people will say I made you work for free?" Su Luo joked.
"Let them say it. I'm willing. What can they do to me?"
Aunt Li was smiling as she poured a bowl of meat into a pot. The smell of cooking oil was so strong that she accidentally inhaled a mouthful of fumes.
It felt like I'd drunk half a pot of cooking oil straight away; my throat felt so sore I wanted to vomit.
Before she could stir-fry it, Aunt Li immediately ran to the door of the thatched hut to vomit, gagging until tears streamed down her face.
"Aunt Li, how are you? Are you sick?"
Seeing this, Zhang Xiujuan quickly flipped the meat over to prevent it from sticking to the pan.
Zhao Ruyun and Chen Yan also came out to see Aunt Li.
She couldn't recover for a while, and just as she was starting to feel a little better, she smelled the stir-fried meat again, which made her feel even worse.
Zhao Ruyun helped her to sit down by the roadside, and Aunt Li gradually felt better.
"Ms. Li, are you feeling better?" Chen Yan asked, patting her back.
After calming down, Aunt Li nodded: "It's alright, it'll be fine in a bit."
"Ms. Li, are you pregnant?"
Zhao Ruyun felt puzzled. Back when Su Luo was with Yan Chuan and Yi Huan, she also couldn't stand the smell of cooking fumes, which was very similar to Li Shi's current state.
But since Li hadn't conceived a child for so many years, Chen Yan and the others didn't think she might be pregnant.
"ah!"
Upon hearing this, Aunt Li's heart rippled, as if a feather had gently brushed past it.
Aunt Li glanced at Zhao Ruyun, then at Su Luo, her hand unconsciously reaching for her lower abdomen, her eyes shining brightly.
"I...I don't know...hehe..."
Having eaten so many leafy greens, Aunt Li had been looking forward to it.
She had never felt that way before. Could it be... real?
“Mrs. Li, why don’t you go to the county to see Doctor Du? I think you look a lot like him, exactly like Luo Luo did back then.”
Aunt Li stood up excitedly, just like Su Luo. It was very likely that she had only been with her husband at the time An Su Luo mentioned this month, and her period had not yet started.
"Yes, I have to go see her. Yan Chuan's mother, will you come with me? I'm a little nervous."
Aunt Li held Su Luo's arm, her expression a mixture of anticipation and fear.
"Okay! I'll go with you."
Just then, Li Niu returned from the county. As soon as he arrived at the village entrance, he saw several people surrounding his wife. If he didn't know better, he would have thought something had happened.
"What's wrong, honey? Are you feeling unwell?"
Upon closer inspection, it became clear that Aunt Li's eyes were red, a sign that she had been crying.
Zhao Ruyun and the others weren't sure if Aunt Li was really pregnant, so they all kept quiet to avoid disappointing Li Niu.
"Old Li, I'm feeling a bit unwell and I'd like to go to the county to get checked out first."
"Okay, let's go now."
Nothing is more important than his wife. What Li Niu fears most is the lingering effects of Aunt Li's poisoning last time.
After telling Yan Chuan and Yi Huan not to run around, Su Luo helped Aunt Li onto the oxcart.
Ji'an Hall!
Du Xiuyuan personally took Aunt Li's pulse and could feel her heart pounding from it.
"take it easy!"
After saying that, Du Xiuyuan put his hand away.
Aunt Li and Su Luo stared intently at Du Xiuyuan, waiting for his outcome.
"Dr. Du, how is my wife?" Li Niu asked first.
"Oh, she's fine. She's pregnant, and it's been a month."
Aunt Li's eyes immediately filled with tears. She was so excited that she couldn't speak and could only shake Su Luo's arm again and again.
"Dr. Dudu, you...you said my wife is pregnant, is it true...I...I didn't hear wrong, did I?"
Li Niu grabbed Du Xiuyuan's hand, who was tidying up the pulse pillow, with a bit too much force, causing Du Xiuyuan to drop the pulse pillow.
"That's right, it's a pregnancy test."
Li Niu's feelings were complicated. So many years, so much effort, he'd almost given up, but now… but now he was going to be a father! Heh heh…
"Wife, I...I..."
Li Niu, a man, was so moved that he shed tears.
He turned around, wanting to pick up Aunt Li and spin her around, but Aunt Li was pregnant.
He reached his hands to Aunt Li's waist, but dared not lift her up; his hands were dangling up and down, unsure of what to do.
"Uncle Li, you can't hug Aunt Li now, she's only a little over a month old," Su Luo reminded him from the side.
"Yes, yes, yes..."
Aunt Li slapped Li Niu's hand away and said, "Old Li, don't touch me."
Having finally become pregnant, Aunt Li just wanted to be as careful as possible.
"No, no, honey, what do you want to eat? I'll go buy it for you right now."
Aunt Li thought for a moment and said, "I want to eat pickled bayberries."
"Okay, you guys wait here for me, I'll go buy it for you right away."
Aunt Li smiled gently, her eyes lowered, and as she touched her lower abdomen, it seemed even more real.
"Madam Su, how's the construction of your house going these past few days?"
Du Xiuyuan knew that Su Luo was eager to build a house, so he hadn't bothered her for a month.
"Everything is proceeding normally. What have you been doing during the month I was away?"
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