"Sister. Am I going to be an uncle?" Gu Jingming asked only after his mother had finished asking all the questions she wanted to ask. You have to understand how happy he was when his father first told him.
He wasn't this happy when his sister-in-law, Dr. Jiang, was pregnant before, probably because he and Dr. Jiang weren't very close. They didn't spend much time together on weekdays; he had to go to school, and Dr. Jiang had to go to work. Moreover, since they got married, they had lived in their own home and rarely went back. Now, because Dr. Jiang was pregnant, she had moved to her parents' home, so they had even less opportunity to spend time together. Therefore, he didn't feel the joy of a new addition to the family before.
But things are different now. His relationship with Huo Haocheng was already pretty good, and now he's even become his brother-in-law. He didn't have a good relationship with Gu Jingxi before, and he'd never experienced being taken care of by a sister. But ever since Ruan Ruan came, every time she goes out and comes back, she brings him gifts, takes him hunting, and teaches him Chinese, which he dislikes the most. So now that he hears his sister is pregnant, he's really happy.
"Yes, our Xiaoming will be an uncle and maternal uncle in a few months. Aren't you excited?"
"I'm so happy! Now I'm not the youngest one in the family anymore." Gu Jingming said happily in response to Ruan Ruan's question. Before, whether in the Gu family or the Shen family, he was always the youngest. Whenever his older brothers got together, he was always the one being teased. But now it's all good. His older sister and sister-in-law are pregnant. After they are born, he won't be the youngest one anymore, and they won't tease him anymore.
"Haha, yes, then you won't be the youngest anymore. But you'll have to prepare red envelopes for them during the Lunar New Year!"
"I'll prepare then. I have some savings, and I'll use it all to give them red envelopes." Gu Jingming felt that giving red envelopes to the younger generation during the Lunar New Year was the right thing to do. Moreover, he had saved all the red envelopes that his elders had given him over the years, so he still had money to give out red envelopes.
"Alright, then I'll thank Uncle on behalf of my nephew."
"Uncle, Aunt, I made some wild vegetable dumplings today. Please have some."
The dumplings were at the perfect temperature after that short delay.
Huo Haocheng went to get them bowls and chopsticks.
"Uncle, Aunt, Xiaoming, come and try the dumplings I made, how do they taste?"
"My sister's dumplings are definitely the best in the world." With that, Gu Jingming didn't stand on ceremony and picked up a dumpling to start eating.
"Mmm...it's so delicious, sis, what did you put in it? It's so good!" Gu Jingming ate the dumplings one after another, savoring the fresh and crisp wild vegetables and the chewy cured meat.
"This is filled with wild vegetables and cured meat. How is it? Delicious, isn't it!"
This was the first time they had ever heard of such a combination, and they all started eating.
"good!"
"It's delicious!"
It was so delicious that we couldn't stop eating. Even Teacher Shen, Commander Gu, and Xiao Ming, who had already eaten, couldn't stop eating.
Luckily, she packed nearly a hundred today, otherwise it really wouldn't have been enough for the group. They were originally thinking that if they couldn't finish them tonight, they could eat them tomorrow morning, but now it seems they'll have to eat in the cafeteria again tomorrow morning.
After dinner, seeing that it was getting late, Teacher Shen gave Huo Haocheng a few instructions and then the family went home.
After seeing them off, Ruan Ruan asked, "What did your aunt say to you just now?"
Ruan Ruan was genuinely curious: what could have said that made Huo Haocheng's ears turn so red?
"No, it's nothing. It's getting late, I'll go get you some water to wash up." He hadn't expected his aunt to tell him that the first three months of pregnancy are unstable and that he shouldn't have sex.
He was too embarrassed to say it aloud, so he made up an excuse to brush it off.
Watching his fleeing figure and considering his expression just now, Ruan Ruan thought for a moment and figured out what it was.
'What? What's wrong with saying this?' She didn't understand, but since she didn't want to talk about it, she would just pretend she didn't know.
Sometimes, a man's pride should be protected appropriately!
For the next period of time, accompanied by Huo Haocheng, she went to see the old woman and had a wedding dress made for Huo Yue. After that, she truly kept her promise and spent only an hour each day foraging for wild vegetables. The rest of the time she either slept at home or translated books.
During this time, Ruan Shaoke, Bai Sirui, and Ruan Shaolin also took the time to go to the city and buy her a lot of nutritional supplements. Her uncle and aunt also went to buy a lot of fabric suitable for babies during their weekends off and started making clothes for their grandson and nephew.
Gu Jingming, a classmate, would come to her house every day after school, ostensibly to give his nephew prenatal education.
Whenever he sat next to Ruan Ruan reading his Chinese test paper, which he had barely passed, Huo Haocheng wanted to snatch the book from his hands. When there were still unfamiliar words in the texts he had studied, Huo Haocheng wanted to throw him and his book out the door several times.
"Xiaoming, I really don't mean to discourage you, but look, you even marked the pinyin for this character yourself, how could you still mispronounce it?" Looking at the book in Gu Jingming's hand, Ruan Ruan was truly puzzled. How could she still mispronounce it when she was reading it with the pinyin?
"...Um, sister, if I said I didn't see this pinyin just now, would you believe me?" Gu Jingming didn't know why, but when he was reading it, he inexplicably didn't see the pinyin. It's really not his fault, he didn't know where the pinyin came from!
"...Do you want me to believe you, or not?" Ruan Ruan really didn't expect Gu Jingming to say something like that. How come she didn't see such a big thing marked with different colored pens?
As if she had thought of something, Ruan Ruan immediately pointed to a colored block on the book and asked, "Look, what color is this?"
"Sis, it's red, I know." Gu Jingming didn't understand what his sister meant, but he still obediently said it.
"What about this one?"
"This is green."
Seeing that he answered so easily, and that he's not colorblind, why did he say he couldn't see the pinyin marked in red?
"Sis, what do you mean by this?" Gu Jingming felt that his sister was acting strangely. After giving him a couple of meaningful glances, she fell silent.
"It's nothing. It's getting late. Let's call it a day. Have your brother-in-law take you home."
Forget it, I'll put aside the questions I can't figure out for now. Maybe one day I'll understand them on my own without even thinking about them.
"oh!"
Upon hearing his wife's words, Huo Haocheng immediately stepped forward to help Gu Jingming pack his textbooks into the book box, and then pulled him out.
He only turned around and hurried home after dropping the man off at his doorstep and seeing him go inside.
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