Chapter 147
Zhao Yuan thought: It’s not like she always touches Ye Fuyue’s belly.
However, since Aunt Xu said so, Zhao Yuan just agreed with a smile.
"I won't touch you next time, absolutely not."
Aunt Xie came out of the house, saw Ye Fuyue and came over to join in the fun.
"Fuyue, your belly is so big! How many months has it been?"
"More than five months."
"It's already five months!" Aunt Xie responded exaggeratedly, and then said casually, "It's fast, my Zhong Lan is also three months pregnant."
"Is your Zhong Lan pregnant?" Aunt Xu asked in surprise, "Why haven't I heard you mention this before?"
"It's because Zhong Lan had a miscarriage before. I'm afraid it will be the same this time, so I want to wait until her stomach is stable, so as to avoid any accidents and being laughed at by you again." Aunt Xie's face was full of boastful smiles.
Aunt Xu naturally knew who Aunt Xie was referring to when she said "you guys".
She said, "It's better to talk about it after things stabilize. Now that your daughter-in-law is finally pregnant, you can rest assured."
"That's half the reason, I guess. The other half, I'll have to wait until the baby in her belly is born safely, before it's completely settled." Aunt Xie said this, then saw Zhou Jinmei passing by and immediately shouted at her at the top of her voice, "Zhou Jinmei, where are you going?"
"I'm going out to buy something." Zhou Jinmei didn't want to pay attention to Aunt Xie and quickened her pace to go out.
Aunt Xie saw Zhou Jinmei was about to leave and hurriedly said, "My daughter-in-law Zhong Lan is three months pregnant. Have you heard?"
Zhou Jinmei paused and looked at Aunt Xie in disbelief: "Is Zhong Lan really pregnant?"
Aunt Xie nodded proudly: "How could I tell a lie about something like this?"
"How could you hold it in and not say it until now?" Zhou Jinmei still didn't want to believe it, and her mood was much worse.
"I'm not you, so of course I can hold it in. I just waited until Zhong Lan's pregnancy stabilized before telling everyone." Aunt Xie said proudly, "You said Zhong Lan was pregnant, and Ye Fuyue was also pregnant with twins. When will your Ye Fuyun's pregnancy show any signs of movement?"
Zhou Jinmei knew that Aunt Xie would ask her this question, and her face looked very unhappy.
"When Ye Fuyun gets pregnant is none of your business. Just mind your own business. Your daughter Yao Yi just had a miscarriage a few months ago, and Zhong Lan also had a miscarriage before. It doesn't matter if your family gets pregnant. You have to have the ability to give birth to the child."
"You bad woman, you can't stand my Zhong Lan being pregnant, so you deliberately curse my family, right? I think your Ye Fuyun is the one who is not capable of getting pregnant and even more capable of giving birth!" Aunt Xie cursed with her hands on her hips.
Zhou Jinmei started arguing with Aunt Xie.
Aunt Xu and Zhao Yuan gave a few symbolic words of advice, while Ye Fuyue watched the show from the side.
The two of them quarreled for a long time without a clear winner. In the end, Zhou Jinmei was in a hurry to go buy something, so she left first, cursing.
Zhou Jinmei was in a terrible mood.
She never thought that even the daughter-in-law of Aunt Xie, one of her arch-enemies, was pregnant, while Ye Fuyun was not pregnant at all.
Zhou Jinmei thought of Ye Fuyun and the old miracle doctor she had mentioned.
But she was soon discouraged by the high medical bills of dozens of dollars.
She was reluctant to spend so much money on Ye Fuyun's medical treatment.
She consoled herself by saying, "Although Zhong Lan is pregnant, she got married almost a year earlier than Ye Fuyun, so it's only natural for her to be pregnant." As for Ye Fuyue... forget it, let's not talk about her...
Aunt Xie thought she had won a victory and scolded Zhou Jinmei away, and her mood became even better.
She hummed a little tune and went home.
Zhong Lan was talking to Yao Hong in the room.
"I finally got pregnant again this time. I don't want to have another miscarriage, and I don't want to end up like Cui Yongfang. I'm telling you in advance that I won't do any heavy work at home. If your mother has any objections, you have to stand by me."
Yao Hong had been looking forward to having this child for a long time. People around him who had married around the same time as him already had children, so how could he not be anxious?
Hearing what Zhong Lan said, Yao Hong agreed without hesitation.
It was at this moment that Aunt Xie's voice rang out.
"Zhong Lan, why haven't you washed the clothes in the basin yet?"
Zhong Lan glanced at Yao Hong and went out, saying, "Mom, you should wash the clothes from now on. My waist aches, and my stomach feels uncomfortable when I bend over to wash clothes. I don't want to touch cold water either."
The good mood that Aunt Xie had just gained from Zhou Jinmei disappeared in an instant.
"You're just pregnant, and your belly isn't getting bigger, so why are you being so pretentious? Whose wife wouldn't even work when she's pregnant? Do you think you're some old-fashioned lady?"
"I had a miscarriage before, so I have to be more careful this time. If anything happens to the baby in my belly again, Mom, you scolded Aunt Zhou like that just now, and she will definitely scold you back." Zhong Lan said.
Aunt Xie and Zhou Jinmei were arguing so loudly that she could hear it clearly even if she didn't want to.
Aunt Xie was choked by Zhong Lan's words. She hoped more than anyone else that the baby in Zhong Lan's belly could be born safely and healthily, otherwise, she would become a laughing stock in the compound.
However, Aunt Xie couldn't bear to let Zhong Lan do nothing because of this.
"The last time you miscarried, it was your own fault. Look at Cui Yongfang from the Liang family. Even when she was pregnant, her belly was so big, she still did all the work. If she can do it, why can't you?"
"So Cui Yongfang was injured and died shortly after giving birth." Knowing that Aunt Xie wouldn't care about her life or death, Zhong Lan continued, "I'm not afraid of getting hurt. I'm afraid if I hurt the baby, not only will the people in the compound laugh at us, but we'll also feel bad about it."
She really didn't want to hurt herself. Like Cui Yongfang, she obeyed her in-laws' orders and worked tirelessly, but what good did she get in the end? Liang Nan married his new wife before her body was even cold.
She was very sure that if she died a few months after giving birth like Cui Yongfang, Aunt Xie and Yao Hong would definitely arrange to find a new daughter-in-law, and might even say bad things about her everywhere.
There is nothing wrong with her thinking more about herself and being a little selfish.
"Also," Zhong Lan paused, then added, "If something unexpected happens to the baby in my belly, some people might laugh at our family's bad feng shui."
"If the baby in your belly really had an accident, what does it have to do with our family's feng shui? Stop lying to me here!" Aunt Xie said unhappily.
"Yao Yi had a miscarriage not long ago. If something happened to the baby in my belly, considering that I had a miscarriage before, you might think that Yao Yi's miscarriage was the Lei family's fault, and my miscarriage was my own fault. But people in the slum don't think so. They believe what the Lei family says more, and they also believe what they see more. Our Yao family members have suffered miscarriages one after another. Do you think they won't gossip? Will Aunt Zhou laugh at you for this?" Zhong Lan said.
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