The female doctor dared not accept his bow, and quickly made an excuse to run out, leaving only the two of them in the room.
A string in Wei Li's head snapped with a "pump".
Is she pregnant?
When did you get pregnant?
She was pregnant and climbed over the wall with her child?
Did you fall while trying to climb over the wall?
What if both the fetus and the mother die?
With so many questions piled up, he didn't know which one to ask first, so he raised his hand and slapped himself.
The pain was real; I wasn't dreaming.
Zhao Xiheng was startled by his movement and instinctively jumped up from the bed. "What are you doing?"
"Ouch." The movement was too big, and my head hurt a little.
Wei Li rushed over to protect her. His slap was quite forceful; her already pale skin was now a deep crimson. He gently pursed his dry lips, his shock undiminished. "How...how could you be pregnant?"
"How could you possibly have that?" Zhao Xiheng glared at him.
When Wei Li asked this question, his ears suddenly turned red. "I never...put it in..." he said, his voice getting softer and softer.
"Who told you that you won't get pregnant if you don't put it in?" The two argued about this issue. Zhao Xiheng felt ashamed and couldn't help but lower her voice, pressing the back of her hand to her face to cool it down, afraid that the people outside would hear.
"So...so, really?" Wei Li's hand was still holding hers. Zhao Xiheng could feel that his usually fiery palm was cold and sticky, trembling slightly, as if he was very nervous.
"How long has it been? What should we do?"
The child came very suddenly; he hadn't expected it to be so early. Zhao Xiheng was still young, and since she didn't like him, she wouldn't like the child either.
"A little over a month, what do you suggest we do?" Zhao Xiheng thought he was talking nonsense, so she coldly threw the question back at him.
Wei Li calculated the days, and it was just over a month after he left that Zhao Xiheng fell off the wall again. It was truly a stroke of good fortune that the child was able to stay.
Zhao Xiheng asked him what to do, and of course he wanted to keep the child, as it was his first child, and Zhao Xiheng's first child with him.
"Keep it." Wei Li unconsciously tightened his grip on her hand, a kind of hidden tension. Seeing her indifferent expression, he was worried that she would not want the child.
"Don't you dislike children? You told me yourself that you don't even like your own child. Now that I've hit him, isn't that exactly what you wanted?" Zhao Xiheng pulled her hand away, intentionally provoking him.
When he came back last time, she asked him if he liked children, and he casually said no. Looking back now, she deeply regrets it. She probably already knew she was pregnant then, which is why she asked that question.
The thought of what might have happened if she had aborted the child in a fit of anger is terrifying.
Wei Li grabbed her hand again, this time with even more force, and cried out, "Keep the one I like."
They were afraid that Zhao Xiheng really wouldn't want this little guy.
"Idiot," she muttered under her breath. "Didn't I say I didn't want it?"
Wei Li was so excited that he didn't notice Zhao Xiheng scolding him. He stepped forward to hug her, but Zhao Xiheng pushed him away. Caught off guard and with his legs still numb, he stumbled from the push.
"Don't come any closer. Tell me how you got back first. Didn't they say that Tiangang City fell and you were shot and disappeared?" Zhao Xiheng stared straight at him. Wei Li's ability to travel back and forth between Tiangang City and Buxian City unharmed didn't seem like the legend at all.
"I only ran away by climbing over the wall because I heard that Tiangang City had fallen and they were about to break through Buxian City. Your guards are so stubborn. They said they would protect me, but they would never let me leave the city. When the enemy army enters the city, what kind of protection are they going to give me?"
Wei Li felt a pang of guilt, even ignoring Zhao Xiheng's swearing once again, and couldn't help but purse her lips, "It's...it's all right..."
He hadn't revealed a single detail about the battle at the front to Zhao Xiheng. Instead, he kept scaring her for amusement, which led her to climb over the wall with the child. Fortunately, nothing happened. He was a beast. If anything had happened to the mother and child, what use would he have for Pingzhou?
But if he tells the truth now, Zhao Xiheng will probably be angry, extremely angry.
Zhao Xiheng could tell he wasn't telling the truth, so she took a deep breath, covered her head, and pretended to cry, "Wei Li, I must have committed some terrible sin in my past life to marry you and live in constant fear, never having a moment of peace."
Wei Li panicked and stepped forward, raising his sleeve to wipe her tears, but Zhao Xiheng avoided him. "Why are you still concerned about us, mother and child? You don't tell me a single truth, clearly you don't care about me, making me live in constant fear. Tomorrow I'll take the child to the city wall and jump..."
"Pah, pah, pah, don't say such things." Wei Li quickly covered her mouth and superstitiously spat three times on the ground. "You dare to say such unlucky things."
"What I said was just to scare you. I already have a plan for the Pingzhou war." He didn't dare to look Zhao Xiheng in the eye and told her the whole plan.
After listening, Zhao Xiheng pushed his hand away, lowered her head, slightly curled her little finger, wiped her dry eyes, and said self-pityingly, "It's only because my father is gone that I deserve to be bullied and married to someone like you who never tells the truth and never apologizes when he does something wrong..."
Wei Li is fucking insane! Is this something to joke about? She's just lying here too weak to do anything else, otherwise she'd definitely give him a piece of her mind and make him apologize. If she lost her baby and Pingzhou got away scot-free, it would be a complete joke, a total joke!
The more she thought about it, the more suffocated she felt.
Wei Li just wait and see. She doesn't have the energy to curse right now. Once she recovers, she'll cause all sorts of trouble. If she can't kill Wei Li, she's not a Zhao.
But she could recite by heart all those promises he made, the ones he rambled on about with tears streaming down his face. Thinking about them now made her feel incredibly relieved, and she even felt sorry for her past pity. She should have just stayed in bed for three days and three nights and cried herself to death at that old bastard's expense.
Wei Li closed his eyes, steeled his resolve, and shouted, "I'm sorry, I was wrong, Madam."
Despite his smooth and seamless apology, declaration of love, and tearful outpouring while Zhao Xiheng was unconscious, he still finds it hard to speak now that Zhao Xiheng is awake.
Fortunately, after saying "I'm sorry" a lot, I became more skilled at it, and even though it was embarrassing, I could still manage to say it out loud with a determined heart.
Zhao Xiheng rubbed her temples with her fingertips, continuing to wallow in self-pity, "Last time someone insulted me without even knowing what happened and told me to get lost. Just thinking about it now makes me feel terrible. The worst part is that this person won't even say sorry. I'm just unlucky, having to leave my hometown..."
Before she could finish speaking, Wei Li quickly stepped forward, covered her mouth again, and said, "I'm sorry, I was wrong."
He was truly terrified, afraid that Zhao Xiheng would speak again. Every word she uttered now felt like a needle pricking his heart. He was so fearful that his whole body went limp and broke out in a cold sweat. He had never felt this terrified even after fighting through thousands of troops.
As the saying goes, karma is a cycle, and no one escapes the wrath of Heaven; retribution comes too quickly in this life.
In the past, the two would have argued, but now he wouldn't dare to talk back to Zhao Xiheng even if he had eight hundred lives.
The bandage wrapped around her forehead, her pale face, the little one in her belly, and his still slightly trembling legs all reminded him to be careful with his words and actions, or else the consequences would be dire.
In the small kitchen outside, the female doctor was cooking porridge. Wei Li's repeated "I'm sorry"s were so loud and clear that it was hard not to hear them. Her hand trembled, and the porridge spilled all over the floor. She wished she could close her ears, or wished she were deaf.
So many exciting things happened tonight? And she got caught in them all.
Zhao Xiheng still ignored him, so Wei Li nudged her arm and said, "I'm sorry, I was wrong. You can hit me if you're angry."
She still ignored him, so Wei Li swallowed back the cheeky words that were about to slip out, and hooked her finger around his hand, saying, "I was really wrong."
Practice makes perfect; once you've said it a few times, it becomes easier to apologize. Wei Li is now sliding to his knees extremely quickly.
"Will you dare to do this again?" Zhao Xiheng felt it was time for her to go to sleep, so she glanced at him.
It's getting dark; going to bed early and waking up early is good for the children.
"No, thank you." Wei Li climbed onto the bed. "Are you cold? I'll warm the blankets for you."
Zhao Xiheng raised her foot and kicked him down without hesitation, protecting her stomach and head, trying her best not to hurt those areas. "The battle in Tiangang City is urgent right now. You should go back quickly. I don't want you to lose Pingzhou due to carelessness. If I end up eating coarse food with the children, I won't be able to stand it."
The key is that Wei Li has been out running around for who knows how long, and she smells of nitrates, dry and smelly. In addition, she is still angry, so there's no way she can share a bed with her.
“It’ll be fine for one night.” Wei Li, who had just been kicked down by Zhao Xiheng, was now sitting on the ground discussing things with her.
His heart was still pounding, and he didn't dare leave Zhao Xiheng here unattended. He wanted to stay with her for a few more days before leaving, since it wouldn't hurt for Liu Huan and Wang Zhiyao to fight for a few more days.
Moreover, he wanted to touch the child; he hadn't touched him in over a month and didn't know how old he was.
"No, you have to go back right now. Even if you stay, you can't sleep with me. What if you're restless in your sleep and press down on me?" Zhao Xiheng pulled the blanket up and closed her eyes to sleep, clearly not giving Wei Li any chance.
At first, I was faking it, but after a short while, sleepiness came over me, and I really drifted off to sleep and lost consciousness.
Wei Li was still sitting on the ground, maintaining the position he had been kicked off. He looked at Zhao Xiheng's profile, his eyes tracing her outline inch by inch. His gaze finally landed on her lower abdomen, and he stared at it for a while before a smile involuntarily appeared on his lips.
Then he suddenly realized that his smile was silly, so he rubbed his face, suppressed his smile, and then propped his cheeks up, staring intently at Zhao Xiheng.
That's good, she's awake and looks quite energetic. She won't die.
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