Chapter 158 Are You Inviting Me?
She leaned over to Lin Ziqiu and asked in a low voice: "Sister-in-law, do you love my brother?"
Lin Ziqiu was stunned. She herself had no experience and didn't understand what love really was.
But what Zhong Xuexi said, she also acted the same way when Zhong Heyang was with her.
Is this love?
She curved her eyebrows, smiled, and threw the question back, "What do you think?"
Zhong Xuexi raised her head and said meaningfully, "During the days when we were in the capital, you missed my brother so much that you couldn't sleep. If this is not love, then what is love?"
Lin Ziqiu's pupils shrank, "You...how do you know that I have insomnia?"
She realized it later and said, "Ruan Qing told you, right?"
"Hehehe!" Zhong Xuexi grinned, "Think about him if you want to. He is your man, it is only natural for you to think about him! Do you really want Ruan Qing to think about my brother?"
Lin Ziqiu pursed her lips and said, "Don't talk nonsense."
Zhong Xuexi took her arm and said, "Sister-in-law, why do I feel that Ruan Qing has become different from before? When she was with me before, nine out of ten sentences she talked about my brother, but now she hardly mentions my brother and always talks to me about you."
“Could it be…”
Zhong Xuexi has relatively simple thoughts and has never thought about homosexuality, sex, and love.
She gasped, "She wanted to stab you in the back? But she doesn't seem like that kind of person. I really can't understand it!"
Lin Ziqiu tapped her forehead helplessly, "She doesn't have any bad intentions, she just wants to be friends with me. As for your brother, she has her reasons, you don't have to worry about it, just know that she won't affect the relationship between me and your brother."
"Really?"
Zhong Xuexi breathed a sigh of relief, but was a little unhappy, "I always feel like you are hiding something from me."
Lin Ziqiu tilted his head, deliberately showing a serious expression to scare her, "Do you know what happened to people who knew too much in ancient times?"
Zhong Xuexi couldn't help shrinking her neck, feeling a chill down her spine. "Okay, okay, I won't ask any more questions."
After a pause, she breathed a sigh of relief, "I am very pleased to see that you can live in harmony. It must always be like this!"
Lin Ziqiu smiled and said, "Yes."
After Zhong Xuexi left, Li Guixiang couldn't help but ask, "Has Ruan Qing really given up on He Yang?"
She was worried. "I don't mean anything else. I'm just worried that you trust her too much. What if..."
"Grandma!" Lin Ziqiu patted her grandmother's shoulder, "Don't worry, I know my limits and won't fall for someone's trick so easily."
Outside the window came the voices of Zhong Xuexi talking to Zhong Zhiyang in the yard. Lin Ziqiu pursed her lips and smiled, "When the Zhao family comes to propose marriage, you will be busy."
Li Guixiang was actually thinking about settling this marriage as soon as possible to avoid any unnecessary complications.
"I prepared Xuexi's dowry several years ago. I'm old now, and I'll have to ask you to help with the wedding."
Lin Ziqiu smiled and said, "Don't say it's hard work, this is what I should do. Xuexi has lost a lot of weight now, I'm afraid you have to alter the wedding dress for her."
Speaking of this, Li Guixiang was thinking of Lin Ziqiu's help. "Thanks to you, she is now thinner and more attractive, and she smiles more."
"It's not my credit. Losing weight mainly depends on her own consciousness. She loves to laugh because she has someone worth liking."
Li Guixiang said meaningfully: "Now I just hope that you and He Yang can give me a great-grandson as soon as possible. While I am still strong, I can still take care of your child."
"Grandma..." Lin Ziqiu was a little shy, "We have to let things take their own course. When the time comes, it will come naturally."
"I went to the capital a while ago to ask a doctor for a folk remedy..."
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Zhong Heyang didn't go home until dark.
As soon as I entered the room, I saw Lin Ziqiu sitting beside the bed with a sad face. On the cabinet was a porcelain bowl full of unknown medicine.
"What's going on?"
Lin Ziqiu turned around and saw that it was him. He immediately felt like his savior had come. "You're finally back."
She picked up the medicine and said, "Your grandmother urged us to have a baby. She asked some doctor for a folk remedy that said it would help with pregnancy..."
Zhong Heyang paused, and said a little embarrassedly: "Don't be angry, all old people are like that, urging marriage and childbirth, I'll go and throw it away."
As he said that, he walked over and took the bowl of medicine.
Lin Ziqiu didn't let go, and looked at him tentatively, "Will you be angry?"
Zhong Heyang frowned, "What are you angry about?"
Lin Ziqiu lowered her eyes and looked at the pitch-black medicine. "I don't want to have a baby. Will you be angry?"
Zhong Heyang took her hand away and said, "Having a child is not just my business. I have to wait until you are willing to do it. I won't force you."
This is his principle.
Everyone knows that a forced melon is not sweet.
Besides, there is a long time to come. Just because my wife doesn’t want to have children now doesn’t mean she won’t want to in this life.
Even if she doesn't want to have children in this life, he doesn't care.
He loved her as a person, not because she could give birth to a child for him.
Besides, there are many children in the family, and the elders urge them to have children simply because they think it is great to have children in the family, who are lively and can be cared for by their parents.
It's a blessing.
Besides this, there is another reason.
He and Lin Ziqiu got married late in life, and his grandmother was afraid that the relationship between them was not strong enough, so she wanted to use a child to tie Lin Ziqiu down.
But Lin Ziqiu is just Lin Ziqiu, she is not a tool for giving birth to children.
He loved her, she was free, there was no need to tie her hands and feet with anything else.
To truly love someone is not to forcibly want to keep her by your side, but to hope that she can truly live a happy life.
Lin Ziqiu suddenly felt relieved. She was actually worried that Zhong Heyang would be unhappy about this.
Just like that night in the capital, when Ruan Qing talked to her about this, she really hadn't thought about having a child with Zhong Heyang.
She's not ready yet.
Zhong Heyang has his mission, and Lin Ziqiu has his own ambitions and goals, so they are rarely together.
It would be too fake to ask Lin Ziqiu to say how deep her feelings for him are.
But for now, she is happy with him.
Maybe it's love, but not enough love.
If she didn't love him very much, Lin Ziqiu would never allow the birth of a child.
Children can only be the fruit of love and cannot become tools to be exploited under any circumstances.
Lin Ziqiu whispered: "Thank you for understanding me."
Zhong Heyang rubbed her head and said, "You are my wife, why do you say that?"
"I'll go pour this out. Did you soak your feet? I'll get you a basin of hot water."
Lin Ziqiu quickly shook his head, "I've already showered. It's getting late. Go shower and go to bed."
Zhong Heyang leaned over to her ear and said in a slightly hoarse and very magnetic voice, "Does this count as an invitation?"
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