Chapter 166 (First Update) Looking at his wife's series of actions...
By rephrasing it, the atmosphere immediately became more relaxed.
Madam Fu joked, "Perhaps Fu Ci misses you."
Fu's mother chimed in, "Mom, how can it be 'maybe'? It's definitely true."
"Oh right, right, Fu Ci called twice a day, it's because he was thinking of Mingli."
What could Tang Mingli do? She could only calmly accept the teasing from her elders.
And what they said was true; Fu Ci had indeed been receiving at least two phone calls a day.
However, because of Aunt Caiping's matter, he will be back in a couple of days.
When Fu Ci came back last time, he originally wanted to take Aunt Caiping to Beijing Hospital for a checkup, but after talking with the experts and doctors at the military hospital, they all warned that the patient's condition might not be able to withstand such a long journey.
So he turned to experts in Beijing and sent them Caiping's medical records. The conclusion they reached was the same as that of the military hospital in Beijing: it was impossible.
During this time, Tang Mingli saw her grandparents worrying about her great-aunt Caiping.
However, there's a saying that's also very true: time is the best medicine when it comes to pain.
No matter how hard it is to accept, time will gradually make you accept it.
Now, Grandpa and Grandma have accepted the fact that Aunt Caiping is seriously ill and are trying their best to accompany her through the last years of her life.
However, she also knew that accepting it was one thing, but the pain was still there; it was just that everyone tried to avoid mentioning it.
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Two days later, Fu Ci returned.
Coincidentally, the day after Fu Ci returned to visit Fu Caiping, her condition suddenly deteriorated, but fortunately she was eventually saved without serious injury.
However, this sudden situation also made everyone realize that Fu Caiping's condition was deteriorating beyond estimation.
On the day Fu Caiping was rescued, Gu Lin, who visited her grandmother at the hospital almost every day, was not there. It was only the next day that she learned how dangerous her grandmother's life had been the day before, and she was so regretful that she burst into tears on the spot.
I'm still shaken. Thankfully, my grandma is alright, otherwise she would never forgive herself for the rest of her life.
This incident also made Gu Lin realize something.
So when she returned to her husband's family home, and her mother-in-law brought up her daily hospital visits again, and her husband accused her of neglecting the family, she calmly said, "If you feel you can't go on like this, then you'd better figure it out."
Yang Tao, who was arrogantly criticizing his wife, suddenly froze, almost unable to believe what he was hearing.
"Gu Lin, what do you mean?"
Gu Lin met Yang Tao's eyes: "If you feel you can't go on like this, then don't."
Yang Tao's face paled instantly.
Fortunately, Yang's mother stepped in to ease the tension, saying to her son, "Gu Lin is in a bad mood because of her grandmother's matter, so just be more accommodating to her."
After saying that, her son coaxed Gu Lin, "Okay, Mom knows you're just saying that out of anger. Go take a shower and calm down."
However, this time, Gu Lin did not take the opportunity to back down.
She looked at her mother-in-law and said so bluntly for the first time, "Mom, you always do this. You say you're doing it for your own good, but you do things that stab us in the back. Others may have a sharp tongue but a soft heart, but you have a mouth full of honey and a heart that's crueler than a knife."
Yang's mother was so angry that her face turned purple after being spoken to like that by her daughter-in-law.
Her usual facade of gentleness and virtue almost crumbled at this moment.
She stomped her feet in anger, then glared at her son and said, "Look at your good wife."
She then stormed back to her room, making sure to take her beloved grandson with her before leaving.
In the past, Gu Lin would definitely have been scared, but she is not scared now.
Yesterday, because of her compromise, my grandmother almost couldn't see me one last time before she passed away.
Because of this near-miss, she suddenly felt that the Yang family was no longer important, and whether or not she could spend her whole life with them was no longer important.
At worst, she can go to another world with her grandmother.
This was the first time Yang Tao had seen such fearlessness in his wife, and he didn't dare to say anything for a moment.
Gu Lin looked at him for a while and asked, "Is there anything else you want to say?"
Not getting a definite answer, she went to take a shower.
She was very tired, very tired, very tired.
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On the other side, the Fu family.
Fu Ci helped his wife, who looked somewhat cumbersome, to lie down, gently tucking her in with the blanket, feeling both heartache and self-reproach.
His wife's health is already so poor, yet he is away from home most of the time. He doesn't know how she manages to get by without him; she probably has difficulty even lying down.
His concern was so obvious that Tang Mingli couldn't ignore it. She smiled and asked, "Mr. Fu, are you feeling sorry for me?"
Now that she had been discovered, Fu Ci had no reason to deny it and said with concern, "You're quite far along in your pregnancy, it must be very inconvenient for you to move around."
Tang Mingli thought for a moment and replied, "Actually, it's okay. I'm definitely a bit more cumbersome than before I was pregnant, but it's not that inconvenient."
She is lucky; apart from the time she vomited from smelling gasoline, she has had almost no pregnancy symptoms so far.
As for physical inconvenience, it's really fine so far. It's just that I have to be careful when getting up and going down the stairs.
However, she had also heard that pregnant women often have difficulty turning over or rolling over in the later stages of pregnancy, and she planned that if she were to experience the same thing, she would have her mother-in-law come up and sleep with her.
Anyway, she and her mother-in-law are like mother and daughter, and she doesn't mind sleeping with her mother-in-law at all.
After hearing his wife's considerations and arrangements, Fu Ci felt even more guilty.
"Perhaps I should stop working and spend time with you."
Tang Mingli quickly said, "No, the money you earn is enough to make up for the suffering we've endured living apart."
Actually, there was no hardship for her; she was enjoying a life of luxury in the Fu family.
Moreover, after Fu Ci got a car, he went home much more frequently, and we could see each other two or three times a month.
Rounding it off, it's basically just a weekend couple.
Think about the migrant workers in the 1990s and early 2000s. They might only go home once a year. That was true separation from their families.
Fearing her husband would think she was obsessed with money, Tang Mingli added, "You've seen how important money is now that your aunt is sick."
What was originally meant to be a cover-up turned into a sigh after he finished speaking.
It's truly thanks to our money that Aunt Caiping suffered so little during her illness.
Otherwise, the suffering my great-aunt would have endured would have been a thousand times greater than it is now.
This hospitalization of her aunt really made Tang Mingli realize that living well can be achieved through hard work, but dying with dignity probably requires money.
Take my aunt's illness this time, for example. The doctor said frankly that both imported and domestic drugs have some effect, but the patient doesn't have much reaction to the imported drugs, while the domestic drugs may cause symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and dizziness.
Without hesitation, Mr. Fu made the decision to use imported medicine for his sister.
On the one hand, he had some money, and on the other hand, his resignation gave him confidence.
However, all of this was kept from my great-aunt. If she knew that so much money had been spent, she would probably rather starve to death than be hospitalized for treatment.
When the topic of treatment costs came up, the couple started talking about it.
Tang Mingli jokingly asked her husband, "If I got a serious illness that would cost a lot of money to cure, would you pay for my treatment?"
Fu Ci disliked him using himself as an example and immediately spat, "Don't say such unlucky things."
"It's just a hypothesis."
"Even the assumptions are inaccurate."
Fu Ci looked serious, and Tang Mingli had no choice but to compromise.
"Okay, actually I was just thinking about my great-aunt. She was already feeling so unwell, but she kept insisting on being discharged from the hospital because she was worried about the cost."
To put her mind at ease during her hospital stay, they had to lie to her, saying that the money she had prepaid for the hospital was non-refundable and that she would have to use up all the money before she could be discharged.
Actually, you can't blame my aunt. Earning money is hard, and it's hard not to feel distressed about the high medical expenses.
But……
Tang Mingli, who had already kept quiet, couldn't help but say to her husband, "No matter how much it costs, you have to get me treated."
She wants to treat any disease that can be cured, no matter how much it costs.
She wanted to live.
She was so happy in her life that she really didn't want to die.
Fu Ci was truly at a loss for words when he heard this.
I was both annoyed that she mentioned unlucky flowers, yet I was also amused by her words and wanted to laugh.
He couldn't help but kiss his wife's chubby cheeks, resignedly saying, "We'll get her treated, no matter how much it costs."
After saying this, he silently added in his heart: God, please don't let my wife get sick. If one of us has to get sick, let me bear it alone.
The wish she made silently in her heart could not have been known to Tang Mingli, who did not have the ability to read minds.
Having gotten the answer she wanted, she closed her eyes contentedly and soon fell into a deep sleep.
He left Fu Ci behind, watching her sleeping face, unable to fall asleep himself.
Although there were still several months until the delivery, he couldn't help but start to worry.
To be precise, ever since he learned that his wife was pregnant, he has been unable to stop thinking about this issue.
As the month draws closer, my anxiety grows.
Rationally, he also knew that the hospital where his wife had been having prenatal checkups was actually of a very high standard and had never had an accident over the years.
But today, seeing his wife's noticeably rounder belly, reason prevailed again.
No wonder my father was adamant about not having any more children after my mother gave birth to me.
The feeling of having a knife hanging over my neck every day was too torturous. The fear of my wife having an accident was something I would never want to experience a second time.
He even doubts whether he would have been so determined not to have children from the very beginning if he could turn back time.
If your wife really likes it, then you should just adopt one.
Looking at his wife sleeping so peacefully, Fu Ci couldn't help but wonder, was she afraid?
Despite being timid and afraid of death, she had just tearfully told herself that if she got sick, she would treat her no matter how much it cost.
How did you overcome your fear of childbirth, given your timid nature? Is it even possible to overcome it?
That night, Fu Ci thought about many things, and didn't even know when he finally fell asleep.
When he opened his eyes again, he felt his wife moving beside him. He quickly sat up and asked, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Tang Mingli replied wearily, "No, I just need to go to the bathroom."
Perhaps after struggling with her mind, she snapped on the bedside lamp after saying those words, sat up nimbly, and got up to go to the bathroom.
Fu Ci was stunned by his wife's series of smooth movements.
Isn't it said that a big belly makes you bulky?
When Tang Mingli returned from the restroom, she saw her husband still in the same position as before, and found it inexplicably adorable.
"What's wrong?"
Hearing his wife ask what was wrong, Fu Ci finally came to his senses and quickly helped her to bed, helping her to lie down comfortably.
Tang Mingli laughed and said, "Actually, I'm really fine. My stomach is a little bloated, my back aches easily, I need to go to the toilet more often, I'm more craving food and more sleepy than usual, but I really don't feel anything else."
Perhaps it's because of his good physical condition.
She used to be skeptical of people claiming to be the Virgin Mary, but now she seems to believe it a little.
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