Chapter 70 Chapter 70 Your child, no, your child...
Today, Wei Dongqiang and his family came to the cemetery to burn incense for the Lu family.
Wei Dongqiang would come to sweep the graves of Grandpa Lu and Lu Chunhua and her daughter on the third day of the first lunar month, Qingming Festival, and October 1st every year.
Lu Chunhua's daughter Lu Yan was abducted by human traffickers in her early years and her life or death was unknown. A few years later, people heard that a group of human traffickers were caught in other provinces and many abducted girls died in their hands, including Lu Yan. Lu's relatives then erected a monument for her.
At first glance, Wei Dongqiang is a man of loyalty and comes to burn paper for the Lu family every year. But if it weren't for him, the Lu family wouldn't have...
By the way, this year, Wei Dongqiang brought Liu Di and Wei Wenkai to visit the grave as usual, but because Yan Hui was about to marry into his family, he asked her to come to the cemetery with him.
Liu Dilai didn't have a good impression of Yan Hui. She felt that Yan Hui was not worthy of her son. Besides, it was really outrageous for a family with the surname "Wei" to burn incense and paper for a family with the surname "Lu". She didn't want Yan Hui to know about the past, so she was very resistant to her coming.
Now, something unexpected happened.
"What do you mean? I just twisted my ankle and bumped into her. Do you think I did it on purpose?" Liu Dilai looked at the father and son in disbelief. When she spoke, her voice rose an octave. Wei Wenkai didn't say anything, and Wei Dongqiang also looked away. No one responded to her.
She knew whether it was intentional or not, and so did they.
Anyway, ever since she knew that Wei Wenkai and Yan Hui were in love, he has always disliked her, and they have all witnessed it.
A few months ago, when Wei Wenkai brought his girlfriend home for the first time, Liu Di came and gave Yan Hui a head start. She asked her to cook and wash dishes in the kitchen, and also asked her to sweep and mop the floor and do housework, which was no different from treating her like a nanny.
Like Wei Dongqiang, she is a two-faced "smiling tiger".
On the surface, he treated Yan Hui politely, but he treated her harshly when Wei Wenkai was not around. Yan Hui was kind and considerate, and never complained to him. It was Wei Wenkai's careful observation that discovered that she had been wronged.
But the more they acted like this, the more Wei Wenkai loved her. It was he who took the initiative to bring her to visit the Lu family's grave today.
As for when did Wei Dongqiang find out that Liu Dilai had a problem with Yan Hui? Probably when Yan Huilai became his assistant.
Wei Dongqiang considers himself not to be a lustful person. He initially agreed to let Yan Huilai be his assistant, partly for the sake of his son and partly because of her ability.
But Liu Dilai seemed to be very worried about them. She always found various reasons to order Yan Hui around and occasionally said a few sarcastic words.
Including the first time Yan Hui came to his house for dinner as a daughter-in-law, he also noticed that Liu Di was very hostile to her and wanted to suppress her everywhere to declare her sovereignty.
Later, as they spent time together, he gradually developed sympathy, heartache, pity, and inappropriate feelings for Yan Hui. He felt that Liu Dilai could not tolerate her. Even if she did nothing wrong and was perfect, Liu Dilai could always find fault with her...
Seeing the father and son, who usually didn't get along, now breathing through the same nose, Liu Dilai, who was always smart, didn't react at first to realize that something was wrong, and just kept trying to prove her innocence.
It’s unfair, such a huge injustice!
To be honest, she really looked down on Yan Hui and didn't want her to be her daughter-in-law.
Her family background was not good. She was a girl from a small city in the southwest. Her parents died of illness one after another when she was a child. Her family had no money and no relatives. With her conditions, the matchmakers in the village frowned when they saw her.
Who wouldn't want to find a local girl? Preferably one from the city, with working parents?
Regardless of how much help it will bring to the family, at least it won't be a drag.
But since this was the person her son liked, she had no choice but to try to accept it.
It turns out that only women understand women best.
From the first time Yan Hui came to their house for dinner, Liu Di smelled the special scent on her.
It was like a monster trying to get into the sheep pen, rolling around at the door and scraping itself in the sheep's feces to disguise itself. However, because the contact time was short, Liu Dilai couldn't tell whether it was a wolf or a dog.
It was not until her son contradicted her every time he mentioned her that she realized Yan Hui had ill intentions.
But it was too late to chase her away now...
"I didn't stand properly. It's none of my business."
Seeing that Wei Dongqiang and Wei Wenkai both misunderstood Liu Dilai, Yan Hui hurriedly wanted to stand up and explain to her, but just as she straightened her waist a little, a sudden pain in her abdomen made her expression even more uncomfortable.
"Don't move, don't move."
If the injured were Wei Dongqiang’s family members, Shen Miao would definitely not bother to care.
But now Yan Hui is not considered a member of their family after all, considering that she came to burn incense for the Lu family, Shen Miao hurriedly helped her sit down and checked her injuries, "Did you hit anything when you fell? Where does it hurt?"
"I can't explain it," Yan Hui covered her lower abdomen, "Just now, Auntie pushed... No, before she touched me, I felt an indescribable fatigue in my body. I thought it was because I didn't get enough rest recently, so I didn't take it seriously. As a result, my stomach started to hurt after I fell."
Worried that they had "misunderstood" Liu Di's arrival, Yan Hui emphasized: "It really has nothing to do with my aunt. I just felt a little uncomfortable to begin with."
After Yan Hui said this, Wei Wenkai couldn't help but hug her tighter. When he looked up at Liu Dilai, his eyes were full of blame.
Look, she is speaking for you now!
Don't you feel ashamed at all for pushing her when you knew she was not feeling well?!
Shen Miao first pressed the part where she fell, then checked her tongue coating, it didn't look like she had any serious illness, but her face was pale, then she felt her pulse.
The touch of your fingertips is round and smooth, like plump beads rolling repeatedly.
It's a slippery pulse.
“Besides feeling tired, are there any other symptoms recently?” Shen Miao asked again.
"I have a poor appetite and feel like I can't eat."
"Did your period come this month?"
Yan Hui seemed to understand her hint. She glanced at the people around her and shook her head shyly.
“If I’m not mistaken, it should be a happy pulse. You are pregnant.” Putting her hand down, Shen Miao continued, “It’s just that you have just gotten pregnant and the fetus is not stable. You fell just now and the fetus was disturbed, so you feel uncomfortable all over.”
"Pregnant?" Wei Wenkai's eyes widened. "Is it true?"
Pregnancy is a happy event, but Shen Miao didn’t want to look at him, nor did she want to show any joyful expression, “If you don’t believe me, you can go to the hospital for a check-up.”
"Believe it, believe it, believe it!"
Wei Dongqiang still trusts the Shen family's medical skills.
Thinking back to the time when Lu Chunhua had not been able to get pregnant, she took the Shen family’s medicine to recuperate, and later it was Shen Wanshan who found out that the baby in her belly was a boy, although later… But that was all in the past, Shen Miao had inherited the true teachings of Grandpa Shen, so she thought it shouldn’t be wrong.
"Don't let her sit on the floor. The floor is cold and it's not good for her health if she sits on it for too long."
Doctors are kindhearted. Shen Miao no longer disliked the Wei family, but she would not vent her anger on Yan Hui and the child in her belly. “If you trust me, you can go to my clinic to rest for a while. Your constitution is a little weak. I will use moxa to moxibustion you so that you can sleep better at night.”
Yan Hui nodded, "Okay, thank you."
Yan Hui was carried out of the cemetery by Wei Wenkai.
Today is the day when every household worships their ancestors. It should be a sad and melancholy day. However, in such a desolate place filled with tears and cries, their family received good news.
Liu Dilai, who had been wronged, had a gloomy face, but when she heard that Yan Hui was pregnant, a look of joy appeared on her face.
Seeing the family walking out of the cemetery with smiles on their faces, the villagers of Qingping Village almost had blood in their eyes.
God is so unfair! How can such a bastard have descendants? He should be made to have no descendants!
When the Wei family came out of the cemetery, they happened to run into people from the Shen family and the Chen family.
Looking at the woman in Wei Wenkai's arms, several people looked her up and down, suppressed their disgust for his family, and reluctantly greeted them with a happy new year.
"What's going on?" Shen Wanshan asked.
Shen Miao: “She is pregnant, but her fetus is a little unstable and her constitution is weak, so let her go to our clinic and get some moxibustion.”
Hearing that his family was going to have offspring, Shen Wanshan really couldn't say the word "congratulations", and just said "hmm" lightly.
"Whose daughter is this letter to?" Chen Luo asked in a gentle voice.
"It's a county in Sichuan Province," Wei Dongqiang said with a hint of embarrassment on his face as he explained to her, "It's not our county."
Chen Luo looked at her carefully again, "I see, she looks familiar to me, and I thought she was someone's daughter here."
Right, right!
The last time Shen Miao saw Yan Hui, she felt that she looked familiar and thought that her family was from Qinghe Village. Now, finally someone thought the same as she did!
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Probably because they knew they were not welcome, Liu Dilai and Wei Dongqiang did not go to Qinghe Village with them. After coming out of the cemetery, the couple drove back, and only Wei Wenkai stayed with Yan Hui.
The child is innocent. Even though this pair of jackals have done many dirty things, Wei Wenkai is innocent after all, and Yan Hui has nothing to do with the mud pit in his family, so the villagers' attitude towards them is acceptable.
Helping Yan Hui to the clinic, Shen Miao boiled some ginger water for her to warm her body, and waited until her hands and feet were slightly warm before she began to prepare the mugwort.
“Sister, you look very familiar to me, have we met before?” Shen Miao asked casually while crushing the mugwort with a medicine grinder.
Yan Hui thought for a moment and replied, "No, I don't remember us meeting."
"Are you from Sichuan Province?"
"right."
Shen Miao pinched the crushed mugwort together and smiled slightly: "I haven't heard of the Sichuan dialect yet, can you say a few words so I can learn?"
"Okay," Yan Hui cleared her throat, "Ahem... this sentence, 'what are you doing', means what are you doing, and this sentence, 'bashi de ban', means it's very comfortable."
"What are you doing... so cool..."
Shen Miao imitated her tone and repeated the two sentences she taught back and forth.
"You've learned it very well. It's quite interesting now." Yan Hui praised her.
Well, it’s indeed easy to learn.
But Shen Miao discovered that there was a big difference in the intonation between her speaking Mandarin and the Sichuan dialect.
As we all know, dialects are very contagious, especially if you start speaking them from a young age. Even if you speak Mandarin later on, it will have more or less a dialect flavor, and your word choice will also have some dialect habits.
But Yan Hui doesn't. She speaks standard Mandarin, with almost no limping intonation of the Sichuan dialect.
It didn't seem like she grew up in Sichuan Province. It seemed like she learned the language later on purpose, so she didn't have the native dialect accent. When she was teaching herself to speak the dialect, it was a bit "half-baked".
Intuition told Shen Miao that this Yan Hui had a secret.
She recalled the last time in the hospital, she was very good at playing both sides between Wei Wenkai and Wei Dongqiang, and today at the cemetery...
"By the way, sister, can I ask you something?"
Looking at the cotton curtains in the inner hall used to block the wind, Yan Hui lowered her voice, as if she didn't want Wei Wenkai who was waiting in the outer hall to hear.
"you say?"
With her right hand on her belly, Yan Hui's expression was somewhat bitter: "If I want to abort this child, will I be able to get pregnant again in the future?"
Shen Miao: ???
She didn't quite understand what Yan Hui meant.
"Abort? Why?"
It is said that children are the apple of their mother's eye. How could a mother want to abandon her own children?
"I……"
"Xiao Hui!"
The curtain was only used to block the wind and had no soundproofing function at all, so even if Yan Hui's voice was very low, Wei Wenkai who was waiting in the outer hall still heard her inappropriate thoughts.
Wei Wenkai didn't care about that anymore, he suddenly opened the curtain and rushed in. The heat that had finally accumulated in the inner hall was immediately dispersed by the cold wind he brought in.
"Why do you want to abort our child? Don't you want him?" Wei Wenkai asked puzzledly.
"I do, of course I do," Yan Hui sighed helplessly, "but your parents don't agree with us being together. We can't let the child be born without a household registration."
Shen Miao didn’t quite understand what she meant.
disagree?
No.
Just now at the graveyard, Wei Dongqiang and Liu Di looked quite happy? Especially Wei Dongqiang, his eyes were almost bursting with joy, if this was not considered happiness, then Shen Miao really didn't know what joy was.
Wei Wenkai said to her firmly: "We will get married after the Chinese New Year. This is our child, we don't need their consent!"
Wei Wenkai loved her very much, Shen Miao could see it.
Because only when you love someone to the core, will your eyes have such a bright light as his.
Perhaps due to the lack of maternal discipline or paternal love, Wei Wenkai has been a rebellious person since childhood. He would not listen to any tricks or suggestions, and was covered with thorns from head to toe. Not only his parents but also outsiders found it difficult to get along with him.
Until I met Yan Hui.
Yan Hui was like a ray of light shining into his dark life, allowing him to open his heart for the first time and learn to love someone.
In order to protect this ray of light, he could make the whole world his enemy, including his own parents, and in fact, he did so.
Ever since he and Yan Hui got together, he had quarreled with his parents about her. He didn't know why. Yan Hui was so gentle and virtuous, and everyone liked to be with her, but they would bully her openly or secretly.
Yan Hui explained for them, saying that this was their way of loving themselves, but he felt that they just wanted to control themselves.
"Wenkai, don't be like this. They are your parents after all. We should be filial to our parents." Holding Wei Wenkai's hand, Yan Hui said gently, "I just don't want them to think that I forced you to get married and have this child, so..."
"I know. I know."
Holding Yan Hui's hand tightly, Wei Wenkai was once again moved by her understanding.
Yan Hui slowly placed Wei Wenkai's hand on her belly and said gently, "I hope they can really accept us and the baby in my belly."
She seemed to have made up her mind. After a pause, she said, "Can I move into your house? Let me spend more time with my uncle and aunt."
"Are you crazy? My mother hates you so much. If you really move to my house, she will bully you to death, right?!" Wei Wenkai suddenly pulled his hand back.
Yan Hui held his hand again and smoothed the wrinkles between his eyebrows with her fingers: "Don't worry, people are all made of flesh and blood. I believe that Auntie will accept me sooner or later. She hates me now, maybe because she doesn't understand me and thinks I want to take you away. When she sees clearly one day, she will naturally stop making things difficult for me."
Yan Hui is so virtuous!
He was thinking about Wei Wenkai and also considering Liu Dilai's perspective.
If Shen Miao wasn't also a woman, she would have been almost moved by these words.
That’s right, women understand women best.
Whether it is true or false, only a woman's sixth sense can tell the difference.
Why do you want to have an abortion? She just wanted to find a reason to move into the Wei family under the pretext of "getting more contact with them and letting them accept her".
Retreat to advance, turn defense into offense, every step is a carefully designed chess game.
But Shen Miao didn't think of exposing her. It was just their family affair after all. If she wanted to fight with that couple, let her do it.
Besides, they have indeed lived too peacefully for the past twenty years, and someone should teach them a lesson and make their lives a little more difficult.
He had been listening to their conversation, and the mugwort residue in the medicine mill was almost ground into mugwort powder by Shen Miao. After feeling that they had talked for a while, Shen Miao stood up and motioned him to go out and wait, and also went out with him to find some paper and matches to pack the mugwort powder.
There seemed to be the sound of tires rolling outside the yard.
A few minutes later, Wei Dongqiang walked in with the car keys.
"Why are you here?"
"Your mother is worried and said it would be better for you to take her to the hospital for a checkup."
"What? Do you still think Xiaohui is pretending?"
"Don't blame your mother. She doesn't know either."
"Let's go later. Let Doctor Shen give her some moxa fumigation. I'll go buy her something to eat."
"Well, you go ahead. I'll stay here."
Wei Dongqiang cares a lot about Wei Wenkai and Yan Hui, but Wei Wenkai's attitude towards him is indifferent. They don't look like father and son at all, but more like a pair of enemies.
Taking the opportunity of delivering the car, Wei Wenkai mentioned to him that he wanted to bring Yan Hui to live at his home so that he could take care of her from time to time.
Before he could say anything, Wei Wenkai gave him a shot of prevention, saying that he hoped they would treat Yan Hui well, that Yan Hui sincerely hoped to receive their blessings, and that he was about to become a father, and as a father he would definitely protect his children and wife.
His words were a warning to him not to make things too ugly.
Having said so much, even if Wei Dongqiang had no intention of refusing, he had no choice but to walk down the steps he arranged and promise him that they would be a family in the future and would get along well.
Hearing him say this, Wei Wenkai's expression eased a little.
After Wei Wenkai left, Wei Dongqiang pulled a chair over and sat down, asking Shen Miao about Yan Hui’s condition: “How is she? I saw that her complexion was very bad this morning, is it really nothing serious?”
"It's okay, it's just that her physical condition is relatively poor and she lacks nutrition, so the fetal qi is not stable."
In addition to moxibustion, Shen Miao also wanted to use medicine balls to press several acupoints on her legs to help her restore her qi and blood, but she couldn't find the medicine balls for a long time.
Hiss... I think I took it home during the massage a few days ago?
Shen Miao got up and went home to get the medicine ball, but when she was halfway there, she suddenly remembered that although she had taken the medicine ball home last time, her grandfather later took it back to the clinic, saying that the smell of the medicine had faded and she needed to refill it with medicine.
Yes! It is in the medicine storage room of the clinic.
When Shen Miao returned to the clinic, Wei Dongqiang was not sitting in the outer hall. She didn't know where he had gone. Without thinking much, Shen Miao went to the pharmacy to find the medicine ball and refilled it with a few more herbs.
When he was about to go to the inner hall to give Yan Hui moxibustion, he suddenly heard Wei Dongqiang's voice coming from inside.
"How can you be so weak? Look at your face, it's pale."
Yan Hui smiled bitterly and sighed, "I'm fine, as long as the baby in my belly is fine."
"He's treated you like this, why don't you leave him? And you even said you want to move in with me?"
Wei Dongqiang persuaded Yan Hui more than once to leave Wei Wenkai.
It's not just because he likes her, but because she is a good woman and her life should not be ruined by his son who has a strong control desire to the point of being crazy.
As long as she could be safe, he would rather withdraw from her life with his son.
"You know he won't let me go. If I stay at your house, maybe he will be more restrained."
Shen Miao: ???
Yan Hui's expression changes so quickly. Just now she was trying to make compromises in order to get the blessings of her parents-in-law, but now she has to "dance with the wolves" in order to protect her children.
"Besides... the child should also want to see his biological father more often."
"You, what do you mean? It was that time at..." Wei Dongqiang's mind buzzed and he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, "It's me, mine?!"
Yan Hui didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded, then put his hand on her belly.
Shen Miao: !!!
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