"Don't overthink it. How can someone just disappear without warning?" Zhao Jingyu comforted her. "It was just a dream. Don't overthink it."
“I mean, if…” Xu Qingning really wanted to know his thoughts. Zhao Jingyu propped himself up on his arm and looked at her quietly. “If that’s really the case, I will find you no matter where you are in the world.”
"If I really disappear, don't look for me. Raise the child well and live a good life." Xu Qingning's expression was calm, but her heart was filled with sadness. "I will be watching over you from somewhere else."
For some reason, she really wanted to tell him these things.
But now the plot is messed up and completely different from what she had seen.
She was worried that she would disappear inexplicably, and she was also worried that she wouldn't make it to the end.
In the original story, Xu Qingning and Zhao Jingyu did not share a dream.
The plot had changed so much that it both gave her hope and made her uneasy about the unknown future.
"Don't say that." Zhao Jingyu felt that Xu Qingning was acting strangely tonight, and her words were very puzzling. He thought she was worried about having a baby. "If you don't want to go to the hospital for a check-up tomorrow, then don't go. I'll go see Dr. Lin by myself."
"I'm not going because of the inspection." Xu Qingning didn't know how to tell him these things, and he might not believe her if she did.
"Then go to sleep early!" Zhao Jingyu thought that she was just overthinking because she was nervous and scared as her due date approached. He lowered his head and kissed her forehead. "Don't be afraid. No matter what happens, I will be with you."
"Okay." Xu Qingning didn't know what else to say. She simply stopped talking, decided to take it one day at a time, and stopped thinking about anything else.
When Yang Yuelan learned that the two were going to the hospital for a check-up, she said she wanted to go too.
"Mom, it's better for you to stay at home. I can only take one person with me on my bicycle. The three of us can't go together." Zhao Jingyu knew that Yang Yuelan was worried, so he patiently reassured her, "Don't worry, I won't make her fall."
"Why don't you go to your workplace and borrow a wooden cart to push on the road?" Yang Yuelan was still worried. "When I went to read the electricity meter, I saw some at the cafeteria."
"Mom, I'm fine." Xu Qingning said, both amused and exasperated. "No need for such a fuss, we'll be back soon."
She had also seen those wooden carts, where blankets were laid out on top and someone pulled them from the front.
Even if Zhao Jingyu were willing to borrow a wooden cart from the canteen, she wouldn't want to ride it; it was the kind of cart their canteen usually used to transport pork and cabbage.
Also, the People's Hospital is a bit far from here. It takes about ten minutes to get there by bicycle, and it would take more than half an hour to walk there.
Yang Yuelan could no longer insist and repeatedly told Zhao Jingyu to ride his bicycle slowly.
Zhao Jingyu agreed and rode his bike quickly and steadily, soon taking her to the hospital.
The People's Hospital is not large. Although a new ward building has been built, it is only two floors long, and the obstetrics and gynecology department is separated from other departments.
The labor ward was a large, single-story building with no partitions. There were about a dozen beds, and several pregnant women were sitting on them.
The air was thick with the smell of disinfectant.
What was even more unsettling was that the screams and cries of babies from the next delivery room could be clearly heard.
Xu Qingning felt resistant as soon as she saw the environment.
Good heavens, the thought of giving birth in front of everyone makes her want to run away.
Is this what Fang Meiyuan and Du Juan meant by "good conditions"?
There is absolutely no privacy.
Zhao Jingyu had never been here before either. He found a bed for her to sit on and said gently, "Wait here for a while, I'll go to the office to find Doctor Lin."
"Okay." Xu Qingning patiently sat down.
After Zhao Jingyu left, the woman in the next bed asked Xu Qingning, "Are you about to give birth?"
"No, come over and check." Xu Qingning was very nervous. Some things you can't truly understand until they happen to you.
Looking at the scene before her, she no longer wanted to stay there.
That's so embarrassing.
"Was that young man your boyfriend?" The woman in the next bed looked to be in her mid-twenties and had a street-smart air about her.
"Yes." Xu Qingning had no interest in chatting with her.
"Is his name Zhao Jingyu?" the woman in the next bed asked again. "He was wearing a hat earlier, so I didn't see his face clearly, but his voice sounds very similar."
"He is Zhao Jingyu. How did you meet him?" Xu Qingning asked her casually.
"It really is him!" The woman in the next bed said in disbelief, her gaze falling on Xu Qingning's stomach. "When did you two get married? We didn't hear a thing!"
Xu Qingning smiled without saying a word.
"He was my brother's classmate, and he used to come to my house to play all the time," the woman in the next bed added. "Since you're both married now, I'm not afraid to tell you, my brother tried to set him up with my sister. Zhao Jingyu even got into a fight for my sister, and then he went to sea. I never expected him to get married so soon..."
"..." Xu Qingning was speechless.
Soon, Zhao Jingyu returned and said to Xu Qingning, "Dr. Lin is in a meeting and will be back soon. Let's go to her office and wait for her."
"Zhao Jingyu, don't you recognize me?" the woman in the next bed asked him.
"Who are you?" Zhao Jingyu turned to look at her. "I don't know you."
“I am Yu Weidong’s older sister, Yu Hong, and my younger sister, Yu Lan. You must know me, right?” Yu Hong looked at him with mixed feelings.
"Oh, it's you!" Zhao Jingyu suddenly remembered, glanced at her, and then said to Xu Qingning, "Let's go!"
Yu Hong: "..."
He just left like that?
After they left, Xu Qingning asked him, "Did you date Yu Lan?"
"No," Zhao Jingyu answered decisively. "My classmate tried to set us up, but I didn't agree."
"Why didn't you agree?" Xu Qingning asked again.
“I’m not interested in her.” Zhao Jingyu looked at Xu Qingning meaningfully. “She’s more manly than me. I don’t want to live with a tomboy.”
"But Yu Hong just said that you two talked," Xu Qingning said sourly. "Zhao Jingyu, just how many romantic entanglements do you have outside?"
Zhao Jingyu lowered his head and looked at her with a half-smile: "She's talking nonsense. Before you, I had never dated any other women, and after you, it's even less likely. You are the only woman I need."
"You fought for Yu Lan?" Xu Qingning continued to press.
"Yes, Yu Weidong treated Yaqiang and me to dinner. Yu Lan was there too. She whistled at the little girl, and the girl's brother got very angry and beat up all three of us."
Zhao Jingyu said calmly, "We fought in self-defense. If you don't believe me, go ask Yaqiang. I'm so handsome, I have to be picky and choose the prettiest girl to be my wife."
"You're so good at talking." Xu Qingning gave him a reproachful look. When they saw a female doctor in a white coat walking out of the ward building, Zhao Jingyu quickly said, "She is Dr. Lin."
"So it was her." Xu Qingning recognized the female doctor and said decisively, "Let's go back. I don't want to look for her."
"What's wrong?" Zhao Jingyu asked, puzzled.
“She’s Jiang Yumei’s friend, so she’ll most likely be the one to deliver Tang Wenya’s baby.” Xu Qingning turned and left. “I don’t want to give birth in the same ward as her. It’s the same if I go to another hospital.”
She just didn't believe it.
Even having a child can't avoid mentioning Tang Wenya?
"Since we're already here, let's check it out first." Zhao Jingyu coaxed and persuaded her not to leave, "We'll feel more at ease if we check it out."
Xu Qingning didn't want to argue with him, so she followed him into the examination room to see another doctor. The doctor calmly said that everything was normal and told her to move around more and come back when she was close to giving birth.
Back home, Yang Yuelan asked about the test results and breathed a sigh of relief upon learning that everything was fine. She then said to Xu Qingning, "Tang Wenya came by earlier and said she needed to talk to you, but when she found you weren't there, she sat for a while and then left."
"What does she want from me?" Xu Qingning felt that Tang Wenya had deliberately chosen a time when she wasn't there.
Her arrival is never a good thing.
“She didn’t tell me.” Yang Yuelan knew the two sisters were at odds, so she didn’t say anything else to Tang Wenya. “She just looked at the sample clothes we made and said they were pretty. I didn’t tell her that they were for a competition.”
"She came for these sample garments." Xu Qingning understood perfectly well; Tang Wenya's system knew she was going to participate in the competition and wanted to sabotage it!
"What should we do then?" Yang Yuelan finally realized what was happening, and her face changed. "I was making these sample garments at home. I didn't think much about it after she came."
"It's alright, she's just imitating others poorly." Xu Qingning wasn't afraid of Tang Wenya plagiarizing. These sample garments weren't finished yet, and she didn't know they were sets.
She can copy the style and color.
But she can't steal creativity.
Thank you Clownfish for the monthly pass.
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