Chapter 22 Chapter 22 Still feeling uncomfortable?
Two and a half months later, Ruan Xiangyi's morning sickness became increasingly severe, and she had trouble eating or sleeping. She couldn't eat more than a few bites at night, and Aunt Cui frantically urged her, "Madam, please eat a little more."
Zhao Qingshi took the bowl away from her: "If you don't want to eat, then don't eat."
"Aunt Cui, please wash some cherries and bring them upstairs later."
Not long after finishing her meal, Ruan Xiangyi held onto the toilet and vomited everything out. Her eyes were wet and she felt extremely uncomfortable.
Zhao Qingshi patted her back lovingly to relieve her pain. He never thought that pregnancy would be so painful for a woman.
Ruan Xiangyi started crying and wiped her tears without caring about her image. Zhao Qingshi picked her up and put her on the sofa, wiping away her tears bit by bit.
Ruan Xiangyi burst into tears.
Zhao Qingshi panicked and hugged her in his arms, whispering and coaxing her for half an hour until the person in his arms calmed down. He looked down and saw several strands of hair stuck on her cheek, which he brushed away.
"Are you still feeling bad?"
A tear fell: "Yeah."
Zhao Qingshi apologized and sighed, "I'm sorry."
Ruan Xiangyi sniffed: "I suddenly want to eat dried fruit."
"I'll go buy it now?" He'd done some research beforehand and knew pregnant women might suddenly want to switch flavors, so he wasn't surprised. "Can I leave for a while?"
Ruan Xiangyi nodded in his embrace and ordered in a muffled voice: "Dried apricots, dried pineapples, dried apples, sour plums, dried mangoes, dried hawthorns, dried kiwis, dried yellow peaches...that's all for now."
Ruan Xiangyi listed dozens of options in a row. Just when she thought she was being a bit unreasonable, Zhao Qingshi let her go calmly: "Anything else?"
Ruan Xiangyi shook her head.
"Eat some fruit first. I'll be back soon."
She watched his back disappear behind the door, and in a moment, she frowned and ran to the bathroom.
There is a large supermarket nearby, less than five minutes' drive away. It only took Zhao Qingshi half an hour to go back and forth. When he came back with a big bag of snacks and dried fruits, he found that the person had fallen asleep.
He put down the bag and walked over lightly. She had a habit of kicking the quilt. He covered her with the quilt and leaned over to kiss her on the forehead: "Good night."
He walked out to the balcony and made a phone call.
"Mom, is there any way to relieve morning sickness?"
The next day, Ruan Xiangyi took a leave of absence; her three-month internship was about to end. Because of her pregnancy, she had taken the most leave of absence among the interns. Combined with morning sickness, she felt gloomy all day. Zhao Qingshi also didn't go to the company, working from home. Lin Manshu came by that afternoon, and Zhao Qingshi went to the company for a meeting.
Ruan Xiangyi was surprised: "Mom, why are you here?"
Lin Manshu came over with a bunch of vegetables in big and small bags and went to the kitchen: "Last time, Qingshi told me that you missed the food I cooked. I happened to be free today, so I came over to make you something delicious."
Perhaps because pregnant women have changeable moods, Ruan Xiangyi felt like crying when she heard this. Lin Manshu saw that her face had become much thinner and touched her face with heartache.
"What do you want to eat? Mom will make it for you now."
Ruan Xiangyi's appetite was suddenly aroused, and she named several dishes. Lin Manshu smiled and said, "You're so greedy."
"You take a rest first, mom will make it for you now."
Ruan Xiangyi: "Let me help you wash the vegetables."
"You are pregnant. When Qingshi comes back and sees you, he will blame me."
"There's hot water."
Lin Manshu couldn't persuade her, so she tied on an apron and started preparing the dishes. Aunt Cui helped her. Ruan Xiangyi washed the garlic sprouts one by one, feeling very happy. Since she came to the Ruan family, Lin Manshu rarely cooked.
"I haven't made it for so many years, I don't know if it tastes good or not." Lin Manshu said.
"I think everything you cook is delicious." Ruan Xiangyi replied sweetly.
"You just know you're poor." Lin Manshu also felt a little emotional. When she was at the Ruan family, it was more difficult for her daughter to eat a meal cooked by her mother. Now that everything is better, the mother and daughter's lives have improved, and she can love her a little more. When talking about the days in Yuyao, Lin Manshu unconsciously talked about something that happened recently, "Your mother Shen is in the hospital. When I visited her some time ago, she was still in the ICU. She was just transferred to normal this morning. Your mother Shen is also a person with a hard life."
Ruan Xiangyi handed the washed vegetables to Aunt Cui. When she heard Lin Manshu mention "Shen's mother", she didn't react at first. When she washed the next vegetable, she stopped, turned around and asked, "Is it Shen Huaimeng's mother?"
"Yeah, I haven't been in contact with those people in Yuyao for a long time, except for your Aunt Shen."
The vegetables fell into the basin with a "bang". Ruan Xiangyi turned off the faucet and walked over: "When did it happen? What disease did you have?"
Lin Manshu was suspicious: "Don't you know?"
Ruan Xiangyi shook her head: “Chen Huaimeng didn’t tell me.”
After listening to Lin Manshu, Ruan Xiangyi was shocked. She had no idea about this.
"What happened to that guy?"
"He's out of danger now, but he's been diagnosed with glioma. This disease will recur over and over again, and the annual treatment costs are a considerable expense for his family."
"Then mom, have you given the money?" In the town, as long as one of the neighbors is seriously ill, each family will give a little money for medical expenses.
"I gave you 20,000."
"Can you tell me which hospital? I want to go see my aunt."
Hearing this, Lin Manshu looked at her and said, "Mom has already been there, so you don't have to go."
"Mom, just tell me."
Lin Manshu was a little embarrassed. The last time Zhao Qingshi asked her to inquire about Shen Huaimeng, it was obvious that he was trying to sow discord between them.
She said honestly: "Xiangyi, Qingshi doesn't like you to have too many entanglements with Shen Huaimeng, so don't go."
"Mom, that's different. Auntie is my elder. When I was a child, she often gave me candy. Have you forgotten that you and dad were not at home at that time, and she cooked for me. I can't be so ungrateful." Ruan Xiangyi disagreed with her words.
That being said, however...
"mom……"
Lin Manshu couldn't bear her request and told her the address: "When you go there, say hello to Shen Huaimeng in advance to avoid missing him."
"good!"
Zhao Qingshi came back just in time. Ruan Xiangyi came out with dishes and chopsticks, her eyes sparkling: "You're back."
Zhao Qingshi nodded, his expression becoming a little dazed as he looked at her face. He used to work overtime late and come home looking at the darkness without feeling much. But now, here, someone was waiting for him to come back. A place in his heart seemed to be filled, and he realized how compromised his life had been before.
Ruan Xiangyi was very happy that Lin Manshu came today and ate an extra bowl of rice than usual. Zhao Qingshi smiled and said, "Mom, you have to come more often."
"I'll come over when I'm free." Lin Manshu was also happy: "Eat more, your favorite fried fish."
Lin Manshu came to cook for her for several days in a row, and Ruan Xiangyi was very satisfied. Even her morning sickness was relieved a lot. On this weekend, Ruan Xiangyi bought some fruit to visit her aunt, and Shen Huaimeng happened to be in the hospital ward.
Shen Huaimeng turned around and saw that it was her, his expression became a little weird.
Ruan Xiangyi didn't notice and put the fruit basket on the table: "Brother, how is my aunt?"
"Why are you here?"
"I heard from my mom that my aunt was in the hospital. I came to see her and see how she is doing."
"He's out of danger."
"That's good."
"You have seen the person, you can leave now." Shen Huaimeng ordered them to leave.
Ruan Xiangyi felt that there was something different about him today, but she couldn't put her finger on what it was. She stared at the person on the bed for a while.
"Are you not leaving yet? My girlfriend will be unhappy when she sees you later." Shen Huaimeng said coldly.
Ruan Xiangyi realized that the girlfriend he was talking about was probably He Manqi. She nodded and said, "Then I'll go first. You take good care of your aunt."
Chen Huaimeng turned his back to her with a cold face, his eyes red, and he couldn't help sneering in his heart. It was very meaningless: "Ruan Xiangyi, are you so cruel!"
Ruan Xiangyi was puzzled and didn't understand what he meant.
"Are you so afraid of me pestering you? I saw that man the other day, and I admit, I was humiliated." Shen Huaimeng stood up, and Ruan Xiangyi only then realized how pale his face was. He pressed on. "We grew up together. There wasn't a single subject I hadn't helped you with. Every time your mother scolded you, I comforted you. Now you've blocked all my contact information for a man. Don't you have any regard for friendship?"
Chen Huaimeng thought of the day when his mother fainted and was admitted to the ICU. He rushed over from school in a panic, but could only helplessly see her mother with tubes inserted into her body through the thick glass. He was lonely and scared. At the most vulnerable moment, he just wanted to find someone closest to him to accompany him, but the phone kept saying "calling". He knew that he had been blocked, and an exclamation mark appeared on WeChat. He was completely abandoned by Ruan Xiangyi.
Every time he thought about it, his heart ached.
Ruan Xiangyi suddenly remembered coming out of the bathroom that day and seeing Zhao Qingshi reaching for her phone. She looked down to find Shen Huaimeng's contact information, which was exactly the same as what he had said. There was no contact for him anymore. How did he know the password?
She looked at Shen Huaimeng, seeing the usually gentle man get so angry for the first time. She knew that she had angered him, and she felt like there was something stuck in her throat and she didn't know how to explain it.
After leaving the hospital, she received a call from Zhao Qingshi: "Are you coming back?"
Ruan Xiangyi looked at the car on the side of the road. The driver was still waiting for her, and she couldn't help laughing at herself. He knew everything she was doing and where she was. She was like a canary raised by him, and everyone around her told her to follow his lead.
She was very tired and didn't want to talk to him, so she hung up the phone weakly.
She stayed outside for a long time and returned to Xiangshan No. 1 in the evening. As soon as she entered, she saw Zhao Qingshi waiting for her in the living room. Ruan Xiangyi put down her bag and went straight upstairs, but was stopped by him. He stared at her up and down for a few times and asked with concern: "Why do you look so bad?"
Listen, such a considerate tone. She wondered if he would still have this attitude if he lost his patience with her one day.
"I don't want to eat. I'm going upstairs to rest first." Ruan Xiangyi broke free.
Zhao Qingshi was pushed away by her, his hand still suspended in mid-air. He looked at her back, and his expression faded.
Is she unhappy because she had an unpleasant experience with her senior brother?
His face gradually darkened.
Ruan Xiangyi had a restless sleep, dreaming of many things from the past. A thin layer of sweat broke out on her forehead. When she woke up and sat up, she saw Zhao Qingshi holding her phone. The thread in her brain completely broke.
She yelled, "What are you doing?!"
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The author has something to say: It's exhausting. Meeting a longtime client is incredibly tiring! He's dumb, talkative, long-winded, and a bitch—how can he be so versatile? Why does Xiangyi love working so much, and why is it so tiring? If I had a husband like Zhao Qingshi, I'd quit my job and travel the world!
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