Chapter 91
Jiang Zhinian woke up in a daze in the early morning and raised his hand to touch the place beside him, but it was empty.
Where is Shi Ye?
She rubbed her eyes and walked into the living room, unexpectedly seeing Shi Ye on the balcony. He was sitting cross-legged on a round cushion with the box containing the paper crane beside him.
Jiang Zhinian walked over and covered Shi Ye's eyes from behind.
"Guess who I am."
Shi Ye laughed, as if laughing at her childishness: "She's a night witch who doesn't sleep in the middle of the night."
The Night Witch was a story they told their baby before bed two days ago. It said that if any children did not sleep at night, the Night Witch would come to their bedside and steal the candies in their bottles.
Jiang Zhinian was about to say that she guessed wrong when Shi Ye grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms.
"It turned out to be a child who ran out in the middle of the night to check if there was any candy missing."
Jiang Zhinian was amused by him and reached out to touch Shi Ye's lips: "Did you steal my candy?"
Shi Ye lowered his head and kissed her, not continuing this childish conversation.
After the kiss, Jiang Zhinian poked Shi Ye's heart with his finger: "Why don't you sleep? Can't you sleep?"
Shi Ye held her with one hand, and with the other hand, he placed his fingers on the box of paper cranes, tapping them gently: "Well, think about something."
When Jiang Zhinian couldn't sleep, he also liked to think about things.
She looked out the window, and through the transparent glass of the sealed window, she saw the silent night.
"You can't see the stars in the city." When she went to the countryside to teach, she saw a very beautiful starry sky on the roof of the school.
“We can go camping in the mountains if we have the chance.”
"Tell me, is there anyone outside the window who can't sleep like us?"
“There are plenty of them in hospitals.”
Jiang Zhinian hugged Shi Ye's neck tightly, enjoying the feeling of hugging each other tightly in the loneliness of this cold and lonely night.
"When I was little, I would hug my quilt tightly as soon as I turned off the lights."
Only this feeling of being wrapped can make her feel safe, just like now, hiding in Shi Ye's arms, imagining that there are many monsters outside coming to catch them.
“When I was little, I wasn’t very afraid of the dark.”
Jiang Zhinian noticed that he was a little absent-minded and couldn't help but ask: "Shi Ye, have you encountered any troubles?"
According to her observations during this period, Shi Ye's sleep quality is actually very good, and he rarely can't sleep because of something on his mind.
"No."
Shi Ye glanced at the box of paper cranes beside him. In fact, he didn't know what was going on. It was just that after Jiang Zhinian fell asleep, he put the paper cranes one by one from the bed into the box, and then he couldn't sleep.
He naturally saw his own handwriting on the paper crane, and he knew what it represented.
only……
"Shi Ye, have you thought about everything now?" Jiang Zhinian yawned. She was a little sleepy.
"Don't think about it, go to sleep."
…
The next day, Teacher Li took sick leave. Since the teachers in the same grade were unable to spare their time to teach, Teacher Qian from the senior grade was asked to come down and take over the class.
Teacher Qian is a gentle woman in her 30s. She took a period of annual leave due to illness and only recently returned to teach.
As soon as she entered the office, she went straight to Jiang Zhinian and asked, "I heard you are pregnant?"
Jiang Zhinian realized that it must be Teacher Li who told her about this.
"Yes, more than three months."
Teacher Qian held her hand and said enviously, "It's good to be young. Unlike me, I'm old and still can't get pregnant... Alas."
Jiang Zhinian could only comfort her: "Don't be too nervous, relax, maybe you can get pregnant soon."
She heard from Shi Ye that the reproductive department of their hospital has been very popular in recent years. The proportion of young couples who cannot conceive is getting higher and higher. Some of them have problems with one of the partners, while others have been checked and found to be fine, but they just cannot conceive.
Generally speaking, young couples like this who don't have any problems can get pregnant within six months if they relax and don't put too much pressure on themselves.
Teacher Qian smiled and said, "I hope I can get some of your pregnancy energy and have a good pregnancy."
After saying that, she said hello to the other people in the office and turned and left.
After a while, another older teacher in the office adjusted his glasses and began to sigh, "Xiao Qian has had it tough too. When she first got married, her husband said they wanted to be DINKs and not have children, and she foolishly believed him. But once she turned 35, her husband said it would be better to have a child, so she wanted one again. But after a year of trying to conceive, she still couldn't. She said she was on sick leave a while ago, but she was actually going for IVF. Looking at her condition, she's suffered a lot, and she still hasn't conceived."
Another younger teacher said angrily, "Men's words are lies. If a man says he wants to be a DINK, let him get sterilized first. Anyone who doesn't get sterilized will be treated as a liar."
"Teacher Qian is also like that. How can she be so good-tempered? She said she wanted to have a child and just cooperated with IVF. You don't know, but I saw the IVF egg retrieval needle online. It's so long..." She gestured to the length of her entire forearm. "It goes into the ovaries to retrieve eggs, and they have to retrieve a lot at once. It's really painful."
In order to ensure the success rate of test tube fertilization, multiple eggs will be retrieved at one time, but the number of eggs a woman has in her lifetime is limited. When the eggs are gone, menopause will occur.
Not to mention the various infections, sequelae and other problems that may result from egg extraction.
"Dink couples should find a Dink couple. At least if the man regrets it in middle age, the woman won't suffer any loss. Xiao Qian came to me before we got married and said she wanted to have a child, but her boyfriend wanted to be a Dink couple and she didn't know what to do. I advised her that this wouldn't work and she would definitely regret it later, but she didn't listen and got married anyway."
Jiang Zhinian listened silently, feeling indescribable.
It seems that no matter whether you want children or not, the cost of childbirth is only borne by women, while men are always a light-hearted existence.
She just saw that Teacher Qian looked very bad, completely different from her previous high-spirited appearance. She looked like she had aged ten years in an instant, and she felt bad for her for a moment.
*
Shi Ye received a message from Uncle Wen and went to his office to find him.
"Uncle Wen, you're looking for me."
Wen Zhao waved to him and asked him to sit down: "I asked someone to check the person you sent me last time. I found some clues here. I think it is necessary to synchronize with you."
He paused, considering his words. "It's not a particularly significant clue, but we discovered that the employee in question studied in the UK."
Shi Ye raised his eyebrows: "Do you suspect it has something to do with my father?"
Wen Zhao didn't really want to mention that man, and his expression turned grim. "We haven't found out the exact relationship yet. After all, that person's previous relationships were all overseas, and it's not very convenient for me to check here. I told you this just to remind you."
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