Chapter 112: She Wants a Second Marriage
Inside the Chinese medicine clinic.
Early in the morning, the matchmaker brought Li Bin, who ran a braised food restaurant at the corner of the street, to the door.
Many of the patients are regular patients seeking treatment for infertility.
Li Bin's face flushed as he stood somewhat awkwardly in the clinic, with two large bamboo baskets of gifts on his shoulders.
In the front bamboo basket were two large pig's trotters and a pig's head, and in the back was rice, flour, grain and oil, filling the entire bamboo basket.
The matchmaker fanned herself and said with a smile, "Doctor Meng, you see, Boss Li is a really honest man. He said he had to buy so many gifts when he was going to meet his father-in-law and mother-in-law for the first time."
All the patients lining up in the Chinese medicine clinic pricked up their ears and started talking about it at once when they heard the words.
"Isn't this Li Banlong, the guy who sells stewed food at the intersection ahead? Why is Dr. Meng getting involved with him?"
"Li Banlong is not bad, he is just deaf in one ear, his wife ran away, and he has no children. If he marries Dr. Meng, he will have to help her raise three children."
Meng Shuyue listened to the discussions of people around him but didn't care.
She deliberately asked the matchmaker to bring people here to let people know that she was going to get married for the second time, so that the children could go out and stand up straight and play with other children.
But what she didn't expect was that Li Bin would come here so early in the morning and bring so many gifts.
Meng Shuyue quietly pulled the man downstairs and complained in his ear, "Didn't we agree that this was a fake marriage? Why did you spend so much money on this?"
Li Bin put down his burden and his face turned even redder. "I...I just thought that even if it was a fake marriage, I couldn't let you down."
"After all, you used to..."
Li Bin stopped talking halfway.
After all, he had met Meng Shuyue's deceased husband, the head of the regiment.
In the past, Shen Jinxiao would go to his store every few days to buy pig ears and pig heads.
He always asks for more cilantro and less spicy food.
At that time, he would often talk with a smile about his wife's love for eating pig heads.
Once I start talking, I can't stop.
Later, this Captain Shen was gone.
Li Bin knew that many people were concerned about this young widow with a child.
On this street alone, there are no less than five bachelor bosses who are courting her every day.
Unconsciously, he had become one of the people who showed her courtesy from time to time.
But Li Bin never expected that such a beautiful woman would choose him as her second marriage partner. Even though she proposed a fake marriage, he was so happy that he didn't sleep the whole night.
In terms of appearance and background, he was not even as good as Captain Shen. He thought about it all night, thinking about marrying a man to have clothes and food.
Maybe Dr. Meng just loves to eat the pig heads he braised.
Li Bin took out a large bag of pig ears and pig noses that he had just braised this morning, and stuffed them into Meng Shuyue's hands with a blushing face. "I just braised them this morning, they're still hot, you and the kids can fill your stomach first, and I'll braise them again tonight."
Meng Shuyue was amused by his appearance.
The children obviously liked this stepfather very much. They surrounded Li Bin and tried to grab the delicious braised food in his hands.
"This bag has cilantro for your mother to eat, this bag has no onions or cilantro for you to eat."
Li Bin touched the three children's heads and opened another paper bag of braised food for the children to eat.
Li Bin wiped his hands, grabbed a piece of braised pig ear and handed it to Meng Shuyue's lips, with a red face, not daring to look at her, "Try it, it tastes better when it's hot."
A large group of patients outside the room poked their heads out to watch the sweet interaction between the two people inside, and they were all moved by them.
At the door of the store, a tall figure carrying a box stopped at the door of the Chinese medicine clinic, with a pair of eyes as deep as a cold pond looking intently ahead, just like an ordinary tourist, attracted by the quaintness of this ancient street.
Toffee was chewing the crispy pig's ear in his mouth, and with a "click" the pig's ear fell to the ground.
Her eyes fell on the man at the door of the Chinese medicine clinic on the street. She rubbed her big eyes and said in a soft and surprised voice, "It's daddy, it's daddy!"
At the same time, Big Head and Little Head immediately followed Naitang's gaze and looked towards the store entrance.
"Daddy, it's me, I'm your sweet candy!"
Naitang threw the pig ears in his hand and ran towards the door, and Datou and Xiaoer also ran towards the door.
Now everyone realized what the three children had just said and looked towards the door.
Meng Shuyue's heart skipped a beat and he turned his head to look at the door.
There were only passengers hurriedly coming and going on and off the ship at the door, so where was the figure of her man?
The three little ones at the door were standing there crying loudly, especially Big Head, who couldn't speak, so he screamed "Ahhh" in helplessness.
Meng Shuyue looked awkwardly at Li Bin, who was holding a pig ear and was about to feed her, and quickly ran to the door, using her arms and hands to cover the mouths of the three tiny babies.
"What are you guys yelling at me for? Didn't you agree that you like Uncle Li to be your dad? Why are you yelling at someone else for dad again?"
She was so angry that these three children failed to perform well at this critical moment and embarrassed others.
But Naitang pulled away Meng Shuyue's arm that was blocking her mouth, and said with tearful eyes, "Mom, that really was Dad, the Dad in the photo you usually put under your pillow. He just came back to see us with a suitcase, but in the blink of an eye, Dad disappeared, wuwuwu..."
Meng Shuyue felt as if her heart was being tugged at by someone, causing her eyes to swell and ache, but she couldn't help but shed tears.
She had always hidden it from the children and didn't let them know what Shen Jinxiao looked like, but the children still secretly saw the photo that was filled with her longing for him day and night for the past three years.
Shen Jinxiao didn't like taking pictures, but when she was pregnant, he said he wanted to take a picture with her to record her pregnant look.
At that time in the photo studio, he was unusually reserved in front of the camera, but he held her hand tightly under the camera.
Later he tucked the photo into a book next to his bed.
It was only long after his accident that she found it in a pile of books.
There were more than one photo in the book. One of the photos was a scene of her squatting in front of a flower bed in the Song family yard a long time ago, squinting at the flowers.
She didn't even remember this scene, but she didn't know when it was recorded, and someone even colored the photo with great care, and it appeared in Shen Jinxiao's book.
Until she turned the photo over and saw the line of words on it.
"Meng Shuyue, I like you. When will you know that your husband really likes you? I have liked you for a long, long time."
At that moment, her three children were sleeping beside her. She held the photo against her chest, curled up in the attic, covered her lips and cried all night.
It turned out that her lover had loved her for a long, long time before she met him...
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Inside Jinke South Garden.
When Bai Qingfeng woke up from his hangover, Song Shixuan was still sleeping beside him.
Last night he listened to Song Shixuan complaining about his true feelings towards Meng Shuyue, but was insulted and disgusted by her.
For some reason, Bai Qingfeng felt better after hearing this, so he followed Song Shixuan and drank a few more sips.
There was a sudden knock on the box door, and Song Shixuan woke up.
The person who came in was the person Song Shixuan sent to stake out the Chinese medicine clinic on weekdays. He usually pretended to be a patient and waited in line in the store.
The visitor said in a panic: "Oh no, Manager Song, Doctor Meng..."
Song Shixuan paused as he was about to drink water from the teacup and suddenly became nervous.
"What's wrong with her?"
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