Chapter 54: I start to have wild thoughts when I see her
On the small table under the big locust tree in the backyard.
A plate of bitter melon, two pickled cucumbers and two bowls of sweet potato porridge.
It was placed so shabbily on the wobbly little table.
Shen Jinxiao sat upright on the short stool, just like sitting on the ground with his legs spread out.
He glanced at the table and saw that there was not a single greasy dish. He did not feel nauseous or want to vomit, but only a hint of heartache.
"You're eating this with a big belly?"
Meng Shuyue picked at the sweet potato porridge in her bowl, and reluctantly put a pickled radish into her own bowl. She took a small bite and said while chewing, "Back in Hai City, people in the south all ate sweet potato porridge at night. I saw you had a nosebleed this morning, so I cooked this for you."
She swallowed the radish in her mouth, licked her lips, and pointed to the medicine bowl on the medicine stove beside her. "Take a rest after dinner. Drink the Chinese medicine. It will relieve your morning sickness."
Shen Jinxiao held the chopsticks in his hand, originally intending to take the pickled radish from her hand and say something to her about why it was not nutritious to eat these with a big stomach.
But when he saw her take the first bite of the pickled radish, his amber eyes were stunned.
He could even hear the sound of the crispy radish being chewed in her mouth, and saw with his keen eyes that when she swallowed, her slender white neck would tremble slightly as the light food was swallowed, and the fine hair on her delicate skin would tremble slightly.
Move your gaze downward.
Because she was pregnant, she sat on a low stool, and had to hold up the hem of her dress as she sat there like a grown man. The curve of her dress aroused people's imagination.
Shen Jinxiao retracted his gaze, put down his chopsticks with trembling hands, and stood up suddenly, "Where is the public toilet here? I'll be back soon."
Meng Shuyue took another bite of the radish and subconsciously looked up at him along his trouser leg. However, when her eyes touched his waistband, she looked away awkwardly and lowered her head.
"There's one next to the street market. Go quickly and come back soon, or the food will get cold."
She lowered her head, blushing and muttering softly, only to see that he had already rushed out of the small door in the backyard impatiently.
Meng Shuyue felt relieved and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief.
Just now she always felt that the way the man looked at her was as if he wanted to eat her alive.
To be honest, she couldn't figure it out. Could it be that this young man in his twenties was in this state all day long?
In the public toilet.
Shen Jinxiao washed his face with cold water several times before he could wash away the heat from his whole body.
He himself couldn't understand why his brain went a little weird when he saw this woman, Meng Shuyue.
Just now he even wanted to snatch the pickled radish from her mouth and press her on the table to kiss her.
He tried hard to calm down, went to the braised meat shop at the corner of the street, cut some pig ears and pig heads, and asked the proprietress to add coriander and mix them well, then he went back to the shop with the paper bag.
Meng Shuyue, who was about to collect his own dishes, looked at the arranged pig ears and pig heads, and silently added another bowl of sweet potato porridge from the pot.
Shen Jinxiao picked up a pig's nose dipped in coriander sauce with chopsticks and handed it to her lips, and his voice softened unconsciously, "You are still pregnant, eat more."
Meng Shuyue raised her eyes and looked at him steadily, her eyes full of flattery and surprise.
How did he know that my favorite dishes were pig ears and pig heads mixed with coriander?
And this man is now in a state of amnesia.
Even if he thought the child was not his, he was willing to accept her, a woman who didn't know whose child she was pregnant with, and treat her so well?
Meng Shuyue just looked at him, feeling a little touched in her heart.
The branches of the big locust tree above my head were shaking.
The mottled shadows of the trees shone on the small table, leaving dots of silver light and shadows cut out by leaves on the two people's blushing faces, and gradually left waves of throbbing after the sunset, buried in the coming night...
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The Song family’s small Western-style building.
In the second bedroom on the second floor, Song Shixuan lay on the bed with lifeless eyes and said nothing.
He asked for leave from the army in the morning and returned home at nine o'clock. He then lay in bed like a lost soul and did not get up to eat lunch or dinner.
Shen Ting sat on the edge of the bed, holding his hand and crying anxiously.
"Silly son, tell me what happened. Don't scare me, okay?"
But no matter how she cried and shouted, or how she fed the water to his lips, he remained motionless and silent on the bed, letting the water on his lips slowly flow down from the corners of his lips.
Shen Ting's eyes turned red from crying. She knew that her second son had never been the kind of child who would make adults worry since he was a child. He would keep his worries to himself.
The fact that he was lying there carelessly this time must have been a big deal.
She looked at Song Shiyu, who was squatting on the ground with his head in his arms, and shouted, "You stinky child, you are still hiding it from me and refusing to tell me, right? You have to let your second brother starve to death before you tell me, right?"
Song Tingzong, who was outside the house, poked his head in to take a look and suggested, "Beat him up and he'll confess!"
Song Shiyu, who was already holding his head in exhaustion and full of regret, was completely broken down after hearing his father's words.
He jumped up from the ground in a hurry, his face flushed and his neck thick as he shouted, "Beat me, beat me to death, it's all my fault, it's my fault that I pulled him, causing him to never find the girl he longed for, it's me who lost his future second sister-in-law, okay!"
After saying that, Song Shiyu wiped his tears and rushed out as if he was angry. Song Tingzong, who was at the door, was startled and quickly dodged to the side to avoid being knocked to the ground by him.
"Is this kid crazy? How dare he yell at me!"
Song Tingzong walked in and pointed at his head, implying that his youngest son had been beaten stupidly.
He turned to look at his second son on the bed and asked suspiciously, "Also, what girl and second sister-in-law did Shi Yu just mention? Could it be that Shi Xuan has a lover? Was he dumped by the girl?"
"At the beginning, I should have asked him to pair up with the girl from the Meng family, so there wouldn't be so many problems now..."
Song Tingzong chattered on and on.
Shen Ting was already extremely shocked by the sudden news, and with her husband adding fuel to the fire, she could no longer bear it and yelled, "Shut up, your son is already like this, and you are still making sarcastic remarks!"
Song Tingzong shut up in dismay and turned away awkwardly.
Chen Ting, holding back her heartache, held Song Shixuan's hand and said earnestly, "Mother has known that you have been looking for a girl for more than a year, but mother didn't expect you to like her so much."
"Tell me what she looks like, and I'll do everything I can to help you find her. Can you please get up and eat?"
She persuaded him softly, and the person on the bed finally turned his eyes to her, with tears falling from the corners of his eyes.
"Mom, I feel so bad, so bad that I want to die. This is the first time I like a girl so much, and it has been more than a year. You don't know how desperate I was when I thought I found her just now, but lost her again. I really can't do anything if I can't see her again..."
Song Shixuan half sat up, hugged Shen Ting's waist and cried.
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