Chapter 192: Pregnant! Hope it’s a daughter!
Lin Zichen stayed in Yuan Dongzhi's office for more than an hour, chatting about many topics related to the Shenzhi Sect and domestic dignitaries.
They chatted until almost 10 o'clock in the evening, and then he and Shen Qinghan dragged their suitcases home.
The campus is quiet and peaceful at 10 o'clock in the evening during the winter vacation.
Walking on the campus road, there are almost no students to be seen.
Yes, just the evening breeze.
It brings a slight coolness when it blows across the face, which is very comfortable.
"Xiaochen, the school is so quiet. It's completely devoid of the usual bustle."
"It's normal. It's winter vacation now, and the students have all gone home for the New Year."
During summer vacation, many students will choose to stay on campus to study or take on tasks to earn credits.
But it is winter vacation now, the vacation time is short, and there is also the Spring Festival to come, so few students will stay on campus.
"Xiaochen, I've been sleeping alone for the past half month of special training. I'm not used to it. Can I sleep at your house tonight?"
"Then come and sleep with me."
"It's settled then. I'll come over to your place after I get home, eat, and take a shower."
"Well, before you go to bed, I will release my Qi and blood power to warm your feet."
“…”
The two chatted as they walked slowly, and soon returned to their respective homes.
Lin Zichen took out the key, opened the door, and walked into the house dragging his suitcase.
The lights in the whole room were dark.
Only the coding room was lit.
Standing in the corridor at the entrance, you can clearly hear the sound of typing on the keyboard coming from the coding room.
Even though their son is so capable and the family has no shortage of money, the couple is still writing novels late at night as usual.
All I can say is, this is true love.
Change into indoor shoes.
Pull the suitcase into the room and put it away.
Lin Zichen walked to the door of the coding room and knocked gently: "Dad, Mom, I'm back."
"Huh? My son is back?" Lin Yansheng's puzzled voice came from the coding room.
Immediately afterwards, the door opened and Lin Yansheng and Zhang Wanxin walked out.
Seeing Lin Zichen standing at the door, Lin Yansheng asked in confusion: "Didn't you say you would have special training for a month? How come you're back after only half a month?"
Lin Zichen: "The special training ended early."
Lin Yansheng frowned when he heard this: "Did something happen?"
"No, it's just that this batch of special trainees are quite outstanding and completed their special training goals ahead of schedule, so they came back early."
Lin Zichen gave the reason he had thought of in advance.
Lin Yansheng looked surprised and asked, "Is there such a thing?"
Zhang Wanxin, who was standing by, didn't have as many doubts as he did, she was just concerned.
She looked at Lin Zichen and said, "Why didn't you call home before you came back so that Mom could make something delicious for you?"
"I mainly wanted to give my parents a surprise."
"It's more like a shock."
Zhang Wanxin scolded him angrily, "You came back so late at night without saying a word. If someone didn't know better, they would think a thief had come in."
"Mom, you're overthinking it. You live in the residential building of Shanhai University. There are security checks everywhere. Even if a thief could fly, he wouldn't be able to get into the house."
"You came back so late, you probably haven't had dinner yet. What do you want to eat? Mom will make it for you now."
"Just stir-fry some rice noodles."
"How can we just eat fried rice noodles? We have to eat better at home."
Zhang Wanxin walked towards the refrigerator and said as she walked, "How about this, Mom will make you some cold cucumber salad, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, braised chicken with soy sauce, and bitter melon and dragon bone soup."
"Well, let's have some steamed exotic beast meat."
"Director Liu from your research institute sent several kilograms of crystal shrimp yesterday. They're frozen in the refrigerator now, so I'll steam them for you now."
These are the soups and dishes that Lin Zichen usually likes to eat.
There just happened to be some relevant ingredients in the refrigerator.
…
The meal was ready around 11 o'clock.
Four dishes and one soup.
A family of three sits together to eat.
The couple who had already had dinner just treated it as a midnight snack.
"Come, try this ice crystal shrimp."
Zhang Wanxin picked up a crystal shrimp and placed it in Lin Zichen's bowl. She said lovingly, "Even though it's frozen in the refrigerator, it still tastes very fresh. It tastes even sweeter than ordinary live shrimp."
"Thank you, Mom."
"By the way, Hanhan hasn't eaten yet, right? Go call her over to eat with us."
"No need, Mom. She's eating at home right now. She sent me a bunch of photos of her meals on WeChat. She also made a big dish of crystal shrimp and asked me to come over and eat with her."
Lin Zichen said while eating ice crystal shrimp.
Lin Yansheng, who was standing next to him, picked up a crystal shrimp and slowly peeled the shell. He said, "Wanxin, don't always ask Hanhan to come over here. She has her own parents too."
"You keep bringing her here. Xu Meng and Old Shen will definitely feel uncomfortable."
"Especially now, she just came home. Xu Meng and Lao Shen haven't seen her for half a month. They miss her so much. If you go and call her over to our place now, Xu Meng and Lao Shen will want to scold you."
“…”
"Yes, I didn't think it through."
Zhang Wanxin rarely criticized her husband and felt that what her husband said made sense.
After all, no matter how much I treat Hanhan as my own daughter, I am not Hanhan's biological mother. My best friend Xu Meng is Hanhan's biological mother.
He always called Hanhan home, which indeed showed that he was somewhat neglecting the feelings of Shen Jianye and Xu Meng.
Well, I have to pay attention next time...
Zhang Wanxin thought about it, picked up another crystal shrimp and gave it to Lin Zichen, and said with a smile: "Xiaochen, Mom has good news to tell you."
"What good news?"
"You're going to have a brother or sister."
"ah?"
Lin Zichen was stunned for a moment and was unable to react for a while.
Want a younger brother or sister?
Mom, are you pregnant with your second child?
When he reacted, he immediately looked at Zhang Wanxin's lower abdomen.
It's very flat and you can't tell if you're pregnant or not.
It may be that she has just gotten pregnant and the pregnancy is not obvious yet.
"Mom, are you pregnant with your second child?"
"Yes, I'm almost half a month pregnant. I just found out a few days ago."
As Zhang Wanxin spoke, she stroked her still-unrevealing belly, her face filled with anticipation as she said, "We already have a little man at home. I hope I can give birth to a little one this time."
I'm really pregnant with my second child...
Lin Zichen felt it was so sudden, even more sudden than when Shen Qinghan announced she was pregnant.
After all, Zhang Wanxin is in her forties and will be a grandmother in a few years.
It was really surprising that she got pregnant with her second child out of the blue.
By the time the child was born, Lin Zichen was already twenty years old.
With such a big age difference, he can be a father.
Lin Yansheng took a sip of his soup and said slowly, "Ever since you and Hanhan went to college, our house has been so quiet. Your mother and I are not used to it."
"I want to hold my grandchild, but I don't know how long I'll have to wait."
"So your mother and I hit it off right away. While I'm still in my early forties and there's still a chance of pregnancy, let's try to have a second child."
"Then I prepared for pregnancy for about two and a half months, and finally I succeeded in getting pregnant."
“…”
"I see."
Lin Zichen nodded, not having much to say about his parents wanting to have a second child.
As long as the parents like it, there is no problem with having two, three, four or five children.
Anyway, the family is not short of money now, and parents don’t need to run around to support the family. They can afford to raise as many children as they want.
It's good to have children at home to make the place more lively.
…
11:45 pm.
After Lin Zichen finished his meal and took a shower, he sat leisurely on the bed and checked the news on his phone.
Not long after, Shen Qinghan, who had also finished her meal and taken a shower, came over wearing a set of light pink pajamas to sleep with him.
"Xiaochen, Aunt Xin is pregnant with her second child."
Shen Qinghan took off her slippers and sat on the bed, and said to Lin Zichen in surprise.
Lin Zichen smiled and said, "My parents want grandchildren so much that they can't wait for us to have one, so they decided to take care of it themselves."
Shen Qinghan asked curiously, "Xiaochen, do you want a younger sister or a younger brother?"
"I'm fine with either one, but my parents really want a daughter."
"It's normal for Uncle Sheng and Aunt Xin to want a daughter. After all, they already have a son like you, so they definitely want a little one to experience the different aspects of raising a child."
After Shen Qinghan finished speaking, he asked, "Xiaochen, when we get married in the future, is it better to have a son or a daughter?"
Lin Zichen: "Just give birth to twins, a boy and a girl."
"So, which is better, a son or a daughter?"
Shen Qinghan felt it was difficult to make a decision: "I feel that the combination of brother and sister is very cute, but I also think the combination of sister and brother is also good. It's really confusing."
"Also, what should my son's name be? What should my daughter's name be? There are so many things to think about."
"Especially taking care of a baby, I find it so difficult."
"Think about when I was a little baby, I would wet my pants all the time. My mom said it was hard to take care of me."
“…”
"Even when you weren't a baby, you peed your pants all the time."
"You annoying bastard, you're asking for a beating!"
Shen Qinghan was "very angry" and hit Lin Zichen as punishment for his "malicious slander".
Then she murmured, "When Aunt Xin gives birth to a baby at the end of the year, I'm going to go learn and practice how to be a mother in advance."
She was thinking too far ahead.
Even though she is only a freshman in college, she is already thinking about becoming a mother.
Lin Zichen smiled and said, "There's no need to practice. When you become a mother, you'll find that it won't be your turn to take care of the child. My parents and your parents will fight over it."
"Is this true?"
Shen Qinghan expressed doubts about this.
Lin Zichen: "Don't doubt an elderly couple's desire to have grandchildren, especially in a family like ours with only one child. Once parents get older and have nothing to do after retirement, they will be driven crazy by the desire to have grandchildren."
"Is that so?"
Shen Qinghan didn't feel much because Shen Jianye and Xu Meng never urged her to have a grandson.
After saying this, she stretched out her white and smooth feet to Lin Zichen's hands, and said in a playful voice: "Dad, please warm your good daughter's feet."
"You little dirty girl, you're addicted to calling daddy, aren't you?"
Lin Zichen said this with a smile, then held Shen Qinghan's jade feet and began to release his energy and blood to warm her feet, fulfilling her little request.
Shen Qinghan defended himself: "Don't blame me, I'm not addicted to it, it's just that you boys like being called that by girls, so I call it for you to hear."
Lin Zichen teased: "Your mouth tastes soft, but it's hard when you speak."
"You're the one who's being stubborn!"
Shen Qinghan pouted and said dissatisfiedly.
Lin Zichen smiled and pinched her little mouth, and stopped teasing her.
…
In the next period of time.
The two of them chatted back and forth, from their childhood to the present, and from the present to the future. They talked about whatever they thought of, as if they had endless topics to talk about.
As they chatted, the two talked about the attack by the Divine Plant Cult during the day.
They talked about the whispers that Shen Qinghan heard, the giant arms formed by the sea, the death of the ninth elder of the Divine Plant Sect, and the mysterious water droplets lingering around Shen Qinghan.
Lin Zichen cares a lot about those water droplets.
Because when those water droplets floated past Shen Qinghan's eyes, they changed into shapes that looked like words.
Now thinking back, were those water droplets conveying any message to Shen Qinghan at that time?
Thinking of this, Lin Zichen got out of bed and took out a pen and draft paper. With his super memory, he copied the shape of the water droplets he saw at that time on the draft paper.
You wouldn’t know if you didn’t replicate it, but once you replicated it, you found that the shapes of the water droplets really looked like some kind of text.
Lin Zichen randomly picked a few neat shapes, took photos and uploaded them to the Internet to see if he could find anything.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything online.
Isn't that some text?
Are those water droplets just playing around?
No, it can't be a joke.
It must be trying to convey some message, or it must have some special meaning.
Since I can't find it online, I'll send it to someone with more knowledge.
A lot of information on the Internet is not public, and most of the unknown information usually requires asking someone.
Soon, Lin Zichen sent the photos he had just taken and uploaded to the Internet to Yuan Dongzhi, Song Yuyan, and Liu Chuanwu respectively.
Among these three people, the former came from a large family and was more knowledgeable, and perhaps recognized these mysterious symbols that seemed to be words.
The latter two are specialized researchers who have studied many ancient artifacts unearthed from the ruins, so it is very likely that they recognize these mysterious symbols.
…
About a few minutes later.
Yuan Dongzhi and Song Yuyan responded one after another.
The reply was quick, but the content was disappointing.
Both of them said they didn't recognize the symbol.
"Only the dean is left..."
Lin Zichen murmured.
…
More than an hour later.
Shen Qinghan fell asleep, curled up quietly in Lin Zichen's arms, sleeping soundly.
Lin Zichen was not sleepy and was checking the news on his phone.
It was almost 1:30 in the morning.
Liu Chuanwu replied.
Lin Zichen quickly opened the chat box and found that Liu Chuanwu replied with a voice message, not a text message.
It is a 38-second voice message.
It’s such a long voice message, and you can tell at a glance that there will definitely be a result.
In order not to disturb Shen Qinghan, Lin Zichen got out of bed to get his headphones.
As soon as I put on the headphones, I couldn't wait to turn on the voice call to listen to what Liu Chuanwu had to say.
"Where did you see these symbols?"
"I feel a little familiar."
“But I can’t remember where I saw it.”
"After thinking about it, I seem to have seen it on some antiques in the research institute."
"Well, I'll go back to the institute tomorrow morning to help you check it out. I'll let you know on WeChat if there's any news."
Liu Chuanwu's voice sounded a little breathless, as if he was running to exercise.
If you listen carefully, you can faintly hear a burst of crisp applause and the faint sound of a woman cheering.
They were shouting, "Come on, Lao Liu, try harder, one shot for one million, ten shots in a row will give you twenty million!"
Hearing the cheers of encouragement in the voice message, Lin Zichen couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth slightly.
I give up. Can’t you stop what you’re doing when sending a voice message?
Do you have to do two things at once?
Lin Zichen complained in his heart for a while, but soon he began to admire Liu Chuanwu.
I have to say that the dean is really a model worker.
In order to obtain sponsorship for the research institute, he went out every night to exercise with his old lover.
This is really something that makes men silent and women cry, and it moved the top ten figures in Kyushu.
…
PS: I am putting out a bowl, asking for monthly votes and recommendation tickets!
(End of this chapter)
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