Chapter 10: The Child Without Fighting Power
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At six o'clock in the morning, Chen Qingqing called Sun Ziyi and asked Sun Ziyi to accompany her for a check-up. Pregnancy was a big deal, and among her friends, she only trusted Sun Ziyi.
On the phone, Sun Ziyi agreed repeatedly with her eyes closed. After she hung up, she opened her eyes and suddenly realized that she had met Wang Shu a few days ago.
These past two days, Sun Ziyi was still struggling with whether to tell her or not even in his dreams. It was fine when they didn't meet, as her friend would come to her immediately. If he continued to hide it from her, Sun Ziyi always felt that he was not qualified to be her friend. Moreover, Chen Qingqing had never been unfamiliar with her over the years.
Chen Qingqing deliberately didn't drive and took a taxi to Sun Ziyi's house. She always had an attitude of not having to touch water. As soon as the door opened, she rushed in and quickly sat on the sofa and asked Sun Ziyi to make her breakfast. She also specifically asked for mashed potato salad with two egg whites and half a potato.
When Sun Ziyi went to look through the refrigerator, he realized that his refrigerator had been abandoned and now there was nothing inside. He could only fry an egg for Chen Qingqing and open a whole wheat bread for breakfast. In fact, Chen Qingqing was usually very picky about food, but today she forced herself to eat two slices of whole wheat. While eating, she told Sun Ziyi that it was not because she wanted to eat, but because the baby in her belly needed nutrition!
After finishing the meal, Shen Qingqing began to talk about Wang Shu's strange behavior in the past few days, and paced back and forth in Sun Ziyi's small living room, not forgetting to hold her stomach.
Sun Ziyi yawned, hugged his pillow, and looked at her, asking her, "Chen Yanyan, you'll only be full for a month. You won't have to walk with a bloated stomach, right?"
Shen Qingqing groaned and smiled mysteriously, "You've never even been in love, so of course you don't understand the feeling of nurturing a new life. Last night, I dreamed that my baby was eight months old and kicked me every day. There were even little footprints on my belly."
"This is the aftereffect of watching too much Douyin." Sun Ziyi said, "What's a baby in one month...it should still be an embryo..."
"Shut up! The baby will be sad if he hears it!" Shen Qingqing stretched out her hand and scolded Sun Ziyi.
"My ears haven't developed yet, so I can't hear." Sun Ziyi said as she cleaned up her leftover food plate.
Seeing Chen Qingqing's yearning look, Sun Ziyi couldn't help but want to laugh again, "I'll sleep a little longer. You can wake me up when it's almost time. I was writing until very late last night."
Sun Ziyi walked into the bedroom and lay down on the bed. Just as she closed her eyes, Shen Qingqing sneaked in, opened her quilt, and lay down with her. After lying down, she didn't forget to tell Sun Ziyi, "Don't kick me, the baby will be scared."
Sun Ziyi told her to get out. Shen Qingqing pretended not to hear and told her, "We'll leave at half past nine."
There was no other way, so Sun Ziyi forced himself to open his eyes and set the alarm for nine o'clock, and then the two of them fell asleep together.
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They went to Beihang Hospital. Chen Qingqing got out of the car very carefully, stretched out her hand, and asked Sun Ziyi to help her like a coquettish child. She spoiled her and walked slowly into the hospital like a maid supporting a queen.
Sun Ziyi supported her and asked, "Will your previous smoking affect the baby's health?"
Shen Qingqing didn't care at all, saying that smoking one box a month would also be affected? I don't want a child with such fighting power.
Sun Ziyi said to Chen Qingqing, "You are a sweet baby who grew up in a honey pot. Do you still expect to cultivate a Fighting Buddha? Even if it is really a Fighting Buddha, it is also like Mr. Wang."
Shen Qingqing snorted and said to Sun Ziyi that being a sweet baby in a honey pot also requires practice.
She was waiting for Chen Qingqing alone outside the B-ultrasound room. After a while, Chen Qingqing came out with tears in her eyes.
She hurried over to ask what was going on.
Shen Qingqing wiped her tears, pouted and said: “The doctor said there is no embryo in the uterus.
Sun Ziyi? He said. Then he asked, "What does this mean?"
"It's most likely a false pregnancy caused by hormonal instability due to irregular menstruation." She looked listless as she spoke.
Sun Ziyi didn't know how to comfort her for a moment, so he patted her head. "It's good not to be pregnant. You will still be a young girl, your figure will not change, and you can leave at any time."
She helped Shen Qingqing sit down on a nearby lounge chair and reached out to gently stroke her back. Shen Qingqing's mind suddenly flashed back to Wang Shu's dazed expression as he stared at the pregnancy test stick the night before, and she subconsciously wondered if this time she had finally gotten what he wanted.
Sun Ziyi saw that she was imagining things and quickly said, "Don't think too much. Call Mr. Wang and tell him that you are not pregnant."
Shen Qingqing suddenly rebelled and said, "I won't!"
Then he suddenly said to Sun Ziyi, "Let's go to Shanghai."
Sun Ziyi?
Shen Qingqing explained to her that she had found an invitation to a fashion party in Wang Shu's work email. The threshold for that party was very high, and Wang Shu received the invitation because one of the shareholders of that brand invested in Wang Shu's latest game.
"That's the game that Wang Shu went to accompany others to gamble." Chen Qingqing said with gritted teeth.
Sun Ziyi looked at her and asked, "You and your husband... are taking me with you? How will you introduce me then? Your daughter?"
Shen Qingqing was used to her bad humor and said frankly, "Of course my husband won't attend. He hates joining in the fun! He emailed back and declined while he was on a business trip."
"But I withdrew the rejection email on my home computer." Shen Qingqing stopped crying and even looked a little complacent.
Sun Ziyi was a little flustered. "You didn't even tell him about this!"
Shen Qingqing said, "What's there to tell you? I just wanted to join in the fun, but I didn't expect to get pregnant again. Now it's this situation again. I think it's God's compensation, letting me go and have some fun."
Sun Ziyi patted Shen Qingqing's head and gave her a thumbs up, because he felt that Shen Qingqing was really good at finding peace of mind for herself, not to mention that no one could refuse this kind of comfort.
"A stinky baby who knows how to be content will be happy forever." Sun Ziyi said.
The two people happened to have their ID cards with them, so they took a taxi directly to Daxing Airport after leaving the hospital.
After takeoff, the window panels were lowered, and the entire cabin became dark, allowing the heads of two people on the left and right to rest against each other.
Chen Qingqing was shorter than Sun Ziyi, so she was just right for leaning on her shoulder. She just leaned on her shoulder and watched Lost in Thailand.
The TV in front of Sun Ziyi was not turned on. She looked at Chen Qingqing's expression through the black screen in front of her. Wang Baoqiang was acting crazy on TV, but Chen Qingqing kept her eyes calm and didn't smile at all.
A quiet space makes it easier for people to speak their true feelings.
Sun Ziyi couldn't help but ask, "Has anything big happened between you and Mr. Wang recently?"
Shen Qingqing hummed and yawned softly, but still said nothing.
"Um..." Sun Ziyi coughed and laid the groundwork again. "There's something I'm not sure whether I should say."
Shen Qingqing immediately sat up and looked at her “That’s what we should say!”
Sun Ziyi couldn't help but tell her about meeting Wang Shu on the golf course. But Shen Qingqing acted as if she was not surprised at all, and even laughed a little, "Oh, Wang Shu has a weird personality like that."
Sun Ziyi looked at her with a hopeless expression.
Shen Qingqing asked again, "Is there really no woman? You didn't lie to me?"
"How could I lie to you! That golf course is owned by my friend."
Chen Qingqing hummed, then continued. "I've already told you that Wang Shu's family background is quite ordinary, and it's not the kind of harmonious one. His family is quite awkward, I can't quite put my finger on it, and he seems unpopular in the village. So I've always felt bad for his stubborn personality. My father actually made things difficult for him when we got married, and only agreed to let me marry him after he had enough money to buy a house."
Sun Ziyi suddenly recalled this past event. "I remember, you told me about it. You said that Wang Shu went to Dalian quite often to please your father."
Shen Qingqing suddenly remembered more past events.
"When we first started dating, he came to our house and my dad took him shopping for gifts. He bought him sea cucumbers and shark fins worth tens of thousands of yuan and asked him to take them back to Inner Mongolia for his family."
Chen Qingqing turned her head and gave Sun Ziyi a meaningful look. "Wang Shuke treasures that pile of shark fin and sea cucumber. When mailing it back to Inner Mongolia, it was carefully wrapped in several layers of bubble wrap. But you know, in Dalian, the price is so high when we buy it from those uncles and aunts, and the cost is only half."
"At that time, he could earn hundreds of thousands of yuan a year, but deep down, he still didn't want to spend money on those hypocritical and ostentatious things. Take cars, for example. Jiang Yong bought a Bentley last month, and he still drives that BMW and an Alphard owned by the company. He doesn't care about these things."
The flight attendant served the meal, but after she finished, Shen Qingqing didn't eat a single bite and continued. "The first time I went to Wang Shu's house, his mother gave me two lamb legs as a souvenir. She even said that they were raised by his father himself. Wang Shu's brother got angry about this because the lamb was his pet, named Doli."
Sun Ziyi, with his screenwriter's intuition, became very interested in the new characters that suddenly appeared in the story and asked, "What is my brother doing now?"
Shen Qingqing said quietly, "I was admitted to Peking University last year. When school started, I invited him to my house for dinner every week, but he always declined. For the whole year, except for returning to my hometown during the Spring Festival, I haven't seen him. So, I have never been able to integrate into their family."
Sun Ziyi was speechless for a moment.
She sighed softly. "Before we got married, I really felt like I was his most beloved child. But in recent years, Wang Shu has become richer and richer, and he's become a completely different person. I've come to feel more and more that I'm just a fortress he's conquered, a beacon and milestone in his brilliant life that serves as a signal to passersby."
Sun Ziyi opened her mouth, wanting to comfort her, but she was also a little surprised. "I didn't expect you to analyze your marriage so clearly."
Chen Qingqing said: If there is anything I don’t understand, I may be stupid, but I am not an idiot.
Sun Ziyi asked, "When will you tell him that you're not pregnant? You can't not tell him."
Chen Qingqing smiled helplessly and said: Of course I have to tell him. We can act coquettishly and get angry about small things, but we must be honest with each other about big things. If both husband and wife like to hide things, who will live our lives?
Sun Ziyi didn't know what to say for a moment. In her heart, Chen Qingqing was just a sweet baby without any scheming. Even she, the screenwriter, didn't expect that marriage would allow a kind-hearted child like Chen Qingqing to start practicing and gaining insights.
But in fact, from her perspective, Wang Shu is not someone who can be easily seen through by outsiders.
Subconsciously, she gently bumped Chen Qingqing's head with her own.
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