Chapter 56 Chapter 56 [VIP]
During the meal, Bai Yu noticed that the dish of stir-fried cured fish with garlic sprouts on the table had a particularly strong fishy smell. The smell made her stomach churn and she felt nauseous.
"Mom, did you not prepare the cured fish properly today? It has a strong fishy smell."
"No!" Chen Zhen picked up a piece and put it in her mouth to taste it. It tasted the same as usual.
When preparing preserved meat, she always washes it in hot water before cooking. Today's preserved fish is steamed first, then stir-fried. Seasoned with chili peppers, garlic leaves, and ginger, the fishy smell is suppressed, leaving only a fresh, sweet flavor.
Others followed suit.
Bai Yu was puzzled. Why was she the only one who smelled such a distinct fishy smell?
Bai Yu swallowed and picked up a piece of pickled cabbage with chopsticks to suppress the nausea.
No, the acid keeps coming up in my throat.
Bai Yu hurriedly put down his chopsticks, covered his mouth, and ran to the bathroom. Ning Zelan followed him worriedly.
"Ugh!" Bai Yu hugged the sink, almost vomiting his internal organs.
After vomiting for several minutes and vomiting out all the acid in his stomach, Bai Yu felt like he was alive again.
"I'll take you to find Brother Su." Bai Yu's condition looked really worrying. Ning Zelan wiped her face and nervously carried her out.
The people in the living room lost their appetite after hearing the noises coming from the bathroom.
"Did you catch a cold? Bai Yu was only wearing a thin coat yesterday."
"The temperature difference is so big now, I must be catching a cold!"
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Grandma Bai looked at the fish on the table thoughtfully and guessed, "Could she be pregnant? When I was pregnant with my second child, I couldn't smell any fishy smell at all."
When these words were spoken, everyone was stunned.
The two children are a legal couple with a marriage certificate. They have been living together for the past six months, so it is normal for them to get pregnant without any contraceptive measures.
The more Ning's mother thought about it, the more convinced she was. She smiled until her eyes narrowed and said excitedly, "I think she's pregnant. It's normal for a woman to be pregnant at such a young age with two children. Old Ning, I'm going to be a grandmother."
Ning's mother excitedly grabbed Ning's father's hand. Ning's father was also very happy, but he still said cautiously, "Let's go find Xiao Su first."
"That's right, don't make a mistake."
Bai Yu paused holding the water glass when she returned to the restaurant. Her menstrual period had always been irregular, so she had never tried to keep track of it. Now that she thought about it, she realized that it had indeed been a long time since her period came.
Bai Yu couldn't help but touch her belly. She felt complicated, with some nervousness and fear mixed in with her anticipation.
Su Xing is not an obstetrician and gynecologist, but he has rotated in the obstetrics and gynecology department. Based on some of Bai Yu's physical symptoms and the reaction of the pregnancy test stick, he judged that Bai Yu was very likely pregnant.
Upon hearing this, both the Bai family and the Ning family were excited and looking forward to it.
Bai Yu herself was in a state of bewilderment. Although she was married, she wasn't mentally prepared to become a mother. Half of her soul was floating in the air with joy, while the other half was hiding in a corner of her body in fear.
Her and Ning Zelan's child. Bai Yu carefully looked at Ning Zelan, who was standing next to her with bright eyes and foolishly repeating the same thing to Su Xing.
Can they be good parents?
The arrival of a new life is indeed a joyous occasion, but it also means a permanent responsibility. Are they capable of raising and educating the child well?
As if sensing Bai Yu's inner worry, Ning Zelan came back to his senses from his ecstasy. He half-knelt in front of Bai Yu, his eyes gentle and firm.
"Ayu, I will take care of you and the baby with my life."
Bai Yu smiled and nodded. The oath she made at this moment might not be permanent, but she believed that Ning Zelan's feelings were sincere at this moment.
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Thanks to the effective management of the organization, road traffic, social order... are recovering rapidly.
The village has been bustling these past few days, with people gradually returning home. Some are happy, others are sad, and quite a few have received bad news. When there was no news, there was worry, but there was also hope. Now that we have the definitive news of the deceased's passing, for those still alive, especially the parents, the pain and despair are too great.
When an aunt in Murakami heard that her son, who was studying away from home, had frozen to death and his body could not be found, she simply ate pesticides and passed away.
Many strangers visit Murakami every day, most of them are relatives and friends in the village, some come to ask for help, and some come to check on their safety.
The personnel were mixed, and having learned from the last lesson, Murakami's patrol team did not dare to relax even though they were tired.
Notify the villagers to come and confirm, and take it back if there is no problem.
It was Bai He's turn to be on duty in the village that day. While checking outsiders, he saw a familiar person.
Only half of his bold, unconventional purple hair remained, and his once stylish and handsome curls had become a messy mess due to lack of care. At this moment, he was excitedly following the young man beside him, saying something.
"Zhang Yan."
"Bai He." Zhang Yan looked up at him in surprise. Then, dragging his suitcase, he ran over excitedly. He opened his arms and hugged Bai He.
"I was damn near starving to death. You're doing well! You even look fatter."
"I should have listened to you then."
"Cough." The young man next to him with a calm expression couldn't help coughing twice when he heard his continuous swear words.
Zhang Yan's face fell, and he curled his lips. "Okay, I won't say bad words, okay?"
"I really owed you in my previous life." He actually found himself a father. Of course, Zhang Yan only dared to say the latter half of the sentence in his heart.
"This is Bai He, we have known each other since childhood."
"This is He Hejia, a friend I met during the ice disaster."
"Hello!" The two exchanged glances and exchanged polite greetings. From He Hejia's posture and the calluses on his hands, Bai He could tell his job was unusual.
"I had planned to never come back to this place, but I was slapped in the face!" Zhang Yan's face was clearly irritated. The thought of dealing with his grandmother and step-grandfather's family soon soured his mood. He spun the suitcase up and down, making a harsh rattling sound.
"Go back and clean up first, and come to my house for dinner tonight."
Zhang Yan was startled at first, then smiled broadly, as if she had gotten a great deal. "Oh! Okay, it's so rare for me to have a meal you treat me to, I'll definitely go there early."
Bai He smiled and said nothing.
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During the lunch break, Bai He and Su Xing also discussed this matter. Su Xing also immediately became curious about Zhang Yan. This was the first time Bai He had invited an outsider to his home for dinner.
While the two were preparing food and cooking, Bai He also told Su Xing about him and Zhang Yan.
They were childhood playmates and classmates, but after junior high school, Zhang Yan followed her mother to another province, and the two of them interacted less and less.
It was not until the New Year of Baihe's third year in junior high school that he came back with his mother. The sounds of beating and cursing coming from his house could be heard from far away.
That night, I learned from Grandma Bai and some neighbors that during the two years that Zhang Nana took Zhang Yan to another province, not only did she not let him go to school, she also sent him to a workshop as an apprentice.
Zhang Yan was making a scene at home, asking his mother to use his annual salary to pay for his tuition.
But Zhang Nana was unwilling to do so. As a woman without a formal job, the money she earned was only enough for herself. It would be impossible for her to support Zhang Yan to go to high school and college.
She often heard her coworkers complain about the expense of raising a child. Raising a child was a struggle for a family, so how could she, a single woman with limited skills, possibly do the same? She might as well send him to learn a trade so he could start working and earning money sooner rather than later.
After a year of apprenticeship in a private workshop, where he was ordered around and teased by various masters, and heard all sorts of dirty talk and dirty jokes every day, Zhang Yan had already realized the beauty of school and the importance of studying, so he naturally didn't want to go.
Even when Zhang Yan said she would work during the winter and summer vacations to earn tuition, Zhang Nana remained unmoved. She had it all planned out. Zhang Yan's current job not only provided food and accommodation, but also a salary. After three years of training, she would earn more money. In ten years, she could even buy a house. It was much more reliable than studying.
As for Zhang Yan's dissatisfaction and resistance, Zhang Nana beat him severely. Zhang Nana harbored a lot of resentment towards her son. Having a child out of wedlock seemed insignificant to her when she was young, but only realized as an adult that her life was ruined. Not only did she face countless criticisms, but her family also felt ashamed in front of relatives and friends.
Tired of hanging out outside, Zhang Nana also wants to find a reliable person to marry and live with, but once the man knows her past experience, he is unwilling to live a normal life with her.
Zhang Nana blamed all the misfortunes in her life on Zhang Yan.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Yan, covered in wounds, ran to Bai He and asked to borrow money from his former friend. Bai He still remembered Zhang Yan's appearance at that time, like a puppy at the end of its rope.
"I'm going to find my dad." His eyes were very bright when he said this, as if he was grabbing a life-saving straw.
"You don't have no father." Zhang Yan's mother's affairs were no secret in the village.
"I have." Zhang Yan said firmly.
"I overheard my grandmother chatting with someone. My father's name is Zhou Wang, and he lives in H City. I'll go find him, and he'll definitely not ignore me."
Even though Zhang Nana and his grandmother had always taught him that he had no father, the yearning for a father was innate in the child's heart.
He didn't even consider verifying the authenticity of the words, and rushed towards the slim hope as if grasping at a life-saving straw.
Zhang Yan told Bai He that he could no longer live with his mother. He had not dared to sleep or speak in the past year because any movement or word he made would lead to an inexplicable beating or extremely vicious curses.
Before the eighth grade, he was naturally filled with countless beautiful fantasies and thoughts about his mother, whom he rarely saw. But as he excitedly began living with her, he realized that not all children are born with hope and love. He was a disaster for his mother, a disgusting creature, someone who should never have been born...
Out of reluctance, or perhaps because he was touched by the pain and collapse in Zhang Yan's eyes, the usually cautious Bai He lent him five hundred.
Zhang Yan was very bold. She stole her mother's cell phone, bought a train ticket alone, went to H City and found Zhou Wang.
The final result was a big blow to Zhang Yan. Zhou Wang was indeed not his father.
Zhang Nana was angry and ashamed when she received the call from the police. Her past experience was not glorious, and she had been trying her best to conceal it, but Zhang Yan once again embarrassed her.
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