"Honey, hurry up and eat, or the food will get cold."
Ding Qiunan didn't say anything this time, but it was clear that she was distracted.
After finishing their meal and cleaning up, both children went inside to do their homework.
Li Chu sat on a recliner in the courtyard, grabbed his wife who was about to enter the house, and forced her to sit on his lap.
"What are you doing? The child is here," Ding Qiunan struggled for a moment and said in a low voice.
"It's okay, they're all doing their homework inside."
After composing himself, Li Chu continued, "Wife, are you in a bad mood?"
Ding Qiunan looked at her husband, hesitated for a moment, but still nodded.
"Is it because of the pregnancy?"
"Um"
"Silly wife," Li Chu said with a smile, playfully pinching her nose. "We already have a son and a daughter, it's perfect, why are you still worrying about this?"
“But…” Ding Qiunan’s tone was very downcast: “When we got our marriage certificate, you said you would always pamper me, love me, and cherish me. For more than ten years, you have always done a great job. I am really happy, but I have never been able to keep my promise. I feel a little sorry for you.”
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Hearing her words, Li Chu was puzzled. He didn't remember his wife saying anything to him at the time.
What did you say?
“I told you that I would have many, many children for you after I married you, but we have been married for more than ten years and I have only given you two children, and they were both first births.”
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"Did you say that? I don't remember."
Ding Qiunan looked at her husband seriously and nodded vigorously: "Of course I said that."
"ah?"
Li Chu carefully recalled the scene from that year. He remembered it very clearly; he hadn't said anything like that back then.
"I said it secretly in my heart."
"I..." Li Chu felt like he had a mouthful of blood inside him, and he had to get it out.
"Alright, honey, let's not dwell on this anymore. Look at Wenhui and Wenxuan, what a lovely pair of children they are. They're smart, generous, beautiful, and handsome. Who wouldn't love our two kids? I love you very much, and I love our two children very much too. So I don't want any more children to share my love."
"How can you do this?" Ding Qiunan raised her hand and patted her husband's chest. "Are you really not bothered?"
"We've discussed this so many times over the past few years because we haven't gotten pregnant with a second child. Honey, I really don't want to talk about this anymore."
"You won't blame me, will you?"
"I promise I won't."
In fact, Ding Qiunan knew in her heart that her husband would definitely not be dissatisfied with this matter.
After all this time, she knows it very well.
This is something she can't get over in her own mind.
These past few days, she has been devastated by the successive news of her friends' pregnancies.
As it turns out, even Da Sheng is pregnant when they came back today. That makes them the fifth generation of dogs in their family.
She rested her head against her husband's chest and whispered, "Li Chu, I won't dwell on this issue anymore."
"Okay, by the way, honey, you haven't seemed very enthusiastic these past few days, what's wrong?"
"Sigh," Ding Qiunan sighed softly, "I was just hurt by them, but now that I've figured it out, it's nothing."
"Who attacked you?"
Ding Qiunan sat up straight from her husband's embrace, and her expression seemed to have recovered.
"I'm telling you, darling, Xiao'e is pregnant..."
"Oh? She's pregnant again?"
Ding Qiunan was interrupted by her husband before she could finish speaking.
"Hey, don't say anything, let me finish first."
"Okay, okay, I won't say anymore, you can continue."
"Hmph," Ding Qiunan wrinkled her nose at her husband in dissatisfaction, then started counting on her fingers for him.
"Xiao'e is pregnant, Xiaoli is pregnant, Xiaobing's wife Wang Qi is pregnant, and Xiaozhan's wife, according to Aunt Wang, is also pregnant." After saying that, she shrugged her shoulders, mimicking Li Chu's gesture.
At this moment, Li Chu's mouth was so wide open that a large apple could be stuffed inside.
After a long pause, he finally shut his mouth: "No, honey, how did you know? Are they all pregnant at the same time?"
"Yes, you heard right, all of them got pregnant in the last month or two."
"That's way too exaggerated."
No wonder my wife has been feeling down these past few days. Jiang Li is pregnant with her third child, Wu Xiaoliu's baby.
Lou Xiao'e is also having her third child.
Xiaobing's wife, Wang Qi, is pregnant with their second child.
Xiao Zhan and his wife got married at a base in Northwest China; this was also her second child.
"And another thing," Ding Qiunan remembered again.
"There's more?" Li Chu was even more surprised now.
"Hmm," she nodded, pointing to the doghouse under the eaves: "There, isn't Stinky Ball about to give birth too?"
Li Chu glanced back at the doghouse, feeling both amused and exasperated. Why did they have to compare themselves to the dogs?
Behind the window of the east wing, two heads were huddled together, looking out into the courtyard.
"Sis, I told you so, didn't I? Dad can make Mom happy in no time."
"Xuanxuan, don't you think Dad and Mom get tired of being together like this every day?"
Wenxuan thought for a moment before saying, "I don't know either, but I don't think they would."
"Alright, alright, stop looking and hurry up and do your homework. After you finish, I still want to go see Stinky Ball. Dad said she's going to have puppies in the next couple of days."
The two heads behind the window simultaneously retracted.
In the courtyard, Ding Qiunan, who was talking about other things, suddenly stopped and stared at her husband.
"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?" Li Chu found his wife's gaze rather strange.
"Honey, you're over forty this year, aren't you?"
"Yes, that's right. What's wrong?"
"Then why do you still look like you're in your early twenties? I feel like you haven't changed much since I first met you."
Li Chu reached up and touched his face, feeling helpless about the matter.
It's not that nothing has changed in the past ten years, but it seems that time has really slowed down on his face.
"You're the same, honey. If you didn't tell me your age, who would believe you're over thirty?"
The couple's youthful appearance has struck many as odd.
Ding Qiunan rolled her eyes and thought for a moment: "Is the medicine you made really that effective? But when I saw my sister take it, it wasn't this dramatic."
"It probably varies from person to person, but we both absorbed it well."
That's the only explanation he could come up with. Fortunately, their appearances don't stay the same until they're that age; they do change, just much more slowly. If they really didn't change, he would have run away by now.
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