Two days later, He Yuzhu received his test results from the hospital.
He couldn't understand the test results either, but according to the doctor's explanation, they were all normal.
This puzzled him greatly. He was normal, and Qin Huairu had given birth before, so she must also be normal. Why hadn't she gotten pregnant after half a year?
Now, when he thinks of Xu Damao, who has been competing with him since childhood and now has three children, he feels extremely upset.
Of course, Xu Damao no longer compares himself to him or competes with him. He rarely even comes back to his home here anymore, only occasionally staying for a day or two.
He Yuzhu sometimes comforts himself by saying that he also has three children, and they are all grown up.
Although his three children don't call him "Dad," they do call his wife "Mom."
During this period, he increasingly wanted his own child, and his self-comforting words were no longer effective.
I folded the lab report, put it in my pocket, and strolled leisurely towards the factory, feeling inexplicably annoyed.
And that's not all the annoying things. I heard that the cafeteria is going to be contracted out to someone else, and the contractor is Xu Damao's father-in-law.
He Yuzhu was even considering quitting, but what else could he do? Go to the workshop?
I've been punished before, and that time I was confident I could go back to the mess hall, so I didn't care.
But what about now? I guess if he goes down to the workshop this time, he might really not be able to come back.
Feeling increasingly frustrated, He Yuzhu raised his hand and scratched his hair.
When it came to the child, the first thing he thought of was to ask Li Chu for advice, but when he thought about what his wife had done, he couldn't bring himself to ask her.
Sigh, I'll go back and talk to Qin Huairu again, and see if she can go to their house and apologize.
At the hospital, Li Chu was hunched over his desk, diligently writing a report on protecting traditional Chinese medicine, occasionally glancing at the pile of books beside him.
As I was writing, for some reason, a feeling of irritability suddenly welled up inside me, and it kept getting worse.
I simply put down my pen and stopped writing.
I stood up and paced around the office a few times, but that inexplicable feeling of irritability still wouldn't subside.
He took off his military uniform, changed into a civilian outfit hanging on the wall, and then called Ding Qiunan's office, asking her to also change into civilian clothes and accompany him for a walk.
After reporting to the duty room downstairs, when she arrived at the main entrance, Ding Qiunan, who had already changed into casual clothes, wearing a woolen hat and a scarf, was already standing there waiting for her.
After the two walked out the door side by side, Ding Qiunan turned her head and asked, "What's wrong? Why did you decide to go out for a walk now?"
"I don't know either. I was writing some materials when I suddenly felt really irritable and didn't want to write anymore, so I thought I'd go out for a walk and that's why I asked you to come along."
"Is everything alright, Li Chu? If anything happens, be sure to tell me," Ding Qiunan said earnestly, looking at him intently.
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"Nothing really happened, it just happened suddenly. I guess it's probably like your period every month."
He said the last sentence in a low voice.
Ding Qiunan raised her hand and slapped his arm: "What are you babbling about here?"
Li Chu smiled slightly and stopped talking nonsense. His wife could say whatever she wanted at home behind closed doors at night, but she couldn't say anything carelessly outside, or she would really annoy him.
The two of them idly took advantage of the situation, and even bought Ding Qiunan a string of candied hawthorns, which made her as happy as a little girl.
Seeing his wife's happy expression, Li Chu suddenly realized that it had been a long time since the two of them had strolled around like this. They were either at work or at home every day, and when they went out on weekends, it was always to the department store near their home. And each time, they would just buy what they needed and leave without lingering.
Over the years, due to work, I seem to have neglected many things. I am just an ordinary person who pursues a wife, children, and a warm bed, but it seems that I have put the cart before the horse in recent years.
Whether or not I am here, this country will move forward by leaps and bounds. It seems that I have overestimated myself in recent years.
Starting today, stop all unfinished work. From now on, I will only attend to the regular health care group work and nothing else.
After figuring this out, he felt as if some shackles had been removed from his body, and he instantly felt much lighter.
Ding Qiunan, who was walking and eating candied hawthorns, seemed to sense something and turned her head to look at her husband in surprise.
She noticed that he no longer had the worry he had when they first met; instead, he had a gentle smile that made her feel very at ease.
Seeing this, she felt relieved and put the candied hawthorn in her hand to her husband's mouth.
"Ah...open your mouth, you eat one too."
"Okay, I'll try some too!"
The two of them had nothing much to do, so they just walked and chatted, having donkey meat sandwiches and donkey offal soup for lunch.
After finishing our meal, we left the restaurant.
"Li Chu, there's a Friendship Store across the street."
"Yeah, they won't let us in there."
"Do you need to use foreign exchange certificates to buy things there?"
"Yes, foreign exchange certificates. What's up? Honey, do you want to go inside and browse?"
"I'm not going in. I heard from them that they rip off foreigners there and sell things at ridiculously high prices."
"That's true. The items inside are indeed not cheap. They're mostly domestic handicrafts and some imported items."
“Let’s go, there’s a trust shop over there, let’s go in and take a look.” Ding Qiunan pulled her husband and walked towards the trust shop.
Although this trust store mainly sells second-hand goods, there are still quite a few good items. For example, the refrigerator in my home was bought here, and it's been working perfectly for over ten years.
It seems that the layout of every trust store is pretty much the same, with secondhand clothes being sold as soon as you enter.
Among the pile of clothes hanging on the wall near the entrance of this trust store, there was only one cheongsam. Li Chu's eyes lit up when he saw the cheongsam, and he nudged the person next to him with his elbow.
They've been married for a long time, and as soon as he bent over, Ding Qiunan knew what he was going to say. She just rolled her eyes at him and stopped looking at clothes, instead browsing other counters.
Having made a fool of himself, Li Chu touched his nose and could only walk away.
Just as he was about to look at a camera, Ding Qiunan, who had already walked to another counter, turned back and pulled him away without saying a word.
"What are you doing?"
"Come and see if you've seen this before," Ding Qiunan whispered in his ear, standing on tiptoe.
She pulled her husband to the counter she had just turned to and casually pointed it out to him.
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