Chapter 133

Pregnant

Ten days later, the snow still showed no sign of stopping.

However, the mining area would send a large amount of vegetables every now and then, so the base would not be cut off from the supply.

That day, Chen Lina still felt sore and uncomfortable all over. Since the infirmary was closed, she had no choice but to run to Anna and ask her to prescribe two small pills for her to take to see if she could get over the recent physical discomfort.

Anna has been really depressed recently. Her hair is neither long nor dark. There is no stove at home and it is as cold as an ice cellar. She was concentrating on writing something, but when she saw the Nie Weimin brothers coming in, she was afraid that they would freeze to death, so she started to light the stove.

"It's just a divorce. I was wrong about Xiao Chen. There are plenty of unmarried young men in the mining area. Just find someone else. I'm telling you, Anna. You can lose your hair and get divorced, but women can't live without dressing up. I'll put on your lipstick and perm your hair. Why don't you apply vanishing cream?"

Look at Chen Lina. Even though she has three children to raise, she would go out to see a doctor. She would wear a tweed coat and have long wavy hair, and dress like a people's cadre who was going to a meeting in the autonomous region.

"Director, I don't go out all day, who should I dress up for? For the window or the table?" Anna smiled and said, "Come here, let me take your pulse. I learned some traditional Chinese medicine when I was in Tacheng, so I should be able to take your pulse."

"If you want me, just show it to the mirror. I am also happy to admire myself. If you continue to do this, it will only make your loved ones sad and your enemies happy. And why didn't you tear Xiao Chen apart at the beginning? You are so shameless. I never say bad words, but I have to curse you, you big scumbag."

Chen Lina stopped talking halfway through her words.

Thinking back to when she first arrived at the base, Xiao Chen came to eat every day. Chen Lina had a keen sense of smell and she had long since figured out that Xiao Chen was a guy who liked to flirt with other girls.

Come to think of it, Lao Nie is the best. He is very loyal and never hooks up with random people.

"Let me see your tongue again... When did your period end? How long has it been since it last came?" Anna had long put aside the issue of divorce and just wanted to see Chen Lina's tongue.

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"I won't prescribe any medicine. From now on, you should eat and drink well and get enough sleep. You are pregnant." Anna said.

Nie Weimin was reading the books that Xiao Chen left behind. There were many professional books, such as car repair books. He was absorbed in reading them. Before Chen Lina could react, he exclaimed and then laughed, "My mother said that she is a hen that can't lay eggs and will never get pregnant. It's impossible."

"As long as you are a woman, you have the possibility of getting pregnant. How can there be something that is never possible?" Anna said, "Look at you, your tongue is yellow, your menstruation has stopped for more than 50 days, and your breasts are still swollen and painful. These are all symptoms of pregnancy. I am sure you are pregnant. If you don't believe me, wait until the mining area health hospital opens and go to the health hospital for an ultrasound to check it out."

"What's wrong, Mom?" Sandan also came in. He picked up some round beads that Xiao Chen had left behind from somewhere and was playing with them.

"Your mother is pregnant and is going to give birth to a little brother for you," Anna then said.

Sandan was also stunned. Erdan was trying to grab the ball from him. He snatched it away and said, "We don't want a little brother. A little brother is not good. He will grab the toys. I want a sister."

"What you have is what you get. How can I give you whatever you want?" Anna said, "Okay, my house is very cold. Be careful not to catch a cold. Hurry home, ah."

Not only Chen Lina couldn't accept this fact, even the three children couldn't accept it.

When she got home, Chen Lina, who had never been pregnant in two lifetimes, sat on the sofa and was stunned.

Nie Weimin was just like a hardworking farmhand. He first heated up the fire wall, then found Chen Lina's large cotton slippers and put them on her. Then, he found the blanket she had knitted for Nie to cover her legs with when she worked at night, and covered her legs with it.

"I haven't confirmed whether I'm pregnant yet, Nie Weimin, why do you look so uneasy?"

"Comrade Xiao Chen, if you are really pregnant, will you not divorce your father?" This is what Xiao Nie is most worried about.

Chen Lina never directly answered this question, but because Comrade Xiao Nie was too cautious and worried, he asked, "What does pregnancy have to do with divorce? It's not like I can't raise a child. So let me ask you, if we get divorced, what will you do?"

Comrade Xiao Nie has his own plan for this. "Just leave, let my dad live in the laboratory, we are still a family, what do you think?"

He bulged his arms and said, "I have been sweeping snow for half a month. I have built up some muscles recently. See? They are all muscles. I am confident that I can support our family."

Chen Lina chuckled, and seeing that he was about to say something, Xiao Nie said, "Look, when my aunt was pregnant, she didn't even get off the kang, and she ate whatever she wanted every day. Our conditions now are much better than those of my aunt. Whatever you want to eat, there's plenty in our farm. Now that the snow has stopped, Uncle He will definitely come to the base. I'll ask him to find it for you when you want to eat, okay?"

Does this mean that dad really doesn't want me anymore, and now I have to rely on my stepmother to make a living?

"I'm a stepmother, Nie Weimin. What if I give birth to a biological child and I treat you the same way your aunt treats Sitian? What will you do? You should just follow your father, okay?"

There was no way, she just liked to see them struggling as they were reluctant to leave her.

In the Gobi Desert and with the mountains covered with snow, only a few children can have fun.

Nie Weimin's face suddenly turned pale.

Sandan also came out, and the two brothers looked at each other, perhaps this was an unprecedented test they had ever experienced.

"Xiaohong has always followed Auntie, I will follow you too."

Sandan thought about it and said something that melted Chen Lina's heart. "Even if you don't love me, I will always love you. If you don't want to see me, I will follow you quietly, okay?"

Well, Chen Lina's eyes were wet.

The children have said so. Even if we really want to divorce, can they just abandon us? Of course not.

Although she was only 26, Chen Lina considered it an old age to have a child. She made a big fuss in the afternoon, took the children to the mining area hospital in a gas truck, and the director personally performed an ultrasound.

When I took a look, it was stable. Not only was the baby pregnant, but the nurse said that the fetus was no longer a tadpole and had grown hands and legs.

They were nervous and worried, but seeing their mother looking so happy, the three little ones could only force themselves to smile.

Well, because his father was not at home and there was a wolf disaster outside the base, Sandan was simply hugged by his mother and lay down on her kang. Every night before going to bed, he would sing a few songs to his mother's belly.

Well, in his mind, there must be a little rabbit in his mother's belly, just like his older sister when she was a baby, white and fluffy, with fluffy ears, just waiting to be born for him to play with.

In the middle of the night, someone suddenly knocked on the door.

The whole family was waiting for their father, so Nie Weimin sat up first and said, "Comrade Xiao Chen, my father is back."

Chen Lina felt something was wrong. "If you ask your dad, he would say it was him. You asked for a long time but no one answered. It must not be him."

Nie Weimin suddenly became alert. "Shall I get the hunting rifle?"

Of course there weren't any bad guys in the base, and wolves certainly wouldn't knock on the door. The brave and strong pregnant woman Chen Lina climbed up, opened the window and asked, "Who?"

It was a cold and strange voice, "Xiao Chen, open the door."

Chen Lina was surprised when she heard this. "Minister Leng, are you kidding? It's the middle of the night. Where is our Captain Qin? Why are you coming to our family area?"

Leng Qi's voice was so loud that it seemed to reach the sky. "I told you to open the door. This is a military order."

Chen Lina didn't say anything, and the person from Harbin Institute of Technology next door came out and said, "Minister Leng, are you okay? What on earth brought you here in the middle of the night?"

As he spoke, he pulled the bolt of his gun. To be honest, after my cousin, Harbin Institute of Technology no longer trusted anyone.

Leng Qi shouted, "Get lost and tell Chen Lina to open the door."

It was fine if she had some admiration for him, but what Chen Lina always looked down on most was the kind of man who ran to someone's house drunk and acted crazy. But she dated Leng Qi for two days in her last life, and he was not like that in her memory.

She said she wanted to break up, but one day she found out he was still following her, so she went back and kicked him, pointed at his nose and said, "I look down on you." From then on, Leng Qi never appeared in front of her again.

"Comrade Xiao Chen, this is an urgent matter. Just open the door and I'll leave right away." Leng Qi shouted.

Or, did something really happen to Nie Gong in Beijing?

Chen Lina touched her belly and thought, oh my god, I hope I don’t become a posthumous baby, so she quickly got up.

Nie Weimin stood at the front of the big iron gate and said, "Hello, Uncle Leng. I have good news for you. My mother is pregnant."

Chen Lina covered the big mouth with her hand and said, "You idiot, you can't say anything nonsense three months ago."

Sandan also said, "My mother wants to give us a little sister."

Leng Qi didn't understand why they told him this, and of course he didn't even enter the door. He said in a buzzing voice, "A suspected case of plague has been found in the mining area. Don't go out for the next two days, try not to eat outside, and try to pay attention to hygiene."

"It's winter now, Minister Leng, this is not the time for the plague to break out," said Chen Lina.

Leng Qi said, "That's not necessarily true. All the people in the mining area health hospital have already gone there. You have a nurse here who treated plague patients a few years ago. Her name is Anna. Where is she now? Find her. We want to take her away. Also, I want to ask you, is she trustworthy?"

"It's reliable, it couldn't be more reliable." Chen Lina quickly pointed in the direction of Anna's house and let Leng Qi go to find Anna.

Among the eggs, only Nie Weimin, who was well-educated, knew what plague was. This kid was almost as tall as Chen Lina. He stood on tiptoe and said, "Don't be afraid. There will be no large-scale plague outbreaks in our country now. We have also developed a plague vaccine. I will protect you."

Chen Lina was close to him and saw that Nie Weimin seemed to be trembling a little, so she asked, "If your father really doesn't come back, will you be okay?"

"That won't work?" Nie Weimin said subconsciously.

To be honest, the laborers left

But after half a month, Xiao Nie was exhausted.

In addition to sweeping snow every day, he also had to fetch coal, seal the fire wall at night, and remove the ash. Erdan was unable to do anything, and Sandan was still so young that he was willing to help, but all he did was make things worse.

Think about it, when dad was around, he never cared about these things. Every day as long as he carried some coal, Chen Lina would praise him three times.

Therefore, among the four Nie family members, the one who is most looking forward to his father’s return is little Nie.

Moreover, he thought that if his father came back and knew that his mother was pregnant, he would be very happy.

I just don’t know how this proud mother, who is like a princess, will torture my father when the time comes.

Alas, men have such a hard life.

Besides, Leng Qi brought his people and arrived at Anna's house in no time.

I knocked three times before a woman opened the door.

It was a cold day, but the woman came out to open the door in a single sweater. "What's going on?"

"We are from the Armed Forces. A suspected case of plague has been discovered in the mining area. Comrade Anna, this is a test for all officers, soldiers and people in the mining area, and it is also an honor for you.

Because you were the one who dealt with the small-scale plague on May 21, 1969. Dear Comrade Anna, please come with us immediately."

As they spoke, the officers and soldiers of the Armed Forces saluted in unison by stamping their feet on the snow.

Anna was not as nervous as her comrades in the Armed Forces, but she had experienced this before and was very calm. "Then you wait a moment. I have to take my medical kit with me."

On the way to the mining area.

As soon as I got on the bus, the attendant Xiao Wang handed me a mask and said, "Leader, put it on quickly. People from the mining area hospital have arrived. The health center is under strict martial law now. We must also pay attention to quarantine and hygiene."

Leng Qi glanced at Anna, and her features looked familiar. Suddenly he remembered, hey, isn't this the one who pulled off half of his ear last time?

"You dealt with the plague at such a young age, that's amazing. You should at least be rated as an advanced model. After the epidemic was over, didn't you get a good job?" Leng Qi said.

Anna smiled and didn't answer.

Xiao Wang began to tell Anna, "It's like this. There was an officer in our armed forces who was on duty in the wild. Because he couldn't come back that day, he shot a rabbit outside to eat. Then according to him, after he finished eating the rabbit, he found piles of dead rabbits in the cave. Then after he came back, his throat began to swell, he had diarrhea, and his abdomen was swollen. After the director A of the mining area health hospital finished the diagnosis, he suspected that it was very likely plague. Now he is directly guarding the patient and invites you to go.

Because he said that you and he handled the plague case in 1969 together, you have experience, and you must be his assistant. "

In a situation like plague, once it is discovered, it must be strictly prevented and cannot spread.

If it spreads, even the leaders of the autonomous regions may be held accountable from top to bottom.

Therefore, Leng Qi did not dare to take it lightly and went to the base in person to ask for the person, just to guard against it strictly and deal with it immediately.

"Why is Minister Leng staring at me like that? Is there something on my face?"

"Yes, I have never seen such a weird woman like you. Are you still a woman? Aren't you afraid? You know, if you are infected, you will die. But why do I think you are not afraid of death?" Leng Qi said.

The passenger seat of his car had been removed, so the two of them had to sit together in the back.

"Afraid of death, is it useful to be afraid of death?" Anna asked back.

She smiled and said, "In 1969, I was only 17 years old. Do you know why I became Dean A's deputy? Because I had the worst rank in the entire mining area. I was dead, and my life had no meaning."