When Tang Baozhu woke up, she was all alone in the room, and knew that Brother Su must have gone to work.
I rubbed my sore lower back. Last night was really crazy. I was like an octopus, clinging to Brother Su the whole time. I really exhausted him last night. I wonder if it made him late for work today.
That's the downside of coming back only once in a long while. After such a long interval, you only get to eat meat once in a while, and when it's time to eat meat, you want to eat until you're stuffed and then you throw up.
You should be more restrained in the future. It doesn't matter to me, but I can't let Brother Su get too tired.
Su Rui'an, who was working at the research institute, sneezed, touched his nose, and thought about the time. He figured that Baozhu must be thinking about him.
Then, a smile unconsciously appeared on his face, clearly indicating that he was thinking about his wife.
However, the ordeal that night did not disappoint Tang Baozhu. A month later, she discovered that she was pregnant.
After Tang Baozhu became pregnant, Su Rui'an was quite happy because he was already over 30 years old and finally had a child. Having a child in one's 30s is considered very late. Other people's children at that age are usually in high school, but his child was only recently conceived. However, their research institute was getting busier and busier.
I used to be able to go home every four or five days, but later I was too busy, so going home once every ten days or half a month was considered a good thing.
Seeing how hard he was working and how eager he was to get home, Tang Baozhu decided to let him stay at the research institute.
If it weren't for the strict rules on their end, Tang Baozhu would have liked to stay with him. At the very least, she could cook him a meal and occasionally secretly add a little something extra to help him take better care of his health.
When Tang Baozhu was about seven or eight months pregnant, it was already considered quite good that Su Rui'an could come back once a month.
Fortunately, she wasn't the kind of person who needed Su Rui'an to be with her all the time, or who couldn't live without him. She had plenty of things to do to pass the time.
Su Rui'an felt quite guilty. He had originally thought that he could give Baozhu a good life after she married him, but after she married him, she couldn't even spend time with him.
But there's no other way; the country needs them, so they have to sacrifice their own families for the greater good.
Tang Baozhu noticed his guilty feelings and quickly comforted him, knowing that she couldn't let her personal matters affect the progress of the research institute.
When Tang Baozhu was ten months pregnant, her baby was about to be born. She didn't go outside to give birth, but gave birth at home. Anyway, she didn't lack puppets and robots, so she easily gave birth to the baby.
She gave birth to a boy, weighing about seven pounds. He was well-fed and had fair skin, without any wrinkles.
Tang Baozhu's daily life consisted of taking care of the children, occasionally going to the black market, and spending the rest of her time at home.
As for Su Rui'an, he rarely comes back, probably because the research schedule is getting more and more demanding, and he is returning less and less often.
It had been half a year since she last saw Shu Ruian.
Sometimes Tang Baozhu wondered if marriage in her world was a bit too frivolous.
She worried that she wouldn't be able to see him even once a year, and that she would just live with the child every day. Although there were no other troubles, a woman still has needs.
She wasn't the type to have an affair while her husband was away, and besides, the two of them had indeed developed a deep affection for each other during the years they spent in the countryside, so she couldn't bring herself to betray Su Rui'an.
When the child grows up, I will send him to school, first to kindergarten, and then I will prepare to open my own shop and do business.
It just so happens that the college entrance examination has been held earlier now, so doing business is not a prohibited thing.
She usually sells a lot of things on the black market, and she has a lot of savings at home. She plans to open a shop and do business honestly outside in the future. When she has money, she will directly hoard houses, especially courtyard houses nowadays. She wants to hoard more so that she can become a landlady in the future.
Su Rui'an returned once after doing business with Tang Baozhu for half a year. This time, he was in a hurry. He said hello, then picked up a few clothes and left.
From what he said, Tang Baozhu understood that he would be going into seclusion for research, and she didn't know when he would return.
Tang Baozhu didn't know if she still had feelings for him after so many years of being apart.
If there were feelings involved, she didn't seem sad at all watching him leave; but if there were no feelings involved, she hadn't even considered finding someone else.
It seems like spending the rest of my days with my son would be a pretty good thing.
As for whether Brother Su will change to a younger wife after he achieves success and fame.
She didn't seem to care much. Tang Baozhu felt that she might no longer have romantic love for him, but she still had familial affection for him.
Every year, Tang Baozhu would save up enough money to buy houses for herself by the Lunar New Year. She would set aside enough money for the following year and use the rest to buy houses.
All the houses are registered under her son's name, and she doesn't know why she put them all in his name.
It was as if there was some unseen connection; Tang Baozhu simply couldn't believe that Su Rui'an would betray her.
So perhaps Su Rui'an encountered danger while on a mission, and his biological father and stepmother came to fight him for the family property?
The more I think about it, the more plausible this reason seems.
What she couldn't understand was that Su Rui'an was clearly doing research at the research institute, so how could he have run into trouble?
Tang Baozhu focused on raising her son, and her son seemed to live up to her expectations. His intelligence was probably inherited from his father, as he always ranked first in every exam.
I'm especially happy; it wasn't in vain that I put so much effort into raising him.
It's been many years since I personally took care of my child; it's been several centuries.
In 1985, Tang Baozhu's son was already 13 years old, and Su Rui'an, who had been away from home for seven or eight years, finally returned.
Looking at Su Rui'an in front of her, unshaven and not at all as handsome as before, she suddenly felt quite sad.
"Honey, I'm back. Did you miss me?"
Tang Baozhu ran straight to him, not minding his dirty appearance or the smell of not having showered for days, and hugged him tightly.
"It's so good to see you back. I thought I would be very calm, but I was surprised to see you standing in front of me and I was actually very excited."
Su Rui'an also held Baozhu tightly. This time he almost didn't make it back, but who knew that God wouldn't take him and he was lucky enough to make it back.
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