"Xiaomai, don't leave me, okay? No matter who comes to take you away, don't go. You can't abandon me, you can't stop loving me, okay?"
As he spoke, he lowered his head and slowly approached her lips, pressing them together for a kiss. He wanted Li Mai to cherish him, love him, and let her know that she needed him.
Even if he knew that Li Mai was created by those people specifically to restrain him, it didn't matter, because Xiao Mai had never hurt him, and had always been good to him, loved him, cared about him, had him in her heart, and now even had a child for him.
Wheat was the kindest person in the world to him, and he believed she would never hurt him, but he was afraid—afraid that her grandfather would suddenly appear and take her away.
Li Mai looked at him silently, raised her hand to touch his cheek, and smiled helplessly, "Husband, we are husband and wife now, we are together every day, and I am carrying your child in my belly, where do you think I can go?"
Zhou Quan stared at her blankly for a long time, then softly hummed in agreement, and asked in a low voice, "Then, do you need me now?"
Li Mai's lips twitched. Could she say she didn't need it? She figured her dear husband would be teary-eyed and say she didn't love him anymore in the next moment.
“Yes, but you have to lock the gate first before we can rest.” Li Mai kissed him on the lips to comfort him.
"Okay, you go and rest first, wait for me." He bent down, picked up Li Mai, went into the dormitory and put her on their bed. Then he quickly went out to lock the door and tidy up the outside before coming back and quickly taking off his clothes and getting into bed.
An hour later, Li Mai was drowsy. "You'd better stop now. I'm pregnant."
“Okay!” Zhou Quan’s aggrieved voice rang out.
In fact, he didn't dare to bother her for that entire hour, afraid of hurting the baby in her womb. He just wanted to stay close to her, to hold her, and to feel her body temperature.
In her dream, Li Mai had another dream. In the evening, Gu Zhe mentioned her grandfather, and in her dream, she saw him.
However, she saw her grandfather in a place where she couldn't see the background. He just looked up and told her not to be afraid, that he would never hurt her, and that she should relax and live a good life with Zhou Quan.
When Zhou Quan woke up in the morning, he told her about the dream as Zhou Quan held her and gently stroked her belly.
After listening, Zhou Quan nodded, "Well, then don't overthink it. Grandpa probably isn't the one pulling the strings behind all this. Maybe he was reborn somewhere else."
Li Mai hummed in agreement.
However, Zhou Quan thought of a possibility. He felt that Li Mai's grandfather was somewhat powerful. Gu Zhe had mentioned that he could appear in Li Mai's dreams at night, and he was able to appear in Li Mai's dreams in the middle of the night. He might know everything about their lives.
But he didn't tell Li Mai, afraid that it would put her under psychological pressure. In fact, he thought that his grandfather might be keeping an eye on them through Li Mai's social media profile.
Thinking about it this way, it must have been at the behest of Grandpa that Grandma Li Mai took care of Li Mai as she grew up.
Now, he became even more curious about the person behind it all.
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. As soon as it was light, Nan Su took the two baskets of mooncakes, fruits, and snacks that Zhao had given him and went back to Nanshan Village to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with his family.
After getting up in the morning, Zhou Quan accompanied Li Mai to the courtyard for breakfast. Then, he followed Old Man Zhou, along with Zhou Lin and Zhou Lei, to the Zhou Clan Ancestral Hall to worship their ancestors. At the same time, they placed Xu Yue's marriage certificate in front of the ancestral tablets to inform the ancestors that this was the marriage arranged by Zhou Lin.
The elders agreed, assuring them that they would take good care of the betrothal gifts for the next three days and would offer incense to the ancestors on time.
Zhou Quan naturally trusted them. After all, he was the person who had offered the most incense money to the ancestors while living in the village. Every time these elders saw him, their smiles were brighter than the sun.
At noon, the Zhou family laid out a table full of sumptuous food. Zhou Tao and Xique helped Zhao Shi cook, but they didn't even let Li Mai touch the food. They only let her eat fruit and walk around the yard.
Gu Zhe sent fruit yesterday, and Li Mai asked Zhou Quan to prepare a large plate of it and place it in the courtyard so that they could eat it with their family when they worshipped the moon goddess today. She put the rest into her space.
These past few days have been the happiest for Xiaopiao and Zhuzhu, because there's been so much fruit at home that they've achieved fruit freedom, eating as much as they want.
The consequence of overeating was that Little Pretty got diarrhea, while Pearl had a stomachache.
In the afternoon, Li Mai and the others were sitting and talking in the yard when Zhu Zhu came out of the house clutching her stomach, her face covered in cold sweat, and approached Li Mai. "Mom, I think I ate too much fruit."
Li Mai quickly let her lean against him and took her pulse.
However, a child's pulse is slightly faster than an adult's, so it's not accurate. She used her spiritual power to check again and nodded, "Yes, your diagnosis is correct. It is indeed because you ate too much fruit."
Seeing that Zhuzhu was in a lot of pain, Limai took her back to the house and gave her acupuncture to relieve her condition.
After that, she gave her a pill to eat. As for Little Pretty, Li Mai was too lazy to care about it. Let it learn its lesson and see if it dares to greedily eat human food again.
He was originally a fire-type spirit beast, but he ate too much fruit, no wonder he got diarrhea.
Little Pretty looked listless and pitifully glanced at Li Mai. Seeing that Li Mai ignored her, she could only look pitifully at Zhu Zhu, hoping that Zhu Zhu would treat her too.
Now that Zhuzhu felt better, she thought for a moment and asked Limai, "Mom, can I give Little Pretty acupuncture?"
Li Mai smiled and said, "Sure, as long as you can find its acupoints."
Zhu Zhu was already holding a silver needle and walking towards Xiao Piao Liang.
The moment Little Pretty saw the silver needle, her hair stood on end, and she jumped onto Zhou Quan's shoulder with a howl, trembling uncontrollably.
Zhou Quan couldn't help but laugh. So there are things your Qilin clan is afraid of!
Fortunately, Li Mai saw that the Qilin was hiding on Zhou Quan and was afraid that it would poop on Zhou Quan, so she gave Zhou Quan a pill and let him feed it to the Qilin.
After a while, Little Pretty came back to life and finally stopped having diarrhea.
It nestled limply in Zhuzhu's arms, no longer daring to eat anything indiscriminately.
The whole family participated in the moon worship ceremony in the evening. The offering table was filled with mooncakes and fruits, and the incense in the incense burner continued until midnight.
After Li Mai and Zhou Quan returned to their small courtyard, they snuggled together and sat in the courtyard admiring the moon.
In the apocalypse, even the moon had never been so bright and round. Although heavy industry no longer affected air quality, various alien energies and light toxic gases still affected it. The sky was always gray, and the sun was not as dazzling and hot as it is now.
"Are you tired? Go back and rest," Zhou Quan asked Li Mai softly.
But Li Mai didn't respond to him. Zhou Quan looked down and found that Li Mai had fallen asleep against his chest.
He looked at her with gentle eyes. She was the only person in his memory who had accompanied him to admire the moon and spend this reunion festival with him. She cared about him. She was his wife. He felt very happy.
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