Chapter 18 Chapter 18 As if in response, the little one in her belly…
Changzong, who was washing dishes in the kitchen, must have heard this sound, but why was there no sound of Changzong opening the door?
Jiang Hongguo looked up and was even more shocked. She saw someone who looked like her grandmother waving at her: "Wenwen, come with grandma."
He wasn't calling her, and the background wasn't her home. It was strangely mixed in with her bedroom. Jiang Hongguo knew immediately that it wasn't a real person.
Soon, a girl as young as her walked across the bed she was leaning on. It was her grandmother when she was young.
It turned out to be an incident in the past between Grandma Changzong and her grandmother's grandmother. The baby in her belly actually allowed her to see the vicissitudes of life that the jade had witnessed, but she thought it was the child in her belly that allowed her to see which part of the world she saw.
Jiang Hongguo was surprisingly not afraid. It might be because she knew that Changzong was abnormal and the baby in her belly was also abnormal, so she was not so afraid when encountering abnormal things.
She even touched her belly and praised the special child inside: "You did this, didn't you? You are such an amazing child."
As if in response, the baby in her belly moved again. Jiang Hongguo smiled knowingly and continued watching.
"Wenwen, these are all grandma's dowry. Pick a few that you like as your dowry."
Yan Suwen, who was about to get married, chose the purple jade grapes as the first thing. Her grandmother smiled and said that she had good taste. She pressed one of the grapes down hard, and the small switch on the base turned on.
"Compared to other ornaments, this purple jade grape is really not that valuable. From now on, you can hide some valuables in the most honest person as compensation, so that the honest person can also have an unexpected surprise. Isn't it very happy?"
It turned out that her grandmother asked the lawyer to buy the dilapidated building at a high price to give her and Changzong an unexpected surprise. She learned this from her grandmother at that time.
The scene changed, and the lawyer was holding a wooden box, which contained the purple jade grapes left by his teacher, and muttered to himself at the dilapidated house:
"Teacher, I have done what you asked me to do. You have always taught me that things are dead, but people are alive. Dead things can help living people. Even if they are valuable, I have to sell the thoughts you left me to make a living. I know you won't blame me for being a spendthrift."
Right in front of this dilapidated house, several people of similar age came and said that they could provide financial support to the lawyer, or buy his dilapidated house, and hoped that he would not tell anyone in the future that Yan Suwen had adopted them and let each of them borrow ten antique ornaments.
The lawyer righteously refused the funding, saying that Teacher Yan had funded and taught these orphans, and had also lent them ten antiques, but they were shameless and only paid back half of the money by selling them. The teacher knew all about it, so after the rehabilitation, he only found the most honest one.
The lawyer said he would not tell anyone, but he would not accept their funding either.
He also said: "I really don't know where the IOU we wrote is. Don't you know the teacher's character? No one can make her talk about things she doesn't want to talk about. If the IOU is still there, you'd better return it to the owner of the IOU."
Jiang Hongguo understood that those people were not sincere in helping the lawyer. They, including the lawyer, had helped keep grandma's property, and had taken it away in the form of a promissory note. If they sold it, it would be like giving money away, and grandma would write a receipt.
Only the lawyer was the most honest. He sold nine pieces to get money for his grandmother, and left himself the purple jade grapes, which were the least valuable of the ten pieces.
The others were afraid that the lawyer had the IOU, so they wanted to spend money to buy it back, but grandma did not give the IOU to the lawyer, nor to her step-grandfather, let alone to Changzong.
Jiang Hongguo was lost in thought when Chang Zong opened the door and came in, startling her so much that all the ornaments fell down. Fortunately, she was sitting on the bed and the ornaments fell onto the quilt without breaking.
Gu Changzong hurried over and asked, "What's wrong? Is there something dirty on it that hasn't been cleaned?"
Jiang Hongguo shook her head. She didn't press down the grape just now, but Changzong must have enough strength. She picked up the ornament, pointed at the moving grape and told Gu Changzong to press it down.
"Chang Zong, I just found a grape here that can move. I can't press it down. You try it."
Gu Changzong checked whether there were any defects when he bought the ornament, and took it home to clean it. He did not find any movable grapes. Even he had to use some force to press them down. No wonder he did not find any when he was cleaning.
It seems that he and the lawyer are just matchmakers, and the one who is truly destined to be with the purple jade grapes is Hong Guo.
After the movable grape bead was fully pressed down, the mechanism at the base opened, and the interior was actually hollowed out and filled with rice paper that was not easy to decay. The ink color was as fresh as new, and it was full of IOUs.
This was a surprise from grandma to the honest man, but this time grandma just went with the flow and just left the surprise without saying how to get it. It was discovered by Jiang Hongguo, so isn't that a kind of fate?
Jiang Hongguo felt sorry for the honest man and said to Gu Changzong, "If I had known, I wouldn't have bargained with him."
Seeing Hong Guo say this, Gu Changzong said it was not a big deal: "He was an honest man, but the IOU cost him his life. We will give him some compensation from other places in the future."
Jiang Hongguo was very happy when she thought about it. She held Gu Changzong's face and kissed him: "Changzong, I like you."
Hongguo seldom said she liked him directly, and Gu Changzong was also very happy. His heart was full of love, and he wanted to take back the IOUs.
It would be better to strike while the iron is hot and take it back. Jiang Hongguo was only worried about one problem. She asked Chang Zong if he was sure that the other party would not recognize him?
Gu Changzong said yes. He mixed some ointments at night and applied them on his face. He really didn't look like the same person. How did he learn this? And where did he get the ingredients for the ointment?
Jiang Hongguo didn't dare to ask, so she let Changzong happily and without burden keep the little secret he didn't want to tell.
Jiang Hongguo was worried that the time when the IOU appeared coincided with the time when Changzong went out, and that he would be suspected. She wanted to go with them, and she had thought of a reason: she would go to the city for a pregnancy check-up, travel for a few days, and then buy some summer clothes for the changing season.
Aunt Liu originally said that there was no need to go to the city for a checkup, as the county hospital was sufficient. But when she heard that they wanted to play and buy things, and after thinking about her husband's advice, she said, "You two young people are not short of money, so go and have some fun. I'll help you look for a house, so don't pay me this time."
Since he was only away for a few days this time, Jiang Hongguo didn't hold back.
It takes two hours to get from the county to the city, and two hours from the city to the provincial capital. When I arrived in the city, I first stayed in a hotel. Now that I have money, I stay in a hotel with better conditions than the guesthouse. It is much more expensive, but the comfort is also good. There is no such thing as money in the world, so spend it anywhere.
I went shopping in the city department store in the afternoon. The merchandise there is much richer than that in the county supply and marketing cooperative. I used to think that clothes that cost twenty or thirty yuan each were too expensive, but now I think they are not so bad. I bought a few more pieces and spent more than a hundred yuan.
The disguise image that Changzong tried at home was that of a weathered man in his forties. He had the temperament, but good temperament also requires good clothes to match. She bought Changzong a formal suit, and matched it with a watch and leather shoes, spending two or three hundred yuan. If he went out with this combination, no one would think it was Changzong.
At night, Gu Changzong replaced all his bed sheets and quilt covers with those he brought from home, and then took a bus to the provincial capital after dark to collect the debt on the IOU.
Jiang Hongguo is used to her bed. Changzong was not around, so she didn't sleep well. She touched her pregnant belly and found it was much smaller than that of normal months. She will go to the hospital for a check-up tomorrow. What will the result be?
If the examination found that the baby in her belly was different from ordinary babies, she would run away and find a strange place with Changzong to give birth herself.
Early in the morning, Jiang Hongguo went to the hospital with such a nervous mood. She also created the illusion that Gu Changzong was with her. She said to several nurses: "My husband will be here soon." "He went to pay the bill." and other such words to strengthen the impression that she was actually the only one there today.
During the check-up, Jiang Hongguo reported the baby's pregnancy less than one month. The B-ultrasound results were normal. There were no horns on the head, and the hands and feet were normal. At least the B-ultrasound screening showed that the child was normal, so there was no need to worry about the child's appearance being different when he was born.
It’s just that the baby is too small. By the time it is born, it will probably be only three or four pounds, right?
Jiang Hongguo was very worried and went to the obstetrics department to inquire. After asking for a long time, she learned that some twins were born with low birth weight, and some were born prematurely and were thin and small, but they could all grow up well. So she decided to wait until the babies were born and then strengthen their nutrition.
The examination took most of the day. Jiang Hongguo bought dinner outside, put it in her bag, and went into the guesthouse. She even deliberately greeted the front desk clerk and said that her husband had gone to buy her favorite steamed pork with rice noodles.
After eating, she waited until the last bus arrived for more than an hour, but Changzong still hadn't come back. She knew that Changzong would not be able to come back today.
It might be that she didn't feel good to spend the night outside alone while pregnant, but what Chang Zong said about the IOU made sense. It would be good for Lawyer Qian if he did it earlier. He was the only student who kept his promise to his grandmother. Once the IOU was out, the lawyer would not have to bear the suspicion of having an IOU.
Touching the comfortable quilt that Changzong had put on before he left, Jiang Hongguo fell asleep quickly. Time passed faster when one was asleep. She hoped that Changzong would come back tomorrow.
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Jiang Hongguo was awakened by a knock on the door. She looked at the clock and it was not yet seven o'clock. She thought it was the waiter bringing her hot water and hesitated whether to open the door.
Chang Zong said outside: "Guo Guo, I'm back from buying breakfast."
It was Gu Changzong. He was afraid that she would be frightened so he did not open the door directly. He knocked on the door and waited for her to react before opening the door and coming in.
After a day of separation, Jiang Hongguo realized how much she didn't want to be separated. She hugged his strong waist tightly and refused to let go. Although she was smiling, her eyes were red. She pulled him softly and said, "You're finally back."
Gu Changzong saw her like this, it was obvious that she didn't sleep well last night. She had to let people think that he was there, and she had to eat and sleep alone. She was timid to begin with, and the way she endured it until now made Gu Changzong feel distressed.
There was no trace of disguise on his face, and his clothes were ordinary clothes. He held a plastic bag in one hand and breakfast in the other.
"Guoguo, have breakfast first. I'll come and accompany you after I take a shower."
How could Jiang Hongguo eat first? She sat down and waited for him to take a shower and change clothes. Changzong bought two bowls of bubble-filled wontons, one large and one small, and six meat buns, all steaming hot.
She opened the wontons and let them cool, then looked at the bag he brought back, which contained his changed clothes, leather shoes, and a watch wrapped in a box. There was also a thick bag wrapped in newspaper. When she opened a corner, she saw pictures of unity all over the bag, which were Changzong's harvest from this trip.
Gu Changzong changed into a set of fresh and clean clothes. Although his hair was wet, he didn't feel cold. He was also happy to see Hongguo happily looking at the money wrapped in a newspaper.
"Guo Guo, it's twelve thousand yuan. Are you happy?"
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