Chapter 60 Is he spying on me?
Pei Yumin held his phone a little further away, his gaze falling on Lu Shangyan. Lu Shangyan met his gaze for a few seconds before slowly looking away.
However, Pei Yumin's gaze kept following him, and he couldn't pretend not to see it. So he took out his phone and found their chat history.
“Zhao Jian kept asking in our group chat, and we almost got into an argument. All I could say was that he probably didn’t believe it, which is why he asked Tang Suichen.”
Tang Suichen's roar continued: "No! Is this true or false?!"
Pei Yumin didn't actually intend to hide it from Tang Suichen. He thought that if there were any unexpected situations in the future that he couldn't handle, Tang Suichen could at least help him out.
He had planned to find an excuse to bring it up after the child was born, but he never expected to find out at this crucial moment.
Lu Shangyan slowly moved to his side: "I know you have your own plans, but the situation just now was really urgent."
Pei Yumin sighed and answered Tang Suichen, whose questioning was getting louder and louder: "It's true. Keep your voice down, he's standing right next to me."
“He needs extra attention now and cannot be subjected to any stimulation.”
Lu Shangyan raised his voice and spoke to Pei Yumin, also to tell Tang Suichen, "They're not that fragile."
If this unconditional pampering continues, he'll become a complete couch potato.
Tang Suichen remained silent for a long time before finally handing the phone to the bed. He then ran outside alone, running up and down the stairs several times to release his remaining energy before he could finally calm down enough to speak: "He's a boy, right?"
Pei Yumin countered, "Do you think it's fake?"
Tang Suichen shook his head, then belatedly realized that he couldn't see his expression, so he took several deep breaths and asked, "I have a question now. Did you use unconventional methods to force him to get pregnant?"
Pei Yumin's tone was unfriendly: "Do you think I'm that kind of person? Besides, do you think I'd be so heartless as to treat her like that?"
Tang Suichen immediately denied it again, saying, "Brother, I'm not doubting the relationship between you two, nor am I doubting your love for him. I just... this matter has just had a huge impact on me!"
"I won't say much more. I know that in my nearly thirty years of life, I have seen many strange things, but I have never seen a man get pregnant before... and this actually happened to someone I know!"
Pei Yumin put his arm around Lu Shangyan, who was leaning against the counter next to the refrigerator, and pushed him in front of him. Then he pushed Lu Shangyan's waist and continued to walk forward. He had to get Lu Shangyan away from the kitchen first, otherwise Lu Shangyan might crawl into the refrigerator as soon as he turned his head.
Now that it's winter and cold, we should eat less of those things.
Lu Shangyan had spent half a day planning, but now he hadn't eaten anything and was feeling weak and listless as he went upstairs.
Pei Yumin pressed him down onto the bed before interrupting Tang Suichen's incessant chatter, expressing his shock: "Alright, if you have some free time these days, why don't you think about what kind of gift to give Tun Tun?"
"What?" Tang Suichen was stunned for a moment, then belatedly realized, "Is your child named Tuntun?"
Pei Yumin asked him, "What's wrong? You have a problem with that?"
Tang Suichen sighed deeply: "I only found out about Lu Shangyan's impending birth, and I even found out from someone else. I was also the last to know the baby's name! Pei Yumin, you're such a bad friend!"
He was so angry he wanted to hang up, but after thinking it over, he decided to hold back: "Unless you let the child recognize me as his godfather!"
He then recalled the chat screenshots Zhao Jian had just sent him in the group chat and quickly added, "I must be his first godfather!"
Lu Shangyan could hear his voice and couldn't help but laugh: "Tuntun isn't even born yet, and godfathers are already lining up for a long time."
Zhao Jian in the group also changed his name, and the suffix was the same as Jian Guo's, becoming the "prospective godfather" version.
[Xiao Fu is not Xiao Jian (Godfather version: Holy crap! Can anyone know how excited I am right now! Although A Yu and I can indeed have a child, you all know I'm the bottom, and that's something that can never change. I thought I was really destined to never have children, and all my friends are gay. I never expected! I never expected Lu Shangyan could actually have a child, a living, breathing child!]
He excitedly talked for a long time, and when Lu Shangyan saw this long string of messages, he blinked several times and almost couldn't get used to the screen full of green light.
[Xiao Fu is not Xiao Jian (Godfather version: Don't worry, Lu Shangyan, A Yu and I will definitely keep your secret. If you need any help in the future, just ask.]
Lu Shangyan stretched out his index finger, scratched his head, looked up and saw that Pei Yumin's attention was not on him, so he lay down on the bed and sent messages with his back to Pei Yumin.
[S: I want to eat grapes. When you come to see me at the hospital tomorrow, secretly bring me some. Don't let Pei Yumin find out!]
[Jian Fugui (prospective godfather version: I brought you two suitcases, I have to be your godfather first!)]
[Roasted chestnuts (Godmother's version: It's better to be a godmother, there's not much competition here.)]
[Jian Fugui (prospective godfather version: Go get a sex change @Xiao Fu is not Xiao Jian (prospective godfather version, that way neither of us will have to fight over it.)]
Lu Shangyan quietly deleted the messages he had sent, so that even if Pei Yumin looked at his phone later, he wouldn't be able to find them.
Pei Yumin chatted with Tang Suichen for a while longer, and after hanging up the phone, Lu Shangyan was holding his phone and smiling.
He leaned over and took a look. Zhao Jian and Jian Guo were already about to start fighting in the group chat, bombarding the chat with all sorts of evil emojis.
Pei Yumin rested her chin on Lu Shangyan's shoulder: "Tang Suichen said to come early tomorrow so we can take you to the hospital together."
Lu Shangyan's smile vanished: "There's no need to trouble him. Mom, Dad, and you are all going, as are Dai Qin and Qi Min. There are already too many people."
Pei Yumin disagreed: "That's exactly what we need, so you won't feel lonely."
"Also, the more people there are, the more ideas they can come up with. As long as it benefits you, I'll accept any suggestion."
Lu Shangyan sighed, his face serious: "You're just worried and making a mess of things. Nothing's wrong yet, and you're already throwing yourself into a panic. That won't do."
Pei Yumin grabbed his hand: "I know." With her other hand, she pinched Lu Shangyan's swollen calf: "But I can't change it now, and I don't want to change it either."
Lu Shangyan couldn't argue with him. He opened and closed his mouth several times, but finally gave up and didn't say another word.
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The next morning, Lu Shangyan was still asleep in bed when he heard noises downstairs. He could also hear footsteps coming up the stairs and stopping in front of his door.
Pei Yumin didn't get up early either, and kept holding him and comforting him. When he heard this, he buried his head in Pei Yumin's arms, blocking out all other information. In addition, he was too sleepy and tired, so he fell asleep again after listening for a while.
When Lu Shangyan woke up hungry, it was already past ten o'clock. He slowly went to wash up and then slowly went downstairs in his pajamas. He was trying to procrastinate as much as possible.
When he saw Tang Suichen sitting excitedly in the living room, his sleepiness vanished instantly, and his pupils dilated.
Recalling those inexplicable footsteps coming and going, it turned out to be Tang Suichen!
The moment their eyes met, Tang Suichen stood up almost instantly and strode towards Lu Shangyan.
He stopped half an arm's length away from Lu Shangyan. If it weren't for the smile on his face, Lu Shangyan would have thought he was about to rush over and punch him a few times.
Tang Suichen rubbed his hands together, looking a little uneasy: "Can I touch your belly?"
Lu Shangyan was speechless at this request, unsure how to respond.
He glanced back and saw that Pei Yumin was upstairs helping him pack toiletries to take to the hospital and hadn't come down yet.
He didn't think touching his stomach was a big deal, but it seemed to be a different story for Pei Yumin. He could only secretly take a half step back and say, "Ask Pei Yumin after he comes down."
Tang Suichen's smile deepened: "I really didn't expect that you would change so much in just a few months."
"They are very different in both appearance and personality."
Many people have said he's changed, that he's become very different. When Lu Shangyan heard those familiar words again, he simply lifted his eyelids to look at Tang Suichen: "Has he become better?"
Tang Suichen nodded, and Lu Shangyan said, "That's good."
No sooner had he finished speaking than Pei Yumin appeared on the steps to the second floor: "Tang Suichen, now that you're here, don't just sit around, come up and help me carry my luggage."
Yuan Qingyu brought the heated soup to the table: "I'll move it later. Sui Chen arrived a little after six today and hasn't had breakfast yet."
When she got up at seven o'clock sharp to go for a run, Tang Suichen was sitting in the living room, which startled her. When she asked, she found out that Tang Suichen had been there for almost an hour.
She looked up again and said, "Yumin, you haven't been sleeping well lately, and your complexion is getting worse. Come down and have some nourishing soup. It's quite cold outside, so warm yourself up first."
Lu Shangyan was already sitting obediently at the table serving himself soup. Soon he wouldn't be able to drink this kind of soup anymore and would have to go to the hospital to drink the soup that came in large bags. Thinking of this, he felt weak all over.
Since Yuan Qingyu had already said that, Tang Suichen pulled his foot back after taking a step forward. He quickly ran back and sat down opposite Lu Shangyan, looking very eager to know: "Lu Shangyan, what does it feel like to be pregnant?"
Pei Yumin and he had just entered when he heard this and snorted coldly: "Why don't you just find out if you're pregnant yourself?"
Tang Suichen's eyes lit up even more: "Really? Can I get pregnant too?"
After saying that, he quickly contradicted himself: "Never mind, my husband doesn't like kids." Then he looked at the person opposite him: "I think so too, I'm not as brave as Lu Shangyan."
Pei Yumin readily accepted the praise on Lu Shangyan's behalf: "It's good that you have this awareness yourself. Besides, not everyone can get pregnant. Shangyan is an exception."
Tang Suichen understood this principle, of course. He chuckled and looked down. This time, he genuinely envied Pei Yumin: "You're really lucky, kid."
Pei Yumin was pampered at home since childhood, and her studies, career, and love life have all gone smoothly. Now she even has a child!
This is simply...! Tang Suichen cursed inwardly, "This is so unfair!"
Pei Yumin, on the other hand, acted as if it were perfectly natural: "It's understandable that you're jealous of me. After all, even I sometimes feel jealous of myself when I think about my life over the past thirty years."
Tang Suichen looked up, met Lu Shangyan's gaze for a few seconds, and couldn't help but burst out laughing: "You really deserve a beating."
After listening to him finish speaking, Lu Shangyan slowly nodded.
Lu Shangyan gets hungry quickly, but he also gets full quickly; a bowl of soup is enough for him. "Pei Yumin, remember to pack all the new storybooks you bought. Tuntun has been particularly restless at night these past few days; listening to your stories will calm her down."
Tang Suichen's gaze fell on Lu Shangyan's stomach again; he was increasingly tempted to touch Lu Shangyan's belly.
Pei Yumin saw through his thoughts at a glance: "Go home and touch Song Yuxin, she's my wife."
Tang Suichen said, "Through the clothes..."
Before he could finish speaking, Pei Yumin interrupted, "It's not allowed even through clothes. Only Lu Shangyan and I can touch each other."
Tang Suichen gave up completely, but when Yuan Qingyu came to the restaurant as usual to check how much Lu Shangyan had eaten, she naturally patted his stomach and said, "Swallow."
After saying that, she smiled and added another half bowl of soup to Lu Shangyan's bowl: "Drink some more. Eating at the hospital is not as convenient as at home. We'll be going to have a long journey to the hospital later, so you need to eat your fill."
Pei Yumin remained expressionless: "Only the two fathers and the grandmother can touch it."
Yuan Qingyu asked, puzzled, "What are you talking about?"
Tang Suichen didn't insist anymore. After asking about the due date and whether there was anything else he could help with, he went upstairs with Pei Yumin to move their luggage.
With over a dozen suitcases, it didn't look like they were going to the hospital; it looked more like they were moving house.
Tang Suichen was so tired that he kept rubbing his lower back: "You're exaggerating too much."
His box was the heaviest: "What's in here? Did you stuff stones in it?!" He reasonably suspected that he was being targeted because he wanted to touch Lu Shangyan's stomach.
Pei Yumin said, "I want to tell Tun Tun the storybook."
Tang Suichen opened his mouth for a long time before saying with a speechless expression, "You're really exaggerating. Have you forgotten that there's something called a mobile phone now? You can easily find countless stories with a simple search."
Pei Yumin's face was full of the happiness of being a father: "That's different. Shangshang and I hold storybooks together and quietly tell stories to Tuntun. That kind of atmosphere is something you will never experience in your life. Besides, holding a mobile phone all the time is emitting radiation!"
Tang Suichen was speechless. Why did they have to attack him like that?
"You don't need to bring so many, do you? It's not like you're not coming back. Just take a few books with you each day when you leave."
Pei Yumin gave him a look that said, "You can't be a father, you don't understand." He continued, "Tuntun has been quite a handful lately. Sometimes he doesn't like the stories I tell him, so he keeps kicking Lu Shangyan. I have to read him another book right away. Sometimes even after reading a dozen or twenty books, he still might not be satisfied. I'm really just being prepared."
"After I finish the hospital admission procedures for Shangshang, I'm going to go to the nearby bookstore to browse around and buy a few more new books."
Tang Suichen was so angry that his mouth twisted into a crook.
This person just can't stop showing off once they start!
Less than an hour later, Lu Shangyan was lying on the hospital bed wearing his fluffy pajamas. The air smelled faintly of disinfectant. Pei Yumin opened the bathroom window to ventilate the room and raised the temperature to facilitate the dissipation of gout without making it cold.
Lu Shangyan thanked him for his thoughtfulness and sincerely hoped that he would leave soon, because Jian Guo and Zhao Jian were already waiting downstairs with grapes in their arms.
After Pei Yumin finished the hospital admission procedures, he went to chat with Uncle Wu for a while. When he came back, it was already noon. Yuan Qingyu left after finishing the procedures. She cooked a meal at home and asked the driver to deliver it to Lu Shangyan and Pei Yumin.
Lu Shangyan glanced at the message on his phone.
[Jian Fugui (prospective godfather version: I've bought the grapes, when is he leaving? It's so cold outside! Even in the lobby it's freezing!]
[Jian Fugui (prospective godfather version: photo.jpg]]
[Xiao Fu is not Xiao Jian (Godfather or Godmother version: It's the same as not buying it for anyone!)]
[Xiao Fu is not Xiao Jian (Godfather or Godmother version: photo.jpg)]
[Xiao Fu is not Xiao Jian (Godfather or Godmother version: I bought more than you, Lu Shangyan can eat mine, if you can't stand it, get out of here!]]
Looking at the plump, round purple grapes, Lu Shangyan couldn't help but swallow a few times: "Weren't you going to buy storybooks? Go on."
Pei Yumin paused in peeling the orange for him, her brows furrowing almost imperceptibly. Lu Shangyan then said, "While you're at it, go buy me a thicker blanket. I can't just lie here all the time. I can use it when I go out."
These past few days, the wind has suddenly picked up in the afternoons, so wearing a thick blanket when going out definitely helps.
Pei Yumin didn't hesitate and stuffed the peeled orange into his hand: "I'll be back soon. Call me if you miss me. And if there's anything else you want, call me right away."
Lu Shangyan nodded heavily, watching him walk away expectantly, then quickly notified the two people who, despite being face-to-face, insisted on arguing in the group chat:
[S: Hurry! He's come downstairs now, you guys avoid him and come straight up!]
The group chat fell silent. Lu Shangyan couldn't stay in bed any longer. He sat up straight, looked towards the door, waited a while, then got out of bed and ran to the door to wait.
I waited for more than ten minutes before the two people came up.
But her hands were empty. Jian Guo smiled and said, "I couldn't dodge it. Pei Yumin is so cunning! I don't even know where he came from, and he suddenly caught me!"
Zhao Jian raised his hand with a lack of confidence: "I could have taken the opportunity to escape, but I didn't dare to take the elevator. I only climbed three floors of the stairs before he caught me."
Lu Shangyan was on the verge of tears, grabbing a handful of hair: "How did he even know?"
Zhao Jian and Jian Guo said in unison, "I want to know too!"
Jian Guo recalled the scene just now and felt a chill: "We were really well hidden!"
“You have no idea what the look on his face was when he grabbed me. I thought what I was holding wasn’t grapes, but some kind of illegal product that I was trying to secretly take and sell to you.”
"My God, if it happened again, I would faint from fright. My hands are still shaking."
Lu Shangyan couldn't blame them; he could only blame Pei Yumin for being too cunning: "Fine, if you don't want to eat, then don't eat. It's just another month."
Zhao Jian entered the house, looked around, and after confirming that there were no spies of Pei Yumin, he slowly opened his bag, inside which were a dozen or so grapes.
"I pulled this down while climbing the stairs. Aren't I clever?"
"I knew I'd been found out. Even if I brought the grapes up for you, he would definitely catch up. So I prepared in advance and secretly hid some for you. Eat them sparingly; this is the last of our food!"
Lu Shangyan held the dozen or so small grapes and slowly walked to the sink, washing them clean one by one.
He tried to hold back, but couldn't help complaining: "I really don't understand, what's wrong with me eating a few grapes? The doctor said it's fine."
Jian Guo stood up, looking indignant: "That's right, the doctor said it's nothing serious, so why is he still looking at you like that? What does that mean?"
Zhao Jian tugged at his sleeve, signaling him to calm down. After what had just happened, the two of them had temporarily ceased hostilities and had initially united their forces: "Be careful he doesn't overhear you. No matter how cunning he is, there might be eavesdroppers outside."
Jian Guo immediately cowered, shrugging his shoulders as he sat back down in his chair. He had no other choice but to say to Lu Shangyan, "Then you should try to be more affectionate with him in the future. I think he'll fall for that. If you talk to him nicely, he'll definitely be willing to give you whatever you want to eat."
Lu Shangyan shook his head: "He would have definitely given it to me before, but now, when it comes to matters concerning my health, I absolutely cannot go against his wishes."
Jian Guo took a deep breath: "Then I can only wish you good luck. This is all I can do to help you."
Zhao Jian nodded: "Me too."
Lu Shangyan had just finished washing the grapes and hadn't even had a chance to put them in his mouth when the tightly closed hospital room door was pushed open.
A woman who looked to be about the same age as Yuan Qingyu walked in, smiling kindly.
Lu Shangyan didn't recognize her, but he still instinctively put his hands behind his back. The woman just smiled at him and then slowly walked up to him and extended her hand.
"Young Master Pei said you've been eating too much lately and can't eat anymore. If you want some, he'll buy it for you."
Jian Guo, being the most perceptive, immediately realized what was going on. But the thought that the woman would report the situation in the ward to Pei Yumin made him both timid and stubborn. He could only mutter under his breath, "What? You think our purchase wasn't good enough?"
Lu Shangyan resigned himself to his fate and placed the freshly washed grapes, which he hadn't even had a chance to taste yet, into her palm.
I should have just shoved it in his mouth without washing it!
His temper has changed a lot now. He used to be sensitive and sometimes couldn't help but shed tears. Later, he became very easily aggrieved. Now, Pei Yumin keeps controlling him and making him watch his diet, which makes him a little irritable and want to lose his temper.
There was something he had suspected for a long time, and he originally wanted to pretend he didn't know.
Actually, it's fine if he doesn't eat the grapes. He only sent the message to Jian Guo and the others with the intention of testing them, but he didn't expect Pei Yumin to be so obvious. Does he assume that Pei Yumin will continue to pretend not to know?
He tugged at his scalp in frustration, but the slight pain that rose up did not calm him down this time.
"Is Pei Yumin spying on me?"
He picked up the phone on the table: "Is he using the phone he gave me to spy on me, or is there something installed in this room?"
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