After Lin Weiwei returned, she felt nauseous no matter what she ate and had no appetite. Outside her door, someone threw half a piece of bread at her. The prison never gave her snacks unless a criminal secretly hoarded them.
She picked up the bread from the ground and took a bite. Delicious! It had a sweet, milky flavor. Perhaps these past few meals had been just white rice and pickled vegetables, which had made her lose her sense of taste. The food was a little better when the new criminals arrived. At least the two buckets of rice they brought her had meat and some oil in them, but the following meals didn't.
This went on for a week or two. After that day, she never saw Li Yao again. People kept secretly throwing things at her. At first, it was half a piece of bread, but later it was a cigarette, half a bottle of beer, half a pack of spicy strips... It must have been sent by different people because she would vomit more and more frequently at night.
Am I pregnant?
Lin Weiwei sat on the bed. Although the prison guard took care of her during the day, she was getting more and more tired and a little sleepy. Several times she fell asleep while doing her labor.
That feeling was very familiar, just like when she was pregnant for the first time. She refused to get a checkup because if the people inside found out and it got to Li Yao's ears, she probably wouldn't survive.
"101, the Chief Superintendent is looking for you. You better behave yourself and we'll cuff you."
The person speaking lacked energy, clearly still haunted by the lesson learned some time ago. In their eyes, Lin Weiwei was now a prison bully, the kind not to be trifled with, and the tasks assigned to her were becoming increasingly easier.
She also passed through the Caohai Tunnel, went up to the second floor, and when she opened the door, a woman wearing badges invited Lin Weiwei to sit down. As soon as the door closed, a doctor came over and grabbed her wrist.
"About two weeks and three days later, anemia and malnutrition."
This news was like a bolt from the blue: a female prison inmate was pregnant inside, and the child…
The Chief Superintendent's eyes widened, and he slammed his hand on the table. "Old Li asked me to take care of you, and I did my best, but I never intended to raise you like a mother. Tell me! Whose child is it?"
She knew perfectly well whose it was; it really was! She felt a surge of secret joy, but the chief superintendent in front of her tensed up, his voice filled with anger yet he dared not utter a sound.
"The child's father's"
"you!"
Unsure whether the other party was friend or foe, and unable to tell anyone, she tucked her short hair behind her ears. Her hair had grown long enough to reach her cheeks during this time. Everyone else had shaved their heads, but she was the only exception. When the hairdresser saw Lin Weiwei, he acted as if he didn't see her and walked around her.
"Let me tell you, the results for the student council board elections are out, and your man has been elected. Now is the crucial moment to campaign for votes. Success hinges on this, and no one can be allowed to know that the child is his!"
The Chief Superintendent handed the shortlist results to Lin Weiwei. She took them with both hands and looked for Xiao Se's name. On the last page, he was first in Mangshi with a total score of 116 points, just one point behind Li Yao. Li Yao probably couldn't believe that this academic underachiever could actually get first place. He smiled happily, thinking that it was all worth it.
“From today onwards, you will do whatever labor everyone else does. I will have someone find a reason to let you rest, and this is anti-nausea medicine.”
A bottle of medicine was placed in front of Lin Weiwei. Looking at the ingredients, it contained nutritional supplements and vitamins. It would take four days in total, which would pass quickly.
She rolled the medicine bottle into her sleeve, bowed, and said, "Thank you!"
The Chief Superintendent straightened his posture, adjusted his coat, and coughed twice. Given her relationship with Old Li, she didn't even need outsiders to thank her; she held the special agent in high regard.
"You're welcome. I'm the Chief Superintendent."
As Lin Weiwei got up to leave, she was called back, and she had almost forgotten about this matter.
"Many people in prison speculate that it's Young Master Li's child. They haven't bothered you during this time, but someone asked..."
I would say it's Li Yao's child.
"Yes," the Chief Superintendent nodded, saying nothing more. The prison is actually quite complicated now, divided into two factions: the bald guy's faction and Li Yao's faction. This middleman has to be flawless, so Lin Weiwei works alongside everyone else.
Since they were working together, she could no longer stay in a single room. She was assigned to a cell with ten people in one room, and everyone looked at Lin Weiwei with her leg shackles on.
"Who do we have here? It's just 101. Humph! This place smells awful, are you used to living here?"
"Exactly, it's already so crowded, you have to queue to use the toilet, and you have to take turns smelling the stench."
...
Since the last gambling session on sanitary napkins, some who lost all their sanitary napkins have resorted to using those from other rooms, or just using a combination of face towels and toilet paper as pads. They mocked her, but even though she could get out of bed, she had half a loaf of bread, a cigarette, and half a bottle of beer on the floor.
It turns out that they were the ones who provided all this time. The other prisoners, looking at their cell through the bars, also echoed with mockery.
Now that she was pregnant, she no longer needed sanitary napkins. Carrying her suitcase, she walked to the middle, looked at her roommates in the bunks, and dumped them all out, saying, "Whatever."
She had nothing to give, and these things originally belonged to them. In an instant, the people on the upper bunk jumped down to pick them up from the ground. The people in the next few rooms were unhappy to see this and shouted for sanitary napkins.
"Silence! What time is it? If you don't want to sleep, everyone go to the playground and admire the moon."
The room fell silent immediately; no one made a sound. Her roommate, clutching a sanitary napkin, ran over curiously and asked, "Are you really pregnant? Don't be shy, we've all been there."
"Exactly, look at my memory, I can't touch cigarettes or alcohol, I'll put them away."
...
"Who is the father of that child?"
Lin Weiwei looked at the nine criminals who had surrounded her. They weren't all bad people, but they were just acting, deliberately saying things for the prison guards to hear. Even so, her thoughts were the same as the Chief Superintendent's: the child couldn't be said to be Xiao Se's.
"Li Yao"
The group exchanged glances, realizing they had guessed correctly. It seemed that with Prison Bully 101 around, no one could bully them anymore, and they could do whatever they wanted.
A short person in the crowd walked up to Lin Weiwei and handed her a map. "This is a map I stole. You can't do heavy work while pregnant, so you can use this to sneak away and slack off. We'll cover for you. Look, it's the place with the circle."
Ultimately, they are all women, and every woman has moments when her maternal instincts overflow. Why should women make things difficult for each other? Raising a child in prison is no easy task.
Lin Weiwei put away the map, feeling very grateful for the help from these strangers who had given her food and even stolen the map. For a moment, she felt that this prison had warmth, at least among them.
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