Yu Xiangnian hugged Cheng Jingmo back and said, "Cheng Jingmo, you are actually better than me. You have experienced so many hardships since childhood, but you have never been negative or gloomy. You have always been striving for progress and have always been tolerant to everyone."
"With a strong and stable core like you, you can succeed even without me. You'll become even more powerful than my father!"
Cheng Jingmo said: "Without your company, no matter how successful I am, it will be less meaningful."
The two hugged each other and whispered their feelings.
As they were chatting, Yu Xiangnian said without warning, "Cheng Jingmo, my stomach hurts a little."
Cheng Jingmo sounded worried, "Did you eat something bad or what?"
"I'm having my period."
"I've never heard you say it hurts when you have this before."
"Maybe it's due to acclimatization."
Cheng Jingmo stood up and lit the kerosene lamp. "I'll go make you some boiled eggs in brown sugar water."
"Put more brown sugar."
When Cheng Jingmo was boiling eggs in the kitchen, Cheng Huazi came in wearing a cotton jacket and cotton shoes.
"Dad, why aren't you asleep yet?"
"I can't sleep because I'm old." Cheng Huazi gathered her cotton jacket and asked, "What are you doing?"
Cheng Jingmo said, "Yu Xiangnian is not feeling well. Make her a bowl of brown sugar and egg water."
Cheng Huazi walked to the stove, took a look, and then sat on a low stool at the stove door.
He took out a pipe from his pocket, picked up a pair of tongs and took out a burning piece of wood from the stove, lit the pipe and took a puff.
Then he said slowly: "Jianwa, you have been married for more than a year, and your wife's belly has not moved?"
The water in the pot boiled. Cheng Jingmo held two eggs in his hand. When he touched them, the eggshells cracked.
He put the eggs into the pot and said calmly, "We don't plan to have children for the time being."
Before Yu Xiangnian proposed the idea of not having children for the time being, Cheng Jingmo always believed that whether to have children or not was a matter of letting nature take its course.
If you have it, take it; if you don’t have it, wait.
But Yu Xiangnian didn't want it. He respected Yu Xiangnian, and except for the first time, they used contraception every time.
Cheng Huazi had never heard of this statement and said in a dissatisfied tone: "The reason for marrying a wife is that she can give birth!"
After a pause, he softened his tone and said, "You've always had your own ideas. If you don't want it, then don't have it."
"Dad, I have something I want to entrust to you. It's not a big deal. If you can't make up your mind, go talk to your wife."
Cheng Jingmo's eyes were as cold as ever, "Dad, you say."
Cheng Huazi took another puff of his pipe and said, "Look, there are so many kids at home. Daddy is thinking of letting you take one. I'll pick one from Lao Liu and Damao; they're older and more obedient. Of course, if you can take both, that would be even better!"
"You know the kids here have a hard life! They can only be farmers their whole lives. Now you are successful and have the ability to help your family. If they can be as successful as you, our Cheng family will remember your contribution."
"Besides, Xiaojie has nothing to do with you, yet you are willing to support him. They are your own children, and the family should help them. Your wife seems arrogant, so you should talk to her first and let her be mentally prepared."
Cheng Huazi's words seemed to imply that Cheng Jingmo would agree to take the child with him.
Cheng Jingmo's eyes fell on the eggs rolling in the pot. He listened quietly until Cheng Huazi finished speaking. Then Cheng Jingmo said, "Dad, this won't do."
Cheng Huazi's pipe stopped in mid-air. "Why not?"
Cheng Jingmo said: "Xiaojie has no father and no mother, so we adopted him."
In other words, since Lao Liu and Damao's parents are still alive, it is impossible for him to support them.
"What are you saying?" Cheng Huazi said in a cold tone. "Raising one child is the same as raising one, raising two is just like adding a pair of chopsticks! Your wife is free anyway, so taking care of two children won't be hard on her!"
Cheng Jingmo said: "She is not idle, she does a lot of things."
Cheng Huazi asked, "What can she do? You're the one doing the laundry and cooking!"
The eggs in the pot were cooked, and Cheng Jingmo used a spatula to scoop the eggs and sugar water into a bowl.
"What she does is more meaningful than all this. She can translate foreign words into Chinese, cure illnesses and save lives, and she knows a lot of knowledge that we don't!"
"Dad, I don't agree with this matter, please don't mention it again."
Cheng Jingmo put out the fire in the stove, holding the kerosene lamp in one hand and the eggs in the other, and walked out of the kitchen.
Cheng Huazi was left sitting on a low stool, the smoke of his pipe flickering in the darkness.
Cheng Jingmo pushed open the door and placed the bowl on the bedside table. "Eat it while it's hot."
Yu Xiangnian sat up from the bed listlessly, pouting, "You put ginger in it."
She smelled it and she didn't like the smell of ginger.
"I only put two small pieces in it so that your stomach will be warm after drinking it." Cheng Jingmo was like coaxing a child, "I'll feed you. Don't breathe when you drink it, then you won't be able to smell it."
Zhang Hongli and Cheng Shuansuo in the next room had just finished their work.
Zhang Hongli wiped it with a piece of paper and said in a low voice, "Listen! This vixen is ordering her man around in the middle of the night!"
Cheng Shuansuo half-closed his eyes and said lazily, "If you want to grow up like her, I will do your bidding."
Zhang Hongli twisted his arm hard, "I knew you were attracted to her! The night she came, you were so fascinated by her!"
Cheng Shuansuo pushed her away and said, "Get out of the way! Stop talking nonsense here!"
Zhang Hongli became even angrier and twisted her hand even harder, "What nonsense am I talking about?! You used to only come every three or five days, but since she came, you've been coming every night. You think I'm her, right?"
Cheng Shuansuo turned over and faced away from her, not saying anything more.
I don’t know if it was because I was tired or if what he said hit the mark.
Another room.
Li Cuihua covered Da Mao, who had kicked the quilt, with the quilt and turned around and said, "Tie him up. Brother Pickup Baby is really good to his wife!"
Cheng Shuanzhu was half asleep, "Yeah."
Li Cuihua leaned close to him and said, "Hold on, I'm telling you. They'll only be home for a month. If you have any objections, keep them to yourself and don't offend them."
"Brother Picker is supporting half of our family! Besides, Brother Picker is so successful now, who knows if we'll need him for help in the future! We can't offend them, do you hear me?"
Cheng Shuanzhu said half awake, "Brother Jianwa and I were good friends when we were little. We went up the mountain and down the river to look for food together. I would help him when others bullied him. Besides, he doted on his wife and didn't use my money or ask me to do any work. Why should I offend him?"
"It's good that you understand this!" Li Cuihua also lay down, "Go to sleep, you still have to go to work early tomorrow morning."
Yu Xiangnian lay down after drinking the brown sugar water. He felt sleepy, but couldn't fall asleep because of the stomachache.
When Cheng Jingmo lay down, a pair of warm big hands covered Yu Xiangnian's lower abdomen.
"Close your eyes and I'll rub them for you."
"Cheng Jingmo, how do you know this?"
If Yu Xiangnian hadn't known that Cheng Jingmo had never been in a relationship, she would have thought that it was his ex-girlfriend who was training him.
Cheng Jingmo replied: "I heard it from those comrades who got married."
Yu Xiangnian didn't know when he fell asleep.
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