Chapter 99
When Ye Manzhi woke up, the first thing she saw was Wu Zhengrong's enlarged face right in front of her.
She stumbled into those dark eyes in a daze, and felt that they had been looking at her like that for a long time.
"Are you back?" she asked in a buzzing voice.
Wu Zhengrong hummed and reached out to wipe away the sweat on her forehead.
"How do you feel? Are you feeling unwell?"
Ye Manzhi had just woken up, his mind still not fully clear. He said lazily, "I'm feeling fine, but I just don't have any strength..."
Out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of the unfamiliar quilt and the mottled wall across from her. She belatedly asked, "Where are we?"
"Hospital, you fainted after arguing with someone."
After he reminded her, Ye Manzhi finally remembered what happened at the doorstep. She took Wu Zhengrong's hand and asked, "Where are my mom and big sister? Did you win the argument with Wu Tongyue's mom?"
She felt a little unwilling that she fainted from the quarrel.
Why should that woman be so unilaterally disgusted with Fifth Brother? Before she could even taunt him back, she fainted uselessly!
"You've already fainted, why are you still arguing?"
Thinking of the farce that happened in the evening, Wu Zhengrong frowned.
After work, he went to his father-in-law's house to pick up his wife. As soon as he reached the door, he heard an argument inside.
His eldest aunt was arguing with a strange woman. When she saw him come in, she complained loudly that the woman had made Ye Lai Ya faint from anger.
While talking, she winked at him secretly.
It seems that there might be something strange about Ye Lai Ya fainting from anger. Maybe several women had a quarrel and Ye Lai Ya took the opportunity to pretend to faint.
She could indeed do such a thing.
Wu Zhengrong hadn't figured out the whole story yet, and didn't want to get involved in the quarrel between the female comrades, so he turned around and went into the room.
Chang Yue'e was tucking her daughter in when she noticed him coming in. She said in a panic, "Zhengrong, come over and take a look! I don't think she's pretending to be dizzy. I called her for a long time but she didn't respond!"
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Wu Zhengrong took two steps to the bedside.
The person on the bed had his eyes closed, his lips were pale, and his breathing was a little rapid.
He reached out to check for her pulse, then turned and asked, "Mom, did she plan to pretend to faint with you guys in advance?"
"No, Manjin said that Lai Ya pinched her hand before she fainted, implying that she was pretending to faint."
If it weren't for this incident, Chang Yue'e really couldn't tell whether the dizziness was real or fake.
Wu Zhengrong tried to call Ye Lai Ya several times, but she didn't respond. Her eyelids trembled several times but she couldn't open them. So he decisively picked her up from the bed and sent her directly to the hospital.
His wife has good physical fitness.
They have been married for more than a year, and no matter how hard they try, they haven't even had a cold.
This time, he fainted without any warning, which was obviously not normal.
Ye Manzhi huddled in bed, still thinking about her fifth brother, and continued to ask, "Did my eldest sister win the argument with her?"
She felt that with her elder sister's strength, she should be able to win this argument.
However, her dizziness may affect her elder sister's performance.
Seeing that she was still like a belligerent little rooster, Wu Zhengrong said helplessly: "You are going to be a mother, take care of yourself first, and don't meddle in other people's affairs."
"Becoming a mother won't be a problem..." Ye Manzhi suddenly stopped talking, opened her eyes wide and looked at the man. After a while, she carefully confirmed, "Am I really going to be a mother?"
"Well, it's been over two months," Wu Zhengrong poured her a glass of warm water to moisten her throat. "You climbed the mountain and traveled today, which already consumed your energy. After you came back, you got emotional and argued with someone. Your body can't take it anymore. You should rest at home for the next few days."
Ye Manzhi drank some water, lay on her back on the pillow, and put her hand on her flat belly.
It feels no different than usual.
Before college started, they struggled for thirty days without any measures and were mentally prepared to get pregnant and have a baby.
However, after hearing the exact news, she still felt unreal, as if she were still dreaming.
"Are we really going to have a baby?" She turned her gaze back to the man, "Are you going to be a father too?"
"Well, I'm going to be a father too." Wu Zhengrong held her in his arms and kissed her forehead tenderly, passing by her eyes and the tip of her delicate nose, finally landing on her lips that had regained their rosy redness. "Baby, thank you for your hard work."
When Ye Manzhi heard the last address, her face turned red.
They had called each other like this before, like my dear, my darling, but the situations were always more romantic.
After getting out of bed, they are both serious people!
When wearing a military uniform, Wu Zhengrong was even more restricted. Except in certain occasions, he never used this title.
The strength that Ye Manzhi had just recovered seemed to have drained away again, and she leaned limply in his arms, powerless.
She tilted her head back and kissed him subconsciously, then she grabbed the button on his chest and asked, "Are you happy to be a father?"
She asked this question even though she knew the answer. Wu Zhengrong must have been so emotionally overwhelmed that he couldn't find an outlet, which was why he lost his composure and called her baby.
Wu Zhengrong replied affirmatively: "Very happy."
Ye Lai Ya is carrying their common child in her body.
This realization made him feel an indescribable warmth that he had never experienced before.
When he got the exact news from the doctor, he was as surprised as his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
However, the feeling of surprise was almost fleeting. When he completely digested the news and waited alone by the bed for Ye Lai Ya to wake up, the lingering warmth in his heart made him feel real joy.
He had a very weak bond with his parents in the first half of his life, and the cold relationships between mother and son and father and son made him look down on this kind of family affection maintained by blood ties.
However, the unexpected arrival of this child made him suddenly realize that what he cared little about was perhaps not family affection, but his parents.
Wu Zhengrong was actually looking forward to having this child who would carry on the common bloodline between him and his lover.
Ye Manzhi snuggled in his arms, seizing the opportunity to tease him, "Your reaction is so cold. You just want to brush it off by saying you're happy? My mom said you only hug him in the taxi when he's not crying or making a fuss. You never comfort him when he cries. Tell me the truth, don't you like children?"
If I were to explain this kind of thing, it would be a long story.
Wu Zhengrong didn't say whether he liked children or not. He just lowered his head, kissed her lips, and vaguely called her baby.
Ye Manzhi stopped asking questions and kissed him with blushing cheeks, with a sweet tenderness in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows.
*
Because Ye Manzhi was confirmed to be pregnant, the doctor did not give her any medicine while she was in a coma.
This time in the hospital I just had a long sleep in the ward.
Ye Manzhi had never been in the hospital before and didn't want to spend the night there, so she begged Wu Zhengrong to take her home that night.
Returning to her familiar little home, she fell asleep almost in a second.
When she woke up naturally at noon the next day, the quilt on Wu Zhengrong's side was already cold.
She buried her face in it and lay there for a while before getting out of bed in her vest and running to the dressing mirror to observe her belly.
Chang Yue'e came in carrying a pot of chicken soup and saw her wandering around on the floor in a vest and shorts. She scolded her, "It's already autumn, and you're a doublet now. Hurry and put on some clothes!"
"Mom, why are you here?" Ye Manzhi glanced into the yard, "Why isn't Kuihua calling?"
Sunflowers don't bite, but they bark almost every time they see someone.
No matter whether they were family members or outsiders, even if they were her and Wu Zhengrong, they would bark the same way, just with different volumes of bark.
"Zhengrong took it to work."
When Chang Yue'e said this, she was both relieved and speechless.
To prevent her from entering and leaving the yard and attracting Kuihua's attention, which would wake up Ye Lai Ya, Wu Zhengrong took the dog away.
But she had seen people bringing their children to work, but she had never seen anyone bringing their dogs to work!
Old Ye had complained before that Ye Lai Ya had been spoiled beyond measure since her marriage, with Wu Zhengrong having to prepare breakfast for her and bring it home. She hadn't thought much of it at the time, after all, Ye Lai Ya had also eaten ready-made breakfast when she was at her parents' house.
However, after encountering the incident of bringing the dog to work today, she felt that her son-in-law was indeed a little spoiled to Lai Ya.
"Hurry up and wash up and eat," Chang Yue'e urged her daughter to wash up, and followed her to ask, "This is your first pregnancy, are you feeling uncomfortable? You suddenly fainted yesterday, and I was scared to death."
"Nothing! Just like usual." Ye Manzhi tidied herself up, sat down at the table to drink chicken soup, and asked happily, "Mom, did you go buy a rooster so early in the morning?"
"Your fifth brother sent it to her." Chang Yue'e picked up a chicken leg and handed it to her. "I asked him to go to the countryside to get more chickens and raise them in your yard. Whenever you want some chicken soup, I can kill one for you."
When the third son's wife was pregnant, she could buy a little rooster raised by rural members at the market.
However, a few months ago, people's communes were established in rural areas, and all poultry and livestock were raised collectively, and members were not allowed to raise them privately at home.
If she wanted to buy a live chicken, she had to rush to the vegetable market, but eight out of ten times she couldn't buy one.
Ye Manzhi pointed toward the yard and said, "We have cats and dogs in our yard. What if they bite the chickens to death?"
"It's okay. Although the backyard is narrow, it's big enough for a chicken coop. Raise chickens in the front and back yards separately. When your fifth brother comes back from the countryside, have him build you a chicken coop and raise a dozen or so chicks. I'll come over to feed the chickens every day."
Two young people, one busy with work and the other busy with study, it is impossible to expect them to feed the chickens.
Ye Manzhi observed her expression and asked, "Mom, have you asked my fifth brother? What's going on between him and that Wu Tongyue?"
"I asked, and he said that the two of them are not in a relationship for the time being, and that he hasn't seen Wu Tongyue for nearly a month. He doesn't know why her mother suddenly came to our house and went crazy."
Ye Manzhi savored the words "It doesn't matter for now", feeling that Fifth Brother might not be so innocent.
But she was still dissatisfied and said, "Are we just going to let this go? Even if you're a cadre, you can't bully people like this, right? You show up and show off without knowing any reason! Fortunately, my brother wasn't there yesterday. If he had heard what I said, he would have been so embarrassed!"
She mainly felt sorry for her fifth brother and stood up for him.
"Let your brother handle his own affairs. Just take care of this one in your stomach."
"If he could really handle it, would he have let the mother come to you? You were almost bullied yesterday."
Chang Yue'e said disdainfully, "If you two hadn't been in the way, I would have dealt with her long ago. My reputation as a shrew isn't for nothing! If she dares to come again next time, just wait and see how I'll deal with her!"
She said this with great confidence, but Wu Tongyue's mother was probably frightened by the fainting scene and did not come to the house to cause trouble again for a short time.
Ye Manzhi only rested for half a day before returning to school to attend classes, and immediately handed the hospital certificate to Chen Ying.
She was a transferred student, and the hospital certificate clearly stated that she was ten weeks pregnant. According to the time calculation, she became pregnant before school started, and did not violate the school's relevant regulations.
She found a way for the little one in her belly and applied for a day school so that she could go home and stay for a few days occasionally.
She and Wu Zhengrong are both new parents. She carries her baby with her every day and can interact with the baby at any time.
But Wu Zhengrong didn't really want children. If she didn't participate in the baby's gestation process, she was worried that the new father would not have enough fatherly love when the child was born.
So, taking advantage of the recent nice autumn weather, she goes home as soon as she gets out of school.
She can also take this opportunity to ask Wu Zhengrong to help her with her physics homework.
get out of class ended a little late on Friday, and when she returned to the military industrial compound, the sky was already dyed with sunset glow.
The eldest sister was standing at the door of her house confronting the fierce sunflower. Seeing this, Ye Manzhi walked over quickly and asked with a smile: "Sister, why are you here?"
"Hey, you're pregnant, so walk slower! I came here after work specifically to talk to you about something!" Ye Manjin was afraid of dogs, so he ran into the yard right beside his sister. Standing under the eaves, he asked mysteriously, "Guess who came to see me at work today?"
Ye Manzhi poured some water into Kuihua's bowl. Seeing that Kuihua had stopped barking and started drinking, he asked, "Who is it?"
"The one who caused trouble that day! Wu Tongyue's mother!"
"Huh?" Ye Manzhi put down the kettle in surprise and asked angrily, "She went to your company to cause trouble? How could she be like this! If she has something to do, she should go to her daughter. If that doesn't work, she should go directly to Fifth Brother or our parents. Why would she go to your company to cause trouble?"
The eldest sister chuckled heartily, then put her hands on her hips and said, "She does want to come to the military industrial compound to look for someone, but first she has to be able to get in!"
"Why can't she come in?"
"Haven't you noticed? Things have gotten really strict in this military industrial complex of yours lately! Outsiders entering and leaving must register with the sentries. While registration was required before, now they not only have to leave their name and work unit, but also the address and time of entry and exit. It seems pretty strict anyway."
Ye Manzhi had never noticed this before and said in surprise, "Even if the registration was strict, she could have just followed the procedure and registered at the door. Why did she have to go to your workplace and make a scene? It would have such a bad impact on you! What would your boss think of you?"
"She didn't cause trouble at my workplace." Ye Manjin laughed as he spoke. "That woman is quite influential. I heard from Lao Wu that she's a section chief at the Provincial Supply and Marketing Cooperative. Does that make her a provincial leader? I figured we're just a working-class family, ordinary people, and we couldn't afford to offend them. This matter was probably dropped in the end. But guess what happened?"
"Ah? What's the matter?" Ye Manzhi asked cooperatively.
"Your captain, Wu, called the Provincial Supply and Marketing Cooperative and filed a complaint against her! They said she had no registration record for entering and leaving the military industrial unit, obscuring the focus of the investigation, and interfering with the military representative office's anti-espionage and anti-espionage work. She's temporarily not allowed to enter the military industrial compound."
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