Chapter 68 Pregnancy
Wen Li came to the cave and found Xin Yuan standing with his back to her.
Wen Li slowed down and walked towards him.
"Xin Yuan?"
She spoke softly, and Xin Yuan in front of her turned back in fright.
"W-Why are you here?"
A hint of unnaturalness flashed across Xin Yuan's face.
Wen Li noticed the red corners of his eyes and walked quickly forward.
"Why did you come here suddenly...Aren't you going to continue eating?" Wen Li said unnaturally.
"Come back to get something." Xin Yuan said, turning his head away.
Wen Li glanced at Xin Yuan's fingers, finding nothing there. She asked:
"What do you want?"
Xin Yuan didn't answer. Wen Li thought that she spoke too softly and he didn't hear her.
"What do you want?" Wen Li came forward and asked again.
He gradually stopped searching and looked at Wen Li with his lips tightly pursed.
He said, “It’s none of your business.”
Wen Li froze in place for a moment.
Wen Li: “…Oh.”
Wen Li felt embarrassed, and the words of apology were stuck in her throat, and the desire to speak disappeared.
Their eyes met, and Wen Li turned and left.
She left without hesitation. Xin Yuan watched silently, his brows lowered, and his amber eyes were filled with water.
Wen Li walked out of the cave, but did not leave directly. Instead, he leaned against the edge of the cave.
Regret grows in my heart.
She picked at her fingers uncomfortably and sighed.
It's at times like this that she gets upset.
I know what to do in my heart, but I still can't be honest.
Wen Li took a deep breath and murmured, "I still have to get rid of this bad habit."
If I go back now, Meng Yu and the others will definitely continue to ask questions.
Wen Li hesitated for a moment and returned to the cave.
Xin Yuan was sitting on the edge of the bed, his palm supporting his forehead, his long eyelashes tightly closed.
Wen Li walked slowly and came to Xin Yuan's side again.
Seeing that he still didn't notice her, she whispered, "Xin Yuan."
As he spoke, Wen Li tentatively patted Xin Yuan's shoulder.
Xin Yuan didn't look up, but just said "hmm" in a muffled voice.
Wen Li sat down beside him, stared at his profile, and said softly, "I'm sorry."
The word "sorry" made Xin Yuan's eyelashes tremble.
Wen Li continued, "I didn't mean to not eat the shrimp you peeled. At that time... I was thinking about something."
Xin Yuan suddenly raised his head and looked at her sideways, "What are you thinking about?"
She didn't want to tell him directly about checking his favorability.
Wen Li's mind worked quickly, and she said, "You... kissed me."
Xin Yuan's eyes suddenly widened and he stared at Wen Li blankly.
Wen Li said awkwardly, "I still care."
His cheeks became red in just a few seconds. Xin Yuan opened his mouth but didn't know how to explain.
Seeing his blushing face, Wen Li knew that he believed what she said.
She whispered, "You...it's easy for me to misunderstand this way."
For some unknown reason, Xin Yuan asked, "Misunderstanding...what?"
"Need I say more?" Wen Li glared at him.
Could it be some misunderstanding? Is Xin Yuan pretending to be stupid in front of her?
Wen Li also came up to him, leaned over, and gave Xin Yuan a light kiss on the face.
Xin Yuan was stunned at first, and suddenly, huge waves appeared in his originally calm eyes.
His fingertips touched her cheek lightly, and his pupils trembled, "Wen...Wen Li, you..."
Wen Li calmly asked back: "What do you think when I kiss you like this?"
Xin Yuan hesitated for a long time before saying, "Happy."
This sentence made Wen Li confused.
She didn't want to ask that!
After hearing what Xin Yuan said, Wen Li's face also turned hot.
"I...I'll go out first."
Wen Li threw this sentence aside and turned to walk towards the cave.
Soon she stopped again and asked, "Are you coming over later?"
Xin Yuan: "Yeah."
When Wen Li returned to the front yard, both Meng Yu and Zhao Qi looked over.
"How are you and Xin Yuan?" Meng Yu asked impatiently.
The heat on Wen Li's face had dissipated, and she explained, "It's okay now."
Meng Yu raised an eyebrow at her, "Then, did anything happen?"
Wen Li played dumb, "What could happen?"
Meng Yu smiled mischievously, "Hey, stop pretending with me."
Wen Li said: "It's really nothing."
As he was speaking, Xin Yuan came back.
He held some food in his hand and explained, "I just went to get something."
Meng Yu and Zhao Qi kept it a secret and did not expose it.
No one dwelled on this matter for too long. Meng Yu talked to Wen Li about the latest gossip and reminded Wen Li to eat the shrimp quickly.
Wen Li stuffed the shrimps in the bowl into her mouth in a few seconds and finished it immediately.
She thought that would be enough, but she didn't expect that after she finished eating, Xin Yuan put the peeled shrimp meat back into her bowl.
Wen Li was a little full, but she felt embarrassed to refuse Xin Yuan again.
I was afraid that if I refused him, we would have a quarrel again.
Really tired of eating, Wen Li said with a stiff upper lip: "Xin Yuan, I'm full."
Xin Yuan paused while peeling the shrimp.
"Aren't you going to eat anymore?" His eyes gradually dimmed.
Wen Li thought to herself that this was not good. She picked up the shrimp in her bowl and passed it to his mouth. "Try it too, come on."
Xin Yuan met her expectant gaze, opened his lips, and took a bite of the shrimp she handed him.
"Is it delicious?" Wen Li asked.
Xin Yuan nodded.
Wen Li took the shrimp from his hand and peeled off the remaining shells for him. She smiled and said, "I've eaten enough. You can have the rest."
She was very skilled in peeling it off in a few strokes and then handed it to Xin Yuan's mouth.
Xin Yuan continued to open his mouth and eat.
Wen Li found a way to avoid eating shrimp, which was to feed it to Xin Yuan.
So she fed Xin Yuan while chatting with Meng Yu.
It's much quieter now.
The four of them cleaned up a large plate of fried shrimps.
Meng Yu asked Zhao Qi to help wash the dishes, and then she took Wen Li to the cave to talk in private.
"You are so mysterious, what's wrong?"
In Wen Li's cave, the two looked at each other.
Meng Yu cautiously glanced outside. When she didn't see Zhao Qi coming, she pulled Wen Li and said, "There's something I want you to confirm for me."
"What?" Wen Li also became interested.
Meng Yu whispered, "Wen Li, don't you know medical skills? Pregnancy... can you tell?"
"You are pregnant!?" Wen Li widened her eyes.
So sudden.
No, on second thought, it’s not sudden.
In the Beast World, some females younger than them have already given birth, so Meng Yu's pregnancy is considered late.
Meng Yu said embarrassedly, "I...I'm not sure either. I just feel a little strange, so I wanted to ask you."
Wen Li just happened to learn how to take a pulse recently, so it seems pregnancy is not a problem.
She pulled up Meng Yu's wrist, placed her fingers on it, and asked, "Why don't you go see a witch doctor, but come to me instead?"
Meng Yu muttered, "If I go out, Zhao Qi and the others will have to follow me. If I go to find a witch doctor, wouldn't that be too blatant?"
Wen Li raised her eyebrows, "It doesn't matter."
"Oh," Meng Yu said, "I'm just not sure. I'm afraid I'm not pregnant at all, and that they're just happy for nothing."
Wen Li remembered that Meng Yu had been looking forward to getting pregnant, but had never received good news.
"Let me help you take a look."
Wen Li's fingertips moved lightly, and her eyes lit up.
"Congratulations." She smiled and took her hand back.
Meng Yu jumped up instantly and said excitedly, "Wen Li, really! Really?!"
Wen Li smiled and said, "Really, it's been a month already, and your cub is very lively."
Meng Yu could no longer suppress the smile on his face, and laughed wildly towards the sky, "Finally!"
After waiting for several years, she finally got pregnant.
Meng Yu is different from Wen Li. She has been married to her first beastly husband for three years.
In the past three years, Meng Yu has not been pregnant, and many females in the tribe gossip about her behind her back.
Today, the wait finally came.
Meng Yu excitedly took Wen Li's hand and said, "Wen Li, I'm pregnant now. You should also work hard!"
Wen Li's mouth twitched, "I, I'm not in a hurry yet."
She and those beastly husbands haven't even had their wedding night yet.
Not to mention giving birth to cubs, this thing is too far away for her!
Her current task is to conquer a few people, and the problem of the cubs is beyond her scope.
Meng Yu held her hand tightly and said earnestly, "You have a good relationship with your beastly husbands now. If you seize the opportunity, you will eventually get pregnant."
Wen Li responded vaguely, "Okay, got it."
After getting the answer he wanted, Meng Yu left happily.
Wen Li sent her and Zhao Qi to the door.
Meng Yu waved his hand and said, "I'll go back first. I'll come and play with you when I have time."
Wen Li reminded: "Take it easy."
Meng Yu realized what she meant and glared at her lightly.
"Let's go!"
After Meng Yu left, Wen Li did not go out again.
It was getting late, and Zhu Yan, Bai Yanci and the others would be back from hunting in a while.
She's cooking now, and the timing is just right.
So Wen Li took Xin Yuan to the kitchen to prepare food.
In the evening, all the dishes were served, and Zhu Yan and Bai Yanci also returned home with their prey.
This time the harvest was quite fruitful, and Shen Yihe and Pei Yu also came here.
Wen Li hadn't seen the two of them for a while.
Usually Shen Yihe and Pei Yu don’t eat with them.
They usually divided the prey on the way, Zhu Yan and Bai Yanci carried it home, while Shen Yihe and Pei Yu went directly back to their cave.
The two caves were close to each other, so they ate together.
Zhu Yan pushed open the wooden door and entered the yard, where a rich fragrance hit him in the face.
He put down his prey and sniffed hard, "What a nice smell!"
Bai Yanci also noticed the stone table full of dishes, which made him hungry just by looking at them.
"Why are you cooking so early today?" Bai Yanci asked curiously.
Xin Yuan came out with the freshly cooked shrimps and saw Zhu Yan and the others. He said, "Brother, you're back. Let's clean up and eat. Wen Li cooked a lot of food today."
There seem to be many dishes, all made with shrimps, so it is not an exaggeration to call it a shrimp banquet.
Wen Li came up with many different ways to cook shrimp, including stir-fried shrimp, garlic shrimp, fried shrimp... and so on.
Feeling it was too monotonous, she cut several more ribs and made braised ribs, and also stir-fried some vegetables.
Wen Li finished cooking the last dish and walked out of the kitchen.
"Oh, you're back."
She held the last stir-fried vegetables and spoke to the people in the yard.
The men who were originally studying the dishes looked at Wen Li after hearing her voice.
When I saw this, I was stunned.
I didn't recognize it was Wen Li.
The afterglow of the setting sun fell on Wen Li's face, giving her a faint golden glow.
The loose hair hanging on her cheeks swayed in the wind, and she smiled faintly, looking as beautiful as a painting.
"What's wrong with you?" Wen Li looked at the few people who didn't react in confusion.
Without stopping, he placed the vegetables in his hand on the stone table.
"It's time to eat." Wen Li reminded.
At this time, everyone came to their senses.
Zhu Yan's eyes were glued to Wen Li's face and he couldn't move them away.
If he hadn't said it, how could Wen Li have changed so much in just one day?
Did she look like this before? Zhu Yan was shocked.
Wen Li ignored his gaze and turned to look at Shen Yihe and Pei Yu, "You are here too, how about staying and eating together?"
Upon seeing this, Wen Li clearly discovered that Pei Yu's gaze towards her was more intense than before.
Shen Yihe didn't look at her, his attention was all on the stone table.
"Okay." Shen Yihe agreed.
Wen Li looked at Pei Yu, "What about you?"
"I have no objection." Pei Yu said.
Several people put down their prey and sat down at the stone table.
This was the first time that Wen Li sat at the same table with all the beastly husbands.
Surrounded by five handsome men with different styles, Wen Li was a little dazed.
The current scene is like a dream.
Wen Li sat in the middle, with Xin Yuan and Zhu Yan beside her.
It was a rare opportunity, and she originally wanted to sit next to Shen Yihe, but Zhu Yan pulled her over directly.
Wen Li couldn't refuse either.
"Okay, let's eat." Wen Li said.
After she started eating, others followed suit.
Wen Li had not yet realized that her family status had risen a lot without her noticing.
At the table, no one talked much and ate quietly.
Wen Li's gaze frequently turned to Chen Yihe.
If you think about it carefully, this is the first time Shen Yihe has eaten something she made. I wonder if it suits his appetite.
I watched as Shen Yihe picked up a garlic shrimp and started eating it politely.
Wen Li's heart gradually began to tighten.
Fortunately, Shen Yihe seemed very satisfied.
Wen Li lowered her head and smiled, a hint of sweetness rising in her heart.
Little did she know that her reaction was seen by Zhu Yan and others, and they all had their own thoughts for a moment.
Zhu Yan snorted coldly and continued eating.
Bai Yanci seemed to be thinking about something.
Pei Yu still stared at Wen Li with a fiery gaze.
It was obvious that he admired Wen Li's current face very much. The mermaid tribe's obsession with appearance was indeed well-deserved.
Xin Yuan didn't pay attention to these.
At the dinner table, peeling shrimp became his main job.
After quickly eating a few mouthfuls of rice, Xin Yuan continued to peel shrimp for Wen Li.
Peel each one and put it into a warm glass bowl.
Wen Li whispered, "Thank you, but I can do it myself."
Xin Yuan smiled brightly at her and said, "I'll help you."
"……oh."
Facing this face, Wen Li really had no way to refuse.
She had no choice but to pick up the shrimp and stuff it into her mouth.
I have to say, it’s really delicious!
Zhu Yan, who was standing by, also noticed Xin Yuan's actions, frowned, and picked up a shrimp.
Then Wen Li discovered that there was another shrimp delivery man on his right.
Wen Li looked at Zhu Yan helplessly, "I can do it myself."
Zhu Yan handed the shrimp meat directly to Wen Li's mouth.
Wen Li didn't eat.
Zhu Yan said awkwardly, "Xin Yuan's is OK... but mine isn't?"
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