Chapter 130: The Wife Is Pregnant

"Rongrong!"

Jiang Cheng reacted quickly, catching the woman as she fainted.

"Doctor!"

Jiang Aiguo, on the bed, was also startled and hurriedly pressed the call button at the head of the bed.

Soon, the doctor on duty came over to examine Si Rong.

"It's nothing serious," the doctor, a woman in her fifties, said, looking at Jiang Cheng with some disapproval. "Your wife is pregnant, yet you still let her stay up all night. That's truly outrageous!"

And he calls himself a soldier? How could he not know how to cherish his wife?

Truly, all crows under heaven are black; there isn't a single good man.

Jiang Cheng:...

He hadn't intended for his wife to stay up all night.

It was his fault.

Huh?

"Doctor, what did you just say?"

The doctor hadn't expected this man to have so many issues; not only did he not know how to cherish his wife, but his hearing was also faulty.

While listening with her stethoscope, she repeated impatiently, "I said, since your wife is pregnant, don't let her stay up all night. You're a grown man, you can't..."

His wife is pregnant?

These few words exploded in Jiang Cheng's mind like a thunderclap.

His first reaction was that the doctor had misdiagnosed, so he followed up, "My wife, is she really pregnant?"

"You're her husband and you don't know?" The doctor was completely speechless. "I can understand that you soldiers have it hard protecting the country, but no matter how hard it is, you can't neglect your own wife, especially since your wife is on the thin side and is also considered an older expectant mother. You family members need to be even more attentive!"

"Oh, oh, okay."

Jiang Aiguo on the bed didn't react any better than he did.

Although he and his wife had already accepted the possibility that their eldest son would have no offspring, hearing suddenly that his daughter-in-law was pregnant, his first reaction was still joy.

Very happy!

His wife would definitely be very happy when she found out!

The whole family would be very happy when they found out!

Including his mother, who loved to find fault!

At the thought that he was about to become a grandfather, Jiang Aiguo felt his body improve significantly.

He must take good care of his health from now on so that he could help raise the child.

After the doctor left, Jiang Cheng sat beside Si Rong and watched her quietly.

The emotions in his heart were far too complex.

There was a vague sense of excitement, but more than that, there was worry.

He had heard Jiang Yu say before that for a woman, giving birth to a child is no different from taking a trip through the gates of hell.

Not long after saying that, Jiang Yu went to the hospital to get a vasectomy.

In the end, he couldn't bear to let his wife have a second child.

Just as the doctor said, at Si Rong's current age, giving birth is considered high-risk.

Which meant it would be more dangerous than it is for an ordinary woman to give birth.

He sat there like that until dawn.

Hu Qian came to deliver their breakfast and whispered with Jiang Aiguo for quite a while behind the curtain.

Jiang Cheng continued to watch Si Rong on the bed.

She was originally a delicate lady like a rose; how could she endure the suffering of childbirth?

Thinking of her being in pain, shedding tears, and losing blood, Jiang Cheng felt full of regret.

It was his fault.

He had let his guard down, thinking she couldn't get pregnant, so time after time he hadn't taken precautions.

Si Rong didn't wake up until nearly noon, feeling very exhausted. The curtains were half-drawn, and a ray of sunlight filtered through the gap, as beautiful as the flowing light of daybreak.

At this moment, Jiang Cheng was sitting with his back to that beautiful flowing light.

His deep phoenix eyes beneath thick brows were fixed on her.

Only then did she remember fainting the night before.

Her mood sank a little; could it be that she had contracted some serious illness?

Combined with Jiang Cheng's bitter and hateful expression, she was almost certain of it in her heart.

"Jiang Cheng, tell me the truth! What illness do I have?"

"Don't worry, I am very strong and can fully withstand it."

Jiang Cheng:...

Worried that his wife was letting her imagination run wild, he hurriedly coaxed her to reassure her, "No, Rongrong, you aren't sick, it's just... you're pregnant."

"What?!!!"

Si Rong was never a person who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

But hearing Jiang Cheng say she was pregnant, and seeing Father Jiang and Mother Jiang nodding in agreement from the hospital bed next to them, she truly could not remain calm.

"How could I possibly be pregnant?"

She murmured. All these years, from hoping to be a mother, to gradually becoming disappointed, and then to now, calmly accepting the fact that she was infertile.

Other women might be able to get pregnant, but only she couldn't.

She was someone who had been diagnosed with infertility by so many doctors.

"Rongrong, both gynecologists said the same thing."

Jiang Cheng was also worried that the first doctor had misdiagnosed her, so after the doctors arrived for work in the morning, he had another gynecologist examine her.

Si Rong fell silent.

She slowly placed her hand on her lower abdomen, lowering her head to gaze at it for a long time.

She could not help but laugh and cry at the same time.

If her marriage of nearly twenty years had been a scheme, then had her fertility also been part of that scheme?

Shen Lan, oh Shen Lan, she had originally thought that once they divorced, they would go their separate ways.

It seemed she would have to investigate the matters of those years as well.

She would find out exactly how those two had schemed, and then return the pain she had suffered for all these years back to them.

Jiang Cheng held her, using his thumb to wipe away the tears at the corners of her eyes, "Alright, alright, stop crying..."

Her crying was breaking his heart.

Si Rong knew crying was not good, and she did not want to cry, but she simply could not help it.

After a long while, she remembered asking Jiang Cheng about children when they were in the military dormitory before they were married; Jiang Cheng had said he did not care if she could conceive because he did not like children.

But this child, she was determined to give birth to it.

The child she had longed for for so many years.

A little life conceived within her own body.

"Jiang Cheng, I want to have this child."

She looked into Jiang Cheng's eyes, feeling a bit guilty, "If you don't like it when the time comes, I will raise it myself."

At worst, they could just sleep in separate beds.

She had seen many men who did not like children, even their own.

There was a difference between being born to someone and being personally birthed by someone.

Even now, when she returned to her parents' home, the sentence she said most to her father was still, "Dad, where's Mom?"

Jiang Cheng:...

Hu Qian slapped her son on the back, her eyes glaring fiercely, "You still don't like children?"

You dare?

Once it's born, you'd better like it!

You really have some nerve.

"Rongrong, rest assured and have the child; he will definitely like it! Mom likes it too!"

Jiang Cheng:...

"And me, I like grandsons and granddaughters alike!" Jiang Aiguo also hurriedly stated his position.

Just like that, the joy of Si Rong's pregnancy diluted the sadness of Jiang Aiguo's illness; the whole family was happy for the couple after learning of Si Rong's pregnancy, including Jiang Zhi.

She did not even know why she was happy, but as long as her uncle and aunt were happy, she was happy too.

In her heart, she had already begun planning to teach the little baby how to walk, write, and sing once it was born.

Jiang Yu was naturally happy for his brother as well.

"Truly, the clouds have parted to reveal the moon!" He teased when no one was around, "It was worth your years of waiting, and it also proves one thing: Brother, you haven't lost your touch!"

Because of this disrespectful remark, he was chased and beaten up by his brother.

"I'm almost forty and you're still hitting me!"

Jiang Yu felt that as a County Magistrate, he really had no dignity at all.

"Even if I'm eighty, I'm still your brother!"

In this family, only Old Madam Jiang felt out of place among the joyful crowd.