Chapter 140: Is There a Problem with the Pregnancy?

"You finally noticed?" Jiang Yu said, well-versed in this routine.

"Hmph." Xu Yan put down her chopsticks and rolled her eyes at him.

"But what you noticed isn't accurate; it's not fat, it's weight—the weight you carry in my heart has grown heavier."

Upon hearing this, Xu Yan gave his arm a coquettish swat.

Jiang Cheng:...

They are both men of the Jiang Family, so why is his younger brother so much more capable?

Lesson learned.

The Jiang Family members:...

Jiang You calmly continued eating; she had been accustomed to this since she was a child.

Her parents were true love; she was just an accident.

For her, this kind of situation was simply commonplace.

"What kind of behavior is this! A grown man who only knows how to coddle his wife all day long, it's simply shameful!"

Nainai could no longer watch.

She wondered if her younger son's two grandsons had been kicked in the head by a donkey when they were small, as neither of them had any sense.

Why treasure a woman so much when she can't even give birth to a son?

Nainai's gaze shifted and landed on Si Rong.

"Jiang Cheng's wife, come to Nainai's side!"

It was rare for her to speak in such a pleasant tone.

But Si Rong still dared not approach her rashly; after all, this old lady was both stubborn and rigid.

She felt a bit afraid.

Her hand involuntarily reached out under the table to take Jiang Cheng's hand.

"Nainai, we're eating, just say whatever you have to say directly."

Jiang Cheng gripped his wife's small hand back and would not let go.

Nainai slammed the table, "What? Do you think I would harm your wife?"

"That's hard to say." That was exactly what Jiang Cheng thought.

Nainai:...

That was close; it was another day she had almost been angered to death by her own grandson.

"Come here, let Nainai see if you are carrying a boy or a girl in your belly."

She had no choice but to speak pleasantly again.

Since things had reached this point, and there were so many people here, Si Rong had no choice but to stand up and walk to Nainai's side, with Jiang Cheng following every step of the way.

Nainai was furious, but she could do nothing about it.

This rotten grandson!

Ignoring him, Nainai began to observe Si Rong's belly intently.

It was on the larger side; nothing else could be determined.

"I think your belly looks like twins."

Nainai's words shocked everyone, and Jiang Cheng immediately retorted, "What do you know? Stop spouting nonsense; you don't have the composure an elderly person should have."

Giving birth to one was hard enough; he couldn't bear for his wife to have twins.

Nainai felt like using her cane to smash this grandson's mouth to pieces.

"My eyes are very sharp; if I say it's twins, then it's definitely twins!"

However, it would be a waste if she gave birth to two girls.

She could think of a way to help her foolish grandson.

There was a fortune-teller in the village behind the mountain; it was said that if you burned the talisman paper she provided into ash, mixed it with water, and drank it, it could turn the fetus in a pregnant woman's womb into a boy.

That way, her younger son's family would have an heir.

Thinking of this, Nainai couldn't help but become two parts more pleasant toward Si Rong, and she took out her secret stash of money—wrapped in layers of plastic bags—from her pocket, pulling out a ten-yuan bill.

She handed it to Si Rong, "Nainai is happy to see you are pregnant; take this money to buy something good to eat."

Si Rong felt touched at this moment and declined, "Nainai, I feel your kindness, but you should keep the money for yourself."

Although the old lady seemed to have good intentions, she always felt that the way Nainai looked at her belly was a bit strange.

It was a kind of strangeness she couldn't put into words.

"Take it! If Nainai gives it to you, you take it!"

Nainai insisted on giving it, and since it wasn't too much money, Si Rong accepted it.

"Why didn't you give the big one to my wife?" Jiang Cheng was tall and had spotted a one-hundred-yuan bill inside his grandmother's plastic bag at a glance.

Taking advantage of the moment the old lady was a beat slow, he swapped the ten-yuan bill in his wife's hand for the one-hundred-yuan bill.

His wife deserved the best! He wouldn't have it any other way.

Si Rong:...

"Nainai! Hurry and hit my brother!" Jiang Yu instigated, "I'll help you watch the money first!"

Then, while Nainai was busy chasing Jiang Cheng with her cane, he pulled a one-hundred-yuan bill from his grandmother's secret stash and handed it to his own young wife.

He was incredibly generous, "Here! Take it and spend it!"

Whatever other people's wives had, his wife had to have too!

In any case, this money was all given by Jiang Aiguo and Hu Qian on a regular basis; the uncles in the village never gave a single cent to Nainai.

He figured that as soon as they took it, Jiang Aiguo would replenish it for the old lady.

Nainai turned around, wanting to come back and hit this grandson again, only to see Jiang Yu dragging his wife away to run.

"Nainai! You're old; from now on, leave tiring tasks like spending money to us young people!"

Nainai:...

Even though Jiang Aiguo gave her another two hundred yuan, he still couldn't coax her into a good mood; she insisted on returning to the village no matter what.

It was almost the eldest son's family's turn anyway, so Jiang Aiguo packed her things and sent her off.

After the meal, Jiang Qi called Jiang Zhi into her room and chatted with her about going to Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.

Jiang Zhi listened patiently until she finished, then directly refused.

"I don't want to go, and I don't want to go abroad."

Jiang Qi felt bitter inside.

Traveling abroad was something many children in the country looked forward to; she hadn't expected her daughter to be so uninterested.

"But Mom wants to be with you."

She spoke her true thoughts.

Having been abroad for so many years, she had never been able to have a child with her foreign husband.

As she grew older and saw others with children and grandchildren around their knees, she developed the idea of bringing her daughter to her side.

"Then you could stay in the country; couldn't we be together then?"

Jiang Zhi calmly asked her in return.

Jiang Qi was left speechless.

"But, but Mom's work and family are all abroad,"

"You also said it yourself, those are your work and family, not mine."

Jiang Zhi turned around and smiled, "My home is in Huaiyang, so I won't go anywhere else; don't bring up going abroad again in the future."

Jiang Qi could only watch helplessly as her daughter left with her younger brother and sister-in-law, as if they were the daughter's parents.

Si Rong returned home and remembered Nainai's words, asking Wang Ma, "Jiang Cheng's grandmother said my belly is big and it's twins; what do you think, Wang Ma?"

Wang Ma thought of that old woman from the Jiang Family, who wasn't very reliable and whose head always seemed a bit off, "Don't listen to her bragging! She's probably just wishing you'd give birth to twin boys!"

Naturally, she only hoped for her young lady's delivery to go smoothly.

The risks of delivering twins were high.

Back in her village, there was a woman who had twins and died on the way to the hospital.

The two children's birthday became their mother's death anniversary.

"I'm thinking of going to the hospital to check."

Si Rong specifically chose a day with fair winds and beautiful weather, as Jiang Cheng was off today.

They would go to the hospital together, and it would also be a good opportunity to have a basic prenatal checkup.

The person examining Si Rong was a young girl; she used a stethoscope to listen for quite a while, then suddenly stood up abruptly and said to an older doctor behind the curtain, "Teacher, this pregnant woman's fetus seems abnormal!"

Si Rong's heart instantly jumped to her throat.

It felt as if something was lodged in her throat, and her eyes began to sting.

She could not accept that there might be a problem with her child.

"Comrade, what is the problem? Please explain clearly!" Jiang Cheng asked urgently, patting Si Rong's back to soothe her.