Chapter 240: Gao Yang Finally Gets Her Wish Fulfilled, Chen Yan's Excitement and Hesitation

"You don't want to argue with me, and I don't want to argue with you either."

Gao Yang muttered something else, but didn't continue the quarrel, picked up her chopsticks and prepared to eat.

Actually she didn't know what was happening; lately her mood was especially irritable, even more so than the feeling she had before her period.

Sometimes Gao Yang even wondered if she was pregnant.

But Gao Yang remembered clearly that Chen Yan each time scattered his offspring onto her belly, not inside it, so she never thought about it that way.

"Huh~"

"Finally we can eat~"

Sizi, seeing that they didn't continue the argument, gave a slight sigh like a little adult, then sat on a specially made raised stool and ate cheerfully.

It left Chen Yan speechless.

Between the two of us, who is the child?

What's with that exhausted expression on your face?

However, before the three had taken a few bites, Gao Yang suddenly vomited the braised pork she had just eaten, and kept dry coughing, looking extremely uncomfortable.

"What's wrong?" Chen Yan patted her back, feeling a bit worried.

After all, she's his own daughter‑in‑law; he must care for her.

"No, it's nothing!" Gao Yang waved her hand, took out a handkerchief to wipe her mouth, and looking at the usual delicacies on the table, instantly lost her appetite.

"You all eat, I'm tired, I'm going back to rest first."

After saying that, Gao Yang didn't give Chen Yan a chance to speak, and stood up on her own and left.

Chen Yan stared blankly at her departing back, instinctively turned his head, and saw Xiao Sizi eating with oil all over his mouth, as if he hadn't noticed what just happened, his mouth corner twitching uncontrollably.

"Sizi, your older sister seems very uncomfortable; aren't you worried?"

Sizi pursed his lips, "I'm not my sister's husband, why should I worry?"

Chen Yan: "......"

"What you said, she's your sister."

"It's fine, it's fine, my sister's husband knows medicine, she won't die," Xiao Sizi said, then shoved another piece of meat into his mouth, chewing and swallowing with a satisfied expression.

"Besides, I rely on my sister's husband for treatment; what's the point of worrying?"

"Alright, go keep my sister company, don't disturb me while I eat."

Chen Yan: "......"

Hmm......

He always feels that Sizi, over these past months, really seems to have been led astray.

If Empress Changsun saw Sizi now, she would probably be very... gratified, right?

Chen Yan thought uncertainly.

"......"

At this moment, Chen Yan also lost his appetite for the meal and hurriedly chased after Gao Yang in the direction she had gone.

When he found Gao Yang, she was already at the doorway of the room.

Gao Yang braced the door with one hand, covered her chest with the other, half crouched, seeming to be vomiting.

"Zhao Tang!" At this point, Chen Yan could no longer sit still, hurried over and gently helped Gao Yang up.

He also noticed a liquid on the floor that resembled sour water, and furrowed his brows tightly.

"What on earth is wrong with you?"

"Does something hurt?"

Gao Yang pressed her lips tightly, shook her head, seeming unwilling to speak.

Seeing this, Chen Yan immediately said, "Come in first, I'll take your pulse for you."

The two entered the room, Chen Yan helped Gao Yang sit on a stool, "Take it easy, okay~"

Gao Yang found it funny, enduring the discomfort, said, "Why do you always treat me like a child?"

"Come, extend your hand." Chen Yan said nothing, and after sitting opposite her, gestured for her to extend her hand.

Gao Yang hesitated a moment, originally wanting to say it wasn't necessary, that she was just a bit nauseous and had no appetite.

But seeing her husband's concerned gaze, she still extended her hand.

Chen Yan placed his fingertip on Gao Yang's wrist pulse, carefully feeling something.

After a short while, his eyes suddenly became dazed.

How could this pulse be exactly the same as Empress Changsun's back then?

Smooth and fluid, like beads rolling on a board, pressing it gave a rolling sensation, as if feeling a string of tiny beads moving through the vessels.

This kind of pulse is very easy to identify; he could never mistake it.

That means......

Chen Yan swallowed saliva, gazed at Gao Yang's delicate face, stunned and absorbed.

"What's wrong?" Gao Yang asked puzzledly upon seeing his expression.

"No, nothing, I'll feel again."

For some reason, Chen Yan's lips were a bit dry, his heart was extremely nervous and excited, even beginning to doubt the medical teachings his grandfather had taught him since childhood.

He persisted, feeling a few more times, yet the result remained the same.

Gao Yang... is really pregnant.

"What exactly is going on, just tell me!" Gao Yang, a bit impatient, was already uncomfortable and irritable.

Chen Yan stared at her as if seeing a ghost, which only made her more annoyed.

"If I were ill, wouldn't you just say so?"

Chen Yan fell silent for a moment, then forced out: "You...... aren't sick."

"Not sick then not sick, why make that face?" Gao Yang grew even more impatient, got up intending to go lie on the bed for a while, but he grabbed her.

Wait.

What now?

Chen Yan scratched his head, wanting to speak but stopping, not knowing what to say.

Finally, his mind went blank, and he blurted: "Recently, hasn't anyone come to our place?"

"Don't you know if anyone's come to our place?" Gao Yang said in not-too-good tone, "Besides your three brothers who often come, there's only Du Gou, Fang Yizhi, Ma Zhou, and those rich merchants you summoned."

"Right." Gao Yang sneered: "I almost forgot, plus your little lover."

Chen Yan's mind raced quickly; each name Gao Yang mentioned flashed through, and then he rejected them all.

Du Gou and his two companions always come to talk with him; even aside from their character making it impossible, just based on lacking the opportunity, these three couldn't be the culprits.

As for Cheng Chu Mo and his two brothers......

Although they're goofy, they're all extremely loyal, and would never harm a sister-in-law.

More importantly, Gao Yang basically looks down on them.

And on the Weinan County side there are no monks either; after ruling out Li Lizhi, only one possibility remains......

Chen Yan's mouth went dry; he couldn't immediately say what he felt—joy, excitement, bewilderment, worry...... as well as anticipation and delight at having his own flesh and blood.

Too many, too many, can't even count them.

At this moment, Gao Yang had completely lost patience, didn't want to deal with Chen Yan, just wanted to get a good sleep.

However, just as she turned around, Chen Yan's hoarse voice came from behind.

You...... are pregnant.

"I'm pregnant, so what......" Gao Yang snapped back, but at the last moment she realized, instinctively placing a hand on her belly, overwhelmed with joy.

I'm pregnant?

I'm pregnant!!!

Gao Yang hurriedly asked: "In other words, I really am carrying a child?"

Chen Yan nodded dumbly.

"Great!" Gao Yang overjoyed, heaven knows how much she's hoped for a child.

If it weren't for Chen Yan constantly using safety concerns to pressure her, she wouldn't have agreed to let Chen Yan continue whatever he was doing outside.

Because once she had a child, she wouldn't have to worry that Chen Yan would abandon her.

Even if Chen Yan abandoned her, that child would definitely not leave her.

No matter what happens from now on, she is no longer alone.

On Gao Yang's beautifully delicate face, like a painting, appeared the softest, most sincere smile yet, the glow of maternal love shimmering on her.

But soon, Gao Yang's smile froze, as if she had remembered something.

"What did you mean by asking just now who had come to my house?"