Chapter 790

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"What are you wildly thinking about?"

Li Xiulan was stunned.

Wang Zhanggen said:

"My body is getting worse and worse; I reckon I'm not far from death."

"Pah pah pah, why say such unlucky things?"

Li Xiulan hurriedly said:

"Ease your mindset, don't lose your temper at every turn, and I guarantee you'll live to a hundred!"

But Wang Zhanggen said:

"Liu Xiaoli got liver cancer, Liang Yuanchao had liver cancer before too; you tell me, why us poor people get liver cancer so easily, and it's always late stage by the time it's found."

Li Xiulan couldn't answer Wang Zhanggen's question, so she could only persuade:

"Don't think wildly!"

Yet Wang Zhanggen kept thinking wildly:

"I heard Hepatitis B can cause liver cancer; who knows if I have liver cancer now too."

Hearing this, Li Xiulan couldn't help but panic, and she hurriedly slapped Wang Zhanggen's shoulder:

"I told you not to think wildly, why won't you listen? Didn't Erhai take us for a physical exam before? Our bodies are perfectly fine! Stop thinking wildly, or you'll imagine an illness where there isn't one!"

Wang Zhanggen didn't say anything more.

He felt Li Xiulan simply didn't understand him.

So an inexplicable melancholy rose in his heart.

Then he suddenly sighed with emotion:

"Maybe I'll never get to hold a grandson in this life; perhaps that's just fate."

Li Xiulan hurriedly comforted:

"Don't think like that; isn't Xiao Juan also preparing for pregnancy? She might conceive before long. As for Erhai and Mei Qi, honestly, it was within expectations; I've always seen them as stiff with each other, not of one mind like Dashan and Xiao Juan; we just need to be open-minded about it."

But Wang Zhanggen said coldly:

"You make it sound easy; I've already told so many people about the full moon banquet, and now this happens — my old face has been completely disgraced by them."

Mentioning this matter, Wang Zhanggen still held a sullen anger.

Divorces in Shanggou Village are few, yet Wang Erhai not only divorced but also ruined the grandson Wang Zhanggen had been longing for; this is the first time such a thing has happened in Shanggou Village!

He felt he would become the laughingstock of the whole village.

"Why do you care how others look at us? We just need to live our own lives well!"

Li Xiulan, on the other hand, took it lightly.

In her youth, however many people misunderstood her, she had endured through it all; now this little matter, honestly, didn't even count as a matter in her heart.

She also said:

"Erhai is still young; if he can find a more virtuous new partner, that's not a bad thing either."

At this moment Wang Zhanggen suddenly said:

"Call Dashan."

Li Xiulan was puzzled:

"It's late at night; why call Dashan?"

Wang Zhanggen said:

"Ask how their pregnancy preparation is going; they've been preparing this long, there can't be no movement at all, right?"

Li Xiulan didn't want to call now:

"Can't we call tomorrow morning?"

But Wang Zhanggen said:

"Call now, ask clearly right now!"

Li Xiulan knew she couldn't out-stubborn Wang Zhanggen, so in the end she still made the call.

"Hello, Dashan, have you eaten dinner?"

After the call connected, Li Xiulan asked with concern first.

"Ate long ago, Mom, what's up?"

"Nothing much, just your dad wants to ask how you and Xiao Juan's pregnancy preparation is going?"

"Cough cough... still working on it..." Wang Dashan sounded a bit guilty, "Mom, you and Dad don't need to worry; Xiao Juan and I will definitely have a baby. By the way, isn't Second Brother's wife pregnant? You should be more concerned about them."

Wang Dashan didn't know Liu Meiqi had already miscarried, so that's why he said this, trying to shift his parents' attention to his second brother and sister-in-law.

However, he'd have been better off not mentioning it; the moment he did, Li Xiulan sighed:

"Don't mention them; they're divorced."

"Ah? No way?" Wang Dashan immediately cried out in shock.

Even Du Xiaojuan, who was playing on her phone nearby, was startled.

She couldn't help but look up at him:

"What's going on?"

Wang Dashan hurriedly replied:

"My mom said my second brother and his wife got divorced."

Du Xiaojuan's reaction, however, was quite flat.

Because in her heart she had long felt that Wang Erhai and Liu Meiqi could not last, after all the two of them had always been superficially harmonious but actually estranged, very incompatible.

At this time Wang Dashan hurriedly asked Li Xiulan:

"Mom, how could this happen? Second brother and his wife, weren't they always doing fine? And second sister-in-law is pregnant, how did they suddenly get divorced?"

Li Xiulan smiled bitterly, and truthfully said:

"Liu Meiqi went and had the child aborted, this was perhaps the spark that led to their divorce, sigh, anyway now they're divorced, saying more is useless, your dad learned this news and was so angry he fainted, fortunately he took some medicine and recovered, now Erhai's side can't be counted on, we can only count on you two, so he had me call to ask how your pregnancy preparation is going."

Wang Dashan hurriedly said:

"Mom, we've been trying hard all along, but having a child depends heavily on fate, you also know, it's not like just because you prepare for pregnancy you'll get pregnant."

Li Xiulan then said:

"I know that, but you two also have to put your minds to it, if you prepare for pregnancy too long and still haven't conceived, go see a doctor when you should, don't drag it out."

"Got it Mom, don't worry, we'll work hard, anything else?"

"Nothing else."

"Then I'm hanging up, me and Xiao Juan are busy."

Wang Dashan hung up the phone, couldn't help but let out a long breath of turbid air.

"Really don't understand, how could my second brother and his wife get divorced? This is too sudden!"

Wang Dashan sighed with emotion, then said again:

"No, I have to call and say a few words to my second brother, how could he be so rash?"

Du Xiaojuan however said:

"Don't call him, talking to him is useless, they're already divorced, do you think scolding him a couple sentences will make them remarry? You scold him, he'll just be annoyed at you."

Wang Dashan was depressed beyond measure, but he also couldn't deny that what Du Xiaojuan said made sense.

"I just feel it's too sudden, and they even aborted the child."

Du Xiaojuan however said:

"What's sudden about it? Everything has traces to be found, they knew each other such a short time before marrying, neither understood the other well, couldn't mesh, naturally could only end in divorce."

Then she also said:

"I see this actually might not be a bad thing, Liu Meiqi this woman at a glance is the very cunning type, your second brother can't out-maneuver her, now the child wasn't born, that counts as stopping losses in time, if the child had been born, your second brother would have a lifetime of suffering. After divorcing find a gentler one, it'll help your second brother's career too."

Wang Dashan smiled bitterly:

"Now the problem is, Mom and Dad can't hold a grandson, and turn back to urge us to prepare for pregnancy, what to do about this?"

This is the crux of the problem.

They had barely gotten a moment of breathing room because Liu Meiqi got pregnant, now Liu Meiqi and Wang Erhai's side have made such a mess, result is they're being urged to have kids again, truly the city gate catches fire and the fish in the moat suffer.

Although Wang Dashan repeatedly claimed to his parents that he and Du Xiaojuan were always trying hard to prepare for pregnancy, actually he and Du Xiaojuan had never prepared for pregnancy, not only had they not prepared, every time they were intimate they still did protective measures dead tight, afraid of accidentally getting pregnant.

Du Xiaojuan hearing this, her brows slightly furrowed.

Fell into deep thought, for a moment unable to speak.

Wang Dashan said again:

"Xiao Juan, you say if Mom and Dad desperately urge us to have a baby again, what to do?"

Du Xiaojuan was silent a moment, said:

"Give me half a year more, wait until I clean up Xiao Du Technology's mess, get the financing dividends, pay off part of the mortgage early, and stabilize Wanjia Commodities' business, then we can start preparing for pregnancy."

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