Chapter 103

Jiang Li held her in his arms and said softly, "It's okay, you don't have to say it if you don't want to."

"Really?" Du Ruo raised her head to look at him.

Jiang Li said "Mm." "It's very late, and you're tired, hurry back to the room and rest. Whatever the matter, it can wait until you wake up."

Du Ruo was indeed tired.

First, she went to dig up a grave and steal a corpse, then she stood and performed surgery for several hours without even a helper. Her foundation was already weak, and she really couldn't hold on anymore.

"Okay, Husband, then I'm going to rest." Du Ruo yawned as she entered her room and fell asleep the moment her head hit the pillow.

Soon, her breathing became light and even.

Jiang Li blew out the kerosene lamp and stood in front of the bed for a long time. In the darkness, he couldn't see Du Ruo's face, but he suddenly remembered what Mei Ruxi had once said to him, that Du Ruo was not as simple as he thought, and there was a huge secret about her.

At the time, he didn't believe it, thinking Mei Ruxi was sowing discord.

Now it seemed it might be true.

What kind of secret was hidden about his wife?

It wasn't that Jiang Li didn't want to know; he very much hoped Du Ruo could open her heart to him without any concealment. But thinking about it carefully, the secret of being able to conjure items out of thin air was shocking; if it were him, he definitely wouldn't say it easily either.

That was why he decided not to force Du Ruo; originally, all he wanted was this person, and whether there was a secret or not didn't matter at all.

Jiang Li bent down to tuck the quilt in for Du Ruo and turned to leave the room.

Du Ruo slept for a long time, and it wasn't until Zheng Shi got anxious and came to call her that she was woken up.

"Mother, what time is it?" She rubbed her eyes and looked outside the window.

"You, did you go to be a thief last night? Why are you still lazing in bed at this hour?" Zheng Shi took her daughter's clothes from the rack and said crossly, "It's only because your father-in-law and mother-in-law are gone, and your husband spoils you; if it were another family, see if they wouldn't take a stick to you."

Du Ruo hugged her arm and acted like a spoiled child. "Oh, Mother, it's because you're here that I can sleep in so comfortably."

Zheng Shi's heart instantly softened into a puddle of water. She gave her daughter's heavy back a light tap and said, "There should be a limit to sleeping in; the sun is already high in the sky, and lunch is already cooked. Is it right to make everyone wait for you alone?"

That was naturally not right, so Du Ruo hurriedly threw off the quilt and got out of bed.

Zheng Shi turned to go out and ran into Jiang Li, who was lifting his feet to come in, at the doorway.

Fearing that Jiang Li would dislike her daughter, she hurriedly spoke up: "Son-in-law, don't worry, I've already scolded A-Man, she won't dare to sleep in during the day again next time."

Jiang Li couldn't help but laugh and cry. "It's okay, Mother-in-law, my wife was tired last night, let her sleep a little longer."

Tired last night? Could it be...

Zheng Shi thought of something, her old face instantly flushed, and she hurriedly gave the space to the young couple and walked out quickly.

Du Ruo peeked outside and then lowered her voice to ask Jiang Li: "Husband, no one discovered Cousin-in-law at our house, right?"

"Don't worry, I locked that room, even Mother-in-law and the third brother don't know, and outsiders certainly don't."

Jiang Li paused for a moment and then continued, "However, we can hide it for a while, but not for a lifetime; this matter still needs to be resolved as soon as possible."

Du Ruo nodded. "Later, I'll go ask Cousin-in-law what she plans to do."

Neither of them mentioned the operating table.

Jiang Li deliberately didn't mention it to avoid putting pressure on Du Ruo.

Du Ruo had completely forgotten about it.

At this moment, her mind was full of how to settle Qin Shi, and she even ate her meal absent-mindedly.

After the meal, Jiang Li made an excuse to send everyone away, then opened the tightly closed door and stood guard outside himself.

Du Ruo walked in.

On the operating table, Qin Shi was still unconscious.

On the bed next to her lay a pink and tender little baby, his two hands clenched into fists and held up by his head, sleeping soundly, completely unaware of the life-and-death escape he had just experienced.

It was a healthy boy, weighing six jin and eight liang.

Although the child wasn't a giant baby, he had put his mother through a lot of trouble, and the mother and child had nearly gone to the King of Hell's palace to sign in.

After checking the child, Du Ruo placed her hand on Qin Shi's forehead. "Little Tong, how is her condition?"

"Not too good." The system quickly gave an answer. "Her body was already very poor, and on top of that, she lost too much blood and held her breath for so long; it will take a long time of recuperation to recover her health, but her life is definitely saved."

For Qin Shi, this was already the best result.

Du Ruo breathed a sigh of relief, carefully applied medicine to Qin Shi's wound, and gave her another dose of nutrient solution. Calculating the time, Qin Shi should be waking up soon.

It was a good thing that Qin Shi woke up, but...

Du Ruo looked at the operating table that was thousands of years ahead of the era, and the pile of needles and medicine bottles next to it, and started to worry.

It was enough that Jiang Li alone knew her secret; she couldn't trust anyone else.

"Little Tong, you always boast about being the ancestor of the system world; other people's systems all come with portable spaces, you, as the ancestor, should have one too, right?"

System: "... No."

Du Ruo was a bit disappointed. "Is it because you're too old that you didn't install this feature?"

"Host, you can mock this system for being old, but you must never doubt this system's strength; this system is a super-strong system from the trial planet!"

The system was so angry it turned into an electronic voice, *zzzt-zzzt*. "What's so great about a space? It's just a storage bag. Once the Host reaches level eight, the mall will have them for sale; you can have as many as you want."

*Yo-ho*, there was such a good thing? Du Ruo's eyes instantly brightened.

But soon her face fell again. "That's a long time from now; what about now? This operating table is so big, I have nowhere to hide it."

She couldn't just leave it here, right? If Qin Shi saw it, she would surely be suspicious, and the other members of the family would discover it sooner or later; how would she explain it then?

The system thought for a moment. "It's not that there's no way."

Du Ruo's heart was filled with joy.

Then she heard it say: "There are two options available. This system can recycle these items, but since you spent ten points to buy them, although you only used them once, they are still considered old items, so if I recycle them, this system can only offer two points."

Two points? That was too little, right??

Heartless merchant!

"Then what's the other option?" Du Ruo asked gloomily.

"The other option is that this system will temporarily keep them for the Host, but the Host must pay a storage fee of one point per month."

So that was it. Du Ruo immediately started calculating in her heart.

One point a month wasn't too expensive, and the main thing was, if she encountered a similar event in the future, this operating table could be taken out and put to use at any time; in that sense, it was still worth it.

"Okay, deal!"