Chapter 68: I’m Pregnant

Lin Xiangnan cleared his throat awkwardly, “I’m Lin Xiangdong’s sister. Who are you?”

The woman at the door sighed with relief upon hearing this.

“I’m Sun Xiaod ie. Xiangdong should have mentioned me to you.”

She strode to the bedside and asked with concern, “Mom, are you okay? I was asking for directions on the street, and a kind old man told me you were at the hospital, so I came straight here.”

There were always nosy busybodies everywhere.

Hu Meili was also embarrassed and said with a cold face, “Don’t, don’t call me Mom. Just call me Aunt.”

Hearing this, the smile on Sun Xiaod ie’s face instantly froze, and she became a little aggrieved.

Before meeting her, Lin Xiangdong’s partner was just a stranger, someone who had never appeared in Hu Meili’s world.

She wouldn’t even bother to care about the future of someone who had nothing to do with her.

Hu Meili knew that even if Sun Xiaod ie remarried after Lin Xiangdong returned to the city, her life might not be easy. But she still insisted because she didn’t want to inexplicably give her son’s future to a stranger.

After Sun Xiaod ie appeared, this person became concrete.

There was a difference between being scammed face-to-face and being scammed behind your back.

Hu Meili gritted her teeth and instructed Lin Xiangnan, “Go find your brother for me. I have something to say to Xiaod ie.”

Lin Xiangnan secretly patted Hu Meili’s hand: “Don’t be too harsh! Be careful that your brother gets mad at you when he comes back!”

Hu Meili slapped Lin Xiangnan’s hand away with a ‘clap’, urging her with disgust, “Just go when I tell you to, what are you dawdling for?”

“Go, go, what are you urging me for?” Lin Xiangnan pouted, put down her bowl, and ran out to find him.

She found Lin Xiangdong in the boiling water room, waiting in line to fill his thermos.

“Sun Xiaod ie is here. Mom is talking to her alone, you go and save the situation.”

“It’s okay, let me finish filling this thermos first.” Although Lin Xiangdong was anxious, he still said, “Mom and Xiaod ie haven’t interacted before. It’s actually good for them to get to know each other now.”

“Aren’t you afraid they’ll fight?”

“Xiaod ie wouldn’t dare to hit Mom, and Mom wouldn’t jump out of bed to hit anyone. At most, they’ll just argue a bit, and it can even improve their relationship.”

Lin Xiangdong really waited until the thermos was full of hot water before heading back.

He was truly a steady and slow-paced person.

No wonder Hu Meili had been pressing him for four days, and Lin Xiangdong hadn’t reacted at all.

He always apologized sincerely, but he wouldn’t change his mind, making Hu Meili helpless.

He wasn’t in a hurry, so Lin Xiangnan wasn’t in a hurry either.

“Are you really not planning to go back to the city?”

“Who wouldn’t want to go back to the city? But right now, there’s nothing I can do about it.”

Lin Xiangnan asked curiously, “You and Sun Xiaod ie are both young. You’re not in a hurry. You can always plan slowly after you go back to the city. Mom is just crying and making a fuss. She wouldn’t really hang herself, so she definitely wouldn’t be able to argue with you.”

“Mom doesn’t like me marrying a woman from the countryside, and even less so from a rural area outside. Moreover, our family’s conditions really don’t allow Xiaod ie to stay in the city.”

Lin Xiangdong said helplessly, “I agreed to Mom’s request to return to the city this time. When I get married, if I don’t follow her arrangements, Mom will have a heart attack again. Why bother?”

Hu Meili really could do that.

After spending so long with her, Lin Xiangnan had seen through her. Hu Meili just didn’t know what it meant to know when to stop.

If you don’t refuse her unreasonable demands, she will continue to be unreasonable.

The first trick to dealing with Hu Meili is to learn how to refuse.

Lin Xiangdong also knew his mother’s nature, so he had always insisted on not giving in.

He thought he might faint Hu Meili with anger, but Hu Meili definitely didn’t have a heart condition, so although he was anxious these past few days, he wasn’t that anxious.

Lin Xiangnan belonged to the group of people who had already returned to the city and settled down.

Lin Xiangdong didn’t even care about whether he stayed in the countryside or returned to the city, so she was even more indifferent, “I really want to see who wins in this situation, you or Mom.”

When they returned to the ward, they didn’t rush to push the door open, but stood outside calmly listening.

“Xiangdong had a fever and fainted in the field, and I carried him to the hospital. You’ve been working in the city all the time, so you probably don’t know how hard it is during the busy farming season. Xiangdong just came to the team as an educated youth, and he couldn’t do farm work well, so it was my brother who helped him…”

Realizing that Hu Meili’s attitude was wrong, Sun Xiaod ie didn’t try to be the obedient daughter-in-law, but instead talked about her past with Lin Xiangdong.

There was kindness, affection, and shared hardship.

Hu Meili worked in the city to earn money, and her two children were still in school. How much money and food coupons could she spare to help her eldest son?

More often than not, Lin Xiangdong had to earn work points himself to exchange for food.

If Hu Meili was truly a native city dweller, it would be fine.

But when she was a child, she was also from the countryside. She had to help her family with farm work at the age of seven or eight, and it wasn’t until she went to the city at the age of thirteen or fourteen that her life became easier.

Because she had experienced it herself, she wanted to escape rural life more than anyone else, and she felt even more sorry for Lin Xiangdong’s years in the countryside.

Sun Xiaod ie just mentioned it briefly, and Hu Meili’s eyes turned red.

“If rural life wasn’t hard, would I be so eager to have my son return to the city?”

“Our family can’t afford to marry a rural woman, we don’t have the conditions, and we can’t afford expensive rations.”

“If you really like him, then let him go. You’re keeping him by your side now, delaying him. In the future, he will only resent you for life.”

“I know I’m sorry for this. Just tell me what you want, even if I have to sell everything I have, I will compensate you.”

One-time compensation is just a temporary loss of money.

But if you marry Sun Xiaod ie, it’s like cutting a wound on your body that will keep bleeding until you bleed dry.

Nowadays, men who go to the countryside to find wives in the city are all those with some kind of problem, otherwise, no city girls would be willing to marry them.

Lin Xiangdong is handsome, has a good temper, and he’s not someone who can’t find a wife. He shouldn’t marry a country girl and drag his family down.

Hu Meili put on a mask of pain, feeling like her head was going to explode.

This was exactly what she was afraid of.