Chapter 77: Petty Squabbles

Hearing her reply, Jiang Han slowly loosened his grip, his voice still cold and unyielding: “Oh? Just that one word? Let Jiang Fuchao teach you how to speak!”

Every time he spoke, she would only give him a single word in return! In the past, she would chatter endlessly with Jiang Fuchao, annoying him to the point of a headache. Now, her silence was equally irritating!

“Eat and sleep!” He pursed his lips and stuffed an orange into her mouth.

Hu Yao lowered her gaze and quietly finished the orange. Under his dark and unclear gaze, she straightened her messy clothes, settled down, and prepared to sleep.

Her emotions had been a bit volatile earlier, and she felt her stomach was uncomfortable again.

Tossing and turning, she softly spoke to him, her voice still a little hoarse: “Jiang Han, my stomach hurts.”

Jiang Han paused, his gaze falling on her belly, his face turning ugly again.

Late at night, he pulled a long face and took her to the clinic again.

Damn it! All this back and forth, in the end, it was still him who was being tormented!

Hu Yao had another bout of pregnancy complications. This time, unlike the previous two, when she fainted due to excessive intimacy, she was standing beside Jiang Han, her head lowered, looking helpless and being scolded. The doctor couldn’t help but say some “harsh words” to Jiang Han, urging him to be kinder to his wife.

“Do you even want this child anymore?!”

“A grown man, you don’t know how to cherish your own wife! You’re making such a fuss at night! You’re hurting your wife’s body, don’t you care? She’s so beautiful.”

“Who wouldn’t be happy to have a wife like her? You’re the one who did something wrong, and you still dare to frown and scowl! If you hurt her again, scare her, and the child is gone, will you be happy then?!”

Jiang Han: “…”

Good, it had been a long time since anyone dared to scold him like this!

Hu Yao clenched her fist. She had been unconscious during the previous incidents, so she hadn’t felt anything. Now, she felt both awkward and strange. The rare sight of Jiang Han not arguing back made it even more bizarre. Her face slowly turned red.

After the checkup, they went home with the medicine. It was late again.

The night road was dark. He shone the flashlight with one hand and held her hand with the other, clearly not wanting to talk to her.

But his hand holding hers was tight and steady.

Usually, he took large strides, one step of his was two steps of hers. Now, he had slowed down and didn’t urge her to hurry.

She walked slowly, and Jiang Han couldn’t help but get impatient. He stuffed the flashlight into her hand, picked her up, and resumed his normal pace.

The sudden feeling of weightlessness made her gasp, and her other hand instinctively grabbed his clothes at the back of his waist.

“Jiang Han, I can…”

“Shut up! Don’t talk to me!”

“…” Hu Yao listened to his impatient tone, closed her slightly parted lips, and wrinkled her nose involuntarily after a few seconds.

All the way home, she was indeed quiet. He looked down at her and found that she had fallen asleep at some point.

Only when she was asleep did she look incredibly obedient and not at all annoying.

She had cried, and there was a slight redness around her eyes.

She was truly impossible to scold or beat! He hadn’t been so meticulous even when raising Jiang Fuchao! She needed to be well-fed, well-dressed, and treated kindly!

This woman, Hu Yao, was probably his ancestor reincarnated! He had to appease her!

Indeed, his mother was right, he couldn’t marry a gentle and obedient woman!

Damn it, one after another… ready for three debt collectors!

The next day, the cool morning breeze accompanied by the bright sunshine blew past.

Hu Yao had another pregnancy complication, and she had to take prenatal medication.

Jiang Xiaochao smelled the bitter medicine and frowned for Hu Yao, saying that his brother and sister weren’t very well-behaved.

He had absolutely no idea what had happened last night.

“If you don’t behave, I’ll beat you!” He seriously threatened Hu Yao’s belly.

Hu Yao couldn’t help but laugh. She explained to him that it had nothing to do with the child in her belly being well-behaved or not, it was because of her.

“Oh, it’s because of Dad!” Jiang Xiaochao wouldn’t dare say anything bad about her.

Jiang Han kicked him away, speechless.

He didn’t go out today. He didn’t know what he said or did to Li Zhuangzhi, but the next door was in chaos all day long, Zhang Xiaosu’s screams echoing one after another.

In the end, she couldn’t take it anymore and started fighting with Li Zhuangzhi.

Li Zhuangzhi was now limping, his movements were somewhat inconvenient. Zhang Xiaosu bumped into him, throwing things at him.

“What’s wrong with me looking down on you, a wimp, for flirting with other men? Go ahead and divorce me if you have the guts!”

“You think the child is yours? You and Lin Zhaodi have been together for so many years, you don’t know if you can even have children? Lin Zhaodi can get pregnant with another man in a month, you’re the one who can’t have children, Li Zhuangzhi!” Zhang Xiaosu no longer wanted to live this miserable life in the Li family.

“The one in my belly has nothing to do with you!”

“You bitch!!” Li Zhuangzhi was furious, he glared darkly, struggled to get up, and slapped her to the ground.

There was another round of chaotic noise, accompanied by the two of them shouting curses at each other.

Before, because of Lin Zhaodi’s affair, they had been quarreling endlessly. Now, everyone heard their commotion and didn’t want to watch the drama anymore. They let them lock themselves up and fight, at most, they would stand for a few more seconds at the door when passing by.

The next door was noisy, Hu Yao sat in the living room watching TV, and Jiang Han sat beside her. He seemed to be still angry, not talking to her all morning.

Jiang Xiaochao took his little cow to play with Du Ximei, and without him at home to liven up the atmosphere, Hu Yao felt strange.

Listening to the noisy sounds from next door and the TV, she lowered her head and continued to do her handicrafts.

Suddenly, she heard him snort coldly again.

Her fingertips paused, Hu Yao glanced at him, and her eyes met his.

She pursed her lips and hesitantly said, “I’m sorry.”

She didn’t know why she was apologizing! Hu Yao was upset in her heart.

He, however, visibly softened at

His expression softened a bit.

“What did you do wrong?”

“… I don’t know.”

“Heh.” Jiang Han twitched his lips.

“…”

“I, I will listen to you from now on.” Hu Yao frowned slightly: “… I will help you beat up other women.”

It sounded a bit weird, the more Hu Yao spoke, the tighter her brows furrowed.

Jiang Han wasn’t doing much better either, he ended up laughing in a strange way.

“Alright, go beat up the widow that Li Zhuangzhi married now! Take the iron shovel that Jiang Fuchao uses to play with mud!”

The commotion next door was getting worse, Zhang Xiaosu’s screams were getting louder, and it seemed like Li Zhuangzhi had beaten her child.

Hu Yao stared at him for a few seconds, asking her to go get a shovel and beat someone up now, was that really okay? She was still pregnant.

“Didn’t you say you’d listen?”

Hu Yao didn’t say anything, and the next moment she threw up.

Jiang Han couldn’t help but frown whenever he saw her like this, he didn’t care about listening or beating anyone up anymore, he took a deep breath and peeled an orange for her with a dark expression.

“Thank you.” Hu Yao blinked lightly, hesitated for a long time, and blushed as she kissed his cheek, a gesture of appeasement and goodwill.

This was the first time she had ever taken the initiative to kiss him, the light touch of her soft lips was fleeting, Jiang Han’s hand stiffened slightly, a strange tingling sensation ran through his heart.

He stared at her for a moment, then looked away.

“Now you’re willing to kiss me? You can touch me? It’s not dirty anymore? You don’t want to throw up? You’re not crying anymore?”

After a while, he glared at her viciously, holding a grudge over what happened last night.