Chapter 13 Pregnancy Dream

Lu Yuan found himself lying in the middle of a pile of snakes, with a giant python tightly wrapped around him. His chest was sore and he couldn’t breathe evenly. The python spat out its blood-red tongue and rubbed his face again and again. The snake’s head got closer and closer until it met the python’s eyes. Lu Yuan actually heard the python speak.

“Lu Yuan, you’re pregnant.”

Lu Yuan was startled when he heard it, and then he lowered his head. His belly seemed to be inflated and swelled rapidly. In panic, he heard the giant python whispering in his ear: “Give birth or not? Give birth or not?” He turned his head again, and it turned out that Su Huai was holding a forceps and reaching towards him…

“Ah!”

With a cry of surprise, Lu Yuan sat up straight from the bed. The familiar furnishings in front of him were Su Huai’s room. He lowered his head and touched his flat belly, and then Lu Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

 It turned out to be a nightmare…

After coming to his senses, Lu Yuan realized that someone was pulling his left hand. He turned his head slowly and saw Su Huai was taking his pulse and looking at him with a very strange look. Those eyes looked like that python…

Has this dream not yet awakened?

“Hmm…” Lu Yuan hummed like a dream, rolled his eyes, fell back on the bed, and dozed off lightly.

Closing his eyes, Lu Yuan’s brain was working fast.

What to do?

The matter of Daddy Wang was resolved, but the conflict between him and Su Huai was not resolved. He was the one who lost his temper first, left, and threatened to never come back. In this situation, it would be embarrassing for him to face Su Huai directly!

If he refused to leave, he couldn’t bring himself to leave in anger. He also had nowhere to go… Lu Yuan felt that it would be easier to pretend to sleep first.

 It’s easy to pretend to sleep, as long as your eyes don’t roll, your breath doesn’t get messy, you don’t get stiff and your small movements are natural. The most important thing is that you can endure not to scream when someone is pinching your wrist hard…

“Mm… let go!” Lu Yuan suddenly opened his eyes and shook his hand fiercely.

Su Huai, you bastard! You’re pinching me to death!

“Not pretending anymore?” Su Huai let go of his hand and raised his eyebrows to look at Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan had an illusion for a moment, did he laugh?

 “I have one tael for bribing the officers and soldiers who came to arrest you. Daddy Wang gave me twenty wen for giving birth to the baby, and I’ll give it all to you. I won’t bother you with the food expenses these days, but you still owe me nine hundred and eighty copper coins. Don’t even think about running away before you pay it off.” Su Huai said expressionlessly, stood up and walked out: “Pack up and get out. It’s New Year’s Day, and there’s still a lot of work to do!”

“Brother Su…”

Although this guy’s tone was unkind, petty, and had a bad temper… Lu Yuan was relieved.

Anyway, he was taken in again. Although when Lu Yuan found something wrong a long time later, he had no way to get away, but – that’s all later.

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Although the whole twelfth lunar month was busy with “New Year’s affairs”, the closer it got to the end of the year, the more things needed to be prepared.

 On the 13th, worship the Kitchen God, on the 24th, write couplets, on the 25th, make tofu, on the 26th, cut the New Year meat, on the 27th, slaughter the chicken, on the 28th, make flour, on the 29th, post the road, on the 30th, stay up all night… Su Huai is busy from morning to night every day. In addition to preparing for the “New Year’s affairs” step by step, making pickled vegetables, brewing soybean paste, and cleaning, he has one more task – cleaning the butt of the clumsy Lu Yuan. Of course, after three days of this, Su Huai sent Lu Yuan back to the house to have a good rest.

On the morning of New Year’s Eve, Lu Yuan slept until the sun was high in the sky again. He didn’t know why he had become sleepy and easily tired recently. Yesterday, he helped Su Huai feed a pig, and felt dizzy when he straightened up and almost fainted. It seems that this body really needs to exercise!

 After finishing the cleaning and going out, Su Huai was busy in the kitchen. The whole yard was brand new because of the busy days. The doors and windows were all covered with red, and the couplets with black words on red paper looked festive. A string of big red lanterns were hung, swaying gently with the wind, and the New Year’s joy was everywhere.

Lu Yuan was bathed in the warm sunlight, and his mood was very good. He began to stretch his waist and kick his legs, and recalled the set of fighting skills he had learned before.

Hmm… What is the action of preparing for a fight? Straight punch… hook punch… swing punch…

“What is this?” The fist he stretched out was wrapped by a big palm. Lu Yuan looked up and met Su Huai’s unhappy eyes.

Damn plague god, you have so much free time to do something else, why do you come to hinder him! Didn’t he just kick the pickle jar and break it when he was running? He accidentally stepped on his vegetable patch when he was walking. He twisted his waist while doing stretching exercises a few days ago, and asked him to massage it for several days…

“I’m getting weaker and weaker after staying like this all day. I feel dizzy all the time! I just thought, I should exercise, haha… Brother Su, what do you think of my boxing?” Lu Yuan laughed awkwardly and was about to pull his hand out to make a gesture. He didn’t know why his feet softened and he fell sideways. Su Huai couldn’t catch him and he sat on the ground with a snap.

“Hmm…” Lu Yuan’s face wrinkled immediately. He pressed his hands on his waist and abdomen. He groaned for a long time and took several breaths of cold air. Su Huai asked several questions, “Where do you feel uncomfortable?” but he didn’t have time to answer. When he recovered a little and raised his head, Su Huai actually bent down and picked him up by the waist.

 “Brother Su! You…put me down! Put me down quickly!” His mind was blank, and his body was in the air. Lu Yuan forgot the pain, and only felt that this posture was really… shameless. He couldn’t help but feel a little hot in his ears.

“Shut up!” Su Huai carried Lu Yuan into the room without saying anything, and put him directly on the bed. He felt his pulse and pressed his stomach.

“Brother Su, what are you doing…I’m not sick…”

“Does it hurt?”

“Of course it doesn’t hurt. I fell on my butt, what’s wrong with my stomach!”

“Then why were you pressing your stomach just now?”

“I…I just thought that my legs were weak so early in the morning, maybe I was hungry…”

Lu Yuan didn’t know if he said the wrong thing, and the atmosphere in the room was frighteningly depressed.

 “Um…Brother Su? I’m fine, can I come down now?” He spoke carefully, thinking to himself, you freak Su, hurry up and do what you need to do!

Su Huai looked at Lu Yuan with a heavy gaze, which made Lu Yuan feel a little uneasy. In addition, his butt hurt from the fall, so he couldn’t sit still on the bed. After rubbing for a long time, Su Huai finally spoke.

“Xiao Yuan, there is something I think you should know.”

Blinking, Lu Yuan asked, “What is it?”

“You…” Su Huai’s gaze wandered around Lu Yuan, and his voice became lower and lower: “You are…”

“Yes?”

“Yes…”

“Wait…Brother Su! Do you smell anything?” Lu Yuan wrinkled his nose. He really didn’t want to interrupt Su Huai, but the smell of paste was really choking.

 As soon as the words fell, Su Huai’s face darkened. Lu Yuan only heard him say “pig meat” and saw Su Huai turned around and rushed out in a hurry.

Looking at the back in a daze, Lu Yuan suddenly remembered that Su Huai seemed to have something to say to him just now.

“You are…”

What is it?

After thinking for a long time, Lu Yuan finally shook his head in frustration. It was still too difficult for him to understand Su Huai’s thinking circuit.

Lu Yuan spent most of the rest of the day weaving baskets. Su Huai absolutely forbade him to make trouble in the kitchen. Because of the fall, he was not allowed to go to the yard. Fortunately, he had learned to weave baskets at the Wang family, otherwise Lu Yuan would be really frustrated.

 Looking at his hand that had a small wound, and then at the half-woven bamboo basket, Lu Yuan felt that it was basically impossible to save money to buy a sheep in this way, and now he still owed Su Huai a full 980 coins…

“Xiao Yuan, come and watch the fire!” Just as he was worried, Su Huai’s figure suddenly appeared at the door, wiping his hands with a rag and hurriedly said: “Daddy Wang’s baby is not eating well. I’ll go and take a look and come back soon!”

“Is Daddy Wang still feeding rice soup?” Lu Yuan immediately dropped the bamboo basket and rushed to Su Huai. He tripped and was supported by Su Huai with a dark face. Before Su Huai could scold him, Lu Yuan rushed to say: “I want to go too!”

As soon as he said it, Lu Yuan regretted it, because he should have expected how Su Huai would answer.

 “No!”

Sure enough…

“Then tell Daddy Wang that the rice soup for the child should be cooked slowly over low heat until the rice is completely cooked, and then skim off the top layer of rice soup with oily luster. This way, the nutrition will be slightly better! If the child doesn’t want to eat it, you can add a little acacia honey.”

While Lu Yuan was waiting, Su Huai had already put an apron on him, and then he pried open his fingers that were holding his clothes one by one. When he saw the blisters and scars on his fingers, his movements were a little gentler.

“I’m leaving.” Throwing down this sentence, regardless of the resentful look of the person behind him, Su Huai left cleanly.

Lu Yuan didn’t enter the kitchen unwillingly until he watched Su Huai’s figure disappear outside the door. Rice cakes and jujube buns were being steamed on the stove, and there was still unfinished dough on the chopping board. There was also the fish that had just been processed and the dumpling stuffing that had been prepared.

 Lu Yuan suddenly realized that he had been living in someone else’s house, was lazy and ate a lot. He felt a little embarrassed. He took a look at the white flour, and suddenly an idea came to him. He washed his hands and started kneading the dough.

He remembered when he was young, every New Year, his grandmother would make bunnies and hedgehogs with dough and steam them. It just so happened that there were dates and red bean paste stuffing here, so why not try making some too, to thank Su Huai for taking care of him?

As soon as he said it, Lu Yuan rolled up his sleeves, kneaded the dough, stuffed it, and shaped it. He used green beans and red beans as eyes, and used scissors to cut out the hedgehog’s thorns. After a lot of hard work, he finally steamed it in the pot.

Lu Yuan wiped the sweat from his forehead and squatted down to add firewood to the stove. This iron clamp for clamping firewood is really convenient. This way, he is not afraid of sparks hitting his skin. Su Huai is quite smart!

Lu Yuan was working hard, but suddenly his movements froze. His eyes fixed on the iron clamp, his lips trembled for a long time, and he couldn’t say a word.

This… this… is clearly his forceps!

Su Huai, you fucking bastard!