Chapter 6 Pregnant Husband

“Daddy! What delicious food did you bring? I’m starving!”

As soon as Daddy Wang came in, Ganzi ran forward, turned over the basket, and lifted the cover. The fragrance of scallions made everyone sniff.

“It’s scallion pancakes! So fragrant! And tea eggs…”

Snap——

Daddy Wang slapped Ganzi’s hand and twisted his ears: “You bastard, you have no manners! The elders haven’t eaten yet, why are you so impatient!” As he said that, he put the basket on the table and waved to the men with a smile: “You must be starving! Come on, hurry up and eat it while it’s hot!”

“If Ganzi is hungry, let him eat! Daddy Wang, what are you doing, scaring the child!” The bearded man smiled, took a corner of the pancake, and handed it to Ganzi: “Come on, Ganzi! Take it and eat!”

Ganzi stood there rubbing his ears, and secretly glanced at his daddy.

 “You are so naughty. You dare to tease your uncle big beard, but you are afraid of your daddy!” The big bearded man laughed, and everyone laughed too. Ganzi touched the back of his head and took the pancake a little embarrassedly. Daddy Wang pouted at Lu Yuan: “Boy, give it to Su’s brother first!”

Lu Yuan had been in a trance since just now. He came back to his senses when he smelled the fragrance of scallions. Just as he took the pancake handed by Ganzi, he heard Su Huai’s slightly concerned voice.

“Daddy Wang, you are already eight months pregnant. Don’t be tired. Go home and rest first! I’ll send you the things later!”

Eight months?

At first glance, Daddy Wang looked a little bloated. In this winter, the cotton-padded jacket was thick and didn’t show his figure. Lu Yuan thought that Daddy Wang was fat and had a pot belly. Now that Su Huai said this, Lu Yuan looked again and found that the waist and abdomen were indeed bulging…

Pah——

A piece of pancake fell to the ground, and Lu Yuan was stunned.

Su Huai stared at him fiercely and scolded him, and someone came out to smooth things over. Ganzi picked up the pancake, tore off the dirty skin, and ate the pancake with a smile. When Lu Yuan recovered from the blow, the men in the room had filled their stomachs and went to the inner room to continue working. Only Daddy Wang was left sitting there slowly packing the basket.

“Doctor Su’s words are a bit harsh. Xiao Yuan, ignore him. Come here, daddy has a dime cake and two tea eggs here! Are you hungry?” Daddy Wang likes children. Although he has long passed the best childbearing age, he is still pregnant. Seeing Lu Yuan in a daze after being yelled at by Su Huai, he felt distressed and waved to him quickly with a kind smile on his face.

Lu Yuan hummed and walked over reluctantly, his eyes always glancing at Daddy Wang’s belly.

Obviously he is a man, how could he be pregnant! As a chief physician of obstetrics and gynecology, he really couldn’t believe it, but the facts were right in front of him. Lu Yuan was curious and shocked now. His eyes looked like he was looking at a monster.

 No one would feel comfortable being looked at in such a way. After Daddy Wang handed the food to Lu Yuan, he felt a little embarrassed, but he still smiled: “What? Hasn’t younger brother Su seen a  pregnant belly?”

After laughing twice, Lu Yuan really didn’t know what to say. Just when he was hesitating, Daddy Wang’s face suddenly changed, and sweat began to appear on his forehead.

“Daddy Wang?” Lu Yuan was startled. He saw that Daddy Wang covered his stomach with his hands, and his face became paler and paler. He quickly threw the cake aside, wiped his hands with a rag, and rushed over: “Do you have a stomachache?”

“It’s okay… It happens often… I’ll be fine after a rest! Don’t be afraid…” Daddy Wang took a breath, took out his hand to touch Lu Yuan’s head, and said weakly.

This Daddy Wang looked to be in his thirties. He would be considered an elderly mother in modern times, let alone in ancient times! Lu Yuan didn’t care how strange it was for a man to be pregnant at this moment. He just looked at Daddy Wang’s bulging belly with concern out of his responsibility as a doctor.

“Hey! Little brother Su! What are you doing!” Daddy Wang screamed, and Lu Yuan realized that he had touched his belly like an occupational disease. It would have been fine if he hadn’t touched it, but this touch made him discover something abnormal.

Daddy Wang’s baby is likely to be in an abnormal position!

“Xiao Yuan! What are you doing!” Before he had time to take a closer look, Lu Yuan was pulled away. When he looked up, he met Su Huai’s unhappy face. Lu Yuan felt a little wronged. He just opened his mouth and was pushed aside by Su Huai: “Daddy Wang! Are you okay?” Su Huai leaned over and helped Daddy Wang feel the pulse.

 “Daddy Wang’s fetus is in an abnormal position, and his pulse cannot be diagnosed!” Lu Yuan said in a muffled voice. After all, he was living under someone else’s roof, so he could tolerate Su Huai’s dislike for him, but he was still very uncomfortable when his professional skills were ignored.

He thought Su Huai would say something back to him, but he didn’t say anything and didn’t even turn his head. Lu Yuan was really angry. Just as he was about to step forward to say a few words, his shoulder was hugged by the bearded man. The bearded man leaned over and smelled of sweat. Lu Yuan frowned and dodged.

 “Little brother Su, don’t delay your elder brother from treating Daddy Wang. Wait here obediently!”

This tone of coaxing a child made Lu Yuan very unhappy. Seeing that everyone gathered around and looked at Daddy Wang with concern, Lu Yuan couldn’t help but raise his voice and said again: “Daddy Wang’s fetal position is not correct. It must be corrected, otherwise it will be dangerous to give birth!”

“Pfft! Little kid! What nonsense are you talking about!” The man from the Li family spitted and frowned at Lu Yuan. Country people are superstitious, and they pay more attention to saying auspicious words and not saying unlucky words when the New Year comes. Lu Yuan is careless and doesn’t care about these things. He speaks the truth as soon as he opens his mouth, which of course makes everyone unhappy. But seeing that he is only ten years old, no one really blames him. They all think he is a child who doesn’t know the rules.

Stupid! What a group of stupid ancient people!

Lu Yuan was a little anxious, cursing in his heart, but he couldn’t do anything. He saw that Su Huai, the half-hearted doctor, took the pulse for a long time and prescribed a medicine to stabilize the pregnancy before telling Daddy Wang to rest more. He knew how to correct the fetal position, but he could not say a word, like an outsider.

Lu Yuan, who had always been smooth sailing, finally understood what it felt like to be talented but not appreciated.

*

At night, the candlelight was warm.

A rough mat was spread on the earthen kang, and a mattress was placed on it. It was warm to sit on. The candlelight was swaying on the kang table. Su Huai was mending his cotton jacket that he accidentally damaged in the afternoon by the light. He looked very clumsy.

On the other side of the kang table was a bowl of white porridge. Because it had been left for too long, it was half-solidified, and Lu Yuan did not eat a bite. Not only did he not eat anything, but since the afternoon, the two of them had not talked to each other much.

 It’s not that Lu Yuan wanted to have a cold war with Su Huai on purpose, but Su Huai was never an active person. In the past, Lu Yuan always talked to him with a smile on his face. Now Lu Yuan held his breath, and seeing that Su Huai had been keeping a distance since the afternoon, he really didn’t have the heart to put his warm face on someone else’s cold butt.

It’s just that even if he didn’t take the initiative to talk, Su Huai really didn’t say a word to him. Lu Yuan felt that his hearing had improved in this boring silence, and he seemed to hear the sound of snow falling on the branches outside…

“Brother Su…” Lu Yuan couldn’t help but speak after all. His slightly curled mouth looked unwilling, and his hoarse voice echoed in the room: “Well, do you remember that I said I know some medical skills? I think Daddy Wang’s fetal position is very bad, I will go to his place with you tomorrow to see!”

Su Huai stared at the work in his hands without looking up or speaking. After a long time, until Lu Yuan felt that he was about to die from the anger in his heart, Su Huai said lightly: “This is none of your business.”

“How can it be none of my business? I said I know medical skills, and I clearly found the symptoms, but you still want me to pretend that I didn’t see it? Daddy Wang’s fetus is in an abnormal position. Now I must confirm the position of the fetus and correct it as soon as possible. The baby is about to be born, and Daddy Wang is already past the age of childbearing. What if it is difficult to give birth… Brother Su? You… You don’t believe me?”

As soon as he said this, Lu Yuan suddenly felt a little regretful. If Su Huai really said “I don’t believe” how would he end up? Feeling a little uneasy, Lu Yuan glanced at Su Huai anxiously, thinking, “Please give me some face…”

“I don’t believe it.”

Su Huai blurted out these two words without even thinking, which made Lu Yuan speechless for a long time. He sat on the kang and tried to calm down for a long time, and finally squeezed out a sentence: “Brother Su, do you not believe in my medical skills? Or… do you think I am a dangerous fugitive, so you don’t let me get close to the people here?” 

Lu Yuan’s heart tightened slightly, and he didn’t have the courage to listen to Su Huai’s answer. He lowered his head and continued: “In this case, I will teach you how to correct the fetal position! I am really worried about Daddy Wang…”

Lu Yuan had never been so suffocated since he was a child. He had always been the center of attention. How could he be so humble! If he hadn’t fallen into such a strange village, why would he have to endure Su Huai’s bad temper…

“How the child is born is up to the daddy. Whether it is dangerous or not is not something that a young boy like you can help. As for correcting the fetal position, I am not interested. You don’t need to say anything more. I kept you because I don’t want to cause trouble, not to cause trouble…”

This is probably the longest sentence Su Huai has said to Lu Yuan these days, or it would be longer if Lu Yuan didn’t interrupt because of anger.

“Are you trying to say that if you had known I was so troublesome, you shouldn’t have picked me up that day?” Lu Yuan had never been questioned like this before. He got a little angry at the time and shouted directly.

His eyes accidentally swept across the back of his hand. The scar left by the willow leaf had become a shallow mark. Su Huai said that it would completely disappear after applying the ointment for another half a month.

 “You have taken care of me these days. I have nothing to give in return, but I can still avoid trouble. Don’t worry, I, Lu Yuan, will not implicate you doctor Su!” Polite words coming from Lu Yuan, who is not polite, are uncomfortable to hear. Su Huai frowned as he stood up, tightened his cotton coat, put on his shoes, and was about to leave.

He raised his hand to hold Lu Yuan’s wrist, Su Huai’s face was not very good: “Where are you going?”

“Thank you for taking me in. I also have some self-knowledge.” Lu Yuan shook his hand, not knowing why he was so angry. He turned around, slammed the door and left.

The candlelight flickered for a moment, and the room without the person seemed unusually deserted. Su Huai looked at the bed that Lu Yuan had just sat on with a dent for a long while before he exhaled a breath.

It’s better to leave, so that he doesn’t have to worry.

He stretched out his arm to take the bowl of cold porridge that had not been touched, frowned, and drank it up. 

Bang——

The porcelain bowl smashed onto the table. Su Huai realized that he seemed to be angry.