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Chapter 223: Chapter 223: Is This Dr. Si’s Lover?
Tong Yao’s face blushed slightly, but she still pretended to be calm and said, "Let nature take its course! If we have children, we’ll raise them! After all, it’s not like we can’t afford it."
Originally, Tong Yao had planned to have children in a couple of years, but after being with Si Chen, her thoughts gradually changed. In these two years, if she didn’t have children, Si Chen would be busier in the future and definitely wouldn’t have much time to accompany her and the children.
It’s better to have a child early. Si Chen could still participate in her and the child’s life. Once the child grew up a few years later, she wouldn’t have too much difficulty raising the child by herself.
"As long as you’ve thought it through." Si Chen casually picked up a piece of meat with his chopsticks. Whether or not to have children was up to Tong Yao. He respected Tong Yao’s decision.
Tong Yao liked their way of discussing matters together. She happily picked up a piece of meat for Si Chen and deliberately said, "It would be great if we could have twins in the future. Then, we would have both a son and a daughter and wouldn’t have to go through this twice."
Si Chen looked at Tong Yao with affection but didn’t break her fantasy. As for giving birth to a boy or a girl, Tong Yao, who didn’t study medicine, might not understand the medical knowledge. He didn’t want to bring hospital practices home either. As to what gender their future child would be, he didn’t mind. All he wanted was Tong Yao’s child.
After finishing their meal, Tong Yao tidy up the dishes. When they had a little break at noontime, the couple had some intimate time before Si Chen left for work.
The walls of the apartment block were not soundproof, and occasionally she can hear Liu Qing next door. She doesn’t know what the family is doing, but from time to time there’s some noise coming from their place. Fortunately, Tong Yao doesn’t have the habit of taking a nap in the afternoon, so she doesn’t mind.
In the afternoon, she went to Kyoto University. It was bustling with groups of students going in and out as the new semester had just begun. The entrance of the school was filled with the lively spirit of young people.
There were many food stalls and grocery stores selling daily necessities and snacks at the entrance of the school. However, there were no bubble tea shops. Tong Yao looked around and found two vacant stores. After asking around, she found out that the shops were vacant because the rent rate had increased. The original tenants thought that the rent was too high to be cost-effective, so they rented the next-door shop, leaving these two small shops vacant.
However, they had only been vacant for half a month.
The shop was not big, just over ten square meters, which was quite suitable for selling bubble tea. Tong Yao was worried that if she delayed too long, the shop would be rented by someone else. Therefore, she immediately contacted the landlord to reserve the shop.
To be honest, compared with Li City, the rent here was indeed not cheap. Just this small shop cost twenty-five thousand yuan a month. If she opened a small shop here as she did in Li City, earning only seventy or eighty yuan a month, the rent would take up a third of the total cost. Considering other costs, it wouldn’t be profitable, no wonder other people thought the rent was too high.
After securing the shop, Tong Yao wandered around again and unexpectedly ran into an old professor from college. The professor recognized Tong Yao, which was unexpected since she had only attended two of the professor’s classes.
After the two exchanged pleasantries, the professor learned that Tong Yao was married and planning to open a shop near the school. The professor suddenly changed the topic and said, "You and Zhang Pengfei are a talented and beautiful couple who married right after graduation. This kind of relationship that stems from campus life tends to be more cherished than others."
Tong Yao was taken aback. After thinking for a moment, she finally found information about Zhang Pengfei in her mind. The story about Zhang Pengfei was long. He had pursued the original host for two years in college. When they graduated, it caused quite a stir, even alerting the professors. No wonder they got it wrong.
Thinking of this, Tong Yao laughed lightly and said, "Professor, my husband isn’t Zhang Pengfei. He’s a doctor named Si Chen. He graduated from the medical academy and is now a surgeon at the First People’s Hospital."
It turned out there was a major misunderstanding. The professor felt a little embarrassed and quickly apologized, "I’m sorry for the misunderstanding. I thought you married Zhang Pengfei."
You couldn’t blame her for the misunderstanding. Tong Yao hadn’t dated anyone in college, although there were quite a few who pursued her. Among them, Zhang Pengfei was the most high-profile. Plus, he came from a good family, so the professor assumed that Tong Yao had married Zhang Pengfei.
Tong Yao smiled and said it was okay, making an excuse to leave.
Not taking the incident to heart, Tong Yao went to the vegetable market on her way home to buy some vegetables. As she approached the stairs of the second floor, she heard Liu Qing arguing with someone and a child crying.
When Tong Yao reached the second floor, she indeed saw Liu Qing holding a baby, arguing with a woman in her early thirties.
"The kid is still small and doesn’t understand things. It’s normal for some noise to be made. The kid is alive, not an inanimate object. How can it not move or make sounds?"
"I understand that a kid can’t be silent, but you as a parent should take better care of him, shouldn’t you? From noon until now, he has been pushing chairs around. Who can tolerate that?"
"How much noise can a toddler make by pushing a chair? You’re way too sensitive." While Liu Qing was speaking, she saw Tong Yao return from the corner of her eye, and immediately called out, "Tong Yao, you’ve come back just in time. Please settle this dispute for us. You live right next door to me. Don’t you think the child is noisy?"
Tong Yao wanted to quietly return home and not get involved in this matter. However, Liu Qing asked her to settle the dispute. Seeing that she could not escape, she said, "I just got back from outside."
Having just moved in, Tong Yao was not familiar with her neighbors and didn’t want to get involved in these trivial matters.
Seeing that Tong Yao didn’t take her side, Liu Qing looked a bit unhappy. She didn’t say anything, but the woman nearby looked Tong Yao up and down before asking, "You are Dr. Si’s wife, aren’t you?"
They had heard early in the morning that a beautiful young woman had moved into the complex and was part of Dr. Si’s family. She was indeed very pretty.
Tong Yao neither distanced herself nor tried to get on her good side. She simply nodded and said, "That’s me."
Upon hearing this, the woman introduced herself, "I’m Dr. Dai Linlin from the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department."
With a newbie in the complex, Dai Linlin didn’t want to continue arguing with Liu Qing. "Your kid has been noisy not only once or twice. Please pay more attention!"
After saying her piece, she turned and returned to her apartment.
She lived on the left side of Liu Qing while Tong Yao lived on the right; Liu Qing lived in between them. Thus, Dai Linlin can hear Liu Qing’s noises clearly. She couldn’t stand the noise anymore and came over to say something. She didn’t expect Liu Qing to be so unreasonable, which made her angry.
Seeing Dai Linlin go inside, Liu Qing complained with a sour face, "Why is she so haughty! She thinks it’s easy to raise kids because she hasn’t had one. When she has a child of her own, she’ll know how hard it’s to take care of kids. The kid is so young, how can he know if he’s causing a disturbance or not! Bickering with a kid, what kind of person does that make her?"
