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Chapter 634: Chapter 634: Will She Ever Remarry?
Tong Yao nodded, "Yes, it’s Ah Chen’s. As for the details, let Boyi explain it to you when he wakes up!"
Having been exhausted from the car ride, Tong Yao really didn’t have the energy to carry on the leisurely chit-chat.
Gu Hongwei saw that Tong Yao looked fatigued and said, "Yaoyao has been tired from the journey. Why don’t you all rest for a while!"
Chen Jinlan and Zhang Lijuan only then rememberd that it was midnight, and Tong Yao was carrying a child. Even though they didn’t understand how Tong Yao was pregnant with Si Chen’s child, if Tong Yao said the child was Si Chen’s, she definitely wouldn’t lie.
This child must be his.
Knowing that the child was Si Chen’s, Zhang Lijuan changed the subject, "Sister-in-law, there are two beds here, you and Hongwei each sleep on one. My mother and I have already had some sleep, so we don’t need to sleep right now."
Tong Yao didn’t stand on ceremony, she chose a bed casually and then took off her shoes to get on the bed.
Gu Hongwei sat on a chair nearby and spoke in a soft voice: "You all sleep on this bed! I am good with resting on this chair. After bringing Boyi here when it’s dawn, I will go to a motel and have a sleep."
Zhang Lijuan felt a bit embarrassed, "You all have had a tiring journey at this late hour, maybe you..."
Tong Yao interrupted her, "You sleep with your mother! You’re pregnant, you’ll need all your strength to care for Boyi later."
Since Tong Yao had said that, Zhang Lijuan couldn’t say anything else. She obediently went to bed. Seeing that the two were ready to sleep, Gu Hongwei turned off the light by their bedside and then he went back to the chair to nap.
After driving all the way, he was indeed tired enough that he could sleep while sitting.
Tong Yao slept until daybreak when the medical personnel pushed Si Boyi in and explained, "The patient’s condition is now stable. He should be awake around noon. At that time, you can feed him a little bit of warm water slowly, but don’t give him any food."
Chen Jinlan said, "It’s been a day or two, normal people would be starving even without eating anything. He is so weak and still not eating anything, how can his body handle it?"
The doctor looked at her with a frowned brow, "The patient just stabilized. You should follow the doctor’s advice and don’t make decisions on your own."
Having been admonished by the doctor, Chen Jinlan immediately closed her mouth and didn’t make a peep. The doctor then explained some precautions and left the ward, reminding them to call if there was anything else they needed.
Chen Jinlan nodded and promised, refraining from uttering any more irrelevant words.
Zhang Lijuan was watching by Si Boyi’s bed. Seeing the strong Si Boyi now turned so weak with pale lips, she could hardly hold back her tears.
Tong Yao also couldn’t bear seeing Si Boyi like this. She said, "Lijuan, take good care of yourself. If Boyi wakes up to see that your eyes are swollen from crying, he will feel distressed."
Zhang Lijuan sniffled and nodded, "Okay, sister-in-law, I will listen to you, I will not cry."
For some reason, when Tong Yao was there, she felt very secure.
Seeing that Si Boyi’s condition was stable and there seemed to be no major issue, Gu Hongwei said: "I will go downstairs to buy some breakfast."
"I should go instead!" Chen Jinlan felt that it was inappropriate to make Hongwei, who had come all the way to visit them, go and buy breakfast.
Gu Hongwei said, "That’s alright, I will go. I have been sitting all night, so I really need to move a bit."
Once he said that, Chen Jinlan could not say anything else and had to let him go.
Watching Hongwei leave the ward, she sighed, "Hongwei is a good boy, if only he had been born into a good family. He’s had a hard life these years."
Before Tong Yao and Zhang Lijuan could say anything, she continued: "His parents are not around, and there’s no one to arrange his love life. He’s in his twenties and still single. I need to keep an eye out. If I find a suitable girl, I will introduce her to him."
Looking at Hongwei’s attire and demeanor, it seems he is doing well outside, and it should be easy to introduce him to someone.
Hearing what Chen Jinlan said, Tong Yao spoke softly, "Auntie, don’t worry about it. Hongwei is busy with his business right now and is not considering getting married. My parents tried to introduce him to a girl who is pretty and also has her own business. He is just not interested in marriage."
Upon hearing this, Chen Jinlan immediately dismissed the idea of introducing a girl to Gu Hongwei. If he wasn’t interested in a girl who was both pretty and capable, she wouldn’t be able to find such a girl. Either he doesn’t want to get married or his standards are too high.
Regardless of which it is, if she tried to introduce him to someone, she was bound to get a snubbed nose.
Zhang Lijuan seemed to think the same way as Chen Jinlan. She didn’t think Gu Hongwei didn’t want to get married. What man wouldn’t want to start a family? He probably had high standards, seeing that Si Chen found a city woman for a wife, he probably also wanted someone from the city.
Looking at Gu Hongwei’s attire, he seemed to be doing well for himself, he probably wasn’t interested in girls from the village.
So she said, "Mom, if Hongwei doesn’t have a desire to marry, you shouldn’t worry about it unnecessarily."
Chen Jinlan nodded, "Okay, I won’t bring it up again."
Tong Yao deflected the topic, "Who is looking after the child?"
Zhang Lijuan said, "After Boyi’s accident, my mother sent the child home and asked my sister-in-law to take care of him. My dad and brother are fixing a dam. They don’t even know that something happened."
Only God knows that when Si Boyi was injured, Zhang Lijuan was so frightened. There was a lot of blood on him, and the ground was stained red. Si Boyi probably knew that his injury was severe. Before he lost consciousness, he reminded her to look after the child properly.
He also told her if she couldn’t take care of the child, she should entrust the child to his older brother and Tong Yao. At the time, she didn’t have the time to think about what Boyi had said, but thinking about it now, Si Boyi must have known that the child in Tong Yao’s belly was Si Chen’s.
Zhang Lijuan knew, Si Boyi had had a tough childhood. He worried that if something happened to him, his child would suffer the same way he had, so she understood Si Boyi’s thoughts.
With Tong Yao and her older brother, they had money, they would take care of the child. Even if they didn’t want to take care of the child themselves, they would hire a nanny. In any case, the child would not suffer.
But Si Boyi didn’t understand that if something really happened to him, how could she marry someone else?
Where could she find someone as good to her as Si Boyi! During their years as a married couple, Si Boyi never had sweet words for her, but his love for her was deep and tangible.
If something happened to Si Boyi, she would stay a widow for the rest of her life, raising the two kids. She would never do shameful things like Lin Fengying and lose face in front of her children.
Tong Yao didn’t know that during this time, Zhang Lijuan had been thinking about so many things. She breathed a deep sigh and asked, "When is your due date?"
Zhang Lijuan touched her belly and said, "I am due in the middle of this month."
Compared to other village wives, Zhang Lijuan considered herself very fortunate; she didn’t have to give birth at home and would be able to go to the hospital for delivery.
