Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 1201 - 379: Good News_4

Chapter 1201: Chapter 379: Good News_4

Mo Yan’s gaze swept over her friend’s gently heaving chest and settled on her still-flat lower abdomen. It was hard to imagine that in a few months, this area would swell bigger than a basketball, let alone that it had already nurtured a new life, merely waiting for the fruit to ripen and fall, to meet this strange world with loud cries.

Bearing a child for someone you love must be a blissful thing, even if it means suffering from morning sickness and being unable to eat anything, even if you have to avoid certain foods and cannot satisfy your cravings, even if you get fat and your figure changes, even if childbirth means enduring inhuman pain and even the risk of losing your life; still, nothing could stop them...

Mo Yan sat quietly for a long time, lost in her thoughts. It wasn’t until she started to feel a little stiff and uncomfortable that she slowly stood up, covered Liu Tinglan’s abdomen with a thin blanket, replaced the book on the shelf, and walked out to find Mother Lv, who was still busy in the kitchen.

There were many foods that pregnant women should avoid, and Mo Yan wasn’t sure how much Mother Lv knew, so she went over the list of foods to be mindful of one by one. Only after Mother Lv had committed it all to memory did she leave the stuffy kitchen and return to the room, where she picked up paper and pen to write down some of the things pregnant women should not do. She placed her note on her friend’s bedside table for her to pay attention to.

Liu Tinglan slept for a long time, not waking up until the sun was less than a zhang high. By then, Shen Ji had returned from his visit with Great Scholar Wu and was sitting at the bedside, reading the list of pregnancy taboos Mo Yan had written, with his face somewhat flushed.

When Liu Tinglan awoke and didn’t see her friend, she asked her husband about it. Learning that her friend had given some instructions and then left after he had come back, she couldn’t help feeling a little disappointed.

Shen Ji’s mother had told him that a woman’s emotions would fluctuate greatly during pregnancy, and that he should pamper her a bit. Seeing his wife’s sullen expression now, he quickly comforted her, "Miss Mo said she would come to see you in a couple of days. Before she left, she told me to remind you to eat well, sleep well, and to do what you promised her. If you behave well, she will come to visit you with Mao Tuan next time. If you don’t, not only will she not come, she’ll also report to Mother and make her watch over you incessantly."

Upon hearing this, Liu Tinglan laughed out loud, "That girl really would do something like that, huh? Am I really that unreliable?"

Shen Ji instinctively wanted to nod, but seeing his wife’s sidelong glance, he quickly corrected himself, "You are the most reassuring woman I have ever seen, and you will also be the best mother."

Liu Tinglan was quite pleased with her husband’s response, cheerfully planting a kiss on his face as a reward. But after the kiss, she felt something was amiss and touched his forehead with concern, "Are you sick? Why is your face so hot?"

At her words, Shen Ji immediately recalled the content he had just read, and his face grew even hotter, "No, not sick. It’s probably just too hot today, a bit overbearing."

Liu Tinglan didn’t believe him, spotting the few sheets of paper in his hand. She reached out and took them, and as she read down the list of precautions, when she came to the bold text of the sixth point, "Strict abstinence from sexual intercourse for one month," her face turned scarlet in an instant, and she quickly hid the sheets under her pillow.

Just two nights ago, they had playfully romanced for quite a while. Later, when the doctor came to check her pulse, he said that they should abstain from sexual intercourse for the first three months of pregnancy. They hadn’t taken it seriously, and they couldn’t resist entangling again last night. They never expected that Mo Yan would notice, and it was thoroughly embarrassing.

Mo Yan, who was still on her way home, had no idea that by reminding the couple to be abstinent in her capacity as a doctor, she had inadvertently caused them such embarrassment.

The next time she came to visit her friend and saw her reddened, flush-faced friend, she would think she was ill, only to get a false alarm...