Rebirth in Famine: She Thrives by Lucky Space

"Mom. I just saw Shu Wen and the others. It’s already so late and they’re still not going back to wrap dumplings," Cheng Lin said.

The smile disappeared from Li Yungui’s face. That Old Fourth really left him with no way to handle him. Now it had come to the point the family New Year’s dinner couldn’t even be properly had.

This year for New Year’s, Xiang Dong didn’t even come back. Lots of people in the village had come back for the holiday.

It really made people feel chilled; how did a kid like Xiang Dong turn into this? And that kid Shuzhi too, I heard things aren’t going too well for him at the factory.

Really enough to drive you mad. How did he manage to raise the kids all into this?

Qu Xiaoli sighed inwardly. "Red Army, you go take a tray of dumplings over to your Fourth Uncle. Let them cook them themselves."

"Alright, I’ll go right now."

Cheng Lin and Hongling went along with him. Only Changhe stayed to roll out dumpling wrappers.

Although Li Yungui didn’t say anything, he was satisfied inside.

The three of them, Red Army and the others, came back. "Second Aunt, my Fourth Uncle is making dumplings too, he’s already finished. When we got there, they were just boiling water."

Li Yunqiang was cooking dumplings for his two sons. He felt extremely miserable today; his life had ended up like this now.

Looking at the dumplings sent from Second Brother’s place, he still decided to cook them all. Let the two kids eat their fill.

Eating dumplings, Shu Wen said, "Dad, Second Aunt’s are still the best."

Shuxin nodded along.

Li Yunqiang didn’t say a word. He knew that on a day like this he ought to be happy, but he just couldn’t force out a smile.

"You two eat till you’re stuffed."

"Dad, when is my Big Brother coming back?"

"I don’t know either."

The two younger ones didn’t mention Second Brother Shuzhi at all; basically they no longer counted him as a brother.

In fact, Shu Wen wanted to bring up Mom, but seeing that Dad didn’t have the slightest look of a smile, he didn’t dare ask.

Still, he really wanted to know how Mom was doing, didn’t know how she was back at her mother’s house.

None of them knew that Liu Cuilan had already remarried in the county seat.

She really couldn’t stay at her mother’s place; her sisters‑in‑law simply wouldn’t tolerate her. So a matchmaker introduced a man in the county, five years older than her, with a son and two daughters at home.

Under normal circumstances, someone like that, Liu Cuilan would have turned her nose up at. But back then, with her sisters‑in‑law cursing and sniping at her all day long, she really couldn’t take it anymore. So she hurriedly married over there.

Li Yunqiang did know about this. But he didn’t tell his sons.

As for Liu Cuilan remarrying, Li Yunqiang felt bad about it, but they were already divorced; it was normal for her to marry someone.

After the three of them finished eating dumplings, they each went back to rest. In every other household there was laughter and chatter; only in Li Yunqiang’s house it was cold and deserted, unbearably desolate.

The first day of the New Year is for New Year’s visits. Yesterday the Han Family father and son hadn’t left either, so in the morning it was the whole family exchanging New Year’s greetings with each other.

The kids got six red envelopes each; Jiang Xinyu let them keep the money themselves. Even the two little ones had their own envelopes put aside separately for them.

After breakfast, Han Xiangjun took the kids out to see what the New Year’s visiting customs were like around here.

At home only Ah Bao and Tingting were left. Ah Bao had stopped crying now. He knew there was no way they’d take him, so he just sat and played with Tingting.

Tingting really had the air of an older sister. She yielded to her little brother all the time; even if he snatched the toy from her hands, she didn’t get anxious, just picked up another one and went on playing by herself.

Old Yang and his wife went out to have some fun too. Jiang Xinyu and Zhang Qiu’e started getting lunch ready.

The kids wanted to eat steamed buns, which was easy enough to make, and there was still Eight‑Treasure Congee simmering on the stove. Eating like this was comfortable.

In a blink, it was the fifth day of the New Year. The fifth day has the custom of "breaking the fifth," you have to eat dumplings.

Today they were making chive and pork filling; just smelling the chives made your mouth water.

Today was the day Li Xue and Guodong went to the hospital for a checkup.

The doctor smiled as she congratulated the two of them. "The baby’s doing very well, very lively."

Li Xue’s eyes turned red. It gave Guodong a fright.

"Xue’er, what’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell somewhere?"

"No, I’m just too excited."

The doctor smiled at this young couple; they were young parents now.

"You’re both still very young, you must be careful. Actually for a girl, getting pregnant and giving birth at this age isn’t ideal. So you must eat well, but you also can’t just sit around, you need to exercise regularly. That way, when it comes time to give birth, it’ll go smoothly."

The doctor really couldn’t bear to go on; the young father’s face was already drained of blood.

Li Xue didn’t notice Guodong’s change; she listened carefully to the doctor’s instructions.

"Doctor, if it’s bad for my wife, then we shouldn’t keep this baby for now. We can have children later when we’re older."

Li Xue froze for a moment, turned her head to look at the tense Guodong, and felt deeply moved and sweet inside.

"What do you two know? Getting rid of the baby is even worse for the mother, and it might mean you’ll never have children in the future."

Now Guodong was even more terrified. Seeing his expression, Li Xue hurriedly grabbed his hand. "It’s okay, we’ll just do exactly what the doctor says. Every woman gives birth, I’m not that delicate. My dad said my grandma was only fifteen when she had him. It’s fine, don’t be scared."

Guodong turned his face toward Li Xue. "I’m scared."

"It’s okay, we’ll remember the doctor’s words firmly, and do everything exactly as she told us; there definitely won’t be any problem. Don’t worry.

My health is good, nothing will happen."

The doctor nodded as well, quite pleased with Guodong in her heart. There weren’t many men like this.

"What I said just now was only a possibility, don’t let your imagination run wild. As long as you two behave and listen, nothing will happen."

Guodong took a notebook and pen out of his bag and looked at the doctor, just waiting for her instructions so he could write them down. He was afraid he’d forget, so he had to write them down.

Seeing how serious Guodong was, the doctor explained everything even more carefully.

After the two of them came out of the hospital, Guodong still hadn’t come around.

"I need to go call my dad."

"Right, we should tell Dad this good news. Come on, let’s go make the call."

Li Yunqiao was in a meeting. It wasn’t anything important, so Secretary Wu came to get him to take the call.

"Xue’er."

"Dad, I’m pregnant, it’s been over two months already. The doctor said the baby is doing very well."

The happy look on Li Yunqiao’s face disappeared immediately, though his tone didn’t change.

"Xue’er, you’re still very young, having a baby isn’t good for you."

"Dad, Guodong was already scared half to death. But the doctor said I’m in good health; as long as we do what she says, there definitely won’t be a problem. And Guodong wrote everything down.

Dad, I’m so happy, I’m going to be a mom. Dad, are you happy?"

Li Yunqiao rubbed his temples, clouds darkening his face, but his voice was very gentle. "Mm, Dad’s happy too, my girl is about to be a mom. But you have to listen to the doctor, you can’t be willful."

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