Chapter 11 NT Checkup, also known as Pregnancy Checkup
The next day, the sky was clear and the clouds were bright, it was a good day.
Wang Zhao left at the agreed time with Li Zhenguan, and went to his house to pick him up before going to the hospital.
When Li Zhenguan got in the car, she still asked: “Did you have breakfast?”
She looked it up online and found that for the NT checkup, the pregnant husband doesn’t need to fast, so he can still eat a little something, otherwise it might hurt his stomach.
Li Zhenguan shook his head.
Not long after he finished washing up, Wang Zhao had already called to say that she was outside the door. And he had already instructed Zhang Shu at home yesterday not to prepare breakfast for him.
So after shaking his head, he added: “I left in a hurry and didn’t have time to eat.”
“Well, then let’s go have breakfast together.” Wang Zhao didn’t mind, but smiled and turned the steering wheel. On her way here, she passed by a street with many breakfast shops.
Chinese-style breakfast is always full of the aroma of life. There were four or five shops on this street. Wang Zhao chose the one with more people based on her experience and walked in.
There were already quite a few people sitting inside, most of them middle-aged and elderly. Only a table in the corner was still empty. Wang Zhao led Li Zhenguan over.
She wiped the table and asked Li Zhenguan what he wanted to eat, then let him sit here while she went to order alone.
She ordered a bowl of noodles for herself, and Li Zhenguan ordered a bowl of slow-cooked pumpkin porridge, then two cups of hot soy milk and a small basket of soup dumplings.
For two people, this breakfast was a bit much, but now that Li Zhenguan was pregnant with twins, thinking of this, she also ordered a bowl of silky steamed eggs. The steamed eggs here should be quite good, she heard several elderly people order this dish just now.
After ordering, she sat back at the table. Their appointment time was 10 o’clock, and now it was only 8:30. It would only take more than half an hour to drive from here to the hospital, so they still had time.
Li Zhenguan sat across from her, and when she sat down, he instinctively smiled at her.
Wang Zhao was about to look at her phone and review some questions, when Li Zhenguan sitting across from her took the initiative to find a topic.
“Are you thinking of taking the prosecutor assistant exam?” This topic was a bit obviously awkward, and Li Zhenguan also noticed. The next moment, he hurriedly said, “I have a female cousin who previously passed the civil service exam for the Procuratorate. Maybe she can provide you with some experience.”
This was a kind gesture, and also a help that Wang Zhao found difficult to refuse.
She only thought for a moment before nodding and saying thank you.
A smile appeared on Li Zhenguan’s face, as if he was very happy to be able to provide help: “Then I’ll tell her later and give you her contact information.”
Wang Zhao murmured an agreement, but put away her phone. She also realized that sitting here alone looking at her phone was not very friendly to Li Zhenguan.
At this time, breakfast was also served and placed on the table. The table was not very big, and the basket of dumplings alone occupied most of the space between the two people. A bowl of noodle soup and a bowl of pumpkin porridge came up, and the table was already full.
However, when another bowl of steamed eggs was brought up, Li Zhenguan was stunned for a moment and couldn’t help but say: “So much, we may not be able to finish it.”
Wang Zhao took out the disposable chopsticks and habitually rubbed them a few times until the burrs were all smoothed out before handing them to Li Zhenguan. In these trivial details, she could always move Li Zhenguan.
She said: “It’s okay, try to eat as much as you can. I’ll eat what you can’t finish.”
“The steamed eggs here are good, try it.” Wang Zhao placed the bowl of steamed eggs in front of Li Zhenguan. “I saw quite a few people order this just now.”
Li Zhenguan’s ears were a little red, and he nodded slightly. No matter when, he could never refuse Wang Zhao’s coldness under her warmth.
The two of them had the habit of not talking while eating. However, compared to Wang Zhao’s quick eating, Li Zhenguan was obviously much more methodical, eating everything in small bites. By the time Wang Zhao finished a bowl of noodles, only a small half of the steamed eggs in front of him were eaten, and the porridge looked like it hadn’t been touched.
After Wang Zhao finished eating, she sat across from him. At first, she was still looking at Li Zhenguan, but after a while, she found that this person seemed to want to bury himself in the bowl under her gaze, so she thoughtfully withdrew her gaze and lowered her head to fiddle with her phone.
In the past two months, quite a few people had sent her messages, presumably the original owner’s acquaintances or friends.
Some were inviting her to attend class reunions, obviously classmates. Some were asking her to go out and meet, saying they had recently returned to Jiangcheng and wanted to go out for a meal.
Wang Zhao rejected all of these invitations that involved meeting in person. She was afraid of being exposed. In her opinion, amnesia was not a good excuse, because amnesia always requires recovering memories, and she was not the original owner and was not sure if she would remember the original owner’s affairs in the future, so she rejected all of these.
However, Wang Zhao did not respond negatively either. She found a somewhat tattered notebook in the room, with yellowed pages and faded handwriting in some places due to being written in ballpoint pen.
It recorded many things about the original owner’s studies and work, from slightly immature handwriting to steadily improving penmanship. She looked at the handwriting on it for a long time, and finally closed the booklet and put it back at the bottom of the box.
After reading it once, she already had a general understanding of the other party’s social situation.
Overall, the original owner was not the kind of person who was good at socializing, or rather, not an affable person. She didn’t have many friends, only two or three, and they were all working in different places now, so it was difficult to see them often.
One of those two or three friends who said she had returned to Jiangcheng and invited her out for a meal was now a lawyer at a big law firm and had a bright future, but was very busy on weekdays and often traveled for work. Since graduating from college, she hadn’t met the original owner many times.
This was the result of Wang Zhao’s inference through various clues and WeChat Moments.
The situation was not too bad. The original owner’s parents and Li Zhenguan did not notice anything unusual about her, and Wang Zhao did not think that the few friends who had only met her a few times in several years would notice anything.
Moreover, personality is a very strange thing. Even many parents who have been together for decades may not necessarily know what kind of person their child really is.
Thinking of this, Wang Zhao exited the WeChat page and looked up at the person in front of her.
“Finished eating?” She asked softly.
Li Zhenguan was wiping his mouth, and when he heard her words, he murmured an agreement. He originally thought he couldn’t finish it, but surprisingly, he ate it all in the end, and somehow, his appetite was exceptionally good today, with no signs of nausea at all.
Wang Zhao smiled. She noticed Li Zhenguan’s shyness: “That’s good. Take the soy milk with you, you can drink it on the way.”
Seeing the smile on Wang Zhao’s face, Li Zhenguan also smiled slightly and slowly nodded.
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The Merman is a Love-Obsessed Brain (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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