6. Divorced Military Wife (6)

He Xuezhu had just finished setting up the food when she looked up and saw her husband standing in the yard. She looked at him with his eyebrows slightly raised and a half-smile on his face. She didn't know why. Even though she had been married for three years, she still felt the same as when she first got married. She felt nervous when she saw him.

Just as she was thinking, Lin Shiheng smiled at her: "Xuezhu, what dishes are there today?"

His voice was gentle and slightly magnetic. He Xuezhu's hand trembled when she put down the chopsticks, and her face turned red. She subconsciously lowered her head and whispered: "There is old hen stewed soup, and there are also smashed cucumbers, cabbage..."

For the Lin family, this is already a very rich dish. Lin Shiheng smiled and sat on the stool. He looked at the chicken soup that was just stewed on the table and said in a surprised voice: "Mom guessed that I came back today? It takes a long time to stew this chicken soup."

Speaking of this, He Xuezhu lowered her head even more. Thinking of her husband's unfamiliar look towards her in the past and asking her if she had taken good care of her mother every time he came back, she said with a little timidity: "Chicken soup... is stewed for me by my mother."

After she finished speaking, her drooping face was extremely nervous. She was afraid that her husband would think that she had not been filial to her mother-in-law. But she was tongue-tied and didn't know how to explain. She could only stand stiffly as if waiting for judgment.

Lin Shiheng looked at He Xuezhu. Although he was facing the person beside him, he stood stiffly with his hands twisted, showing fear and self-blame after making a mistake.

He could easily guess why she was like this. Because she had been belittled since she was a child, He Xuezhu had a very low self-esteem. As long as someone pushed the mistake on her, no matter whether the mistake was caused by her or not, she would fall into real doubts about herself and guilt and self-blame towards others.

He Xuezhu was indeed feeling guilty and self-blame. As a daughter-in-law, she actually asked her mother-in-law to cook chicken soup for her, and she drank this chicken soup for several days. Although Li Chunhua also drank it, the nature of the matter of "mother-in-law stewed chicken soup for her" was very different.

Would Shiheng misunderstand? Would he think that she bullied her mother?

She wanted to explain that she had refused, but her mother asked her to drink well and take good care of her body so that she could wait for Shiheng to come back to prepare for pregnancy, but how could she say this about preparing for pregnancy.

He Xuezhu's face flushed red, and her fingers were twisted to the point where the fingertips turned white. When she was panicking, Lin Shiheng suddenly stretched out a hand and held her hands.

"Xuezhu, it seems that you are really good to mom, otherwise according to mom's temper, I would definitely not want to make soup for you. Thank you for helping me take care of mom at home all the time. It must be very hard?"

He Xuezhu looked up in disbelief after hearing his gentle voice, staring at Lin Shiheng in a daze. She didn't expect that Shiheng would say such a thing to her.

After being stunned for several seconds, she remembered to answer: "No, it's not hard, I didn't do anything..."

The handsome man in front of her looked at her with gentle eyes. He lowered his head slightly, looked at her hands, and gently stroked the calluses on her fingertips.

He Xuezhu felt a little inferior, and subconsciously shrank back and wanted to withdraw her hand, "Don't look at it, it's ugly..."

"What's ugly? In my opinion, this is the proof of labor, Xuezhu, Mom can stew chicken soup for you, you must be very good, you don't need to do this."

"Come, sit down, drink soup."

He Xuezhu was pulled to sit down, watching Lin Shiheng smile and serve her soup with his own hands, the joy and happiness in her heart just now turned into bitterness.

So, he treated her well because of his mother-in-law?

Shiheng has always been filial to his mother, and she has always known it.

He treated her well now just because he thought his mother-in-law liked her, but in fact, whether Li Chunhua liked her or not, He Xuezhu knew it clearly in her heart.

She should have said it, but seeing her husband so gentle and considerate, serving her soup with his own hands, and looking at her with a warm smile in his eyes, He Xuezhu couldn't open her mouth.

Under Lin Shiheng's coaxing, she picked up the bowl and drank a small sip of chicken soup. She felt sour in her heart. She was obviously very uncomfortable, but she still tried to force a smile and looked at her husband who was gentle to her as if in a dream: "It tastes good."

"If it tastes good, drink more. We will stew chicken soup next time."

After Lin Shiheng finished speaking, he looked up and said: "Why hasn't mom come yet? Didn't you say you were going to get something?"

He Xuezhu quickly put down the bowl and stood up: "I'll go call mom..."

"No, no, I'm coming."

Li Chunhua opened the curtain and heard this sentence. She quickly wiped her eyes and responded, and walked down the steps.

As soon as she went down, she saw her son looking at her nervously, and even her voice trembled: "Mom, why are your eyes red?"

As if to cover up the truth, he stood up and asked again: "Did you go into my room?"

"No, no!"

Seeing that her son was going to go into the room as if she admitted it, Li Chunhua waved her hands and stammered to find an excuse: "I, I was blinded by sand just now, and my eyes were uncomfortable so I rubbed them, and they turned red."

Lin Shiheng was obviously relieved, and walked forward with a relaxed and distressed look, "Do you still feel uncomfortable now? Let me blow on your eyes?"

It was obvious that the matter could be solved by saying that it was not uncomfortable, but Li Chunhua was afraid that her son would not believe it, so she nodded quickly and said: "It's still uncomfortable, help me blow on my right eye."

Li Chunhua stood with one eye stretched out, and could only look at Lin Shiheng in front of her with difficulty with the other eye.

He was handsome and tall, and he had a military temperament just standing there. At this moment, he was blowing his eyes for her, his mother, with a serious face.

The tears that Li Chunhua had been holding back suddenly fell down.

His son is filial and good-looking. He has never worried her since he was a child. He was promoted not long after joining the army and is now a high-ranking official like a regiment commander.

Such a good child, how can he... not have another child!

She doesn't care that the old Lin family will never be extinct, but when she thinks that her good son will be old and sick in the future, there will be no younger generation to take care of him by his bedside. When he dies and is buried in the grave, every Qingming Festival, other people will burn money and burn houses, but his son will not even have anyone to see him. Thinking of this, Li Chunhua felt uncomfortable in her heart.

Just when she was feeling uncomfortable, she heard her son ask worriedly: "Mom, why are you crying?"

"It's you who blew the sand in again. Blow it out for me quickly."

After Li Chunhua answered with a choked voice, she saw that her son really started to look for the non-existent sand seriously, and tried hard to swallow the remaining tears.

She couldn't cry, and couldn't let Shi Heng know that she knew!

Shi Heng is very concerned about his reputation, especially in such a situation. Any man would not want to let others know that he is infertile. Seeing that he hid it from her, he must be afraid that she, as a mother, would be sad. She couldn't let her son down.

Isn't it just that he can't have children?

At most, he can bring a child home to raise, raise him from childhood, and don't tell the child that he is not his own.

When she thought of this, Li Chunhua's nose was sour again. Why can't she have his own flesh and blood?

"Mom, how are you now?"

"Ah, much better, all right, mom will go wash her face, you go sit down and eat first."

Li Chunhua went to the kitchen to wash her face, took a deep breath, told herself not to show any clues in front of her son, and then lifted the curtain and walked out.

Just now, she was so upset that she didn't pay attention. When she sat down, Li Chunhua found that there was a bowl of chicken soup in front of her daughter-in-law He Xuezhu.

His son hasn't even drunk it yet!

Li Chunhua's face turned cold and she was about to get angry, but a bowl of hot chicken soup was placed in front of her. When she looked up, Lin Shiheng was smiling at her.

"Mom, you've worked hard, drink the soup."

Woo...

Her poor son, Mom is not working hard, it's you who's working hard.

Li Chunhua was about to drink it, but suddenly she thought about it and looked at the bowl of soup in front of He Xuezhu: "Did you serve this bowl for Xuezhu?"

"Yes, Xuezhu has worked hard too. I can't be at home, so she takes care of you for me."

At this point, Lin Shiheng's face showed a bit of sadness.

Li Chunhua felt bad when she saw her son was upset. She was sad, and Shiheng must be even sadder than her. He was so sad, but he served soup to Xuezhu because she took care of her mother. How could this child be so filial?

Feeling sad, Li Chunhua didn't have the energy to find fault anymore. She lowered her head to drink the soup. The warm soup went into her stomach and turned into tears.

Her son...

He Xuezhu was nervous and afraid that her mother-in-law would scold her and let Shi Heng see that her mother-in-law didn't like her. Unexpectedly, she got through it safely. She immediately breathed a sigh of relief and lowered her head to drink a mouthful of soup.

As soon as the soup went down her throat, she suddenly felt nauseous. Without time to think, she quickly turned sideways and retched a few times.

When she finally calmed down, she turned around and saw her husband and mother-in-law looking at her. Thinking that she was retching while they were eating, He Xuezhu's face, which was already pale because of discomfort, turned even paler.

"I didn't mean it. I may have a little stomach discomfort recently and always want to vomit."

It's over. The mother-in-law will definitely scold her...

It's not an exaggeration to say that He Xuezhu was completely heartbroken at this moment. She was not afraid of being scolded. Anyway, she had been scolded since she was a child and had experience. She just had to bear it in silence. But she just felt a little tenderness from her husband. If she found out that her mother-in-law hated her, Shi Heng, who was so filial, would definitely become the same as before.

She was afraid and regretful. Just as she was about to stand up and apologize, her hand was suddenly grabbed by Li Chunhua.

He Xuezhu almost thought that she was going to hit her. Although Li Chunhua had never hit her, she was beaten a lot when she was at her mother's house. Her body immediately tensed up and she shrank and lowered her head skillfully, not daring to look at her mother-in-law.

Li Chunhua was so excited that she didn't notice He Xuezhu's expression at all. She looked at He Xuezhu with shining eyes and ecstasy.

She wanted to vomit, isn't this pregnancy! !

Counting the days again, Shi Heng came back once three months ago!

It's right! ! It's right! !