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Xia Zheng couldn’t help laughing and said, "You should really add some horse urine in there for him. This old guy dares to joke about anything, even going so far as to say you can’t bear children, hmph, when I see him tomorrow I’ll definitely have to teach him a lesson!"

As the topic arose, Lin Yuan’s heart involuntarily shuddered. She put down the bowl in her hand and looked seriously at Xia Zheng, "Xia Zheng, if what Lao Fan said today wasn’t a joke, but was actually true, would you..."

"Would I what?" Xia Zheng raised an eyebrow. "Would I despise you and not take you into my home? Is that all your little brain can think of? Am I that shallow? To not want you just because of a child?"

While speaking, he even raised his hand and knocked on Lin Yuan’s forehead but, mindful of her current frailty, he hardly used any force at all.

Lin Yuan pouted. "It’s not my fault, who asked you to come from a wealthy family? Look at my mom, forced by my grandmother to be sent away just because she had three daughters. And that’s only in the countryside. If we...in the future..."

"You know,"

Before Lin Yuan could finish, Xia Zheng had already taken the bowl from her hands and put it aside, then wrapped her tightly in his arms, cocooning her body in the blankets, and said gently yet firmly, "My mother is not your grandmother, she would never do something like that. And even if you really can’t bear children, then we just won’t have any.

How nice would it be for the two of us to spend our lives together!

If we were to have some naughty little troublemaker, I would find it bothersome! "

Hearing Xia Zheng’s disdainful tone, Lin Yuan chuckled, "That would be your own child. It’s the first time I have heard someone say their own child is a bother!"

"It would be a bother!" Xia Zheng raised an eyebrow. "We were living so sweetly, just the two of us. Wouldn’t a little troublemaker disturb us? Tell me he wouldn’t be a bother."

Lin Yuan rolled her eyes, pretending she hadn’t heard.

But as it turned out, what Xia Zheng said was prophetic. The little troublemaker they had didn’t just cause bother, but was a real trouble-seeker!

After chatting for a while longer, Lin Yuan felt a bit tired and wanted to get up and move around, but Xia Zheng absolutely refused, insisting she stay lying on the heated brick bed.

Lin Yuan laughed, "It’s just my period, it’s not as if I’m seriously ill, there’s no need to be so delicate!"

"No, this is even more delicate than being sick!

" Remembering how Princess Anle would lie in bed for several days each time without moving, Xia Zheng, for the life of him, wouldn’t allow Lin Yuan to get off the bed, especially since they were in the countryside and even a wooden floor in the house could still be chilly.

If she caught a chill, it would definitely make her feel worse later.

Snugly wrapping Lin Yuan in the blankets, Xia Zheng lifted his chin proudly, "Besides, my woman, even if you lay in bed every day, no one can fault you for being delicate. Who would dare?"

Lin Yuan found it both amusing and annoying. She really didn’t want to lie in bed every day; it was incredibly boring.

In the following days, just as Xia Zheng had said, Lin Yuan lay on the heated brick bed for several days. When she heard that her elder sister was ill, Lin Wei hurried back to visit her. Upon learning it was just her menses, Lin Wei even sewed several menstrual pads for her overnight.

Since the family wasn’t short of cotton or cloth, Lin Wei firmly refused to let Lin Yuan wash those dirty things, so the used ones were simply thrown away.

Being a loaf at home for several days turned out to be the most comfortable days Lin Yuan had since arriving.

She didn’t have to think about anything or do anything; everything was handed to her and she was fed with ease.

Xiao Linshuang even came by every day to keep her company and chat, making her days immensely enjoyable.

Perhaps encouraged by that day’s chicken soup, Xia Zheng’s new mission was to make medicine and stew all kinds of soups for Lin Yuan every day: chicken soup, pigeon soup, bird’s nest porridge, never repeating the same dish, causing Lin Yuan to complain daily that she was putting on weight and worried it would be harder to lose in the future.

Lady Liu was, however, delighted, teasing her with a smile, "Why lose weight? Girls should be a bit plump; it’s better for bearing children in the future."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yuan’s face immediately blushed. She embarrassedly glared at the beaming Xia Zheng and bowed her head to gulp down the bowl of pigeon soup until it was all gone.

After several days of comfortable living, Aunt Wang arrived one day looking exceedingly pleased. She spoke with Lady Liu in the room for quite some time. Even with a main room separating them, Lin Yuan could still hear Aunt Wang’s hearty laughter.

Naturally, Xiao Linshuang was also very curious. After receiving a signal from her elder sister, she tiptoed over and eavesdropped by the door for a while. When she returned, her little face was flushed with excitement.