Chapter 1201 - 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.