The story of Rose starts with being a brother

Chapter 158: The Battle to Save the Children

The weekend is over and a wonderful week has begun.

When he got off work on Tuesday, Na Jun suddenly received a message from his sister-in-law Shen Lin.

Sister-in-law: Something happened to Juanjuan, and Shen Lei’s wife is missing!
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Shen Lei's wife? Xie Meilan is missing?

Na Jun looked at the message on his phone carefully, wondering if he had read it wrongly?
In the original drama, wasn't it only the sister-in-law Shen Lin who played the game of disappearance? How come Xie Meilan also played the game of disappearance?
With the original intention of watching the fun, no matter how big the event, Na Jun took his girlfriend Li Xiaoyue and rushed to his sister-in-law's house after get off work.

While driving, he called to ask his sister-in-law what had happened between him and Shen Lei.

It was not until the car drove to his sister-in-law's building that he figured out the situation.

It turned out that after Shen Lei promised Xie Meilan on Sunday that he would choose a good cemetery for his mother-in-law, he had been planning to borrow money.

But it was actually quite difficult for him to ask for a loan, so last night he told Xie Meilan that it would take some time and that she could choose a cemetery first and guarantee that she would be able to borrow the money when the time came.

As a result, Xie Meilan told Shen Lei last night that she would be on a business trip for the next week. Shen Lei didn't care because he was going to raise money this week.

Then after get off work today, he went straight to his elder sister Shen Lin's house to borrow money.

Originally Shen Lei was quite hesitant. He was actually still unsure about whether to borrow so much money to help Xie Meilan bury her mother. However, after hearing Shen Lin, he immediately analyzed the importance of this matter to his brother.

In order to prevent this incident from becoming a thorn in the relationship between her younger brother and his wife, she immediately decided that the matter of choosing a cemetery would be entirely up to Xie Meilan, and she, as the elder sister, would make up for any shortfall.

Shen Lin is not the kind of woman who supports her brother without caring about anything else. One reason is that her brother seldom asks her for financial matters.

After all, even when Shen Lei's mother-in-law was dying, he didn't ask his sister for help when Xie Meilan begged him to find a solution. Now, if he didn't feel the sense of crisis between husband and wife, he would not have come to his sister for help.

Another reason was that the brother and sister checked their information and both felt that Xie Meilan might really be pregnant.

This is another thing Shen Lei talked about with Shen Lin. He had some doubts at first, but he didn't understand all the symptoms of pregnancy, so he asked his sister Shen Lin, a woman with childbirth experience.

After Shen Lin heard what her brother said, she slapped her thigh and said, "Xiao Lei, Meilan is probably pregnant!"

But then another question arises, that is, since Xie Meilan is pregnant, why doesn't she tell her husband Shen Lei?
And judging from her reaction, she must have known that she was pregnant. Why did she hide it from her husband?
Could it be that the baby she is pregnant with is not from the Shen family?
This speculation popped up in Shen Lin's mind, but she didn't dare to say it to her brother. However, when the two siblings looked at each other, she knew that Shen Lei had also thought of this.

"Impossible! Meilan is not that kind of person!"

Although the elder sister didn't say it, Shen Lei had already stood up excitedly and denied this idea in advance.

Although his marriage with his wife has had some twists and turns, it absolutely cannot be desecrated!

Then Shen Lei spoke excitedly, as if to comfort himself or to persuade his elder sister:
"Meilan must be trying to surprise me!"

"..."

Shen Lin opened her mouth and swallowed back her rebuttal to her brother. As a woman who had given birth to two children, she knew very well that Xie Meilan definitely didn't think that way.

Among normal couples, which wife wouldn’t want to tell her husband as soon as she gets pregnant?
I’m afraid the surprise is fake, but the shock is real!

Although she really didn't want to think about it, a writer once said that he never hesitated to assume the worst of the Chinese people. Shen Lin couldn't help but speculate whether the baby in her sister-in-law's belly was not her brother's.

However, the most urgent task right now is to find Xie Meilan and ask clearly.

Then Shen Lei said that Xie Meilan was on a business trip today and would be away for a week.

"..."

Shen Lin felt an even greater sense of crisis. Going on a business trip while pregnant was so dangerous!
I hurriedly urged my younger brother to send a message to Xie Meilan to ask if she was pregnant and if she could end her business trip and come back early?

However, Xie Meilan denied and rejected it.

Afterwards, Shen Lei continued to ask questions in a panic, which made Xie Meilan upset, so she simply turned off her phone.

Seeing her brother's panic, Shen Lin suggested that he go and ask Xie Meilan's company to see if the company could tell him where Xie Meilan was on a business trip, and then he could go there to take care of her.

However, he did not ask the company to cancel Xie Meilan's business trip, otherwise it would probably make Xie Meilan, who was working hard to make money, even more angry.

But the result was that when Shen Lei rushed to the company where his wife worked, he was told that his wife had asked for a week's leave from the company.

Xie Meilan told him that she was going on a business trip for a week, but she also asked for another week's leave from the company.

What is she going to do?
Shen Lin felt that the answer was obvious. Her sister-in-law might want to abort the child!
It's impossible for her to have a secret meeting with a bulging belly... That's unlikely. It's better to abort the baby.

Anyway, not only is she numb, but Shen Lei is also numb from the information he has received in just a few hours.

He didn't tell him that his wife was pregnant and she even disappeared. She might even want to abort the child. Now he can't contact her.

Shen Lei, who was always calm and composed, felt dizzy and burst into tears in front of his sister.

His crying made Shen Lin's one-year-old son cry too, and the house was in chaos.

Shen Lin was also overwhelmed, panicked and anxious. Her husband Na Wei also went on a business trip to Tianjin today, and she didn't even have anyone to discuss things with.

That's why he hurriedly called Na Jun and Li Xiaoyue over to think of a solution together.

... "Juanjuan, I didn't expect such a big thing to happen all of a sudden. You said the same thing to Sister Meilan. Why didn't she tell me she was pregnant?"

After arriving downstairs at Shen Lin's house, Li Xiaoyue and Na Jun walked while worrying and complaining.

Na Jun smiled and said, "Who knows? I can't figure out a woman's mind, especially a pregnant woman!"

Seeing her boyfriend laughing, Li Xiaoyue said unhappily:

"You're still laughing. My sister-in-law and the others must be getting anxious right now. Don't laugh like you're just watching a show!"

"Don't worry, I'm here to help, not to watch the fun. But who made this happen so unexpectedly?"

Na Jun was really surprised. He didn't expect that the spoiler he "casually" said in Shenjia Village would really work.

Although he said it for fun at the time because he thought it was interesting, he didn't intend to change anything intentionally. After all, according to the direction of the original drama, everyone was living a good life.

Even if he traveled through time and space to Shen Lei's body, wasn't he thinking about divorcing Xie Meilan?
So from the perspective of Na Jun, a bystander, it doesn't matter whether they leave early or late. However, now that the plot has taken a turn and Shen Lei knows in advance that Xie Meilan is pregnant, he has become interested again.

I don’t know if Shen Lei can keep his baby this time.

After entering sister-in-law Shen Lin's house, Na Jun and Li Xiaoyue saw Shen Lei sitting blankly on the sofa.

Judging from his red and swollen eyes, he must have just cried.

"Sister-in-law, is Shen Lei okay?"

Na Jun showed some humanitarian concern.

Shen Lin sighed worriedly, then said, "How can he be okay like this? He just finished crying, and now we don't know where to find Meilan."

She paused for a moment, as if she was somewhat dissatisfied with her sister-in-law, but she did not say anything. She turned around and continued:
"Your brother is also on a business trip today. I haven't told him yet because I'm afraid it will delay his work."

Na Jun nodded. He remembered that in the original drama, his brother was also in big trouble and had to bear the 800,000 yuan debt for Wang Ruizhi for no apparent reason.

Today the brother should have gone to the mountains to find Wang Ruizhi, but unfortunately, his good brother didn't think of helping him.

The Shen family is now in a turbulent time.

Na Jun saw Li Xiaoyue approaching and comforting his sister-in-law, and after thinking for a while, he asked:
"Sister-in-law, are you sure Xie Meilan is really pregnant?"

As the saying goes, one should do the whole play. He thinks he should play the role of the spectator first.

Shen Lin nodded hesitantly after hearing this, and then told Shen Lei about her unexpected discovery at Shenjiazhuang and the details that Shen Lei had added after returning to the capital.

Finally, he came to the conclusion: "In short, Meilan's condition is very consistent with the performance of pregnancy. Now, whether she is really pregnant or not, we can't afford to gamble, and... we have to prepare for the worst."

Having said that, Shen Lin glanced at her brother who was lying on the sofa like a zombie and sighed.

The worst-case scenario is that my sister-in-law aborts the child, and then irreconcilable conflicts arise in her marriage with Shen Lei.

"Didn't Leilei promise to buy a grave for Meilan's mother? Why is she still thinking about aborting the child?"

Shen Lin was both confused and a little angry. She really didn't know what Xie Meilan was thinking. Could she really be so cruel?
Na Jun did not respond to this. The reasons why Xie Meilan wanted to abort the child were quite complicated, including both internal and external reasons.

Moreover, the fact that Shen Lei was able to borrow money to bury her mother does not mean that he can have money to raise a child well. The two of them are already having a hard time, and having another burden would be even more tormenting.

So Na Jun said something nonsense: "Since you guessed that Xie Meilan wanted to abort the child, what are you waiting for? Find her first!"

"Meilan's phone is turned off, and we don't know where to find her."

This is also the reason why Shen Lin and Shen Lei were in a panic. They didn't know where Xie Meilan was, and they couldn't stop her even if they wanted to.

In fact, Na Jun didn't know where Xie Meilan was. The original drama didn't say which hotel Xie Meilan stayed in or which hospital she went to for an abortion. He didn't even know the specific day and time of the abortion.

After all, he wouldn't go into so much detail when watching a TV series.

But at this moment, it still did not stop him from looking at the two siblings in front of him as if they were idiots, and then he directly said:

"Call the police!"

"what?"

Shen Lin was stunned for a moment. She had indeed not thought of this just now, but she quickly said:
"How can we call the police? Can Meilan be considered missing in this situation? Besides, she just left today, and it hasn't even been 24 hours!"

"..."

Na Jun said helplessly: "The current situation is that the family has lost track of Xie Meilan, and the company also doesn't know where Xie Meilan is. Shen Lei is her husband, especially when Xie Meilan is very likely to be pregnant. What's the harm in calling the police directly?"

If you must say, Xie Meilan does not meet the criteria for reporting missing, but as a pregnant woman she belongs to a specific group of people, so it is okay to call the police to check on her whereabouts. As for whether it has not been confirmed that Xie Meilan is pregnant?
It doesn’t matter. Na Jun can be sure, so it can’t be considered a false alarm.

Then he looked at the older boy Shen Lei who seemed to be beginning to react and said:

"Besides, if we find her earlier, maybe she hasn't aborted the baby yet."

(End of this chapter)