1979: The child's mother is a celestial being.

Chapter 30 Married to a Man Who Never Likes to Come Home
"Phew, I'm finally back!"

Four months later, Chen Fusheng reappeared at Jiangcheng Railway Station.

But this time he wasn't leaving; he was going home.

As soon as I stepped out of the station, the air seemed to be filled with enthusiasm for him.

Chen Fusheng wiped his sweat. Eager to return home, he passed by a bus but didn't get on. Instead, he walked towards the train station without looking back. This was a relatively rare occurrence in this era, but there happened to be a taxi waiting for passengers there.

"Master, are we leaving or not?"

"Come on, comrade, where are you going?"

"Linjiang Residential Area".

"boarding."

Linjiang Residential Area.

"Sister, you married a man who doesn't like to come home."

Seeing that her sister had looked at the calendar eight hundred times that day, Liu Xiaowei finally couldn't help but complain about her brother-in-law behind his back.

But just as she finished complaining, the doorbell rang.

"Who?"

Liu Xiaowei got up and went to the door. Before opening the door, she asked.

"Is this Xiaowei? Please open the door for me."

"Is that my brother-in-law?" Liu Xiaowei turned around and called out to her sister in the living room, "Sister, my brother-in-law is back."

Then he opened the door.

Sure enough, Chen Fusheng was standing outside the door, carrying things in his hands and on his shoulders.

"Wow, brother-in-law, you've lost so much weight while filming!"

"Yes, you have lost a little weight."

Before Chen Fusheng even entered the door, his gaze passed past his sister-in-law and landed on the pregnant woman in the living room.

"Honey, I'm back!"

"Just come back."

It was just a simple conversation, but the emotions it conveyed were incredibly strong.

After entering the room, Chen Fusheng first hugged his wife and inquired about the baby in her belly before greeting and exchanging pleasantries with his mother-in-law and sister-in-law.

"Fusheng, why didn't you send a message before you came back? We didn't even know you were coming back today."

"Mom, it's like this, my film just finished filming at the end of last month, so there was definitely no time to write a letter. I bought my train ticket yesterday afternoon, and luckily there were tickets available last night. After buying the ticket, I was thinking of calling you, but after I got back to the studio, the director of our film came and talked to me for a long time about the post-production of the movie, so I didn't have time to call you."

This story wasn't actually made up by Chen Fusheng. Of course, there was one more reason he didn't mention: he genuinely wanted to surprise his family. Otherwise, even if he was busy, it wouldn't have been difficult to squeeze out time to make a phone call.

What time was your train last night?

How many hours did you sit there?

"You haven't slept for a day and a night, have you?"

"Have you eaten yet?"

"You look much thinner and more haggard than the last time I saw you. Filming must be very tiring."

"..."

The mother-in-law's series of questions brought her daughter to tears.

"Why are you still crying?"

Chen Fusheng hugged his wife and wiped away her tears.

"I feel sorry for you."

"What's there to feel sorry about? Okay, stop crying. Look, I gained weight when I went to your house for Chinese New Year last year, but now that I've lost weight, it's just canceled out."

As he spoke, Chen Fusheng pinched his wife's cheek and continued, "But you, my wife, seem to have gained quite a bit of weight in the few months I haven't seen you."

His first words of comfort had no effect, but his second words, which shifted her emotions, instantly stopped Liu Xiaoli from crying.

"Hmph! You think I'm fat, don't you?"

"No, you used to be too thin. You're just right now."

"You're still saying I've gained weight."

Why does Chen Fusheng feel that his wife's emotions have become more sensitive?
Perhaps, maybe, it has something to do with the pregnancy—that's what he thought to himself.

Fortunately, his mother-in-law stepped in to help him out of the predicament.

"Fusheng must be hungry and sleepy right now. Xiaoli, you two shouldn't be upset for the time being. I'll go make some noodles. Fusheng, after you eat, take a shower and go to sleep. We can talk about it after you wake up." "Okay, thank you, Mom."

Chen Fusheng hadn't really rested since last night, so after eating a bowl of noodles, he took a shower and lay down on the bed, where he started snoring.

But what he didn't know was that while he was asleep, Liu Xiaoli sat on the edge of the bed, touching his face, which had become much darker and thinner, and shed tears again.

Just as Chen Fusheng had thought, his wife's emotions had indeed become much more sensitive during this period due to her pregnancy.

Chen Fusheng slept soundly and even had a beautiful dream in which he had a daughter.

When he woke up, it was already the next day.

Of course, Chen Fusheng was a little out of it at this moment. He looked at his wife who had just opened the door and asked:

"Hmm...what time is it, honey?"

"Seven o'clock."

Liu Xiaoli said, "Brother Sheng, you can sleep too much. You slept for a full twelve hours."

"Really? My bed at home is so much more comfortable."

Chen Fusheng stretched, then seemed to hear his mother and mother-in-law's voices in the living room. He looked at his wife and asked, "Has my mother come over?"

"This morning, Xiaowei rode her bike to tell her parents that you were back, and then the two of them came over with you."

As she spoke, Liu Xiaoli threw a set of clean clothes on the bed and called out, "Get up quickly, it's almost time to eat."

"Okay." Chen Fusheng said while putting on his clothes, "The bowl of noodles your mom cooked last night was delicious, but it wasn't filling. I'm actually a bit hungry now."

"Then you should eat more later."

After getting dressed, Chen Fusheng went to the living room to greet his parents before washing up.

"Mom and Dad, you're here."

"Hmm." Old Chen looked his son up and down and asked, "Why didn't you tell us you were coming back? It was only this morning when Xiao Wei went to tell us that your mother and I found out you were back."

"I bought the tickets in a bit of a rush, and didn't have time to tell them..." Chen Fusheng took out the same excuse he had given his parents yesterday and explained it to them again.

"Son, you've lost weight..." My mother's focus was the same as my mother-in-law's; she almost asked the same question she had asked yesterday.

After answering his parents' questions, mainly his mother's, Chen Fusheng went to the bathroom to wash up.

When they came out, everyone had already set the food on the table.

He naturally sat down there as well.

"Brother-in-law, how did you go from being a screenwriter to an actor?"

As soon as I sat down, my sister-in-law asked me her first question.

"Didn't your sister tell you?" Chen Fusheng remembered that he had written a letter to his wife explaining this issue.

“She didn’t ask,” Liu Xiaoli stated first.

Upon hearing this, Chen Fusheng noticed that his parents and mother-in-law were also casting curious glances at him, so he recounted his experience of messing up during the audition at the dinner table.

"So that's what happened."

"Yes, that's exactly it." Chen Fusheng looked at his sister-in-law and asked her a question in return: "By the way, Xiaowei, your college entrance exam results should be out by now, right? How did you do?"

"Sigh, it's not ideal."

"How many points?"

"309."

In 1980, the college entrance examination was also divided into arts and sciences, but regardless of whether it was arts or sciences, the exam consisted of five subjects with a total score of 500 points.

My sister-in-law studied science and scored 309 points. This score isn't bad, but it's definitely not enough to get into a top university in China.

However, her score is definitely high enough to apply to art colleges, and her sister-in-law's image is also very suitable for being an actress. However, firstly, she did not participate in this year's art college entrance examination, and secondly, she does not have this dream herself, so Chen Fusheng did not say anything more.

As the breakfast was drawing to a close, the mother-in-law suddenly asked:
What are you planning to do after you eat?

Although the question was directed at "you," Chen Fusheng looked up and clearly saw his mother-in-law's gaze fall on him.

He looked at his wife's big belly and thought that he had heard from a friend in his later life that pregnant women should have an ultrasound before giving birth to see if the baby is suitable for a natural birth. Although he didn't know if ultrasound technology in my country was mature at that time, Chen Fusheng still wanted to take his wife to the hospital for a check-up so that he could feel more at ease.

So he asked, "Should we go to the hospital for a checkup?"

Liu Xiaoli didn't want to cause trouble, but when she met her husband's concerned gaze, she nodded as if possessed.

"it is good!"

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