Seeing that her father's fist was clenching tighter and tighter, Gu Lingyu peeked out from behind Shen Wuqiu and said, "Although I am also a girl, my sister's baby is indeed mine."
At this moment, Mr. Shen found her extremely displeasing, but he held back and ignored her words, glaring intently at Shen Wuqiu.
"Shut up." Shen Wuqiu was extremely disgusted with Gu Lingyu, who seemed to enjoy watching the drama unfold. He glared at her and watched her hide behind him before saying to his father, "This is a long story."
"Then you'd better get to the point." Mr. Chen slammed his fist on the dining table, causing the dishes to rattle and shake violently.
Not only was Su Yunzhi startled, but Shen Wuqiu's heart also trembled.
From childhood to adulthood, although my father has always been a stern figure who rarely smiles, this is the first time he has ever acted like this.
It seems that the news of her pregnancy was indeed quite shocking.
Shen Wuqiu regretted her impulsiveness a little. After thinking for a long time, she finally managed to say, "In short, things are not as you imagine."
"Ha! Then tell me what kind of image we have in mind?"
"..." Shen Wuqiu was speechless.
Seeing her lowered eyes and silent expression, Mr. Shen spontaneously interpreted it as her being wronged, which made him even angrier, but at the same time, he felt heartbroken.
How could I let my precious daughter suffer such injustice?
Mr. Shen paced around in place, still unable to calm down. "Which damned bastard was it?"
The sound of his clenched teeth was like a knife. Gu Lingyu shrank back, but still stepped forward, "It was me, it was me, you damned... bastard..."
My mother said that whether as a clan leader or a partner, only by having a sense of responsibility can one give the clan members and their partner enough security so that they will follow them wholeheartedly.
"..." Shen Wuqiu no longer wanted to pay attention to her, letting her stand in front of her father like a quail.
Mr. Shen glared at her, annoyed that she was in his way, and said in a displeased tone, "Go away first. This is our family matter. If you interfere any further, I won't be polite to you."
Gu Lingyu straightened up. "Whether it's my sister or my son, I will take responsibility for them."
Completely unable to communicate, Mr. Shen ignored her and said to Su Yunzhi, "Call Junjun and tell him to come back."
Su Yunzhi moved her lips, hesitated for a moment, but still did not refuse. Such a big thing had happened in the family, and the whole family should indeed think of a solution together.
Shen Wuqiu was a little embarrassed. "Why did you call him back?"
Mr. Shen ignored her and told Su Yunzhi to make a phone call immediately.
Shen Wuqiu couldn't stop her, so she could only watch helplessly as Su Yunzhi dialed Shen Wujun's number.
Shen Wujun, who was in a hurry to clock in for work, didn't sound too happy when he answered the phone, "Mom, what's wrong? Why are you calling so early in the morning? I'm about to go to work..."
Before he could finish speaking, Mr. Shen shouted, "Come home right now!"
Shen Wujun was stunned for a moment. "Dad, what happened?"
"Your sister was bullied."
Shen Wujun's voice suddenly became urgent and sharp, "What's going on?"
She's pregnant.
The phone was abruptly hung up.
Shen Wujun, on the other end of the phone, didn't bother fighting for the elevator. He quickly ran out of the building, hailed a taxi on the roadside, and headed straight for the train station.
On the other end of the phone, after learning that the call had been disconnected, Mr. Shen grumbled a couple of times before turning his attention to Shen Wuqiu, asking, "When did this happen?"
After standing for a long time, Shen Wuqiu felt a pain in her lower back and instinctively reached out and pinched it a couple of times.
Su Yunzhi noticed her subtle movements. After all, she was a mother herself. On one hand, she was annoyed that Chen Wuqiu had gotten pregnant without any self-respect, and on the other hand, she felt a little sorry for her for getting pregnant so confusedly. She stared at her belly for a while, but couldn't tell anything for the time being. "How many months?"
Shen Wuqiu: "The doctor said I'm eight weeks pregnant."
Su Yunzhi mentally calculated the days, "You've only been back for two months."
Upon hearing this, Mr. Shen assumed that she had been wronged and bullied by a man outside. After all, his daughter had been under his watchful eye every day for the past two months since she returned home. He wasn't exaggerating, but in the entire village, no boy had ever dared to bully his daughter under his nose.
"Tell me that man's name and address. When your brother comes back, I'll make him pay."
Shen Wuqiu's back ached more and more as she stood, so she moved to the sofa and sat down. She was also in a real bind. She really hadn't expected that her words would lead her family to so many interpretations. She simply wanted to inform her family and see their reaction before making a final decision about whether or not to keep the four babies in her belly.
“It really has nothing to do with anyone else, these children are mine.”
Gu Lingyu also seized the opportunity to assert her presence. "And the rest are mine too."
Of course, at this moment, no one paid any attention to her existence.
Mr. Shen's face darkened as he speculated, "Could it be that he's an irresponsible bastard?"
Shen Wuqiu held her head, closed her eyes, and was too lazy to struggle anymore. "Just take it as that."
"What do you mean, 'just pretend'?" Mr. Shen interpreted her attitude as heartbroken, and immediately became exasperated. "My daughter, why are you being bullied and wronged like this? These children..."
As Mr. Shen spoke, he grasped the key point again. Thinking of a certain possibility, his face paled, and his lips trembled. "These? What did you mean by saying these? Did you have a child with this bastard before?"
"..." Shen Wuqiu was secretly annoyed at herself for speaking out of turn. "How could that be? What are you thinking?"
Mr. Shen was imagining the scene of his eldest grandson calling him "Grandpa".
Upon hearing this, he breathed a slight sigh of relief, but also felt a strange and subtle sense of loss.
"What do these mean?"
"The doctor said there is more than one child."
"..." Mr. Shen's eyes widened. If his daughter were married and pregnant with several babies at once, he would be overjoyed. But now...
What a terrible thing to do!
When talking about children, women always have a natural maternal instinct. Upon hearing this, Su Yunzhi couldn't help but look at her belly again, "Are they twins?"
Shen Wuqiu didn't want to talk about it.
Gu Lingyu proudly said for her, "They're not twins, there are four."
"..."
Both Mr. Shen and Su Yunzhi looked at Shen Wuqiu with disbelief.
After several seconds, Mr. Shen said with a complicated expression, "Four? She's right?"
Shen Wuqiu didn't want to talk about this topic right now, and vaguely replied, "Right now... it's not quite certain..."
Mr. Shen turned his face slightly toward Su Yunzhi, but his eyes remained fixed on Shen Wuqiu. “Go and call someone to drive us to the hospital. Let’s go now.”
"No need to go, I just went yesterday."
"Go to the provincial hospital."
"..." What a chaotic morning.
Shen Wuqiu sighed wearily, "Dad, I'm very tired. I'm going upstairs to rest for a while."
Seeing that her complexion was indeed not good, Mr. Shen swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue and remained silent.
Shen Wuqiu took it as tacit agreement, stood up, steadied herself, and went upstairs.
Seeing this, Gu Lingyu wanted to follow, but her father gave her a death stare.
She hesitated for two seconds, but still obediently stood still.
After the sound of Shen Wuqiu's footsteps on the stairs disappeared, Shen's father asked Gu Lingyu with a stern face, "Whose child is Qiuqiu in her belly?"
Gu Lingyu answered honestly, "Mine."
Mr. Shen was impatient. "I'm asking you something serious."
Gu Lingyu composed herself, trying to make her expression look more serious. "It really is mine."
Seeing that her father was about to lose his temper again, Su Yunzhi had no choice but to say to Gu Lingyu, "Lingyu, we are also worried about Wuqiu. You are close to her, so you must know something. Tell us quickly."
"The child is really mine."
"You child..." Su Yunzhi was also a little annoyed, "How can you not put it this way? You are a girl, and Wuqiu is a girl. How can two girls have a child?"
Gu Lingyu tilted her head and thought for a moment. If it really required a boy and a girl to have a child, then you can just consider me a boy.
Her patience had run out, and her words were so sharp that her liver ached, and she felt a strong urge to beat her up.
Looking at her determined and serious expression, and considering that this person had no intention of leaving at all, Su Yunzhi couldn't help but have other thoughts: She had heard that young men these days love to be different, and perfectly normal boys love to dress up as women...
The more Su Yunzhi thought about it, the more convinced she became that Gu Lingyu was an imposter. "Look at that figure," she thought, "what eighteen-year-old girl has such a full bust? She might just be a fake..."
No wonder Wu Qiu doesn't sleep in the same room as this good friend who came from afar.
The moment this thought popped into her head, Su Yunzhi became even more certain of it, and her gaze toward Gu Lingyu immediately turned strange. However, seeing her father's dark expression, she decided not to expose the matter in person.
"Lingyu, come here, Auntie has something to ask you."
As he spoke, he pulled Gu Lingyu into the bathroom next door and closed the door behind him.
Seeing her inscrutable expression, Gu Lingyu frowned. "What do you want to ask me?"
Su Yunzhi looked at her and said after a few seconds, "Take off your clothes."
"..." This is utterly baffling.
Su Yunzhi thought she was guilty, "Tell me honestly, do you just like girls' clothes and stuff, so you dress up as a woman?"
As she spoke, Su Yunzhi tried to pull down her clothes to verify.
Startled, Gu Lingyu quickly hugged herself tightly, asking, "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to find out whether you're a man or a woman today."
Gu Lingyu stared at her warily, "Then tell me first, do you want me to be a man or a woman?"
“…You’re either a man or a woman.” Su Yunzhi said, reaching out to pull at her clothes.
Gu Lingyu quickly dodged away.
While the two were struggling in the bathroom, someone in the yard asked through the large iron gate, "Is anyone home?"
Upon hearing the sound, both of them stopped.
The knocking continued, the heavy groans echoing as it struck the iron gate.
Su Yunzhi had no choice but to put aside the question of whether Gu Lingyu was male or female for the time being, and opened the door to go out and take a look.
As soon as she opened the door, Gu Lingyu slipped out like a gust of wind and headed straight for the iron gate in the courtyard.
The bottom meter of the iron gate was solid, and the top was an iron fence. Gu Lingyu immediately spotted the two people dressed in Tang suits outside the gate.