Rebirth on the Doors to the Civil Affairs Bureau

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“Pickled fish is the most delicious when sour.” Yu Dong replied.

“Do you like to eat sour food?” Mother Xia’s eyebrows were raised.

“It’s not my absolute favorite, but maybe my appetite today is just big.” Yu Dong slowed down her eating when she realized that her greedy eating might have scared her mother-in-law.

Xia Feng had already guessed what Mother Xia was implying, so he said: “Mom, you don’t need to test her, she’s not.”

“Huh? I’m not what?” Yu Dong was puzzled as she looked at Xia Feng.

“What do you know? Maybe you just don’t know yet.” Mother Xia gave her son a look.

“How can it be so fast!” In fact, Xia Feng and Yu Dong had only been intimate recently.

“How is it fast? You’ve been married for more than half a year, some people would already be giving birth in this situation.” Mother Xia said.

Yu Dong spurted the soup she had been drinking. Xia Feng hurriedly passed a paper towel towards Yu Dong while Mother Xia nervously asked: “What’s wrong? Do you feel like throwing up?”

“Mom!” Xia Feng had no words.

“She was obviously scared by your words, why are you making assumptions.” Father Xia pulled his wife back.

“Ah? Scared by me?” Mother Xia saw Yu Dong coughing, so she apologized. “Alright, alright. Dong Dong, mother doesn’t mean anything by her words, it was just that I dreamt of a cute baby boy last night and thought you were pregnant.”

“It’s fine, I just swallowed wrong.” Yu Dong quickly tried to downplay things.

“Alright.” Mother Xia looked disappointed.

Father Xia couldn’t help but pull at his wife’s clothes from under the table as he whispered in her ear.

Xia Feng smiled at Yu Dong and shrugged. After this, Yu Dong was too scared to continue eating pickled fish lest she evokes Mother Xia’s grandmother mentality again.

After lunch, the pair wanted to help clean the house but was turned away by Father and Mother Xia, saying that they had to go to work later. So Xia Feng and Yu Dong had no choice but to say their goodbyes and drive off.

“My mother has that kind of personality, she’s a little too whimsical, you don’t have to take things too seriously.” Xia Feng was afraid of stressing Yu Dong so he explained, “She’ll forget it after a while.”

“You’re afraid that I’ll get pressured.” It was apparent to Yu Dong what Xia Feng was trying to do.

Xia Feng glanced at Yu Dong and didn’t say anything, but his expression said it all.

“Why should I get pressured? It’s not like getting pregnant is all up to me.” Yu Dong didn’t care.

“Are you implying that…I haven’t worked hard enough?” Xia Feng’s voice sounded a little dangerous.

“Concentrate on driving, what nonsense are you thinking?” Xia Feng sounded so serious, but Yu Dong couldn’t resist laughing out loud.

Xia Feng also felt that what he had just said sounded like some hero in a late night idol drama. He ended up laughing together with Yu Dong.

Half an hour later, the car stopped at the parking lot of the building that situated Xiaoyue Studios. Yu Dong was about to get off but was suddenly stopped by Xia Feng.

“What’s the matter?” Yu Dong paused.

“Dong Dong, how about having children a few years later?” Xia Feng thought about it for a while and came to this conclusion.