Chapter 189: Things Just Got Serious
After hearing all these funny stories, Lin Muqing suddenly felt like she could understand the three brothers.
It turned out that these three were hidden “little sister fanatics,” just like people online often joked about: the ones who don’t have a little sister often want one the most. But unfortunately, even if she could understand their thoughts, she would not agree to this kind of thing.
First, she was a macho man. Second, she didn’t want three goofballs to be her big brothers, even if she had once thought about having an older brother or sister to take care of her.
“By the way, Aunt Lin, will you go to the temple fair tonight?”
After finishing the story, Lin Muqing suddenly thought of tonight’s temple fair, so she asked with full expectation.
Although she didn’t plan to become Meng Yue’s goddaughter, Lin Muqing still liked being close to her and hoped she could go play together tonight. After all, more people means more fun.
“Sure, we’ll all go tonight.”
Without any hesitation, Meng Yue agreed immediately.
Tonight there would be guests at her house, but since the invitation came from her precious daughter, she would definitely think of a way to join. While the two of them were talking, Ye Ziming and his mother just finished discussing their plan and walked out of the kitchen together.
“Auntie, should we start cooking lunch?”
Seeing this, Lin Muqing quickly raised her little paw, showing that she wanted to cook together at noon today.
“Mhm, let’s start now.”
Putting on a kind smile and giving Ye Ziming a meaningful glance, Mother Ye nodded at Lin Muqing and spoke softly with a smile. In the next while, Lin Muqing once again got the chance to learn cooking and felt like her cooking skills could improve a little more.
But what felt strange to her was that during the cooking process, Mother Ye’s eyes looking at her seemed a little strange. Or rather, the way she looked at her and Aunt Lin was strange, as if there was something she wanted to say.
Another thing was that Mother Ye said she was feeling a little unwell and wanted to go to the hospital for a check-up, scheduling it for tomorrow morning. Lin Muqing felt that this seemed a little coincidental.
“It’s been years since you had a physical? That’s not okay. How about tomorrow morning we all go for a check-up together, just think of it as accompanying me and Lin Muqing.”
What started as casual conversation suddenly turned into Mother Ye bringing Meng Yue to the hospital, and she even dragged Lin Muqing in. This was something Lin Muqing didn’t expect.
“You’re going for a check-up too?”
Hearing about going to the hospital for a check-up, Meng Yue instinctively wanted to refuse, because she didn’t think there was anything wrong with her body. But when she heard that Lin Muqing was going too, she immediately got nervous and turned to ask.
“Ah… this…”
This question was a little awkward, and Lin Muqing didn’t know how to explain it properly. At this moment, she instinctively looked around, wanting to find her good buddy for help.
But Ye Ziming was not in the kitchen, he was in the living room playing on his phone, completely unaware of what was happening here.
“Check what?”
While speaking, Meng Yue was already frowning. With her 1.7-meter height, she slightly lowered her head and stared directly into Lin Muqing’s eyes. At this time, Mother Ye was also curious. Because earlier, it was only a short explanation, so Ye Ziming hadn’t said what specific check-up it was.
“Uh… gynecology.”
Looking at Meng Yue’s eyes, then at Mother Ye, after thinking in her heart for a moment, Lin Muqing chose to tell the truth.
This morning her good buddy had just told her about this, and Mother Ye already knew, so the two of them must have communicated. So it shouldn’t be a secret. But for some reason, after she said this, the kitchen suddenly became quiet.
“Gynecology?”
“Uh… mhm.”
“Where do you feel uncomfortable lately?”
“Nowhere. I don’t feel uncomfortable.”
“Then…”
Meng Yue and Li Muning teamed up to grab Lin Muqing and ask her a bunch of questions. The result was that Lin Muqing was completely normal. She didn’t feel unwell and didn’t have any strange symptoms.
When Meng Yue was left with a head full of question marks, unsure what was going on, Li Muning suddenly remembered something.
“Ahem, let me ask you… the things I put in the bedside drawer in your room, did you use them?”
It was a very subtle question. She had thought that young people nowadays might be more adventurous, so she had prepared several extra boxes and left them in the room. Now, if her daughter-in-law had no discomfort but her son still wanted to take her to the hospital for a check-up, then maybe…
“The bedside drawer? Uh… no.”
At first, Lin Muqing didn’t understand, but when she realized what Li Muning meant, her face instantly turned awkward. The only thing in the bedside drawer was condoms. How could she and her good buddy possibly use that kind of thing?
“Hiss—!”
Hearing that answer, Mother Ye was shocked. Her eyes widened, and she drew in a sharp breath. And just like that, things got serious.
First, Mother Ye nervously went to Ye Ziming and asked him if he had taken any safety measures, whether he had used the things in the box.
“No.”
While answering, Ye Ziming thought to himself, ‘We haven’t even done anything. What would I use that for?’
“How can you not use it?” Mother Ye immediately questioned in dissatisfaction.
“Huh?”
Ye Ziming was completely confused. Wait… is Mom telling me to hurry up and take things to the next level?
Before he could react, Mother Ye glared at him and scolded him with a few words he didn’t even understand. Then she didn’t stop there, she ran upstairs to find Ye Mengze and grabbed a pregnancy test. When she came back to Lin Muqing, she was even holding a disposable container.
“Wait! A pregnancy test?!”
Meng Yue, who had been confused since the start, completely froze when she saw the small stick in Mother Ye’s hand. Then she finally realized, there was clearly nothing wrong, yet Ye Ziming wanted to take her daughter for a gynecology check-up.
This was terrifying.
“Aiyoh, I gave the two of them several boxes of that stuff, and I just asked, they didn’t use any of it.”
“Huh? How could that be okay?”
“Huh? What are you two even talking about?”
Lin Muqing was still totally lost. She watched the two adults gasp and panic as if they had discovered something huge. What was hardest for her to handle was that the two elders were speaking in riddles while giving her very strange looks.
It made her feel, for a moment, like this “big problem” had something to do with her, or that she had done something wrong.
“Do you know how to use this?”
After exchanging a few words with Meng Yue, Li Muning put the pregnancy test in front of Lin Muqing and asked with a very complicated expression.
“Huh? No… Why would I need to use that?”
Lin Muqing was stunned!
And Ye Ziming, who had walked over out of curiosity, was also stunned!
What was he seeing? His own mother holding a pregnancy test, trying to test his girlfriend for pregnancy?!
And it didn’t even end there. Because the pregnancy test had been brought out, Ye Mengze grew curious about who was going to use it and followed them downstairs.
Then, Father Ye came home.
And behind him came Ye Zizhuo, the eldest brother of the Ye family.