Chapter 272 - Chapter 272: Do You Want a Child?
Chapter 272: Do You Want a Child?
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Lin Qingqian hurriedly walked forward to support him and asked Madam Liu, “Do you have any ointment?”
Madam Liu nodded. ‘Yes, I’ll go get it and send it over.”
Lin Qingqian thanked her and helped Jiang Yanshen upstairs.
Jiang Yanshen sat on the sofa, and Lin Qingqian squatted down to check his knee.
His warm and slender fingers clasped her slender wrist. “I’m fine,” he said in a low voice.
He wanted her to pull her up.
Lin Qingqian was unwilling. She pried his fingers away and said firmly, “Let me take a look.”
Jiang Yanshen couldn’t dissuade her, so he could only let her roll up his pants, revealing his blackened knees.
Her eyes immediately filled with heartache. She blew gently and looked up at him. “It hurts a lot, right?”
Jiang Yanshen’s thin lips were filled with a smile. “It doesn’t hurt.”
Lin Qingqian didn’t believe his words. It was already purple and black. How could it not hurt?
Madam Liu quickly sent the ointment over and left tactfully.
Lin Qingqian squatted in front of him and squeezed the ointment into her palm. When she pressed it on, she even said considerately, “Bear with it.”
Jiang Yanshen looked at her pained expression and a smile appeared in the corners of his eyes.
Her cold hand rubbed his knees with the cold ointment. Although it hurt, his eyebrows did not move. Instead, he kept smiling.
Lin Qingqian used just enough strength to massage his knee, wanting to massage the ointment until it was absorbed. This way, the bruises on his knee would dissipate quickly.
About half an hour later, her fair forehead was already covered in sweat, and her palms were red.
Jiang Yanshen pulled her up and kissed the tip of her nose, which was covered in sweat. His voice was low and hoarse. “Alright, it doesn’t hurt so much anymore.”
Lin Qingqian pursed her lips. “Then I’ll go take a shower.”
Jiang Yanshen nodded and let go of her waist.
Lin Qingqian got up and went to the closet to get her pajamas before going to the bathroom to take a shower.
When she came out, she realized that he had already taken a shower and was lying on the bed in a white bathrobe, his dark eyes closed.
Lin Qingqian walked over and lifted the blanket. Just as she lay down, Jiang Yanshen reached out and pulled her into his arms.
She turned her head and pressed her ear against his chest. She could clearly hear his heartbeat. Badum, badum, it beat again and again like a drum.
“Your heart is beating very fast.”
Jiang Yanshen hummed faintly.
Lin Qingqian looked up at him, her clear eyes filled with confusion. “Why?”
Jiang Yanshen’s gently closed eyes slowly opened. His deep eyes met hers, and his voice was slightly hoarse. “You looked like you were treating a child when you helped me apply the medicine just now. I couldn’t help but wonder what it would be like if we had a child.”
Lin Qingqian was slightly surprised. She did not expect him to be thinking
about this. “You… like children?”
In the past, they had never discussed this matter. During the three years of their marriage, he had always taken strict safety measures.
She had always felt that he did not like children.
A trace of confusion appeared in Jiang Yanshen’s black eyes. “I don’t know. I don’t seem to like children, but I don’t seem to hate them either.”
Lin Qingqian secretly gulped and asked, “Then do you want a child?”
Jiang Yanshen looked down at her and said in a low voice, “I can’t have children.”
This was not a matter of whether he wanted to or not.
Lin Qingqian was stunned. She realized that he had been taking medicine all along. Those medicines clearly affected him.
If he wanted a child, he had to stop taking the medicine. Once he stopped taking the medicine, it meant that his condition would worsen.
“I don’t like children. They’re too noisy.” Lin Qingqian’s soft voice carried a hint of impatience. “If I become pregnant and give birth, my figure will go out of shape and it’ll affect my work. I might even have postpartum depression. It’s too troublesome.”
Jiang Yanshen didn’t refute her words. He reached out and touched her cheek. “It’s getting late. Go to sleep.”
Lin Qingqian knew that he wanted to change the topic, so she followed his words and nodded. She closed her eyes and leaned into his arms, counting his heartbeats. Unknowingly, she fell asleep.
Jiang Yanshen said that he was sleeping, but he did not fall asleep. His dark eyes kept looking at her, his gaze complicated and secretive.
Not long after dawn, Lin Qingqian was woken up.
With such a huge incident happening to the Jiang family, she naturally couldn’t sleep for long. She didn’t see Jiang Yanshen when she woke up.
When she went downstairs, she heard Madam Jiang’s mean voice. “It’s not enough to jinx your father to death, but now you’ve forced your second uncle to death. Jiang Yanshen, you’re really a jinx.”
Jiang Yanshen sat at the dining table and ate his breakfast quietly, as if he did not hear anything.
“Poor Jiang Yunshen, that idiot. He always wanted to treat you as his biological brother, but you caused him to lose his parents overnight.. ‘
Lin Qingqian’s heart tightened, and a faint pain appeared. Ignoring the fact that she was still in the Jiang family, she said coldly, “If Madam Jiang is so concerned, why didn’t you go to the hospital to visit Yunshen?”
Li Guilan turned around and saw Lin Qingqian. The light in her eyes suddenly darkened, and her disgust intensified.
When Jiang Yanshen saw her walking over, he asked the servant to bring over a portion of breakfast and pulled out the chair beside him.
Lin Qingqian walked to his side and sat down. Her bright eyes met Li Guilan’s murderous gaze, and her red lips curled up slightly. “Madam Jiang, if you forgot what I said in the greenhouse, I don’t mind letting you recall it again.”
“How dare you!” Li Guilan’s eyes widened, and the powder on her face turned pale from anger.
Lin Qingqian smiled. “Do you want to give it a try?”
Li Guilan took a few deep breaths and finally glared at her fiercely before turning to go upstairs.
The servant went away after delivering breakfast.
Jiang Yanshen handed her the chopsticks and said gently, “Eat well. Why are you wasting your breath on her?”
“I just don’t like her treating you like this.” Lin Qingqian took the chopsticks and muttered, “The last time she entered the greenhouse, I even felt that the place we first met had been tainted by her.”
The last sentence was typical of a little woman in love.
Jiang Yanshen’s hand that was holding the cup troze. He quickly restrained his emotions and said calmly, “I won’t let her in there in the future.” Lin Qingqian nodded.
After having breakfast quietly, Lin Qingqian was about to return to the company, while Jiang Yanshen had to deal with Jiang Chongjing’s remaining problems.
Although Lin Qingqian was his girlfriend now, she was not a legitimate member of the Jiang Family after all. It was not convenient for her to appear for many things.
After an investigation and evidence collection, the police concluded that Wu Suyun had killed her husband in a moment of passion. Because the murderer had already committed suicide, this case could only be summarily closed.
The Jiang Family brought back the corpses of Jiang Chongjing and Wu Suyun from the police and arranged for them to be placed in the mourning hall before sending them to be cremated.
After Jiang Yunshen lay in the hospital for a few days, he found out that Jiang Chongjing and Wu Suyun’s corpses had been brought back and he was determined to be discharged.
He wanted to burn incense for his mother and keep watch over her.
The Jiang Residence was filled with white silk and funeral flowers, and the mourning hall was set up in a side hall. There were two coffins and the portraits of Jiang Chongjing and Wu Suyun, making it convenient for the guests to pay their respects.
The wounds on Jiang Yunshen’s face had yet to recover. His head was wrapped in bandages and one of his eyes was swollen. He was kneeling in front of the coffin in a black shirt and pants. His expression was numb, like a walking corpse.
He did not react when the relatives and friends of the Jiang Family came to pay their respects.
Li Guilan had already completely fallen out with Jiang Yanshen. She didn’t care about the Jiang Family’s reputation, so she didn’t attend the funeral. On the other hand, the old lady was old and could stand for a while, but her body couldn’t take it if she kept standing. After a while, she returned to her room to rest.
Jiang Yanshen stood alone in a black suit and bowed to thank the guests for coming.
The sky outside had darkened. Lights lit up one after another, dyeing the quiet and sad night.
Lin Qingqian walked in in a long black dress. Her eyes first interacted with Jiang Yanshen for five seconds before she took the three incense sticks handed over by the servant and bowed deeply to Jiang Chongjing and Wu Suyun’s portraits.
The incense was inserted into the incense burner. She looked at Jiang Yunshen, who was kneeling beside her, and said in a low voice, “My condolences.”
Jiang Yunshen leaned his head against Wu Suyun’s coffin and did not react.
Lin Qingqian narrowed her eyes and didn’t say anything. She looked up at Jiang Yanshen. “You’ve been standing for a day and should rest too. No one else would be coming at this time.”
Jiang Yanshen did not speak. His gaze landed on Jiang Yunshen.
Lin Qingqian followed his gaze and looked over. After hesitating for a moment, she walked over and squatted down to persuade him. “You haven’t recovered yet. Go back and rest.”
Jiang Yunshen’s expression was numb and he didn’t react.
“I’ll help you back to your room.” Lin Qingqian reached out to help him up.
Jiang Yunshen suddenly reached out and pushed her away, his eyes red. “Get lost! Don’t worry about me… Don’t touch me!”
Lin Qingqian was caught off guard and fell to the ground and a sound came from her wrist.
His face instantly turned pale, and beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.
Jiang Yanshen’s eyes tightened. “Qianqian…”
He strode forward to help Lin Qingqian up, his black eyes filled with worry. “How are you?”
Lin Qingqian grabbed her wrist. Not wanting him to worry, she curled her lips and said, “I’m fine.”
“You’re in so much pain that your face is pale. How can you say that you’re fine?” Jiang Yanshen’s voice was tense as he turned around and walked towards Jiang Yunshen.
“Ah Yan, I’m really fine,” Lin Qingqian hurriedly said, but Jiang Yanshen didn’t listen at all.
His well-defined palm grabbed Jiang Yunshen and picked him up like he was holding a chick against the coffin. His voice was cold. “Jiang Yunshen, is this all you can do? Bully women?”
Jiang Yunshen’s eyes were terrifyingly red as he stared at him and bit his lip tightly without saying anything.
“I’m the cause of your parents’ death. If you have any resentment, place it on me.” Jiang Yanshen’s well-defined fingers gripped Jiang Yunshen’s clothes tightly. The buttons of the clothes fell off, revealing the bandages on his body.
He pretended not to notice and continued to hold him, his voice low and cold. “If you really can’t accept it, you can stab me. Do you need me to bring you a knife?”
His other hand slapped his face neither gently nor heavily. There was no hint of humiliation. Instead, it seemed to be a form of comfort.
Jiang Yunshen gritted his bloody teeth and opened his mouth. He squeezed out two words with difficulty. “…Big Brother.”
As soon as these two words were spoken, his emotions seemed to have been switched on. Tears streamed down his face.
Perhaps it was because his body was weak, or perhaps he was too agitated and could not stand steadily, but his entire body slid down like a ball of mud..