Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 446 Gu Shi's Prenatal Education

"Don't you know why I did this?" Shu Xiaowen looked extremely disheveled, her back to Fang Tuan, covering her face and crying bitterly. "What do you mean? You know perfectly well that she's the person I hate the most, yet you still helped her sweep the yard? Arranged for someone to bring her food? What am I supposed to think?"

Fang Tuan fell silent; only Shu Xiaowen's sobs echoed in the room.

After a long silence, Fang Tuan finally said, "Then you could have just told me. Why did you have to report it?"

Do you hate him that much? Do you wish you could destroy him too?

"How was I supposed to know that a single whistleblower letter would get you into trouble? Isn't there always an investigation process? Once the investigation is over, you'll definitely be fine! People are very forgiving of men. You're a soldier, and if you make a contribution, you'll be a hero. Who will remember this little thing about you? But it's different for her. She's a woman. People will still say from time to time that she likes to seduce men. We can say that she seduced you, but you didn't take the bait. But over time, people will only remember that she's promiscuous and has a bad reputation. That label will stick with her for life!" Shu Xiaowen retorted.

Fang Tuan fell silent again.

He couldn't understand his wife anymore. "Why do you hate her so much?" He really didn't understand why she would hurt another person like this, making her bear an unfounded stigma for the rest of her life. Why?

He could understand that his wife disliked Lin Qingping; no one can please everyone. However, if someone doesn't like you, you shouldn't associate with them, and arguments and fights are possible. But why frame her like this? To bear such a stigma for life is almost the same as killing her…

Why? Faced with her husband's question, Shu Xiaowen stopped crying.

She couldn't say why.

Ever since Lin Qingping set foot on this island, she has felt uncomfortable all over.

Before Lin Qingping arrived, she was the most fashionable, cultured, and beautiful woman on the island. Wherever she went, she was the center of attention for the families. But after Lin Qingping arrived, everything changed. Everyone started to revolve around Lin Qingping, all because Lin Qingping's husband was a division commander.

“She looks down on me!” she retorted, turning around.

Fang Tuan thought about it and didn't think that Gu Shi's wife looked down on people. She got along very well with every family member on the island, regardless of whether they came from the city or the countryside, or what position the men in the family held.

"Are you being too sensitive?" He wanted to ease the tension between his wife and Gu Shi's wife, even though it seemed impossible to ease the tension now.

"I'm not being sensitive! She built some lousy kiln and invited everyone to her house to bake this and that, but she didn't invite me!"

"No, I seem to remember that you were the one who didn't want to go."

Shu Xiaowen scoffed, "She looks down on me, why should I go? She won't even tell me how the kiln was built! Who cares about that piece of junk? People abroad use ovens, has she ever even seen an oven?"

Fang Tuan had never seen an oven before, but he knew about the kiln.

He paused, then looked extremely annoyed. "This is my fault. I was afraid of trouble and didn't ask... I'm sorry, Xiaowen..."

He deeply regretted it. If he had gone to learn how to build this kiln back then, there wouldn't have been any misunderstanding, and none of this would have happened today. "I'll go ask Master Gu tomorrow."

"No need!" Shu Xiaowen wiped her face, took her hair apart, and combed it with her fingers as she went into the room.

Even if he had learned kiln building from the beginning, so what? Would she have liked Lin Qingping then?

Everything seemed to be related to the kiln, yet it also seemed not to be related to the kiln at all...

The atmosphere at the Gu family's house next door is completely different now.

Lin Qingping took a shower and felt refreshed, enjoying a rare moment of comfort while the fan blew on her. Leaning back on the sofa, she started thinking about all sorts of things. Suddenly, she thought of prenatal education and asked Gu Juncheng to see if anyone was going out of the island to buy a tape recorder.

"Play music for the baby." She instilled the concept of prenatal education in Gu Juncheng, "And remember to give them money."

Speaking of paying for the purchases, she remembered all the meals she had eaten at the canteen arranged by the Fang Group, and quickly told Gu Juncheng to go and settle the bill.

"You don't need to worry about this." Gu Juncheng's mind was now completely occupied with prenatal education. He pondered, "So, according to you, everything you see and hear affects the baby?"

"It should be." Lin Qingping nodded. Actually, she wasn't sure either, but many people later on paid a lot of attention to prenatal education.

Upon hearing this, Gu Juncheng immediately stood up. "Wait a moment, I'll be right back."

"Where are you going?" Before Lin Qingping could finish speaking, she only saw his hurried figure running out of the courtyard.

His reply, "I'll be right back," drifted on the wind from afar.

Lin Qingping was speechless. When did he become so impulsive? Wasn't he always so composed? And now he's about to become a father!

She picked up a book at random and started reading poetry, hoping to cultivate the child's mind.

Gu Juncheng said "just a moment," and sure enough, his footsteps could be heard coming from the courtyard shortly afterward.

"Lin Qingping!" he called from outside, but did not come in.

"Huh?" Lin Qingping was reciting poetry softly when she heard his voice respond.

"Then if I read aloud, can the children hear me?" he said from outside.

"Of course!" But you can't study outside, can you?

As expected, he said, "Okay, then I'll read it here, and you can try to hear it clearly."

Lin Qingping: ? ? ?

"No, come in and read it!" Lin Qingping has to shout to talk to him, isn't she tired?

But her teacher, Mr. Gu, became shy and said, "I... I'd better not come in."

"Why?" Lin Qingping didn't understand.

Gu Juncheng poked half his head out from outside the door, "Close your eyes, close them quickly, don't let the child see me!"

Lin Qingping: ...

So he didn't want the child to see his face?

"No, what are you doing?" She was completely bewildered!

"I'm so dark-skinned!" he said worriedly outside. "It's just the two of us in this house most of the time, and the kids keep staring at me. What am I going to do if my skin gets dark in the future?"

Gu Juncheng thought for a moment and then said, "You should look in the mirror more often in the future!"

She's fair-skinned and beautiful; the child should look like her.

Lin Qingping was both amused and exasperated. "Get in here!"

"Huh?" Gu Juncheng asked, still standing outside, puzzled.

"As the saying goes, you reap what you sow. Isn't a child's appearance determined by genes? If you think a child looks like someone else, just look at movie stars. All the kids would have to call a movie star 'Dad'!" Lin Qingping was both annoyed and amused.

"That's true." Gu Juncheng found it amusing himself; he had been flustered and confused. Then, he solemnly corrected her, "You're not allowed to call me 'Father'!"

Lin Qingping glared at him, then looked at what he was holding and was completely dumbfounded.