Transmigrated as Cannon Fodder — I Rise to Female Lead Through Hard Work-Chapter 74: Pregnant

Hu Ailing squatted down, hugging herself and weeping bitterly. Yi Roujing and the others quietly watched, but none of them left. When Hu Ailing cried herself tired, Ding Anmin stepped forward and handed her a water bottle.

Hu Ailing, with her eyes red and swollen, took it, sipping a few times in between sobs, "Thank you, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said those things."

Lately, Hu Ailing’s days have been the most comfortable in the past three years, because Hupozi merely scolded her verbally and hardly hit her anymore, all thanks to Yi Roujing standing up for her.

A few days ago when she went back to her parental home, Ding Jianshe bought some high-end stuff like malted milk and she was regarded better by her family back there. But no matter how days went by, her belly showed no movement, and that fact remained unchanged.

"In the end, it’s because I’m useless, I can’t bear a child." Hu Ailing said with a hint of despair.

"Do you and your husband share a bed often? Generally, a few days after your period ends?" Yi Roujing asked.

Hu Ailing’s face turned crimson, stammering without saying anything coherent, Yi Roujing knew it was because she was too embarrassed.

Sighing, Yi Roujing offered a suggestion, "Count from the first day of your period, the ninth to the eighteenth day is when it’s easy to get pregnant. You should calculate the dates yourself."

"Really?" Hu Ailing asked, half believing, half doubting.

"Actually, having a child should come naturally. If there’s too much pressure, it’s hard to conceive." Yi Roujing replied, "But all this is based on the assumption that you and Ding Jianshe are both fine, so I suggest you both go to the hospital for a check-up first."

"Could the man have problems too?" Hu Ailing asked, somewhat incredulous.

"Of course." Yi Roujing affirmed, "It’s just that this society is too harsh on women, blaming them for whether they can have children and even for the child’s gender."

"Don’t mention this to your mother-in-law, just ask Ding Jianshe what he thinks." Yi Roujing analyzed.

"He’s even helping others hit me now. If I bring it up now, it’ll only make our relationship worse and worse." Hu Ailing choked out.

"Was it Jianshe who hit you in the face?" Ding Anmin exclaimed.

"Your family?" Xia Xingchen immediately shifted the topic.

"They wouldn’t care about me. If I divorce, they’d only make me marry again and wouldn’t let me stay at home." Hu Ailing, understanding her own family well.

"What’s your education level?" Yi Roujing looked at Hu Ailing and asked.

"I just, just attended a few years of elementary school." Hu Ailing replied with extreme embarrassment.

Yi Roujing felt quite powerless. With business not an option currently, getting a job was difficult. With no support from her family or her husband’s family, Hu Ailing’s future seemed directionless.

Yi Roujing sighed and squatted down to feel Hu Ailing’s pulse. Since medical check-ups weren’t accessible, she thought of conditioning her first. While she was checking, Yi Roujing was a bit stunned, she could recognize a pregnancy pulse.

Yi Roujing looked at Hu Ailing and asked, "How long has it been since your last period?"

"I, I’m usually not very regular, it’s only been fifty-some days, sometimes it’s two or three months late." Hu Ailing replied.

"You’re pregnant." Yi Roujing said, doing the math, just around the time Hu Ailing was being chased and beaten, she was already pregnant, and it’s good this child is strong to have stayed.

"Wha, what?" Hu Ailing asked blankly.

"I said you’re pregnant, over a month now." Yi Roujing confirmed.

Ding Anmin and Xia Xingchen gasped in surprise, "Ailing, that’s wonderful."

For some reason, Yi Roujing also felt relieved for her.

"Really? Really?" Hu Ailing kept murmuring in disbelief.

"You should go to the hospital to have it checked." Yi Roujing said, "If the clinic can’t confirm it, go to the county hospital."

"There is a barefoot doctor in my family, he is very skilled. I’ll ask him to first have a look." Hu Ailing was somewhat anxious now, already standing up but holding her belly with trembling hands.

"I, I’ll head back first." Hu Ailing cautiously went down the mountain.

When Yi Roujing and the other two came down with the pigweed, the news was abuzz among the brigade. The news of Hu Ailing’s pregnancy spread quickly, but the focus wasn’t on that, it was on how Hu Ailing accidentally slipped and had a miscarriage.

Hupozi yelled that Ding Jianshe and Hu Ailing should divorce. Barely carrying a child and she couldn’t even protect it, their Ding Family didn’t want such a daughter-in-law.

Hu Ailing was immediately thrown out by Hupozi, waiting for her family to come fetch her, but nobody came. In the end, it was the brigade leader’s wife, Huang Kaiying, who heard of it and berated Hupozi, allowing Hu Ailing to enter the house, and called for a barefoot doctor.

After Yi Roujing and the others finished delivering the pigweed, they went to see Hu Ailing.

The atmosphere at Ding Jianshe’s house was chillingly indifferent in Yi Roujing’s eyes. There wasn’t a trace of oppression. Though Hupozi kept cursing, there wasn’t a hint of sorrow or mourning on her face; rather, she seemed to have a sigh of relief.

Ding Jianshe sat in the courtyard, hands clawing at his hair, his gaze complicated, showing mostly pity, a slight sadness, and some fear. But seeing that he didn’t stop Hupozi from cursing and didn’t enter to guard Hu Ailing, Yi Roujing was somewhat disdainful of this man, for surely the saddest person at this moment was Hu Ailing.

Hu Ailing was not recuperating in a room, but in the woodshed, lying on a wooden plank, without even a bed sheet, only dry straw, and a tattered quilt.

At this moment, Hu Ailing’s eyes were vacant. Yi Roujing and the others didn’t even cause her eyes to flicker as they entered.

Yi Roujing sat down to take Hu Ailing’s pulse, finding her weak and her blood depleted, and upon lifting the quilt, she saw bloodstains at the crotch area, causing Ding Anmin and Xia Xingchen to retreat in fright.

"Anmin, go make some meat porridge." Yi Roujing instructed Ding Anmin and Xia Xingchen to head back, staying behind herself.

Hu Ailing’s eyes finally moved, looking at Yi Roujing beside her, she smiled, a smile uglier than crying, "Why am I so foolish."

"For him, I endured all difficulties without complaining, working like a beast. Finally having a child, telling him about it, he was so shocked his face stiffened, laughing and grabbing his hair, I could see he wasn’t very happy."

"Mother-in-law didn’t believe it, told her the barefoot doctor had checked, said tomorrow we’ll go to the hospital to confirm, she said it’s a waste of money, if it’s a pregnancy, then it’s a pregnancy, who hasn’t been pregnant, as if only I’m precious enough to visit a hospital."

"I was extra cautious, afraid of tripping or bumping. Even though there was nothing at the door when I went in, when I came out there was a smear of oil, and I took a hard fall. Such a precious thing on the ground, usually they don’t even spare me an extra bite of food." Hu Ailing rambled on, but no tears fell.

"The hearts of men are really cruel, after losing the child, they don’t even need the wife, he clearly knew and helped erase the traces. His mom said I fell myself, he didn’t even say a word for me, this marriage should’ve ended long ago."