After the gathering at Chunhua’s Household had dispersed and everyone had helped with the cleanup and returned home, Cheng Su’s Household also had set up a table. Even though it had been tidied up, things were still a bit messy. Since she disliked disorderliness, she simply rolled up her sleeves and cleaned everything up once more, inside and out.
Qi Taiguo had drunk quite a bit and was too lazy to move, but seeing Cheng Su roll up her sleeves, he also stood up to help sweep and mop the floor, until everything was clean. Then, they both washed up before lying in bed to talk.
Cheng Su brought up the matter of Hualing stirring up trouble and grumbled, "She just can’t stand to see me live in peace. Just when things have been quiet for a while, she has to pick on me. Tell me, do you think it’s because she can’t have kids that she’s taking it out on me?"
Before Qi Taiguo could reply, she continued, "That’s enough, really. Her infertility has nothing to do with me, so why take it out on me? It’s just inexplicable."
"Didn’t you just say these past few days she might have been feeling irritable? Getting upset with her is exactly what she wants," Qi Taiguo consoled her.
"That’s true," Cheng Su pursed her lips, then turned to look at him.
"What is it?"
Blinking, Cheng Su said, "However, one thing she said does make some sense."
"Hmm?"
"I mean, just if, and I’m talking hypothetically here, if you really have to be stationed at the border for three to five years, we’d definitely have to live apart, and then having children really would be an issue!" Cheng Su said.
The new year had passed, and she was twenty-one, while Qi Taiguo was already twenty-nine. According to her own way of thinking, both of them were still very young, but by the standards of the time, Qi Taiguo was of the age where many were already fathers.
If, by some misfortune, he was deployed to the border, then their plans to become parents would have to be pushed back a few years. But was that really okay?
Cheng Su didn’t have a particular longing for children at the moment, but Qi Taiguo probably did, right? Not to mention the Qi family, who all had their eyes on her belly.

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