18: Chapter 18 Village Girls in the 1970s (9)

Early in the morning, Jiang Wan wailed in bed: "Xiao Lingdang, I'm done for, I'm completely done for!"

Hearing Jiang Wan's call, Xiao Lingdang immediately responded: "Ah, what's wrong? I heard you howling first thing in the morning. Did something happen?"

Sigh! Jiang Wan let out a sigh.

"Xiao Lingdang, I've hit the jackpot again!"

Xiao Lingdang was puzzled: "Jackpot? What kind of jackpot? When did you enter a lottery? How come I didn't know about it?"

Had it not been there the whole time? Had it missed something? When did Jiang Wan enter a lottery?

Jiang Wan sighed again: "Sigh! Xiao Lingdang, I have a little one in my belly."

It was that kind of jackpot, not the other kind!

"Ah, what?" Xiao Lingdang was extremely shocked. "What did you say? You're pregnant?"

Jiang Wan nodded with a bitter face: "Yeah, it's been over a month!"

When Jiang Wan woke up this morning, she felt a bit nauseous, a feeling of wanting to vomit.

Jiang Wan had experience with this feeling, so she took her own pulse. Sure enough, she had hit the jackpot again!

She hadn't expected that she would actually be right.

When the incident happened back then, Jiang Wan had been worried that she would get pregnant.

But at that time, she couldn't just stop saving someone because she was afraid of getting pregnant, so she had been holding onto a sliver of hope, thinking, maybe I didn't get pregnant this time?

Who told her that there were generally no contraceptives available at this time? Even if she wanted to take them, there were none to be had!

If she had known this would happen, she should have prepared contraceptives when she was stocking up on supplies.

Those two days, Grandpa Jiang was at home grinding medicine, and because she was worried that Grandpa Jiang would find out, she didn't dare to prescribe medicine for herself.

Later, when things got busy, Jiang Wan threw the matter to the back of her mind.

Unexpectedly, she had actually gotten pregnant.

This incident reminded Jiang Wan that she needed to prepare some common Western medicines in her space, especially contraceptives. Who knows, maybe she would encounter such a bizarre situation again!

Given the nature of this system, it was possible she might have to save someone again next time.

Xiao Lingdang: "Then what do you want to do? Are you going to tell Fang Zhiyuan? Haven't you not replied to his letter yet? Do you want to write him a letter and tell him?"

Jiang Wan didn't know either.

She felt that this whole thing was a bit of a cruel twist of fate!

She had originally decided not to have any more entanglements with Fang Zhiyuan, but she never expected to have gotten pregnant!

Did Heaven want her to be with Fang Zhiyuan?

"I don't know. Maybe he's already seeing someone else in the city."

"Then do you want to get an abortion?"

Jiang Wan shook her head: "I can't. Getting an abortion at this time is very troublesome, and besides, I don't trust the medical technology of this era."

Xiao Lingdang shrugged: "Then the only option is to give birth to it. You have to tell Fang Zhiyuan. In this day and age, being a single mother is not acceptable! If you give birth to the child alone, and it's a pregnancy out of wedlock, then congratulations, you'll be the most famous person in the village."

Jiang Wan lay on the bed, staring at the mosquito net above her.

Of course, she knew how harsh this era was to women.

"Hmm, I'll keep it a secret for now. It's a single pregnancy, so my belly won't show that quickly. I can hide it for a while. Let's wait until Fang Zhiyuan's next letter arrives. If he still writes to me and sends money, then I'll tell him about it."

Xiao Lingdang was a bit gleeful.

"You're not replying to him now. What if he gets angry and stops writing to you? Are you planning to give birth to it secretly on your own?"

How could she give birth secretly? Run into the mountains to give birth?

Jiang Wan rolled her eyes ungracefully: "You need an introduction letter to go anywhere these days. Where could I possibly go to give birth secretly?"

"I won't reply. Just like this. If he still writes to me, it proves he still has me in his heart. If not, it means he has a new life in the city, and I won't disturb him. At worst, the child will take my surname. Anyway, I told Grandpa Jiang I wanted to take in a son-in-law, now with a child, I can skip that step."

"Alright, it's your decision. Anyway, I'll support whatever you do."

After making her decision, Jiang Wan continued with her daily routine, cutting pigweed when she needed to, and gathering herbs when she needed to.

Anyway, her clothes were loose, and her belly was still flat, so she wouldn't be discovered by others for the time being.

However, as a doctor, Grandpa Jiang felt that his granddaughter seemed a bit off lately.

The plums on the mountain were ripe now; the fruits weren't big, and they were particularly sour. Grandpa Jiang watched as Jiang Wan ate several of them without blinking.

"Hiss, Wanwan, don't you think these plums are very sour?"

Let alone eating them, Grandpa Jiang felt his teeth go sour just looking at them.

Jiang Wan wasn't eating them plain; she had dipped them in salt.

"They aren't sour. I dipped them in salt. Grandpa Jiang, do you want to try some? I picked them from the mountain this morning. They are very fresh, and there isn't a single wormhole in them."

Grandpa Jiang waved his hands quickly: "No, no, no. If you like eating this kind of thing, then eat more, but don't drag me into it. Your Grandpa Jiang here doesn't have such good teeth."

As he spoke, Grandpa Jiang pulled over a large basket from the side, sat opposite Jiang Wan, and began sorting the medicinal herbs.

"Even though this doesn't taste sour to you, you should still take it easy. Eat a little less, so you don't make your teeth ache."

Jiang Wan nodded obediently, agreeing to it.

What really made Grandpa Jiang discover it was during dinner that evening, when Jiang Wan had morning sickness.

Grandpa Jiang thought his granddaughter had upset her stomach, so he pulled Jiang Wan's hand to take her pulse, but he didn't expect to discover the problem with that pulse.

Grandpa Jiang put on a stern face and looked at Jiang Wan seriously: "Wanwan? What's going on? Has someone bullied you? Tell Grandpa Jiang who bullied you, and Grandpa Jiang will go settle the score with them."

Grandpa Jiang's first reaction was that his granddaughter had been bullied. He was furious and wanted to find the person who bullied his granddaughter and beat them up.

Seeing that the matter had been exposed, Jiang Wan didn't hide it anymore. Seeing Grandpa Jiang so angry, she tried to soothe him.

"Grandpa Jiang, you're overthinking it. No one bullied me. I was willing."

Grandpa Jiang's mouth hung wide open. He found it hard to believe that these words came from his own well-behaved granddaughter.

"Then tell me who bullied you? Was it someone from the village? Or an educated youth? Tell Grandpa Jiang, and Grandpa Jiang will go get justice for you."

There was no other way, so Jiang Wan had to tell Grandpa Jiang what happened that day.

Upon hearing that the child was Fang Zhiyuan's, Grandpa Jiang became even angrier.

"Oh, why didn't you say so earlier? Little Fang has already returned to the city. If you had said so earlier, you could have gone to the city with him."

No wonder. Grandpa Jiang only now recalled what Fang Zhiyuan had said to him back then. No wonder when he said he wanted to find a partner for Wanwan, Fang Zhiyuan recommended himself. So, it had all been traceable!

"When Little Fang went back, did he say when he would come to pick you up?"

Jiang Wan nodded solemnly and even took out the letter Fang Zhiyuan had written to her to show Grandpa Jiang, so as to put his mind at ease.

"He did, Grandpa Jiang. When he left, he even gave me most of the money he had on him."

After reading the letter, Grandpa Jiang sighed: "It's good that he's willing to take responsibility. When he writes back next time, you tell him about this matter and let him have a plan. If he has a new partner and is unwilling to raise this child, then we'll raise it ourselves."

He was actually going to have a great-grandchild. Grandpa Jiang felt quite happy about it.