Half a month later.

Jiang Xu and Shen Fangyu had the day off, and it was unknown who forgot to draw the blackout curtains last night. Jiang Xu’s bedroom faced east, and he woke up early in the morning to the blinding sunlight.

He lay in bed for a while in some depression. After confirming that there was no way he could go back to sleep, he sat up irritably, intending to change his clothes, only to find that the buttons on his shirt were slightly stretched out.

With its master’s anger, the pink rabbit doll cut a graceful arc through the air and smashed precisely on top of the man’s head on the floor. “Shen Fangyu… “, Jiang Xu said with a little exasperation, “She’s growing up too fast. “

Shen Fangyu was awakened by the smash, rubbing his eyes and cradling the rabbit in his arms as he glanced at Jiang Xu sitting on the edge of the bed. Jiang Xu had his back to him, so he couldn’t see his slightly bulging stomach, and only his shoulders and narrow waist were visible. “You’re still slender.” He said it casually.

Jiang Xu turned around expressionlessly, the outline of his almost five-month abdomen was already clearly visible.

Shen Fangyu blinked. “Well…” he mused for a moment before jokingly commenting, “Better than my dad’s beer belly.”

“Shen Fangyu!”

Seeing that Jiang Xu was about to get angry, he hurriedly sat up and coaxed, “It just so happens that today is a day off; how about we go shopping?”

So Jiang Xu reluctantly changed into a looser casual shirt, and the two of them wandered back and forth through the mall. Jiang Xu’s eyes wandered through the business wear section, not realizing that Shen Fangyu was pulling into a trendy shop.

Shen Fangyu handed him several colorful hooded sweatshirts from the shelves, but the aesthetics of teenagers obviously didn’t appeal to Jiang Xu.

Jiang Xu looked at the clothes that had been shoved into his arms and looked at him with a blank stare. “Shen Fangyu, I graduated from high school a long time ago.”

He had been a medical student for eight years and hadn’t worn youthful clothes since he entered the hospital in his fifth year. He looked young, so if he wore clothes that were more out of the ordinary, it was inevitable that patients would feel uneasy, so Jiang Xu mostly wore a mix of shirts, jumpers, and trench coats that made him look more mature and stable.

“These sweatshirts are loose and will keep you warm, try some on.” Shen Fangyu said, “If you put on a white coat, who can see what you’re wearing underneath?”

He threw a few of the sweatshirts and jumpers he had selected into the basket and half-coaxed Jiang Xu into the changing room. Then he quickly put his hand behind his back and locked the door, standing by the door to the changing room and looking at Jiang Xu with his elbow in his hand and smiling, “I’m blocking the door until you get changed.”

“Shen Fangyu, being a doctor is a waste of your talents.” Jiang Xu had never met such a rascal before. “Why don’t you become a debt collector?”

Shen Fangyu laughed: “I’m too lazy to block other people’s doors.”

Jiang Xu looked at the clothes in the basket helplessly. The colors Shen Fangyu had picked out were particularly bright, and it took Jiang Xu a long time to find a black jumper that looked slightly more understated.

He turned his back and took off his shirt, casually throwing it into Shen Fangyu’s hands. As soon as he changed into the black sweatshirt, he realized something was wrong with it.

The designer of the jumper was probably an environmentalist, as he had cut a hole in the chest of the nice piece of fabric. He wondered whether it was to save money on the material or something else.

As he was sulking, Shen Fangyu suddenly took him by the shoulders and turned him around, his eyes falling on the exposed skin.

A beautiful red mole was born on the fair white chest, peeking out through the opening of the jumper.

“It’s beautiful.” Shen Fangyu touched his nose and said, “I saw this jumper and thought it would be perfect for you.”

Jiang Xu smiled sarcastically, “It will keep me warm, eh?”

At the end of his sentence, a lock clicked behind him, and Dr. Shen, who was determined not to move, was finally pushed out of the dressing room with his hands clipped behind his back.

Then Jiang Xu found that he had locked Shen Fangyu out with his clothes.

“Let me in, Jiang Xu,” Shen Fangyu knocked on the door, waving Jiang Xu’s shirt in his hand, “I still have your clothes in my hand.”

“No need.” Jiang Xu gritted his teeth and turned his gaze back to the basket of brightly colored clothes, finally breaking down and taking the top orange sweatshirt to change into.

Hearing the rustling in the dressing room, Shen Fangyu hooked the corners of his mouth.

After a while, Jiang Xu pushed the door open with a little embarrassment on his face.

The last time he had worn such brightly colored clothes was probably when he wore his No. 6 middle school uniform.

But at least it was better than the torn sweatshirt with the hole dug into it.

He stood in front of the mirror and looked at himself as the shopping guide said from the sidelines, “Wow, you look so good!” She said in surprise, “You look like a college student.”

“True,” Shen Fangyu’s eyes shone brightly as he looked into Jiang Xu’s eyes through the mirror, “I told you I had a good eye.”

Jiang Xu’s white skin didn’t look dark in orange. On the contrary, it made him look extraordinarily youthful, and the loose-fitting sweatshirt covered his stoma just right, not showing the slight curvature.

However, Jiang Xu was obviously not happy with it, and just as he was about to go in and change, Shen Fangyu suddenly said, “You looked like this when we first met.”

He said, “You were wearing the No. 6 middle school uniform, and my eyes were immediately drawn to your eye-catching red figure in the crowd.”

Shen Fangyu lowered his eyes and smiled, “Even though the clothes were in a warm color, the expression on your face was cold. At that time, I thought that it would have been great if you were from No. 4 middle school, you would have been better with the blue uniform of our school, but now…”

His fingers rested on his chin, tapping lightly with one hand, and he continued, “I think bright colors suit you. You look more approachable.”

The saleswoman, who had been robbed of her job, stood by and stared at Shen Fangyu in disbelief. She had seen people bring their friends when buying clothes for their praise, but she had never heard of such a compliment.

But what the saleswoman didn’t expect was that the man who was trying on the clothes agreed to buy the orange sweatshirt after hearing these words, and was in a daze as she packed the clothes.

She subconsciously looked up and caught Shen Fangyu looking at Jiang Xu.

The man being looked at was oblivious, while the man looking at the person didn’t even seem to realize the yearning in his eyes.

She suddenly felt as if she had discovered something remarkable.

As she was distracted, the man suddenly tapped on the counter, handed her a black jumper, and said in a low voice, “Pack this one too.”

“Huh?”

Shen Fangyu swept a glance at Jiang Xu, who had already walked to the door and was impatiently waiting for him to pay, and added to the saleswoman, “Please be quick, don’t let him find out.”

The saleswoman: “?”

Both of them were very efficient, and after shopping around the mall, they ended up buying a bunch of loose jumpers and sweatshirts in big bags, which would probably last Jiang Xu until he was six months pregnant.

As they walked out, Shen Fangyu answered a phone call and hung up. Jiang Xu looked over, and Shen Fangyu said to him, “Come on, I’ll take you to see your confinement nanny.”

“Confinement nanny?”

“Well,” Shen Fangyu said, “I will take care of you when the time comes, but it is more professional for the baby to be taken care of by a confinement nanny. I’ve asked around and discovered you can hire a confinement nanny for a year or two. If it’s needed, I’ll hire one for a longer period, so that we have someone to watch the baby while we’re at work. “

Taking care of a baby wasn’t an easy task, and Jiang Xu had also thought about hiring a confinement nanny before. Unexpectedly, Shen Fangyu had started contacting them so early.

“You don’t know,” Shen Fangyu said, “but it’s a very complicated process to find one in A City nowadays. You have to book a gold, silver, or diamond confinement nanny six months in advance, just like you have to make a hospital file before giving birth; otherwise, they won’t be available.

“It’s also a two-way interview, just like when we were choosing a teacher. I went to a few clubs and picked one that I thought was pretty good. It just so happens that we are free and she is also free, so the home management center informed us to go over for an interview.”

“Then our situation ……” Jiang Xu hesitated to speak, after all, a family like theirs might be the only unique case in the whole country.

“Are you willing to tell the truth?” Shen Fangyu asked. Seeing that Jiang Xu was silent, he added: “If not, we will not say that the person who gave birth to the child was you. As for how the confinement nanny understands it, it is her own business. I researched when selecting people and sifted out those who like to gossip, this one we are going to interview is not someone who will gossip.”

Jiang Xu was relieved when he heard him say that. When the two of them arrived at the home management center, that confinement nanny was already there. The staff brought the three of them into the meeting room and served tea to both sides.

“Mr Jiang, Mr Shen, let me introduce myself,” the confinement nanny said. She looked gentle and was about 30 or 40 years old. “My name is Bao Nian, and I’ve been working as a confinement nanny for eight years in A City.”

She took out her CV, medical reports, and various certificates, as well as reviews and testimonials from her previous employers, and she pushed them in front of them, and they analyzed the thick stack of papers in detail.

She was really professional.

Jiang Xu even felt like he was interviewing a student applying for his postgraduate course.

However, he was also being interviewed. Bao Nian smiled and asked, “May I ask if you two could tell me about your relationship?” She said, “I’m not curious; it’s just that it would be easier for me to work if I knew, and I’ll definitely keep my mouth shut once I know.”

Jiang Xu and Shen Fangyu looked at each other, finding it a little hard to explain what their relationship was for a moment.

Jiang Xu: “Colleagues.”

Shen Fangyu: “Friends.”

After a short moment of deliberation, they both spoke at the same time, and Bao Nian froze.

Jiang Xu: “Friends.”

Shen Fangyu: “Colleague.”

They looked at each other, they had changed their words at the same time.

Bao Nian: “……”

She smiled knowingly and didn’t press the issue, only saying, “Okay, I probably understand, so do the two of you have any more questions for me?”

……

Jiang Xu and Shen Fangyu were both very efficient, and Bao Nian was not one to talk too much. Half an hour later, the interview was over, and both parties were satisfied and immediately made a preliminary booking contract.

Bao Nian didn’t sit at the home management center, so after the three of them signed the contract and came out together, Bao Nian politely said goodbye to the two of them, “I’ll see you in six months then.”

Shen Fangyu glanced at Jiang Xu and politely said to Bao Nian, “Which way is your home? Why about we drop you off on our way back?”

“No need,” Bao Nian pointed to the man walking towards them not far away, “my husband is here to pick me up.”

Shen Fangyu nodded, and Jiang Xu prepared to leave. Shen Fangyu had just taken a step when he was suddenly tapped on the back. He turned his head and saw the man Bao Nian was holding – it was the owner of the bozai cake shop.

Fuck, the world is too small.

Shen Fangyu knew this was not good, but it was too late to pretend he hadn’t seen him.

“It’s really you!” It was obvious that the brother from the bozai cake shop remembered him, and he immediately grabbed onto him.

“What a coincidence that we ran into each other here,” he said with his usual enthusiasm. “You don’t know, my child was sick some time ago, and it’s thanks to the parking card you gave us that we could save a lot of money.” He then turned to Bao Nian and said. “Honey, he’s the one who gave me the parking card.”

“What a fate!” Bao Nian said, “Thank you, Mr. Shen.”

Shen Fangyu laughed dryly and didn’t say anything.

The bozai cake brother wanted to ask about Shen Fangyu’s short-lived wife, but when he remembered Shen Fangyu’s serious statement that day, he concluded that the wife was probably dead, and seeing that Shen Fangyu did not have the intention to say anything, he asked Bao Nian curiously, “How do you know his name?”

Bao Nian didn’t know the story that Shen Fangyu had made up and explained to her husband: “Mr. Shen has just signed a one-year nanny contract with me as my new employer.”

“Nanny?” Bozai cake brother froze as he looked over at Shen Fangyu, the enthusiasm on his face fading away and his expression gradually becoming cold.

“Hey! Are you a human being? Your wife just died, and you’ve already got someone else,” he said cynically as he glanced at his wife and the sign of the home management center, his expression one of anger as he looked at a scum of the earth, “and you even have a child? I thought you were a good guy!”

Jiang Xu: “?”

“When did you have a wife?” He asked.

Shen Fangyu was already breathless, and he said, “Let me explain ……”

“You’re an acquaintance of his, right?” The bozai cake brother had a loud voice, and when he saw Jiang Xu speak, he followed suit: “It’s good that you’re here to explain, tell me what this friend of yours has done?”

The more he talked, the angrier he got, and the more spittle flew out. “Just a month or so ago, he came to my shop to buy bozai cakes. I was closing at that time and didn’t want to sell him anything, but he said his wife was dying and wouldn’t survive the night, so he wanted to give her some bozai cake. I thought he was so affectionate, so I agreed.”

He said indignantly, “So now his wife has only been dead for a few weeks, and the grass hasn’t even grown on the grave yet, but he’s here to hire a nanny?” He held his waist and pointed at Shen Fangyu, saying, “I now suspect that your wife died from anger.”

More than a month ago… Jiang Xu reacted extremely fast; his brain turned around and immediately figured out who the bozai cake was bought for.

Oh, good guy, he was the short-lived wife.

He glared at Shen Fangyu, his eyes sharp enough to kill, and the latter smiled sheepishly and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

 

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