Double Life: The Long Road to Chasing Your Wife

Lin Shu didn't sleep well. She dreamed of Lin Yi covered in blood while half asleep, and then suddenly woke up from the dream.

"Husband."

When Su Yi heard Lin Shu's cry, he walked into the house quickly with the pimple soup in his hand.

Su Yi put the pimple soup on the bedside table, hugged Lin Shu, and quickly began to comfort:

"Daughter-in-law, I am here for my husband, don't be afraid."

When Lin Shu heard Su Yi's voice, she leaned on Su Yi's thick shoulders, feeling instantly filled with security.

"Daughter-in-law, are you having a nightmare? Don't be afraid, we are safe, and we will live here in the future."

Su Yi brought a stool over, put the pimple soup on the stool, picked up a poached egg, and fed it into Lin Shu's mouth.

Lin Shu took a bite, tears streaked from the corners of her eyes, and she shed tears of happiness.

Su Yi wiped the tears on Lin Shu's face with her hands.

"Don't cry while you're eating! How come you've turned into a little crying cat after not seeing each other for a month!" Su Yi comforted patiently.

"Feed you for my husband."

Under Su Yi's gentleness, Lin Shu happily finished a whole bowl of pimple soup and two poached eggs.

After Su Yi put down the bowls and chopsticks, he held Lin Shu's hands.

Looking into Lin Shu's eyes, she said softly:

"My husband will not be able to enter officialdom in the future, and I will have to endure hardships as a wife and as a husband."

"I'm not afraid. As long as I can be with my husband, I'm not afraid no matter how hard or tiring it is."

"Okay, you're not afraid, but the child in your belly is! As a husband, we can't let the child suffer with us in the future."

Lin Shu leaned on Su Yi's shoulder, and the two cuddled for a while.

Su Yi told Lin Shu about the two changing their names. Lin Shu nodded and recognized her new identity.

After a while, Lin Shu suddenly remembered that Mother Lin and Su Yuanyuan had set off before her.

"Husband, where are Mother Lin and Yuanyuan?"

"They are different from us. Mother Lin took Yuanyuan to the government to register. The government urged her several times. They didn't know you were arriving today, otherwise they would have been waiting for you at home. You should be back soon."

Hearing that Mother Lin was coming back, Lin Shu seemed to have thought of something.

Pointing to the silk handkerchief on the table, he said:

"Husband, bring me the silk pa. Mother Lin will definitely be worried when she sees my neck."

"it is good."

Su Yi patiently tied the silk handkerchief around Lin Shu's neck.

"Daughter-in-law, you can't go out wearing a silk handkerchief all the time in the future. If you are afraid that others will say something about you, I will scold you for you. If you are afraid that Mother Lin will worry, I will find a medicine to remove scars for you when the time comes."

"Husband, no need, Xiao..."

Lin Shu paused, and she almost said Xiao Yan's name directly.

Lin Shu pointed to the luggage on the ground.

"Xiao Guogong gave me a plaster to remove the scar, but it can only be used after the scar has completely fallen off."

After Lin's mother and Su Yuanyuan came back, they were very happy to see that Lin Shu was pregnant.

Mother Lin also asked what happened to the silk handkerchief on Lin Shu's neck. Su Yi helped smooth things over, saying that Lin Shu's neck always felt cold during pregnancy, so she added a silk handkerchief around her neck.

Just like that, Su Yi passed the silk handkerchief around Lin Shu's neck.

Then the family of four quickly returned to normal life.

Mother Lin brought over the family's cash. Lin Shu's dividends in the past six months, plus the previous dowry and money from selling grain, amounted to more than 2 taels.

But Mother Lin didn't know that Lin Shu also had the 10 taels of silver notes given by Xiao Yan.

Lin Shu was pregnant, so Lin's mother and Su Yi bought a store.

The two of them opened a small restaurant and sold some pasta, mainly wontons, dumplings, noodles and pimple soup.

At first, there were only Su Yi and Mama Lin. Gradually, the restaurant opened bigger and bigger.

Lin Shu was about to give birth, so Su Yi simply paid the chef and shopkeeper to manage the restaurant, and Lin's mother was responsible for supervising the work.

Because Lin Shu could give birth at any time, Su Yi stayed with Lin Shu every day.

The scar on Lin Shu's neck was almost healed. When the weather got cold later, she wore thick clothes to hide the scar.

Lin Shu used the ointment given by Xiao Yan. After winter passed, and now in March, it was no longer possible to see the stitches.

Su Yuanyuan was also sent to the local small academy. Although others did not understand why Su Yi and his wife sent their sister to the academy, Su Yi and Lin Shu still insisted on letting Su Yuanyuan enter the academy, becoming the only female student in the town.

On the other side, after Xiao Yan sent Lin Shu away, he quickly set off and took his mother south.

After more than 20 days, Xiao Yan arrived at the southern border.

The south has not been peaceful in the past few years. When Xiao Yan arrived, he uncovered many spies hiding in the caravan.

He also took his men to the surrounding areas to eliminate bandits. In just a few months, the south became much more peaceful.

But every night, Xiao Yan tossed and turned, unable to sleep peacefully.

Every night when he couldn't sleep, Xiao Yan would stand on the roof, open the window, and look to the north.

Wang Xiaowu walked in with supper.

"Sir, I made sweet-scented osmanthus and lotus seed porridge according to the recipe given by Xuyang Pavilion. Please try it."

"Leave it alone!"

"Xiaowu, count the days, Lin Shu is about to give birth! I don't know if she is giving birth to a boy or a girl. Is it safe?"

Wang Xiaowu felt quite helpless. Xiao Yan always looked to the north in the middle of the night, in the direction where Lin Shu was.

"Master, Miss Lin Shu has her husband-in-law, Mr. Su, here. I believe that Mr. Su will take good care of her. Didn't you send someone to take care of her secretly? If Mrs. Su gives birth, it will take more than a month for us to receive the news. So, Master, we have to wait, we will know the news next month."

Xiao Yan picked up the sweet-scented osmanthus and lotus seed porridge and took a sip. He didn't expect that Wang Xiaowu's porridge looked like it.

"It still lacks sufficient heat. Just boil the lotus seeds a little longer and it's almost done."

"Sir, I will cook it longer next time."

Wang Xiaowu saw Xiao Yan put down his spoon and quickly comforted him:

"You have had stomach problems since you were a child. You have been relying on pills before, and you don't often have stomach pains. But then you have been busy until late at night, and the stomach problems are getting worse, so you should eat more!"

"No, I'm used to it. I have to go check on the public sentiment tomorrow. You should go to bed early too!"

Seeing that Xiao Yan refused to listen, Wang Xiaowu left the room helplessly.

Xiao Yan clutched his stomach. He had been keeping himself busy these days so that he would not think about Lin Shu and recall his interactions with Lin Shu in his previous life.

Xiao Yan discovered through his memories that, as Wang Xiaowu said, Lin Shu's life in the Xiao Mansion was indeed unsatisfactory.

Stomach pain can paralyze Xiao Yan, making him forget the emptiness in his heart.

Xiao Yan covered his stomach and curled up on the bed. He endured the stomach pain, his face was pale, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

These days, he relied on his stomach pain to numb himself, so that he would not think about Lin Shu, and only fell asleep when the pain was too much.