On the way back from the hospital, Zhou Chunli and Zhu Chaoyang’s faces never stopped smiling.
Even the short distance from the garage to their home.
Zhu Chaoyang carefully supported his wife.
He treated her as if she were a fragile item, doting on her.
This made Zhou Chunli quite unaccustomed to it. Once they sat down at home, she immediately spoke about her husband with a slight smile,
"You're something else. I'm barely a month pregnant, and you have to be this cautious? It's as if I have a terminal illness. You almost carried me up here."
"How can I not be careful?
Didn't the doctor say we need to be cautious for the first three months? After three months, the pregnancy will be considered stable. We've waited so many years, and finally, we have a child. No amount of caution is too much.
Right, I haven't told Mom and Dad yet. Why don't we call them now? You tell my parents, and I'll tell your parents, so they can be happy too!"
They were not a DINK (Dual Income, No Kids) family, nor did they intend to have children after some time after marriage, intentionally using contraception. They had wanted to have a child when they got married.
It's just that there had been no results until now.
Therefore, they were absolutely overjoyed and expectant of this child they had finally gotten after years of longing.
Zhu Chaoyang smiled as he comforted his wife, and at the same time, he suggested they each inform their own parents, which might also help ease the tension between his wife and his mother.
Their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had already had several conflicts due to his wife's persistent inability to conceive.
Before Zhou Chunli could respond, her phone suddenly rang. She casually opened it and saw a message from Ding Yun, who had specifically sent it to her. The message indicated that Ding Yun, fearing her blessings might not be sufficient, had sent multiple blessings, suggesting that if she were indeed pregnant, it might be with multiples. She hoped the customer would take note.
Additionally, if she were pregnant.
She was asked to provide feedback and a positive review.
If she hadn't received this reminder text, Zhou Chunli might not have connected her pregnancy to the "Myriad Sons and Grandchildren Always Bring Fortune" blessing she had bought online for a thousand yuan after a quarrel with her mother-in-law.
She would have likely attributed it to divine intervention.
Or perhaps the talismans.
Or even the Sending Son Guanyin statue had worked.
After all, compared to tangible items, Ding Yun's blessings, which lacked even logistics information, seemed hardly credible. But now it was different. Now Ding Yun had sent a text message.
And even reminded her that it might be a multiple pregnancy.
And requested feedback.
To Zhou Chunli, who already knew she was pregnant, these messages clearly indicated that the sender was confident she would conceive. If they lacked confidence, why send this message? It would be akin to inviting criticism, or even advising the buyer to request a refund to avoid being scammed.
With this thought, Zhou Chunli immediately believed Ding Yun's words by about seventy to eighty percent. The remaining twenty to thirty percent would likely be confirmed when she was further along and the check-up revealed she was indeed carrying multiples.
Therefore, she quickly began to manipulate her phone to find the app, clicked on it, located the order, and prepared to leave a positive review.
Her husband, Zhu Chaoyang, seeing his wife tapping away on her phone and not making any calls, curiously leaned over. He clearly saw his wife leaving a five-star review for Ding Yun's shop.
"No, Chunli, what are you doing?"
"Why are you thanking her for making you pregnant?"
"What did you buy? 'Myriad Sons and Grandchildren Always Bring Fortune.' Did you use some secret remedy or medicine?"
The review page didn't have a detailed description of the item, only a name. So Zhu Chaoyang naturally assumed his wife had bought some sort of fertility remedy. His tone immediately became anxious, fearing that the fetus might be a result of taking a secret remedy, which could be harmful to the child and lead to birth defects.
Having lived with her husband for so many years, Zhou Chunli knew exactly what he was thinking. So, she immediately clicked on the item interface and explained,
"Don't jump to conclusions. Look for yourself.
This is a special blessing service. And the shop owner seems to have real abilities. Before the shop owner sent the message, I didn't really recall it. The shop owner sent a text reminding me that this pregnancy might be a multiple pregnancy.
Then I remembered. The doctor said I'm a little over three weeks pregnant. If I calculate the time, it was a few days before embryo implantation that I bought something from this shop.
Other things don't match the timing of my pregnancy.
Only this one does. So I suspect it's highly likely that this blessing from her shop was effective. She also said she blessed me multiple times, and I might be carrying multiples. We'll know if this is true in a while. If I really am carrying multiples.
We must find a way to thank the shop owner!"
While speaking, Zhou Chunli also opened the message Ding Yun had sent her and showed it to her husband.
Zhu Chaoyang pondered for a moment and felt that his wife's reasoning made sense. However, he immediately advised, "The logic is sound.
But it could also be a coincidence. Let's not rush. Let's wait. It's not too late to bring this up after it's confirmed that I'm carrying multiples. There's no need to tell everyone now.
Don't mention this to Mom and Dad for now.
Let's just tell them the good news first.
Oh, right, you rest here. I'll make dinner later and make you some chicken soup. You need to eat more later, as you're pregnant now. You have to eat for two, so absolutely no dieting."
"Okay, I'll inform them!"
Zhou Chunli happily touched her not-yet-protruding stomach and then opened her phone's contact list, clicked on her mother-in-law's number, and shared the good news.
This way, the other party wouldn't look down on her all the time.
She wouldn't always feel that there was something wrong with her body, and that her husband, in love with his wife, had forgotten his mother and deliberately obtained a fake health report to deceive them.
Now that she was pregnant, there should be no more complaints.
Her husband, of course, also went into the kitchen.
He called his father-in-law and mother-in-law to share the good news.
Needless to say how happy both sets of elders were upon receiving the news. The very next morning, someone was already rushing to catch a train to come and care for their daughter-in-law.
For a period afterward.
Many people also asked them if they had any secret remedies.
However, because the couple wasn't entirely sure if the pregnancy was truly related to Ding Yun's blessing, they didn't spread rumors to outsiders. It wasn't until about a month later, after another check-up confirmed a multiple pregnancy, that Zhou Chunli, full of excitement, texted Ding Yun her thanks while casually mentioning Ding Yun's miraculous blessings in conversations.
Some people dismissed it as a joke, a stroke of luck, or mere coincidence. But some believed.
Therefore, Ding Yun's shop, after receiving the fourth order and more than three months later, finally started to receive a few more orders sporadically, preventing its monthly sales from remaining at zero.
However, this matter still couldn't be considered a primary occupation.
It could only be a part-time job, earning some pocket money.
Promotions, moreover, relied entirely on word-of-mouth from users. But pregnancy, unlike other matters, took at least a month to show any results. Coupled with the small number of users, the pace of word-of-mouth was also quite slow.