Chapter 11: NT Examination, Abbreviated as Pregnancy Checkup

The next day, with clear skies and gentle winds, it was good weather.

Wang Zhao set out according to the time agreed with Li Zhenguan, picking him up at his home to go to the hospital.

As Li Zhenguan got into the car, she still asked, “Have you eaten breakfast?”

She had looked it up online, NT examination doesn’t require the pregnant man to be fasting, so he could still eat something, otherwise it would harm the stomach.

Li Zhenguan shook his head.

He had just finished washing up when Wang Zhao called to say she was outside. Besides, he had already instructed Zhang Shu at home not to prepare his breakfast yesterday.

So after shaking his head, he added, “Left in a hurry, didn’t have time to eat.”

“Hmm, then let’s go have breakfast together first.” Wang Zhao didn’t mind, but smiled and turned the steering wheel. On her way here, she had passed a street with many breakfast shops.

Chinese breakfast has always been full of the flavor of daily life. There were four or five shops on this street, and Wang Zhao, based on experience, chose a shop with more people and walked in.

The shop was already quite full, mostly middle-aged and elderly people. Only a table in the corner was still empty. Wang Zhao led Li Zhenguan over.

She wiped the table, asked Li Zhenguan what he wanted to eat, then let him sit here while she went to order.

She ordered a bowl of noodles for herself, Li Zhenguan ordered a bowl of slow-cooked pumpkin porridge, then two cups of hot soy milk, and a small basket of soup dumplings.

For two people, this breakfast was a bit much, but now Li Zhenguan was pregnant, eating for two. Thinking of this, she also ordered a bowl of tender steamed eggs. The steamed eggs here should be quite good, she had just heard several elderly people order this dish.

After ordering, she sat back at the table. Their appointment time was at ten o’clock, it was only eight-thirty now, and it would only take about half an hour to drive from here to the hospital, so they had plenty of time.

Li Zhenguan sat across from her, unconsciously smiling at her as she sat down.

Wang Zhao was originally planning to look at her phone, browse some questions, when Li Zhenguan sitting opposite actively started a conversation.

“Are you planning to take the prosecutor’s assistant exam?” This topic was a bit obviously awkward, Li Zhenguan realized it too, and hurriedly added, “I have a cousin who passed the civil service exam for the procuratorate before, maybe she can provide some experience for you.”

This was goodwill, and also help that Wang Zhao found hard to refuse.

She only thought for a moment before nodding and saying a word of thanks.

A smile appeared on Li Zhenguan’s face, as if he was very happy to be able to provide help: “Then I’ll talk to her later and give you her contact information.”

Wang Zhao made a sound of agreement, but put away her phone. She also realized that sitting here alone looking at her phone was not very friendly to Li Zhenguan.

At this time, breakfast was also served, placed on the table. The table was not large, and just a basket of soup dumplings already occupied most of the space between the two people. When a bowl of soup noodles and a bowl of pumpkin porridge came up, it was already full.

However, when another bowl of steamed eggs was served, Li Zhenguan was stunned for a moment and couldn’t help but say, “This is so much, we might not be able to finish it.”

Wang Zhao took out the disposable chopsticks, habitually rubbed them a few times, and only handed them to Li Zhenguan after all the splinters on them were smoothed out. In these trivial details, she always managed to move Li Zhenguan.

She said, “It’s okay, eat as much as you can, I’ll eat what’s left.”

“The steamed eggs here are good, try some,” Wang Zhao put the bowl of steamed eggs in front of Li Zhenguan, “I just saw quite a few people order this.”

Li Zhenguan’s ears turned a bit red, and he nodded gently. No matter when, he could never refuse Wang Zhao’s gentleness under her cool exterior.

Neither of them had the habit of talking while eating, but compared to Wang Zhao’s quick eating, Li Zhenguan was obviously much slower, eating everything in small bites. By the time Wang Zhao finished her bowl of noodles, he had only eaten about a small half of the steamed eggs in front of him, and the porridge looked like it hadn’t been touched at all.

After finishing, Wang Zhao sat across from him. At first, she was still looking at Li Zhenguan, but after a while, she found that under her gaze, he seemed to want to bury himself in the bowl. She thoughtfully withdrew her gaze and lowered her head to fiddle with her phone.

In the past two months, quite a few people had sent her messages, probably the original owner’s acquaintances or friends.

Some were inviting her to attend class reunions, obviously classmates. Some were inviting her out to meet, saying they had recently returned to Jiang City, to go out for a meal.

Wang Zhao refused all these invitations that involved meeting face-to-face. She was afraid of being exposed. In her view, amnesia was not a good excuse, because amnesia always leads to memory recovery, and she was not the original owner and was unsure if she would remember the original owner’s things in the future, so she refused all of these.

However, Wang Zhao didn’t respond negatively either. She found an old notebook in the room, its pages already yellowed, and because it was written with a ballpoint pen, some parts of the writing were a bit blurry.

It recorded many things from the original owner’s school days and work, from slightly immature handwriting to gradually steady strokes. She looked at the handwriting on it for a long time, finally closed the book, and put it back in its original place at the bottom of the box.

After reading it once, she had a general understanding of the other person’s social situation.

Overall, the original owner was not good at socializing, or rather, was not an amiable person. She didn’t have many friends, just two or three, who were now working in different places and rarely met.

Among them, the one who said they had returned to Jiang City and invited her out for a meal was one of those two or three friends, now working as a lawyer in a big law firm, seemingly with a bright future, but very busy usually and often on business trips. Since graduating from university, they hadn’t met the original owner many times.

These were all results that Wang Zhao had deduced from various clues and moments.

The situation wasn’t too bad. The original owner’s parents and Li Zhenguan hadn’t noticed anything wrong with her. Wang Zhao didn’t think those few friends who hadn’t met for several years would feel anything.

Moreover, personality is a strange thing. Even many parents who have been together for decades may not necessarily know what kind of person their child really is.

Thinking of this, Wang Zhao exited the WeChat page and looked up at the person in front of her.

“Finished eating?” she asked softly.

Li Zhenguan was wiping his mouth and made a sound of agreement when he heard her words. He originally thought he couldn’t finish, but unexpectedly he ate it all in the end. And somehow, his appetite was exceptionally good today, without any signs of nausea.

Wang Zhao smiled, noticing Li Zhenguan’s shyness: “That’s good, take the soy milk with you, you can drink it on the way.”

Li Zhenguan looked at the smile on Wang Zhao’s face, also smiled with pursed lips, and slowly nodded.