Chapter 77

Zixiu couldn’t stand the terrible smell that came from his body, so as soon as his father came back from the bath, he rushed out with the clean clothes in his hand without talking anything about the Valley of Fallen Blossoms. Needless to say, his father must be in a bad mood at the moment after telling his son what a loser he used to be!

Liu Wuyi didn’t stop him this time. As it had been two months since they left Prince Mu’s Mansion, Liu Wuyi thought Yan Ke and his son must have calmed down. If they did come to find Zixiu, he could take the opportunity to make things clear so that they would have nothing to do with the Yans in the future. Actually, he had only told Zixiu part of the story. There were things he never wanted to bring up again.

It had been two months since he bathed last time! Sitting in the wooden bathtub, Zixiu was in such a good mood that it felt as if every pore of his body was singing because of comfort. He had a spur to hum a song, but for fear that he might wake up the Yus, who had already fallen asleep, he gave up the idea.

After all his muscles had completely relaxed, Zixiu started rubbing himself. He was so dirty that his fair skin had changed color. As soon as he touched his arm, dirt trickled down, and when he had just finished rubbing his arms, the water already darkened, which looked so… disgusting!

After quite a while, he finally finished cleaning up his limbs. He then started rubbing his chest and belly.

Zixiu crossed his hands over his lower abdomen and found in surprise that it not only hardened but also bulged a little! Burning with anger, he couldn’t help but curse the asshole who poisoned him and made him have a growing belly like a pregnant woman. How embarrassing!

Unfortunately, it began to rain and got cold the next day!

Considering that the slippery wet road would make his son’s journey more difficult, Liu Wuyi accepted Yu Laosan’s offer to stay a few more days and settled down with Zixiu.

After breakfast, Shiliu was doing the laundry when her baby suddenly began to cry in the room. When she saw Yu Xiaohu walk out with the baby in his arms a moment later, she immediately stopped what she was doing, wiped her hands, and took the child from his husband.

Zixiu, who was in a daze in his bedroom, turned pale in an instant when he accidentally saw the scene through the window. He had thrown all the dirty clothes he took off in the bathtub the night before. ‘Gosh! Could the woman’s attire I took off last night be in the pile of clothes Shiliu is washing?’

Disregarding this young couple’s surprised looks, Zixiu rushed to the eave at an incredible speed and picked out a pile of dirty clothes from the washtub in a hurry before he turned to run to his bedroom. He didn’t look back until he arrived at the door. “Er… These clothes are too dirty. Let me do the laundry by myself!” he explained with an awkward smile.

“Brother Liu, you don’t have to stand on ceremony! If the clothes aren’t dirty, why do we wash them?” Unlike those prudish villagers, Shiliu was bold and straightforward, so Zixiu thought she would wear the pants in the Yu’s family sooner or later.

Yu Xiaohu grinned without a word, looking a little bit silly. Actually, he seemed to have seen that in the clothes Zixiu had just taken away, there was a red… bellyband style undergarment!

Zixiu had never done housework since the accident. It wasn’t because his father coddled him, but because whatever housework he did, his father had to do it all over again in the end! Liu Wuyi had been quite confused about it for a long time. He had never expected that he who had lost his memory could not even do the housework that he knew so well. No matter how hard he tried to teach Zixiu, the latter would make a mess of everything! That would be fine if his son just couldn’t do the technical chores, like making fires and cooking, but he couldn’t even do the laundry, clean the floor, or make the bed! Every time he thought about this, Liu Wuyi felt so helpless that he really wanted to ask God what he had done wrong that would deserve this!

Needless to say, he had to wash the clothes Zixiu had taken back.

As Liu Wuyi felt ashamed to be seen doing the laundry, he asked Zixiu to find a basin for him and fetch some water with a barrel, so that he could wash the clothes in the room.

Apart from the man’s robe Zixiu had stolen from Nangong Du’s bedroom, the rest of this pile of clothes was women’s wear, including the bellyband style undergarment that Yu Xiaohu had seen. His eyes didn’t deceive him, and the underwear was indeed red, dazzling red!

Liu Wuyi was a little bit dizzy at the sight of the undergarment. To be frank, he almost didn’t recognize his son the moment he saw him in the Prince Mu’s Mansion. ‘That prince is such a pain in the ass! Who the hell poisoned Zixiu? Is someone trying to keep Zixiu in the Prince Mu’s Mansion forever? Seems I have to do something! After Zixiu’s symptoms disappear, I must get him a wife! Hope the Li girl hasn’t gotten married!’ Liu Wuyi thought.

The medical evidence about Zixiu’s false pregnancy is as follows:

False pregnancy is also called “imaginary pregnancy”.

There are two different emotional tendencies due to individual differences: some people are worried about their pregnancy without long-term contraceptive measures, whereas most people who develop false pregnancy symptoms because of certain neurological and humoral changes that result from years of infertility and intense mental stimulation. In addition to amenorrhea, these people will feel abdominal distension, fetal movement, breasts swell, and even lactate, but actually they are not pregnant at all! Abdominal distension is caused by abdominal fat accumulation and flatulence and the fetal movement was caused by bowel movements and contraction of abdominal muscles. Moreover, some patients who regularly take phenothiazine antipsychotics may also suffer from the above symptoms, and in a few cases, they may even have a positive urine test for pregnancy!

Given Zixiu’s situation, his false pregnancy was caused by medication.