novelraw Chapter 841: "Brother-in-Law" Making Things Difficult for "Brother-in-Law" 2
Chapter 841: "Brother-in-Law" Making Things Difficult for "Brother-in-Law" 2
Two hours, neither too long nor too short, Si Mingjing sat on the long bench, pondering on how to change Professor Ye’s mind, while Mo Yinhe sat next to her, opening the holographic screen to handle business remotely.
Finding no leverage from Professor Ye himself, Si Mingjing decided to start with his family.
Professor Ye has only one son, who is forty this year, a senior executive at a company. His wife is a university teacher, and they have a daughter in her first year of middle school. Si Mingjing couldn’t find a breakthrough with these three.
Mo Yinhe suggested she give up, but Si Mingjing was reluctant; this is a technology that benefits women.
She hoped that all women who don’t want to endure the hardships of pregnancy but want children could have them, though Mo Yinhe, being a man, felt differently about it than she did, as she could better understand women’s feelings.
As a doctor, she understands more about the physical harm childbirth can do to women, which is clandestine and hard to speak of.
At this moment, a half-human-sized Incubation Egg Robot walked out of the operating room.
Accompanying the Incubation Egg Robot were medical staff from the National Childcare Center.
Si Mingjing stood up, curiously looking at the robot in front of her, and asked, "Is this the Incubation Egg?"
She thought an Incubation Egg was merely an egg, but unexpectedly it was a robot.
A young female medical staff member said, "The Incubation Egg has undergone many improvements; it’s now increasingly closer to the real form of pregnancy. Previously, the Incubation Egg could only be placed in a fixed location, but experiments have proven that frequent maternal activity is healthier for childbirth, so we’ve continued to improve the Incubation Egg into a robot form, allowing various maternal postures like standing, walking, sitting, and lying down..."
Si Mingjing found it amusing and reached out to touch the robot’s head; it was made of silicone, very soft, almost like real human skin.
The robot emitted a mechanical voice: "I am a pregnant woman who needs care; please do not touch my head."
"Haha."
Si Mingjing burst into laughter.
Mo Yinhe closed his virtual computer, stood up with his straight legs, walked towards her, and rubbed her head twice.
Si Mingjing knocked away Mo Yinhe’s hand and emulated the robot’s voice, saying, "Please do not touch my head."
Mo Yinhe playfully pinched her nose.
Mo Yinhe gave Fengjue a look, then grasped her wrist and led the way.
On the ride back, Mo Yinhe suddenly suggested, "Let’s go to the market to buy a fresh fish for Siyuan, make it for her to help her recover physically."
Si Mingjing had never been to the market, she asked, "Do you know where the market is?"
Mo Yinhe naturally didn’t know.
He just impulsively thought they should buy something for Siyuan to nourish her.
He doted on his sister and thought she had suffered today.
He said, "Let’s ask around."
Si Mingjing thought for a moment and said, "I’ll ask Auntie Cai."
Su Cheng’s mother, Auntie Cai, might know.
She called Auntie Cai, who didn’t visit markets either, but her family’s servant knew. Auntie Cai quickly helped her find the address, located it, and sent it to her; reportedly, it was the Imperial Capital’s largest fresh fish market.
When the two arrived by car, they realized the Imperial Capital’s largest fresh fish market’s biggest shareholder was the Ye Family.
Si Mingjing joked, "We went to our own family’s fish market to buy fish and had to ask someone else for the address. Who knows if Auntie Cai might laugh behind our backs?"
Mo Yinhe feigned not hearing, donned sunglasses, looking cool, with others thinking he’s mistakenly entered the wrong scene, yet seriously browsed through stalls to choose the best fish for his sister to make soup.
Si Mingjing said, "We should choose inland fish, not sea fish, as the weak cannot eat seafood."
Mo Yinhe held her hand, the couple browsing the market together, choosing fish, gave Mo Yinhe a sense of homely warmth, he liked occasionally experiencing such earthly pleasures.
Mo Yinhe didn’t heed Si Mingjing; he focused on marine fish, explaining, "Siyuan’s body is different; other women with cold bodies cannot eat seafood, but for my mother and Siyuan, the weaker they are, the more they should eat seafood for their health."
It’s a unique physiology of mermaids, Si Mingjing didn’t know this, but she now understood.
Mo Yinhe stopped at a stall, rolled up his white shirt, and pulled out a fish from the water for the owner to weigh; Si Mingjing couldn’t identify the fish species, it looked plump and large, should make a delicious soup.
The owner skillfully weighed the fish, then prepared to slaughter it on the spot.
Nowadays, customers buying fish request the owner to kill and process the fish, even slicing it into fillets; the owner, to sell fish, accepted any request.
However, Mo Yinhe gestured, "No need; I want a live fish, pack it for me."
Then, he leaned over to Si Mingjing and said, "Back home, let your brother kill it!"
Just killing a fish, yet Mo Yinhe had a mischievous grin.
Si Mingjing said, "My brother wouldn’t be afraid to kill a fish, what’s with your twisted humor?"
Mo Yinhe ignored Si Mingjing.
The owner took a plastic bag, packed the fish, and then poured water into the plastic bag.
Mo Yinhe took the bag and headed home with her.
Back at the mansion, Mo Yinhe’s mischievous humor nudged her chin: "Tell your brother to come down and kill the fish."
Si Mingjing was exasperated: "..."
Fengjue first took the robot back to the Ye Family, meanwhile, the robot was in Ye Siyuan’s room, where Si Lisao was examining the robot’s manual, paying attention to the care of the Incubation Egg Robot.
Si Mingjing knocked on the door and entered, saying, "Brother, come out for a moment."
"What is it?" Si Lisao asked her in a low voice.
Ye Siyuan had fallen asleep, his voice was lowered.
Si Mingjing didn’t explain, waiting at the door; she couldn’t believe her brother would be afraid to kill a fish, yet seeing Mo Yinhe’s mischievous expression, Si Mingjing was unsure.
Si Lisao walked out softly.
Downstairs, Mo Yinhe exaggeratedly called out to him warmly, "Brother-in-law, I bought a fish, make soup for Siyuan tonight, you kill the fish, it’ll count as your contribution."
Si Lisao’s expression subtly changed; he walked over, looked at the lively fish in the plastic bowl and said, "Can’t even hire a chef here?"
"What’s that? Just married my sister for less than ten days and you’re too lazy to even kill a fish for her?" Mo Yinhe smirked sarcastically, "Whenever Mingjing is hungry at night, don’t I always personally go to the kitchen to make her food? Your big brother, when trapped in the hospital due to the pandemic, still knew to buy a rice cooker for your sister-in-law and cook in the ward himself, and I hear you often went to the ward to mooch meals?"
Mo Yinhe firmly shoved the knife into Si Lisao’s hand, his gaze suggesting: It’s time for you to show your role as a husband!
Si Mingjing stood on the side, feeling the air was filled with tension.
She looked up in surprise at Si Lisao: couldn’t believe her brother was really afraid to kill a fish?