Chapter-3 Egg custard (Part-2)

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In this world, the sexes of the ‘gers’ lay somewhere between men and women. 

The gers neither had the strong body of a man, nor they have the soft figure of a woman.

It was very hard for the gers to conceive a baby, and it was even more difficult to give birth to a child.

That’s why if a family has a ger, they sold them in the town.

Li Jin’s village was a village with mixed surnames, but still, the Li Daniu’s Li family was in majority.

They had cultivated the land and raised some chickens and ducks. They were able to feed their family every year with their harvest, not to mention that these people occasionally go hunting in the mountains.

Li’s were the largest family, so they were considered the richest in the village.

Those people in the village became wealthy. And learned about marrying wives and educating children from the outsiders.

But somehow, they also learnt the act of taking a concubine from the town people.

As the Li family wealth grew, they liked to marry more than just one individual as a wife and put them all together at their home.

But the girls were not willing to marry in the village as a concubine? So those people went out of the village and purchased gers for themselves.

Anyway, if you turned off the light at night, they all felt the same.

There were seven or eight gers who were brought back to the village as concubines.

When these young people brought back to the village, they became quite envious of Li Jin’s husband. After the six gers were taken as concubines, but only he was married to Li Jin as the main wife.

But Li Jin did not work and lived life as a drunk. Slowly, those people only pitied Li Jin’s husband.

After he got married to a ger, Li Jin didn’t even ask the name of his husband. Every time he called him, he would call him as ***.

Till now, even after becoming a father Li Jin, that bastard still didn’t know his wife’s name.

Those gers who pitied Li Jin’s husband would not mention his name while communicating with him.

The gers were sold quite early, and they were not particularly looked after by their parents in their home, so they were not named at all.

Mostly, they were named ‘Little One’ or something like that according to the ranking at their home.

The boy said, “I thought that Li Jin was not a human at all, and he didn’t care about you or the child. But I didn’t expect that not only he had prepared an egg custard but also brought a chicken soup for you to eat.”

“True. Li Jin didn’t seem bad. When my husband’s wife was giving birth, my husband only looked at her and asked whether it was a boy or girl, and then left. He would never worry about whether she had eaten or not.”

The pregnant teenager was called Qin Mu Wen. He quietly heard those words while lying on the bed.

He was having pain for a day before he waited for his husband to come back and help him.

But ultimately, he could only go out, and desperately beg those people gossiping on the road to let other gers come and help him.

These gers had yet to give birth to any children. But watching Qin Mu Wen like this, they could do nothing but sob.

Qin Mu Wen was famished, but he didn’t know whom to ask for food. He was not that much close to others gets in the village.

Qin Mu Wen felt that it was okay even if he died at this time.

It was just that the child in his stomach was very poor, and he would be gone before he saw the world…

Qin Mu Wen was not a pessimist person, otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to live after marrying Li Jin. He even worked very hard to protect the child in his stomach.

Whenever Li Jin got drunk, he would come and punch him.

Qin Mu Wen almost had a miscarriage on various occasions in his first three months of pregnancy. But somehow, he was able to keep his child, maybe this child was persistent like him.

When Li Jin came and knocked on the door while sending a bowl of egg custard for him, he didn’t know what to say.

Qin Mu Wen tilted against the head of the bed and finished eating the egg custard bit by bit.

The boy who had cried said, “Li Jin is not a total jerk. He waited outside the door, was probably anxious while holding the egg custard with his bare hands to keep it warm. When I pulled the bowl, I have seen blisters on his hands.”

Qin Mu Wen stared at the young man blankly, he could not imagine that was something Li Jin would do for him.

Li Jin…Qin Mu Wen shut his eyes while thinking about him. 

That man was obsessed with his body when he first married him. Later, he disliked his identity as a ger and always embarrassed him in front of the village.

He had no expectations from Li Jin.

Qin Mu Wen believed that if he could survive this childbirth, then he would educate his children well.

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