Best friends transmigrate into a book! They marry a high-ranking official! If you run, I run too!

"Don't be afraid of being bitten by a snake. Snakes don't have mouths and can't talk nonsense."

"I'm afraid of being bitten."

"Some people have human mouths, but they don't speak human language."

“Yes, some people look like humans, but they don’t do human things,” Wen Tang agreed.

Gu Yanli agreed with his wife, saying, "You're right."

Wen Tang was so happy that she rubbed her face against his back.

Gu Yanli rode his bicycle with one hand, while holding the hand wrapped around his waist with the other, and said, "Let's do it again tonight."

Wen Tang immediately shrank back.

But Gu Yanli held her hand down.

Wen Tang could only say, "Control yourself, control yourself, do you still want a daughter?"

"A sweet and gentle girl."

Gu Yanli: Fine, for his daughter's sake, he will restrain himself.

Later, Mr. Gu waited so long that his eyes were practically blinded by anticipation before a daughter finally arrived.

The truth told him that a daughter cannot be obtained simply by being restrained.

After returning from the Wen family, Gu Yanli bought more wine and took the payment he had received from Wen Tang's delivery this time. He then went to the home of Captain Xu Zhongguo.

That evening, the couple ate at Xu Zhongguo's house.

Gu Yanli drank with Xu Zhongguo, offering subtle words of thanks.

Xu Zhongguo could understand, and kept saying that it wasn't his achievement, but rather that Wen Tang was capable and made him shine.

Having conveyed the message, Gu Yanli didn't say much more and simply kept drinking with the others.

Xu Zhongguo drank until his face was flushed, and he could barely keep his head down on the table before the drinking finally stopped.

Wen Tang was yawning.

When Gu Yanli shakily stood up, she quickly went to help him.

Wu Guifang wanted to find someone to escort Gu Yanli, but Wen Tang refused, saying, "No need, sister-in-law, I can help him."

"You take care of the battalion commander!"

Xu Zhongguo couldn't stay still anywhere, and Wu Guifang was really worried about him, so she didn't insist.

Wen Tang helped Gu Yanli up, and Gu Yanli leaned on her shoulder. Wen Tang was relieved, saying, "Luckily you're not heavy."

She easily helped the person out of the yard, assuming it was because the person wasn't heavy.

But Gu Yanli is a man who is nearly 1.9 meters tall. Even if he is not heavy, his physique means he weighs at least 150 or 160 pounds. If he were to put his weight on her shoulders, it would be quite a burden for her.

The reason it doesn't feel heavy is because...

Once outside the brigade leader's courtyard, Gu Yanli straightened up.

Wen Tang's first instinctive reaction was still, "Do you feel like throwing up?"

"Then go somewhere further away to vomit, don't vomit in front of someone's door."

Gu Yanli grabbed her hand. "Stand back a bit. Aren't you afraid I'll fall and won't be able to get up?"

Hearing this accent, Wen Tang said, "You're not drunk."

"Ok!"

"then you……"

"I have to put on an act, otherwise it won't look right."

Wen Tang "..."

"Then carry me for a bit. I've already carried you for a while." She'd been sitting for so long that her bottom was sore, and she really didn't want to walk anymore.

Then it was nighttime again, and it was pitch black, so no one could see me carrying it on my back.

Even if you want to carry someone on your back, you have to consider the perspective of this era.

Although Gu Yanli did not approve of Wen Tang carrying him, he squatted down without hesitation when Wen Tang asked him to.

Wen Tang lay on Gu Yanli, and to Gu Yanli, she felt almost no weight. "Mom is right, you are indeed too thin."

“Mom…” Wen Tang remembered what He Suihua had said at the lunch table at noon.

"Hey, don't overthink it. My mom just thinks that if I'm not pregnant, your family will have a problem with me and treat me badly."

"Especially afraid of you, she thinks that if I don't get pregnant soon, you'll abandon me."

"If we can't get pregnant, we'll adopt," Gu Yanli solemnly stated his sincerity.

"Adoption?"

"Wouldn't Mom kill you?"

“If she were killed, the family line would end, and she couldn’t bear to do that.”

"She sees adoption as an option too!"

“If you don’t tell, I won’t tell either. Just say we gave birth to her, and she won’t know.”

"When you go to Haishi, just bring a child back; she won't suspect anything."

Wen Tang thought for a moment, then hugged Gu Yanli's neck tightly and chuckled twice. "I think it's a good idea."

"Yes, let nature take its course. Don't put too much pressure on yourself," Gu Yanli comforted Wen Tang.

Wen Tang shook her head. "I'm not under pressure. I'm not under any pressure at all."

"To be honest, I didn't want to become a mother so early."

"Hmm, still too young."

“It’s just that you’re not young anymore,” Wen Tang said subconsciously.

Gu Yanli “…”

My previously calm heart suddenly became tense.

Indeed, he was six years older than Wen Tang.

“I…I’m still very fit,” he said, refusing to admit he was old.

Wen Tang nodded, "Yes, that's true."

"I... don't look old, and... don't look much older than you."

"That's true, but the worst thing about aging is a sudden drop in age. You may not look like much at 27 or 28, but once you're over 30, you'll suddenly look old. That's perfectly normal, isn't it?"

Is it normal?

This is not normal at all.

A strong sense of crisis welled up in Gu Yanli's heart.

Thirty is approaching for him; he'll be twenty-eight this year.

But Wen Tang is different; Wen Tang will only be twenty-two after the New Year!

Feeling a strong sense of crisis, Gu Yanli hugged and kissed the person all night, from head to toe, more passionately than ever before.

Wen Tang eventually couldn't withstand his passion and fell into a deep sleep.

The next day was the day Gu Yanli was to return to his unit.

Gu Yanli was reluctant to wake Wen Tang up in the morning, so he could only tell Zhong Meixian, "Wen Tang is busy right now, so please take good care of her."

"Don't be too stingy with the food," Gu Yanli said, taking out twenty yuan and giving it to her, telling her, "That's all I have. The rest is for your daughter-in-law."

But Zhong Meixian refused, saying, "No need. Xiaotang is at home, and she buys all the food. I don't need to spend any money."

"Besides, when have I ever treated her badly or been stingy?"

"I think you're trying to sow discord."

"Get out of here right now. If you stay home for another two days, my mother-in-law and I will start having conflicts."

Gu Yanli felt much relieved after hearing this, but still whispered, "Please don't be annoying when I'm not home. I'm so old, if Wen Tang runs away, it will be very difficult for me to find her, you understand!"

Zhong Meixian whispered, "What's wrong? Don't you want to be with me anymore?"

"No way! I really didn't say anything!"

“In this house now, if she says to go east, I dare not go west.”

"She said to beat the dog, but I would never dare to chase a chicken!"

Gu Yanli shook his head. "No, this is just in case, after all, I'm so much older than you, right?"

Zhong Meixian nodded, thought for a moment, and said, "You should also try your best so that someone can get pregnant."

"Once you have a child, even if you don't miss her, you'll always feel reluctant to part with the child, right?"

"No matter what, you're still my biological father. For the sake of the children, I'll treat you well."

"Father is more valuable than son?"

Zhong Meixian had never heard of the saying "a father's status rises with his son's," but she knew the meaning of "a mother's status rises with her son's," even though she was illiterate.

So the saying "a father's status rises with his son's" definitely means the same thing, only the object has changed.

Zhong Meixian looked at her son, thought about it and realized that was what he meant, so she nodded and said, "Yes, you should try harder."

Gu Yanli picked up his bag and nodded, "Okay, I understand."

The girl lying in bed was unaware that Gu Yanli had already set his sights on using his son to gain power and status.