My Husband and I Have a House Full of Children - Chapter 3

Chapter 3

I am a kindhearted woman.

As the saying goes, saving one life is better than building a seven-story pagoda.

Although the child in my mother-in-law’s belly was a bastard, it was still a life.

Now that my husband was incapable and I couldn’t bear children, my mother-in-law getting pregnant and still wanting to abort it simply would not do.

Of the three forms of unfilial conduct, having no descendants is the worst.

This child was the Xie Family’s only heir.

Whether or not it was my father-in-law’s child didn’t matter. I had to save it.

With that thought in mind, I stuffed a handful of candy into the young medicine boy’s hands.

“Little brother, this big sister needs to ask you for a favor.”

The young medicine boy saw through me at once.

“You want me to swap out the old madam’s abortion medicine?”

I stared at him in surprise.

“How are you so clever?”

The young medicine boy said unhappily, “Hmph! Who was it just now who said I was talking nonsense?”

“Me. It was me.”

“Little brother, I’m only thinking of my mother-in-law’s health.”

“Look how old she is. If she forces herself to take an abortion drug, she might bleed to death.”

“The Xie Family only has my husband and my mother-in-law left. I can’t let anything happen to her.”

“As long as you agree to help me, I’ll buy you anything you want.”

The young medicine boy stared at me blankly.

“Big sister, you really are a kindhearted woman.”

“When I grow up, I’ll marry a wife just like you.”

My face flushed shyly.

“You naughty child, talking nonsense again.”

And so, we swapped my mother-in-law’s abortion medicine for medicine to preserve the pregnancy.

My mother-in-law took it for two months.

Not only did the child in her belly not miscarry, her pregnancy even started to show.

Then my husband found out.

His face turned red, then white, then green, then black.

In the end, it became extremely ugly.

I knew he was jealous that my mother-in-law could get pregnant while he could not.

I took his hand.

“Husband, don’t be angry with Mother.”

“Mother is thinking of the Xie Family too!”

“You know as well as I do that we can’t have children. After a hundred years, who will inherit the Xie Family estate?”

“Now it’s perfect. Mother has a child, and by blood, the child will be our closest kin.”

“Once Mother gives birth, we’ll secretly bring the baby over and say it’s ours, all right?”

“That way, we’ll have an heir, and Mother can dote on her little son as if he were her grandson. No one has to be separated from their own flesh and blood.”

No matter how you looked at it, my husband was the one benefiting from this arrangement.

As long as we had an heir, no one outside could ever say he was incapable again.

To my surprise, he flew into a rage.

“Impossible! I will never let that bastard inherit the Xie Family estate!”

“If there is to be a child, it can only be one born by you!”

I froze.

What did he mean by that?

Could it be that my husband loved me too?

Wait, why did I say “too”?

Then I saw him push the tall, burly escort guard in front of me.

“Have a child with him. Once it’s born, I’ll raise it. We’ll treat it as our child!”

I knew it. So this was why my husband refused to let my little brother-in-law inherit the family estate no matter what. It was all for Escort Brother.

Fair enough. My husband loved Escort Brother deeply, so it was understandable that he wanted Escort Brother’s bloodline to inherit the family estate.

He had truly figured out how to play this one-husband, one-wife arrangement.