"Yes, a friend." Xu Han said the word "friend" with great reluctance.
"As long as he's your friend. My family's waiting for me to go home for dinner, so I'll be leaving first."
"Alright, thank you, Uncle Wang." She did not actually want to thank him at all.
Uncle Wang waved to say there was no need for thanks. After he left, Grandma Qiao came out of the kitchen as well. Just as she was about to ask who had come, Xu Han shoved the kitchen knife into her hand and said, "Grandma, go make the dumplings. Don't come out."
"Oh, alright, alright." Grandma Qiao looked at Xu Han and Gu Yanqing with some concern, but seeing how calm she looked, she carried the kitchen knife back inside.
Xu Han walked up to Gu Yanqing in two or three steps. She had to admit that the real Gu Yanqing was genuinely handsome—tall and upright, with a cold, stern face and sharply defined features. Simply standing there, he naturally exuded the bearing of someone in a high position.
If Xu Han had not known she was inside a novel, and that the author had already arranged everything between them so clearly, she might have fallen for a man like him too.
Gu Yanqing had only brought one assistant. If she remembered correctly, his name was Wang Xiao—the one who had delivered the check and passed along the message back then. She vaguely remembered that his attitude had been particularly unfriendly.
Xu Han brushed the bits of vegetables from her hands. Without inviting them inside to sit, she stood in the doorway and asked, "Mr. Gu, what brings you here?"
Gu Yanqing frowned slightly. Her attitude before and after had changed far too drastically.
Still, since she was not beating around the bush, he did not want to waste words either. He asked directly, "You gave birth to my child?"
Uh... Speaking of the child, Xu Han had still been planning to let Gu Yanqing raise Koukou a few days ago. But after seeing the results of her experiment today, she suddenly could not bear to give him up.
After all, this was the only cheat she had brought with her when she transmigrated into this novel! Sob!
Other people transmigrated into novels with portable
spaces,
overpowered
systems. Yet when she transmigrated, she brought along a "Spirit Urine" villain?
Xu Han did not have much social experience, and the answer was already written all over her face. Gu Yanqing understood. His voice turned cold as he asked, "Qiao Wanqing, what exactly are you trying to do?"
Xu Han spread her hands and spouted nonsense with a straight face. "My brain doesn't work very well. By the time I found out I was pregnant, I was already seven months along. I couldn't get an abortion, so what could I do? I could only give birth."
Gu Yanqing: "..."
Xu Han added, "Don't worry, I won't make you take responsibility either. But if you can provide some child support, that would be even better."
The sky was gradually darkening, and Gu Yanqing's expression was unreadable in the dim twilight. Still, Xu Han could roughly imagine the indescribable look on his face, and it felt pretty satisfying.
Gu Yanqing truly had not expected this kind of negotiation. He had assumed that this vain woman had given birth to the child so she could extort a sum of money from him, or even use the child to force him to take responsibility for her.
After all, she was the person who had used filthy means to sleep with him and then wanted him to take responsibility.
But her entire demeanor had changed as fast as a tornado, leaving him unable to say the words he had prepared.
He had originally planned to take the child straight away for a paternity test. If the child proved to be his son, he would bring him back to the Gu family to raise and compensate Qiao Wanqing with a sum of money.
After all, Qiao Wanqing had carried this child for ten hard months and endured the pain of childbirth to bring him into the world. Other than planting the seed, he had contributed nothing. Saying such things would make him seem utterly beastly.
"Alright, it's getting late," Xu Han said. Knowing that he probably needed to rethink his plans, she bluntly told him to leave. "We didn't make extra dinner, so we won't ask you to stay. Please see yourselves out."
At that moment, Koukou, who had been sleeping inside, woke up and began to cry. Xu Han stopped bothering with Gu Yanqing and turned to go into the house.
Hearing the child cry, Gu Yanqing clenched his hands at his sides. After several seconds of silence, he finally said to Wang Xiao, "Let's go."
"We're just leaving it at that?"
Gu Yanqing had been searching for Qiao Wanqing's whereabouts these past few days. Having finally found her, he had dropped his work and rushed over without stopping. Yet they were leaving just like that?
He was not even going to take a look at the child?
Gu Yanqing did not answer. He simply walked away first.
Perhaps because she knew the arrangement for the protagonist chosen by fate, the matter did not affect Xu Han much. At most, she hoped Gu Yanqing might throw her a one-million-yuan check for child support or something.
She might not be as vain as Qiao Wanqing, but she would not turn down a windfall falling from the sky.
Ahem, ahem.
After discovering Koukou's little secret, Xu Han stopped throwing away his diapers. She soaked them in the bucket she used for watering vegetables, added water, and carried it to the vegetable garden to water the crops.
When growing vegetables in the countryside, people most commonly used diluted human urine as fertilizer. It was the quickest and most direct method. The nutrients seeped into the roots with the water, allowing the vegetables to absorb them quickly, with excellent results.
The next best thing was decomposed poultry and livestock manure, which was used to fertilize the fields.
Now that she had Koukou's urine, Xu Han found that she could save on everything else, because the vegetables in the garden grew incredibly quickly—probably as much in one day as other vegetables did in three or four.
Xu Han used a bed of bok choy for her experiment. She watered one side with water mixed with Koukou's urine and left the other side alone. A few days later, the bok choy on one side was still just tender green seedlings, while the other side had become lush, glossy green clumps with thriving leaves.
Bok choy that normally took twenty days before it could be eaten was fully grown here in just eight days.
As expected of the Spirit Urine Boy!
Moreover, the vegetables grown this way looked even more tender than the bok choy sold at the market. Their juices were plump and full. When she snapped a stalk with her fingers, it made a crisp "snap."
Xu Han picked a bunch of fresh bok choy and brought it home.
Grandma Qiao was astonished that the vegetables were ready to eat after only a few days. Xu Han did not tell her yet that it was because of Koukou's urine. It was too bizarre, and she was afraid of frightening the old woman.
She only said that she had learned a cultivation technique while she was in school that could make plants grow especially fast. Grandma Qiao had seen little of the world and knew almost nothing about technology, so she believed it with hardly any suspicion.