She held out her pinky and wiggled it at him.
Zhou Yunshen held out his finger too, hooking it around hers. "Pinky promise. If I lie, may Heaven strike me with lightning!"
"Come on. Little Peach made smoked fish today. Let's eat it while it's hot."
Liu Shuyue clung to his arm and tugged him outside, then suddenly heard a dripping sound.
"What's that sound?" she asked, puzzled. "Did someone leave the faucet running?"
Zhou Shiye shook his head, equally puzzled. "No. And what's a faucet?"
Liu Shuyue listened closely. There really was a dripping sound.
If it wasn't the faucet, could someone have forgotten to wring out a cloth?
But how much water could a cleaning rag hold? It couldn't keep dripping forever!
Zhou Yunshen heard it too. "Where's that coming from? It isn't raining."
"Shuyue! Shuyue, your water broke!"
Lin Shuangshuang cried out in alarm.
Liu Shuyue lifted her skirt. Everyone followed the sound and saw that both her trouser legs were soaked, with water still dripping from them.
Huahua pounded his cheeks and shouted: [Oh my god, your water broke and you didn't feel a thing?]
Liu Shuyue: [Maybe I've taken a few too many Medicinal Pills lately. My body's tougher than before, so I didn't feel any pain.]
Zhou Yunshen froze.
It was his first time seeing a woman give birth. His head swam, and everything he knew about prenatal education and what to do vanished from his mind.
After two seconds of silence, Liu Shuyue suddenly screamed, "Fuck! It hurts! Why does it suddenly hurt?"
"What are you all standing around for? Get her into a room!"
"Right, right!"
Zhou Yunshen scooped Liu Shuyue up and started toward the Main House, but Lin Shuangshuang stopped him. "A pregnant woman can't take all that jostling. There's