Adrienne snapped, "Did I ask for your opinion, though?"
"You just did," Jefferson replied.
Jefferson was indeed an unreasonable man. He was annoying her to the point that she wished she could punch him in the face at that instant.
In the heat of the moment, Adrienne blurted out, "When I asked you if you like children, I meant the one we would have."
"Of course I'll like our children. If I don't like the child you give birth to, who else would I like?" Jefferson wondered what was going on through Adrienne's mind that would lead her to ask such stupid questions.
But... Wait. Jefferson came to a sudden realization. He said, "Adrienne, what did you just say? Say it again."
Adrienne was a little excited at the sight of the sudden anxious look on his face. She raised her eyebrows and said, "It's exactly what you think."
"What I... think?" Jefferson gulped down nervously. Then, he asked cautiously, "Are you
pregnant?"
Adrienne nodded.
Even after getting a confirmation from Adrienne, Jefferson was still in utter disbelief.
He looked at Adrienne and asked again, "Adrienne, are you pregnant? With my child?"
Adrienne was so embarrassed by his question that she wanted to beat him up. "If it isn't yours, who else's would it be?"
"No, I didn't mean it that way." Excitedly, he grabbed her by the shoulder. "When did you find out? Why didn't you tell me earlier? You know how strong I am and I can't myself sometimes, what if I accidentally hurt you two?"
"So you do know that, huh?" Adrienne thought that he didn't know.
Jefferson was too overwhelmed that he failed to process Adrienne's mockery. He said, "You shouldn't keep standing here. Hurry up and sit down, no, you should go and lie down instead. You just got pregnant, so you need to be extra careful with everything."
"Have you ever seen anyone lie still as soon as they got pregnant? Besides, I have a class to teach later." This Mr. I-Know-Everything was even more clueless than she was when it came to this.
In fact, Adrienne was worried that Jefferson, who had a childish temper, might not like children.
But seeing him behaving that way made her realize that he did like children, and at that moment, a huge burden was finally lifted off her chest.
"Since you're pregnant, you'll have to take good care of yourself. Why are you still going to teach?"
Adrienne said, "I promised the village chief that I will finish teaching this semester, regardless. It won't be long till this semester ends anyway; there's only a month left."
Jefferson forced her to sit down and said, 'TH teach the children for the coming month instead." "You, teaching the children?" Adrienne asked doubtfully, "Jefferson, are you sure you have the patience to teach them though?"
Even if he had, Adrienne still did not dare to put the children in his hands. What if he were to bring them out to the mountains to watch the birds and catch fishes everyday instead of teaching them in class?
Jefferson was definitely capable of something like that.
In the following month, Jefferson proved Adrienne's worry with his actions. He really had brought the children up the mountains for bird-
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