Chapter 346: Chapter 346: The First Time Accompanying Her for Pregnancy Checkup?
Two days later.
Huo Tingdong received news about that man.
After Ji Xianglin candidly revealed the true identity of the child Song Shuyan was pregnant with, he began his investigation.
Given his meticulous style of handling matters, he was not one to fully believe something just based on a few words spoken in vain!
He naturally needed to verify the information thoroughly before drawing a conclusion!
Therefore, he immediately dispatched Mo Ke to investigate the matter.
Mo Ke was very efficient and quickly located the man, and after confirming his identity through comparison, he rushed back to the company to report to him.
Mo Ke knocked on the office door and entered: “Mr. Huo, I have brought the person.”
The man hadn’t left Beijing. When Mo Ke found him, the man was moving bricks on a construction site, earning monthly wages.
On the construction site, you earn daily wages for a day’s work. This man was twisting rebar and also skilled in masonry and laying plumbing and electrical infrastructure, earning an average of eight to nine thousand a month.
However, based on Mo Ke’s understanding of Song Shuyan, she was also a talented graduate from a prestigious institution, a young prodigy in the medical field. Yet, cleverly outsmarted, her scheming against Huo Tingdong backfired on her.
She didn’t know that the real father of the child in her womb was not Huo Tingdong, but an ordinary construction worker from the construction site.
Song Shuyan had high standards, and usually, she never regarded such low-class people highly. Now, she was carrying the child of the very person she looked down upon the most, a real twist of fate.
But this was also self-inflicted!
Mo Ke frowned, wearing an expression that suggested there was much to be said.
Huo Tingdong asked, “What’s with that expression?”
Mo Ke said, “This man… his face seems a bit disfigured, looking a bit scary.”
Huo Tingdong asked, “Where is he now?”
Mo Ke answered, “In the reception room.”
Huo Tingdong got up and walked to the reception room. As soon as he pushed open the glass door, he saw a man wearing tattered stormwear, grimy all over, with a dusty face and a battered safety helmet casually placed by his feet.
His gaze landed on the man, estimating he was over forty years old. Especially as he had been exposed to wind, sun, and rain on the construction site for years, he looked much older than men his age, with several strands of white hair.
Mo Ke said his facial disfigurement was mainly because his nose and mouth looked odd.
It seemed he had facial paralysis; a true case of facial paralysis, with half of his face sagging, muscles relaxed, and crooked mouth and eye.
Huo Tingdong pursed his eyebrows, “Are you sure it’s him?”
Mo Ke said, “Yes.”
Huo Tingdong questioned, “How come his face is like this? Does such a person qualify to donate sperm?”
He thought the man might have some genetic defects. Typically, sperm banks screen donors rigorously, checking for genetic issues or family histories of inheritable diseases, which would disqualify them.
Mo Ke explained, “Facial paralysis is not hereditary. Mr. Huo, I have already collected his blood and hair samples, and as soon as Song Shuyan agrees, a DNA test can be conducted anytime.”
Huo Tingdong approached the man, “What’s your name?”
The man looked uneasy, glaring at him; upon speaking, his accent was clearly not local: “I’m called Liu San. That man found me, said you wanted to see me. I thought he was calling me for a job, but he brought me here instead! Who are you, and what do you want with me? I still have to work this afternoon. If I miss it, I’ll lose 200 yuan today.”
Huo Tingdong furrowed his brows, “I will cover the loss incurred by delaying you for half a day.”
He paused, then asked, “I have something to ask you, have you ever donated sperm before?”
The man was stunned, thought for a while, and finally recalled, “Seems like I have!”
Huo Tingdong said, “When was that?”
The man replied, “I can’t remember, my coworker dragged me with him. He said that donating sperm comes with quite a subsidy, and it’s also doing a good deed. Moreover, my coworker mentioned, for someone like me who can’t find a wife, no woman willing to marry me, by donating sperm, if someone uses it later, I would still have offspring!”
Huo Tingdong said, “Oh, I see.”
He turned around and said to Mo Ke, “Give him some money, then let him leave.”
Since Mo Ke had already taken him for blood and hair collection, what was left was to perform an amniocentesis and a DNA comparison for Song Shuyan.
One week later.
Huo Tingdong personally arranged for someone to take Song Shuyan for pregnancy testing.
Song Shuyan was very happy. She asked the driver, “Will Huo Tingdong accompany me?”
The chauffeur said, “Mr. Huo has already arrived at the hospital and is waiting for you.”
Song Shuyan was ecstatic; she suddenly felt as if she had finally made it through hard times and was now reaping the rewards.
This was the first time Huo Tingdong was willing to accompany her for a pregnancy test!
Previously, when she encountered Huo Tingdong accompanying Lin Qi for prenatal visits, she was incredibly envious!
Now, Huo Tingdong was also willing to accompany her for prenatal visits.
This fully shows that he was starting to pay more attention to her gradually, valuing both her and the child in her womb, and willing to witness the child’s growth!
Upon arriving at the hospital, Huo Tingdong sat on a bench waiting for her.
“Tingdong!”
Song Shuyan, carrying a document bag, walked over, “Have you been waiting long?”
Huo Tingdong slowly stood up, saw the document bag in her hand, and asked, “What’s this?”
Song Shuyan replied, “These are records of my previous pregnancy tests and ultrasound scans. Would you like to see them?”
While speaking, she was about to open the document bag.
Huo Tingdong indifferently stopped her, “No need, I wouldn’t understand.”
Rather than saying he wouldn’t understand, it’s more apt to say he was not interested at all.
Huo Tingdong had inquired Lin Qi.
In the fourth month of pregnancy, the tests mainly include routine check-ups, as well as Down’s screening, checking for any fetal developmental abnormalities, and examinations for maternal blood sugar, liver and kidney functions, and blood pressure conditions.
Song Shuyan was somewhat worried. After she became pregnant, she joined a group for mothers, where some had discovered fetal abnormalities or miscarriages in the fourth month, forcing them to tearfully abort and leave the group with heavy hearts.
She couldn’t help but feel worried.
Although she had been very careful since becoming pregnant, confident in her body, all her indicators should be normal!
But the condition of the fetus couldn’t be guaranteed.
However, she had confidence in Huo Tingdong’s genes; his child shouldn’t have any unexpected issues!
After all, Huo Tingdong had undergone genetic screening in the early years, the Huo family’s genes were relatively good, he had no family history of hereditary diseases or any genetic defects.
Their child would definitely be fine.
Thinking of Momo and Han, she always believed that Lin Qi could give birth to such smart and adorable children because of Huo Tingdong’s good genes!
Huo Tingdong said, “Today, in addition to the Down’s screening and routine check-ups, let’s also do an amniocentesis and a non-invasive DNA test.”