Last time Chen Xu heard of a man getting pregnant, it was in a past life.
Journey to the West, Women's Country.
The Tang Monk and his disciples drank the water from the Mother and Child River, and thus became pregnant.
That was a mythological story from a past life, a novelist's wild and imaginative fancy.
But because the story of the Women's Country focused on romantic entanglements, as a reader, Chen Xu in his previous life found it curious and amusing, not frightening or terrifying.
Unlike the present scene, where these villagers, with bellies as big as drums, were staring with wide eyes, thumping as they ran on the hillside—
They held farming tools, shouting angrily, their bellies so large they quivered, and through the silhouette of their coarse hemp clothes, he could vaguely see what seemed like the limbs of a baby waving and stirring inside.
