Shiyue thought for a moment and said, "Dad, don't let Mom come in. Just let her stay here. I'll keep an eye on her."

He Si agreed.

The main problem is that he hasn't found his granddaughter, so he's not in the mood to work right now. It doesn't matter where his wife is, he can keep an eye on her anyway.

Although Shiyue bought ginger brown sugar, she still found all the ginger she had at home and cut it into thin strips.

She also took out the perilla leaves she had picked earlier, washed them, and put them in the pot along with the shredded ginger.

When Professor Liang brought the stove over, Shiyue put a piece of coal in and quickly lit it. Then she started boiling brown sugar water in the room.

He Si also looked out the window.

The rain was still pouring down.

They are old and naturally can't go out to search for people like young people, so they can only stay at home and worry.

He paced around the room twice, then sighed, sat down next to his wife, and clumsily picked up the rolling pin to begin rolling out the dough...

The three little ones were found around 3 p.m. The rain had lessened a bit by then, but it still looked like 6 or 7 p.m. outside, almost completely dark.

They were carried down the mountain by He Lixuan and two other young soldiers.

Shi Yue's premonition was correct; the three children did indeed go up the mountain.

After spending most of the day outside, none of the three children were feeling well.

Tiger was still conscious, even though he was lying listlessly on the adult's back.

The other two girls had both fallen into a deep sleep.

Especially Niu Niu, who is too young, was tired and scared and probably caught a cold. She had developed a high fever, her face was burning red, and her lips were peeling.

Upon seeing them return, Shiyue immediately went over to take Jiajia away.

Touching the child's clothes, which were already soaked through, Shiyue didn't dare wait for her sister-in-law to return any longer. She went straight to get a dry towel to wrap the child in and took him inside to change his clothes.

She originally wanted to bring Niu Niu in with her, but Hu Zi wouldn't allow it. He insisted that someone send him and his sister home, saying he could exchange his sister for Niu Niu.

Left with no other choice, He Lixuan had to have someone accompany him to take the two children home.

Because someone went to inform them, those who went to the rocky beach returned quickly.

Liang Yueming forgot to put away her umbrella after entering the house, and ran into the house with the wet umbrella in her hand.

He only felt deflated when he saw that his daughter had changed into dry clothes and was fast asleep in bed, and he squatted down on the ground.

Shiyue quickly helped her up, first bringing her a bowl of ginger and brown sugar water that had been poured out and cooled, watching her drink it, and then asked He Liping to take her home to change her clothes.

He Lixuan, who had recovered, made two large bowls of scallion water and ginger brown sugar water, and together with his second brother, delivered them to the Qi family.

The next day, all three children were bedridden and sick.

Jiajia and Niu Niu were not feeling well when they came back, but they were almost better the next day after taking cold medicine and drinking Banlangen granules.

On the contrary, Tiger, who seemed to be doing well at first, fell seriously ill.

I stayed home for almost ten days, my cold coming and going, before it finally got completely better.

He had just recovered when his father, Qi Feng, slapped him.

The child, who had been beaten, had been lying in bed for three more days!

By this time, Shiyue already knew why the three children had gone up the mountain—

They actually went to stir up a hornet's nest.

This matter is somewhat related to Shiyue.

During this time, she was delivering lemon mint water to the soldiers.

Because she has to make so much food every day, she naturally can't add sugar to it; otherwise, who could afford to supply it?

Unsweetened mint water is naturally incomparable to that with added sugar.

So after Jiajia said several times that her family's mint water was the best, Hu Zi took it to heart.

I don't know where this little guy found out about the big hornet's nest in the mountains, but these three reckless guys decided to poke it down and collect the honey inside.

They even devised a plan for this.

That day, they all wore long sleeves and trousers, and each of them even stole a piece of cloth from home to cover their hands and faces when they were poking.

Then, taking advantage of the adults' inattention, they grabbed a bamboo pole and set off.

They were too young to know how to read the weather, and it started raining not long after they went up the mountain.

Actually, they didn't go deep into the mountains.

The heavy rain hindered the three children's progress.

They didn't even go up the mountain; they just walked to the stream and then squeezed into a crevice in the mountain that they had discovered by chance to take shelter from the rain.

That place was a cave that the three kids discovered when they were playing hide-and-seek. They didn't know what kind of animal left it there.

Because the entrance to the cave is so small that most adults can't squeeze in, no one noticed it when the search began.

They had no idea that it was so deep inside that it could hide three children.

The three children initially took shelter from the rain in a cave, thinking they would continue climbing the mountain once the rain stopped.

Unexpectedly, the rain grew heavier and heavier, and the sky outside became increasingly gloomy, so they dared not go out.

Later, the three children fell asleep so close together that they didn't hear the adults calling them at all.

After listening to Jiajia's halting recount of their experiences, Shiyue was utterly shocked.

But after the initial shock, I began to feel a sense of lingering fear.

She was even somewhat relieved that the rain came in time, preventing the three fools from stirring up a hornet's nest.

Otherwise, it's not something that can be solved with just a cold.

He Liping and his wife did not hit the child.

But Jiajia's actions this time clearly taught them a good lesson.

From that day on, Liang Yueming kept a close eye on the child, and it became impossible for Jiajia to go out and play like before.

Although He Liping did not beat his daughter like Qi Feng did, he clearly punished Jiajia in a different way.

For example, Shiyue suddenly discovered that the little girl's schoolwork had become quite heavy.

First, she discovered that Jiajia was doing her homework even during the day.

Without a doubt, her dad assigned this homework.

Later, Shiyue discovered that Jiajia not only had to do her homework, but she also had to practice calligraphy!

Every morning when she went to her in-laws' house, she would see her little niece, who was usually sleeping in, sitting obediently at the table, drawing on the table with a water-dipped calligraphy brush.

Next to her were several calligraphy practice sheets that looked like they had been written on the spot.

The handwriting looked very familiar to Shi Yue; she could tell at a glance that it was written by her father-in-law, He Siyi.

Later, Shiyue was surprised to find her husband writing the "Multiplication Table" stroke by stroke at home. She burst out laughing and fell off the bed!

Shiyue felt that after this lesson, Jiajia would probably not dare to run around recklessly again if someone tried to persuade her.