Sisi took the puppy. The puppy smiled, its thin cheeks hunched over, looking somewhat bitter. She pursed her lips and handed the puppy to Zhang Yu.

"Madam, are you really not taking the dog with you?"

Zhang Yu felt a pang of pity. The child was so pitiful. Although it wasn't snowing anymore, her mother-in-law's complexion suggested she wouldn't live much longer. What would she do if the child died?

Sisi didn't answer. Zhou Qiyan came out of the house and said half-jokingly, "You can take her with you and have her be your maid from now on, how about that?"

"real?"

Zhang Yu took it seriously. Just as he was about to go over, he saw the lady walk up to her mother-in-law and say something to her. Gou'er started crying and refused to go with them.

"Milk...the puppy won't leave..."

The mother-in-law moved her lips but didn't say anything more. Sisi knew that Gou'er was very persistent, so she coaxed her for a while and left her a lot of food. Just before getting on the bus, the mother-in-law still asked her for a favor.

"Sir, could you please take your dog with you?"

She pushed the dog away, and when the dog struggled, she shouted, "Go away! Grandma doesn't want you anymore. Grandma can't afford to raise you. Go away, go as far away as possible!"

"Doggy won't leave, Doggy wants to cook for Grandma, Doggy wants to stay with Grandma forever." Doggy cried loudly.

The mother-in-law pushed her to the ground and groped her way back into the house, locking the door behind her. Sisi could hear her suppressed sobs and the deathly pallor on her face; she wouldn't live much longer.

"Go play with your sister, Gou'er. You won't go hungry. Grandma is just doing this for Gou'er's own good."

The dog kept shaking its head.

Sisi glanced at Zhang Yu, who then lifted her into the carriage. She cried out that she had been taken away.

The sound of wheels outside gradually faded into the distance. Grandma touched the fluffy cotton quilt. There were sweet pastries on the table. She smiled and lay down comfortably, fully clothed.

The dog's life will definitely get better.

The dog cried the whole way. When they arrived in Jiangcheng, she was crying so hard that she was hiccuping and had a fever. Sisi asked Baizhi to find a doctor, and they stopped at an inn.

Zhang Yu, on the other hand, was extremely anxious. He had practiced martial arts for many years and was very strong. Holding the dog was like holding a little chick, and his face was covered in sweat from anxiety.

"You can treat the dog like a daughter from now on. I think you'll be a doting father to your daughter too."

After Zhou Qiyan finished speaking, he looked at Sisi expectantly and said, "Madam, I also want a daughter."

Sisi sipped her tea leisurely, and after a moment smiled, "You know how to take care of children?"

These words hurt Zhou Qiyan, who lay there listlessly. "I've never even seen a child before, how would I know how to take care of one? Let's not have any more children for now, let me learn how first."

After saying that, he got up again and touched her belly. "Do you think there might already be a baby here?"

Under his expectant gaze, Sisi shook her head regretfully, "How long has it been since we got married? It can't be that fast, it should take at least a month or two."

"All right!"

Bai Zhi called the doctor, who prescribed some medicine. The dog fell asleep in a daze. When the doctor was about to leave, Si Si stopped him.

"Does this lady have anything else to say?"

"Show him."

Sisi pointed at Zhou Qiyan, who looked surprised. "Madam, I'm not sick. I'm perfectly fine."

"Could you describe it to me?"

Sisi didn't think much of it and whispered a few words. Zhou Qiyan, who has sharp ears, immediately got angry and chased the doctor away before angrily returning to his room.

"Is Second Master angry?"

This was the first time I'd seen him angry on the entire trip.

Sisi ignored him, glanced at the dog, and instructed, "Take good care of her. Try to persuade her again when she wakes up. If that doesn't work, the two of you can take her out for a walk. Kids forget things easily; they'll forget about it after playing for a while."

Bai Zhi nodded, "Madam, why don't you go in and coax the Second Master? He's stubborn, but you'll surely appease him."

"Okay." Sisi stood up.

Zhou Qiyan sat on the bed for a long time, angry, but no one came in to coax him, making him feel even more aggrieved.

Why shouldn't she comfort him?

What's wrong with a husband clinging to his wife? She complains and even says he's sick. What's wrong with him?

Zhou Qiyan grew angrier the more he thought about it. He stood up and decided to have a serious talk with her.

He stormed to open the door, but his anger instantly dissipated upon seeing the person standing there.

"Hmph, what are you doing here?"

He grunted defiantly, turned around and sat back down on the bed, tilting his head away to deliberately avoid looking at her.

After not hearing any sound for a long time, Zhou Qiyan looked around and found that the person at the door was gone. He hurriedly ran out and saw her talking to the waiter about the wine brewed in the inn.

Zhou Qiyan, "..."

Sisi ordered a pound of osmanthus wine and a plate of braised beef and sat down on the first floor. There were many customers downstairs, and it was very lively.

"lady…"

Hearing the voice behind him, Sisi didn't answer. Instead, she pulled up a stool, and he sat down, saying unhappily, "Why did you leave again?"

"Judging from your tone, you don't seem very welcoming."

Sisi held the wine cup. The osmanthus wine was very pure. Her lips were a little red. Zhou Qiyan felt inexplicably itchy and pouted, "I want to drink too."

"Pour it yourself."

Cold, extremely cold!

Zhou Qiyan was even more dissatisfied. He poured himself a glass of wine in a huff, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he became. Before he knew it, he had finished the whole pound of osmanthus wine.

"you…"

With a loud bang.

He stood up, knocking over the stool he was sitting on, and pointed at her angrily, "You don't cherish me anymore now that you've got me, and you won't even let me pester you, you..."

He hasn't done anything wrong to you in half a day.

With so many people around, Sisi didn't want him to embarrass himself by acting drunk. After paying the bill, she dragged him upstairs, threw him on the bed, and he climbed onto the bed, whimpering and wringing the blanket.

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