In the yard, Liu Ziqi was talking to Jianjia, "Is your girl still feeling uncomfortable?"

Jianjia replied in a low voice, "The young lady cried for a while when she came back just now. She just wiped her face. I brought the cockatoo sent by Young Marquis Gu into the room to cheer her up."

Liu Ziqi glanced at the closed door and thought that Yu Jiao probably didn't want to see him at the moment.

"Take good care of your daughter. If there is anything, send someone to tell me next door." After Liu Ziqi said this, he walked out of the courtyard gate. Suddenly, he thought of something and paused. "Your daughter has been in a bad mood these days. If Tao Ge'er comes over, don't let him bother your daughter. Coax Tao Ge'er to come to my courtyard."

Jianjia bowed and responded.

Today is the first day of the new year, and it should have been a lively and happy time, but Yu Jiao felt empty inside and went to bed early.

In fact, she was just lying in bed, unable to sleep.

Yu Qizhe's face appeared involuntarily in her mind, and without realizing it, tears flowed from the corners of her eyes and disappeared on the brocade pillow, leaving a wet mark.

Half awake and half asleep, Yu Jiao was in a trance and returned to Qingyu Village. There was a dark sky above her head and heavy rain was pouring down, hitting her face and causing pain.

She was in the turbulent river, tossed and rolled with the current, her body kept falling down, the water seemed about to cover her head. Behind her, a pair of arms held her tightly, supporting her and preventing her from sinking.

"I will never let you go, even if we have to die together." Yu Qizhe's voice was so clear amid the thunder and rain, "I am willing to die with you."

Yu Jiao couldn't help feeling sad even in her sleep. At that moment, at the critical moment of life and death, he was unwilling to let go of her hand, but why did he become like this now?

Perhaps love is that two people can share hardships, but fail in ordinary and common days. It is easy to fall in love, but difficult to stay together.

The dream was very confusing. Yu Jiao later dreamed that Yu Qizhe was tying her hair. His slender jade-like hands were entwined with her black hair, and he said to her in a gentle voice, "I will help you tie your hair from now on."

She heard that she was talking to Yu Qizhe in a coquettish tone, "Stop coaxing me, I will ask you to tie my hair every day in the future, please don't be annoyed."

Yu Qizhe touched her hair, his voice full of doting, his eyebrows and eyes were so gentle, "Don't bother me."

Yu Jiao wanted to indulge in this dream and didn't want to wake up.

The next day, she was awakened by Jianjia. It was already bright outside the curtain. After looking at the water clock, Yu Jiao realized that she had slept until almost noon.

"Why are your eyes so swollen?" Jianjia saw that her eyes were swollen like walnuts and couldn't help but said worriedly, "I'll go get you two eggs to roll around."

Yu Jiao felt a little heavy-headed and responded a little slowly.

As Jianjia walked out, she said, "My cousin came here early in the morning and said he was looking for you. I said you hadn't gotten up yet, so he went back. Now he's here again and is in the yard. I asked him to wait a little longer."

Yu Jiao nodded, guessing that Wei Lichu came to her to ask her to read medical books.

When Jianjia went to the kitchen to get the eggs and came back, Yu Jiao had already put on her clothes and was washing her face. Jianjia handed the handkerchief to Yu Jiao.

After Yu Jiao wiped her face, Jianjia took a peeled egg and rolled it on Yu Jiao's red and swollen eyelids. After the egg was rolled over, Yu Jiao applied a cold compress with a handkerchief for a while and asked Jianjia to invite Wei Lichu in.

When Wei Lichu came in, Yu Jiao was feeding the little rabbit. The grass for feeding the rabbit was brought by Li Jing from outside. It was so cold, and no one knew where he found the fresh grass from.

Wei Lichu was holding a puppet in his hand. Seeing Yu Jiao squatting and feeding a little rabbit, he walked closer, bent down slightly and asked, "Is this the rabbit you dissected?"

Wei Lichu was quite well-informed. Yu Jiao didn't look up at him and continued to feed the rabbits with grass.

Wei Lichu snatched the grass from Yu Jiao's hand and stuffed the puppet into Yu Jiao's arms, "This is for you to play with, I'll feed it."

Yu Jiao looked at the puppet in her arms. It was a fat baby with a naive look. The palm of her hand felt a little rough, and judging from the carving marks, it must have been made not long ago.

"Thank you, cousin Lichu." Yu Jiao guessed that Wei Lichu gave her this to make her happy. Although she was no longer old enough to play with puppets, she still felt warm in her heart.

Yu Jiao placed the puppet on the stand and asked casually, "Cousin Li Chu can also carve puppets?"

Wei Lichu was feeding grass to the rabbit while trying to turn over its belly with his hands. The rabbit got anxious and scratched him twice with its hooves.

"When I had nothing to do in the past, I liked to carve some wood." After Wei Lichu replied to Yu Jiao, he seemed to have a fight with the rabbit. He insisted on opening its belly to take a look. He grabbed the mother rabbit's limbs and tried to turn it over.

Yu Jiao knew that he was curious about the wound on the rabbit's abdomen, so she reminded him, "Be gentle, the wound has only just healed."

Upon hearing this, Wei Lichu moved much more gently. He used his hands to pull open the rabbit's abdomen and saw a scar hidden under the fur. It had indeed healed. He could not help but exclaim in amazement, "It turns out that Yaoyu didn't lie to me. Third cousin, you really know how to perform a caesarean section?"

He let go of the rabbit, stood up, and when Yu Jiao saw her washing her hands, he went over to wash his hands as well.