"Hey, sister-in-law, what did you eat yesterday?"

"Why are your lips so inflamed!"

After Ning Jing lowered her hand from her mouth, Xiu Hua casually glanced at Ning Jing's mouth and then shouted as if she had discovered a new continent.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

Hearing his second sister's exclamation from outside, Fu Hongxing couldn't help but ask.

Ning Jing never expected that what she had tried so hard to avoid, she couldn't escape forever.

"Nothing, why aren't you at work yet?"

Upon hearing Fu Hongxing's voice, Ning Jing's first thought was to beat up the culprit.

He even had the nerve to ask what happened. It's all his fault. If he hadn't kept nibbling on it, would his mouth be like this?

Ning Jing thought bitterly, but dared not show it, fearing that Xiu Hua would notice something was wrong.

Unexpectedly, the culprit outside didn't leave. Instead, he walked to the doorway of the inner room and asked in a deep voice, "Are you really alright?"

"It's nothing, I was just a little anxious, so I got a bit worked up."

"I'll go dig up some purslane later to make a cold salad; it'll help cool me down."

Ning Jing spoke these words through gritted teeth, half of which was meant for Fu Hongxing, and the other half was meant to explain to Xiuhua.

Upon hearing Ning Jing's words, Fu Hongxing's face flushed red.

"Ahem, I'll go to work now. You... if there's anything wrong, I'll go to the mine's clinic and get some ointment!"

"Don't go to the infirmary, I'm fine... don't... don't waste that money, do you hear me?"

Hearing Fu Hongxing's words, Ning Jing felt like she wanted to die.

The last sentence was said through gritted teeth.

If we were to ask the mine's medical clinic for the ointment to apply, wouldn't everyone in the mine know?

For swollen lips, it's best to just let them go down on their own.

Hearing Ning Jing's words, Fu Hongxing knew she was genuinely angry, and he reluctantly agreed.

After he left, Xiuhua helped Xiuchun and Siya get dressed and went out of the house. Tiedan then mysteriously called them aside.

"Second sister, eldest brother seemed a bit off yesterday."

Upon hearing Tiedan's words, Xiuhua immediately became anxious.

"Tiedan, what's wrong with Big Brother?"

Tie Dan scratched his head, then, mimicking his older brother's posture from yesterday, sat on the kang (a heated brick bed) and stared intently at the wall.

"Look, my older brother is just like me right now, sitting here, staring at the wall, and hasn't slept much all night."

I woke up in the middle of the night wanting to pee, and when I opened my eyes, I saw my older brother looking like this, which scared the urge to pee away.

Tie Dan shuddered and then suddenly covered his lower body.

"I need to go to the toilet."

After saying that, he ran away in a flash before Xiuhua could ask any more questions.

When Xiuhua heard this, her heart skipped a beat. Could it be that her older brother had sleepwalking disorder?

She also remembered a family in the village whose eldest son suffered from sleepwalking.

Instead of sleeping in the middle of the night, he would go out to fetch water with his eyes half-closed, filling all the water tanks in the house.

But once the vat is full, he will urinate into it.

His brother saw it one day when he woke up early.

However, at the time, I didn't know, so I went up to the man, patted him on the shoulder, and asked him what he was doing.

Then the man suddenly collapsed to the ground, foaming at the mouth, convulsing, and clenching his teeth.

His brother was so frightened that he screamed and woke up the whole family. They were then taken to the hospital for a checkup, where they found out that he had nocturnal epilepsy.