The old doctor opened his lips in silence, but could not utter a word of comfort. Although he had seen life and death before, he felt powerless at this moment. His voice was hoarse as he suggested, "Why don't you take the child to the county clinic to see if there's any hope of saving him?"

Lin Yan stopped crying and was stunned for a moment before reacting. He grabbed Zhao Shiyun's sleeve and said in a hoarse voice, "Brother Shiyun, go quickly, take the children, and go to the county, quickly!"

Zhao Shiyun wiped his tears, took a thick quilt from the bed, wrapped the child tightly, and handed it to Li Yuemei to hold. The two rushed out of the house. The donkey cart was still parked at the door. Li Yuemei climbed onto the donkey cart carefully, holding the baby in her arms. Zhao Shiyun saw that she was seated and raised the whip in his hand. The donkey cart sped up faster and faster. Li Yuemei wrapped the quilt tightly around the child. Seeing the child's breathing getting weaker and weaker, her heart beat like a drum, tears flowed like water, and she couldn't wait to get to the hospital.

Yu Ge'er heated up the goat milk and waited until it was warm before picking up a spoon and slowly feeding it to the baby's mouth. Lin Yan held the child and watched him slurp the goat milk. His messy hair brushed across the baby's tender cheeks. He forced a smile and pinned his hair. Thinking of his other child whose life or death was uncertain, tears couldn't stop flowing down his face again.

Yu Ge'er whispered to comfort him, "Brother, the baby has drunk the goat milk and will probably fall asleep again soon. You should also take a rest, otherwise how can you be energetic? Don't let the baby be fine by then and you collapse from exhaustion." Lin Yan held back his tears and nodded, "Okay, I'll listen to you." He put the child next to him. The baby seemed to sense that his father was not feeling well, so he stopped crying and smiled sweetly. Lin Yan slowly lay down, turned his head to look at the baby's quiet smiling face, and instantly felt that the pain was gone. He closed his eyes, but worry still overwhelmed him like a tide.

"Oh, Yu'er, go tell my mom later and ask her to come over and help." Zhao Shiyun and Li Yuemei were not at home. Yu'er was still young, and he was a new father, so he didn't know anything. He still needed an elder at home. Dad was a man, so it wasn't appropriate for him to stay in Lin Yan's room all the time.

Yu Ge'er nodded. He first took the time to tidy up the room, poured out the blood, changed the bedding, and got Lin Yan some new underwear. "You have a good rest. I'll go now."

This happened before the tofu was ready in the morning. It was not worth wasting it, so Zhao Qiming had no choice but to continue making the tofu.

It was almost time to go to town every day. Widow Liu took Yue Ge'er and met Sun Ruoqing on the way. The three of them walked towards the Zhao family together.

As they approached the gate, they didn't see the donkey cart they usually waited for. Just as they were wondering, Yu Ge'er and Zhou Chunlan hurried over. Upon bumping into them, Zhou Chunlan rushed through the courtyard without even saying hello. Yu Ge'er stopped and explained to the three of them, "Auntie, my brother-in-law gave birth this morning, and the donkey cart is in use at home. I can't spare the time to take you to town. Besides, we don't have soy milk or tofu pudding today, only tofu. Do you think we should close the shop for now and reopen it in a few days?"

Sun Ruoqing was overjoyed when she heard this and said with a smile: "It's born? A boy or a boy? It's good that it's born, let's go in and take a look." After saying that, she was about to step into the yard.

Yu Ge'er was anxious and didn't think too much. He stretched out his hand to stop her. Then he reacted and quickly said, "Cousin, it's not convenient now..." He couldn't lie and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Sun Ruoqing saw that only Zhao Qiming was busy in the yard. Li Yuemei and Zhao Shiyun were nowhere to be seen. Thinking of Zhou Chunlan's behavior just now, she suddenly realized that something must have happened. She frowned, opened and closed her mouth, but in the end she didn't ask. So she stepped back and looked back at Widow Liu.

Widow Liu was so happy that she asked, "So this shop will be closed for a few days?"

Yu Ge'er nodded and said, "My family probably hasn't made tofu these days. I'm not sure when we'll make it."

Sun Ruoqing thought about it. Since Li Yuemei asked her to manage the shop, she had to take responsibility. So she suggested, "How about this? Recently, we won't sell breakfast, but lunch. The ingredients for lunch are all purchased in town, which is convenient."

"This..." Yu Ge'er hesitated, "The cost of purchasing ingredients..."

Sun Ruoqing hesitated, but finally waved his hand and said, "Hey, I'll cover it first. I'll make up for it after today's ingredients are sold out."

Yu Ge'er breathed a sigh of relief, took Sun Ruoqing's hand and said, "Then I'll trouble my cousin's wife."

"No trouble." Sun Ruoqing waved her hand. "Since we don't have tofu pudding or soy milk today, let's take the tofu and make lunch. I guess your family doesn't want to sell it."

Yu Ge'er thanked him profusely and quickly informed his father. He pushed the cart out for them to load the tofu. After loading the tofu, they pushed the cart towards the town.

*

Zhou Chunlan stopped at the door of the room, wiped her tears, straightened her clothes and hair, and then pushed the door open and walked in. Lin Yan was extremely tired and had fallen asleep. The baby was also sleeping with light breathing. The two of them were very similar, with a small nose and a small mouth. The baby's pregnancy mole was right in the middle of his eyebrows, and the bright red color was particularly pleasing.

Zhou Chunlan quietly took a chair and sat down beside the bed. She looked at her little brother intently and couldn't help crying again. She quickly wiped her tears with her sleeves, so as not to let Yan Ge'er see them when he woke up.

*

Zhao Shiyun and Li Yuemei galloped along in the cold morning wind. Li Yuemei held the child tightly in her arms, fearing that the wind would blow her away. Fortunately, the sky was getting brighter and the road was easy to walk on. After about an hour, they saw the tall city gate.

At this time, Zhao Shiyun was so anxious that he almost rushed into the city gate. He almost stopped the donkey cart and explained the reason to the guard in a few words. The guard did not make things difficult for him and let him go.

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