The health center took over the mother and child. After a preliminary examination, both mother and child were found to be safe. Xu Dashan stayed behind to take care of them, while the others returned to the village by oxcart.

Sun Xia is going back to bring some food for the new mother.

Xu Dashan's family consists of just him and his wife. They have no elderly relatives or other family members. As the production team leader, they try their best to help as much as they can.

On the way back, Li Xiyue was exhausted and leaned on Sun Xia to rest, falling asleep without realizing it.

Neither Uncle Xu nor Xu Guoqiang disturbed her, and Xu Xiangyang also slowed down, afraid that the car would bump her.

Sun Xia even took off her own coat and covered Li Xiyue with it, worried that she would catch a cold.

Xu Guoqiang was worried that his wife would catch a cold, so he took off his coat and put it on her.

Uncle Xu stroked his beard, a smile on his face.

The car jolted as it stopped, waking Li Xiyue. Seeing that they were back at the educated youth settlement, she felt a little embarrassed. "Sorry, I fell asleep."

“It’s alright, thank you for your hard work today, Li Zhiqing…” Xu Guoqiang seemed to have a thousand words to say, but in the end, he only said one sentence: “I am deeply grateful.”

Li Xiyue quickly replied, "Not at all. Treating the sick and saving lives is a doctor's duty, Grandpa Xu, isn't it?"

Uncle Xu nodded, "The girl is right. Doctors are compassionate. No doctor would refuse to save someone in distress."

"It's getting late, let's talk about it tomorrow," Sun Xia said.

Xu Guoqiang nodded. "Take a good rest. Don't rush to work tomorrow. I'll grant you a day off."

Li Xiyue thanked Sun Xia, returned the clothes to her, and jumped out of the car.

Xu Xiangyang glanced at her, then drove the oxcart away.

The courtyard was quiet. Li Xiyue slowed her pace, but still woke Wang Jiaxing. "Li Zhiqing, why are you only coming back now?"

"Something came up and I was held up," Li Xiyue said softly.

It seems that Wang Jiaxing is indeed a light sleeper.

Wang Jiaxing nodded. "Go to sleep." After saying that, he went back to his room.

The male educated youth inside the room turned over. A woman, coming back so late from outside, what kind of sneaky things had she been doing?

Back in the house, Huang Xinrui was fast asleep, still muttering, "Yueyue, eat meat, I want to treat you to meat."

Seeing that her hands were sticking out, Li Xiyue covered her with the blanket and shook her head helplessly. This girl can't even sleep peacefully.

Having not entered the space for a day, Li Xiyue quickly went in to check on Xiaobai.

Xiao Bai complained that she hadn't seen her all day, and it took her a long time to coax it back to peace. She secretly thought that she needed to find an opportunity to let Xiao Bai out of the space so that it could be with her openly and legitimately, instead of always leaving it alone in the space.

After drinking some spiritual spring water and eating something, Li Xiyue left the space, crawled into bed, and went to sleep.

It was late, and she was afraid she might oversleep in the space and then have trouble explaining herself.

The next day, Huang Xinrui woke up and saw that Li Xiyue was still sleeping, so she did not disturb her.

She was supposed to wait for her last night, but she fell asleep while waiting and didn't know when she got back.

She got dressed, carried the basin, and went out of the room, only to find that Wang Jiaxing had already gotten up and boiled water.

"Good morning, Wang Zhiqing." Huang Xinrui was a little embarrassed. "I wanted to get up early to boil water, but I'm not as early as you."

Wang Jiaxing said frankly, "It's just boiling some water, it's no big deal. Whoever gets up early can boil it."

“Then I’ll get up early tomorrow to get a fever, so you can sleep a little longer,” Huang Xinrui said.

Wang Jiaxing nodded. "By the way, Li Zhiqing didn't get back until late last night. I think I heard the brigade leader say that she's getting a day off today. Let's not wake her up."

"Why are you so late?" Huang Xinrui asked as she scooped water with a gourd ladle. "What did Yueyue do?"

Wang Jiaxing shook his head. "I don't know either."

Just then, the work call sounded, and the two quickly carried water back to their room to wash up before heading out to work.

It was just past five o'clock, barely dawn, foggy and cold. The two braved the cold wind to reach the threshing ground, where a considerable number of people had already gathered.