Chapter 81 Taking Medicine When You're Sick
As they were talking, the parents of the child who had bumped into Lin Yi'an arrived with fruit and their child to apologize.
The child didn't do it on purpose and came to apologize again, so Grandma Lin didn't say anything more.
Liu Zhengying was tending to the vegetable garden when she returned and learned that her daughter had fallen into the water. She frowned, "Bao'er's period is due in the next couple of days, and now she's fallen into the water. I'll go check on her..."
Zhou Mingshi frowned.
Grandma Lin: "I'll go up too."
Zhou Mingshi followed behind his mother-in-law and grandmother.
Since her daughter got married, Liu Zhengying hadn't been upstairs. When she came up, she found that her daughter's room had a lot of her son-in-law's things.
Grandma Lin stepped forward and touched her granddaughter's forehead: "It's a little hot, and her face is flushed..."
Turning back to Zhou Mingshi, she asked, "She didn't get her period today, did she?"
Zhou Mingshi: "No."
Grandma Lin breathed a sigh of relief and then asked him, "Have you been using contraception?"
Liu Zhengying listened intently from the side.
Zhou Mingshi paused, hummed in agreement, and said gently, "We don't plan to have children for the time being."
Liu Zhengying thought it was a good idea. Her daughter hadn't even turned twenty-five yet, and Ming Shi was only twenty-eight. There was really no need to rush to have a child.
Grandma Lin took the thermometer and measured her temperature; it was a low-grade fever.
Feeling unwell, Lin Yi'an was in a drowsy sleep. Their soft voices woke her, and she groggily opened her eyes: "Mom, Grandma..."
Grandma Lin: "She has a slight fever, so let's not give her fever reducers yet."
"No wonder I have a headache." Lin Yi'an tried to sit up, but felt weak all over.
Zhou Mingshi sat on the edge of the bed and half-lifted her up.
Grandma Lin went over to take her pulse: "Do you feel tightness in your chest?"
Lin Yi'an: "I'm not bored. My period is due in the next couple of days, and then I fell into the water..."
She had been frozen in the snow, and with her grandmother being a doctor and her parents taking good care of her, she was able to grow up safely.
She took medicine for a long time when she was a child, and after years of conditioning her body, she rarely gets sick now. Even if she catches a cold occasionally, the symptoms are not severe and she gets better in a day or two. This time it was purely accidental.
Grandma Lin: "I feel no problem with my lungs. It's only been a short time, so I'll observe it first."
Lin Yi-an: "My throat doesn't hurt, it's not a big problem."
She is a doctor, so she understands her own body.
Grandma Lin stood up: "You lie down, I'll go get your medicine."
Liu Zhengying looked at her son-in-law: "Mingshi, you watch over her. We'll go downstairs first."
Zhou Mingshi: "I'll stay here and keep watch."
After they came downstairs, Zhou Mingshi helped Lin Yi'an lie down.
Lin Yi'an lay listlessly on the bed, her small face flushed an unnatural red. Zhou Mingshi touched her face and said, "You look so pitiful."
Lin Yi-an: "A minor cold will get better quickly, it's nothing to be sorry about."
He chuckled. "Okay, I'm not pitiful. Shall I get you some water?"
Lin Yi-an: "I don't want to drink water."
Zhou Mingshi: "Sleep a little longer, I'll stay here."
Lin Yi'an hummed in agreement, her eyelids drooped, and she closed her eyes.
Every few minutes, Zhou Ming would take her temperature with a thermometer. Seeing that her temperature hadn't risen, he felt relieved. He then touched her back and found it was a little sweaty. He got up and put a cotton handkerchief on her back.
Lin Yi'an was a light sleeper. Noticing his movement, she said, "It's okay, you don't need a mat."
Zhou Mingshi: "It's uncomfortable when your clothes are sweaty."
Lin Yi'an let him have his way.
Downstairs, Zhou Kanghui sneezed several times. Grandma Lin, having prepared the medicine, asked Ye Lingzhi to brew it. Hearing his sneezes, she asked, "Did you catch a cold?"
Zhou Kanghui said with a hint of grievance, "I came back in wet clothes and shivered a few times on the way."
From childhood to adulthood, when has he ever suffered such injustice?
Who wouldn't fawn over him? Only that unfilial son, Ming Shi, dares to ignore him like this.
Grandma Lin: "Come here quickly, let me take a look at you."
Zhou Kanghui walked over and sat down.
Grandma Lin took his pulse and said, "You didn't choke on water. It's still a bit chilly in March. You caught a cold wearing wet clothes. I'll prescribe some medicine for you."
Of course, the most important thing she didn't mention was that Mingshi's father didn't pay attention to exercise, often stayed up late, and indulged in eating, drinking, and having fun, so his body was a bit weak and he was prone to catching a cold if he wasn't careful.
Once he recovers from his cold, she needs to talk to Bao'er and Mingshi and tell them to pay attention to their father's health. At his age, he can't afford to neglect his health.
Zhou Kanghui returned to the house, still somewhat angry, and couldn't help but dial Tan Qingwen's number.
Tan Qingwen was looking at documents when he saw the caller ID and answered, "What is it?"
As soon as Zhou Kanghui heard her voice, he launched into a tirade of complaints: "He asked for shares, and I agreed without saying a word. His car got vandalized, and I immediately sought revenge for him, but he just..."
"Ming Shi's carriage was smashed?" Tan Qingwen suddenly stood up. "When did this happen?"
Zhou Kanghui asked, "You don't know?"
Tan Qingwen: "Stop talking nonsense, just tell me, when did this happen?"
Zhou Kanghui laughed: "Looks like that kid was keeping it from you too. I thought he told you everything."
Tan Qingwen, unable to bear it any longer, shouted, "Zhou Kanghui!"
Zhou Kanghui was startled by her voice: "Why are you speaking so loudly? You scared me."
Tan Qingwen: "Are you going to talk or not?"
Zhou Kanghui said irritably, "You're too fierce. I'm afraid of you. Just a few days ago, it was the stepson and his son who were born to Brother Lin's biological father who smashed it."
Faced with this complicated relationship, Tan Qingwen frowned: "Did you call the police?"
Zhou Kanghui: "We called the police, and the Public Security Bureau detained them that same day."
Tan Qingwen felt relieved. Since the police had been called, it seemed that his in-laws and the father not only had no feelings for each other, but might even have had a grudge against each other. This made things easier.
She said, "I hung up the phone if there was nothing else."
She needs to ask her son about the specifics of the matter.
Zhou Kanghui stopped her: "I haven't finished speaking yet."
Tan Qingwen said impatiently, "Speak quickly."
Zhou Kanghui: "An'an fell into the fishpond, and I jumped in to save her. Your son, on the other hand, just picked Yi'an up, got in the car, and drove off without a care for me. I walked home in my wet clothes and caught a cold when I got back..."
After he finished speaking, he sneezed again.
Tan Qingwen: "Is An'an alright?"
Zhou Kanghui: "Aunt Lin said she had a slight fever."
Tan Qingwen: "It's good that nothing else happened. How did you fall into the fishpond?"
Zhou Kanghui: "He was hit by a child."
Tan Qingwen nodded: "You're calling me just because of your son, ignoring this little thing of yours?"
Zhou Kanghui jumped up and down: "Just for this little thing, I asked him why he drove off without paying any attention to me, and he said he didn't see me go into the water. Listen to that, listen to that! Is that something a son would say? He's forgotten his father now that he has a wife, what an unfilial son..."
Tan Qingwen laughed: "That's great. From childhood to adulthood, have you ever seen anyone or anything he cares about so much? After all these years, he finally has someone he cherishes in his heart. We parents should be happy."
Zhou Kanghui snorted, "If you and An'an fell into the river together, and he saved his daughter-in-law first, but not you, his own mother? Oh, not only did he not save you, but he didn't even see you. I don't believe you wouldn't be sad."
Tan Qingwen: "First of all, this is just a hypothetical question. Secondly, I can swim and have even participated in swimming competitions, so the situation you described does not exist."
Zhou Kanghui said sullenly, "The suffering I've endured today is all because of Mingshi. I don't know when the damage from this cold and indifferent family of origin will heal. I want to escape from this family..."
Tan Qingwen: "...If you're sick, go take your medicine."
He hung up the phone immediately after saying that.
As Zhou Kanghui listened to the dial tone on the phone, he sneezed again. He really should take his medicine.
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