In the room to the east, the injured woman had also taken her medicine and was lying in soft bedding, half asleep.
After taking the woman's pulse, Doctor Zhang finally relaxed his brow. He then asked the old woman to check under the blanket, and sure enough, the woman had stopped bleeding.
The old man finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Alright, the baby is saved, but you will need to stay in bed for the next month and continue your medication. You must avoid raw, cold, fishy, and pungent foods. I will come to check your pulse every day and adjust the prescription as needed."
Both the old lady and Tao Hongying smiled.
"Thank goodness, that was really scary, but I made it through."
"Yes, he is a blessed child who doesn't want his mother to be sad."
Whether the woman heard it or not, she finally fell asleep peacefully and released her grip on Tao Hongying's hand.
Tao Hongying quickly went to the kitchen to cook.
Both of them are so badly injured, they need to eat well and recover.
Young Master Yan struggled to his feet and tried to kneel down and kowtow to Doctor Zhang, but Doctor Zhang helped him up. "Wait until you're better before you kowtow. Be careful not to bleed again and waste my medicine."
Everyone laughed, and Li Lao Er saw the old man out.
Young Master Yan shamelessly moved to the east room and knelt down beside the woman, clearly only feeling at ease when he was guarding his wife and children like this.
The Li family didn't stop her. When Grandma Li saw her granddaughter peeking in from the doorway, she glanced around and saw that the house was clean. Then she beckoned to her granddaughter and hugged her.
Young Master Yan held Jia Yin's chubby little hand and asked, "Is this Fu Niu? She's really grown up a lot. When I was in the valley, she couldn't walk yet and just sat in the shed playing every day."
"Yes, it's been over a year in the blink of an eye. Young Master Yan, where have you been all this time?" the old lady sighed. "Weren't you living a good life? How did you end up like this!"
A fierce glint of hatred flashed in Young Master Yan's eyes as he muttered under his breath, "That's not my home, it's a hellish abyss!"
Since he had come to the Li family, he had no intention of hiding anything, so he told them the whole story from beginning to end.
Everyone who heard this sighed, truly at a loss for words regarding the Yan family.
It turned out that after the valley was completed, Young Master Yan returned home and wanted to invite his family to visit Broken Gold Beach.
Regardless of how this place is built, it is his hard work and is enough to prove his talent.
Unfortunately, the Yan family ignored him completely and kept urging him to take the exam, determined to make him an official!
They even arranged a marriage for him with a woman who was known among their relatives and friends as a spoiled and arrogant woman, simply because her family could provide some assistance to the Yan family.
Young Master Yan utterly loathed him, even resorting to hunger strikes and banging his head against the wall, but in the end, his mother softened and sent him to the neighboring prefecture.
There was a mine where convicts were exiled, and some houses and work areas needed to be built. The person in charge was Lord Zhou, the brother-in-law of Young Master Yan.
Young Master Yan felt very comfortable there, and when he got busy, he forgot about the troubles at home.
But during this time, he met a woman he loved named Huiniang, who was the daughter of a convicted official who had been exiled to a mine.
In fact, Hui Niang's family was not exiled along with her father; their property was confiscated, and they became commoners.
However, Hui Niang was filial and couldn't bear to see her ailing father suffer alone in the mine.
She followed him and rented a house in a villager's house below the mine. She took on odd jobs, such as washing clothes and mending, and used the money she earned to take care of her father's food and clothing.
The people in the neighborhood were very touched and took good care of her, never bullying her.
Young Master Yan also stayed at this farmhouse, and it was inevitable that they would run into each other whenever he came in or out.
Young Master Yan didn't bring any attendants or servants. He asked Hui Niang to help him with everything, from washing clothes and mending to cooking, and he paid her extra money.
As young men and women spend more and more time together, one becomes genuine and the other filial and gentle, and feelings naturally develop between them...
Before the New Year, Young Master Yan wanted to bring Hui Niang home, but his family wouldn't allow it.
In a fit of anger, he invited familiar neighbors and colleagues to a banquet, as a way of witnessing their marriage.
Life went on like this. A few days ago, Huiniang discovered that she was pregnant. Just when the young couple were happily preparing to welcome their new life, the Yan family sent someone to invite Young Master Yan back to get married.
They said the horoscopes were compatible, the betrothal gifts had been given, and all that was left was for Young Master Yan to return to fetch his bride and hold the wedding ceremony.
Young Master Yan naively believed that since Huiniang was pregnant, he could change his parents' minds by kneeling before them.
So he took Huiniang home in a grand manner.
As a result, he was brutally beaten, and Huiniang was forced to the ground by the maids and servants and forced to drink an abortion potion.
Fortunately, Lord Zhou and his wife arrived and helped to stop them, allowing him to desperately drive the carriage out with Hui Niang.
At that time, all he could think of was Broken Gold Beach. It was the only place where he had made friends through his own abilities, and the first place in the world where he had gained recognition and a sense of accomplishment...
"You're really... bold!"
The old lady searched for a long time for adjectives, and only found these two words.
In this matter, the Yan family was certainly in the wrong.
Even biological parents should not impose their will on their children.
Moreover, Young Master Yan is clearly different from those well-behaved children. He is talented and rebellious, a typical donkey that won't move when led and will go backward when pushed.
The family should provide more guidance and encouragement. As he gets older and gains more experience, he will become more mature and stable.
But clearly, the Yan family didn't have the patience, or rather, they were unwilling to give their child that kind of tolerance and love. They just wanted to mold him into the kind of person the family needed as soon as possible, put him in the right position, and let him shine for the family.
Young Master Yan was too naive. Even though he knew his parents were using him as a tool to exchange for family interests, he still fantasized that he could blackmail his parents and make them live according to his wishes.
Now, his naive illusions have been shattered, and he finally sees the cruel truth of things...
Old Mrs. Li's scolding brought tears to Young Master Yan's eyes.
“Auntie, I thought… I thought they were my parents, and that I, their son, was always the most important person in their hearts than anything else.”
"But no, they are not! They never cared whether I liked it or not, they kept forcing me to study and forcing me to marry a woman I didn't like. All they cared about was their family!"
"For the sake of the family, they never cared about how much I suffered outside, which was fine, but now they can even poison their own grandson. I never thought it would be like this!"
He grabbed the old woman's hand, sobbing, "Auntie, do you think I was wrong? I just wanted to live according to my own wishes, I didn't want to study to death, and I didn't want to marry a woman I'd never even met. Was I wrong?"
The old lady felt sorry for him and gently patted his back, comforting him, "It's all over now, you'll get better soon. Don't cry. Look, Hui Niang and the baby are both safe, and you only have minor injuries. You'll be lively and energetic again in less than half a month. Then we'll think of something else."
Li Lao Er and Li Lao Si also joined in the persuasion.
"Yes, you know all the people in our village. Just stay here and focus on getting better."
Young Master Yan nodded, wiped away his tears, and said, "Auntie, I have no money. I used to freeload at your house, but now I've come back with my wife and children."
The old lady laughed as she heard this. "You've renovated Suijintan so well, and our family and the villagers are very grateful. Although we were paid, everyone was poor back then, so the pay wasn't much. Now that the three of you are staying here for a while, consider it compensation for your work. Just relax and don't worry about it!"
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