Father Shen carefully placed Mother Shen on the soft couch, and the light leaking in from the window made Mother Shen's pale face even more haggard.
The imperial physician hurried over, and Shen's father hurriedly stood up to greet him, bowing and saying, "Doctor Chen, please take a look at my wife."
The imperial physician bowed in return, said hello, exchanged a few pleasantries, and then came to the couch.
The imperial physician leaned over, placed his fingertips on Mother Shen's slender wrist, his brows serious and solemn.
Li Sisi stood aside, looking at the Buddhist beads on Shen's mother's wrist, and recalled what Shen's mother said before she fell into a coma.
'Every day I go to the temple and kneel down to pray to the Buddha...'
Her eyes unconsciously became hot again. Taking a deep breath, Li Sisi pursed her lips to hold back her tears.
After listening to the imperial physician's pulse diagnosis, he frowned and said, "Master Shen, Madam's pulse is weak and her Qi and blood are deficient. This is obviously caused by excessive worry."
He withdrew his hand, his tone solemn, "You must have been stimulated today. Your mind is shaken, and your fetal energy is unstable. You need to rest and recuperate. You must not be overly happy or sad again."
Li Sisi suddenly looked up at Father Shen: "Mother...is she really pregnant?"
Father Shen nodded slowly: “Yes, it has been more than four months.”
"But mother's health is like this..." Li Sisi looked at the skinny and haggard woman lying on the couch with a worried look.
Giving birth in this era is definitely dangerous for women, just like a trip to the underworld.
She had seen the painful process of Li Nian giving birth. Nian Nian still had the system to help her, but Shen's mother was old and in poor health.
If it's more than four months old, the baby should be fully formed, right? There's no way I'm going to reject it.
Li Sisi was about to ask the system for some medicine to nourish her body.
Then he heard Father Shen speak again, his tone solemn: "Your mother has been ill since she learned of your death. Later, she was diagnosed with a happy pulse and was able to take some tonics to recuperate."
The guilt in Li Sisi’s heart surged like a tide again, and she slowly sat down on the edge of the couch, her warm hands carefully holding Mother Shen’s cold knuckles.
She looked down at Mother Shen's fingers and saw how thin they were, as if they were only bones and no flesh.
The Buddhist beads on her wrist were so loose that they were about to slip off.
"Fuer..." Mother Shen closed her eyes and murmured unconsciously.
Li Sisi could no longer hold back her tears.
She is Chen Fu, she wants to be Chen Fu, not Li Sisi.
"Mother..." Li Sisi choked up and called softly.
This shout was not like the previous ones where he treated himself as a substitute and shouted perfunctorily.
It's a name that comes from the heart.
Mother Shen's eyelids trembled, and she slowly opened her eyes. Her gaze was distracted for a moment before gradually focusing on Li Sisi's face.
Li Sisi's face lit up with joy, and she quickly called out again, "Mom, you're awake!"
"It's really Fu'er..." Mother Shen's tears fell like money and she raised her hand.
Li Sisi quickly bent down and moved her face closer.
Listening to Mother Shen's hoarse and choked voice whispering: "I thought it was just another dream..."
Li Sisi smiled with the corners of her lips raised, her eyes always looking at Mother Shen, and she said softly: “It’s not a dream, your daughter is not dead.”
She felt a little guilty when she said the last sentence.
She didn't know where the original owner went after she traveled through time.
She knew clearly that she was Li Sisi, the Li Sisi who had taken over someone else's nest.
But since I have taken possession of it, I should show filial piety on behalf of the original owner.
Mother Shen wiped her tears with her cold fingers, smiled at the corners of her lips, and said in a trembling voice: "My Fu'er has lost weight, she must have suffered a lot outside..."
Li Sisi shook her head. "I haven't suffered any hardship. I'm fine. I'm sorry that you've made mother worried. Don't worry, I will definitely find a way to help you recover."
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After the palace banquet, Li Sisi followed Xiao Yunchen and got into the carriage they came in.
The sound of "da da da" of the carriage sounded steadily, and it gradually drove away from the palace.
Li Sisi looked at the rapidly receding palace wall outside the window in a daze, feeling conflicted.
In this situation, she can no longer leave without any scruples like before.
But...stay?
Nian Nian didn't want to stay, and Xiao Yunyu was still in the northwest.
Suddenly, a figure came over and pressed tightly against her side.
He gently placed his long arm on her shoulder, leaned close to her, and whispered softly, with the familiar scent of ink, "Mother-in-law will get better. Let's go back to see her often in the future, okay?"
Li Sisi lowered her head and did not answer him.
But she didn't push his hand away, just remained silent.
She herself hasn't decided what to do next.
The carriage drove all the way from the palace gate to the gate of the Shen Mansion.
“Whoa—”
The driver stopped the carriage.
Li Sisi immediately lifted the curtain, jumped out of the carriage, and went to help Shen's mother.
Perhaps because her daughter was by her side and had returned home to reunite with her, Mother Shen was in a good mood, half leaning on Li Sisi, softly recounting the past year.
Most of them asked how Li Sisi had been doing over the past year and whether she had suffered.
The voice was so brisk as if it had returned to its former healthy state.
The mother and daughter chatted all the way to the main courtyard.
Li Sisi just helped Shen's mother to lean on the bed, and then ordered the servants to boil some tonic medicine.
She sat beside the bed and continued chatting with Shen's mother.
"Is my sister really back?" The voice of a young boy who was in the voice change period sounded outside the house, with excitement and anxiety.
"Sir, the young lady is in the room with the lady!" The maid in the main courtyard answered respectfully in a cheerful tone, and she sounded like she was in a good mood.
Then there was a burst of hurried footsteps.
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