Chapter 755 Li Erlang's Worries
After hearing Li Erlang's words, Li Dalang felt his heart pounding. He never expected that Xiao Liulang's arrival would be so difficult.
Seeing Li Dalang's stunned expression, Li Erlang knew that his words had frightened him. "Here, brother, have some water to calm your nerves."
Taking the water poured by Li Erlang, the originally warm water had turned cold. The coolness went straight down his throat, and this coolness gradually calmed Li Dalang down.
Li Dalang put down his cup and looked up at Li Erlang: "You've worked hard at home."
Thankfully, thankfully my aunt discovered it early, otherwise... I really, really would have..."
"Yes, thanks to my aunt."
Other family members also contributed a lot. Grandma made sure my mother had a double postpartum period and even invited my uncle and aunt to come and comfort her.
Xiao Liulang is well-raised, as you've seen; he has a good personality.
My mother has been taking her tonics all along, and Aunt Wu (Wu Qiaolan) has been helping her in every way. Even now, my grandmother and the others don't let my mother touch cold water.
Ultimately, it was Xiao Liu who caused his mother to suffer health problems.
Li Dalang nodded. Although he had practiced martial arts since childhood and had not learned his father's medical skills, he still knew about childbirth for ordinary women. He understood that it was truly a great stroke of luck for Li Dasao to have survived this time.
“There is something I want to say to my brother. It’s not something I should bring up, but we are brothers, blood relatives with the same father and mother. I thought of it and wanted to tell you.”
Li Dalang looked at Li Erlang with a puzzled expression. "You said that we are the closest of relatives, and there is no one closer to us. So please feel free to speak your mind."
Li Erlang pondered his words for a long time before finally speaking slowly: "As sons, we shouldn't be talking about this according to human ethics, but the birth of Xiao Liu by my mother was truly dangerous; she almost lost her life."
I am truly worried. My brother is going to make his way in the army, while I still have a long way to go in the officialdom. I believe that both of us brothers will achieve great success in the future and bring glory to our mother.
However, a woman's pregnancy and childbirth are truly unpredictable. I once asked my sister-in-law privately, and she said that the current rate of women giving birth and dying together is still three or four out of ten. Even if my sister-in-law and grandmother are there, in such an emergency and rare situation, eight or nine out of ten times it is a life-or-death ordeal.
Our mother already has three sons; at her age, she really doesn't need to work so hard to have children to carry on the family line.
Li Erlang would say something, and Li Dalang would nod in agreement, because he felt that everything Li Erlang said made perfect sense.
Furthermore, Xiao Liulang's arrival was an accident in itself, and the age gap of fifteen or sixteen years was precisely because Brother Li and Sister-in-law Li had long since given up on having children.
Looking at Li Dalang, who was nodding in agreement, Li Erlang finally spoke his mind: "Therefore, as the eldest son, if you could talk to Father and get him to take the medicine, it would be best to prevent Mother from having another chance to conceive."
Li Dalang's eyes widened. He never expected that Li Erlang's last words would come down to this!
However, after his initial surprise, Li Dalang pondered Li Erlang's words more and more, and he felt that Li Erlang's words made perfect sense.
“I asked my aunt, and she said that my mother’s health is already good enough with just these tonics. If she were to take those soups for contraception, it would probably cause even more harm to her body.”
But if Father eats it, then it's fine.
We all know that Father's body is as strong as iron, and that medicine can also soothe the liver, regulate qi, and nourish the body.
Therefore, it's best to let Father take the medicine.
Li Dalang never expected that Li Erlang would know so much about taking medicine for contraception. "When Xiao Liu was born this time, my aunt also said that it was all thanks to my mother's family of martial artists that she had a good constitution."
Otherwise, even if she dared to have a cesarean section to remove the child, her mother might not be able to survive the infection that followed.
As the eldest son, you hold a different significance for your father, and your words carry a different weight in his heart than my words.
Therefore, I hope that my brother will bring me along to discuss this matter with Father. Mother is the most important person to you, to me, and to Father.
I thought that if my brother said those words, Father would surely listen.
The brothers Li Dalang and Li Erlang talked until the third watch of the night. If Li Erlang hadn't had to go to his shift, they probably would have kept talking with Li Dalang until dawn.
The next morning, apart from Brother Li and Brother Li Erlang who had to go to their duties early, the entire Li family got up more than an hour late.
Li San Niang slept soundly with her precious baby in her arms, not getting up even when the sun was high in the sky.
Finally, it was only after Li's mother knocked on the door that Li San Niang was woken up. She played a tickling game with Lu Zhu'er on the bed for a while before Li San Niang got out of bed.
"My dear Pearl, Mother is taking you out today, so we can have a good time."
After everything was ready, Li San Niang led Lu Zhu'er out the door, and as soon as she opened it, she saw Qiu Xiang waiting outside.
"Let's go tell Mother to invite the tenth and nineteenth sons to go out for a stroll."
Yesterday, my second brother told me about that bookstore that specializes in portrait painting. I'll take this opportunity today to have two small portraits painted for Lu Zhu'er.
"Wouldn't it be wonderful to take this out and look at it again when our Pearl grows up?"
Dewdrop didn't understand what the portrait painting was about, but as long as she was with Li San Niang, that was enough for her.
Li San Niang was quick to leave. "If you don't eat, the child has to eat too," Li San Niang refused the cakes offered by her mother, picked up Lu Zhu'er, and got into the carriage. "Mother, we'll eat outside. We probably won't be home until late afternoon."
Li San Niang went out the door, and Li Er Xiong saw that Li's mother was still muttering that Li San Niang was too old to understand things, so he smiled and said to Li's mother, "Mother, don't say anything to her. She's probably taking Lu Zhu'er to have her portrait drawn."
Third Sister had asked me to inquire about this matter a while ago; I should take advantage of today to go.
Li Erxiong was carrying two small porcelain bottles containing pills he had prepared according to his father's instructions, which he was about to deliver to Guo Sanlang.
After knocking twice on the door, it was Li Dalang who opened it.
"Second Uncle is here."
"Oh, you're all here."
Li Erxiong looked at Guo Sanlang, Guo Silang, Wang Dadan, Zhang Haiping, and Li Dalang who had come to open the door. He walked over and nodded to the people who were bowing. "These are pills for Sanlang to cure his cough."
Take two pills four times a day with food, and another one with water before bed.
Guo Sanlang quickly bowed again to thank Brother Li, saying, "You must take care of your health."
After receiving Guo Sanlang's greeting, Li Erxiong turned to Li Dalang and said, "Hutou, take them out for a stroll around Chang'an."
I'll go to the gate and hire a carriage for you. Chang'an is huge; walking would be too tiring.
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