Chapter 704 The Dilemma of Career and Family
Li San Niang already felt extremely guilty and apologetic towards Lu Zhu'er because she had been busy at the drug rehabilitation center for over a month and had not returned home. She deeply felt that she had not fulfilled her responsibilities and obligations as a mother.
As soon as the mother and daughter met, large, glistening tears welled up in Dewdrop's eyes, which broke Li San Niang's heart.
So, Li San Niang, holding the wailing Lu Zhu'er, stood right at the entrance of the main hall, ignoring her mother and the others beside her, and began to cry with Lu Zhu'er, their heads touching.
The whole thing that Li San Niang and Lu Zhu'er did really broke the hearts of everyone in the Li family. Li's mother stood by and watched Li San Niang and Lu Zhu'er cry their hearts out, as if they hadn't seen each other for half a year or a year.
Li's mother felt both sorry for Li San Niang and thought she was unreliable. She turned her head and looked at Li's sister-in-law standing to the side. Seeing Li San Niang and Lu Zhu'er crying uncontrollably, Li's sister-in-law herself started to shed tears as well.
Why are you crying too?
"Dewdrop is already over three years old, and her mother is still acting like a little girl, crying with tears and snot all over her face. And you still think she's doing a good job?"
Although Li's mother complained, she did the opposite of what she said, pulling Li's sister-in-law's arm and patting it lightly twice.
"Mother, I..."
Sister-in-law Li, a woman from a martial arts family, raised her hand somewhat embarrassedly and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with the back of her hand. "I just felt so sorry for her watching from the side. Third Sister is so thin that she's just skin and bones."
How could Li's mother not see Li San Niang's appearance?
He was a perfectly healthy and good person before he left, and he returned a month or so later, still perfectly healthy, but only half the size.
That pointed chin, that thin cheekbone, that slender waist—anyone who saw it would feel sorry for her.
Although Sister-in-law Li's statement that she was "just skin and bones" was somewhat of an exaggeration, Li San Niang was at least ten or twenty pounds thinner.
Looking at Li San Niang, who was crying with Lu Zhu'er and expressing her longing, even though Li's mother was angry, how could she bear to criticize Li San Niang for crying with Lu Zhu'er and saying that she had not taken good care of her health?
Mother Li sighed, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve, stepped forward, and wiped Li San Niang's face while saying to her, "Alright, you're all home now, a couple of tears is enough."
Dewdrop is still a child, you're a mother now, how can you let her cry as she pleases?
"Shut up. If you keep crying, Dewdrop is just a child and she'll be fine, but you're going to ruin your voice."
After crying for a while, most of her emotions had been released. Li Sanniang looked at Luzhu in her arms, who was sobbing, and gently coaxed her, "It's alright, it's all my fault, my good Luzhu. I won't cry anymore, and you won't cry either, okay?"
Next, Li San Niang went to wash her hands, and Lu Zhu'er's calves twitched tightly, like a little yellow dog following closely beside Li San Niang's legs, as if she was afraid that if she left Li San Niang's side, Li San Niang would disappear again.
Thus, Li San Niang always held Lu Zhu'er in her arms, and even when Li San Niang went to the toilet, Lu Zhu'er would wait by her side.
Seeing Lu Zhu'er like this, how could Li San Niang bear not to let her go?
"After having children, it becomes incredibly difficult to balance career and family."
Children need their mothers, especially children under the age of three, and children over the age of three also need them.
But how can one give up their career because of this?
Li San Niang thought to herself, looking at Lu Zhu'er's little face, which she had now washed clean and applied with cream, and repeatedly assured Lu Zhu'er's still slightly wet eyes, "Mother will never leave for so long again. Mother and Lu Zhu'er make a pinky promise. If Mother doesn't keep her promise, Mother will be a little puppy."
Dewdrop made a pinky promise with Li Sanniang. Li Sanniang's promise helped Dewdrop's fear and grievances from not seeing Li Sanniang for over a month to dissipate.
After chatting with Lu Zhu'er for a while, Li San Niang ate the meal specially prepared by Li Da Sao with Lu Zhu'er. She held Lu Zhu'er and coaxed her, and even after she fell asleep, she did not put her down. She sat in the main hall with Li's mother and the others, holding the sleeping Lu Zhu'er, and talked.
While Li San Niang was interacting with Lu Zhu'er, Qiu Xiang had already told Li's mother and the others quite a bit about what Li San Niang had been doing at the drug rehabilitation center for the past month or so.
Li's father also loved his only daughter from the bottom of his heart. He looked at Li San Niang with an air of absolute authority and said, "Our bodies and hair are given to us by our parents. How dare we damage them?"
Even if you practice medicine, you still need to take care of your health. How can your father and mother not feel sorry for you when you are working so hard?
Later, I will take your pulse and prescribe a medicine for you.
Li San Niang repeatedly assured her parents that she would never do it again.
"...However, even though Linglan is already helping me there, I still can't completely let go."
The doctor in Ningxia has given me three days off this time, but I won't be able to go home until May.
"Why is it only three days?"
How could three days be enough?
"You're in this state, do you still have to go on duty?"
Before Li's mother could reply to Li San Niang's words, Li's sister-in-law spoke up first.
Li San Niang smiled reassuringly at Li Da Sao: "It was already agreed that, just like in the clinic, we would have one day off every ten days."
I haven't been home for over a month, have I?
It's exactly a three-day holiday.
However, if I don't return from that place in the future, please trouble Mother to bring Dewdrop to see me!
Li San Niang looked down at Lu Zhu'er, who had cried herself to sleep in her arms, and said, "Seeing Lu Zhu'er cry like this today really breaks my heart."
Li's mother nodded, and just as she was about to say something, Li Gui, the shop assistant from the front clinic, called out from outside.
As soon as Li Gui entered the main hall, he cupped his hands in greeting to everyone, and then looked at Li Erxiong and said, "Manager, two families outside have come to seek medical help from Third Sister."
Li San Niang looked at Li Gui in surprise, feeling that Li Gui might have said something wrong.
"Looking for me?"
"Oh, Third Sister, they made it clear that they want to find a female doctor surnamed Li."
Li San Niang found it strange. This herbal medicine shop was run by Li's father and Li's second brother, so why did they come to her to find a doctor?
Sister-in-law Li stepped forward and reached out to take the dewdrop from Li San Niang's arms, saying, "Go and take a look, give me the dewdrop."
When Li San Niang and her father arrived at the front hall, they saw a group of seven or eight people waiting in two groups in front of the medicine cabinet.
That's not all. On the wooden bed opposite the medicine cabinet, there was a man who looked like he had a leg injury, as his right leg was clearly bandaged.
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