It was unknown how much time had passed before Li Li brought Ling Jiale home from kindergarten. Ling Chunhua was awakened by her brother's screams.
"Mom, Jiale, you're back."
Faced with her daughter's goodwill, Li Li did not appreciate it at all, and glared at Ling Chunhua.
"You just keep being lazy all day long. The sun has already set and you haven't even cooked dinner yet!"
Ling Chunhua quickly stood up and walked towards the kitchen. When she reached the kitchen door, she seemed to have remembered something and turned around to ask Li Li.
"Mom, what are you cooking for dinner?"
"Of course it's porridge. What else can I cook? The little money we have at home has been squandered by you, a dead girl. I really don't know what the point of having you is. You're nothing but food and money. A dog would be more useful than you!"
In the kitchen, Ling Chunhua's tears rolled down from her eyes like beads that had broken off the string. She was not being lazy, but she just felt so dizzy that she accidentally fell asleep.
Although he felt aggrieved, he did not stop working.
Scooping water, washing rice, and lighting a fire, his thin body reveals a calmness and diligence that does not match his age.
Seeing that she would not be able to have dinner for a while, Li Li took her son out to visit friends and chat.
Li Li had just been out for a while when Ling Jiang came back.
Normally he would not finish work until after 9 o'clock in the evening, but today he came back early because he was concerned about his daughter Ling Chunhua's injury.
After Ling Jiang parked his bicycle, he went straight to the room where his daughter was resting, "Chunhua, Chun..."
Seeing that the bed was empty, Ling Jiang was stunned for a moment, then turned around and prepared to look in another room.
"Dad, you're back!"
As soon as he stepped out of the room, he saw his daughter standing at the kitchen door, looking at him with surprise.
Although it was already dark, Ling Jiang could tell at a glance that something was wrong with his daughter.
The pointed little face was pale without a trace of blood, and the thin body was shaky and seemed like it would be blown down by a gust of wind.
Ling Jiang hurried over, his face full of worry and distress, "Chunhua, didn't I tell you to rest in bed? Why are you up?"
"I'm making dinner."
Hearing his daughter's words, Ling Jiang subconsciously reached out and wanted to touch his daughter's head, but as soon as he touched her forehead, he found that his palm was burning hot.
"Chunhua, do you have a fever?"
Ling Chunhua blinked in confusion. No wonder she felt dizzy, it turned out she had a fever.
"Let's go see the doctor!"
After saying that, Ling Jiang picked up his daughter and ran straight to the clinic at the entrance of the alley.
There were not many people in the clinic at this time, and the doctor was having dinner. Ling Jiang put his daughter on the bench and said to the doctor anxiously, "Doctor, my daughter has a fever. Can you please take a look?"
The doctor was very conscientious and immediately put down the rice bowl in his hand and stood up to examine Ling Chunhua.
"It's 39.5 degrees, the fever is not mild. Why did you send it here now? If the temperature is higher, I'm afraid he will become a fool!"
Hearing the doctor's words, Ling Jiang was so anxious that his mouth wrinkled. "I just got home and brought her here as soon as I found her. Doctor, please treat her."
The doctor didn't say anything more. He took out some alcohol and wiped Ling Chunhua's forehead, back of the neck, chest, armpits, palms and other parts of her body. While doing emergency cooling, he asked Ling Chunhua what she had eaten during the day.
Perhaps because of the fever, Ling Chunhua was slow to react and whispered, "Guo Ba."
"What else?"
Ling Chunhua shook her head.
The doctor was a little surprised, "Didn't you have any food or vegetables?"
It turns out that eating rice crusts will cause fever. If she had known this, she would not have been greedy. Her mother was right to scold her. She was going to make her father spend money again.
As I thought about it, tears as big as beans rolled down my eyes.
Ling Jiang didn't know that his daughter was crying because of fear and self-blame. He thought she was aggrieved because she didn't have enough food to eat. At the same time, he was filled with anger towards his daughter-in-law.
It's bad enough that he usually favors his son and neglects his daughter, but when his daughter was injured, he couldn't even eat. It's really too much!
"You parents are too negligent in taking care of your children. They are in the growth stage, but they are just eating rice crusts. There is no nutrition in them. No wonder they are stunted..."
While condemning, the doctor untied the gauze on Ling Chunhua's head and prepared to check the wound.
When the gauze was only half removed, bright red blood could be seen oozing out. As the gauze became thinner, the blood became more and more. Until the gauze was completely removed, the doctor could not help but get angry when looking at the bleeding wound.
"What's going on? Didn't I tell you to lie down and rest? Look, the wound is torn. The fever is caused by the inflammation of the wound."
Ling Jiang knew he was in the wrong and apologized repeatedly, "I'm sorry, doctor, it's all my fault. Thank you for your help."
The doctor cleaned the wound with alcohol and cotton, stopped the bleeding, and wrapped it with clean gauze again. "In this case, you need an IV drip. Medication won't work as long as it takes."
"Okay, just hang up the water."
Ling Jiang's cooperative attitude made the doctor feel better. He pointed to the screen behind him and said, "Go in and lie down first. I'll prepare the medicine."
"Hey, doctor, please help me."
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After getting off the tram, Yun Mo subconsciously looked around the platform. She didn't see any familiar figures, and she couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
According to the estimate, Lingchuan should have arrived in Jiang City at noon. Was he delayed on the road? When she got home, she found no sign of the man returning home. Yun Mo's mood was as empty and silent as the huge courtyard.
“Ga ga ga!”
As if sensing her frustration, Dabai and Erbai ran up to her and rubbed their slender necks affectionately against her ankles.
Master, you are back! Yun Mo bent down and touched the heads of the two guys, then went to the cabin.
When I saw that there was one more goose egg in the straw nest, my mood immediately improved a lot.
There are nine eggs in total!
In order to reward Erbai, Yunmo specially added some dried shrimps and small fish when mixing the goose food.
“Ga ga ga!”
Dabai and Erbai were eating very happily. They tilted their necks and called out to Yunmo while eating.
Thank you, Master! Master is the most beautiful! Yun Mo was eating alone, and she was too lazy to cook. She just fried an egg, cut some pickled cabbage, and cooked a bowl of sour soup egg noodles.
After dinner, Yun Mo fetched a bucket of well water, added a few drops of spiritual spring water into it, and then used a ladle to scoop water for watering the flowers and plants in the yard.
Ling Chuan is the one who usually does the watering. She would drip a few drops of spiritual spring water into the soil every now and then. After a period of time, the flowers and plants in the courtyard grew exceptionally well.
Not only are the branches lush, but the flowers are also big, beautiful and fragrant.
The only thing is that the yard is a little small. Otherwise, it would be nice to cultivate some land and grow vegetables.
Thinking of this, Yun Mo suddenly remembered something, threw down the watering can and went to find the measuring tape that Ling Chuan had bought when he was renovating the warehouse.
After some measurements, Yun Mo was surprised to find that the area of the portable space had indeed become larger.
(End of this chapter)