After resting for two hours, Wang Jingyi and Su Yue went grocery shopping together. After they returned, Grandpa Yang cooked the meal.
It wasn't that Wang Jingyi didn't want to cook, but Grandpa Yang said he wasn't used to eating other people's cooking, and he stubbornly insisted that he would only eat other people's cooking when he was too old to cook anymore.
Wang Jingyi let him have his way. Without her having to cook, he went into the kitchen to peel the garlic and ginger and wash the vegetables thoroughly.
Only Su Yue and Grandma Yang remained in the main room.
Grandma Yang knew exactly what the old man was thinking. She sighed softly, took Su Yue's hand, and said with emotion, "Your grandfather was actually worried about your godmother doing housework. After she gave birth to two children, her body became extremely weak. Once, she was taking a bath while I was watching the children in the yard. Suddenly, I heard a series of loud crashes and thuds coming from the bathroom. My heart skipped a beat, and I rushed to the door, anxiously calling for your godmother. But she didn't respond. I hurriedly pushed the door open and saw her lying straight on the ground, unconscious. I was so scared that my legs went weak and I completely panicked."
Su Yue's face was full of worry when she heard that Wang Jingyi had fallen and fainted.
Grandma Yang gently patted Su Yue's hand and continued slowly, "At that time, it was just me, your grandfather, and two babies who were only a few months old at home. I hurriedly helped your godmother get dressed, called your grandfather, and then anxiously found someone to take her to the hospital. Fortunately, the hospital was not far from our home, and several kind neighbors carried your godmother to the hospital on a large, sturdy wooden plank."
Although she knew it had been a long time, Su Yue still asked nervously, "What did the doctor say?"
Grandma Yang: "The doctor said it was caused by anemia. After the doctor said that, we tried our best to nourish her. At that time, there were very few old chickens for sale, and people kept the raw eggs. Although we couldn't drink chicken soup every day, we went to the pork market to order pig trotters and used the old method to cook them with old ginger and wine for her to drink. We cooked them every few days. We saw that my godmother's complexion was gradually improving. But when she went into the room to change her clothes, she fainted again. Her head hit the two children's bathtub. The bathwater in the tub hadn't been emptied in time. This time I didn't notice in time and almost... When she was taken to the hospital, the doctor said that if it had been any later, it would have been dangerous."
At this point, Grandma Yang's eyes instantly reddened, and her voice choked slightly.
She was filled with self-blame, feeling that her son and two grandsons almost lost their wives and mothers because of her negligence.
This matter weighed heavily on her heart like a stone; she often dreamed about it, and each time she was startled awake, she couldn't fall back asleep.
Su Yue quickly comforted her softly, "Grandma, Godmother is much better now and won't faint so easily like before."
Grandma Yang said helplessly, "She won't faint anymore, but she's developed a chronic backache. Others can relieve the pain by heating coarse salt, putting it in a cloth bag, and applying it to their backs. But it doesn't work for your godmother. Even bending over is very difficult and awkward for her."
So just now, Grandma Yang was sitting in the main room watching Wang Jingyi help Su Yue squat down, vigorously scrub the bamboo mat, put the quilt sheet into the bucket, bend over and scrub it a few times, and then fetch a basin of water and carefully wipe it in the room step by step.
She couldn't help but whisper to Grandpa Yang that Wang Jingyi really treated Su Yue like her own daughter. Even though her back hurt terribly, she didn't even flinch when she did so much work that required bending over.
Wang Jingyi walked into the main room and saw Su Yue gently wiping away Grandma Yang's tears. She couldn't help but ask in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Just as Su Yue was about to speak to Wang Jingyi, Grandma Yang smiled and said, "I'm so happy that you and Guohua have found such a well-behaved and lovely granddaughter for us."
Wang Jingyi frowned slightly, looked at Grandma Yang, whose face was full of disbelief, and it was clear that she had thought of the past again.
She said somewhat helplessly, "Mom, let's not dwell on the past. Nobody wanted that situation to happen back then."
She herself couldn't understand it. She was standing by the bed, and in the short time it took to change her clothes, she suddenly lost consciousness, her head fell into the large wooden tub, and she almost lost her life.
Grandma Yang, having her thoughts exposed, simply said directly, "You almost drowned in the room because of my husband and me's mistake. How could I not think about it? I'll never forget it in my life. If your father and I had moved the water out in time after we finished bathing the two children, this wouldn't have happened. Your complexion was slowly improving, but because of this ordeal, your face has suddenly turned as bad as before."
This is what Yang Guohua looked like when he finally had time to go home after his child was born, almost a year later, and saw Wang Jingyi's sallow complexion.
But no one told him the real reason, so he always thought it was a problem he developed after giving birth.
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