Chapter 62

"When will he wake up?"

Zhang Fangyuan went to the house again and again to check. Every time he entered, Xu He was still asleep. Fortunately, his body no longer had an abnormal fever, but he was still unconscious. It's no wonder that he was anxious. Xu He seldom stayed in bed, and even when he did, he would wake up. This sleep was like a faint. If he hadn't seen a doctor, he would have been furious.

It rained all night yesterday, and the dark clouds only dispersed near noon. There was a smell of rain outside. The river was flooded yesterday, submerging two plots of crops near the river. There were many large water ants in the flooded river. Their transparent wings were wet and they could not fly. They were everywhere.

There were strong winds and heavy rains, and many houses in the village were damaged. Either the rear eaves collapsed or the roofs were leaking, and the houses were full of water like a water curtain cave.

In short, the whole village was in chaos early in the morning. People were either busy repairing the houses, or rushing out with their bamboo hats to check the rice fields and crops. Zhang Fangyuan also rode his horse to the city early in the morning. When he passed by the village, the villagers thought that his family had also suffered.

He should go to his uncles' and aunts' houses to see if there were any victims of the disaster, but his heart was on Xu He and he didn't want to go anywhere.

Not to mention going out on his own, he wouldn't even move even if someone called him.

"Don't worry, the doctor said it's fine and he should wake up soon."

Xu He faintly heard voices outside the house. His throat was so dry that it seemed like it was about to smoke. He subconsciously opened his mouth, thinking that it would feel better if he exhaled a few breaths into his mouth, but he felt just as uncomfortable. He couldn't open his eyes yet, and he frowned and shouted "Water".

He finally opened his eyes when he heard the sound of ceramic bowls colliding. At a glance, I saw a tall figure sitting next to me, his chest heaving rapidly, as if he had just jumped in from outside.

At this moment, she was holding a bowl of medicine with a spoon and was about to feed it to him. She seemed to have heard his request again, and hurried to the bedside table to change the porridge water. As a result, she was too anxious and almost knocked over the two bowls.

I hurriedly cleaned up the place in a panic. It took him a while to reach out the spoon, but then he realized that the person was still lying down and couldn't feed him. He quickly put the bowl down, carefully protected Xu He's waist, and picked him up to sit up and lean on him.

Xu He laughed: "Why are you so stupid?"

As the words left his mouth, he realized that his voice was unusually hoarse.

Zhang Fangyuan heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that everyone could talk. He then adjusted the bowl and scooped a spoonful of porridge with little soup over it: "Open your mouth and eat something. You have slept for most of the night."

Xu He first ate a mouthful of porridge and rice, then frowned: "How could this be?"

Zhang Fangyuan suddenly couldn't suppress a smile on his face, and his eyes bulged, making him look more like a fool.

"I got up this morning to go to the stall, and I saw your face was red and you looked like you were burning all over, so I called a doctor right away."

Xu He said that he felt groggy and dizzy. It turned out that he was really sick with a fever. Now his body felt like he had fallen into the water and was fished out last night. He felt weak all over, and his hands and feet were weak and he couldn't use any strength.

Seeing Zhang Fangyuan like this, his voice was a little muffled, as if he was sick because he didn't listen and wanted to cool down: "I'm like this, and you're still laughing."

Zhang Fangyuan wanted to laugh, he even wanted to come over and kiss Xu He: "The doctor took your pulse and found that you have a fever and are pregnant."

Xu He was stunned for a moment, and even stopped eating his porridge. He asked again in disbelief: "What did the doctor say?"

"They said you were pregnant! For over a month!"

Zhang Fangyuan showed his white canine teeth and patiently said it again with a whole smile on his face.

"How could this happen? Was the diagnosis wrong?"

"I hired a doctor from Shencaotang, and he couldn't even tell if you were pregnant. You've been too worried and anxious these days, and haven't taken care of yourself, so you fell ill."

Zhang Shiyue walked into the room and took a look at Xu He, with a smile in her eyes: "Yes. It's not easy to tell that a boy is pregnant like a girl. You didn't react much, so I guess you didn't think about it."

Xu He belatedly touched his flat abdomen and found that he had gained a little weight. Since he had been gaining weight compared to before, not only in his abdomen but also on his face and body, he did not think much about it. But if I think about it carefully, there are still some symptoms, and I always feel uncomfortable with chest tightness and shortness of breath.

Zhang Fangyuan watched the man lower his head to look at his stomach, his eyes moving around, and he didn't know what he was thinking. He put down his bowl and brought the medicine: "You have to drink this. The doctor prescribed it today. You should rest for two days and recover from your illness."

"But over at the tea stall..." He looked at Zhang Shiyue who had returned.

"Which is more important, your health and children or business. The tea stall is fine, but the village is in a mess, so let's close it for a day." Zhang Fangyuan made all the arrangements, with his whole heart tied to his wife and children.

Xu He thought about it and it made sense. He was a little weak right now, and the fetus hadn’t been firmly seated in the first three months. He couldn’t be careless and had to watch over it carefully.

He felt it was miraculous. He had gone to bed early yesterday because he was not feeling well, but when he woke up he received good news. He was a little unresponsive in his heart, and even after being helped by Zhang Fangyuan to lie down again, his mind was still wandering.

Zhang Fangyuan carefully covered Xu He with a thin blanket. It was still a bit cold in the wind after the rain.

"I'm relieved that you woke up. It rained heavily yesterday and everything is under repair. I have to go check on Fourth Uncle. You just stay in the house and rest."

Xu He nodded obediently.

Zhang Fangyuan went out. The messy scene after the rainstorm, which was originally disheartening to look at, suddenly made him feel a little relieved and he felt that the air after the rain was especially cool.

Looking at the golden osmanthus in the yard that had been weathered by a night of wind and rain, many of its flowers had been knocked off, but few of its leaves had fallen. He squatted over and filled the soil with some loose soil, then took two egg shells from the kitchen and covered the soil with them: "Let them grow well, so that my child can hang on it and shake the osmanthus flowers when he can run."

"How's your head? Is it blown down or leaking?"

When Zhang Fangyuan arrived at Zhang Shiyuan's house, he saw his fourth uncle climbing onto the roof from a distance. The branches that were broken by lightning yesterday were blown onto the roof, and two holes were poked in the roof of the thatched shed, which had been leaking all night.

We first used a basin to collect the water, but it rained heavily and soon it was full of water, so we changed to a bucket, and only then did we get through until dawn.

In fact, it's not just Zhang Shicheng's family, many families in the village are like this. Zhang Fangyuan was the only one who felt safe and secure in his bedroom. The bedroom had been carefully renovated, otherwise he would not have been able to sleep well. There were leaks in the central hall and the side rooms, but they were not serious, so he fixed them in the morning.

Zhang Fangyuan put his hands behind his back and shook his head.

"Why are you so silly and happy? You know how much crops have been damaged. I saw you crying and running past several families. If you do this, people will say you are gloating over the misfortune of not planting crops."

"Is it that obvious?" Zhang Fangyuan touched his face and said, "Although we don't grow any crops at home, we do grow vegetables. My second aunt went to check this morning and saw that all the green onions that were growing well were blown down."

"Your little thing is nothing."

Zhang Fangyuan climbed up to the roof to help his worried-looking fourth uncle, and couldn't help but say, "There's a happy event at home."

"What good news can there be?"

Zhang Fangyuan didn't answer, he just kept smiling. Zhang Shicheng stopped and looked at the idiot for a while before pointing his index finger at Zhang Fangyuan: "Got it!"

"Um?"

"Okay, okay, this is really a good thing!" Zhang Shicheng reacted and immediately became happy: "Let's do it tomorrow... Don't wait until tomorrow, let's go to your parents' grave later this afternoon to burn some incense. Your parents should be relieved if they are still alive."

Everyone in the entire village looked like undried corn that had been soaked in rain water, smelling musty and musty. Only Zhang Fangyuan was cheerful.

He did not go to the city to set up a stall to do business, but instead carried a wooden barrel and fishing net to the riverside which was swollen after the heavy rain to catch fish.

It is easy to catch fish in a swollen river. If it hadn't destroyed the crops and houses due to the heavy rain, there would be many people fishing by the river. This was a good opportunity for Zhang Fangyuan, a man with nothing to do, as he could carry the fish home in buckets.

That would have been fine, but he even went around the village looking for old chickens and dumped them in the yard. Every time I pass by the door at mealtime, I smell the aroma of meat. Today it’s fresh bone soup, tomorrow it’s tofu and crucian carp…

The people in the village couldn't figure out how this family had made a fortune, but the perceptive wives and husbands figured out immediately that they were going to have a baby.

After Xu He was kept in the house for two or three days, his illness was completely cured. He had good food and drink every day, and he felt like he was going to swell up.

He was in good health that day, and he finally went out after taking Zhang Fangyuan to buy some livestock, but his mother came to his house as if she was in a hurry.

"Oh, look at all the old hens in this yard. They must have spent a lot of money on them. But none of them can lay eggs. This man just doesn't know how to choose when buying things."

As soon as Liu Xianglan entered the house, she was attracted by the clucking chickens in the yard. She pouted and teased them for a while, then threw a hen in her hand into the yard: "You raised it when you were in the house before, now I'm raising it here with you. It's enough for you to eat it during the confinement period after the baby is born."

Plus, there's a basket of eggs.

Xu He's eyebrows twitched slightly, and the stingy man also plucked his feathers. This is really unprecedented. It seems that his mother really listened to what his aunt said before.

"Please take this basket of eggs to your second sister. I saw she has lost a lot of weight recently." He kept the chicken.

Liu Xianglan sat with her legs crossed at Zhang's house. This was the first time she came here since Xu He got married. "That's good. The Fei family received a reward from the court. We were looking forward to producing grain from those acres of good land, but this heavy rain destroyed most of it."

"Alas, if your second sister had been pregnant earlier like you, she wouldn't have been so tired. It's a pity that Fei Lian only comes back three or two times a month, and..." The weak scholar didn't seem to be very capable.

After saying that, he sighed again.

Xu He couldn't say much. This kind of thing depends on fate and there is no need to rush it.

Liu Xianglan muttered a lot. First, she told him to ask Zhang Fangyuan to be more frugal. She said that if she bought so many things while she was pregnant, she might raise the baby too big and make it difficult to give birth. Then she told him to ask Zhang Shiyue to do things. Since he was eating and living for free at home, he should ask him to do more things.

Xu He heard the noise in his ears: "We have fish for lunch. I am going to cook. The butcher should be back soon. Do you want to eat and go back?"

Liu Xianglan was quite excited after listening to what happened above, and when she heard that Zhang Fangyuan was coming back, she said, "Forget it, I still have to go back to cook for your father, and there is a lot of work to do at home. Didn't the butcher catch a lot of fish? I'll take one back for your father to eat."

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