"Then please drive slowly." Yang Liu sent Yun Qiao and Feng Juan to the door.
Yun Qiao nodded: "Well, we are leaving, you can go back."
Feng Juan turned on the flashlight to illuminate the road beneath their feet. The two of them supported each other and returned home in the rain.
Yun Qiao took off his rain boots and put on home slippers.
Feng Juan put the medical kit back in its place and poured a glass of water for Yun Qiao. Seeing her yawn, she said, "Drink some hot water to drive away the cold. It's still early in the morning. Go back and get some sleep."
"good."
Yun Qiao drank half a glass of water in small sips, solved his personal problem with a spittoon, then took off his shoes and went back to bed.
She was six months pregnant, her belly was already noticeably bulging, and she began to feel short of breath when lying flat. Recently, Yun Qiao had been sleeping on her side.
But lying on her side for a long time was very tiring for her waist, so Feng Juan sewed a long small pillow for her to support her waist so that her waist would not hurt when she lay on her side.
Yun Qiao lay on his side with a small pillow, clenching his fists and lightly hitting his lower back.
Feng Juan came in from outside, saw this, stepped forward and asked softly, "Are you tired?"
Yun Qiao nodded, "A little bit."
Bending over and pinching the spine for a long time will stretch the muscles in the waist and back. Although it doesn’t hurt, it will be very sore.
Feng Juan said, "Go to sleep, I'll massage you."
"Well, thank you, Mom." Yun Qiao yawned, closed his eyes, and fell asleep in a short while.
Feng Juan gently massaged Yun Qiao's waist. The sound of rain outside the window gradually became smaller, and Yun Qiao's breathing became even. Feng Juan stopped what she was doing.
She stood up, pulled the quilt over Yun Qiao's belly, and then sat quietly by the bed, looking at her daughter's sleeping face.
The long separation of eighteen years made her completely miss her daughter's early childhood. The image of her daughter when she was just a newborn was already blurred in her mind. She had never seen her daughter babbling or toddling, and she had no idea how her daughter spent her infancy and childhood.
The first time I saw her, she already looked like a graceful young girl.
She had missed a lot of her daughter's life, and time was passing by quickly, and soon her daughter would become a mother too.
Feng Juan looked at her daughter tenderly, feeling deeply moved.
*
After tossing and turning for more than half an hour at night, Yun Qiao fell asleep again and slept soundly.
She slept until dawn, and when she woke up, she heard the sound of rain outside the window and the voices of her neighbor Yuan Jiahui and her mother talking and chatting.
Yun Qiao got up, changed his clothes, and solved a personal problem at the spittoon in the room before slipping out of the room in his slippers.
Yuan Jiahui saw Yun Qiao and smiled: "Yun Qiao is up."
Yun Qiao nodded: "Good morning, Sister Jiahui."
Feng Juan said, "Wash your face, brush your teeth, and eat. Jiahui made some candied date rice dumplings and sent two over. Try them."
Yun Qiao praised her: "Sister Jiahui, you have such a skillful hand."
"It's all learned bit by bit." Yuan Jiahui smiled. "My Weijun is a glutton. He only cares about eating and wants to eat everything. In the end, he has trained my cooking skills. This time, he insisted on eating zongzi. I had no choice but to find some reed leaves and make a few zongzi for him to satisfy his craving. Otherwise, he would nag me about it every day for half a month without stopping."
"Then we've taken advantage of Weijun this time." Yun Qiao smiled. "I remember Weijun likes the canned orange syrup from the Xixi Food Factory. My uncle happened to send a few cans over a couple of days ago. Sister Jiahui, bring one for Weijun when you return to Xixi."
Yuan Jiahui didn't refuse, she agreed with a smile and said, "Then he will be so happy."
As Yun Qiao was washing her face, Yuan Jiahui said, "By the way, last night, I thought I heard Xiao Yang, the one who babysat Cui Xuezhi's child, knocking on your door. What's going on? What happened again?"
Yun Qiao said calmly, "It's nothing. The child has a slight fever. Please let me come over to help take a look."
"It's the middle of the night and it's raining. Can't you wait a while? Or go to the hospital? You have to rush to someone's house to call for help, letting others take the risk." Yuan Jiahui said angrily.
After saying that, he glanced at Yun Qiao again and sighed, "You are too good-tempered. It's raining so hard, and they don't want to go to the hospital to see a doctor in the rain, but you are willing to go out in the rain to see a doctor. The road is so slippery, and it's so dangerous for you to go out with a big belly."
"It's mainly for the child," Yun Qiao explained. "The child was born prematurely and was weak from the beginning, with a high fever. I'm worried that if the fever persists for a long time, he'll have sequelae. The child is pitiful. If it were any other situation, I wouldn't risk going out."
"You're kindhearted," Yuan Jiahui sighed. "Others might not be willing to take this risk. But you have to be careful next time. The roads are slippery in the rain, and you're heavy, so don't fall again. Why is this child so weak? How was he born prematurely? Isn't Cui Xuezhi a lesson for us?"
Yun Qiao knew that Yuan Jiahui was completely thinking about her, and she also appreciated it. She smiled and said, "Sister Jiahui, thank you for thinking about me so much. I will be more careful in the future."
"I'm glad you know."
It was time for dinner at Yun Qiao's house, and Yuan Jiahui didn't stay long. She chatted for a few more minutes and said, "This rain keeps falling, and I don't know when it will stop." She sighed and left Yun Qiao's house, taking with her a can of orange syrup that Yun Qiao had given her.
Feng Juan took her words to heart and had trouble eating.
Yun Qiao touched her hand worriedly: "Mom..."
Feng Juan forced a smudge and said, "I don't know where your brother is now, and whether he is safe."
After Feng Juan finished speaking, Yun Qiao also fell silent.
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