Li Mai smiled and said to him with certainty, "As long as you are willing to believe me, I guarantee that you will be able to stand up within a year."
Zhou Quan's eyes instantly reddened. "Within a year? Okay, I believe you!"
Although she was his newlywed wife whom he had just met, he could sense her sincerity and was willing to believe her.
Li Mai looked at him, smiled, and sighed inwardly. She thought that his family must be avoiding talking about his leg problem in front of him, otherwise he wouldn't be so insecure about standing up, and wouldn't even have the idea of not wanting to continue living and becoming a burden to his family.
Zhou Quan braced himself against the pillar with both hands, staring blankly at Li Mai opposite him, lost in thought.
At this moment, he felt a great deal of curiosity about her. Why would such an extraordinary girl marry into his family? Why would she marry him?
"When did you find out you were going to marry me?" Zhou Quan hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help asking the question that was on his mind. He felt that she might have been deceived into agreeing to the marriage. Otherwise, why would such an extraordinary girl be willing to marry a paralyzed man?
Moreover, he doesn't have a good reputation outside, not only because he's a cripple, but also because he has a daughter in name only.
Li Mai glanced at him, "Noon today!"
Zhou Quan was taken aback. "So you didn't agree to this marriage yourself?"
Li Mai looked at him and asked, "Does he not know about his own family's situation?"
"You don't know about my family situation?" she asked curiously.
Zhou Quan shook his head. "All I know is that my mother used the ten taels of silver that she gave me as compensation when the accident happened to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't have any expectations for the marriage, so I didn't ask about the specifics."
“I always felt that whoever married me would be ruining the girl’s life, and I wanted my mother to give up, but she wouldn’t listen to me. I was seriously ill a while ago, and my mother was probably afraid that I would suddenly die one day, so she thought of arranging a wife for me to bring good luck.”
After he finished speaking, he glanced at her apologetically.
"Oh, I see." Li Mai sighed knowingly. "It could be a coincidence, or it could be fate!"
“My family is a bit special. I don’t have parents. I grew up with my grandparents. After my grandfather passed away a few years ago, I lived with my grandmother. I usually earn money to support my grandmother by taking the children in the village to the mountains to dig for medicinal herbs.”
"Grandma probably thought I was working too hard and was afraid of wasting my youth, so she had suicidal thoughts, but I didn't even notice, let alone that she had arranged a marriage for me before she left. Three days ago, when I went home at noon, Grandma was gone. She took medicine and passed away. When I got back, there was still white foam around her mouth!"
As Li Mai recounted the original owner's experiences, her eyes reddened, and she felt sorry for the grandmother and granddaughter.
Grandma probably thought that because of her, her granddaughter was nineteen years old and no one had come to propose marriage. So, she took a gamble and decided to arrange a marriage for her granddaughter herself, so that she wouldn't become a burden to her.
Zhou Quan felt a pang of pain in his heart upon hearing this. So that's how it is. He thought to himself, "How could such a wonderful girl end up being married to a cripple like me?"
His heart trembled, and his hands shook slightly. In order not to let Li Mai notice anything amiss, he gripped the hem of his robe tightly with both hands, and dared not look at her.
I see, I see!
It turns out she is still in mourning, which explains why she doesn't wash up or change her clothes.
Suddenly, Zhou Quan felt extremely sad and impulsively wanted to ask her mother to give Li Mai back her freedom. However, she also felt that Li Mai no longer had a grandmother. If she left her home, where could she go? Who would be willing to protect her?
"Later I fainted, and I didn't expect that I would be unconscious for three days. When I woke up at noon today, my neighbor told me that my grandmother had been buried by the clan chief and everyone else. Because my grandmother committed suicide, the geomancer said that it would be bad for me. If she wasn't buried, I wouldn't wake up."
"So, this morning, they helped me bury my grandmother. When I woke up, the matchmaker came to the door. Only then did I realize how much my grandmother had done for me. Before getting into the sedan chair, I kowtowed to my grandmother first, and then I went back to get into the sedan chair."
After saying that, Li Mai sighed and looked at him, "I thought you knew about my family's affairs, which is why you arranged a sedan chair to pick me up after my grandmother's funeral today."
Zhou Quan looked at her, his eyes a little red. "I'm sorry, I didn't know. I guess Mother and Father didn't know either. If they had known, they would have gone there in person these past few days. I remember the marriage certificate was sent over four days ago, saying that it was done and that the official seal had been affixed to the government office."
"It seems that Aunt Matchmaker kept it a secret from both sides!" Li Mai said softly.
I suppose that must have been something Grandma had told me before.
Zhou Quan stared at her blankly, his mind in turmoil.
Li Mai told him about her situation, already thinking about how to help him get back on his feet, without noticing Zhou Quan's expression.
She sat cross-legged on the kang (a heated brick bed), closed her eyes, and focused intently on examining the situation inside the space. Fortunately, it looked the same as when she last entered it during the apocalypse.
The spring water was still bubbling away.
It seems I need to find an opportunity to get him some spiritual spring water to drink, one cup a day, to help his body recover to its original state.
Only then can we begin treating his leg.
After he goes to bed tonight, she still needs to check his waist and legs to finalize the condition of his legs.
Based on what she felt when she took his pulse, it was that his blood circulation in his lower body was poor. He hadn't moved around for two years, and she didn't know if his leg muscles had atrophied.
She guessed that he must have broken a bone somewhere, and the bone fragments might have compressed the nerves that control his legs, otherwise he would have no feeling in his lower body. In fact, the problem might be in his waist.
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