When A Ruan woke up in the morning, he felt dry mouth and a little dizzy. He looked around blankly and found himself lying on the bed with no one around him.
For a moment, I felt indescribably aggrieved and uncomfortable, and looked around the room unwillingly.
He vaguely remembered that his wife had returned.
When Wei Min came in with a kettle and lifted the curtain, she happened to meet A'ruan's searching gaze. She clearly saw that when her husband's eyes saw her, his eyes brightened up significantly and there was a smile at the corners of his eyes.
Wei Min felt sad. He put the kettle on the table, walked quickly to the bedside, put his palm on his forehead, and asked softly, "Where do you still feel uncomfortable?"
A Ruan pursed his dry lips, indicating that he was thirsty.
Wei Min just went out to boil a pot of hot water, fearing that A'ruan would have no water to drink when she woke up.
After mixing the hot water with the cold water, Wei Min took a sip first, and when he felt it was neither lukewarm nor hot, he passed it to A Ruan.
He hadn't eaten for a day and a night, and his lips had long been dry and white and flaky. If his lips touched hot water, it would probably hurt.
Wei Min half-hugged A'ruan up from the bed, let him lean his back against him, pulled the quilt over him tightly, and then held the bowl to feed him water.
Ah Ruan first took two small sips to moisten his lips before drinking in big gulps.
The warm water awakened the empty stomach, and Aruan suddenly felt a little hungry. He reached out to push Wei Min's wrist, but when he looked down, he saw a section of his snow-white arm exposed. He glanced at his chest again, and belatedly realized something:
He was not wearing a single piece of clothing...
Even though they had done the most intimate things countless times, A Ruan couldn't stop blushing. She retracted her arms and pulled the quilt to wrap herself.
Ah Ruan glanced at Wei Min, thinking that he was already so sick, why did his wife still take off his clothes...
Wei Min saw A'ruan's little action, and thought of the reason for his low fever. He felt as if someone had plucked his heart hard. He lowered his eyes and explained, "You were sweating all over last night. After I wiped your body, you felt hot again. That's why I didn't put clothes on you."
A Ruan pursed her lips. So that's how it is.
Wei Min gently touched the bruise on A'ruan's forehead and asked him, "How did you get this? And how did you get caught in the rain?"
A'ruan explained to Wei Min in a trivial way why he got caught in the rain, but he was vague about the fact that he fell because of a sore waist and dizziness.
Wei Min could now understand some simple sign language, and since A'ruan didn't mention anything specific about the fall, she didn't ask any further questions.
When the doctor came again, A Ruan was already dressed and half lying on the bed.
"It is true that those who survive a great disaster will be blessed in the future." When the doctor saw that A'ruan's fever had subsided, his eyes were filled with joy and he said, "He is lucky." He was able to survive such a fever.
"He'll be fine once the fever goes down. He's a little weak, and this serious illness has somewhat depleted his vitality. He needs to rest well for a while." After the doctor said this in front of the two of them, he called Wei Min out alone.
The doctor felt that this was a private matter between the couple and that he, an outsider, should not interfere. However, the person in the room was a patient he had seen, and he would feel unethical if he did not give a few words of advice.
"Your husband may have had a bad physique when he was young. His body is weaker than that of an average man and he is thinner. When you two have sex, try to be more restrained and don't ask for too much, or he won't be able to bear it."
The doctor spoke straight, ignoring Wei Min's ashamed expression, and said something that made her face turn from red to white and she was stunned, "Let me say one more thing, your husband's current body is not easy to conceive, and it is not suitable for pregnancy for the time being. Otherwise, the child may drain his energy, and then there is a high possibility that both of them will die."
Wei Min felt a chill running up from the soles of his feet to the top of his head as the doctor spoke. It was clearly the hottest time of the year, but he felt cold all over and chilled to the bone.
Wei Min couldn't help but clench his fingers hanging at his side and asked in a hoarse voice: "What if he recovers? Can he still get pregnant? Will the baby harm him?"
The doctor was packing his medicine box. He was stunned for a moment when he heard Wei Min ask these three questions. He looked up at the young man in front of him and suddenly smiled, "You are an interesting person, different from others."
"If other wives heard what I said, they would ask how to get pregnant and whether they can have children in the future. But you should ask me first whether having a child in the future will affect your husband."
The doctor simply put down what he was holding and said seriously, "You can't have children for at least two years. Take good care of yourself, and you can consider having children after two years. If your husband takes good care of himself, he will be no different from an ordinary person."
Wei Min then breathed a sigh of relief, took a step back, raised his hand and saluted the doctor respectfully, "I have something to ask you, please tell me everything."
Wei Min was not asking about anything else, but about the days when men and women could have sex, and which days were not allowed.
After seeing the doctor off, Wei Min stood at the door for a while before returning to the inner room.
Ah Ruan was still leaning against the bed waiting for her. When he saw her coming back, he couldn't help but raise his hand and asked:
——What else did the doctor say?
Wei Min sat on the edge of the bed as if nothing had happened. He raised his hand to tuck the strands of hair on the side of A Ruan's face behind her ear, and said half-seriously, "The doctor said you were too thin, and asked me to find a way to nourish your body."
Ah Ruan seemed to be relieved and shook his head with a smile:
——I only look thin, but I’m actually in good health.
Wei Min looked at A'ruan's gesturing hands, and thought of the doctor's words just now. His heart ached, and he couldn't utter a word. He could only lower his eyes and hum lightly.
Aruan's illness came quickly and went away quickly. He was out of bed within two days after his fever subsided.
Wei Min had been staying at home with him these past few days and had not returned to the academy. Ah Ruan thought about it and raised her hand to ask her while they were having dinner:
——When will you return to the academy? Will the teacher punish you for taking so many days off?
Wei Min was just about to tell him this, "I'm not going to live in the academy anymore. I'll go back tomorrow morning to bring my things back and live at home from now on."
A Ruan was stunned. It took two hours to walk from the academy to Qinghe Village and back. It would be too tiring to do this every day.
Wei Min poured a bowl of porridge and placed it in front of A'ruan. As if he had heard his thoughts, he lowered his eyes and said, "This time it was too dangerous... I'm worried about you being alone at home."
If the eldest sister had not cautiously asked A Luo to come and take a look this time, who knows what might have happened to A Ruan. Just thinking about this possibility would make Wei Min break out in a cold sweat and feel a sense of fear.
A Ruan pursed his lips, feeling a little sweet in his heart, but thinking that this would make his wife too hard, he couldn't help frowning.
He bit his lip and raised his hand to gesture:
——Then I’ll make a pair of shoes that will fit better for my wife tomorrow.
After saying that, he lowered his head and drank the porridge.
A'ruan actually preferred Wei Min to live at home, so when he heard her say that, although he was worried that his wife would have a hard time, he did not stop her from being nice to him.
Wei Min chuckled, leaned over to A Ruan's ear and whispered, "Do you miss me especially when I'm not around?"
A Ruan blushed and pretended not to hear.
…
Wei Min returned to the academy the next day, told Master Wei about the situation at home, and expressed his plan to live back home.
Master Wei frowned, with a look of disapproval on his face, "With a beautiful woman in your arms, not many people can resist this temptation. There are still two months before the provincial examination. The more critical the moment, the more you cannot slack off."
Master Wei would rather Wei Min stay in the academy so that he wouldn't have to go back and hang out with her husband and neglect his studies.
Wei Min was firm in his attitude. Other things were easy to talk about, but not this one. She didn't dare leave Aruan alone at home anymore.
Master Wei could only sigh in the end and allowed Wei Min to go back and live.
Wei Minyou remembered what the doctor said. It was not false when he told A'ruan that day that he was too thin and needed to be nourished. But this time, all the money the family usually saved was used to pay for A'ruan's medical treatment and medicine, so there was not much left.
When Wei Min was carrying his luggage back from the county, he somehow took a walk through the vegetable market.
When she arrived, the vegetable market was bustling with all kinds of shouting.
Wei Min looked around at the prices of pork, and then he remembered that Ah Ruan had only eaten meat twice in all the time since they got married, and he couldn't help but become curious.
Wei Min had beautiful handwriting, and remembering the writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone in her bag, she simply ordered a cup of tea at the teahouse, borrowed her table, and set up a stall to write letters for her family.
This kind of business doesn't just happen. Wei Min sat there all day and drank two cups of tea at noon. By the evening, he still didn't have enough money to buy half a pound of meat.
If it's any later, the pork shop will be closed.
Wei Min counted the money in his hand and put it in his pocket.
The tea shop owner had been watching Wei Min for the whole day. Seeing that she seemed to want to buy something but didn't have enough money, he pointed her in a direction and said, "There's a business unloading goods at the dock. The money is paid on the same day. Do you want to give it a try?"
She said this mostly with a joking tone. After all, scholars are very proud and feel that their hands holding a pen are extremely precious, so they would never be willing to do those heavy work.
Wei Min was stunned, thanked his boss sincerely, and went to the dock with his luggage.
In the county, there are many places to spend money and many places to make money. As long as you are willing to endure hardship and suffering, you will never starve to death.
Places like the dock are one of the places where people can avoid starving to death.
Wei Min walked towards the station carrying her bag, looking very scholarly, making people feel that she was a scholar who could only hold a pen. But when she changed into a coarse linen shirt, rolled up her sleeves, and threw the sack onto her shoulders, her burst of strength and tenacity made people look at her with admiration.
After unloading a whole shipload of goods, Wei Min finally gathered enough money to buy the meat.
The unloading boss walked past Wei Min when handing out money, glanced at her blistered hands, said nothing, but gave her a few more copper coins.
Wei Min changed back into his own clothes, washed his neck and face, and then picked up the bag he had placed aside. When the blisters on the palm of my hand touched something, it caused a piercing pain again.
Wei Min bought half a pound of pork and used the remaining money to buy some cakes before returning home in the dark.
As soon as they reached Qinghe Village, Wei Min saw someone waiting for her at the entrance of the village in the moonlight.
Smiling, I took a few quick steps and asked him, "Why are you here?"
Ah Ruan raised his hand and gestured:
——I saw you weren’t back yet, so I came out to take a look.
After he finished the gesture, he did not put down his hands and was about to take the bag from Wei Min's hand.
Wei Min dodged his hand that was holding the bag slightly and handed him the cakes he bought. "Try it while it's hot. Save the rest for next time. Don't stuff everything into A'Luo's mouth. You're too thin, so it's okay for him to eat less."
The author has something to say: Wei Luo: You are really my aunt..._(:зゝ∠)_
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