Chapter 8 Fainting
Su Ruojin asked her to stay in confinement for two months.
"How can that be?" Cheng Yingzhen saw her daughter running around all day, and she became darker and thinner.
Su Ruojin: ...
How come she is dark and thin? She just got taller due to exercise, she can't be dark. She just moved her mouth, and Shu Tongshu did the rest. She is still the white and tender little baby.
"How come you haven't lost weight? You get up before dawn every day to fry...dough sticks. Even adults don't cook like you." Her child has a miserable life. He has to take charge of the family at the age of six. It's all because of her, as a mother, being useless.
As she spoke, Cheng Yingzhen began to cry.
Su Ruojin: ...
She didn't feel miserable at all! In ancient times, there were no electronic devices. People went to bed at night and got up at five in the morning, which was not too early! Besides, she was not a real child. She really wanted to find something to do. She would not be idle and could earn some money to supplement the family income. It was a win-win situation!
Su Ruojin hurriedly comforted her frail mother. Life had been difficult in the past few years, and she kept giving birth to babies, so her body was really drained. It is said that confinement can nourish the body, so she should take advantage of the confinement period to heal her body.
"That won't do either." Cheng Yingzhen struggled to leave the bedroom. She couldn't let a six-year-old child serve her. She was her daughter, not her slave. She had to go to the kitchen to light the fire and cook. Taking care of the family was her responsibility as the housewife.
Cheng Yingzhen couldn't bear to see her child suffer, so she insisted on going out. The Su brother and sister pulled her arms one by one and wouldn't let her leave the bedroom.
The children were sensible, and Cheng Yingzhen couldn't bear to let her eight-year-old eldest son and six-year-old daughter be in charge of the household, so she went to the kitchen. However, just as she reached the door and was about to lift the door curtain, she suddenly felt dizzy and fell to the ground. Su Anzhi was so scared that he quickly turned sideways and supported his fainted mother with his back.
Su Ruojin also hugged Cheng Yingzhen tightly as she was about to slide to the ground, "Mom..."
The brother and sister shouted anxiously. Three-year-old Su Sanlang Su Ganzhi, who was teasing his younger brother, turned pale with fright and looked at his older brother and sister.
"Forrest Gump, quickly go next door and call for help." The brother and sister were too small to move their unconscious mother, so Su Ruojin quickly asked her three-year-old brother to go get help.
Seeing his mother’s closed eyes and frighteningly pale face, the three-year-old Su Ganzhi burst into tears, “Mom… Mom…” He didn’t even know how to ask for help.
He cried, and his younger brother Su Chengzhi, who was just one month old, also cried.
Suddenly, the bedroom was in chaos.
This won't do. Su Ruojin hurriedly tried to think of a solution. Suddenly, she found her mother right at the doorstep. She pursed her lips and realized she had an idea. She squatted on the ground with her hands along her mother's waist and put her legs against the door frame so that she would not slide down for the time being.
"Brother, hold on for a while, I'll be back soon."
After that, she ran out of the yard like the wind and went to the next door to ask for help, "Aunt Xue, Aunt Feng..." After knocking for half a minute and hearing no sound from inside the door, she ran to the right and knocked on the door and shouted, "Aunt Yang, Aunt Zhang..." There seemed to be no movement either.
Just as Su Ruojin was about to go back to her left neighbor and knock on the door, the door opened and the old man guarding the Xue family came out in his outer robe and asked, "Second Madam of the Su family, what are you doing..."
"My mother fainted. My brother and I can't move her. Can you please ask Aunt Feng to help me?"
Mother Feng is the maid of the Xue family.
It turned out that he had encountered a difficult problem. The old man hurriedly said, "You go back first, I will go and call Mother Feng over right away."
"Thank you, old man." Su Ruojin was about to enter the courtyard when she saw the door to the right house open. Madam Yang and Aunt Zhang lifted their skirts and walked out of the courtyard. "Mrs. Jin, what happened to your mother?"
"Mom fainted." Su Ruojin's tears couldn't stop flowing in the cold wind.
Madam Yang's expression froze. She hurried to the Su family's house and said to the steward beside her, "Aunt Zhang, please invite a doctor quickly."
"Yes, ma'am." Aunt Zhang turned around and went to make arrangements.
With the help of an adult, Su Ruijin finally felt relieved and hurriedly took Madam Yang and Mrs. Feng who had rushed over in.
Half an hour later, the doctor took her pulse and gave her acupuncture. Cheng Yingzhen weakly opened her eyes and asked, "What's wrong with me?"
At this moment, Cheng Yingzhen's face was pale, her breath was weak, and her whole body was haggard, like a young woman of 27 or 28 years old, or even 37 or 38 years old.
Madam Yang shook her head and sighed, then sat down at the head of her bed. "The doctor said that you are seriously deficient in Qi and blood, and you should not sit or stand for long periods of time. You should stay in bed and rest."
It's just a baby, how could this happen? Cheng Yingzhen didn't believe it: "The first three were all fine."
"You, you..." Mrs. Yang didn't know what to say and looked at the doctor.
The doctor had just finished writing the prescription and held out his hand, "Who is it for?"
Su Ruojin took it and said, "Doctor, my mother..."
The doctor said, "It's nothing serious. You just didn't grow up well. You need to rest and recuperate. Take the prescription I prescribed and eat some nourishing food. You should be fine in two or three months."
"What kind of food supplement do you need?"
The doctor twirled his beard and listed several dietary therapy recipes, mainly longan, red beans, red dates, angelica and other ingredients, all of which are for replenishing qi and blood.
She nodded. "Thank you, doctor. The consultation fee is..."
"Half a penny."
Su Ruojin took out some silver from her waist pouch and said, "It's a pity for you to be old."
The doctor was polite, gave a few more instructions, and then left.
Madam Yang was secretly surprised to see the six-year-old girl taking out silver to pay for the medical fee. Dr. Su's family didn't even have a maid, so it should be difficult for them to live. But if you say it's difficult, it's really puzzling that a six-year-old child could casually take out half a penny.
Although they were puzzled, since there was nothing wrong, Madam Yang and Mrs. Feng from the Xue family left the Su family together.
In the bedroom, Su Ruojin tightly grasped her mother's thin and cold hand and said with tears in her eyes, "Mom, you have to listen to the doctor, rest well, and eat more."
Cheng Yingzhen reached out and touched her daughter's little face. "There are so many things to do inside and outside. How can I let a child like you shoulder all the responsibilities? Besides..." She suddenly started coughing and couldn't breathe. Su Ruojin quickly stroked her chest.
Suddenly, Su Ruojin seemed to understand why her mother didn't take good care of herself after childbirth. She was worried and anxious, and felt depressed. She always wanted to get better quickly so that she could take care of the household chores. But...
Su Ruojin waited until Cheng Yingzhen's breathing became smooth and she stopped coughing before she wiped her tears and said, "Mom, don't worry. My brother and I are both grown up. We can cook for three meals a day. Isn't one meal too many?"
That's true.
Cheng Yingzhen nodded with relief.
"And..." Su Ruojin pulled the purse off her waist and untied the silk rope. "There's nearly two taels of silver alone!" She showed it to her mother like she was holding a treasure.
Cheng Yingzhen smiled, but it was very forced.
Su Rujin took a breath, jumped off the bed, ran out of the bedroom, and did not forget to call her elder brother.
What is my daughter doing? When Cheng Yingzhen was really wondering, Su Ruojin and Su Dalang pushed and pulled, and finally got a big wooden box to her mother's bed. When they opened the lid, they found a box full of copper coins.
"Mother, guess how many are here?"
Cheng Yingzhen was so shocked that she sat up, "Ajin, where did you get so much money?"
Su Ruojin smiled and said to Su Dalang: "Brother, you say——"
(End of this chapter)
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