It's a relief that the house was sold to Ke Meiyu's family at a low price.
It was getting late, so they went together to the tenement building where the Song family now lived.
There are many tenement buildings in the city, which are temporary residences for families who have worked in their units for many years but have not been allocated welfare housing.
A large family, sometimes several or even a dozen people, crammed into a room of about ten square meters, with men, women, and children sleeping on a large communal bed with a curtain in the middle, still couldn't stop newborns from jumping out of the tenement building one after another.
Hang Yutong's family must be well-off. She looked around with the same curiosity as Ke Meiyu.
Yao Yiqin's cough has stopped, but she coughs occasionally out of habit.
Her complexion was no longer sickly pale; she was like a sapling that had just survived the winter, beginning to stretch its branches and sprout tender buds, teasing the cool morning light!
"Oh dear, Xiaoqin, your health has just started to improve, why are you busy again?" Song Yanbai pushed open the door and saw her wiping the furniture with a wet rag. His expression changed, and he snatched the rag away, unable to help but speak sternly.
"Your illness is caused by overwork. Why don't you take care of yourself? I can't watch over you every second, Xiaoqin. Leave these chores to me. Once you're fully recovered, I won't let you be a hands-off manager!"
Despite being scolded like that, Yao Yiqin wasn't angry. Instead, she smiled and tugged at his sleeve, saying with a hint of coquettishness, "I've been lying in bed for so long, my bones are all limp. This little bit of work won't tire me out at all. It's just to move my legs and feet, and to lift my spirits, which is good for my recovery, isn't it?"
After they finished speaking, they both looked at Ke Meiyu, wanting her to give her a judgment.
Ke Meiyu coughed softly, frowning seriously, and said, "You two are both right. Sister Qin, I just removed you from the list of those in the underworld yesterday, and you've already forgotten your own situation?"
"For your condition, you need to rest absolutely in the early stages to allow your body to recover slowly. After a week, you can gradually increase your activity level by getting out of bed."
"Sister Qin, you've been lying in bed for so long, seven more days won't make a difference."
"As long as you listen to me, I guarantee that once you recover, you'll be able to run and jump just like a normal person!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the couple looked at each other in disbelief.
This time, they dared not disregard Ke Meiyu's words, after all, Yao Yiqin was truly half recovered, feeling a comfort she had never experienced in many years.
"Yu Bao'er, what do you mean?" Yao Yiqin, having experienced life and death, was much calmer, but she still asked impatiently. "You know I have a deficiency and a heart condition I was born with, right?"
Ke Meiyu nodded and smiled easily, saying, "I know. I used silver needles to clear your meridians, and then supplemented it with a secret medicine to cleanse your heart and remove the impurities from your blood. Heart problems are no longer a problem!"
"The medicine I'm giving you includes not only medicine for treating tuberculosis in the later stages, but also some tonics to strengthen your body and replenish your vital energy, which can gradually eliminate your deficiencies."
"Then," Yao Yiqin glanced at her equally excited lover with a blush on her face, took a deep breath and asked through gritted teeth, "then Yu Bao'er, can we have our own child?"
"My previous illness wasn't hereditary, was it?"
She used to be physically weak and couldn't handle the burden of pregnancy, so they had long ago prepared themselves to never have children. Even though they loved each other, they were always envious when they saw other people's children making a ruckus!
Ke Meiyu raised an eyebrow, picked up an apple from the table, handed one to Hang Yutong, and crunched on it: "Sister Qin, you're in great health in every way, it's just that you didn't take good care of yourself in the womb and were born prematurely, which is why you have these problems."
"In the future, you will not only be able to have children, but after taking my medicine, you may even have a baby in pairs. However, you must remember that all medicines have side effects. You can only have children three months after you have completely stopped taking the medicine."
"You've all suffered from this before, so I don't need to emphasize it again, right?"
They nodded repeatedly, ignoring Ke Meiyu and the other person present, holding hands tightly and gazing at each other with tears in their eyes.
They really met a benefactor. Yesterday they were struggling in hell, unable to see the light of day, but today the sun is shining brightly and the future is promising!
"Xiaoqin, hurry up and sit on the bed and chat with the two girls. I'll go prepare the food!" Song Yanbai smiled and pressed her down on the bed. He nodded to Ke Meiyu and the other girl, then took the chicken, fish, eggs, and meat and went out.
Hang Yutong looked at Ke Meiyu with envy, then at Yao Yiqin, "Yu Bao'er and Sister Qin are so lucky to have met such good men who like you."
"Sigh, why can't I meet the right men? The better ones around me are like my brother-in-law, they're all chauvinistic, rigid and inflexible, and have absolutely no sense of romance."
“He either beats women, or he drinks heavily, or he’s always working outside and never home. I’ve lost all hope for marriage,” she sighed.
Yao Yiqin smiled and said, "Xiaotong is good-looking and has a stable job, so she will definitely be able to find a suitable partner."
"You don't need to be too anxious. Your destined partner will come eventually."
Ke Meiyu and the other girl sensed something in her words and looked over expectantly, clamoring to hear her story with Brother Song.
Yao Yiqin pursed her lips, slightly shy, but spoke frankly.
Although their love story was relatively smooth, from meeting to getting to know each other and falling in love, Yao Yiqin's sudden serious illness cast a shadow of sadness over their love, making it all the more precious.
After she finished speaking, Yao Yiqin and Hang Yutong both looked at Ke Meiyu, who was eating an orange.
"Yu Bao'er, tell us about you and your boyfriend, okay?"
Women are inherently romantic and have a thing for good looks. Seeing Ke Meiyu and Qin Yuanjiu, such a well-matched couple, they naturally fill their impoverished spiritual world like something out of a novel or idol drama.
Ke Meiyu almost choked on her own.
She swallowed the orange in her mouth, lowered her eyes, and then said softly with a blush on her face, "Qin... Ninth Brother is a bad element who was sent down to our village from Kyoto."
“That time I went to the reed marshes with my nephews to collect duck eggs, and I heard him calling for help. Anyone who saw that situation couldn’t just ignore it, right?”
"So I jumped into the water and saved him. Who knew he would want to repay me with his body..."
"Alas, it just so happened that I was jilted at that time. My family saw that he was a good person and that he was sincere in his feelings for me and would marry anyone but me, so they agreed to the marriage."
"So now, if I tell him to go east, he will absolutely not go west."
Ke Meiyu was laughing smugly when she turned her head and saw Qin Yuanjiu standing at the door with a cold expression.
She greeted him with a sheepish smile, feeling guilty: "Ninth Brother, weren't you out running errands?"
“But I didn’t say I wouldn’t come for lunch,” he raised an eyebrow and smiled faintly. “Oh dear, I forgot, I need to ask my savior if I can have lunch.”
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