As soon as Li Mingqing entered the room, he saw Old Lady Li grinning foolishly.
"Mom, is there anything good?"
"I heard from Jiaxue that everything went smoothly for you in the county. Can you become an official in the future?"
"Be an official?"
"Yes, you are capable and not ugly, so why don't you become an official?"
"Don't say that. Mom, I don't even think about becoming an official. I'm fine with a leisurely and comfortable life in the village."
Old Lady Li asked in disbelief, "You don't want to be an official?"
"Yeah, what's so good about being an official? In the village, the air is good and there's no worry about food and clothing."
“Everyone wants to be an official.”
"I don't want to be an official. I have to work myself to death every day. Mom, I just want to live in the village."
She sighed and said, "You're right. The people in the cowshed were either rich or noble before. Now that they've reached this point, their families are living well. Just do as you please."
Sun Jiaxue was worried that the mother and son would quarrel, so she breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Mingqing said, "Mom, maybe in another ten or twenty years I will become an official."
"Don't become an official just because I said a few words. If your father knew about this, he would probably blame me."
"What are you doing?"
"Your father always tells me that my children and grandchildren will have their own blessings, so I shouldn't dictate the lives of you brothers."
"Mom, you should be as relaxed as my dad."
Old Lady Li smiled and said, "I've also figured it out. The more we stay out of your business, the better our relationship will be."
Old man Li came out of the kitchen and shouted, "The water is boiling, put it in the pot."
Yang Daya and Li Lizhu each brought a basket of dumplings into the kitchen.
Sun Jiaxue put the peeled garlic cloves in a garlic mortar and handed it to Li Mingqing, asking him to make garlic paste.
Da Niu and the others came back from outside, each carrying a small bundle of firewood.
I didn't go to school this Saturday.
Zhang Lihua came back from working overtime at the textile factory. She wanted to come home to cook, but as soon as she got home, she was called over by Old Lady Li to eat.
The whole family had a dumpling feast together.
Yang Daya said, "I heard someone died at the Youth Institution."
"Human life?"
"Yes, Liu Jiajia is pregnant. We don't know whose child it is. We went to the hospital when we saw the bleeding."
"The Youth Institution has been peaceful for a while now, yet something like this happened."
"They are all young people full of vigor and vitality, it's normal."
"What's normal? It's normal. The people at the Youth Educatorate kept it a secret. Even the village head and the others don't know about it."
"Then how did you know that?"
"I saw it with my own eyes. There was a lot of blood. Wang Mudan even lied to me and said it was her period."
Old Lady Li said, "Don't tell anyone, or someone will blame you."
Li Mingqing felt that Yang Daya was indeed the gossip expert in the village, and there was nothing she didn't know.
The family chatted for a while and then left.
As soon as Li Mingqing and Sun Jiaxue returned to their new house, they saw Li Tiezhu coming over with the child in his arms.
"Help me take a look, it seems he has a fever."
He touched the child's forehead and found that he did have a fever.
Not only did he have a fever, but he also had shortness of breath.
The fever was probably caused by pneumonia due to drowning.
Li Mingqing placed the child on the table, unwrapped the blanket, and began acupuncture treatment.
Qin Chenglan was so distressed that she kept crying.
This child suffered a lot of pain when he was born in her womb.
Sun Jiaxue comforted her, "Children have strong recovery abilities, they'll be fine."
"It's all my fault for not taking good care of the child. If Old Lady Zhang hadn't secretly taken the child away, this wouldn't have happened."
"We can never guard against the evil hearts of others."
Li Tiezhu said, "Stop crying and don't disturb Ming Qing."
Such a young child had so many injections, and even though I knew it was for treatment, as a mother I still felt so distressed.
After a while.
Li Mingqing took out the silver needle and said, "It's basically fine."
"Why isn't the child awake yet?"
"He fell asleep and will wake up soon. The fever will go away soon."
The couple breathed a sigh of relief, fearing that something might happen to their child.
"Will the child be harmed by the fever?"
"No, the temperature wasn't particularly high. You found it in time, so there's nothing wrong."
However, many children become confused because of fever.
The originally good child became demented and stupid.
Half an hour later, the child's high fever really subsided, and only then did the two of them feel at ease and leave with the child.
More than an hour had passed in this round trip.
I have to go to Zhao Hongbin's father-in-law's house to see a doctor later.
I am really busy every day.
[Ding, save the child and you will be rewarded with ten kilograms of brown sugar, ten kilograms of fresh shrimp, and two carp]
It’s very good. There are not only shrimps but also fish to eat, and the nutrition is balanced.
"Wife, let's have steamed shrimp tonight to supplement our calcium."
Looking at the small half basin of prawns, Sun Jiaxue nodded blankly.
These shrimps are particularly hard to buy, and there are so many at home. It really shows how worldly-wise they are.
Every once in a while we would have hairy crabs or prawns, and life was extremely good.
"Wife, find two needles and clean the prawns."
Sun Jiaxue went to the inner room and took out the only two needles from the sewing basket.
Li Mingqing taught her how to pick out the shrimp thread.
She was used to sewing, so picking out the shrimp thread was no problem at all. The two of them cleaned all the prawns in just over ten minutes.
After finishing, the two went into the house to rest.
Ever since she became pregnant, Sun Jiaxue has never gotten enough sleep and has to catch up on one or two hours of sleep during the day.
"Brother Mingqing, I've gained a lot of weight from eating and sleeping all day long."
"No way, look at your wrist, it's so thin."
He said, stroking her wrist.
Sun Jiaxue smiled and said, "I've really gained weight. When I go out with my mom, many people say I've gained weight."
"It's normal for you to gain some weight. Look how thin you were before."
She was originally too thin, so even if she gained ten or twenty pounds, it would be considered normal weight.
He pinched the soft flesh on Sun Jiaxue's waist, making her move to the side of the bed and laugh happily.
But he was held in the waist and couldn't move at all.
"Brother Mingqing, I'm about to laugh until I'm out of breath."
Li Mingqing let go only after seeing her eyes sparkling with smile.
After a while, Sun Jiaxue's even breathing sound came from her head resting on his arm.
He got up quietly and closed the door softly.
Zhao Hongbin and Li Xiaolan were already waiting at the door.
Zhao Hongbin was holding a basket full of eggs, which his mother had asked him to carry.
"Mingqing, let's walk. Xiaolan wants to go back to her parents' home."
"Okay, just take a stroll, it's not far anyway."
What a coincidence that I ran into a few people from the Youth League Institute returning to the village at the village entrance.
Li Mingqing remembered the gossip that Yang Daya told him.
Liu Jiajia's face was pale and her lips were bloodless, and she really looked like she had suffered a miscarriage and lost too much blood.
Wu Shengli took the initiative to greet them and left in a hurry.
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