Third Yang said proudly: “There is something wrong with Yan Bing, Ge, do you think the household registration is really his?”

Zhou Yu, “The household registration is real, but I don’t know if it’s his.”

Third Yang lowered his voice, “Ge, I’m going to test him again.”

“Um.”

Zhou Yu only reacted after Third Yang left. He did not refute Third Yang’s call of Ge. Did he already agree with Third Yang so much?

Yang Xi had just finished taking a shower when Zhou Xiaomei came running over with her hair dripping with water, her voice full of tears, “Sister-in-law, Mom has a fever.”

Yang Xi opened the door and walked quickly toward her mother-in-law’s room. Her mother-in-law was fine just now.

Zhou Yu happened to come back, and the couple entered the house. Yang Xi touched her mother-in-law’s forehead and found that she had a fever. “Go and get a doctor.”

Zhou Yu didn’t dare to delay, “I’ll go right away.”

Yang Xi knew about physical cooling, so she asked her younger sister to help, but her mother-in-law had already fallen asleep.

The caravan has had a hard time these days, with the refugees begging and cursing. Her mother-in-law had never experienced any of that before. Now that they had arrived in a relatively safe place, her heart was unbearable.

Zhou Xiaomei cried, “Sister-in-law, Mom will be fine, right?”

Yang Xi, “It will be fine, mother is so strong.”

Her mother-in-law survived the death of her father-in-law, and she would be fine now.

When the Wu family heard the news, Li Shi came over in person and asked, “Have you called a doctor?”

Yang Xi’s eyes were red. “My husband has gone out to invite one.”

Li Shi felt that the Zhou family had been through so many disasters. They had finally reached the safer Jingcheng, but Ye Shi got sick again. Seeing how aggressive she was, she said, “If you need any help, just ask.”

Yang Xi, “Thank you, sister-in-law.”

Time passed little by little, and Zhou Yu still didn’t come back.

Yang Xi was worried that her mother-in-law was thinking about Zhou Yu again. She had no strength left to hold on and leaned back in the chair, trying to relax. She felt discomfort in her lower abdomen.

The more Yang Xi thought about it, the more worried she became, and her face became paler and paler. She was afraid that something might happen to the child.

She hadn’t taken good care of herself since she was pregnant. She had been traveling all the way, worried and anxious, especially in the past few days when the journey was difficult, so she hadn’t had a good rest.

Zhou Xiaomei noticed that something was wrong with her sister-in-law, and her voice changed in anxiety, “Sister-in-law, what’s wrong with you?”

Brother Zhou, who was guarding outside the door, jumped in panic when he heard his little sister’s scream.

When Ziheng heard what his Gugu said, he thought something happened to his mother, and he couldn’t hold back his tears, “Mom, Mom.”

Zhou Yu came back sweating and heard his son calling for his mother. He thought something had happened to Yang Xi as well. He felt dizzy and only stopped falling down after Third Yang supported him.

Zhou Yu calmed down and ran over quickly.

Third Yang pulled the doctor, looking anxious, “Hurry up, I’m afraid something has really happened.”

Zhou Yu pushed the door open and saw his wife’s face was pale. She was covering her belly with one hand. Her face had lost all color.

Yang Xi was relieved to see Zhou Yu coming back, and her face looked better. “I’m fine, don’t worry.”

Zhou Yu looked at his mother, and then at his wife. He felt extremely upset and felt that he was useless.

The doctor followed in. The old doctor first glanced at Yang Xi, then looked at the lying woman, and said to Yang Xi: “Sit still and try not to move. Relax first.”

As he spoke, he walked towards the bed and motioned for a chair to be brought over.

The old doctor frowned as he felt the patient’s pulse, and quickly withdrew his hand, “Show me the prescription she has been taking.”

Zhou Yu recited the prescription. The old doctor pondered for a while and took out a pen and paper to write down the prescription. He wrote two prescriptions in total. “The top one is a prescription for nourishing the body, and the other one is a prescription for curing the disease.”

Zhou Yu asked, “How is my mother?”

The old doctor said, “Your mother has been suppressing heat in her body. It’s a good thing that it’s coming out this time. The main problem is that your mother is weak. I’ve seen you’ve been traveling all the way, so I won’t tell you to rest. You should leave Bozhou and rest for a while. If you don’t rest well, your mother’s life span will be shortened.”

Zhou Yu hurriedly said: “Please help my wife to diagnose her pulse.”

After feeling the pulse, the old doctor wrote a prescription, “You have signs of miscarriage. This is a medicine to stabilize the pregnancy.”

The old doctor wanted to tell her to worry less and not to worry too much about the pregnancy, but since the whole family was struggling to survive, he swallowed the words back.

Third Yang and Zhou Xiaodi sent the doctor back and brought back the medicine.

Yang Xi paused for a moment, “Where did you hire the doctor?”

Zhou Yu pulled a chair over and sat down. “I went to four clinics and they were all closed. I knocked at the door for a long time but no one opened it.”

He was really anxious at the time and continued: “Later, I knocked on the doors of residents on the street and spent a tael of silver to find out the addresses of several doctors. Third Yang and I went to several houses in a row before we could invite a doctor.”

The old doctor’s children and grandchildren drove them out, but the old doctor still had the heart of a doctor, so he left a jade pendant behind before bringing the old doctor back.

Yang Xi held Zhou Yu’s hand. She knew the helplessness of having no one to turn to for help. “I’m sorry.”

Zhou Yu shook his wife’s hand and said, “I’m so worried that something might happen to you.”

Yang Xi’s nose felt sour. “We will be fine. Look, no one in our family is missing.”

Qian Gongzi heard the news when he came back from running around for food and came over in person to inquire about the situation.

Zhou Yu noticed that Qian Gongzi’s face was not good, “Is buying food going smoothly?”

Qian Gongzi, “I didn’t buy much. Guess where I bought the food from?”

Zhou Yu, “From the prefectural government?”

Qian Gongzi was surprised. “How did you guess that?”

“We also inquired about the news.”

Qian Gongzi had something on his mind, and he wanted to leave Jingcheng immediately. “Have a good rest today. I’ll have someone send you some candy and eggs later.”

Zhou Yu, “Thank you.”

Sugar was very precious and was no longer available on the market in Jingcheng.

Third Yang inquired about the news and made some purchases at the same time, spending a lot of money to buy some coarse grains.

At night, Yang Xi drank some pregnancy-maintaining medicine, and her abdomen felt warm. She lay down on the bed and fell asleep. After a night’s rest, her complexion felt much better.

Ye Shi drank the medicine and her fever subsided. She forced herself to be energetic and said, “I’m fine. I’m sorry to have worried you.”

Zhou Yu, “Mom, when we leave Bozhou, we will find a place for you to recuperate.”

Ye Shi felt upset. She was a burden to the children. She really wanted to die. But she didn’t dare to look at her daughter-in-law’s belly. She already knew that her daughter-in-law almost had a miscarriage. She was afraid that she would die because of her and lose the baby. “Okay.”

The caravan left the city, and Yang Xi drank some pregnancy-preserving medicine. Maybe the baby knew it was not the time to be troubled, so the morning sickness disappeared.

Today Zhou Yu was sitting in his own carriage, and Yang Xi asked, “Did you give the money for the medicine to Third Yang?”

Zhou Yu, “He didn’t want it, and said that we are a family and don’t need to be polite to him.”

Yang Xi, “Has he completely joined our family?”

Zhou Yu snorted. Third Yang knew that he had hidden the jade pendant. “He is already in the same household register.”

Yang Xi smiled, but the smile didn’t last for a few seconds and then disappeared. “I don’t know how my mother and brother are doing.”

(End of this chapter)

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