Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11776

Yang Ruoqing never expected that a few days later, Tuantuan recovered, but Yuanyuan and Nini both fell ill at the same time.

Yuanyuan's symptoms are exactly the same as Tuantuan's; both have fever, and the fever is persistent and recurring.

Nini doesn't have a fever, but she has a cough.

Coughing is very harmful to such a young child. It can prevent her from sleeping well, eating properly, becoming lethargic, crying, and irritable.

"Qing'er, don't be too anxious. It's not unusual for children to go through fire seasons when they're young. You and Da'an and Xiao'an went through the same thing when you were little, one got better and another took over."

Sun and Yang Huazhong came to pick up Tuantuan to stay at their home for a while. Sun held Tuantuan in her arms, while Yang Huazhong carried a bundle containing Tuantuan's clothes for the past few days, his favorite toys, and some snacks.

"Mother, I'm not in a hurry. I just feel sorry for the children who are so young and suffering."

Yang Ruoqing gently stroked her son, who had just recovered from his illness and had lost weight, and instructed him, "You should stay at Grandma's house for the next few days. Don't go out to play in the yard, and don't come home. Your younger brother and Nini are sick, and I'm afraid they might pass on their illness to you."

Tuantuan, half-understanding, was being held by Madam Sun, but her fingers were tightly gripping Yang Ruoqing's sleeve as she asked hesitantly, "Mother, you won't abandon Tuantuan and forget about her, will you?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Ruoqing felt a lump in her throat and almost burst into tears.

"Silly child, you are my child, this is your home, how could I abandon you?"

"But when I was sick, Yuanyuan and Nini weren't sent away. Why am I the one who has to be sent away just because they were sick?"

“Tuanbao, you’re not being sent away. Your grandparents are taking you there for a short stay. You’ll be back in a few days,” Sun Shi said, helping to coax Tuanbao.

However, Tuantuan clung to Yang Ruoqing's sleeve the whole time, her little face looking worried and insecure.

Yang Ruoqing sighed softly. She knew he wouldn't understand terms like cross-infection or repeated infection.

So she took Tuantuan from Sun's arms, held him in her arms, sat down on the stool next to him, and said, "Mommy makes a promise with you, okay? You'll stay at Grandma's house these few days, and Mommy promises you that I'll come over every day to have lunch and dinner with you, and I'll even put you to sleep..."

As long as the child can see you every day and knows that even if you move to a different place, his mother will still be by his side, his anxiety and unease will gradually dissipate...

...

Yang Ruoqing personally took Tuantuan to the backyard of her parents' house next door and settled Tuantuan in the room where she had lived before her marriage.

So many years have passed, and even though her new home and her parents' home are separated by only a courtyard wall, Yang Ruoqing has always kept that boudoir in her parents' home.

Even though the house has been repaired several times over the past twenty years, it has always been kept intact, and all the furnishings inside are exactly the same as when she was still a young woman waiting to be married.

Yang Ruoqing put Tuantuan on her bed, lay down beside him and told him stories from her childhood. As she talked, Tuantuan fell asleep.

After being sick, the child was much weaker than before. Looking at her sleeping face, Yang Ruoqing gently touched it, but still had to get up and leave.

Because there are two younger children in the family who are sick...

"Qing'er, you can rest assured to take care of Yuanyuan and Nini. Your dad and I will take care of Tuanbao."

Sun walked over, glanced at her sleeping grandson on the bed, and whispered to Yang Ruoqing.

Yang Huazhong didn't go anywhere, and he had no interest in working in the fields. He just stood under the eaves at the door.

I was smoking a pipe earlier, so I didn't go inside, afraid the smell would bother the child.

Sun turned her head and glanced at Yang Huazhong at the door behind her, then said to Yang Ruoqing, "When I'm not cooking, your father and I will stay with Tuanbao and play with him in the yard when he wakes up."

"When it's mealtime, I'll have your dad stay with the kids while I go to the kitchen to cook. In short, don't worry about me."

Yang Huazhong nodded in agreement from outside. Before, when everything was going smoothly at home, he was a restless person who always liked to wander around his family's fields during the day.

Although the land had long been leased to Yang Yongqing to manage, he only needed to sit at home at the end of each year and wait to collect the rent...

But deep down he's a restless person who loves to go to the fields, help with the work, and chat.

Even if he doesn't go to work, he will wander around the village and handle some minor conflicts between villagers.

Or perhaps they could do what they can to help vulnerable groups in the village, such as elderly people living alone, or orphans and widows, repair their houses...

But in the past few days, because several of his grandsons and great-granddaughters have fallen ill one after another, and seeing his daughter busy taking care of the children, and seeing that the Luo family hadn't left the house for several days, Yang Huazhong also temporarily put aside his outside affairs and had to prioritize his own family matters.

Yang Ruoqing was deeply moved when she saw her parents sharing her burdens and refusing all social interaction.

“Mom, you don’t need to cook. My Nini has two grandmothers to take care of her, and Yuanyuan has Auntie and Aunt Rong to take care of her. Uncle can also lend a hand.”

“Linglan and Xingwang are doing the housework and cooking. Our Luo family has more manpower than you do, so you don’t need to cook three meals a day. I’ve already spoken to Linglan, and we’ll cook together. You can have my dad come and pick it up when it’s time, or have Xingwang deliver it, either way is fine.”

……

Watching Yang Ruoqing's departing figure, both Madam Sun and Yang Huazhong felt a pang of heartache in their eyes.

Madam Sun murmured, "Everyone envies our Qing'er for marrying so well. Her husband is a great general and hero, but outsiders can't see the heartache and exhaustion Qing'er endures..."

The man in the family is away from home for long periods of time, leaving the elderly and the young to fend for themselves, all on Qing'er's own.

The house was kept in perfect order, and no matter how hard or tiring it was, Qing'er gritted her teeth and didn't say a word.

She wholeheartedly supports Luo Fengtang's efforts in his career.

"Ah, if Tang Yazi were home, at least she could lend a hand..."

"Qing'er's mother, you can say these things to me, but don't say them in front of your daughter. It will only upset her." Yang Huazhong warned Sun Shi very seriously.

Mrs. Sun nodded. “I’m not bad. Why would I say those things in front of my daughter? Besides, our son-in-law is doing great things outside, not just indulging in drinking, gambling, and whoring.”

Yang Huazhong said, "Our son-in-law is a man who will do great things, protecting our country and our home. We old folks will just stay at home and lend Qing'er a hand, taking good care of the children!"

"It's fortunate that the Luo family hired Rong Gu and a few others to help out two years ago; otherwise, they would have been too busy to handle something like this!"

Sun said, "Let's grit our teeth and get through this difficult time."

Meanwhile, on the Luo family's side...

After Yang Ruoqing took care of Yuanyuan and Nini without taking off her clothes for five days, Yuanyuan was basically cured.

Yuanyuan's physique was already stronger than Tuantuan's, so Yuanyuan recovered faster.

As for Tuantuan, thanks to the meticulous care of Sun and Yang Huazhong, the child did not relapse after recovering from her illness.

Because of her young age, Nini couldn't be given medicine directly. Her two mothers had to drink the medicine themselves and then convert it before feeding it to Nini, so the effect was relatively slower.

Even at this slower pace, the cough has been significantly reduced compared to before.

Wang Sheng prescribed another plaster for Nini to apply to her belly button. He said that after another ten days to half a month of treatment, she should be fully recovered.

Only then did Yang Ruoqing feel that she was finally showing signs of 'coming back to life'...