The Daily Life of a Down-on-Hard-Life Medicine Girl Supporting Her Family

Chapter 30 Naming Panpan
"I'm fine." Xiao Chunyu was awakened by Jianlan's crying and came back to her senses: "Granny Zhou, do I still have my medicine? Yes, I'm hungry, please bring me some food."

"Very well, this old servant will have someone send it over immediately."

As long as I can take medicine and eat, it's okay.

"In my opinion, Second Young Mistress should take good care of her health. Only when you are healthy can the young lady have a good life."

Xiao Chunyu lowered her head. Yes, the child was someone she had risked her life for and could not be abandoned.

However, living a good life in the Wu family will likely be extremely difficult.

Fortunately, the Great Xia Dynasty also had precedents for divorce.

Since Xiao Chunyu's family members were not around, she had to uphold the reputation of the Xiao family.

She was being pinned down and humiliated and didn't even know how to fight back. Did they think she was dead?
Right now, the most important thing is to recover her health. She's still in her postpartum period and can't do anything right now, but there's still a long way to go. She'll do it, and she'll do it very well.

"Mo Lan, when you have time, go and visit the estate that was part of your dowry." Xiao Chunyu said casually, "After I finish my confinement period, the weather will get hot, and I will take the child to stay at the estate for a while then."

"Jianlan, go and take a look at the two shops that I brought with me as part of my dowry tomorrow. Have the shopkeepers give you the account books, and bring them back for me to see."

"Yes, ma'am."

"Thank goodness, Miss is finally alive!" Mo Lan and Jian Lan exchanged a relieved glance.

As for the saying that one shouldn't look at account books or read books during postpartum confinement, they don't mention it anymore. If the young lady has something to do, she won't overthink things, which is quite good.

Just then, the wet nurse brought the child back.

"The girl ate quite a lot today," the nanny said with a smile. "She's grown a bit more, that's good."

"Yes, that's wonderful." Xiao Chunyu held her daughter in her arms, looking at her small, tender face, and suddenly remembered that her baby didn't have a name yet.

Wu Yuanping is a real scoundrel!
Since the day he brought Xiaolan to demand a title and refused, he has never come to the backyard again. He hasn't even come to see his own daughter, let alone mentioned her name.

"What should we call you?" Xiao Chunyu lowered her head and kissed her daughter. "Let's call you Panpan. In life, everyone needs something to look forward to. You and your mother look forward to it together, to the Xiao family being reunited, and to your mother being there to watch you grow up and protect you..."

Once a person has motivation, they will be full of energy!

Xiao Chunyu remembered the Eight Brocade Exercises that Nuannuan had taught her, saying that it could improve physical fitness. She would get up every morning to do it and would also invite her sisters to do it together.

Then let's practice!

Xiao Chunyu has a new plan and rules: take medicine, eat, get up early to practice the Eight Exercises, and make sure to keep her body in great shape.

After all, there are bigger things waiting for her in the future, and she needs to conserve her energy.

When Qiu Yan returned to the Qiu residence, she heard from the servants that the gatekeeper had received a letter from Shu (Sichuan).

"It's warm, it must be a letter from Warm."

Qiu Yan eagerly tore open the letter and read it; it was indeed heartwarming.

"Mother, Nuannuan and the others have returned to Shu, and everything is fine."

After reading the letter, Qiuyan still felt something was wrong.

"Why did Nuannuan write so little? She didn't mention anything about what happened along the way, or about settling down in Shu, the accommodations, the food, or how the people there were. She didn't even mention anything about Shu's specialties, or even bring me any local delicacies..."

"You little brat, Nuannuan was sent back to Shu, and the Xiao family is seeking refuge, not going on vacation!" Madam Qiu was truly at a loss for words.

"Oh, I made a mistake."

But something still felt off.

"Knowing Nuannuan's personality, she would have given me some hints, more or less." I looked at it over and over, but I still couldn't see anything. "She didn't even write more than a few words, just asked me to help look after Sister Yu. But I can't write to tell Sister Yu about the suffering and grievances she's endured." "Is it possible that Nuannuan is also suffering in Shu, but she just doesn't want you to worry? Doesn't want Miss Xiao to worry?"

"Mother, you're absolutely right, that must be it."

Qiu Yan said, "They say that bad people come from poor and remote places. Who knows how bad the people in Shu are? Nuan Nuan and the others went back to seek refuge. I'm afraid those clansmen will avoid them like the plague. Mother, what should we do?"

"Just don't make things worse." Madam Qiu felt that her daughter had finally become a little smarter: "If Nuan Nuan doesn't want to talk about it, then you shouldn't; if the eldest daughter of the Xiao family doesn't allow it to be said, then you shouldn't write it down for Nuan Nuan either."

"The main strategy is to keep it a secret from both sides." Qiu Yan understood: "They're really pitiful."

"You!"

A person should never let others say they are pitiful.

The girls of the Xiao family should never disappoint.

"Mother, will I be able to see Nuannuan again? Will she ever return to Beijing?"

"I don't know." Madam Qiu was also very straightforward: "Look at you, what have you become? Hurry up and go back to wash up and change your clothes."

"Oh, good."

Qiu Yan was restless and didn't know how to reply to Nuan Nuan.

Sigh, I'll just write a few words lightly, as Sister Yu and my mother suggested.

Oh right, what was that child's name again?

Look, I forgot to ask about that.

Xiao Chunnuan received Qiu Yan's letter a month later.

By this time, the Xiao family's life had improved significantly, and the Pinellia ternata she prepared for Baicaotang received praise. Several doctors from the Zhao family who practiced medicine also raved about it, saying it was of much higher quality than the commercially available Pinellia ternata they bought.

Then, she sent Chunnuan some more valuable medicinal herbs to prepare.

Chunnuan did a great job. Of course, she also sent some of her own concocted herbs, such as Artemisia capillaris, Zhe'ergen, and Plantago asiatica, which were not worth much, to Baicaotang. To outsiders, they were worthless, but to the Xiao family, every penny counted.

“Grandmother, my eldest sister has given birth to a daughter. She is very well-behaved and everything is fine with her.”

Chunnuan didn't dare show Qiuyan's letter to her elders.

Qiu Yan's personality was always talkative and carefree; normally, a letter to her would be at least several long pages long. However, her letter was very hasty, especially regarding her elder sister's childbirth, which she only mentioned briefly.

They also said they went to the third-day-after-birth ceremony with Madam Qiu, but they didn't mention a word about what the ceremony was like.

If it's not mentioned, there's only one possibility: it's something truly unbearable.

The Wu family! A note was made in the warm spring air.

"We're relieved that your eldest sister is doing well." The old lady sighed. "Looking back now, I regret it a bit. Her wedding was rushed, so we didn't prepare a proper dowry. If we had known something would go wrong, we would have given her the entire Xiao family. We're not in the capital, so with those things to rely on, we wouldn't have to worry about her being bullied."

So many precious things, all ended up being fed to dogs, it's so heartbreaking.

“Mother, don’t worry. Although Yu’er is gentle, she’s not stupid.” No one knows a daughter better than her mother, and Madam Xu firmly believed that her daughter would have a good life.

"Yes, none of the children in my Xiao family are bad."

The old lady was very certain of this.

Especially with the arrival of spring, I used to think she was too quiet and not very appealing, but it turns out I was wrong. This child is even better!

(End of this chapter)