Hunting 81: Gathering Goods in the Mountains, I Spoil My Ex-Wife to the Extreme

"vomit……"

Just as Lin Xiulan was dry heaving while clutching her lower abdomen, Li Yunshan suddenly sprang up from his lying position on the pit.

He sat down next to Lin Xiulan, looking at her nervously and somewhat helplessly: "Xiulan, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"

This was also the first time Li Yunshan had experienced morning sickness.

In her past life, when Lin Xiulan was pregnant with Dou Dou, he was never home and you could never see him. He didn't even know what morning sickness was.

Later, although he became wealthy and had no shortage of women around him, none of them were able to conceive his child, so Li Yunshan didn't even know that women experience morning sickness during pregnancy.

He watched nervously and somewhat helplessly as Lin Xiulan covered her mouth and gagged. After a while, he awkwardly and gently patted Lin Xiulan's back.

After her gagging improved, the patting was changed to stroking her back.

"Xiulan, how are you feeling?"

Li Yunshan asked hurriedly.

"I feel much better. I'm fine, you don't need to worry," Lin Xiulan said softly.

Although Li Yunshan's patting of her back was a bit clumsy, it warmed her heart.

"You even dry heaved, how can I not worry?" Li Yunshan said with concern on his face.

"This is called morning sickness. Women experience various symptoms during pregnancy, so why are you worried?"

Lin Xiulan patiently explained.

"When I was pregnant with DouDou, my morning sickness was much worse than it is now."

When Li Yunshan heard Lin Xiulan say that her morning sickness was even worse when she was pregnant with Dou Dou, he immediately felt a strong sense of guilt.

"How long did you experience morning sickness back then?"

Li Yunshan couldn't help but ask.

"More than a month, I can't remember exactly."

Lin Xiulan thought for a moment and then said.

More than a month?

Li Yunshan was stunned.

Just now, when Lin Xiulan was vomiting, he felt heartbroken and uncomfortable watching her. But Lin Xiulan said that when she was pregnant with Dou Dou, she vomited for more than a month!

What was he doing at that time?

Li Yunshan thought about it. At that time, he was idle and hanging out with Yu Ergou and his gang. He had no interest in Lin Xiulan and knew nothing about these things.

Now, hearing Lin Xiulan talk about it, Li Yunshan felt even more ashamed.

He felt he owed Lin Xiulan far too much in his past life.

"Is there any way to relieve morning sickness?"

Li Yunshan asked again.

Since Lin Xiulan experienced morning sickness when she was pregnant with Dou Dou, she should know how to alleviate it.

"Eating preserved plums can relieve morning sickness," Lin Xiulan said after thinking for a moment.

However, when she was pregnant with DouDou, her family was destitute, and to buy preserved plums, one needed not only money but also ration coupons.

Unfortunately, she had neither money nor ration coupons at that time; she had only heard about it from the women in the village.

Later, it was Huang Zhifang who, after learning about her morning sickness, pickled some radishes for her to eat, which relieved her nausea.

Everyone was having a hard time back then.

She's having a hard time, and so is her mother-in-law, Huang Zhifang.

However, Li Yunshan kept Lin Xiulan's words in mind.

Eating preserved plums can relieve morning sickness.

That day, just after noon, he rode his bicycle to Xiangyang Commune and bought some preserved plums.

In those days, preserved plums were still a rare commodity, and even the supply and marketing cooperative in Xiangyang Commune didn't have many.

Moreover, you need a ticket to buy this thing.

Even if you have money but no ticket, it's not impossible to buy one, but the price will be two-thirds higher than if you have a ticket.

A pound of preserved plums costs 4.5 yuan if you have a receipt, but 7.5 yuan if you don't.

Although it was expensive, Li Yunshan didn't even flinch before readily paying for it.

"Xiulan, look what I bought for you."

After arriving home from Xiangyang Commune, Li Yunshan had just pushed his bicycle through the gate when he saw Lin Xiulan coming out of the kitchen. He couldn't wait to raise the preserved plums he was carrying high in the air.

However, because it was wrapped in kraft paper and tied with rope, Lin Xiulan couldn't see what was inside the kraft paper.

"What did you buy?"

Lin Xiulan was also curious.

By the afternoon, Li Yunshan had disappeared without a trace, even his bicycle was gone. She thought he had gone to his older brother Li Yunshi's place or Uncle Zhou's place, but it seemed that her guesses were all wrong. Li Yunshan must have gone to Xiangyang Commune to buy things.

But she couldn't guess what Li Yunshan had bought.

"Didn't you say that eating preserved plums can relieve morning sickness? I went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought some preserved plums. Eat one whenever you feel nauseous."

Li Yunshan pushed his bicycle to Lin Xiulan, propped it up, and opened the kraft paper wrapping the preserved plums. A sweet and sour aroma immediately wafted out.

"You disappeared all afternoon just to go to Xiangyang Commune to buy preserved plums?"

Looking at the preserved plums wrapped in kraft paper, Lin Xiulan felt a little incredulous and also touched.

Unexpectedly, she only mentioned that eating preserved plums could relieve morning sickness, but Li Yunshan took it to heart and quickly went to Xiangyang Commune to buy preserved plums from the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Oh, right, didn't you say that you had morning sickness and that eating preserved plums could relieve it? So I went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought some preserved plums."

Li Yunshan nodded.

"Don't do this anymore. It'll only tire you out. You haven't had a good night's sleep in days."

Lin Xiulan said with some heartache.

"I'm not tired at all. Look at me, I'm full of energy right now, haha."

Li Yunshan smiled and told Lin Xiulan to quickly eat a preserved plum to relieve her morning sickness.

Lin Xiulan reached out and gently pinched a preserved plum, then put it in her mouth.

In an instant, the unique sweet and sour taste of the preserved plum filled her entire mouth, making her feel sweet and warm inside.

These preserved plums are much better than the pickled radishes that her mother-in-law, Huang Zhifang, made for her when she was pregnant with Dou Dou.

After eating a preserved plum, Lin Xiulan immediately felt her morning sickness symptoms relieved a lot.

"Here, have another one."

Li Yunshan picked up a preserved plum and brought it to Lin Xiulan's lips: "Open your mouth, ah..."

"I'll eat it myself."

Li Yunshan's intimate gesture earned him a reproachful glare from Lin Xiulan, who took the preserved plum from Li Yunshan's hand and put it in her mouth.

"Mom, what are you eating? DouDou wants some too."

At this moment, Dou Dou ran out of the house and saw Lin Xiulan stuffing a preserved plum into her mouth. She tugged at Lin Xiulan's trouser leg and looked at her expectantly.

"Mother is eating preserved plums. If you want some, ask your father for some."

Lin Xiulan said to Dou Dou while sucking on a preserved plum.

"Daddy, I want to eat preserved plums."

DouDou turned around and grabbed Li Yunshan's trouser leg, looking at him expectantly.

"Okay, have some preserved plums."

Li Yunshan smiled and took out a preserved plum from the kraft paper package. Dou Dou had already opened her mouth in a very cooperative manner.

Seeing this, Li Yunshan stuffed the preserved plum into Dou Dou's mouth.

DouDou tasted it and exclaimed, "Ugh, it's sour!"

The sweet and sour taste of the preserved plum made the little girl frown and grimace.

"Don't spit out the beans, keep them in your mouth, and they'll taste sweet and sour soon."

Lin Xiulan quickly replied.

"oh."

DouDou nodded reluctantly, but ultimately didn't spit out the preserved plum in her mouth.

A moment later, Dou Dou's furrowed brows immediately relaxed.

Sure enough, just like my mother said, these preserved plums really are sweet and sour.

"Father, I want to eat another preserved plum."

Dou Dou tugged at Li Yunshan's trouser leg, jumping and reaching out to him.

"Okay, have one more. Save the rest for tomorrow, you and your mother."

Li Yunshan naturally fulfilled Dou Dou's small request. He took out a preserved plum from the kraft paper package, handed it to Dou Dou, folded and tightened the opening of the kraft paper package, and then found a clip to clip the opening of the package shut.

"Alright, hurry up and eat dinner. You've been busy for several days. Eat your meal and then go to bed for a good night's rest."

Lin Xiulan urged.

"Hehe, Xiulan, you still care about me the most."

Li Yunshan said with a smile.

"loquacious."

Lin Xiulan scolded him irritably.

After finishing his meal, Li Yunshan washed the dishes and chopsticks, and by then it was already getting dark.

After DouDou finished eating, she played by herself in the room for a while. When she got tired, she went to bed, covered herself with a blanket, and fell asleep.

Lin Xiulan took out a preserved plum that Li Yunshan had bought and put it in her mouth—she had just felt nauseous again.

After sucking on a preserved plum for a while to suppress the nausea and vomiting, she carefully counted the money Li Yunshan had given her that day, one bill at a time, and put it all in a wooden box by the bedside, then locked it.

After putting the money away, Lin Xiulan climbed out of the pit, sat on the edge of the bed, and stared blankly at the bright moon in the sky outside the window.

Li Yunshan walked in yawning, saw Lin Xiulan sitting on the edge of the bed, and climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed). He sat cross-legged next to her, put his arm around her shoulder, and said, "Staring at the moon, lost in thought? What are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking that if you study hard, there will be hope for the future."

Lin Xiulan tilted her head and leaned on Li Yunshan's shoulder: "You used to be idle and didn't treat me and Dou Dou well. I thought about leaving back then."

"But when I saw DouDou, and thought about what would happen to the child if I left, I changed my mind about leaving and stayed."

"Now that you've learned your lesson, become responsible, and taken on the responsibility of supporting your family, I'm truly happy for you."

"Xiulan, I was wrong before. I was a beast back then, a brainless idiot. I'm sorry to you and Doudou, and I'm also sorry to Hongmei and Lihua."

"Don't worry, I will cherish you and DouDou for the rest of my life, and love you and DouDou."

"real?"

"Really, I'm not lying to you."

Li Yunshan's tone was serious and solemn.

"Alright, I believe you. But what about my eldest and second eldest sisters?"

"Hongmei... I will treat her the same way I treat you, as long as you don't get jealous."

"As for Lihua, I heard from Hongmei that her parents were wrongly criticized and sent to a labor farm for reform through labor, but they have now been exonerated. I guess Lihua will return to the city after her parents' jobs are arranged."

"I want to be good to her, but I guess she doesn't need it anymore."

Li Yunshan said.

"What? Second Sister is preparing to return to the city?"

Lin Xiulan was surprised, then asked, "When did your older sister tell you this?"

A few days ago.

Li Yunshan told the truth.

Upon learning that Su Lihua was about to return to the city, Lin Xiulan suddenly felt a little upset.

She remembered the past, when she fled from her hometown to Guapigou Village. Because Li Yunshan gave her a bite to eat and said some sweet words to her, she married Li Yunshan.

However, her good fortune didn't last long. Li Yunshan revealed his true colors and treated her poorly.

Especially after she gave birth to Dou Dou, Li Yunshan felt that Dou Dou was a girl and didn't treat her well, and he also disliked Dou Dou very much.

Even when Li Yunshan was abusing her, it was Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua who stepped forward to protect her.

Over the years, Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua have taken great care of her and Dou Dou, always thinking of them whenever they have something delicious to eat.

Therefore, Lin Xiulan also had a deep affection for Gao Hongmei and Su Lihua.

Now, Li Yunshan said that Su Lihua would soon leave and return to the city, which made Lin Xiulan feel as if a hole had been torn out in her heart, leaving her feeling empty.

"Don't overthink it. Transportation will become more and more developed in the future, and travel will become more and more convenient. At worst, we can just go to the city to find Lihua later."