"I’ll go!" Yang Dong stood up immediately upon seeing his sister-in-law .
"You just woke up! Can you manage?" Yang Ming’s mother immediately asked with concern.
"I am fine. We should hurry to find a doctor for the sister-in-law!" he said hastily and rushed out the door.
Yang Ming laid Xiaoxiao on the kang, found some quilts to spread out, and tucked her into the bedding, "Mother, heat water, cook some food, just in case Xiaoxiao can use it when she wakes up."
Upon hearing this, Yang Ming’s mother quickly got busy with Yang Qiu, and Yang Ming’s father also left the house.
Leaving Yang Ming alone, he held Xiaoxiao’s hand, never expecting that this matter would hit her so hard. The person who usually handled everything with ease, the incredibly strong person, also had a fragile heart. Yes, she was ultimately a woman, and she would have her gentle side too.
It was all because he was too weak that his wife had to pretend to be strong. At that moment, he resented his own incompetence. If only he were stronger, this would not have... He decided to study hard and strive to pass the examinations to achieve official status.
He was very afraid. What if she never woke up? That fear was even worse than the prospect of divorce!
"Xiaoxiao, please wake up soon!"
"Xiaoxiao, once you wake up, everything will be up to you!"
"Xiaoxiao, I like you!"
He called out to her, talked to her repeatedly, but she did not hear.
Outside, Yang Ming’s mother who was heating water heard her son’s words, tears welling up in her eyes. Her foolish son, ah, he had finally fallen in love for real!
"Third brother, third brother, the doctor is here!" Yang Dong called out as soon as he arrived at the doorstep.
Yang Ming immediately went out to welcome the doctor into the house, "Doctor, please help quickly, my wife has been unconscious and has not woken up!"
"Do not panic, I will take a look now," the doctor followed Yang Ming to the kang, with the attendant following behind.
Yang Ming presented Xiaoxiao’s arm for the doctor to feel her pulse.
The doctor gave Xiaoxiao a look, his eyes flickering, took her pulse for quite a while before finally letting go.
"Ah!" The doctor shook his head and sighed deeply.
Frightened, the family thought Xiaoxiao had contracted some serious illness, "Doctor, what’s the matter?"
It was then that the doctor came to his senses and afterwards said, "No serious harm! She just fainted due to acute distress. She’ll recover with some medicine!"
"When will she wake up then?"
"After taking the medicine, she should wake up soon, but..."
"But what?" Yang Ming, seeing the doctor shaking his head and sighing again, felt it couldn’t be that simple and thus asked anxiously.
In fact, the doctor recognized Xiaoxiao as the young woman who had come to him to check for a joyous pulse. He had wanted to tell her back then that she was overworking her body to the point of depletion and needed to recuperate, but before he could say it, she, upon not hearing it was a joyous pulse, happily left, and now, as expected, she was in trouble.
"But she is suffering from overwork and physical depletion, and needs to recuperate!"
What? Overwork? Hearing this, Yang Ming felt even more distressed. What kind of life had his wife led at her own home, and what kind of life had she led since coming to their home, how could she not be exhausted?
"Actually, she had come to me for a consultation before this!"
"..." So the wife had already gone for a consultation on her own. She knew about her own body, yet still worked so hard; it was truly foolishly heartbreaking.
Then the doctor called for the attendant, wrote two prescriptions, and handed them to Yang Ming, "This one, take twice daily for three days. This one is to recuperate the body, take once daily for a month. Send someone with me to get the medicine!"