When He Xiyan came out, Chen Jiahang was sitting in the hall, eating the bowl of noodles made from sweet potatoes which he had cooked earlier. He ate very fast and finished it in less than five minutes. After that, he wrote something fast on his notebook.
“I’m going to work. You have a good rest at home. If you don’t feel well, then lie in bed. I’ll come back to cook at noon.”
After that, he handed her the notebook, and then went out with some farm tools he took in the backyard.
He Xiyan looked at his straight back. She frowned, her eyes full of doubts and confusion about the unknown.
She opened the door of the hall and sat in a wooden chair at the door. Since one of her feet was chained, she couldn’t go anywhere else but ten meters away from the door at most.
So she sat at the door like this, looking at the distant hills and fields.
This was a remote rural area. At a glance, she could only see about twenty households, all of which were the same adobe house. There were many pieces of farmland in this village. It was now in the morning. Many people were working in the fields. Some were planting corns, some were planting rice and some planting vegetables… The farmland was green. Everything seemed primitive.
He Xiyan stretched out her hands and looked at them carefully. Her hands were delicate and her fingers were very slender. If she had got it right, she could not have lived here before, or she should have done little farm work.
Where on earth did she come from?
He Xiyan rubbed her temples hard again, trying to bring something back to her empty head. However, she could not remember anything and would even have a headache upon thinking.
At this time, a refreshing breeze came, with a sense of coolness. He Xiyan blew her nose, feeling a little cold. No, it was not right. The temperature was at least more than 20 degrees. It was her own body that felt cold.
In a short moment, she stroked her lower abdomen, feeling a faint pain coming from it. Unspeakably uncomfortable, she even fell down. Only sitting there for a while, she then felt somewhat dizzy as well as backache, quite bad.
She could only go back to the house and lie in the bed. Only by lying down could she feel a little more comfortable.
When Chen Jiahang returned home, it was more than 11 o’clock past noon. He was carrying a hen he had just exchanged with three fish, together with a dozen eggs he had bought.
Although most of the families here raised chickens and ducks, he did not raise them, because he did not want to see chickens running around, their stools everywhere and making the house smelly. He loved to keep clean, thus couldn’t stand such smell.
So he had to trade the fish he raised in his pond for chickens with others.
The aunt said that his wife was in poor health and looked bad and asked him to get a few chickens for her to eat. In this way could she become better and bear him a baby in the future.
Seeing her asleep, he did not disturb her, but went to the kitchen to cook and prepare chicken soup.
Now he didn’t want her to do anything. He just expected her to get better soon.
He Xiyan got up from bed. After resting for more than two hours, she no longer felt much pain in her lower abdomen. However, she was still weak, sweating coldly. Her waist became even sourer.
She didn’t understand why she was like this. It was just her period. Why was her health was so poor>
When she came to the hall, she could only lie in that reclining chair so that she would not feel so uncomfortable. At this moment, she could hear some sound coming from the backyard. She knew he was back.