Liu Mingzhi raised his head and glanced at the bamboo house a dozen steps away, stretched out his hand and pulled Qi Yun's sleeve and walked towards the corner next to the bamboo house.
"Yun'er, tell my husband, my mother-in-law, how is her health?
What did the doctors that the old man asked me to find for my husband say?"
Qi Yun glanced back at the door of the bamboo house and sighed softly.
"It's not ideal. After the doctors checked my grandmother's pulse, they all shook their heads and sighed.
Although they didn't say anything explicitly to the concubines, their reactions said everything."
Liu Mingzhi raised his head and glanced at the bamboo house a dozen steps away, frowning and sighing.
"How is Lian'er doing now? Is she in good health?"
"Sister Lian'er can forcefully control her emotions when she is accompanying my grandma, and then as soon as my grandma rests, she will shed tears after she comes out.
There is no major problem with her physical condition for the time being, but for several days in a row, Sister Lian'er has not had a good meal.
Especially in the past two days, she only drank a few mouthfuls of thin porridge at each meal and then finished it hastily.
If this continues, sooner or later the body will be unable to bear it.
My sisters have tried to persuade me several times, but to no avail."
"Oh, what a silly girl!"
"Husband, I and my sister discussed this in private without the knowledge of sister Lian'er, and they both have similar ideas.
My grandma’s physical condition is probably not caused by illness!”
Liu Mingzhi's body trembled, and he couldn't help but clenched his fists.
"It's not a disease!"
Qi Yun looked at her husband's frown, her pretty face nodded melancholy.
"Yes, it's not an illness, it's just that I'm really old.
Presumably Lian'er's sister also knows what is going on, but she is too stupid to believe it or admit it."
Liu Mingzhi handed the brocade box in his hand to Qi Yun's hand and casually took off the tobacco pouch from his waist.
After a while, Liu Mingzhi smashed the cigarette holder hard and spit out the light smoke in his mouth with a complicated expression.
"Yun'er, how long do you think my grandma can last?"
"I don't understand medicine and pharmacology, so I don't dare to talk nonsense."
Liu Mingzhi puffed out the smoke with a low expression, as if he had thought of something, and hurriedly looked towards Qi Yun.
"Mr. Sai Hua Tuo Sai, imperial doctor Chu Renxin, and the others have arrived?"
"Here we are, we are all here. Mr. Sai Hua Tuo Sai arrived four days ago, and Dr. Chu Renxin Chu arrived at the Miao Village two nights ago."
"Both of them have also treated my mother?"
"Yes, the two of them have already treated my grandmother one after another."
"How to say?"
"Do your best."
Liu Mingzhi blew out the smoke in his mouth, raised his hand and scratched the top of his head vigorously.
"There's actually nothing we can do about the two of them?"
"Husband, birth, old age, sickness and death are...but...
Oh, just look away."
"Mr. Sai, where are Chu Renxin and the others?"
Qi Yun raised her lotus-rooted arm and pointed towards the densely forested mountains in front of Liu Mingzhi's left side.
"Mr. Sai and the two of them stayed up until midnight last night to discuss, and went to the mountains and forests together early in the morning to collect herbs, and they haven't returned yet.
They have been up the mountain for a long time since my sisters got up, so we don’t know what they discussed last night.”
Liu Mingzhi followed the direction of Qi Yun's finger and turned to look at the Shiwan Mountain in the distance.
After staring straight at the lush forest for a long time, Liu Mingzhi retracted his gaze and leaned over the soles of his feet to knock out the ashes from the smoke pot.
"Let's go, let's go visit my grandma first."
"Why."
"Yun'er."
"Husband?"
"Don't say what our husband and wife just said in front of Lian'er.
Whether she knows something in her heart or not is her own business, so let's stop using words to put pressure on her.
I'm afraid that she won't be able to bear the pressure all of a sudden, and her body will be overwhelmed again."
"I know that I will not lie in front of sister Lian'er.
Even if you don't tell me, Deputy Director, my sisters have already discussed it in private.
In the past few days, I have been trying my best to comfort my sister Lianer!"
Liu Mingzhi pursed his lips and nodded, fastened the tobacco bag to his waist, and strode towards the bamboo house with high strides.
The couple talked softly as they walked into the unique bamboo house with a quiet environment.
"Sister, Sister Shan, Sister Lian'er, your husband is here."
Qi Yun's voice broke the silence in the room, and everyone sitting on the chairs by the window in the inner room subconsciously looked in the direction of the main hall.
"Husband?"
"Husband, you are here."
"Sisters, please meet your husband."
"My child Liu Yiyi."
"My child Liu Feifei."
"My child Liu Chengfeng."
"Meet daddy."
Liu Mingzhi waved his hand casually and walked quickly towards the bed in the inner room.
"No gifts, no gifts at all."
"Thank you, husband."
"Thank you, daddy."
Liu Mingzhi walked to the bed and looked down at the old woman with a sallow face and a withered face on the bed, a hint of melancholy flashed in his eyes.
"My son-in-law, Liu Mingzhi, pays homage to my grandmother.
My son-in-law is unfilial and he came late."
Qinglian's mother saw Mr. Liu standing at the head of the bed and saluting her. Her withered palms were pressed against the edge of the bed, as if she was about to stand up to salute her.
"Don't dare, your Majesty, get up quickly.
Old body, old body, see my emperor, long live my emperor."
When Liu Mingzhi saw Grandma Qinglian's actions, he quickly straightened up, stretched out his hands to support Grandma Qinglian's thin arms, and helped her lie down on the pillow."
"Mom, what are you doing, old man? How can an elder show respect to a younger one?
You are Lian'er's mother-in-law, and also my son-in-law's mother-in-law. It is my son-in-law's duty to give you gifts."
The old man leaned hard on the pillow, looking at the helpless Liu Mingzhi with his cloudy and dim eyes full of kindness, and gently patted the edge of the bed with his withered palms.
"Child, sit down,"
Liu Mingzhi nodded heavily, sat sideways on the bed, and gently grasped the withered palm of his old family member.
"Hey, son-in-law, thank you very much, mom."
To be continued...