Joyful Motherhood in a Rural Family

Chapter 617: Chapter 617: The Most Delicious Cooked Dishes
 

Looking at the child who had gradually fallen asleep after his fever subsided, Di Yelei patted her shoulder.

“Don’t worry, this is not something you wanted to see, nor is it something you did intentionally. Besides, the child’s fever has already subsided, right? Stop blaming yourself and get some rest.”

Seeing her so worried, he figured she probably wouldn’t be able to sleep, so he suggested that she just close her eyes for a bit.

“No need. Generally, such a small child will have a fever again in four hours, and that is the most severe time. I’ll wait until that time is over before I sleep.” Liu Sisi stood up.

Having crouched for too long, her legs were already numb and had no feeling. She almost fell, but luckily, Di Yelei quickly caught her and pulled her into his arms, both concerned and reproachful.

“Look at how tired you are. Be good and go to sleep. I will take good care of the child. Are you afraid that I won’t take good care of him?”

Di Yelei was a bit angry.

Liu Sisi stubbornly shook her head and pushed away Di Yelei’s support: “This is not a matter of trust or distrust, but I am his mother, and when he is sick, it is natural for me to guard him.” As she spoke, she looked at the other child in the cradle: “Third Son has a fever, and this youngest one, who was born so thin and small, who knows…”

She went to her youngest son’s cradle and carefully picked him up.

Now, the three children had one cradle each, which was cool and comfortable, so they didn’t have to worry about the children getting too hot.

The little guy seemed to sense that someone was holding him, lazily opened one eye, saw it was Liu Sisi, and then closed his eyes again to sleep.

Feeling his little forehead and then testing his temperature with her own forehead, Liu Sisi was relieved to find that the seemingly weak little guy did not have a fever.

She let out a long sigh!

Neither of the two had the heart to sleep as both silently guarded their children without speaking.

Di Yelei looked up at the exhaustion in Liu Sisi’s eyes: “Are you hungry? Do you want me to have the kitchen cook something and send it up?”

Liu Sisi shook her head and nodded: “That would be good. Taking care of the children requires strength too. Just tell the kitchen to heat up whatever is left from this evening and send it up.”

Di Yelei left and returned after a while with a tray in his hand, containing two bowls of rice and a plate of vegetables.

“I saw that everyone in the kitchen was asleep, so I didn’t wake them up. I just made a plate of vegetables myself. Let’s make do with this.” As he spoke, he handed the bowl and chopsticks to Liu Sisi.

Was this dish actually stir-fried by Di Yelei?

Amazement filled Liu Sisi’s eyes!

Picking up the bowl, she suddenly realized how hungry she was. Slowly eating the rice and vegetables.

The rice is this year’s new rice, fragrant and delicious, while the vegetables are just ordinary sweet potato sprouts, apparently stir-fried with chicken oil, bringing together the unique flavor of chicken meat and the special fragrance of sweet potato sprouts. The taste is so sweet and delicious, something she has not tasted for a long time!

Di Yelei occasionally picked up some vegetables for her, and more than half of the small plate of sweet potato sprouts ended up in Liu Sisi’s stomach.

Liu Sisi also occasionally picked up some vegetables for Di Yelei. As their eyes met, a sweet warmth lingered between the two.

It took a while for the two to finish the small bowl of rice.

After putting down the bamboo chopsticks, Di Yelei couldn’t help teasing her: “Today, you ate especially slow.”

“Yeah, this is the dish you made. Of course, I have to chew slowly and carefully taste it.”

She looked up at him and couldn’t help but smile.

Di Yelei’s eyes were especially bright: “Is it really that delicious?”

“Delicious! This is the best meal I’ve ever had!”

Liu Sisi affirmed.

What’s truly delicious is not the food itself, but the thoughtfulness of the person who prepared it.

Di Yelei felt a surge of emotion and hugged her from behind without a word, accompanying her silently.

“If you like it, when I have time in the future, I’ll cook it for you every day, okay?”

“Okay! I’m just afraid you’ll forget what you said today by tomorrow.”

Liu Sisi gently closed her eyes and leaned against his chest, smiling contentedly.

Four hours later, as Liu Sisi had predicted, the child started running a fever again!

Liu Sisi carefully fed the child some warmed soup medicine. The medicine was so bitter that the child would spit it out as soon as it went in, and the child became restless, breaking out into a sweat. Di Yelei softly soothed the child while carefully wiping him down with a hot towel.

But when he cried, Niuniu next to him also woke up and cried non-stop, unable to be soothed. Fortunately, the nanny was sleeping nearby and hurriedly came over to take Niuniu behind a screen to breastfeed, finally getting the little guy to stop crying.

Only the youngest one remained sound asleep in the cradle, never waking up at all.

The one in the middle didn’t know whether it was the fever making him uncomfortable or the soup medicine was too bitter, but he kept crying incessantly.

“Don’t cry, don’t cry! Third Son, don’t cry, be good, don’t cry, ooh ooh…”

Di Yelei gently patted the child’s small body, soothing the child while carefully feeding him a little bit of the soup medicine with a spoon. The child clearly didn’t like the bitter medicine and kept shaking his head, blowing bubbles and crying. As a result, he choked on the medicine and coughed consecutively.

“Hurry and hold the child up, don’t let the medicine get into his lungs, he can’t take it.”

Liu Sisi quickly picked the child up again, holding him on her shoulder and gently patting his back. Seeing the child who couldn’t even cry anymore after all the fuss, tears slid down her cheeks.

“Don’t cry, don’t cry! As long as the medicine gets in, the child will definitely get better.”

Di Yelei didn’t know whether to comfort the crying child or the tearful Liu Sisi.

Liu Sisi didn’t grieve for long and wiped away her tears, holding the child and sitting down again: “I’ll hold him diagonally, this might make it easier to feed the medicine, bring me a little bit of the soup medicine and I’ll try.” Liu Sisi was still not giving up.

Di Yelei naturally agreed and hurriedly scooped up some more soup medicine.

Maybe it was finally the right position to hold the child, or perhaps the little guy was just too exhausted. After several consecutive attempts, the medicine was swallowed by the child, bringing great joy to both adults, as it finally went in.

However, before the two could celebrate for long, the child, who had been given medicine, suddenly opened his mouth and vomited. Not only did he throw up the medicine, but he also threw up the milk he had been drinking.

Both adults got some filth on them, but neither of them cared to wipe it off, instead scrambling to care for the child.