“Why is your face so hot?!” Xu Qi exclaimed in shock.

“I’m fine, Wife must be tired. I’ll go cook for wife.” Ye Lan said, about to let go of Xu Qi’s hand and head to the kitchen.

But Xu Qi pulled him back, embracing him entirely. “Your face is so red, what are you doing cooking? Quickly go lie down, I’ll go fetch the doctor for you.”

There was a barefoot doctor in the village who knew some medical skills, not far from here. Xu Qi thought to invite her first to check on Ah Lan.

“No need, I’m fine.” Ye Lan reached out and tugged at Xu Qi’s hand, “Don’t bother, I just need to lie down for a bit.”

His face flushed as he lifted his head.

Xu Qi became even more worried, “Stop talking, I’ll go find the doctor for you. How can you be like this? Lie down properly.”

This was ancient times, where medical science was not advanced at all! Even a minor illness or pain could cost someone half their life. How could they be careless about it?

Without waiting for Ye Lan to stop her, Xu Qi quickly tucked him in and hurried out.

Shortly after, an elderly person, hunched over, followed her in.

“Hurry, help me check on my husband.” The old man sat on the edge of the bed, slowly unfolding a handkerchief. Xu Qi was getting anxious watching him, wishing she could help shake it out for him.

“Stretch out your hand.” Ye Lan glanced at Xu Qi.

Xu Qi immediately urged him to stretch out his hand. He felt a bit aggrieved but couldn’t refuse, so he cautiously extended his arm, keeping most of it under the covers.

The doctor didn’t say anything, she just covered his wrist with the handkerchief before starting to check his pulse.

After a while, she put away the handkerchief and stood up, calling Xu Qi to the other room. In a very serious tone, she said, “Your husband is weak and can’t tolerate the cold or exertion. If you truly care for him, you need to moderate some things. A little activity is good for him, but too much is harmful. I’ll write you a prescription, you can go to town tomorrow and get him some medicine to try. For tonight, let him sweat a bit under the covers, it’s not a big deal.”

The doctor finished speaking in a rapid pace and didn’t pay attention to Xu Qi’s shocked expression. She just waved her hand and started writing the prescription.

After finishing, she unfolded her hand towards Xu Qi, who hurriedly took out money to give her.

She took the money and left without looking back, truly leaving without taking away a cloud.

Xu Qi left the prescription outside and went back inside, only to see her husband burying his head deep in the covers, with only a little bit of his long, shiny black hair visible.

“Why are you sleeping with your face covered? Be careful, your body isn’t comfortable.” Xu Qi went over and pulled him out from under the covers, gently stroking his long hair. But she saw Ye Lan’s eyes were watery, staring at her angrily.

“What’s wrong?” Xu Qi was a bit confused, she didn’t know what was going on with him.

Ye Lan was extremely embarrassed and angry, and he pressed his head into Xu Qi’s arms, rubbing against her regardless, “I can hear everything you guys said outside!”

“Oh, you can hear everything.” Xu Qi didn’t realize at first, but when she did, she smiled and said, “Are you shy?”

“Wife lets others know about these things and still laughs?!” Xu Qi rubbed her nose awkwardly, finally realizing that Ye Lan was very shy.

She stopped talking and went over to hug him and apologize sincerely, “I was too playful, I won’t do it again next time.”

She wondered how she knew that her husband was getting sick from being tired?

Being held by Xu Qi, Ye Lan couldn’t help but reach out and hug her too.

“Wife treats me extremely well, I know that. Even if I’m mischievous, as long as it’s wife, it’s all willingly done by myself.”

He wasn’t angry at wife for scolding him and causing him to get sick, he just felt a bit embarrassed that the doctor knew about their intimate matters.

Xu Qi lowered her head emotionally, rubbing against Ye Lan’s face. She knew that her husband was extremely gentle and obedient.

“Wife must be hungry, I’ll go make you something to eat.”

Ye Lan leaned on Xu Qi’s arms for a while before trying to get up again, but Xu Qi stopped him.

“You’re still sick, I’ll go make it. Don’t move around.”

“Then wife, just make some porridge, I’d like to drink that.”

Ye Lan was always obedient, so he sat back down, but he didn’t want Wife to exert herself too much in front of the stove to make something complicated.

Xu Qi agreed and went out, cleaned the pig liver left over from today, and made a bowl of pig liver salty porridge. She brought it in for Ye Lan to eat.

Ye Lan didn’t look too good, probably because of the fever, so Xu Qi urged him to eat quickly and lie down in bed to sweat it out.

She then went out.

Her husband was not feeling well and needed someone to take care of him, so she went to Xu Zhi’s house first, asked Xu Zhi to help her bring some medicinal patches over, and then went to the neighboring Zhou family’s village.

She found out where the aunt who sold wild boars before lived.

When Aunt Zhou saw it was Xu Qi at the door, she was also extremely surprised.

“Why are you here? Come in, come in.” Aunt Zhou was hospitable.

“Um, Aunt Zhou, I want to ask you for a favor.”

Aunt Zhou suddenly became alert, “You speak first.”

She was afraid it was something about borrowing money, so she didn’t dare to agree casually.

“It’s, it’s whether you can come to my place tomorrow and help me sell some pork?”

“Sell pork for you? Aren’t you going?” Aunt Zhou was puzzled. Why wouldn’t she sell her own pork?

“My husband is sick, so I have to take care of him tomorrow. I just want to trouble you to help out a bit. Of course, there will be payment, how about forty wen for a day?”

Forty wen, most women working in the fields all day only earned barely twenty-something wen, and she said she would get forty wen just by helping her sell pork for half a day. This kind of job would be welcomed by anyone in the village.

Aunt Zhou happily agreed to the deal with Xu Qi.

Xu Qi asked her to remember to come to her house to collect the pork the next day.

The next day, Ye Lan, who had been held in Xu Qi’s arms all night, woke up as usual. He carefully tried to push Xu Qi off the bed to cook, but Xu Qi reached out and pulled him back, murmuring, “Don’t move, just sleep well.”

“Wife still needs to get up early to go to town. Shall I prepare breakfast for wife?”

After being held in Xu Qi’s arms all night, Ye Lan had already felt much better. At this moment, his eyes were clear and gentle as he looked at Xu Qi.

Xu Qi didn’t open her eyes, but by intuition, she reached out and pressed the back of his head, pulling him back into her arms.

“I’m not going, I’m staying to take care of you today.”

Ye Lan looked up, still somewhat unbelieving.

But Xu Qi didn’t allow him to speak anymore.

“Be good, sleep with me for a while.”

Thinking of Wife’s past exhaustion, Ye Lan dared not move anymore, gently approaching Xu Qi, with a slight smile of happiness on his face.

Before this, he had never thought that there would be a woman willing to give up anything for him.