Chapter 313 Homely
Yang Peimin was ordered to rest, and she was indeed exhausted. After changing her clothes in her room, she lay down immediately. When Chen Guizhi asked her what she would like to eat, she replied that she was not hungry yet, as she had already eaten after getting off the train.
Once she had returned to her room, in the main house, the elderly couple of the Shen family asked Shen Yixiang about Yang Peimin, "I heard that your sister-in-law fell down the day before yesterday. What exactly happened?"
It was really because Shen Yixiang had accidentally let it slip during a phone call that Yang Peimin was in the hospital, since both Shen Yiguang and Yang Pei had made it clear not to tell the family about her being hit in the stomach and hospitalized, to avoid undue worry and any reckless actions.
Under persistent questioning from Shen Erniu, who had answered the phone, she only mentioned that she had fallen and gone to the hospital for a check-up and that there wasn’t anything serious. She dared not tell him about the near miscarriage caused by a blow to the stomach.
Nevertheless, this worried the elderly couple of the Shen family a great deal. Chen Guizhi even secretly fetched an image of The Bodhisattva Guanyin and hung it in the room, burning three sticks of incense morning and evening. Shen Erniu couldn’t talk her out of it.
This is how Chen Guizhi sighed to Shen Erniu, "Our daughter-in-law is wonderful in every way, but her health is a bit frail. This pregnancy, I always feel Yixiang isn’t telling the whole story. My heart feels uneasy every day. Last night, I even dreamt that, dreamt that the child grew wings and flew away... Do you think that means something might..."
"Don’t talk nonsense. If you think about the dates, it has been a full three months now. It should be much more stable. If you were still worried, you shouldn’t have let them come back for the holidays. Traveling back and forth can be quite exhausting..."
"Yes, yes, that’s right. Let’s not have them come back then. There’s nothing urgent at home. Once the daughter-in-law has safely given birth, we can visit them..."
However, later on, Shen Yiguang sent a telegram saying that they were planning to come over, which made them both happy and worried.
They anxiously awaited their arrival at home, but finally seeing their daughter-in-law safe and sound relieved them. They then asked about the previous incident so they could understand the situation, to prevent the youngsters from inadvertently complicating matters due to their lack of experience.