Chapter 531 - 525_1
Zhao Erhu returned to his room with a dark face, ready to talk about what happened on the road, but upon seeing that both Madam Xu and Xixi were a picture of anxiety and busyness, and Lin Yue lay pale on the bed, occasionally retching into a basin.
"Wife, what’s wrong with you?" Seeing Lin Yue like this, Zhao Erhu couldn’t care about anything else. He hurriedly ran to the bed, embraced her in his arms, but Lin Yue, smelling the alcohol on Zhao Erhu, abruptly pushed him away and began vomiting forcefully again.
Lin Yue was so dizzy from vomiting that she couldn’t reply to his question, so Zhao Erhu had no choice but to turn his gaze to Madam Xu and Xixi on the side. "What’s wrong with the mistress? She was fine this morning. How did she become like this? Has someone been sent to call the doctor?"
"Someone has already been sent to call for the doctor, but the snow on the road has not yet melted, and the roads are hard to navigate, so I’m afraid it won’t be quick. I have already taken the mistress’s pulse; there’s nothing seriously wrong. It’s just her spleen and stomach are out of harmony, probably because she ate something unclean or indigestible at noon."
Hearing Madam Xu’s words reminded Zhao Erhu that his lunch was eaten at Wu Qiang’s house. Because the two families were close, Wu Qiang’s mother had come to invite them over specially. To give Wu Qiang and his wife face, his wife had also gone with him. The taste of the food at Wu Qiang’s house was just average, and having gotten used to the meals at his own house, there was no taste in eating there. He saw that his little wife hadn’t eaten much of anything else but liked the lard-fried glutinous rice cakes and thus had eaten a few pieces more. These cakes were greasy and fiery, and he had even advised her, but the little wife just licked her lips and didn’t continue eating. Now it occurred to him that it was most likely the overindulgence in the glutinous rice cakes that had caused the issue.
Lin Yue had not expected that eating a few glutinous rice cakes would cause such a severe reaction. It wasn’t like she hadn’t eaten them before; eating too many of them usually just led to feeling a bit heaty, and drinking some herbal tea would resolve that. That’s why she indulged and ate a few more pieces. However, Lin Yue did not know that these cakes were made by Wu Qiang’s sister-in-law, who was lazy and did not pay much attention to hygiene while cooking food. There was some uncleanness in the glutinous rice cakes, which would have been fine if one was accustomed to eating them regularly, but Lin Yue’s usual diet was planned and prepared by Wang Dachuan and Madam Xu—it was not only to her taste but also followed principles of health preservation. Eating with such care regularly, it all went bad when she inadvertently consumed the unclean cakes.
At this moment, Zhao Erhu felt somewhat regretful. If he had known earlier, he would not have let his wife go to Wu Qiang’s house for that meal. Seeing how much his little wife was suffering, he felt distressed too. Remembering that his wife couldn’t bear the smell of alcohol on him, he went to the clean room to freshen up and changed his clothes before returning to Lin Yue’s side to take care of her.
After vomiting and rinsing her mouth, Lin Yue drank some hot tea and finally felt a little better. She lay weakly on the bed, completely drained of energy.