The backyard of No. 80 Siheyuan.

"Xiangnan, don't you have an appetite today? I saw you didn't eat much for dinner!"

Qin Ruobai and Liang Mei came back from the middle courtyard, each carrying a basket of wool. Seeing their husbands sitting on the cool bed in the courtyard, staring at the jujube tree in a daze, they called out.

Li Xiangnan turned around and saw that it was them. He shook his head slightly and said gently, "I don't have much appetite."

Liang Mei glared at him and said, "Ruobai told me that Xiao Xu's problem has been resolved. Why are you still worrying? If it were in our hospital, we might be worried, but your hospital is now a rare and good hospital in the country. You can relax!"

Seeing that her husband just pursed his lips and smiled, Qin Ruobai knew that he couldn't eat because of Xiao Xu's matter, but because of his aunt Mu Huanrong. She shouted to her brother-in-law: "Chaodong, take Jin Da and Jin Xiaohuahua with you, and ask your eldest brother to help with the advice. He has a good eye!"

Li Chaodong, who was lying on the bed with Liang Mei's two children, drawing the scenery of the city with a pencil, glanced at his elder brother and knew what his sister-in-law wanted him to do. He agreed, "I understand, sister-in-law!"

After he finished speaking, he handed over the pencil and draft paper and said, "Brother, please help me check and see if there's anything wrong with my drawing! I can only learn the basics of Brother Zhang's, it's so difficult for me! If Dingxi didn't want this thing, I wouldn't do something I'm not good at!"

Turning around to see the fiery look in his eyes and the admiring looks of the two little ones, Li Xiangnan finally felt relieved and nodded in agreement, "Dingxi loves ancient buildings so much, what do you want to do in the future?"

"She said she wanted to tile the Great Wall!" Li Chaodong blurted out.

"..." Li Xiangnan twitched his lips, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, and said, "What a great ambition! Go back and talk to her about whether we can install an elevator on Mount Everest..."

"Brother!" Li Chaodong scratched his head, "What the hell is an elevator?"

Jin Xiao raised his hand and said, "I know, I know. My mother said there's a Peace Hotel in Shanghai that has an elevator that can take people up to the tenth floor in one go..."

Li Chaodong suddenly became excited. "We have to talk to Dingxi about this. She will definitely take it seriously!"

"..."

The next morning, his wife was still sleeping soundly. Li Xiangnan was ready to go out to wash up with sleepy eyes. When he opened the door, he saw Xu Damao squatting in front of the sheep pen feeding grass to the sheep.

A layer of waterproof cloth was covered on the wooden frame on the side, and a lot more grass was added inside.

Li Xiangnan fished out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it over, thanking him: "Brother Damao, thank you so much. Every time you come back from the countryside, you always think about the sheep. It saves us a lot of trouble!"

"I heard about colleague Xiao Qin's situation from several of her friends who came with her yesterday. It's quite pitiful! Let the sheep eat better and give them more milk, so the babies can get enough nutrition!" Xu Damao waved his hand to refuse the cigarette, took the broom and started cleaning the sheep pen again.

Li Xiangnan said excitedly, "Brother Damao, you and your sister-in-law should also work hard. This goat's milk is plenty, and your baby will have some to drink when he's born!"

Xu Damao's body was still, his eyes instantly reddened, "I... I will try my best!"

The envy in his expression was unfailing. Li Xiangnan smiled and patted him on the shoulder. Then he hurried to wash up and go to the central courtyard for dinner.

Sitting at the door with a bowl in hand, he listened to his mother talking about where his father had recently gone to practice medicine in such and such villages and where he had gone to collect herbs. He noticed that Qin Chunlian was washing the sheets of the two families by the pool. Although it was morning, her face was covered with crystal beads of sweat.

"I wanted to go over and help, but Chunlian wouldn't let me!" Zhu Qiuju noticed her son's gaze and reminded him while standing at the door.

"Yeah!" Li Xiangnan finished eating and put down the bowl, "I'll go tell her, Mom, I'm going straight to work!"

"Be careful and don't get too tired recently!" Zhu Qiuju reminded.

"know!"

After Li Xiangnan finished speaking, he greeted his mother and then passed by the pool and reminded her, "Sister Chunlian, there are so many sheets. My mother is fine anyway, so let her help you. It will be easier for you. After all, you are pregnant..."

"Hey, I'm not that pretentious. When my mother was pregnant with me, she ran faster than a rabbit up the mountain to collect grass for pigs!" Qin Chunlian smiled and shook her head. "This bed belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Yu. They're old and can't do it anymore! I'm just helping them. I can't ask others to help me too, right? I'll slow down and find something for myself to do!"

Seeing that he couldn't persuade her, Li Xiangnan nodded and said to pay attention to the temperature. Then he turned and left the yard, started his motorcycle and rode to the hospital.

After these two days, although Xu Qiluo's baby was thin and needed support to breathe, his vital signs had finally stabilized.

Gui Jing and the other female comrades in the obstetrics and gynecology department took care of him as if he were fragile porcelain. When Li Xiangnan came to see him, he showed him the notebook and was very happy.

Every time the little guy drank a sip of goat milk, how many grams he gained in weight, how many times he defecated, and how many diapers he changed were all recorded in great detail.

Ye Heng lived directly in the corridor of the intensive care unit. There were fixed visiting hours every day, and he could go in after changing into isolation clothes.

Many relatives from the Ye and Xu families came, and except for the nutritional supplements for Xu Qiluo, he distributed all the gifts to the doctors and nurses in the department.

When his eldest son was born, he was on a mission in another place and could not be with Xu Qiluo, which became his biggest regret.

This time when the baby was born, he always stood through the glass window, looking at his wife who was full of tubes and his little son in the incubator, for several hours at a time.

Of course, he was not idle either. He took the opportunity to learn from the nurse how to feed the baby and how to prevent bacterial infection. He wrote down all the details in the little notebook he carried with him.

After a week, Xu Qiluo's condition finally stabilized and he was transferred from the ICU to the general ward.

That afternoon, Ye Heng brought a banner sewn by his mother to the office and presented it to Li Xiangnan.

"Rescuing the dead is like giving birth to a new life; the doctor's kindness benefits both families."

Without saying much, he presented the banner and bowed deeply to Li Xiangnan without standing up for a long time.

"I, Ye Heng, will remember this kindness for the rest of my life!"

Li Xiangnan patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Are you finally relieved now? Spend more time with your son and Xiao Xu! You can do the milking yourself now without the hairband, right?"

Ye Heng scratched his head and said with a silly smile: "I'm fine now, but I always disturb your family..."

"We're all godparents, so this is being a bit awkward!"

Xu Qiluo finally recovered and entered a stable recovery period. Li Xiangnan also took a rare vacation for himself.

That day, I was looking at my grandmother's photo at the door and talking to Ye Heng who was milking the sheep in front of the sheep pen.

"Doctor Li, I always see you staring at that photo. Is there anything special about that photo?" After Ye Heng finished milking the goat, he prepared to boil it on the spot and put it in a thermos to bring to his wife. Then he went into the house to prepare coal briquettes and saw that Li Xiangnan had a photo in his hand.

"It's my grandma!" Li Xiangnan handed over the photo. "She's missing. The Li family has been searching for her for years but hasn't found her..."

"Oh?" Ye Heng was startled. He quickly put down the bucket to catch the photo. After taking a closer look at the photo, he exclaimed, "That's not right, Doctor Li. This woman looks so familiar to me. I seem to have seen her somewhere before..."

"???"

Li Xiangnan was startled and quickly stood up, exclaiming, "What did you say? Have you seen her?"

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