The handsome guy next door loves to flirt.

"It's okay, I got a ride back with a colleague. Lele is sick, so of course we have to take care of her first. I'm going to go see her. Are you going to work later?"

Xiao Mingkun nodded.

Yun Shu knew that Xiao Mingkun was a hardworking boss who gave his employees days off every week, but as the boss, he hardly ever took a break, 365 days a year. Yun Shu had been living here for a month and had never seen him have any free time, except for the time he spent flirting with her.

Yun Shu drove Xiao Mingkun to work, bought a lot of fruit outside the community, and also carried a box of milk for the children before going to see Lele.

She quite liked Lele, the child. Despite coming from a poor family, Lele was very well-behaved and unlike most wealthy families, especially with only one child, who was often spoiled and pampered excessively. There was once a very wealthy family whose child was rude and unruly, even hurling hurtful insults at his mother in public.

I knocked on A-Dong's door. A-Dong was going to work today as usual. Because of his two children, he kept taking leave, which made the other employees at the company complain. Even though Brother Kun was very kind, A-Dong felt embarrassed. I asked Tian Li to look after Lele. Lele was a good child. After her fever subsided, she was a little weak, but she didn't fuss and knew that her mother was working hard to take care of her younger sister.

Yun Shu put the things on the table and noticed that Tian Li had been in postpartum confinement for a month, but she hadn't gained weight. Her complexion was sallow and pale. Yun Shu knew that it must be because she hadn't been getting enough nutrition during her confinement and was exhausted from taking care of two children. Yun Shu sometimes worked overtime at night and would come home to find Tian Li already asleep, so although she lived next door, she didn't have much contact with them.

"Why did you bring things? These are all from the neighbors, I feel so bad." Tian Li was very grateful to Yun Shu. If it weren't for Yun Shu and Brother Kun when she gave birth to her second daughter, Dou Dou, she didn't know if she and Dou Dou would still be alive today.

"It's nothing, just something I did. Hey! DouDou... seems to have grown even more in the few days I haven't seen her."

"Yes, but she's still a girl!" Tian Li said dejectedly.

Upon seeing this, Yun Shu immediately comforted her: "Daughters aren't bad either. Look how well-behaved Lele is. You'll have a child like Lele to take care of you in the future. Unlike sons, you don't have to work hard to save money for their weddings, houses, and cars."

"That's what they say, but in the countryside, it's a shameful thing for a family not to have a son; people will look down on you..." Tian Li replied helplessly and sadly, her tone filled with untold bitterness. She wasn't a woman who favored sons over daughters; the problem was that her mother-in-law always complained that she had given birth to a daughter. When Lele was born, her mother-in-law only helped with postpartum care for a week before giving up and refusing to help, going to help her sister-in-law take care of her child.

“As long as my daughter is well-behaved and filial in the future, it’s the same. Compared to those women who can’t have children and are going crazy from IVF, injections, and punctures, Lele’s mom, you have two children. Many people envy you.” Almost every day, there are people coming to see the infertility department of the hospital. Yun Shu feels heartbroken every time she passes by those women who are hesitant, anxious, and worried, especially the despair of waiting for the results and not getting pregnant.

Many people don't want children; abortions happen every day, and many even give birth but don't want the babies. But those who want children are repeatedly unable to conceive, which is disheartening…

"Yes... I know, so no matter how hard it is, Ah Dong and I will raise them well!" Tian Li said solemnly.

Yun Shu nodded. "Let's not talk about this anymore. I'll go check on Lele." Lele wasn't in the living room outside, so she must be inside. Because Tian Li's family has two children, they have a lot of stuff, and the small living room is piled up with things, leaving little empty space.

"Lele is lying in the inner room. I want her to rest more. If you go see her, she will definitely be happy."

After listening, Yun Shu went inside with her. In the corner was a children's bed, probably only about a meter wide. Little Lele lay there weakly and listlessly. Upon seeing Yun Shu, she weakly called out, "Auntie!"

Yun Shu couldn't help but feel sorry for her. Her complexion had been poor since she fell ill, and she looked thinner than she had seen in just a few days.

"Auntie is here to see you. Take good care of yourself and get well soon. Auntie will give you a teddy dog ​​plush toy to put on your bedside table so you can sleep with it."

"Thank you, Auntie. Lele will get better soon." Lele was very happy to hear this. Auntie has a very big and beautiful Teddy dog ​​plush toy. Auntie said that it was a gift from a friend and she couldn't keep it anymore, otherwise she would have wanted to give it to her.

Seeing that Lele was sweating, and that she was still covered with a blanket in such hot weather, Yun Shu only covered Lele's stomach and said to Tian Li, "You don't need to cover Lele with so much. Give her more water and let her urinate more so that she can expel the heat from her body and get better easily." Tian Li nodded quickly. She had to listen to the doctor's advice, especially Yun Shu's. She always doted on Lele.

After exchanging a few words with Lele, Yunshu went back to her own home next door, letting Lele rest more. Children get sick easily, but they recover quickly too. When they are sick, they need plenty of rest and they will be back to normal in a few days.

After returning home, Yunshu wrote for two hours. Checking the time, she put on Teresa Teng's "The Road of Life" on her computer to relax. Then she went to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and found it wasn't very full; she'd forgotten to buy groceries the past couple of days while at work.

There was only one half-eaten cabbage in the fridge, but thankfully there were two eggs, and I even found a sausage at the bottom. I quickly fried an egg and cooked a bowl of noodles, and lunch was done.

When a steaming bowl of noodles is served, topped with an egg, shredded cabbage, a handful of chopped pickled cabbage, sliced ​​ham, and a few scallions floating on the soup, it smells delicious and looks even more appetizing.

Yun Shu doesn't eat much; one bowl of noodles was enough to make her feel full. Since she was so full, she couldn't sit down immediately, so she cleaned the house. Yun Shu is very clean; whenever she gets home from get off work and isn't too tired, she mops the floor and does a thorough cleaning every week. Xiao Mingkun once joked that Yun Shu wasn't suited to live in the water-scarce areas of the Northwest, where people sometimes don't even have enough water to drink.

After cleaning the house, I was covered in sweat, so I took a shower and changed into clean clothes, also washing the dirty clothes I'd worn yesterday. Seeing that it was already past three o'clock, I called Xu Ruo and, finding out she was at her family's bar, decided to go over there. She still needed to tell Xu Ruo about Dr. Chen and Xiao Qiu.