Crossing Over to Yamada Love

"Pressing the soles of the feet can improve blood circulation. I was thinking of massaging Lan'er's feet so she could recover faster. Don't press too hard." Wang Shi didn't stop, answering her daughter-in-law's words while gently massaging her granddaughter.

The night finally passed, and the sky outside began to lighten slightly. Inside the Mo family's house, a room full of people were all worried about Mo Lan's health. They came to check on her one after another in the latter half of the night. Even Xiao San'er was sitting next to Mo Lan, dozing off.

Children are naturally sleepy. He followed the adults to see his sister, and after watching her for a while, he became sleepy again.

Mo Lan, who had been sleeping soundly, was in a daze. She didn't know how much time had passed, only that she felt cold, had a terrible headache, and her eyelids felt as heavy as if they were glued on. It took her a long time to open them. She coughed, and her throat felt like it was on fire, dry and uncomfortable. Moving around made her body ache terribly, as if she had been beaten up.

"Girl, you're awake? How are you? Where does it hurt?" Wang, who was wiping the back of her ear with liquor, heard a cough and felt her granddaughter move. She looked closely and found that her granddaughter had opened her eyes, so she hurriedly asked her.

"I have a bit of a headache, what's wrong with me?" Mo Lan was a little confused, and for a moment she forgot about falling into the water yesterday. Her throat was very hoarse, and it hurt to swallow when she spoke.

"Lan'er, you fell into the water yesterday and developed a fever in the middle of the night. Now your fever has subsided a lot. Are you still cold?" When Qiu saw her daughter wake up and heard her daughter's hoarse voice, she felt extremely distressed.

"Oh, I remember now. I might have caught a chill. It's nothing, I'll be fine after a couple of days of rest," Mo Lan said, trying to comfort everyone despite her sore throat.

"Lanlan, drink another bowl of ginger soup. It's freshly made, so drink it while it's hot." Seeing that Molan had woken up, Liu hurriedly ran to the kitchen to get the ginger soup. She had just finished making the ginger soup, intending to give it to Molan when she woke up.

"Thank you, Auntie. Could you please make me another bowl of dandelion tea? It's good for treating illnesses too." Mo Lan thanked Liu Shi first, then drank the ginger soup from her mother's hand.

"Okay, I'll go right away." Liu felt relieved to hear that although her niece's voice was hoarse, she seemed to have regained some spirits. She hurriedly went out to boil dandelion water again.

After drinking the dandelion water, Mo Lan lay down again. Although she couldn't sleep, she planned to cover herself with the blanket to sweat it out. She couldn't get up at this time, or she would catch a chill and recover more slowly.

"Father, Mother, Uncle Chen is here." Mo Lan was lying on the kang listening to everyone gossiping when she suddenly heard Mo Changhe's shout from outside. It turned out that he had gone to invite Doctor Chen.

After taking Mo Lan's pulse, Doctor Chen determined that she had caught a cold, but it wasn't too serious, and her fever had subsided considerably. He nodded after learning about the Mo family's care methods for Mo Lan.

Doctor Chen left a few packets of herbs and said to Mo Quan, "Changhe and I just went out when we ran into Changsheng. He said his daughter Ju'er also had a high fever and asked me to go and take a look. From what he said, his daughter Ju'er's condition is much worse than Lanlan's. It's possible that they didn't take care of her fever last night and only came to ask me for help today. I'm relieved that Lanlan is being taken care of by you. I'll go to Brother Mo Jin's house to take a look."

"Yes, those two girls both fell into the river yesterday, their conditions must be similar. You should go and take a look at them, it's really too much trouble for you, brother." Mo Quan didn't dare to delay and got up to see Doctor Chen off.

"Well, brother, please wait a moment." Doctor Chen declined Mo Quan's offer to see him off and turned to go to the Mo family's old residence to see Mo Ju.

"Girls, how did you fall into the river?" After Doctor Chen left, Madam Wang asked Mo Lan with a glint in her eyes.

"It was Moju who pushed me from behind, and I lost my balance, stepped on the moss and fell. I pulled her down, and she fell down with me." Molan didn't hide anything and told the truth. Everyone present was her family, and she felt she should say whatever was on her mind.

"That brat! What did we do to offend her this time? She actually pushed you into the river! If it weren't for your father and the others, she would have killed you! It must have been that slut Cui who taught her this. I'm going to settle the score with her right now!" Qiu Shi was furious when she heard her daughter's words. Mo Ju had deliberately pushed her daughter into the river. This really made her furious!

"Mother, don't go. She definitely won't acknowledge me. My father and the others didn't see her push me. They were just arguing with her and got really angry. If they fought, it would only make us a laughingstock." Mo Lan hurriedly called out to her mother. After speaking, she lay down again. Her throat was sore, and it was difficult to speak.

"Second daughter-in-law, Lanlan is right. Moju is probably still running a fever and hasn't woken up yet. You won't get any grounds for argument if you go to her. Let's wait until Moju and Lan are both better before we talk about it. But, girl, why did Moju push you?" Wang asked Molan, then gestured for her daughter-in-law to sit down.

"What else could it be! It must be what Cui taught her. Her family hates us. Cui curses us every day, so she must have heard it all. This child is so cruel! She's only this young and she dared to push Lanlan into the water. Who knows what she'll do to others when she grows up!" Qiu said indignantly.

"I reckon Mo Ju has taken a liking to Cheng Xiao. She must have been unhappy seeing Cheng Xiao go up the mountain with us. Plus, she usually hates our family, so that's probably why she pushed me," Mo Lan whispered her thoughts.

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Mo Lan in surprise.

Mo Ju has taken a liking to Cheng Xiao? No way! How old is she? Ten years old! What does a ten-year-old know? Wait a minute! A ten-year-old isn't a child anymore; she's mature enough. What Mo Lan said might actually be true. Maybe Mo Ju really has taken a liking to Cheng Xiao!

"That child is shameless! She's so young, yet she's already arranging her own dates. I'm embarrassed to even hear about it! Lan'er, stay away from her from now on. Who knows what she might do when she goes crazy! And Cheng Xiao, how did he end up getting involved with her?" Qiu Shi earnestly instructed her daughter to stay far away from Mo Ju, lest she attract any more trouble.

"Who wants to talk to her! She insisted on going with us, calling us 'Grandpa' and 'Second Uncle' all the time. Doesn't she feel ashamed? I even dragged her back. I should have just left her on the mountain and ignored her. From now on, we should stay away from her family so that they won't try to harm us with their black hearts." Mo Changhe was also full of anger, and he said these harsh words viciously.

After listening to her son and daughter-in-law's words, Wang glanced at Mo Quan. He was the only one in the family who had a deep relationship with the second wife.

Mo Quan was also very angry. Looking at his angry son and daughter-in-law, and his pitiful granddaughter lying on the kang, he took a deep drag on his pipe and said, "From now on, we will not have any contact with them. Except for your second uncle, don't bother with them. We don't need any face or courtesy."

The Wang family members all nodded. It was impossible for Mo Quan to completely ignore Mo Jin from now on; they just needed to have less contact with his family.

Mo Lan had been sleeping in a daze all afternoon until she heard someone speaking beside her. She woke up, rubbed her slightly dizzy head, and opened her eyes to look at the person who was speaking.

Huh? That's little chubby Xue Linglei. What's he doing in the inner room? Seeing him politely answering her grandmother's questions, Mo Lan felt much more relaxed and her spirits lifted.

"Little Fatty, what brings you here?" Mo Lan thought to herself and then blurted out the question.

"Lan'er, how can you call Young Master Xue like that? You're becoming more and more ill-mannered!" Madam Wang's face darkened. Although she loved her granddaughter, her granddaughter still had to have proper manners.

Mo Lan stuck out her tongue and chuckled softly, "I'm delirious from a fever, and I don't think things through when I speak. Please don't take offense, Young Master Xue."

"Grandma Mo, it's alright. Lanlan is very cute. She calls me Little Fatty more affectionately. Please don't blame her; she's still sick." Little Fatty wasn't angry at all; on the contrary, he defended Mo Lan.

Mo Lan was very pleased to hear his words and gave him a big smile.

"I'm glad you don't mind, Young Master Xue. Please sit on the kang. It's really kind of you to come and see Lan'er..." Madam Wang smiled at the chubby boy, but didn't finish her sentence. She was quite satisfied with the boy; this young master was thoughtful.

"Grandma Mo, please don't say that. We've known each other for so long, and both Lanlan and Xiao San'er are very kind. I treat them like my younger brother and sister. When we didn't see Lanlan bring us lunch at noon, we asked and found out that Lanlan had fallen into the water. My two older brothers are very concerned, but they can't come in, so they asked me to send their regards. Lanlan, your voice is so hoarse, are you feeling unwell?" The chubby boy sat on the kang (a heated brick bed), speaking politely and well-mannered.

"I'm much better now, and the fever has almost gone down. Please thank Fifth Young Master and Seventh Young Master for me; thank you for your trouble. You should go eat quickly, or your two brothers will have already taken everything, and you won't get any." Mo Lan leaned against the quilt, smiling slightly. For some reason, seeing the little fat boy made her feel much better.

"It's alright, they've finished looting, I'll just eat in your back kitchen. Anyway, I saw your mother and the others made a lot of good food. I'm not afraid of going hungry." The chubby boy was less reserved than when he first came in. Only Wang Shi and Mo Lan were in the room, and everyone else was busy. He saw that Wang Shi was easy to talk to, so he relaxed a bit.

"You're such a glutton, going to eat in someone else's back kitchen," Mo Lan scolded him.

"Hehe, and you've always called me 'Little Fatty' in your heart, huh? I caught you this time. Next time I'll call you 'Little Rascal' and 'Little Rascal' too." Little Fatty ignored Mo Lan's accusation of being greedy, and instead seized on the sentence Mo Lan had said at the beginning, grinning at her in a low voice.

Mo Lan curled her lip, not caring what his name was.

"Alright, go eat now. Remember to bring some pastries next time you come to see me. You can't come empty-handed. We all loved the pastries you brought last time." Mo Lan didn't stand on ceremony with the chubby boy, urging him to eat and jokingly telling him to bring pastries.