Seeing Xiao Yu closing his eyes to feel her pulse, Dai Yuxin stopped talking and remained silent. She had learned medicine from her grandfather, so she knew that one shouldn’t disturb someone while th...Chapter 45: Night Crying in Children

Xiao Yu looked at her mother in surprise. It was understandable for her brother to be unwilling to stay in a small place after getting used to living in a big city, but what about her mother Just now, she still complained that her brother didn't eat or live well outside...

Actually, although Xiao Jianying seemed gentle and amiable on the surface, she was very proud inside. She never sought help from others and had her own daughter too. Knowing that her daughter's in-laws did not like her daughter, there was no need to make her suffer because of this. Therefore, Xiao Jianying answered quite firmly.

Moreover, Xiao Yu was even more unwilling for his father-in-law to help him. Last year after his sister got married, according to the custom on their side during Chinese New Year, the bride’s brother or younger brother would visit the bride's family to show respect and emphasis on her status as a daughter. When Xiao Yu went, his sister's father was snobbish and looked down upon everyone there; it was almost like he wanted to directly scold Xiao Yu then and there. Since that time onwards, Xiao Yu never visited his sister’s in-laws anymore. This was also the reason why after graduating from college, he did not ask for help from his father-in-law but chose to find a job on his own.

Lu Jianhong is currently working at an office under a township subordinate of the same city. With the influence of his father, it's said that next year he will be promoted to deputy director. After two years of experience in officialdom, Lu Jianhong had already been tempered and thus didn't mind being rejected by both mother-in-law and younger brother-in-law for a moment. He just smiled and said, "Alright then, I won’t meddle unnecessarily. But Xiao Yu, your nephew's first birthday is the day after tomorrow. You have to attend our banquet at the city’s best luxury hotel!"

Xiao Yu knew his younger brother didn't want to come to their home, but this time was different; so she followed up and said, "Little Brother, you must go this time! If you don’t go, it won’t be good for your child."

On the side of Xiao Yu’s family, when a child reaches one year old, the maternal uncle must attend. If there are no blood relatives on the female side, then some distant relatives should also come to represent them, otherwise it would not be good for the child. Knowing this rule, Xiao Yu said, "Sis, Brother-in-law, don’t worry! I will definitely be there!" He lifted his glass and clinked it with Lu Jianhong before downing the drink in one go, saying, “Thank you, brother-in-law!”

Lu Jianhong was taken aback. He thought that Xiao Yu must have been thanking him for offering to help find a job for him earlier. Although he had said it would make his wife happy if he could do so, hearing Xiao Yu’s words now made him feel that Xiao Yu had grown up quite a bit compared to before. It seemed being away from home really did toughen someone. He then patted Xiao Yu's shoulder and said, "We're brothers; no need for formality!" With that, he picked up his glass again and clinked it with Xiao Yu’s.

Xiao Yu and Lu Jianhong engaged in a drinking contest. Usually, whenever they drank together, the alcohol-tolerant official, Lu Jianhong, would get Xiao Yu thoroughly drunk. This time, however, Xiao Yu gave him his due payback by getting Lu Jianhong completely wasted.

Seeing her brother get her husband so drunk left Xiao Yu in a state of bewilderment. She knew that her husband's alcohol tolerance was at least one catty (Chinese unit), and during the night before Xiao Yu's departure to the deep sea for work, he had been thoroughly intoxicated by his own husband. Yet she couldn't believe it—after just half a year without seeing each other, her brother's drinking capacity could have improved so much that now he could get her husband drunk while remaining perfectly fine himself

Xiao Yu and his sister escorted her husband to the room where she used to live before getting married. Since then, no one had touched anything in there. Every time they came over, they would stay in this room.

Xiao Yu’s own bedroom was located at the farthest corner on the east side of the house. Inside his room, his mother had specially put out freshly washed bedding for him. However, the furnishings were still arranged as they used to be, just cleaned and polished recently. Looking around at everything in the simple room, he didn’t feel anything special about it before, but since coming back from Beijing, he realized how hard his parents’ life was.

Furthermore, wasn't her sister being treated poorly by her in-laws due to their poverty As the only man in this family, he felt responsible for making everyone’s lives better. Now that he had some money and the means to do so, he needed to start planning accordingly.

This night Xiao Yu tossed and turned restlessly and couldn’t fall asleep until around 2 or 3 am. The next morning, a series of knocks on the door from his clinic downstairs woke him up. Glancing at his watch, it was only half past six and still quite dark outside. After hearing his mother answer the door and say she would open right away, Xiao Yu pulled the blanket over his head to continue sleeping.

Just as he intended to fall back asleep, he was startled awake by a baby's cries coming from downstairs. He tried plugging his ears to go back to sleep, but the crying continued to intensify and showed no sign of stopping. Xiao Yu couldn’t bear it anymore and had no choice but to get up.

Xiao Yu grabbed his toiletries intending to wash up when he ran into his sister and brother-in-law who were also roused from their sleep by the commotion downstairs. Brother-in-law Lu Jianhong patted Xiao Yu's shoulder upon seeing him: "Not bad, Xiao Yu! I didn't expect you would have improved so much in just half a year! Impressive, impressive—great potential!"

"There you go, thinking about getting my brother drunk—aren't you embarrassed this time" Xiao Yubai glanced at Lu Jianhong with a teasing remark.

"Please, Dr. Xiao, help my son! Please do!"

"It's not that I don't want to help; it's just that there's nothing I can do,"

Suddenly, from the clinic downstairs came cries of pleading and a baby’s escalating wails. Xiao Yu exchanged glances with his sister before saying, "Let's go down and see what’s going on!" He then put down his toiletries and headed downstairs together with his sister and brother-in-law to the clinic.

In the clinic, a young couple held an infant around three months old, sitting there incessantly pleading with their mother: "Dr. Xiao, we've been to many hospitals in town but none of them could help us. We heard that you are good at treating children’s illnesses with traditional Chinese medicine, so we came early this morning. You have to help us!"

Xiao Yu's mother shook her head helplessly and patiently said to the couple: "It's not that I don’t want to help; in my opinion, your son is perfectly healthy, but as for his crying, there’s nothing I can do."

As Xiao Yu and his sister entered the clinic, the baby who had been wailing suddenly stopped. The couple exchanged a look of surprise—despite having taken their child to numerous hospitals over two days with countless examinations conducted, none could find any cause for concern. Although Dr. Xiao Jianying said their son was healthy, they felt grateful because he didn’t cry in her presence.

After the couple left the clinic with their child, Xiao Yu yawned and complained: "Mom, what’s going on Do you want to wake everyone up this early"

"It's not just a crying child from earlier; this child cries every night, non-stop until morning without sleeping. During the day, between 9 and 10 AM, they stop crying, but at around 6 or 7 PM, they start again. It has been going on for two days now, yet their pulse is very stable with no issues detected. That's why this couple took advantage of the early morning when the child was still crying to seek medical help from various doctors!" Xiao Jianying explained.

After she spoke, she glanced at her daughter and turned to face Xiao Yu and Lu Jianhong. "Xiao Yu, Jianhong hasn't slept well either! Why don’t you two go back for some more sleep"

"Mom, I'm not sleeping anymore. There's a leader coming today to inspect the work, so I need to return to my job!" Lu Jianhong said.

“I’m also not going to sleep now, I feel wide awake right now!” Xiao Yu chimed in as well.

The couple returned just then. Before they could say anything, the baby stopped crying again. The couple looked puzzled and said, "Doctor Xiao, as soon as we stepped out a moment ago, the child started crying again. But now that we're back inside, they've stopped!"

Xiao Jianying was equally perplexed and replied, “I’m not quite sure either!”

At this point, Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Let me take a look. Such a cute baby shouldn’t be crying like that."th should allow you to see the 70th anniversary celebration!" Xiao Yu chuckled after hearing Old Master Zhuo's words.Old Master Zhuo’s body had always been in relatively good condition and there were...