Chapter 55: Chapter 55: Starting to Teethe

Autumn planting couldn’t be delayed, so the next day, since they didn’t need to go to the county town, Xu Shuhua and Yu Hai went out to the fields together to help with the sowing.

The Yu family’s land wasn’t far from the Wang family’s, so it was inevitable they’d run into each other on the way to or from the fields.

Whenever Old Lady Wang saw the Yu family, she’d pull a long face, her nose wrinkled and eyes narrowed in displeasure.

But she couldn’t win an argument with Xu Shuhua. Even if she had complaints, she only dared to mutter under her breath, afraid Xu Shuhua would hear and cause her more trouble.

In truth, Old Lady Wang was overthinking things. Xu Shuhua these days was entirely focused on how to run a long-term, legitimate business; she didn’t have the time or energy to pay attention to Old Lady Wang.

After a whole day of hard work in the fields, the whole family was aching and exhausted.

Even so, while Chen Qiaoqin was making dinner, Xu Shuhua still took Yu Nuannuan in her arms and brought Yu Hai along for a trip out. When they returned, they brought back a basket full of ground cherries.

The rest of the Yu family was already used to this. At most, after dinner, each person would take two to taste.

While Chen Qiaoqin and Yu Hai were taking turns going to the county town every other day and their business was booming, Yu Nuannuan started teething.

At first, Yu Nuannuan just felt her lower gums were itchy and always wanted to bite something to relieve the discomfort.

Chen Qiaoqin, who spent the most time with Yu Nuannuan every day, was the first to notice something was off.

She leaned in and stared at Yu Nuannuan’s gums for a long while, then finally let out a sigh of relief and exclaimed with a smile, “Nuanbao is starting to get her teeth! You can already see the white tips!”

Hearing this, Yu Nuannuan instinctively wanted to lick her gums with her tongue, but managed to hold herself back.

She seemed to remember hearing that you shouldn’t lick your gums when teething, or the teeth would grow in crooked.

Even if they were just baby teeth, Yu Nuannuan wanted her little teeth to be neat and tidy.

Of course, teething wasn’t something that happened overnight, or even in just a few days.

From the moment Yu Nuannuan first felt it, she was in a constant state of discomfort.

Her gums were always itchy, as if something was trying to break through.

During the days when her teeth were just barely poking through, Yu Nuannuan even developed a slight fever.

This scared the whole Yu family, and Xu Shuhua immediately took Yu Nuannuan to the county hospital.

At the hospital, Xu Shuhua rushed into pediatrics with Yu Nuannuan in her arms, with Chen Qiaoqin and Yu Hai following anxiously behind.

Seeing the three of them so flustered, carrying a baby just a few months old, the doctor was startled. “What’s wrong with the child?”

Xu Shuhua stopped in front of the doctor’s desk, not even pausing to catch her breath. She blurted out, “Doctor, please take a look at our Nuanbao! She has a bit of a fever!”

A fever in such a young child could be a big deal.

Seeing how anxious Xu Shuhua was, the doctor instinctively thought it must be serious.

But when he put his hand on Yu Nuannuan’s forehead, his expression became a bit odd.

He looked at her face, then felt her hands and feet, and finally his gaze landed on her mouth. “Is she starting to teethe?”

“Yes! Yes! Doctor, please take a look! If she’s just teething, why does she have a fever?”

If Xu Shuhua hadn’t seemed so genuinely anxious, the doctor would have thought she was just making a fuss.

The doctor sat back down and handed Xu Shuhua a thermometer. “Let’s check her temperature first. Put this end in her armpit.”"

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