The world is broken, the cubs mend it

"Exactly. Am I going to die? Sister Caizhi said that many people who get the plague will die."

Yuanyuan half-closed her eyes and felt a little tired after saying these words. Her body was hot like a small furnace.

"No, you will live in good health."

Pei Zhiyan rubbed her head and said that the fact that she could wake up meant that she would get better slowly.

He was worried all night yesterday, fearing that his child would leave him.

If she really can't hold on, I won't let her go to the underworld alone.

"really?"

Yuanyuan twisted her body with great effort and found a comfortable position to lie down. Her chubby little face squeezed her mouth into a chicken-like shape.

"Of course it's true. If you feel uncomfortable, just take a nap."

Pei Zhiyan also felt that his body was feverish, so he drank a dose of medicine to treat the plague, and now he felt a little sleepy.

"Daddy, why did I get the plague? Will I infect you?"

Yuanyuan asked in confusion. She felt uncomfortable but couldn't sleep.

She was clearly very obedient and didn't go anywhere, so how come she got sick after a good night's sleep?

"It's okay. I'm a strong adult. Don't worry about me. The most important thing is to take care of yourself."

Pei Zhiyan couldn't help feeling warm in his heart when he saw that she was so sick and still worried about her own health.

"Daddy, the rabbit gave me medicine, can I not drink that black medicine?"

Yuanyuan feels that Chinese medicine is very bitter. She has to drink it with every meal, and the food she eats also tastes bitter.

"Don't talk nonsense. You will get better faster if you take the medicine."

Pei Zhiyan didn't know why she kept mentioning the imaginary rabbit. He had doubted whether such a rabbit really existed, but he didn't find any clues.

"..."

007, who was picking up the pills, paused, his ears pricked up for a moment, and he said nothing.

It’s really convinced!

I'm so worried that she'll burn out her brain. Good intentions don't get rewarded.

Wu Xian, who was guarding in the yard, saw that there was one more bowl of medicine delivered today. He guessed what was going on and leaned outside with his face covered and sighed.

The father and daughter in the room were chatting incoherently, and soon they fell asleep in a daze.

"Admiral, do you think the girl can make it?"

Xiao Fuzi bravely approached Wu Xian and asked this question. He watched bowl after bowl of medicine being sent in, and his heart felt like it was on fire.

Caizhi was also isolated alone, but the imperial physician said that although her body would be damaged, her life should still be saved.

"Of course, don't talk about these things."

Wu Xian waved his hand and answered impatiently, but he couldn't hide his worried expression.

"..."

Seeing that he didn't want to pay attention to her, Xiao Fuzi tactfully stepped aside.

There was a commotion at the gate of Wangyue Tower. The emperor's dragon chariot stopped here. The emperor's face was wrapped tightly, leaving only a pair of eyes exposed.

"I heard that Master Pei's adopted daughter was ill. Is she feeling better now?"

"With Master Palm Seal's careful care, everything will be fine."

Wu Xian bowed and replied. Seeing that he was afraid that he was going to inquire again, he felt a chill in his heart.

"How is Pei Zhangyin's health?"

"Your Majesty, please be concerned about the health of the Master."

"..."

After hearing his words, the emperor looked inside with some doubt and disappointment. He waved his hand and had the dragon chariot carried away.

The father and daughter slept until late at night. Yuanyuan felt better than during the day. She drank a bowl of rice soup and some pear and loquat paste to soothe her throat.

"Daddy, take me out to play when I get better."

"Okay, I'll take you there when you're better."

After Pei Zhiyan fed the child, he ate some himself.

For some reason he always felt a bitter taste in his mouth, which was different from the bitterness of the Chinese medicine he drank.

He seriously suspected that someone had drugged him while he was asleep.

"Then when I get better, will there still be plague outside?"

Yuanyuan looked at the position of the window and realized that she couldn't even feel the wind or see the scenery outside.

“It’s going to be okay…”

Pei Zhiyan couldn't confirm it with her. Compared with the child's wish for a better world, his thoughts seemed too dark.

"Dad, you haven't told me how I got the plague."

Yuanyuan always felt that she was sick for unknown reasons. According to sister Caizhi, she must have been infected.

"It was Concubine Jing. When she came to hug you that day, she was carrying the underwear of a palace maid infected with the plague in her arms. She hated me but could not do anything to me, so she chose to attack you."

Sooner or later she should understand that human nature is treacherous, and Pei Zhiyan did not deliberately hide it from her.

After hearing this, Yuanyuan was obviously unwilling to believe it. She lowered her little head and thought of the strange hug from Concubine Jing.

After a long while, she muttered.

"She's obviously very good to me, I don't want to believe it."

"..."

Pei Zhiyan was wary of Concubine Jing at first, but her kindness to the child did not seem fake, and he did not find it strange that she did such a thing.

People's hearts are full of truth and falsehood, and it was his carelessness that implicated the child.

After a while, the child covered his face and started crying softly. Even a child would feel sad if he was hurt by someone he believed he loved.

Yuanyuan fell asleep again while crying, and from then on she never asked any questions related to Concubine Jing again.

Pei Zhiyan sat beside the couch and wiped the tears from the child's face. He found that the child's high fever had subsided, and his hands that were stroking her cheek were shaking.

Even though the child was right in front of him, he felt as if he had found something he had lost.

The imperial physician did not expect that the child's high fever would subside early in the morning of the third day, while Caizhi, whose symptoms were milder than hers, was still having recurring fever.

Yuanyuan lay in bed for seven days before her symptoms completely disappeared and she was able to go out to the yard to bask in the sun.

"You are a blessed person."

Wu Xian often said this to her recently. She was probably the only one who could recover so easily from the plague.

Ever since she fell ill, the guarding of Wangyue Tower has become stricter. Pei Zhiyan has recovered and has been leaving the palace frequently recently.

The child always begged him to go out, so he went out to check on the patients outside the palace and pick some wild flowers and fruits for her.

In the area where the patients gathered, he saw from afar a woman holding a sick child and crying sadly.

The child was about the same age as Yuanyuan, and his little face was flushed red, which always reminded him of the night when the child was unconscious.

He seemed to have softened his heart unconsciously, as if he could empathize with the woman.

If it were in the past, he would have thought that death was death, no different from the wild flowers and weeds on the roadside.

Even Wu Xian felt that he had changed, into a warmer person, and this change seemed to have started a long time ago.

The plague lasted for three full months. Caizhi had to stay in bed for more than a month before she recovered, but she was left with a cough.

Yuanyuan asked the rabbit to share some of the colorful pills with Caizhi, but Caizhi said that giving them to Daddy was already an exception and refused to share any more.

The two had quarreled several times over this. Sometimes when Pei Zhiyan came back from outside, he would always see the child sitting alone on the swing sulking. When he asked her why, she refused to say anything.