Chapter 288: Chapter 281: What Kind of Music are you Studying?
“My good boy,” Ren Li hugged the rascal and planted a big kiss on his cheek, then returned home to breastfeed him. If not for her nutritious breast milk, how could the little boy grow up so robustly?
With her little brother gone, Tang Yuxin played with her medicinal herbs. Every day, she carried her bamboo basket, climbed into the mountains to gather herbs, and then returned home to play with Little Fatty.
After a few days, Ji Miaomiao and his friends arrived, bringing all their luggage with them, clearly indicating their plan to stay for a while.
And one by one, they watched Little Fatty with such longing eyes, as if they wanted to eat him up.
Little Fatty, long graceful and cute, with a gentle nature and, most importantly, his sweet words. He greeted everyone with a smile, liked to nuzzle his face against theirs, and wasn’t too picky either.
Moreover, being the youngest, he received the most affection.
However, Little Fatty’s favorite was still his sister.
One night, after playing madly, Little Fatty became feverish.
Tang Yuxin held his small palm; Little Fatty looked pitiful, pouting his little mouth, obviously not feeling so good.
“You’ll feel better after some sugar water.”
Tang Yuxin comforted her brother, gently pinching his chubby hand. The whole family would worry if he lost even a bit of weight. It wasn’t easy to achieve such a plump figure.
The sugar water Tang Yuxin mentioned was actually medicinal water. However, she had perfected the process into making the medicine taste like sugar water. As a result, the taste wasn’t too bad, and Chengcheng could accept it as long as it wasn’t bitter.
Ren Li fed him mouthfuls of this ‘sugar water’ using a small spoon.
After finishing, the little fellow became quite drowsy, and within a short while, fell asleep in his mother’s arms. About half an hour later, Ren Li could feel Chengcheng sweating profusely. His normally rosy face returned to its normal color, and his breathing eased. He was now soundly asleep.
Ren Li felt relieved at last. Sometimes she genuinely felt that Tang Yuxin was a little miracle worker. Just a simple cup of sugar water could break a fever. If this continued in the future, what would they need doctors for?
However, Ren Li didn’t know that Tang Yuxin’s ‘sugar water’ was hardly ordinary. It took countless trials for her to perfect it. They were concoctions from old Chen Family recipes, exclusively for treating children’s fever and cold. She had spent a considerable amount of time foraging Qing’an’s herbal shops for ingredients, with a lot of effort in mixing and matching various medicinal flavors, until she finally brewed something that tasted somewhat like sugar water.
“I don’t want to be a teacher,” Lin Yile looked at Xu Miaomiao, then lowered her gaze.
“I want to study music.”
“What?” Xu Miaomiao loudly exclaimed as she jumped to her feet.
“Lin Yile, you want to study music?”
“Yes, yes. Is that wrong?” Lin Yile was nonplussed. Was studying music that strange?
Tang Yuxin asked Lin Yile, her voice filled with bemusement, much like her expression at the moment.
“You do know how to sing, right?”
Tang Yuxin asked.
Lin Yile shook her head; she did not know how to sing.
“Can you play any musical instrument?”
Lin Yile shook her head again; she didn’t know how to play any musical instrument.
“Then why the heck would you study music?” Xu Miaomiao poked Lin Yile’s forehead, “You have no idea how to do this or that, so why study music?”
“But... it’s my dream,” Lin Yile fiddled with her shirt corner awkwardly.
“Dreams often conflict with reality, but we live in reality.”
Tang Yuxin promptly and unreservedly shattered her dream.
Lin Yile was not suited for that path. Her nature determined her destiny. She was not fit for music.
Lin Yile was on the verge of crying. Why didn’t anyone support her? Even just one person’s support could have made a difference. But everyone was against her. What was she to do?
She went home and told her parents about her decision. In response, her mother fell silent, and her father did the same.