Chapter 500 Sun Bomin is ill
The next morning, Sun Boming had a slight cold and fever, so Su anxiously asked the servants to call a doctor.
Sun Shan asked with concern: "Dad, are you okay?"
I touched Sun Bomin's forehead and found it was a little hot. I asked anxiously, "Why do you have a fever all of a sudden?"
Everything was fine yesterday. After having lunch at Old Master He San's house, I went to He Wenshu's house for dinner. We ate and drank a lot and had a great time.
Why do I feel uncomfortable today?
Su brought the doctor in from outside. Seeing Sun Shan, she hurriedly drove him out of the room, and warned him, "Don't come in. Be careful not to get sick from your father."
A cold and a fever can be serious or minor, and the disease is contagious. Su is worried about Sun Shan.
He has been weak and sickly since childhood. At the age of five, he got heatstroke and fainted while picking rice ears in the field. At the age of thirteen, he went for the college entrance examination and got heatstroke all the time. I haven't heard about his illness in the past two years.
Su thought that she should be an adult now, so her health has improved a lot.
But no matter how healthy he is, he is still very fragile, and Sun Shan must never be allowed to get close to a sick person.
Sun Shan had no choice but to walk out of the room and stand in front of the window watching the doctor diagnose Sun Boming.
After waiting for a long time, the doctor came out and said that Sun Bomin might have eaten too much and caught a cold, so he had a fever and a cold, and might also have diarrhea. He asked Sun Bomin to be careful, especially since he was old and would not recover as quickly as young people, so he needed to rest more.
Su quickly agreed and asked Gui Ge'er to follow the servant to get the medicine.
Sun Bomin lay on the bed, coughed a few times, and said to Sun Shan outside the window: "Shanzi, Dad is fine, you don't have to worry. Your mother is right, you must not come in, lest you get infected by me."
Sun Boming couldn't understand why he got sick. He had always been in good health, so it was so unreasonable for him to suddenly get sick.
Su glanced at Sun Bomin and knew what he was thinking.
He said unhappily, "I drank too much at Bao Ge'er's house yesterday. You see, drinking too much makes you sick. I must have not covered myself with a blanket last night, so I caught a cold."
Su cursed at Sun Boming. She would not have dared to do so in the past, but it was different now. Her son was a juren, and she was the lady of the juren's family.
A mother's status is determined by her son, and Su feels that she is the most important one in the Sun family.
Su also heard from Baoger's mother, Sun Yu Niang, that if Sun Shan passed the imperial examination next year, he would definitely become an official. Once he became an official, she would have a chance to become a lady of noble birth, and become Madam Haoming, and receive rewards and salaries from the court.
Sun Yu Niang looked at Bao Ge'er and his brother, and asked them to learn from Sun Shan, study hard, and take the examinations for scholar, juren, and jinshi in the future to win an imperial decree for Sun Yu Niang.
Su also heard from Sun Yu Niang that if Sun Shan became an official, only she and her daughter-in-law would receive imperial decrees, while no one else, including Huang, would.
Unless Sun Shan can become a high-ranking official or make special contributions to Daqian, he will have a chance to get it.
The most important thing is that Sun Boming cannot rely on his father’s status as a son, cannot obtain an imperial decree, and still remains a commoner.
When Su heard this, she was overjoyed. It seemed that she would be the most honorable person in Sunjia Village in the near future. She was the first woman who was not a commoner.
As for her daughter-in-law, humph, Su Shi doesn’t take her seriously and will never surpass her.
Su firmly believed that she was the first woman in Sunjia Village to receive a salary from the imperial court.
Sun Bomin knew that he had done something wrong, and Su kept scolding him, but she kept scolding him, and Sun Bomin was not happy about it.
He stiffened his neck and said, "Shanzi's mother, please stop arguing. The more you argue, the harder it will be for me to recover. I still have to accompany Shanzi to the capital. Please get out and don't disturb me while I rest."
Su suddenly remembered that Sun Boming was going to the capital, her face changed and she ran out of the room in a hurry.
He asked Sun Shan: "Shanzi, I don't know when your father will recover from his illness, and I don't know if he can accompany you to the capital. You must think carefully. What if he can't accompany you?"
Sun Shan was also worried about this problem. He believed that a fever or a cold would pass if he endured it, and that he would generally be fine if he took a good rest.
But just now the doctor told Sun Boming to be careful, as he might have diarrhea, which would be bad.
In this state, how could I feel safe letting him go with me?
Sun Shan comforted the anxious Su: "Mother, if father is still sick, don't accompany me to the capital. Brother Gui, Brother Dingnan, and Uncle Dali and I can go together. Father should rest at home."
After a pause, he continued, "Just now the doctor said that Daddy is not young anymore and will recover slowly, so we need to be more careful. Mother, I was thinking that even if Daddy recovers, he should not follow us to the capital. It's a long way to go, and if he gets sick again on the way, what if we can't find a doctor? Mother, do you think it's a good idea for Daddy to stay at home to recuperate?"
Whether it was a good thing or not, Su wanted Sun Boming to go with her.
After all, as a mother, she feels more at ease knowing that the father of the child is with him.
But the doctor was right. Sun Boming was not young anymore and the capital was too far away. He had two sumptuous meals yesterday and caught a cold by mistake without covering himself with a blanket. It was too easy for him to get sick.
If he falls ill on the way, it will not be him who takes care of Shanzi, but Shanzi who will take care of him.
Su thought darkly that Sun Boming should not be a stumbling block to Shanzi's success, and it would be better for him to stay at home and recuperate.
Waiting for good news from Shanzi High School.
Su rolled her eyes and whispered, "Shanzi, what do you think of your mother accompanying you to the capital? Your mother can take good care of you on the way. Your mother is in better health than your mother and will not hold you back."
Sun Shan shook his head without thinking and refused, saying, "Mother, the journey is too long and it must be very hard. I am worried about you going with me. You are a woman and you cannot endure such hardship. Mother, you and father stay at home and wait for my good news."
Su wanted to insist, but Sun Shan continued to refuse.
Seeing Sun Shan say no so firmly, Su had no choice but to give up.
In fact, she was also afraid of going to the capital, where she was unfamiliar with the place. Not only was she a woman, she was illiterate and could not speak the language. If she got lost, she really couldn't find the way back to Sunjia Village. If she got lost, how could she be a lady of the imperial court?
Su thought about it again and again, and decided to obey Sun Shan's words and leave without making a fuss.
Su told Sun Boming what Sun Shan meant.
Sun Bomin got up from the bed anxiously and said anxiously: "Shanzi, Dad is fine, I will accompany you to Beijing. Without me, you will be disrespectful and I am worried."
Sun Shan stood outside the window and said loudly, "Dad, take good care of yourself. If you recover in two days, we will go together."
Sun Shan decided not to let Sun Bomin go regardless of whether he recovered or not.
Sun Bomin was stubborn and one-track-minded, and Sun Shan could not convince him, so he planned to talk to Sun Dagu.
Aunt Sun holds a stabilizing position in the Sun family. She may not listen to Sun Boming’s son, but she will definitely listen to her elder sister.
The road to the capital is too far, unlike going to Guangzhou, Zhangzhou, or even Changsha.
Sun Shan was very worried that Sun Boming might get sick on the road, so he asked him to have a good rest at home and not to run around too much.