Could it really be that she’s just here to check if my health has gotten better?

If Yang Xiaocui is trying to get close to me, I’ve already been quite kind to her, there’s no need for her to visit me every day to build rapport, is there? If she’s coming just for that little bit of stuff every day, wouldn’t it make me feel disgusted? Could Yang Xiaocui be that foolish?

She’s tried multiple times to see me, even choosing to come early in the morning, there must be something going on. Hopefully, she doesn’t come early tomorrow morning because I need to run errands with Xiaoxiao.

Let’s see what tricks she has up her sleeve. With that thought, Li Chuntao shouted out the window, "Alu, let Xiaocui in."

Yang Xiaocui finally got her wish to enter the house, seeing Li Chuntao getting off the kang, wearing a jacket, realizing she just got up from resting and quickly said, "Chuntao, sorry to bother you so late, I hope I didn’t wake you."

"It’s fine, I went to bed early after dinner. If you hadn’t come, I would have woken up anyway." Li Chuntao smiled slightly at the corner of her mouth, obviously having seen that the room wasn’t lit and yet had knocked anyway, now claiming to have disturbed her—clearly suspicious.

"Chuntao, I heard you weren’t feeling well these last couple of days, how are you now, feeling better?" Yang Xiaocui spoke with concern. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

But when someone starts to annoy you, even words of concern are hard to hear sincerely. So Li Chuntao didn’t continue with the pleasantries and instead asked, "Xiaocui, did you come to see me for something?"

Yang Xiaocui hesitated and didn’t speak.

Li Chuntao could see that she was probably looking to ask for something. Even though Li Chuntao wanted to know what kind of request Xiaocui had, she didn’t want to pretend to be overly concerned, so she said, "I thought you were looking for me about something, but if not, then I’m relieved."

Upon hearing this, Yang Xiaocui became anxious. She thought saying it like that would make Li Chuntao worried enough to ask what was troubling her, but this straightforward Li Chuntao actually thought she had no issues.

If she didn’t speak now, she’d leave with nothing gained today, and that wouldn’t do. She had come with great difficulty and had to say it, so she repeated the story she told Yang Dong, since Yang Dong certainly hadn’t mentioned it to his family, and Li Chuntao hadn’t passed on previous messages, surely asking for a favor means she won’t talk.

Li Chuntao was genuinely surprised after hearing Yang Xiaocui, not expecting her to ask for silver.

They had only met a few times and weren’t that acquainted, to ask to borrow silver—did she really think Li Chuntao was a fool?

Yang Xiaocui continued speaking, "I know I shouldn’t come to you about this, but I have no choice, this place hurts so much, I can’t avoid taking medicine anymore. My mother won’t give me medicine, and I don’t have the face to go to Yang Dong, you’re my only friend, please help me. I’ll definitely repay you the five taels of silver."

Li Chuntao had her doubts, was the medicine that expensive? She had heard the consultation fee was only two taels, why was she borrowing five taels now?

She was shy about asking Yang Dong, but not about asking her?

"Xiaocui, is your medicine really that expensive?"

The question left Yang Xiaocui dumbfounded, but she quickly found an excuse, "Because it’s hard for me to go out, I thought I’d buy everything at once, so five taels are needed."