Su Yiyi remembered this woman. Her name was Huang Qiaoyu, also a military wife.
In the original owner’s memory, Huang Qiaoyu was one of the more low-profile people in the compound. She didn’t like gossip or idle talk. While Su Yiyi herself used to be the center of all military-wife gossip, Huang Qiaoyu had never joined in spreading rumors.
Fever medicine was definitely available—she had it stored in the rest area.
Before she transmigrated, a global virus outbreak had occurred, with most infected people developing high fevers, so she had stocked up heavily on antipyretics in all her owned properties just in case.
“Yes, I have. Wait for me a moment.”
Su Yiyi didn’t waste time. High fever could be serious, especially for children—one careless moment could become dangerous.
She quickly gathered fever medicine along with a few other possibly needed medications, wrapped them in white paper, and went out.
“Let’s go. I’ll go with you and take a look,” Su Yiyi said.
Huang Qiaoyu was shocked. “You… you’re coming too?”
Su Yiyi frowned slightly and nodded.
“Didn’t you say your husband isn’t home? It’s not good if there’s no one to help. I’ll go with you. If it’s serious, we’ll send the child to the hospital immediately.”
Huang Qiaoyu only managed a quiet, “Thank you.”
She hadn’t expected Su Yiyi not only to lend her medicine, but also to personally help. She felt a little touched.
When they arrived at Huang Qiaoyu’s house, Su Yiyi took a look.
The yard was much smaller than hers, but it was clean and tidy.
Inside the room, a boy around seven or eight years old was lying on the kang bed. A towel was placed on his forehead, his lips were pale, and his face looked very unwell.
Seeing him wrapped tightly with almost no gaps, Su Yiyi frowned again.
“Sister-in-law, you must not wrap him like this when he has a fever. He needs to release heat. Hurry and loosen the blanket.”
Huang Qiaoyu was already panicking and completely lost. She hadn’t not thought about sending him to the hospital immediately, but she still had two younger children at home, and most families’ men weren’t around at this time. Everyone had their own elderly or children to take care of, so no one could help her.
She didn’t expect the one who came to help would be Su Yiyi.
Without thinking further, she quickly loosened the blanket around the child.
Next to the kang sat two younger children—one boy and one girl.
The girl looked about three years old and was crying.
“Mommy, what’s wrong with brother?”
The other boy was about five, also very anxious and frightened. Both were at the age where they needed constant care, which made Huang Qiaoyu even more overwhelmed.
“It’s okay, brother is fine. Be good and go outside to play. Xiao Jiang, take your sister out,” she said, worried they might also catch the illness.
Su Yiyi didn’t waste words. She handed over the medicine.
“Sister-in-law, give him the medicine first and observe him. If there’s still no improvement, we’ll send him to the hospital.”
Huang Qiaoyu nodded repeatedly and finally managed to feed the medicine to the child after some effort.
She then sat anxiously by the kang, watching closely.
Su Yiyi also stayed silent.
After a while, the child finally opened his eyes, and his face looked noticeably better than before.
Huang Qiaoyu quickly checked his forehead—indeed, it wasn’t as hot anymore.
The fever medicine was working.
She was overjoyed and looked at Su Yiyi with deep gratitude—then suddenly slapped her own forehead.
“Look at me! What am I doing? You came to help me and I didn’t even pour you a glass of water!”
She hurried to stand up.
Su Yiyi quickly stopped her.
“It’s fine, sister-in-law. Just take good care of the child. Now that he’s better, I’ll head back. If anything else happens, just come get me. I’m home anyway and not busy.”
With that, she turned and left.
Huang Qiaoyu didn’t chase after her because she still had to care for the child, but her impression of Su Yiyi had completely changed.
She wasn’t someone who liked gossip, but she had heard plenty of bad rumors about Su Yiyi in the compound before. Since she hadn’t interacted with her, she had naturally believed them.
But now she no longer thought that way at all.
If Su Yiyi were really as difficult and unreasonable as people said, how could she have been so willing to help a stranger so sincerely?
Her voice was also soft and gentle—completely unlike the rumors.
Who exactly started those stories?
Thinking back, Su Yiyi had mostly kept to herself and rarely interacted with anyone. Yet people had described her as if they knew her deeply.
Just like that, Huang Qiaoyu’s impression of her rose sharply. She decided that once her husband returned, she would find a way to repay this favor.
When Su Yiyi returned home, she immediately felt how cold it was outside.
She hurried back onto the kang bed.
Helping Huang Qiaoyu hadn’t been something she thought much about—it was just a child with a high fever, and it looked pitiful.
Medical care in this era wasn’t advanced. Even though there was a military hospital, treatment was expensive. Unless it was truly serious, most families couldn’t afford to go—even a single visit could cost a month or two of wages.
Even with some subsidies for military families, everyone still lived carefully and frugally.
She had gone along partly to check the child’s condition. If it had been serious, she would have advised sending him to the hospital—because if a fever damaged the brain or caused complications, it would be too late for regret.
From what she saw, being a military wife was truly not easy. People always said soldiers were glorious, and military families were honored too—but raising children alone like this was exhausting.
She woke up early and still felt sleepy, so she went back to sleep for a while.
When Gu Zhenyang returned, he found that Su Yiyi was still asleep.
Looking at the breakfast in his hand, his expression turned slightly displeased.
Yesterday, the political commissar had called him over for criticism. The main issue was that Su Yiyi’s situation in the compound was partly because he wasn’t home.
The commissar was kind-hearted and even insisted he bring breakfast back personally.
And now?
After all the morning training, this woman was still asleep.
Just how lazy could she be?