She remembered that she had some willow twigs left over from a few days ago, and these fresh ones must have been picked by the second brother this morning.
Third and fourthbrothers can't get off the bed yet.
She picked up a willow twig about the size of a chopstick and was about to fetch water when the second brother handed her some with a wooden ladle. She hesitated before taking it, "Second brother, you don't have to do this."
She thought to herself, he's not her husband, so there's no need for him to be so considerate.
"It's necessary," he said with an indifferent tone.
"It's not necessary," she corrected him immediately. What kind of second uncle helps the wife fetch water like this? If people saw, it would be very embarrassing.
Yishan thought she was just being shy.
She bit one end of the twig, dipped it into the pot of medicinal paste, and took the ladle of water to the fence in the yard to clean her teeth.
Xiao Yishan followed her, "Yue'er, let me go with you to town…"