Ten minutes later, Zhou Zhou had taken her fever medicine and was lying on the hospital bed with an IV drip.
Her fever was 40.1°C. The doctor recommended an IV drip, fearing she might convulse or suffer brain damage from the fever.
Jiang Xia had the doctor prescribe a roll of gauze, then borrowed a thermos from the Little Nurse. She dampened the gauze and wiped Zhou Zhou's forehead, armpits, and other areas to cool her down.
Old Man Zhou Chenglei was afraid Jiang Xia would be scalded by the hot water, so he dampened the gauze himself, wrung it out, and handed it to Jiang Xia to wipe Zhou Zhou down.
The young Little Nurse had nothing else to do, so she also came over to help cool Zhou Zhou. Seeing the husband and wife working together so seamlessly, she felt as though the air itself was filled with pink bubbles.
Curious, she probed Jiang Xia, "Your daughter's already this big? The other day, your husband carried you in all nervous and frantic. I thought you were newlyweds."
Jiang Xia relaxed and smiled. "We are newlyweds. This is our niece, my husband's Third Brother's daughter."
Hearing Jiang Xia call him her husband, Zhou Chenglei couldn't help glancing at her, a smile coloring even the tips of his brows.
"I knew it. You look so young and pretty, like you're only seventeen or eighteen. You look even younger than me. How could you have such a big daughter?"
The Little Nurse was quite the dreamer. Just moments ago, she had been wondering whether this child was Zhou Chenglei's daughter with his ex-wife, with Jiang Xia as the stepmother.
Jiang Xia said, "I'm already twenty."
The Little Nurse looked at Jiang Xia's skin with envy. "Twenty? Same as me. But you