But the elder Huang Family departed from her usual insistence.
"No, we must go and see. Even if it's not to stop the vomiting, we must have the doctor take her pulse to see if my great-grandson is all right."
The house was left with just these few women, with Gu Xiaoqing off embroidering her dowry, each of them preoccupied with their thoughts.
In the end, under the elder Huang's insistence, Lei Qianqian still went to find the doctor from the neighboring village, Doctor Sun.
They chose him because he was nearby, because he charged less, and his medical skills were mediocre at best, which made him least likely to diagnose the pregnancy correctly.
Identifying a pregnancy pulse was a minor task for a doctor, something even an apprentice could do; she only needed Doctor Sun to confirm whether Lei Qianqian was pregnant.
