The Li family had a whole nest of boys, and finally, a girl was born! Unfortunately, it was during an escape from famine...
Old Lady Li: What do we do? My precious treasure has no milk to dri...
"Zhensheng, Zhensheng! How are you? Don't scare your mother, sit down quickly!"
The old lady, ignoring her tears, helped Master Wang into the house, and Li Lao Er and Li Lao San quickly joined in.
When Master Wang saw Li Lao Er, he was even more surprised, clutching his head. "You, aren't you the brother from that day? What are you doing here!"
Unable to explain immediately, Li Lao Er said, "Let's go inside and talk slowly. Don't worry, we would never harm you!"
Master Wang remained silent. This time, his headache was particularly severe. Whenever he thought about it, it felt like a tendon in his brain was tightening, causing him so much pain that he wanted to vomit.
Soon, everyone returned to the house. The Li family members surrounded Master Wang, their eyes full of concern, yet also cautious, as if they dared not approach him.
Master Wang took a deep breath, straightened his back, and looked at Old Lady Li wiping away tears, Li Lao Er and Li Lao San with joyful faces, and Zhao Yuru and Tao Hongying with concerned expressions.
He asked tentatively, "Are you sure you haven't mistaken me for someone else? Or rather, do you... know me from before?"
Grandma Li cried even harder, “Child, you are thirty-four this year, born on the eighth day of the eleventh lunar month. You have a birthmark the size of a copper coin on your lower back. You prefer to use chopsticks with your left hand, you are afraid of the cold but not the heat, and you like to drink hot soup and eat hot food…”
With each item she mentioned, Master Wang's eyes lit up a little more, but in the end he suppressed his excitement, since although these details were detailed, he could still find out about them from his servants or friends.
“I have no memory of anything before I was twenty, so I can’t completely believe what you’re saying. Besides…” He pointed to Li Lao Er, “He had been near my house before, perhaps to find out about my background.”
Li Lao Er smiled wryly and replied, "I did come to find out your background, but I meant no harm. Besides, you wouldn't have come if I hadn't told you there was a miracle doctor here."
Master Wang rubbed his throbbing temples, somewhat disappointed, and asked, "So you were just lying to me? There's no miracle doctor here?"
"Who said there wasn't any!" Doctor Zhang suddenly pushed the door open and came in from outside, flicking his sleeves as he asked everyone, "I'm still waiting at home, why haven't you sent any news?"
Li Laosan quickly replied, "I was originally going to invite you, but I ran into my elder brother as I was leaving, so I was delayed."
Doctor Zhang looked at Master Wang and examined him carefully. "This is the silly boy! He doesn't seem very bright, and his head injury is quite severe."
Old Mrs. Li immediately became anxious, stood up and bowed, "Dr. Zhang, please take a good look at my eldest son. He has suffered a lot while he was away from home, and he had a terrible headache just now. Could you give him a couple of acupuncture treatments to ease his mind?"
The old doctor Zhang helped her up, saying, "We're all family, no need for formalities. Besides, this boy is well-fed and dressed nicely; he doesn't look like he's suffering at all. It's your family who almost cried your eyes out because of him."
When Li Laotai, Li Lao Er, and Li Lao San recalled the past, their eyes dimmed.
Doctor Zhang plopped down next to Master Wang and reached out to grab his wrist, but Master Wang instinctively dodged.
Doctor Zhang glared angrily, "Kid, don't be ungrateful! I'm only treating you because of your family. Otherwise, I wouldn't care about an unfilial child like you."
After saying that, he forcefully grabbed Wang Yuanwai's wrist and began to take his pulse.
The Li family members watched anxiously, their faces filled with worry. Seeing this, Master Wang's guard lowered somewhat.
Although he truly couldn't remember anything, the old woman's weeping inexplicably touched him. His family knew his likes and dislikes intimately.
Perhaps he has truly found his family this time.
Unlike before, when so many scammers went to great lengths to find out his background, impersonated him, and swindled money and food...
The old doctor Zhang was truly dedicated. He took the pulse with both hands, then examined the patient's eyelids, and finally scolded with a dark face, "Your family doesn't look poor, so why didn't you take the patient to see a doctor properly? Your brain was badly injured back then, but only the external injury was treated. The blood clot in your brain has never been dissolved or absorbed. It's been pressing down in your brain, so of course you can't remember your past."
As if afraid that Master Wang wouldn't believe him, he added, "Have you been experiencing more and more frequent pain lately? Especially when you wake up in the morning, it feels like your head is splitting open? You're really good at enduring pain. Just find a decent doctor and give you acupuncture for two or three months, along with some blood-activating and stasis-removing herbal soups. Even if you don't get completely better, at least you won't suffer from headaches anymore."
Master Wang's eyes lit up when he heard this. These symptoms were indeed exactly as described. "We have consulted many doctors, but they all said that the blood was in the head and it was difficult to insert needles. Some even said that we should open the head to remove the blood clots. We felt that this was not appropriate, so we kept putting it off."
Doctor Zhang rolled his eyes, snorted coldly, and cursed, "That might scare a child, but what doctor doesn't know how to improve blood circulation and remove blood stasis? Why would you cut open someone's head? How could you not cure it? Are you just afraid you'll run away after you cure it?"
His casual words made Master Wang's heart skip a beat, as if something had been exposed, but he immediately suppressed it.
Before he could ask, Doctor Zhang had already taken out a cloth bag from his pocket, pulled out the gold needles inside, and swiftly stabbed them into his head.
In the blink of an eye, a human-shaped hedgehog appeared in the room.
Doctor Zhang clapped his hands, sat down in his chair and drank tea. “You can talk as you please. I used acupuncture, and he will be out of pain in a quarter of an hour. But to completely remove the blood stasis in his brain, he will need to come for acupuncture once a day and drink the herbal decoction according to the prescription. It will take at least half a month to see results.”
"Will he remember what happened in half a month?" Old Mrs. Li asked anxiously, but then changed her mind and quickly instructed, "Dr. Zhang, it's not necessary for him to remember what happened before. The main thing is to cure his headache and not let him suffer anymore. Even a cut on our hand is painful for a long time. He has blood clots in his head, and it will definitely be dangerous if it goes on for too long."
"Ah, that's right," said the old doctor Zhang, pointing at the wealthy man Wang.
"You're lucky you were found by your family early on, otherwise, six months later, the headaches would have been recurring every day, and you'd either die from the pain or go crazy. I really don't understand how you could be so incredibly stupid. If one doctor isn't enough, find two, and if two aren't enough, find ten! How could you delay something as simple as this?"
Master Wang lowered his head and remained silent, but his hand unconsciously tightened around the jade pendant hanging from his waist.
The jade pendant is carved from the finest warm jade, making it quite rare.
Years ago, he was injured and fell into misfortune, and ended up in the Wang family's home.
The Wang family consulted more than a dozen doctors, but when all of them were helpless, the old patriarch of the Wang family gave him this jade pendant and said something that he still remembers word for word.
"Your brain is injured, it can't be cured, and you can't remember anything, but that's okay. From now on, you are a son of the Wang family, and I am your father. You came to the Wang family in early autumn, and you forgot your past life, which is equivalent to being reborn. Therefore, I will name you Wang Xinqiu, is that alright?"
From then on, he was called Wang Xinqiu.
When Old Master Wang was seriously ill, he took over the Wang family's business and chores, and also married into the Wang family, all to repay the Wang family's kindness in saving his life and taking him in.
But now, thinking back on it, he suddenly feels a bit doubtful and confused.
Are all the things he saw real, or are they all believable?