Chapter 181 Deafness
Zhao Yinlian immediately asked the servants to bring the person over. The man who came was a doorman from the Marquis' Mansion. The man was of sturdy build, but his cheeks were red from the wind, and it was obvious that he had run over in a hurry.
"Madam Zhao, Madam asked me to come quickly to take you to the Marquis' Mansion. The young master seems to be deaf. Madam has sent someone to call a doctor. You should go over quickly as well."
The doorman finished his words while panting, but Zhao Yinlian was having difficulty breathing and felt a tightness in her chest.
Seeing this, the nanny quickly calmed Zhao Yinlian down and said, "Madam, there are carriages waiting outside the mansion these days. Let's go over and take a look."
Seeing that Zhao Yinlian was very concerned about the young master, the Marquis's wife was very happy that someone could share the burden with her. Whenever the young master felt unwell these days, the Marquis's wife would send someone to pass on the message, saving the Zhou family from running back and forth.
Zhao Yinlian asked the nanny to help her stand up, but she almost couldn't stand.
"Hurry, hurry to the Marquis' Mansion." Zhao Yinlian urged the nanny to help her walk faster.
An incense stick of time ago, the people in the Marquis' Mansion discovered that the young master seemed to be unable to hear the sounds from the outside world. The reason why they noticed this was that when the young master was resting, the nurse accidentally knocked over something, and the candlestick was knocked over, making a loud noise.
Such a noisy sound would wake up even adults, not to mention children.
But the child in the cradle was sound asleep and was not awakened by the noise. Babies who are only a few months old are the most noisy.
Especially since the young master was in poor health, it was very difficult to coax him to sleep again after he woke up. When the wet nurse saw that the child did not wake up, she first breathed a sigh of relief, but before she could completely relax, her body stiffened, she put down the candlestick and looked at the sleeping child in horror.
At first, the nanny spoke in the little master's ear. The child did not open his eyes, but his breathing was normal, and it was obvious that he had just fallen asleep.
In order to make sure whether she was worrying too much, the nanny deliberately called Lu Yin loudly in the child's ear, but the little prince remained unmoved. At this time, the nanny knew that something bad might happen.
When Lu Yin heard the nurse calling her, she hurried in and said, "Mammy, please speak softly. What if you wake up the prince?"
She went to see the baby in the cradle first, but the child was sleeping soundly and was not affected by the noise around him at all.
Lu Yin immediately understood what the nanny meant and gave her a frightened look.
"No, maybe..." The nurse's heart was beating like a drum. To comfort Lu Yin was also to comfort herself. "Maybe the prince was just ill for a few days. The burden on the child's body was too much, so he was overcooked."
They could only comfort themselves in this way and wait for confirmation after the child woke up.
The young master slept for half a day before waking up. When they heard the baby babbling, Lu Yin and the wet nurse came to the cradle first. They looked at each other and Lu Yin took out the rattle that the child liked to play with and started swinging it.
The rattle was making a "ding-ding-dong" sound beside the cradle. Usually, when the little prince heard the noise of the rattle, he would go to find the source of the sound. But this time, no matter how Lu Yin shook the rattle, the child did not respond.
The nanny felt a little headache and tried to speak loudly to attract the child's attention. Finally, she even shouted suddenly from the side, hoping to scare the child.
As a result, Lu Yin and the wet nurse felt desperate. No matter what noise they made, the young master ignored them.
Lu Yin immediately informed the marquis' wife of this matter. When the marquis' wife learned that the child was deaf, she panicked and sent someone to Zhou's house to pass on the message, and at the same time asked someone to quickly invite the marquis back from office.
The Marquis took half a day's leave and rushed back to the capital, but the Emperor learned that the young master was not in good health and mercifully allowed other officials to take over the task first, so that he could return home with peace of mind.
When the Marquis rushed back, he picked up the little prince and tried several times, but found that the child could not hear any sound.
"It's just a few days of fever, how come you can't hear anymore? Did something fall into your ear, or is there something else?"
The Marquis couldn't believe that the child was so weak.
Little did they know that babies under one year old are most afraid of getting sick. If they have a high fever for a few days and don’t die, they are lucky.
"Please give the child to me, sir." The doctor couldn't see anything with his naked eyes, so he had to ask the marquis to give the child to him first.
When the doctor held the little prince in his arms, he lamented that the child was not even as heavy as the swaddling clothes.
I took the young master's pulse and looked at the child's ears, but couldn't find any problems.
"Madam, Lord, the young master's ears are fully developed without any defects. His pulse is also normal, and his ear canals are clean and not blocked by anything. It must be because of the high fever that damaged his hearing."
The Marquis and his wife could only understand half of what the doctor said, and they both looked at their grandson with heartache.
"Can it be cured? Find someone with good medical skills. Is there a possibility of cure?" The marquis's wife still placed her hope on Bai Ziyu.
The doctor's helpless face was reflected in the flickering hope in the marquis's eyes, and the doctor shook his head.
"The high fever has damaged your hearing. From now on, you will no longer be able to hear the sounds of the world."
The doctor was deeply saddened by the child's experience, but there was nothing he could do. There were precedents of children whose brains, hearing, and sense of smell were damaged by high fever, and once that happened, there was no possibility of recovery.
When Zhao Yinlian went to the Marquis's Mansion to see the child, she found that no matter what sound she made, the child did not respond.
Finally, she was a little desperate, and she shouted in the child's ear, but still did not attract the child's attention. Under the impact of multiple pressures, Zhao Yinlian couldn't help crying out loud.
Within a year, her husband and daughter died one after another, and now even her grandson, whom she had high hopes for, has become deaf.
Zhao Yinlian couldn't believe that these things would happen to her one after another. God treated her like this!
"My poor daughter, my poor grandson, why are you so miserable?" Zhao Yinlian cried so hard that her tears kept falling down, and her tears landed in her swaddling clothes.
Seeing Zhao Yinlian crying so sadly, Lu Yin had no choice but to take the child over first: "Madam..."
Zhao Yinlian lay on the nanny's body and cried for a while. When her tears ran dry, her heart gradually grew cold.
The reason why she values this child is not only because this is the bloodline that her daughter risked her life to leave behind, but also the hope of the Zhou family in the future. But now, the child is disabled and deaf, and it is impossible for him to become the prince of the marquisate.
When the two concubines give birth to male children, her poor grandson will have no chance to inherit the throne. Even if there are no two concubines, the title will not fall on him unless all the people in the Marquis' Mansion die.
The more Zhao Yinlian thought about it, the more discouraged she became. Even if the two concubines gave birth to daughters, what future could a deaf man have if he became the crown prince?
Thinking of Zhou Changying writing a policy paper in the study of the Zhou Mansion, Zhao Yinlian's eyes dimmed completely. A disabled person was destined to be unable to help her son in the future, let alone the Zhou Mansion.
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