75 Chapter 75
◎ In the future, don’t give birth◎
Mu Yun's tone was like lighting a firecracker. Wu Tao took a deep breath.
Fortunately, Master Huang was always modest. He explained, "Madam Cheng is so seriously ill, I am worried about her."
"Has Lord Huang never heard this saying: Don't buy on credit in the morning, and don't visit the sick after noon. It's too late now, and it's not auspicious for the patient." Mu Yun said in a firm tone, clearly trying to stop him.
Wu Tao couldn't help but say, "Master Huang only came to inquire about the patient's condition and is leaving now."
Huang Nian'an didn't say much and took his leave. Mu Yun also left.
Wu Tao hurried back and couldn't help smashing the teacup.
"He even lost face for Master Huang. Is he targeting me, or is he completely ignorant of his own limitations?"
Manager He said, "You don't allow anyone to visit the patient, but stay by his side personally. This is how you treat your parents."
Wu Tao shook his head. "There's always a thorn in his heart that won't go away. He'll never feel comfortable with me."
Steward He said, "In Young Master Yun's heart, Madam Cheng is naturally different. This is also a good thing. Madam Cheng is well-educated and well-mannered. Perhaps Madam Cheng can help resolve Young Master Yun's misunderstanding of you, the headmaster."
Wu Tao nodded: "After all, she has taken care of Mu Yun for several years. This time she comes here to recuperate, which is an opportunity for me."
The kang was too hot, and Cheng Mu woke up with a dry mouth.
I broke out in a sticky sweat again.
At this time, the inner room was extremely dark, and everyone was sleeping soundly during the hours of Chou and Yin.
I still remember that the teapot was placed on the cabinet with twined flowers in the northwest corner, and she got off the kang and reached over there.
The teapot was still warm. I wondered if Madam Zhu was sleeping outside. She must have been asleep not long ago.
She wanted to wipe herself, but she didn't know where the towel and water were. She wanted to find them herself, but she didn't know where the kerosene lamp was.
I lifted the cotton curtain and went out to the room. Moonlight shone through the window into the room. A person was lying on the couch in the dark.
It would not be a good idea to wake up Nanny Zhu at this time. Cheng Mu just wanted to come out and cool down.
A low mumbling in sleep was heard, Cheng Mu turned her head to look carefully, and found that the person sleeping on the couch was not Nanny Zhu, but Mu Yun.
As soon as Cheng Mu approached, he jumped up in shock, and with his moves as sharp as the wind, he subdued Cheng Mu in one move.
"Mu Yun..."
"Sister-in-law?" Mu Yun quickly let go of her and regained consciousness. "Why did you come out? It's cold outside."
"Are you awake?" Cheng Mu said, "I heard you talking in your sleep, so I came to check on you. Why are you sleeping here?"
"I didn't say anything, did I?" Mu Yun felt uncomfortable.
"Did you dream about your mother?" Cheng Mu sat down beside him. "Can you tell me how your mother passed away?"
In the darkness of the night, her eyebrows and eyes were like flowing light. Mu Yun consciously moved away and asked, "Did I call you mother?"
Cheng Mu nodded. "I heard from Nanny Zhu that your mother wasn't feeling well. Was she ill?"
Mu Yun looked ahead, as if thinking for a long time. "My father is a concubine. The head of the Wu family was married to my father for many years but had no children. So my father found my mother. He didn't dare let the head of the Wu family know that I was born, so he arranged for my mother and me to live in the outer house. When I was little, I always thought my father was a serious escort. When I didn't see him often, my mother said he was out on an escort mission."
Perhaps it was late at night when it was best to talk, so he told her about his parents for the first time. "My father is neither good at literature nor martial arts, so there's no way he could be an escort. He relies entirely on the protection of his brothers in the escort agency, and all he relies on is his face. My mother—my mother can't do anything either. She just waits, waiting for my father to come visit her and leave some money."
Mu Yun said in a low voice, "They all doted on me and never beat or scolded me. When I was nine, the eldest boss asked my father to take us in. Actually, I knew about it before that."
Cheng Mu: "Did you discover it first?"
"When I was little, I loved wielding spears and clubs. I thought my father was a bodyguard and it was impressive. I wanted to be one, too. One time, I secretly followed him and discovered it. My mother knew about it, too."
"My mother said she couldn't live without my father. Sister-in-law, you can do it, but my mother can't."
Cheng Mu grabbed his hand and put an orange in it. "I'm different from your mother. I have confidence."
She has a modern, free soul and the space to keep her from starving to death.
"Your mother is just a weak woman. You are a man and you don't understand the difficulties women face in this world."
Mu Yun clenched the orange tightly. "I'm a man, I don't understand." His throat was sore. "Mom said it many times when she was alive."
Cheng Mu: "Let me ask you, was your mother happy when she was taken into the Wu Mansion?"
Mu Yun: "I don't know, but I can see that she's getting angrier day by day. They all say she's not feeling well, but they won't tell me what's wrong. They've consulted a doctor, and she's always taking medicine, but it's not getting any better."
"Are they all male doctors?"
"All the good doctors are men. We also hired a female healer, but she doesn't understand medicine and it didn't work."
"So you think that your mother was fine before she came into our family and had never seen a doctor, but after she came into our family, she was always seeing a doctor and taking medicine. Is it because the head of Wuda can't tolerate your mother?"
Cheng Mu asked directly, and Mu Yun remained silent.
Seeing that Mu Yun remained silent for a long time, Cheng Mu continued, "Have you ever thought that maybe she was already ill before, but your mother didn't have the money and was reluctant to spend on medical treatment, so someone only arranged for her to be treated after she came home?"
"Where did you get your inference that the Wu family killed your parents? First, your mother has been treating patients since she came into the family. Second, what is it?"
"Sister-in-law, I just found out today..." Mu Yun choked, and the night covered his flushed eyes.
He stopped talking and suppressed his surging emotions.
Today he went to look for Aunt Guan, who had a relationship with his mother and Aunt Yan, who delivered his mother. Because of what Aunt Zhu said, he suddenly thought of looking for them.
Aunt Guan still lived in the same place. The door to the yard was ajar and she was shoveling ice.
After Mu Yun introduced himself, Aunt Guan shouted at the top of her voice and everyone in the family gathered around.
"Is this Ah Yun? You can't tell what she looked like as a child at all."
"When I was little, I was skinny, like a little girl, but now I'm strong and sturdy, what a physique!"
"He looks like his father. He's really handsome."
The boys in her family kept harassing him, so Aunt Guan made him some egg tea, which he couldn't refuse. Coincidentally, Granny Yan also came over.
"What a coincidence! This is Madam Guan's residence." Granny Yan had gained weight, with a scarf wrapped around her head. "Where is my wife at home?"
It wasn’t that someone in Mrs. Guan’s family was about to give birth, but Mu Yun specially invited her over.
After explaining the purpose of the visit, I asked her and her partner to move to the teahouse to talk.
"What are you going there for? Can you have tea there for free? Just come sit down at my house."
"It's my mother's personal matter."
Aunt Guan and Mrs. Yan exchanged glances and followed his lead.
Mu Yun took them to the teahouse he had chosen in advance and ordered the best snacks.
Granny Yan beamed with joy, "I'm so lucky to be alive and have the chance to drink the tea Ah Yun offered me."
Aunt Guan: "Ayun, is your mother okay? She said she went to enjoy a good life with your father. It's been nearly ten years."
"Eight years." Mu Yun waved away the tea master and personally took the pot to pour tea for them.
"My mother died of illness not long after she moved away. I came here to ask you two if you know what illness she had."
"Oh, oh, this is really unreasonable!" Aunt Guan said with a sad look on her face.
Granny Yan: "That's right, he said he was going to enjoy his life, and then he was gone in the blink of an eye. How could he die so young?"
"I was still young at the time, and I only remember the doctor saying it was a women's disease."
Aunt Guan shook her head, looking completely clueless. Granny Yan understood and started cracking melon seeds. "Since it's a woman's disease, it's inconvenient for the doctor to diagnose it, nor is it convenient for him to tell you. Let's ask your father if he knows."
"My father also passed away in an accident not long after, so I have no way to ask him."
The two sighed for a while, then asked Mu Yun how he grew up and lamented his fate.
In response to what Mu Yun was eager to know, Granny Yan said, "I know your mother had some special wits, and she even came to me for a consultation. I'm just not sure if this is the reason for her death. Furthermore, this is a woman's secret. How can we explain it to you?"
"But it's okay."
"You dare to listen to me, but I don't have the face to tell you. Do you have any women or children at home? I can tell them."
The two then asked Mu Yun whether she was married or not. When they heard that Mu Yun had a widowed sister-in-law, they said that she could tell her.
Mu Yun took out two hundred yuan of cash and pushed one hundred yuan in front of each of them, saying that he had delayed the two of them and asked them to wait while he went back to ask his sister-in-law to come. "If you don't come back in half an hour, you two can go home first. I will bring my sister-in-law to visit you another day."
They didn't expect to get paid for the free tea. The two of them felt embarrassed and asked him to go and treat them quickly. They would wait for as long as it took.
Mu Yun repeatedly told them that the time limit was half an hour, and then left.
In fact, he didn't really want to invite anyone, he just pretended so that he could eavesdrop in the next room.
While he was away, Aunt Guan hurriedly asked Granny Yan, "What's wrong with Madam Rui? How come I don't know?"
Granny Yan drank tea like a cow. "If she had a strong body like you, and could give birth to four sons in one breath without even getting out of breath, her life would be different."
Aunt Guan recalled: "I knew that Rui Niang was in poor health. She never went to the temple when I invited her. She didn't go out during the Shangsi Festival, and she didn't go out during the Lantern Festival either. She was so young, I just thought it was a deficiency she had from birth."
"That's it," said Granny Yan, chewing cakes like a cow chewing a peony, with great certainty. "Ever since she gave birth to Ah Yun, she's had residual problems. Her uterus has prolapsed, and she can't walk or get tired. She once asked me why this happened, and I could only say that she was unlucky. She only had one child and then—well, I taught her to keep it in and use a menstrual belt to support it, but that's not a solution either. It rubs and bleeds over time, and I don't have a better solution."
Aunt Guan was puzzled. "Is this possible?"
"Giving birth to too many children will end up like this. Those who don't have any problems are the blessed ones." Granny Yan poured herself another large cup of tea.
Aunt Guan recalled something, "No wonder she always looked hesitant when I urged her to have more children while she was still young."
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After Aunt Guan and Granny Yan left, Mu Yun went to Gu'an Hall to ask Doctor Liu what kind of women's disease this was.
"Yin collapse, or the Jade Gate not closing, is often seen after childbirth, due to overexertion during childbirth, Qi collapse, or excessive worry. I must personally diagnose and treat it based on the symptoms. Yin collapse is not life-threatening, but if the sore becomes infected and the pathogenesis changes, it is another matter."
Doctor Liu asked him to lead the way. Suddenly recognizing him, he twirled his beard and asked, "Young Master, is there a patient with yin loss in your family?" He recalled it again, feeling deeply ashamed. "I thought the woman was still unmarried. I looked, listened, and asked, but it seems I didn't ask enough questions..."
Mu Yun, having been dismissed by a simple "women's disease," finally understood the pain his mother had suffered. He thought his father and Wu Tao had deliberately concealed the truth, not realizing they couldn't tell him directly.
In the quiet night, snow fell silently outside the window. Cheng Mu placed her hand on Mu Yun's shoulder and soothed him softly, "It's none of your business. It's just your mother's bad luck. Giving birth is like going through the gates of hell. The unlucky ones are taken away by the King of Hell, the unlucky ones are left with all sorts of aftereffects, and only one or two out of ten are lucky. Your mother has absolutely never blamed you, and she can't bear to see you blaming yourself."
"Sister-in-law," Mu Yun looked at her with moist eyes, "Don't give birth in the future."
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