Chapter 582 A Dream of Youth 114
"Is the water that Miss Xie is referring to infected with the plague?"
If that's true, she'll definitely clean up the entire mansion from top to bottom and find the villain who harmed her child!
"no."
Xie Ning shook her head, knowing that saying it like that might cause misunderstanding. After thinking for a moment, she explained it in terms they could understand: "Plague water cannot be simply classified as water infected by plague, but it is also infectious. It is water contaminated by external evils, and contains many visible or invisible insects or insect eggs."
Seeing that Miss Qiu's face had turned pale with fright, Xie Ning stopped talking and comforted her, "Don't be afraid. This is a chronic condition. It's probably because the infection wasn't completely cured during the acute phase."
Then he looked at Madam Qiu and asked, "Miss Qiu, have you ever lived in the South? Schistosomiasis is quite common in the South. If you come into contact with dirty water or other people who have the disease, you can easily get infected."
Her delayed menstruation was caused by this chronic illness. Once the illness is cured and her body is properly cared for, her menstruation will return naturally.
Madam Qiu took a deep breath and answered Xie Ning's questions one by one.
"In previous years, I lived with this child in the south with his father. As for the issue of contact that Miss Xie mentioned, it shouldn't have happened. This child has always been raised in seclusion and rarely goes out."
Even when they go out, they are always accompanied by maids and servants, so they certainly won't come into contact with those dirty things. And the maids in the mansion are all healthy; those who are sick wouldn't come into contact with their masters…”
For some unknown reason, Miss Qiu paused slightly, tugged anxiously at Madam Qiu's sleeve, and whispered,
“A year ago, I went out to worship Buddha with my grandmother. My cousin Yan pushed me and I fell into a rather dirty puddle.”
Madam Qiu then remembered that Qiu Yu had indeed fallen seriously ill during that time. She took the symptoms to a doctor, who diagnosed her with typhoid fever. She received treatment intermittently for a long time before recovering, and even now, she has not fully recovered.
"Yu'er, didn't you say you fell by accident?" Madam Qiu's expression was serious, and Qiu Yu realized that she had let something slip.
"Mother..."
Madam Qiu ignored Qiu Yu and turned to angrily shout at the wet nurse beside her, "How have you been taking care of Miss? You didn't even know she was being bullied!"
The wet nurse turned pale, and the other maids beside her knelt down as well.
Qiu Yu was also startled, her eyes reddening even more. She stammered as she took Madam Qiu's hand, "Mother, it's not their fault. I wanted to go play with Sister Yan, and the nanny and the others didn't see me..."
"You, why didn't you say anything when you were being bullied?" You're so soft-hearted, yet you were bullied by a kid from another room.
Qiu Yu lowered her head and shed a few tears, which broke Madam Qiu's heart. "My dear child, I'm not scolding you, I'm just worried about you."
“Mother, yes, it was my fault. My cousin Yan said that I would have to rely on her younger brother in the future, so I should respect her. That's why I didn't dare to tell you, because my cousin Yan said that if I told you, she wouldn't let her younger brother come to our house.”
She's not a little girl anymore; she knows it's bad if there are no men in the family.
These words made Madam Qiu's vision go black, and she couldn't help but spit out, "Pah! Shameless bastards, who wants their son! It's clearly them who are eager to have their child adopted into our family, and your father and I have refused several times!"
At that time, her child had been sick for so long that she fainted from crying. She almost thought the child was going to die. She was already so old and only had this one daughter. If she were to die, the third branch of the Qiu family would be cut off.
But now it's almost over, because the third branch has no sons. If no male heir is born in the third branch in a few years, they will have to adopt a child from the clan or another branch to carry on the family line.
But no matter who it is, she will not want the child from the second wife's family!
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