Chapter 349 brought them to the manor.
Madam Wu glanced at the two children and said, "They don't look like them."
The little boy and the little girl behind him lowered their heads in shame.
Du Wanchun wasn't too surprised. She stood up and said, "Although these two children had bad intentions, they still managed to return our child safely in the end. In the end, they are kind-hearted. They just told such a lie because they were worried about your health."
At this moment, Xiao Mianmian poked her head out and said, "The big brother didn't steal my money. He returned it to us. I made him lie."
The little boy looked up at Xiaomianmian with gratitude in his eyes.
Seeing that her son hadn't really done anything wrong, the woman felt much relieved. "I may lose my life, but you must never go astray and never commit robbery again."
The little boy and the little girl bowed their heads and replied, "Yes, Mother."
Du Wanchun listened to the woman's speech and judged her to be a scholar.
She smiled and said, "Madam, if you don't want my money, why don't you let my doctor take a look at you?"
"Doctor?" the woman asked, puzzled.
Du Wanchun, holding Xiao Mianmian's hand, took two steps forward and said, "Yes, my family has a doctor. If you don't mind, you can come to my estate and let my doctor take a look at you."
The woman hesitated, "But...we don't have any money..."
Du Wanchun smiled and said, "It's alright if you don't have money."
As she spoke, she turned her gaze to the little boy, "If you are willing to work for our Zhou family in the future, you can come back to repay the money."
The woman was overjoyed upon hearing this and quickly knelt down to pay her respects to Du Wanchun.
Du Wanchun stopped her and said, "Alright, you're not feeling well. Come on, let's get in the carriage together."
The woman trembled slightly with fear and excitement.
The little boy helped her walk slowly toward the carriage.
After everyone boarded the carriage, Du Wanchun instructed the driver to head towards Zhoujiazhuang.
On the way, Du Wanchun learned from talking to the woman that her surname was Wei and that she was the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy family in the capital.
She did not specify which household it was.
However, Du Wanchun roughly guessed that it was the family of Minister Wei of the Ministry of Rites in the capital.
The Minister of Rites held a high-ranking position. Although she was a concubine's daughter, she was still a daughter of an official. How could she have fallen to such a state?
Just as she was wondering, Wei suddenly coughed up blood and fainted.
"Mother! Mother!"
Wei's two children immediately burst into tears.
Little Mianmian quickly reached out her little hand to comfort them, saying, "Don't cry, your mother will be alright."
The two children paused for a moment, then cried even harder.
Xiao Qing'er stepped forward and handed them two small handkerchiefs.
Du Wanchun urged the driver to hurry up.
Soon the carriage arrived at the Zhou family's estate.
Just then, Doctor Xu hadn't gone to sleep yet. Seeing Du Wanchun bring over an unconscious woman, he quickly asked, "Who is this?"
Du Wanchun replied, "I met a lady on the road, Doctor Xu. Could you take a look at her and see what illness she has?"
"Alright, put her down first." Doctor Xu replied, then came to Madam Wei's side and reached out to take her pulse.
The two children knelt to one side, waiting while shedding tears.
After a moment, Doctor Xu stood up and said, "This lady doesn't have any incurable disease; she's just suffered some pain, which is why she's a bit weak."
"With proper care and some lung-nourishing medicine, she should recover in less than half a month."
Du Wanchun and everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.
The two children stopped crying.
Doctor Xu wrote out the prescription, packed the medicine, and handed it to the two children. "Do you know how to decoct medicine?"
The little boy nodded. "I will."
Dr. Xu smiled. "That's good."
Just then, a woman carrying hot soup walked in from outside; it was Miao.
Since her divorce from her husband, Miao often came to Du Wanchun's estate to help out.
Doctor Xu had created a fake marriage certificate so that she could escape her original husband's family.
As the two spent more time together, the marriage certificate gradually became real.
As soon as she heard that Du Wanchun had arrived, she immediately went to the kitchen to cook hot soup for everyone.
"Manager Du, Miss Wu, it's cold outside, have some hot soup." Madam Miao put down the bowl in her hand, and then took out a bowl of sweet soup from the food box behind her. This was for the children.
Xiao Mianmian and Xiao Qing'er each took a bowl.
Miao squatted down and handed the other two bowls to the two children, saying, "Here, have some sweet soup."
The two children had never eaten anything good before, and this was their first time drinking sweet soup, so they were a little hesitant to accept it.
Miao smiled softly, "There are longan and lotus seeds here. Drink it while it's hot, and you'll feel warm all over."
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