Chapter 18
"It's no use, there's no way to find the cause of my terminal illness." He sat on the bench, leaning against the back, half his face bathed in sunlight, giving him a sickly appearance.
Han Meng smiled gently: "Don't be so downcast. Nothing is absolute."
As she spoke, she first opened the medicine box, then flipped through a medical book, and finally took out a syringe from the box…
Thankfully, she put it back, and Lu Jinxian secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Han Meng plans to start with the known symptoms—frequent colds and fevers.
This indicates that the patient has a weak constitution from birth, meaning their immune system is inherently weak. Therefore…
Let's try the traditional Chinese medicine approach first and examine the color of the tongue.
Han Meng asked the patient to open his mouth, and the patient hesitated for a moment, seemingly unwilling to cooperate.
"You can't hide your illness from medical treatment!" Han Meng sternly admonished him.
After being educated, the patient opened his mouth, but to the doctor's surprise, there were no obvious symptoms on the patient's tongue.
Could it be that the symptoms are atypical?
Alternatively, the other person may not appear to have obvious cold or fever symptoms, which may have temporarily subsided and not yet manifested, and the virus or bacteria may still be lurking.
Han Meng thought for a moment, realizing she couldn't mess around with things she didn't understand, so she hurriedly started flipping through the book in front of the patient...
Then I flipped through the whole book.
It's not mentioned in the book!
This is a tattered book!
The other two books were entirely in traditional Chinese characters, which were very difficult for her to read carefully; she had to read them almost word by word.
She managed to find some other methods for observing diseases in the two books, but she couldn't see any problems with any of them.
Lu Jinxian watched her intently as she researched the information, and carefully began to speak: "Ms. Han, actually I..."
Han Meng: "Don't worry, my medical skills are not very good, so I may not be able to tell. If it really doesn't work, I'll have an old Chinese medicine doctor take a look at you another day."
Lu Jinxian was both amused and exasperated: "Actually, my illness is the same whether I see a doctor or not, thank you for your trouble."
"No matter what kind of difficult or complicated illness it is, please don't give up on treatment." Han Meng raised her eyes, her gaze very serious, earnest, and sincere.
This made Lu Jinxian feel bad.
Perhaps it was this sense of apology that made me blush a little.
*
Beiping City, train station.
A woman in a short-sleeved cheongsam stood on the platform. The train whistle was getting closer and closer, but unlike the other passengers who were pushing forward to get on the train as soon as possible, she seemed a little hesitant.
Two middle-aged servants, a man and a woman, stood beside her, carrying her luggage.
Maid: "Madam, it's almost time."
The woman glanced at the area outside the train station: "Sigh, hasn't the child been found yet?"
Both servants shook their heads.
The woman's eyes dimmed considerably. She had faint crow's feet at the corners of her eyes, but her features were well-proportioned and her eyes were deep, as if she naturally possessed an air of nobility.
"Madam, we've searched everywhere in the city, but we really can't find her. We can't possibly guess where a little child could have run off to," the maid said, frowning.
The woman pondered, "Yes, children...where do children usually run off to?"
She thought of her beloved daughter, Mengmeng, who had always been mischievous and loved to run around.
Once, she and her husband went on a business trip. When they returned, they found the house in complete chaos. The maid said that the young lady had run away from home and hadn't returned for two days, and they had searched the entire neighborhood but couldn't find her.
She was frantic, calling the police and searching for it herself. Eventually, it was found in her closet at home.
When asked why she was hiding in the closet, the daughter said she was playing hide-and-seek with her brother. When asked why she wouldn't come out, both children fell silent.
At that moment, she realized that she and her husband were simply too busy, running around doing everything, and ultimately had little time or energy to spend with their child.
Later, when I finally had some free time, the children had all grown up. One was overly mature and sensible, while the other was overly willful and spoiled. Sigh...
Thinking of the past, Tang Ying's heart clenched.
Although the Tang family had ancestors who held high-ranking official positions, they had retired by the late Qing Dynasty and were still considered a scholarly family with considerable wealth. Unfortunately, her younger sister was unlucky; she married the wrong person, had a child out of wedlock, and was expelled from the family.
In the past, Tang Ying had helped her younger sister once or twice, but her sister was stubborn and strong-willed, which in turn affected their sisterly relationship.
The younger sister's child with the scumbag is a little girl. The scumbag originally had a wife and children, so of course he never cared about that child.
My sister raised that child alone, but she was so busy before she passed away, so the child probably felt a lack of love.
Maid: "Madam, the train has stopped. Let's go back."
Tang Ying: "No, no, I know where she is!"
She lifted her skirt and ran out of the train station, with two maids following closely behind...
Missing this train stop meant that Tang Ying would be late for her agreed-upon meeting with her husband, but so be it. Finding her sister's child was the more important thing.
*
Today is the fifth day that my cousin has been staying at the Han family mansion.
Han Meng doesn't plan to go out today. She asked someone to buy her several medical books, intending to study them at home for a while.
But the downside of staying at home is that you can't avoid being bothered by your annoying cousin, Xu Ning.
However, today, it was as if the sun had risen in the west; even when Han Meng went downstairs, she couldn't see Xu Ning.
"Yuzhi, could you go check on my aunt and see what she's doing today? Why hasn't she come to argue with me? Did she go out?"
Yu Zhi walked around the entire mansion and said she didn't see Xu Ning.
"Looks like they've gone out," Han Meng said.
It's quite strange. This annoying cousin of the original owner shouldn't have known many people here since she just arrived, and she doesn't seem to go out much.
Han Meng's intuition was correct; Xu Ning's outing today was unusual.
Because she received a letter from her husband urging her to raise money quickly, otherwise the Prince's Mansion would be sold, and if she still couldn't repay the debt, the interest would compound and it would become increasingly difficult to pay it back.
Xu Ning consulted with the eldest son of the Prince, who is now using the alias Wu, wearing this hat to hide the whip, and acting as a playboy here.
Upon receiving this news, he was even more anxious than Xu Ning. He stiffened his neck and questioned Xu Ning: "Didn't you say that your cousin's money was easy to get? Now he's probably not even in this city, let alone getting his money. If you ask me, we should just go all the way!"
Xu Ning said with difficulty, "But... I don't dare! Even if I don't get the money, I can't just put myself in jail!"
"You're afraid of going to jail, but have you ever thought about how good my father has been to you all these years? You were clearly just his concubine, yet he treated you well, feeding and caring for you. Even though you haven't borne him any children in all these years, he still spoiled you. So you've been treated like the mistress of the house, and now you're going to abandon me when disaster strikes?"
"I know, I know the Prince is good to me, but... I need time to make money! I can't just rob him!"
"I don't care. If you don't raise the money within seven days, everyone in the entire Prince's Mansion will become penniless, including you. Think carefully: do you want to be a pauper for life because you're cowardly and afraid of trouble, or do you want to take a gamble?"
Xu Ning: "How about we kidnap Han Meng and demand ransom from my cousin!"
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