Seeing Jiang Yanqing's eyes looking at him more and more aggressively, Fang Mingxiao's heart skipped a beat, and a chill slowly climbed up from his tailbone.
Of course, Jiang Yanqing didn't waste any time. After collecting the thoughts in her mind, she asked, "Do you know what the connection is between these two books?"
Fang Mingxiao nodded, he really knew it.
As Fang Mingxiao slowly narrated the story, Jiang Yanqing finally realized that there was an eight out of ten chance that she was the one delivering the books.
It turns out that Fang Mingxiao's grandfather is named Xia Qishan. The Xia family is a medical family with its own unique medical skills, which shows the family heritage.
During the turbulent times, Xia Qi, as the head of the Xia family, sensed the coming storm early on, evacuated all the branches of the Xia family, and entrusted his only daughter to his brothers.
This daughter is Fang Mingxiao’s mother, Xia Wan.
Although Xia Wan was a pretty lady, she had a strong temper. She was unwilling to see her father being exiled to the countryside alone, so she secretly came here to accompany her father.
Originally, as a big landlord, Xia Qishan was to be exiled to a farm for labor reform. However, thanks to the fact that Old Man Xia had saved many people when he was young, one of them was in a high position and secretly helped, and arranged for Old Man Xia to be sent to Leshan County.
Leshan County is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with a good environment and friendly villagers, so Xia Qishan and his daughter did not suffer much.
In a blink of an eye, Xia Wan reached marriageable age, but for some reason she was determined to marry Fang Tiancheng, the eldest son of the Fang family.
Fang Tiancheng was seven years older than Xia Wan. The family was poor, and the old couple of the Fang family doted on their youngest daughter, Fang Baojiao. They spoiled her to the point that she became willful and capricious, and the whole village knew about it.
It is conceivable that Xia Wan would not have a happy life after marrying him. Xia Qishan also strongly opposed this marriage, but Xia Wan had been blinded by love and insisted on marrying Fang Tiancheng.
Even when she got pregnant before getting married, Xia Qishan was angry and disappointed and simply stopped caring about it. Xia Wan just married into the Fang family.
It’s hard to describe how difficult life was in the Fang family. Fortunately, Fang Tiancheng didn’t allow Xia Wan to marry him at first. It was not until Fang Mingxiao was born that Xia Qishan accepted his daughter and son-in-law again for the sake of his grandson.
The days passed slowly. The Fang family was having a hard time, so Xia Qishan secretly subsidized his daughter. Fang Tiancheng went out to work and only came back once every few months.
It was not until Fang Mingxiao was ten years old that Xia Qishan became seriously ill. Before his death, he did not see his own daughter, but only saw Fang Mingxiao.
The last thing handed to Fang Mingxiao was the medicine map here.
From Xia Qishan's last words, Fang Mingxiao finally understood what an amazing talent his grandfather was, because before that, Xia Qishan only said that he was a traveling doctor and therefore knew some medical skills.
He has also been taking Fang Mingxiao to learn medical skills, and now Fang Mingxiao's common illnesses are no longer difficult for him.
In his will, Xia Qishan solemnly stated that the two volumes of the medicine atlas were heirlooms of the Xia family, and that the Xia family's unique medical skills were thanks to the inheritance of these two books.
Several generations ago, the next volume of the pharmacopoeia was suddenly lost. The head of the Xia family at that time spent a lot of manpower and resources but failed to find it. Later, a fortune-teller said that the opportunity had not yet arrived. Only then did the Xia family gradually withdraw their efforts and only sent a few people to search secretly.
Hearing the words "opportunity has not yet arrived", Jiang Yanqing touched his forehead. The word "opportunity" should be engraved on it!
Fang Mingxiao didn't continue to talk about what happened later. Jiang Yanqing could probably guess that during the reform and opening up two years ago, Fang Tiancheng took all of Xia Wan's savings and went to the south to develop.
There must have been a lot of good things said in it, which made Xia Wan look forward to it. However, she didn't expect that the person who came back was her husband's new love, and they even had a child.
Xia Wan was hot-tempered and proud. She could not accept her husband's infidelity and abandonment. She was so angry that she vomited blood and finally left the world in despair.
This is indeed the case, but what Jiang Yanqing didn't know was that although Fang Mingxiao was sad about his mother's death, he was not too sad. He was more filled with hatred for Fang Tiancheng.
Since Fang Mingxiao was born, Xia Wan has left most of his time to Xia Qishan to take care of him, while Xia Wan herself has devoted all her attention to Fang Tiancheng.
Fang Tiancheng ran around outside and didn't make much money, and he always came back with the scent of women's powder. Xia Wan was angry at first and quarreled with him, but later forgave him.
This made Fang Tiancheng more and more presumptuous step by step. After going to the south, he never thought about his wife at home.
Fang Mingxiao felt only disgust towards such an irresponsible husband and father. Later, when Xia Wan died, he felt only hatred for her.
Later, Fang Mingxiao also thought that if Xia Qishan had not been living in self-blame and disappointment for not being able to settle his daughter, and had to take care of himself and treat the villagers, he, a doctor, might not have left the world so early.
If Jiang Yanqing knew all these things about Xia Wan, she would understand that Xia Wan was what people in later generations call a love-brained person, the kind of person who would not turn back even if she hit a wall.
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