Chapter 343 - His Condition Is Not Hopeful (1/2)

Xia Mang looked at Shi Qingxue and asked hesitantly, “My Lady, did you hear what they said?”

Shi Qingxue stopped packing up and then looked back in confusion. “What’s wrong?”

Xia Mang’s expression darkened at once, and she replied cautiously, as she was afraid that Shi Qingxue would be irritated. “You… In fact, there is nothing. You are nice, nice, so…”

Xia Mang said vaguely, and Shi Qingxue listened with difficulty.

After hearing that, Shi Qingxue was stunned.

She looked at Xia Mang in a daze, while the latter was at a loss as she thought that she mentioned what was on the young lady’s mind and made her sad.

“What are you thinking about?” Shi Qingxue was able neither to cry nor to laugh.

Then Xia Mang was dumbfounded.

Shi Qingxue continued to sigh helplessly. “It’s so far away from the courtyard here. No matter how sharp my ears are, I couldn’t hear clearly what they were talking about.”

So Shi Qingxue didn’t hear the conversation between Wenren Chi and Shi Baoning, and she couldn’t have been “hurt”.

Xia Mang was puzzled.

“Why did you…” She asked in panic and didn’t know what to do with her hands and feet.

Shi Qingxue smiled slyly. “If I didn’t act like this, how would you tell the truth?”

Xia Mang was speechless.

She rolled her eyes and was about to complain that Shi Qingxue fooled her maid so boldly.

Shi Qingxue suddenly became serious. “Speaking of which, I was at the door but didn’t hear what they were talking about. Why did you know it seemingly even though you were in the room?”

Xia Mang was unable to speak a word.

The maid’s reaction was odd, and Shi Qingxue could certainly notice it.

“Tell me what you have hidden from me.” Shi Qingxue sat on the bed and stared at Xia Mang, with her sharp eyes.

The maid felt much pressure.

She did notice many things, for example, Wenren Chi’s vague feelings for Shi Qingxue, and the jealousy in Shi Baoning’s eyes…

However, she couldn’t tell the young lady such things.

“My Lady, I, I…” Xia Mang was so nervous that she had sweat on her forehead and almost knelt down to beg for mercy.

At this time, Dong Shuang rushed in hastily and looked worried. “My Lady, Doctor Shen asked you to see him. It’s about the first young master.”

Shi Qingxue turned pale and didn’t have time to interrogate Xia Mang. She told this maid to continue packing up and then went to the side room with Dong Shuang.

In the side room, Shen Luo was sitting on the bedside with his right hand on Shi Qingmin’s fair-skinned and thin wrist while moving his left hand on the baby’s body from time to time to examine him.

He looked gloomy, and the wet nurse who took care of the baby also looked anxious and scared.

“Doctor Shen, what’s wrong with my brother?” After Shen Luo withdrew his hand, Shi Qingxue couldn’t help but ask anxiously.

Shen Luo shook his head. “His condition is not hopeful.”

He pursed his lips and sighed helplessly. “I have said that we might not be able to keep this baby, yet your mother forcefully told me to keep it.”

“But isn’t Qingmin well now?” Shi Qingxue asked in a fret.

What Shen Luo said stabbed Shi Qingxue’s heart, like a sharp knife, making her almost unable to breathe.

She lowered her head and looked at Shi Qingmin on the bed. He was such a little baby enveloped in a cotton quilt, and only a tiny face with the size of a palm was revealed. He came to this world only ten days ago, and he really didn’t look energetic, but wasn’t he sleeping soundly?

Why did Shen Luo say that his condition was not hopeful?

Shen Luo sighed slightly. “He is certainly alive, yet it is uncertain if he is well.”

He lifted one corner of the cotton quilt, showing the two legs of Shi Qingmin in thick swaddling clothes.

“Look.” He pointed to Shi Qingmin’s right leg.

Shi Qingmin’s both legs were covered with thick brocade swaddling clothes, and his skin wasn’t shown, while Qingxue could see something unusual at a glance.

The lengths of Shi Qingmin’s two legs were not the same, and his left leg was shorter than his right leg obviously.

“Is he crooking his left leg so it looks shorter?” Shi Qingxue couldn’t help but think about other possibilities.

Otherwise, should she accept that her brother was disabled innately?

It was different from the ugly birthmark on his face. How could a man in the Shi family be disabled?

The men in the Shi family would lead troops to the battlefield in the future.

Shen Luo shook his head and disillusioned Shi Qingxue mercilessly. “I have taken off his clothes and checked him earlier, and his left leg is crooked indeed, yet he can’t stretch it straight.”

It meant the same as a shorter leg.

“Don’t you have other solutions? You are a miracle-working doctor. Can’t you straighten his leg after making medicine or in other ways?” Shi Qingxue still didn’t give up but looked at Shen Luo with expectancy.

However, Shen Luo was unable to give her a positive answer.

Silence made the air in the room fall into despair.

Shi Qingxue felt that she was trembling. She looked at Shi Qingmin’s quiet sleeping face and felt heartbroken.

Her brother was so young. Why did he have to suffer so much pain?

It was unfair to Shi Qingmin.