10 Siblings (1/2)

An Jin had been guarding the bed for almost an hour. However, no doctor had come. Instead, she had asked An Yuanzhi to come.

”Sis, how is Mother?” An Yuanzhi asked urgently as he stood by the bed and looked at the unconscious and feverish woman.

”The doctor hasn't arrived yet.” An Jin's face couldn't hide the anxiousness in her heart. ”I've asked Zi Yuan to go find the head housekeeper!”

An Yuanzhi was still a thirteen year old teenager. After hearing An Jinxiu's tearful words, he clenched his hands into a fist, stomped his foot hard, turned around, and walked out.

An Jinxiu was shocked and hurriedly got up. She chased after An Yuanzhi and asked, ”What are you going to do?”

An Yuanzhi said, ”If the head steward can't get a doctor, I'll go and get one.”

An Jinxiu wanted to say, wasn't this breaking the mansion's rules? How could a concubine invite a doctor from outside to see a doctor in private? However, when she thought of her mother lying on the bed, she gritted her teeth and asked An Yuanzhi, ”Do you have silver taels with you?”

An Yuanzhi's gaze darkened, then he shook his head. He was a born young master that no one asked for, and he had never received the monthly allowance on time before. He hadn't received the monthly payment yet, so An Jinxiu asked for the doctor's money. Only then did An Yuanzhi remember that he didn't even have the money to send a doctor.

An Jin took out some silver pieces from her sleeve and handed them over to An Yuanzhi. ”You have to go faster. I'll stay here with mother.”

An Yuanzhi nodded his head, turned around, and quickly walked out.

An Jinxiu watched An Yuanzhi walk away before she sat back down on the bed beside the empress dowager. When she heard the empress's weak voice, she quickly shouted, ”Mother, Mother, I'm Jin Xiu. Wake up, Mother?”

Lady Xiu opened her eyes in a daze. She saw a person sitting in front of her bed, but did not recognize that it was An Jin.

An Jinxiu ran over to the tea table and poured a glass of water. She passed it over for Aunt Xiu to drink and said, ”Mother, Yuan Zhi invited the doctor over. Wait a moment, the doctor will arrive soon.”

Lady Xiu couldn't clearly hear what the girl was saying to her, so after a few sounds, she fell back into a deep slumber.

She didn't know the concubine would be sick this time. Her mother wanted to enjoy the blessings of An Yuan for decades, but now, An Jin couldn't bear to see the concubine suffer in front of her face just like that.

Zi Yuan ran in with a wronged expression. She looked at An Jinxiu and was about to cry.

An Jinxiu shook her head and said, ”It's not your fault. Don't cry.”

With reddened eyes, Zi Yuan accompanied An Jin to wait by the bed. She whispered to An Jin, ”Miss, are we not going to Qin Manor today?”

”There are plenty of people trying to curry favor with Matriarch Qin,” An Jin replied coldly. ”I'm not lacking.”

Zi Yuan said worriedly, ”I'm afraid Madame has to blame the young mistress.”

An Jinxiu laughed coldly in her heart and didn't say anything. At this time, she suddenly thought of something she had forgotten for a long time. In her previous life, when she had married out to the Qin Residence, An Yuanzhi had stood in front of her palanquin. An Jinxiu remembered that she had ignored An Yuanzhi. When she returned to her residence, she heard that An Yuanzhi had been beaten up and sent to the ancestral hall.

”So that's how it is,” An Jinxiu murmured to herself. Her eyes turned sour, and she could no longer speak. It turned out that the reason An Yuanzhi had stood in front of his palanquin that time was because their mother was sick. The reason why he was being beaten was because, after being ignored by her, An Yuanzhi had gone to look for his father. With An Yuanzhi's temper, there would definitely be conflicts between father and son. In the end, the only one who could suffer would be An Yuanzhi.

”Miss?” ”Ah!” Zi Yuan could feel An Jinxiu's sadness and softly called out to her.

”Did the head steward show you the face?” An Jin asked.

”It seems like guests are coming to the manor today. The main butler is busy preparing it and has no time to pay attention to me.”

A guest? An Jinyi frowned again and casually asked, ”Do you know who is coming?”