10 Siblings (2/2)
”I don't know,” Zi Yuan shook her head. ”No one in the front yard is willing to pay attention to me.”
”Forget it,” An Jinxiu changed the cold towel for Aunt Xiu, ”Yuan Zhi has already gone to call the doctor. He should be here soon.”
Zi Yuan helped An Jinxiu feed the water to Lady Xiu. The scoldings she had received in the front yard, and the weird words she had heard, all made Zi Yuan decide to rot them in her stomach.
The master and servant duo busied themselves nonstop in the room, only wanting to make the Ah Jin's mother feel better.
A short while later, An Yuanzhi called for a doctor.
An Jin and Zi Yuan moved their hands and moved a screen in front of the bed, so that the doctor could take a look at Lady Xiu pulse through the screen and hold the rope.
After the doctor had finished checking her pulse, he told An Yuanzhi that mother had a cold that had entered her body. She would need some time to recover after taking the medicine.
An Yuanzhi thanked the doctor in front of him.
”It's fine.” After An Yuanzhi led the doctor out to write a prescription, An Jinxiu sat next to the embroidery aunt and said in a small voice, ”Mother, you'll be fine after taking the medicine.”
An Yuanzhi saw the doctor off, then took the prescription to the pharmacy to get some medicine. When he returned, he asked Granny Qian to set up a small stove under the eaves outside the house.
An Jinxiu saw that An Yuanzhi's face was covered in wood ash, and he was sweating profusely. In his hand was a palm-leaf fan, which he kept on fanning the flames with. An Jinxiu called out, ”Yuan Zhi.”
An Yuanzhi turned around to look at An Jinxiu and said, ”Sis, please go inside. There's a lot of smoke here, so you'll choke.”
An Jinxiu walked up and squatted down as well. She used her handkerchief to wipe An Yuanzhi's face.
An Yuanzhi was startled by the sight of An Jinxiu's face.
”What's there to be afraid of if you're my little brother?” An Jinxiu asked, ”You often have a stove yourself?”
An Yuanzhi nodded.
”How can the mansion be short of your food?” An Jin asked again.
An Yuanzhi grinned and said indifferently, ”It's easy for me to get hungry if I practice martial arts. It's always late when dinner starts.”
An Jinxiu was frozen in place. She was not feeling well, and it took a long time for her to recover.
An Yuanzhi seemed to have realized something at this moment. She looked towards An Jin and said, ”I don't like read or be like scholar as big brother no matter how hard I read.”
”There's nothing bad about practicing martial arts,” An Jinxiu said, ”If you like it, then go with the martial arts.”
An Yuanzhi was stunned again. ”Sis, you don't object?”
”It's useless if you're a girl,” An Jinxiu said with a wry smile. ”You're my only hope. Joining the army is a way out, so why would I stop you?” ”It's just that this road is difficult and dangerous. Elder sister doesn't feel good.” An Jinxiu said. When she said this, she felt sad. An Yuanzhi had left the army at the age of 14 and suffered so much, yet she didn't know that she was the elder sister.
”No matter how hard it is to leave, it's still better than staying in this mansion.” An Yuanzhi saw that An Jinxing didn't despise him at all, and felt closer to him. ”In the future, even if you marry into the Shangguan family, I'll be able to take care of you.”
An Jin wiped her eyes. She was just a silly little brother. She had treated him well in the past few days, and this little brother had forgotten about the past ten years. She was the same as the people in this house.