Chapter 344: His Condition Is Not Hopeful

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.

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“In fact…”

Shen Luo couldn’t bear to see Shi Qingxue’s sad expression, so he blurted out, “You don’t need to be so pessimistic.”

Shi Qingxue paused for a moment and then suddenly looked up at Shen Luo.

Her big beautiful eyes were as bright and dazzling as stars, which made Shen Luo feel suffocated while seeing that.

Shen Luo looked away instantly and added in embarrassment, “The first young master is too young now and hasn’t developed well. Even though I want to cure him, I don’t dare to do it rashly as I am afraid that it will affect his growth in the future.

“But if both legs develop well after he grows up, perhaps I can straighten his left leg in the future. Although it will be different from an ordinary person’s, it will be no problem in daily life.”

“Really?” Shi Qingxue shouted in surprise.

She stared at Shen Luo with her bright and attractive eyes, saying joyfully, “Great. Doctor Shen, I knew that you must have solutions. You are so awesome, so amazing.”

Thinking that her brother’s leg could be cured, Shi Qingxue was overjoyed and wished to praise Shen Luo with all nice words in the world.

She just hoped that this man’s medical skills would be better and that he could fully cure Shi Qingmin.

Shen Luo often heard others praise him at ordinary times, and such compliments were nothing to him.

Nevertheless, when she said that in a sweet and tempting voice, Shen Luo blushed involuntarily.

“Nothing, it’s nothing.” Doctor Shen was in panic rarely.

He tried to look serious and then pointed out, “Don’t feel happy too soon. I can treat him only if his two legs can develop normally. Now I am not sure if his left leg is necrotic and can’t develop.”

“In that case, then…”

“It won’t happen. Qingmin’s leg will surely be fine.” Shi Qingxue interrupted Shen Luo anxiously.

Her tone was certain, even though she didn’t know what would happen in the future. However, if she didn’t believe her brother, how would she ask others to believe that Shi Qingmin would surely be fine?

Shen Luo was shocked by Shi Qingxue’s firm expression and looked at her in a daze.

He had seen this face for many times, and he admitted that her beauty could cause the downfall of cities and countries.

However, it was just so-so.

Shen Luo had seen some girls who were more beautiful.

Only with her face, Shi Qingxue couldn’t arouse his feelings.

He had a completely new appraisal of her and even respected and endured her only because of Mo Junyang.

Nevertheless, when he looked at Shi Qingxue this time, he suddenly had a feeling beyond expression.

He felt shy and absent-minded but more disconsolate, with a feeling of loss.

Shen Luo didn’t dare to think about the meaning hidden in the feelings, so he lowered his head and looked away from Shi Qingxue.

He just stated simply, “It seems that the first young master doesn’t like eating milk, but he can’t eat anything except liquid, so I made some sugar water for him. Just tell the wet nurse to feed him then.”

“Okay.” Shi Qingxue agreed without hesitation.

Then she looked at Shen Luo in confusion, “Why did you tell me this? Aren’t we moving to the villa together later?”

Of course they had made such an arrangement earlier, yet now…

Shen Luo thought that he needed to be alone.

So he just answered, “Anyway, King Rui’s mansion is not far away from the villa. I will go there every morning and evening to check the first young master’s pulse, and if you and he need my help, you can send for me in King Rui’s mansion at any time.”

“…Oh,” Shi Qingxue responded in depression.

She thought that it would be more convenient for Shen Luo to stay in the villa than King Rui’s mansion, but he was not her private doctor.

Shen Luo wanted to return to King Rui’s mansion, so she couldn’t stop him selfishly.

“Thanks for everything, Doctor Shen.”

Shi Qingxue bowed to Shen Luo again and said in a sincere voice.

Shen Luo noticed it and just nodded indifferently. Then he pursed his lips and left the side room.

Shi Qingxue still thought about Shi Qingmin’s condition and what nourishing food she should give him in the future, so he could grow up like an ordinary person. As a result, she didn’t notice Shen Luo’s unusual behavior.

In fact, Shi Qingmin suffered more hardships during his life than what they had found now.

Shi Qingxue took Shi Qingmin with her and moved to the Lanxun Villa in the northern suburbs. On the same night, he had a high fever.

They asked Shen Luo to come at night, and then they looked after the baby for a whole night. The fever was finally reduced, yet the baby started to vomit up everything that he had eaten and even some blood.

It was scarier that Shi Qingmin didn’t make a sound from beginning to end.

He didn’t cry or make a noise, as if he couldn’t feel the pain.

He was like a doll and let anybody fiddle with him, while he was not lively.

Shi Qingxue was scared out of wits to see him like this. She was startled yet could do nothing.

She could only comfort him in a soft voice when he had a violent convulsion, even though it might be useless.

Shen Luo was busy. He came in and out and checked Shi Qingmin’s pulse, gave him acupuncture, decocted medicinal herbs and fed the baby medicine.

After being busy for a morning, he finally finished everything when the winter sun rose.

The only thing that made them feel lucky was that Shi Qingmin was obedient all the time. No matter how bad the medicine Shen Luo fed him tasted and how pained he was when he received acupuncture, he endured it silently, and it appeared that there was no untoward effect for now.

“Is he well now?” Shi Qingxue asked with anxiety.

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