Chapter 238:
He was grateful to Lu Ziyan for saving his younger sister, sparing her from a calamity.
He truly believed that his younger sister, just as Lu Ziyan had said, had let down her guard after being saved by him and accepted him again.
But not long after, news of Xie Wanning’s death reached the Capital City.
It was truly a bolt from the blue, striking the Xie Family a heavy blow.
For nearly a year, the skies over the Xuanping Marquis’s Estate were all gray and somber.
Xie Yanyu began to cough lowly.
Only then did Xie Wanning notice her elder brother’s pale face, and she worriedly said, “Elder Brother, are you ill?”
“Yes,” unable to hold back in the end, Xie Yanyu reached out and pinched her cheek, saying lightly, “The younger sister I protected since childhood met with misfortune, and in grief I fell ill.”
“…” Xie Wanning fell silent and tugged at his sleeve. “It’s my fault.”
As she spoke, her eyes began to redden again. “It’s all my fault. I’m unfilial.”
She was thinking that when news of her death from her past life reached home, her father, elder brother, and mother must have been so heartbroken.
In two lifetimes, she had made them worry.
“Alright, don’t cry,” Xie Yanyu couldn’t bear to see his younger sister cry, so he reached out to wipe her tears and coaxed, “As long as you’re safe, Father and Mother’s health is still decent. You needn’t blame yourself.”
At this moment, he still felt as if he were in a dream, full of unreality.
Thinking of it, he couldn’t help but put on a stern face and scolded, “Your courage is far too great!”
In such chaotic times, a young lady actually traveled a thousand miles alone, from north to south.
Before being kidnapped by the Jin Raiders, she had been a noble lady delicately raised in the Marquis’s Estate, who had never even left the Capital City.
To arrive safely in Bianzhou all the way, besides great courage, her mind had to be meticulous as well.
……His younger sister was truly clever and quick-witted.
Even if one’s own child was naughty, it was still one’s own.
Xie Yanyu was in exactly this mindset at the moment. Looking at his lost and found younger sister, he found everything about her endearing.
Even her bulging belly seemed round and cute.
The brother and sister gazed at each other tenderly, chatting back and forth, occasionally choking up.
Ji Chengfeng and Chen Xi’er quietly listened from the side without interjecting.
It was only the arrival of the estate doctor that interrupted this tenderness.
Xie Wanning obediently extended her wrist.
She was not someone who didn’t cherish her own body. Of course she had no serious issues; even the child in her belly was perfectly fine.
Hearing the doctor’s words, Xie Yanyu, who had been keeping a taut face, finally softened his expression. Just as he was about to dismiss the doctor, his wrist was grasped by his younger sister.
“I see that your body is the one that’s ill,” Xie Wanning pulled his hand and rolled up his sleeve, saying to the estate doctor, “Please, Doctor, take his pulse as well.”
Her elder brother’s face was very pale, and he coughed from time to time. Of course Xie Wanning was worried.
Xie Yanyu tried to withdraw his hand but found his younger sister gripping it tightly. With a helpless smile, he let her be.
This time, the estate doctor took the pulse for quite a while.
Finally, as Xie Wanning couldn’t help but frown, he slowly said, “Excessive Grief, with stagnated qi entering the internal organs, most damaging to the mind. Fortunately, the Young Master is young and the foundation is unharmed. With proper nourishment for some time, he will recover.”
Excessive Grief…
Xie Wanning tightly covered her lips, but her eyes instantly reddened.
She had thought her elder brother was joking earlier when he said the younger sister he protected had met with misfortune and he fell ill from grief.
She hadn’t expected… it to be true.
Her elder brother had grieved to the point of Excessive Grief… then what about her father and mother?
“What are you crying for?”
After the estate doctor wrote the prescription and left, Xie Yanyu patted his younger sister’s shoulder. “Father and Mother were indeed heartbroken, but now that you’re safe, your elder brother will write a letter shortly. Once they know, all their ailments will vanish.”
