Dressed as a middle-aged mistress, I want to lie down every day

When Mrs. Wang heard that her two younger brothers' brothers-in-law were ill, she asked anxiously, "Why didn't you keep the doctor you brought with you?"

Nie Chengan said, "They both have minor ailments, and Doctor An is treating my younger sister."

Mrs. Wang felt nervous. Ever since her parents died in an accident, her younger sister had been frightened and had consulted many doctors. Her husband had also consulted the imperial physician when he first came to Beijing, but the doctor said that it had been so long and it would be difficult to cure.

"What did the doctor say?"

"Doctor An said he wanted to see her in person. Originally, my wife's family invited him to treat my younger sister in Guanzhong, but Doctor An had to go to the capital for something, so I thought of coming along. Doctor An's mother is the younger sister of the wife of the Zhong Hanlin Mansion in the capital. One of them is a legitimate daughter, and the other is a concubine's daughter."

Needless to say, Doctor An's grandmother must have been born out of wedlock, otherwise she wouldn't have married into a family from another province, let alone a family that practiced medicine.

Wang Jingye looked at Nie Chengping. What a misfortune! Here came a doctor. According to the relationship, Doctor An was Zhong Hanlin's cousin.

Mrs. Wang's expression changed. Nie Cheng'an sensed something was wrong and asked, "What's going on? Is there a feud between the Wang and Zhong families? Or the Nie family?"

Wang Jingye said, "I'll tell you later. Can Dr. An cure Xiangxiang's aunt's illness?"

Nie Chengping said, "Let me explain. It's like this..."

Nie Cheng'an opened his eyes wide when he heard this. His first feeling was that the Zhong family had mistakenly recognized the wrong person.

His parents died unexpectedly when he was ten years old. He remembered what his parents looked like and he also remembered things from his childhood.

My eldest brother doesn't look like my father. Some people in the Nie family talked about it privately. My father said that my eldest brother looks like my uncle, but none of them has ever seen my maternal grandparents. My father said that everyone in my uncle's family is gone, leaving my mother alone and helpless.

So he never asked about his mother's maternal grandparents. He and his younger sister looked like their father, and when they were with their older sister, they looked like three siblings.

But my eldest brother doesn't seem like a family member to them.

After Nie Chengping finished speaking, he asked, "Didn't Doctor An say to go to the Zhong family first?"

Nie Cheng'an said, "Doctor An said he was a doctor and wanted to see the patient first. I told him about my sister's condition, saying that she wasn't born with this condition, but was just frightened. He didn't say it couldn't be cured, but just said he'd see the patient first. Before we went into the city, I also asked him if we should visit the Zhong family first, but he still said he'd see the patient first."

After saying this, he looked at his eldest brother, wondering whether his eldest brother would let Dr. An, whose medical skills he was not sure about, to see his younger sister. The doctors he had found in the past few years were purely a last-ditch effort, and he no longer had any hope.

This doctor was found by his father-in-law's family. He didn't know him well, and when he asked him, he just asked him to see the patient first, which made him feel like a charlatan.

Nie Chengping said, "Nothing is more important than treating my younger sister. Let him treat her first."

Mrs. Wang said with tears in her eyes, "Yes, yes, if he can cure my little sister, I can kowtow to him or to the Zhong family."

Wang Jingye said, "We just arrived today. You should take a good rest. Your elder sister and I will ask the doctor if there is anything we need to prepare so that we can prepare it in advance."

Because my brother-in-law said that Dr. An is a soul-capturing doctor, which is probably similar to a shaman.

Mrs. Wang had no intention of greeting her two sisters-in-law, and went to the guest room with her husband.

She had just met Doctor An, a man in his forties, a gentle and refined man who didn't look like a shaman. But since the merchants had come all the way here, he couldn't be an ordinary doctor.

When they went in, Dr. An had changed his clothes and was wearing a gray padded jacket. He stood up.

Wang Jingye said, "Please sit down. I'm here to talk about my younger sister's condition. I also want to know how Doctor An treats her. We've seen many doctors before, taking medicine and acupuncture. But now my younger sister refuses to extend her hand when the doctor takes her pulse. She's afraid of taking medicine and acupuncture again."

Doctor An said, "Cheng'an gave a general overview of the situation, but he doesn't know the specific details. First, he hasn't seen the patient, and second, he doesn't know the specific circumstances, so I can't elaborate. This kind of illness is triggered by a sudden event, so every detail of the incident must be known. Cheng'an said that his brothers and Mrs. Wang were not present at the time, and those who were present were either dead or injured. The patient was the only one alive, which is a bit difficult to understand."

Wang Jingye looked at Mrs. Wang. Apart from the people in the two cars, his wife was the first person to arrive at the scene.

He didn't know whether his wife would trust the doctor and whether she would tell him what happened at that time.

Mrs. Wang trembled all over. She didn't want to recall that scene the most.

The place where the accident happened was closest to her. She rushed there with her master after getting the news. Her father's head was covered in blood and he was dead. Her stepmother was lying on the ground with a big rock on her back. She and her master moved the rock away. The master turned the stepmother over. She hugged her little sister who was holding on to her stepmother's clothes tightly. The little sister couldn't even cry and kept her eyes wide open in fear.

The stepmother opened her eyes, looked at her, then looked at her younger sister, and closed her eyes again.

She was so frightened that she didn't know how to cry. She knelt beside her father, holding her little sister. Her father's eyes were wide open.

She felt her father was staring at her and felt dizzy.

Mrs. Wang clenched her fists tightly. "Does this have anything to do with seeing a doctor?"

Doctor An said, "Ancient texts state: 'The body is the dwelling place of life, the qi is the filling of life, and the spirit is the control of life. If one is out of place, all three will be damaged.' Therefore, the sages ensure that each person is in his or her proper place and duty, and that no one interferes with the other. Mental illness is when one or two of these three are damaged, and we don't know why, and how can we diagnose and treat them?"

Wang Jingye took his wife's hand and patted it gently. Mrs. Wang mustered up the courage to tell him what happened.

After listening to this, Dr. An asked, "How are the other people in the car?"

Mrs. Wang was trembling. Wang Jingye hugged her and answered for her: "The driver's leg was broken and an eye was injured. The two maids who followed my mother-in-law were all killed. One person's head was hit by a stone and separated from his head."

Doctor An then asked, "Why did you take a child with you to the mountains so far from the city?"

"My father-in-law had gone there a few times before by himself. That time, he accompanied my mother-in-law to a nearby doctor for my younger sister, who had suffered from asthma since childhood. I later speculated that my father-in-law took my mother-in-law and younger sister to the mountain to meet my wife because my wife felt some pity for her. Perhaps it was my mother-in-law's suggestion, thinking that my wife would follow her home after meeting her."

Mrs. Wang was stunned in her husband's arms. She had never heard her husband tell her about his guess.

Doctor An asked, "Could it be that the accident was not an accident?"

Wang Jingye shook his head. "My wife's two brothers and I have checked inside and out. The person driving the carriage was my father-in-law's follower since childhood, and the people following my mother-in-law were people she brought with her. That mountain is not accessible to just anyone."

Mrs. Wang pushed her husband aside and sat up straight, saying fiercely, "If anyone harms my parents, I will wipe out his entire family!"

Wang Jingye gently rubbed his wife's back and continued, "I asked the driver, and he said it was my father-in-law who did it on impulse. It was indeed an accident. But there's something strange that I just wanted to ask you. My younger sister has been taking medicine for a year since then. She's been unconscious, but she's no longer short of breath. Other doctors can't explain why."

Doctor An said, "It's not surprising that people with shock have abnormalities."