Mo Xinzhi came back after a while. He was very happy to see Nie Cheng'an, who was Nie Chengping's younger brother. Nie Chengping taught his nephew to read and helped him with calligraphy and painting. He liked stones just like him.

Because he loved Nie Cheng'an, he was very happy to see him.

Nie Cheng'an felt that Mo Xinzhi's attentiveness to him was inexplicable. It was the first time they met, and it seemed a bit fake.

Mo Yuanji smiled. He said, "You'll know what your son is like after just two interactions. You don't even need to do it twice. You'll know after just one conversation."

Wang Jingye suggested going to the restaurant, and the Mo family father and son followed him. When they arrived, Wang Jingye was very proud and said to his brother-in-law at the door: "How is it? Pretty impressive, isn't it?"

Nie Cheng'an nodded. His brother-in-law was definitely the best in the capital, and he was willing to spend money.

After entering, there is a bright hall and the handrails of the stairs leading to the second floor are all carved.

Mo Yuanji didn't follow him upstairs. He had been here many times and was too tired to go upstairs.

Mo Xinzhi was excited every time he came. When Wang Jingye saw the stones displayed, he knew that Mo Xinzhi had moved the stones from his ancestral home. Mo Xinzhi introduced the origin of each stone and the year and place where he picked it up.

When Nie Cheng'an heard this, he realized that it was not to cater to his own preferences, but that he was a stone lover like his elder brother.

After listening to him talk more, I know he is a simpleton.

After separating from the Mo family and returning to the Wang family, Wang Jingye said to Nie Chengan, "Don't think too much about people. I'm not stupid, your brother-in-law."

If it were Nie Chengping, he would say: People are not stupid, they just have a lot of money.

Nie Cheng'an smiled and said, "I've never thought so. I'm just curious. Is there anyone else who hasn't been frightened by my brother-in-law like this? If someone is so generous to me, I'd first suspect some motive, some trap."

Wang Jingye laughed out loud.

"Your eldest sister said that she felt comfortable associating with the Mo family. She just got along well with them, without considering who the Wang family was. If Mo Xinzhi liked you, he would talk to you. If he didn't, he would just turn around and leave."

Nie Chengan thought to himself, he is a bit like his elder brother, it is true that birds of a feather flock together.

After returning home, Mrs. Wang told Wang Jingye about Doctor An, "Do you want to tell us about the Zhong family's misunderstanding? After all, he is Zhong Hanlin's cousin, and they will know sooner or later. We seem guilty if we hide it."

Wang Jingye heard his wife say this and knew that she trusted Doctor An. He said, "I'll ask Chengping first."

When Nie Chengping heard his brother-in-law ask him, he replied, "I told him that if he goes to the Zhong family, I will go with him. I am the eldest son of the Nie family, and Doctor An is the nephew of the Zhong family and was invited by my second brother, so I should visit him personally."

Wang Jingye said, "I'll go. I'm your eldest brother-in-law. When I married your eldest sister, I told you that the Nie family's affairs are my business."

Nie Chengping shook his head and said, "It's different."

Wang Jingye said no more. His two brothers-in-law had different personalities. For some reason, he was always a little cautious when talking to Chengping.

Wang Jingye went to see Doctor An and told him directly about the misunderstanding that had occurred with the Zhong family before, and about the fact that his wife had beaten Mrs. Zhong, who was no longer Mrs. Zhong, because Mrs. Zhong had said that the younger sister of the Nie family was a fool.

Doctor An was shocked. No wonder the Wang family looked so strange when they heard that he was a relative of Zhong Hanlin.

He had never met the Zhong family. His mother and Madam Zhong were not very close, one was a legitimate daughter and the other was a concubine's daughter. However, before his mother died, she said that if she had the chance, she would go to Beijing to kowtow to her aunt.

Nothing else was said.

Doctor An was invited by the merchant. Originally, he planned to go to Beijing after seeing the patient to fulfill his mother's last wish.

The patient was in Beijing. He said he came to Beijing for medical treatment, and Nie Cheng'an agreed to go with him.

I didn't expect that there was such a misunderstanding between the Nie family and the Zhong family.

He knew nothing about the Zhong family. He only knew that his mother's elder sister married into the Zhong family, and his mother had no contact with her elder sister.

If it wasn't his mother's last wish, he wouldn't have come to her house even if he went to Beijing.

He had no objection to Nie Chengping's decision to go with him. It was also a good opportunity for him to refuse the Zhong family's request to keep him at home. He didn't want others to think that he was seeking refuge with the Zhong family.

The next day, Doctor An got up early in the morning. Wang Jingye knew that something was going on and that he was going to the Zhong family.

Doctor An stayed for two days. He was also a strange man. He didn't say whether the disease could be cured or not, nor did he say whether he would live in the Wang family in the future or stay at the Zhong family when visiting them.

Seeing that he came empty-handed, Wang Jingye thought, it's a good thing that he had prepared a gift in advance.

Nie Cheng'an must go, as he was invited by his father-in-law's family. Wang Jingye and his two brothers-in-law sent Doctor An to the Zhong family.

The post was sent in advance the day before. Mrs. Zhong saw that the post was written by An Jinghe from Bashu, and after reading the letter, she knew that he was the descendant of her concubine's sister.

Decades passed and she had forgotten the surname and name of the man her half-sister married.

The arrival of her nephew reminded her of the distant past.

Her family was also a prominent one, so it was not surprising to have a daughter born out of wedlock. Even a legitimate daughter, let alone a daughter born out of wedlock, would be a candidate for family marriage.

And this half-sister was promised by her father to a student from another place, but no one knows why.

Her concubine sister was five years younger than her. Before her concubine sister got married, she gave her only bulky gold jewelry as dowry, saying only: "If you want to return to Beijing, come back. I am here with you."

The concubine's sister thanked him with tears in her eyes.

The two sisters had a big age gap in their natal family and were not very close. It was only when she was married at that time and experienced the difficulties of being a daughter-in-law that she said those words out of kindness.

No contact since then.

Mrs. Zhong didn't know why her nephew came to Beijing, but if it was something she could do, she would do her best.

When she saw the person, she was shocked.

It wasn't the nephew who was surprised, but the people who followed the nephew.

Especially Nie Chengping.

She regretted letting her son come over.

Zhong Hanlin was also surprised. His mother asked him to recognize his relatives, who were his cousins. How come the person who came was from the Nie family?

Doctor An stepped forward, knelt, and kowtowed. "My nephew, An Jinghe, pays his respects to my aunt. My mother passed away last year, and I kowtowed to you."

Mrs. Zhong burst into tears. Although they had no sisterly feelings, she was her half-sister after all. She was also in her seventies. She had seen her relatives pass away one after another, leaving herself alone to survive.

She choked up and said, "I didn't expect...your mother is five years younger than me. How come...get up quickly? I haven't seen your mother come back in so many years. How is your family now?"

Doctor An stood up and replied respectfully, "Everything is fine. My father passed away ten years ago, and my wife and children are in my hometown."

Zhong Hanlin stood there motionless, staring blankly at Nie Chengping.

Nie Cheng'an was even more surprised. His elder brother and Zhong Hanlin looked like father and son. It was surprising to see that his elder brother would look like this when he got old.

Is it really the Zhong family who admitted their mistake?

He doesn't think so.

Nie Chengping also didn't even look at Zhong Hanlin, his face expressionless.

Wang Jingye waited for Doctor An to finish speaking before stepping forward and bowing. "Madam, nice to meet you again. Doctor An came to Beijing with my brother-in-law. My brother-in-law invited him to see my younger sister. Today, my brother-in-law and I are here to visit Madam."

Mrs. Zhong was stunned. Her nephew was a doctor? The An family was in poverty?

She remembered that her half-sister married a Jinshi and returned to her hometown after the wedding in the capital. It seemed that her brother-in-law later went to Jiaodong to take up a position.

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