“Don’t pay attention to what Grandma and the others said. The jewels in Ah Zhuo’s hand were given to her by Grandpa before he died. Dad and Mom will not ask her for them back.”
After dinner, Old Mrs. Wu and the people from the second and third branches left one after another.
Ling Zihuai, who had never spoken to Ah Wu since they met, suddenly spoke.
Ah Wu frowned, wondering what Ling Zihuai wanted to express.
Was he hoping that she would not compete with his beloved sister Ling Zhuo?
“Dad and Mom love you very much and will not deprive you of what belongs to you. I am also your brother. You can tell me what you want.”
Ling Zihuai realized that he had been misunderstood, but he had never had the experience of getting along closely with his sister.
When he saw Ah Wu frowning, he started to panic.
“Grandpa gave me a lot of calligraphy and paintings.”
Ling Zihuai wanted to say that he could give her the paintings, calligraphy, and antiques he had received, but he thought that a girl of Ah Wu’s age might not like them, so he added: “Literature, antiques, and paintings are also very valuable.”
This sentence did not mean to belittle Ah Wu’s vision. Ling Zihuai was also reluctant to pawn those precious antiques and paintings for cash. He just wanted to tell Ah Wu that there was no need to envy anyone. Because she was his younger sister, he was willing to give her everything she wanted.
This kind of emotion was something Ling Zihuai had never experienced when facing Ling Zhuo.
“Zihuai is a good brother.”
Mrs. Fan was very pleased to see her son rarely showing his rare friendly side to others.
In fact, she also owed something to her eldest son.
Ling Zihuai had been taken care of by his grandfather since he was young. Later, his parents gave him a younger sister. Because the younger sister was frail and sick, his parents focused more on that child.
In addition, Ling Zihuai’s status was different. He was the eldest grandson and needed to shoulder the important responsibilities of the family. Both his grandfather and father Ling Yaodong were extremely strict with him.
Ling Zihuai’s childhood had nothing to do with playing and being willful. By the time Ling Zhuo’s health gradually improved and she no longer needed Mrs. Fan to watch over her all the time, Ling Zihuai had already passed the age when he needed maternal love and care.
So much so that now when Mrs. Fan wanted to compensate the child, she didn’t know where to start.
Over the years, Ling Zihuai had always been an excellent heir of the Marquis’s mansion, but his relationship with his parents was not as close as that of an ordinary family, and his relationship with his sister Ling Zhuo was also not much better than that of strangers.
This was all a distress to Mrs. Fan.
However, Ling Zihuai’s attitude toward Ah Wu now made Mrs. Fan realize that it was not that his son didn’t like his sister. He just didn’t like the other sister.
This made Mrs. Fan sigh in her heart.
She began to reflect on herself. Perhaps she and her husband had raised Ling Zhuo so pampered and overbearing that she could not even tolerate her brother.
In fact, if she thought about it carefully, when Ling Zhuo was young, her son was still very concerned about her.
“Eldest Madam, Imperial Physician Wang is here.”
The maid’s words interrupted Mrs. Fan’s thoughts.
“Quick, please come here.”
During the day, when Mrs. Fan asked Imperial Physician Wang to come to her home to diagnose Ling Zhuo’s pulse, she specifically ordered her servants to keep him at the Marquis’s mansion for dinner so that he could check Xiao Wu in time after she returned home to see if there was anything wrong with her body.
At this moment, when the maid came to deliver the message, Mrs. Fan immediately asked someone to invite Imperial Physician Wang over.
“Marquis, Eldest Madam.”
Imperial Physician Wang looked to be around sixty or seventy years old. He carried a suitcase with him and looked no different from an ordinary old man.
“Please trouble Imperial Physician Wang to take my daughter’s pulse.”
Ling Yaodong spoke to the imperial physician in a gentle voice, but his tone was a little hurried. It was obvious that he was nervous at the moment.
Imperial Physician Wang had just checked the pulse of the Sixth Young Lady of the Marquis’s Mansion during the day, but now another young lady appeared in front of him, which was a bit interesting.
He had heard about the rumors circulating in the capital these days about the Marquis’s Mansion finding one of the twins who were lost eleven years ago.
He thought that the one in front of him should be the lost pearl.
However, these twins really didn’t look alike, did they?
Imperial Physician Wang thought in his mind, and then he took a step forward.
He took out a cushion from the medical box and asked Ah Wu to place her wrist on the cushion. Then, he covered her wrist with a silk handkerchief, put his fingers on Ah Wu’s wrist, and carefully felt her pulse.
“Imperial Physician Wang, how is it?”
The pulse diagnosis took quite a long time this time, and the handkerchief in Mrs. Fan’s hand was almost twisted into knots. After finally waiting for the imperial physician to stop diagnosing the pulse, Mrs. Fan hurriedly asked questions.
“The young lady was born prematurely. It seems that she was not carefully cared for back then, so her body has long been weakened.”
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