Old Jiang, what's wrong with you? "
Mr. Hu looked at Mr. Jiang in surprise and asked with concern.
Ever since they both became disciples of Ding Ning's master, the habit they had developed over the decades made them feel uncomfortable if they didn't bicker every day. But the two had already let go of their former enmity and got along very well. In so many years, it was the first time he had seen Mr. Jiang lose his composure.
Ding Ning also looked at Mr. Jiang curiously, "What's wrong? Do you know Millie Snow? "
Mr. Jiang wiped his tears, stared at Millie Snow kindly and affectionately, and then looked at Mr. Hu and said in a dull voice, "Do you still remember Callie?"
"Callie?"
Mr. Hu trembled all over, his breath became rapid, and his eyes were in a trance for a moment.
"Callie is my younger sister. We have depended on each other since childhood. She is only one year younger than me, but she is more talented in medicine than me. …"
Mr. Jiang took a deep breath and told some of the past buried deep in his heart.
It turned out that Mr. Jiang and his sister were orphans. They depended on each other since childhood and lived by begging. When Mr. Jiang was eight years old, they were adopted by an old traditional Chinese medicine doctor.
The old traditional Chinese medicine doctor was Mr. Hu's uncle. Mr. Hu learned medical skills from his uncle since childhood. Although he didn't formally apprentice, they were master and apprentice.
Since Mr. Hu's uncle adopted Mr. Jiang and his sister, the three became brothers and sisters of the same master.
Unfortunately, Mr. Hu's uncle was the kind of person with the old feudal ideology, who was extremely patriarchal and believed that a woman's lack of talent was a virtue. He adopted Mr. Jiang because he liked his medical talent, so he adopted Jiang Kaili.
As a result, he taught Mr. Jiang and Mr. Hu everything he knew, but he was always unwilling to teach Jiang Kaili too advanced medical skills.
However, Jiang Kaili was extremely competitive and stubborn, so she hid and eavesdropped when the old traditional Chinese medicine doctor was teaching her brother and Mr. Hu.
But walking at night, one would meet a ghost. Although Jiang Kaili was careful, she was still discovered by the old traditional Chinese medicine doctor.
Like many old traditional Chinese medicine doctors, Mr. Hu's uncle had a deep-rooted concept of family. Stealing was a very serious thing in that era.
Therefore, the old traditional Chinese medicine doctor was furious and wanted to punish Jiang Kaili. Even if Mr. Jiang and Mr. Hu knelt down and begged, it was useless. In the end, Jiang Kaili was whipped 20 times.
How old was Jiang Kaili at that time? She was only a twelve-year-old girl. Twenty lashes almost took her life. She had to lie in bed for more than a month before she recovered.
The most unacceptable thing was that the old doctor was eccentric. He strictly forbade anyone from applying medicine to her. Apart from having three meals a day, no one was allowed to visit her either. He wanted her to remember this lesson.
Elder Jiang was extremely distressed, but his and his sister's lives were saved by his master, and he had been instilled with the concept of respecting his master since he was a child. Although he was angry at his master's heartlessness, he did not dare to say anything.
Compared with his cautiousness, Mr. Hu didn't have so many scruples. After all, Mr. Hu was his uncle, not his real master.
Therefore, when Mr. Jiang dared not take care of his sister because of his master's order, Mr. Hu secretly took the medicine to apply it to her every day.
Boys were not as precocious as girls, and they didn't pay attention to the etiquette between men and women. Jiang Kaili's injury was on her buttocks. Every time the medicine was applied, Mr. Hu had to take off her pants.
Mr. Hu didn't think much about it, but Jiang Kaili was different. Girls were precocious, and they were at the age of first awakening of love. Moreover, girls at that time were relatively conservative. Mr. Hu was so kind to her and saw her naked, so she had a good impression of Mr. Hu and believed that he was her future husband.
Mr. Hu thought that since Jiang Kaili liked learning medicine so much, he should secretly teach her the medical skills he had learned from his uncle.
He didn't expect that Jiang Kaili was so talented in medicine that she could learn everything as soon as she learned it. Moreover, she could draw inferences about other cases from one instance and apply it to practice.
Later, because of the change in his family, Mr. Hu had to leave his uncle's house to visit his parents. It happened to be the time of war, so the three of them lost contact.
Not long after Mr. Hu left, the old doctor of traditional Chinese medicine also died because of an accident. Mr. Jiang inherited his clinic and became the new owner of the clinic.
But the most skilled person in the clinic was not him, but his sister Jiang Kaili. After the old doctor of traditional Chinese medicine died, this medical genius finally didn't have to hide anymore. She showed her brilliance. She was kind and charitable, practicing medicine and dispensing medicine. She was honored as the living Bodhisattva.
When the three of them met again, it was ten years later. Mr. Hu, who had made great achievements in medicine, was complacent and looked for masters everywhere to learn from each other. After hearing that there was a living Bodhisattva in the south, he immediately rushed there from thousands of miles away. When he met her, he knew that the living Bodhisattva turned out to be Jiang Kaili.
The reunion of old friends was naturally a great joy. Jiang Kaili's yearning for ten years gushed out and she confessed her love to Mr. Hu in the drunkenness.
Mr. Hu was very embarrassed at that time. He just regarded her as his sister in his heart, and there was no love between a man and a woman. What's more, he already had a lover and had just been married. So, he could only tactfully refuse his confession.
If it were only like this, Mr. Jiang might not hate Mr. Hu for so many years. Although Jiang Kaili felt as if she was struck by lightning at that time, she was very calm. She smiled and said that she was just joking. She also proposed marriage and congratulated Mr. Hu on his happy marriage.
But of course, Jiang Kaili drugged Mr. Hu's wine, and the two of them had sex.
Mr. Hu was also very wronged in this matter. After waking up, he was in extreme pain. However, Jiang Kaili calmly told him that he was the only person she had ever loved in her heart. That night was the end of her ten-year love. From then on, they would be strangers when they met.
Mr. Hu was an honest and dutiful person. Although he was very moved by Jiang Kaili's deep love, he was a married man after all and could not be responsible for Jiang Kaili.
So, Mr. Hu left. It was not an exaggeration to say that he fled.
After he left, Mr. Jiang woke up and saw the red stain on his sister's bedsheet. Then he knew what had happened. He immediately became furious and wanted to catch up with Mr. Hu, the heartless man, and ask him why.
However, Jiang Kaili stopped him and said that everything was voluntary and had nothing to do with Mr. Hu. Then, she proposed to go out to relax.
Mr. Jiang felt sorry for his sister. Thinking that Mr. Hu was already a married man, it was impossible for his sister and him to be together after all. It was good for her to go out to relax now. Therefore, he took out all the savings of the clinic and asked her to go out to have a look.
He didn't expect that her departure would be the last time he and his sister would meet. Jiang Kaili didn't know how, but she ran abroad. It wasn't until two years later that he received a letter from her, saying that she had met a man who was very good to her. She had married him and gave birth to a boy.
Mr. Jiang, who had been worried about his sister, finally felt relieved. Although the brother and sister would be separated from each other from then on, as long as she could forget the past and live a happy life, he would be relieved as her brother.
However, when he thought that his sister went abroad because of Mr. Hu, Mr. Jiang blamed Mr. Hu for the separation of the brother and sister. Therefore, in the past decades, as long as he saw Mr. Hu, he would ridicule and insult him in every way.
Ding Ning looked at Mr. Hu, who was embarrassed, and his expression became extremely strange. Mr. Hu was too irresponsible, wasn't he? Since the rice had already been cooked, he might as well marry all of them.
But on second thought, he couldn't blame Mr. Hu for being irresponsible. After all, it was Jiang Kaili who drugged him that he succeeded in a muddle-headed way. Besides, in that era, even divorce was a very shameful thing.
It was a very shameful thing, not to mention keeping a mistress.
Even if he was Mr. Hu in that era, he might not be able to bear this responsibility. Otherwise, his backbone might be broken by others.
Although he had figured out the resentment between Mr. Jiang and Mr. Hu, what did it have to do with Millie Xue? This made him look at Mr. Jiang curiously, and an incredible idea suddenly came into his mind. He cried out in horror, "Is the man your sister married a member of the Rothschild Family?"
Everyone suddenly raised their heads and looked at Mr. Jiang in disbelief. Even Mr. Hu, who drooped his head and felt too ashamed to show his face, raised his head in shock and looked at him.
Mr. Jiang showed a bitter smile and nodded heavily and self-mockingly, "Yes. If Callie hadn't sent me a lot of money, let me expand the medical center, and hired a lot of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners to work in the medical center, which relieved me of my worries and enabled me to concentrate on medicine, I wouldn't have made the achievements I have now."
"Hiss!"
Ding Ning couldn't help but gasp and said with an extremely strange expression, "So, that Millie Xue is actually your grandniece?"
Mr. Jiang turned his head lovingly to look at Millie Xue, who was talking with Jorge Sen in a low voice, and nodded gently, "Yes, Millie Xue is Callie's granddaughter, my grandniece. Her name was written to me by Callie when she was just born, and I gave her a name."
Ding Ning didn't know what to say. It turned out that Millie Xue turned out to be Mr. Jiang's grandniece. The world was so f * cking small!
"Why didn't she know you?"
Mr. Zhang, who was straightforward, asked curiously.
Mr. Jiang's mouth twitched, his eyes turned red, and his eyebrows were full of unconcealable grief, "When she was just born, Callie was already terminally ill. I didn't receive her will until more than a month after she died. Since then, I have lost contact with her."
Everyone fell silent and felt heavy in their hearts, especially Mr. Hu, who had already choked with sobs. Even though he had long known that Callie had passed away for many years, this scene touched the past, and he still felt sad from the bottom of his heart.
"Well, the dead are gone, and the living have to live well. I think your sister doesn't want to see you in pain."
Ding Ning sighed, patted Mr. Jiang's shoulder gently, and comforted him.
But he had a lot of doubts in his heart. Even though they lost contact after Callie's death, Callie's son must have known the existence of Mr. Jiang, his uncle. Why had he never contacted Mr. Jiang, and even Millie Xue didn't seem to know the existence of his uncle? It didn't make sense.
He wanted to ask, but looking at the sad faces of Mr. Jiang and Mr. Hu, he restrained his curiosity and didn't pour salt on their wounds.
Perhaps his nephew didn't want to have any contact with his uncle from Shenzhou. After all, he was a member of the Rothschild Family. Having a "poor relative" like Mr. Jiang would make him lose face, so he cut off all contact with Mr. Jiang after Jiang Kaili's death. He didn't even tell his daughter that she had such a relative.
It was difficult for an upright official to settle family affairs, not to mention the family affairs that were thousands of miles away. Although Ding Ning was confused, he didn't mean to ask. Everything depended on Mr. Jiang's will. If he wanted to recognize Millie Xue, he would naturally try his best to help him.
However, it seemed that Mr. Jiang just confirmed the identity of Millie Xue, and didn't mean to recognize her, which made him feel more and more strange. He always felt that Mr. Jiang seemed to be hiding something, but it had nothing to do with him, and he would not get to the bottom of it because of curiosity and insist on asking the reason.
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