The house was already in a mess.
The two maids who had come in were already scared silly and didn’t know what to do, they just kept shouting “Madam”.
“First, take her to bed and lie down.”
Only then did they panic and help the First Lady over.
Song Wan Yue turned around and left the courtyard, saying to Xu Liang who was standing at the courtyard entrance, “Go to my house in South City and find Gu Yi, and ask him to bring my silver needles over.”
Xu Liang, who had been standing outside the courtyard, heard Sister Wu’s alarmed cry and saw the maids in the courtyard stumbling and running outside, guessing that something might have happened to the First Lady.
But he could not enter the courtyard easily, and was in a hurry when he heard Song Wan Yue’s words and turned to run quickly outside the residence.
Song Wan Yue turned around again and went back inside.
Sister Wu and the others were still shouting “Madam”, and their voices were all tinged with tears.
“Her Ladyship is sick with longing, her blood and qi are suddenly surging, her life is not in danger for the time being, don’t all of you surround her.”
Before her words left her lips, Sister Wu grabbed her arm, “Miss Song, do you know how to heal?”
“Mm.”
“You save our Lady, you save our Lady!”
With that, Sister Wu was about to kneel down, but Song Wangyue held her back, “Take it easy, I’ve asked Xu Liang to get the silver needles.”
“It’s all my fault, it’s all my fault ……”
Sister Wu couldn’t stop her tears from falling down, “Madam has been sick for several days, I was going to ask the doctor, but Madam wouldn’t let me, so I didn’t insist on going.”
“Madam’s illness is not caused by a day or two, don’t panic yet.”
……
The doctor was quickly brought in, and after taking her pulse, he shook his head, “Madam is suffering from longing, her body is already in a state of decay, if she continues like this, I’m afraid she won’t last for a few years.
Sister Wu answered in a panic and waited for the doctor to write the prescription and hurriedly sent the maids to get the medicine.
The doctor instructed how to decoct the medicine and then left with the medicine chest on his back.
Sister Wu sat down on the floor, tears falling from her eyes. In the years when Miss had first disappeared, Madam had spent her days in tears and she had been able to persuade some of them. Later, when Madam stopped crying and made clothes for the missing Miss instead, she thought that Madam had come out somehow and strictly ordered no one in the courtyard to mention Miss. She thought that as time went on, Madame would fade away a little, but to her surprise, she never let go of her heart.
……
“Miss Song, the silver needle has been brought.”
Xu Liang’s panting voice came from outside the courtyard door.
Song Wangyue turned around and went out, taking the silver needles, “Go to the old man’s side and tell my big brother that I’m going to perform the needles on Madam, and if he’s okay, tell him to wait for me for a while.”
Xu Liang responded.
Song Wangyue took the silver needles and went back inside, sat on the round stool next to the bed, placed the needle set on the bed, opened it, took out the silver needles and skillfully stuck them on the First Lady’s acupuncture points such as Renzhong, Shaochong, Baihui, Hegu and Neiguan.
When the last burst of needles went down, the First Lady’s eyelids moved and Sister Wu wept with joy, “Madam, Madam ……”
Meng slowly opened her eyes, her hollow, godless eyes bursting with surprise the moment she saw Song Wangyue, “Wan’er, you’ve come back!”
“Madam, I am Song Wangyue.”
“Song Wangyue, Song Wangyue ……”
The light in the First Lady’s eyes receded and she murmured a few times before closing her eyes again, tears slipping silently from the corners of her eyes.
Sister Wu looked heartbroken and held back her tears, “Madam, you must pull yourself together and wait for Miss to return.”
“She won’t come back.”
Ten years, thousands of days and nights, even if Wan’er had been sold, with her intelligence she would have found a way to escape and come back, this was the only hope that kept her alive, but the moment she saw Song Wan Yue, the support in her heart collapsed, she knew her Wan’er would never come back.
“No, Miss will definitely come back.”
Sister Wu pale with persuasion, she understood that after all these years there was still no news of Miss, she must have been killed long ago.
“Maybe this Wan’er you are talking about will really come back.” Song Wan Yue said.
The First Lady snapped her eyes open to look at Song Wan Yue, a hopeful light reappearing in her eyes.
“People don’t go missing for no reason, there are always traces, the Xu family is a family of great Confucians, so naturally they can’t have offended anyone, which means Miss Xu won’t be victimised by an enemy, so the hope of surviving will be high.”
Meng’s lips twitched fiercely.
Song Wangyue continued, “The only reason why the person hasn’t come back for so many years is that something has happened to her or she has lost her memory and doesn’t remember who she is.”
Sister Wu also became agitated, “But when Miss disappeared back then, she was accompanied by two maids, You Zhi and Shu Xiang, who have also disappeared.”
Only when she finished speaking did she see the First Lady’s face turn white instantly and realise she had said the wrong thing.
“So yeah, I say something has happened to them, but as long as it’s not a revenge killing, someone must not have taken their lives.”
“Is that so?”
The First Lady asked hopefully.
If that was the case, her Wan Er must still be alive.
Sister Wu nodded desperately, “It is so, it must be so, Miss must not be dead, staying somewhere, waiting for the day when she regains her memory, she will come back, so, Madam, you must be good and wait for Miss to come back.”
“Good, I will be good and wait for my Wan Er to come back.”
Sister Wu quietly turned her head away to wipe her tears.
“I wonder if you have a portrait, could I have a look at it, my family are business people and have more contacts, I can help keep an eye out for you.”
Song Wangyue asked.
“The old man has it there, I’ll get it for Miss Song later.”
Originally, there was a portrait in the small courtyard, but when Madam cried at the sight of it, the eldest young master took it all away and locked it up in his house. Now that he was not here, he could not take them out, so he only had the one at the old gentleman’s place.
“There’s no need to go and get it, I’ll just happen to go to the old gentleman’s place later.”
Two quarters of an hour later, Song Wan Yue pulled the silver needle off and told Sister Wu her home address, “If Madam is unwell, just have someone shout at me.”
Sister Wu thanked her and thanked her again, and after Meng had drunk the medicine and laid down, she personally escorted her out, “Thanks to Miss Song today, if you have nothing to do in the future, please come and walk around the house more often.”
“Definitely, I felt very much at home when I saw Madam today, if she hadn’t been unwell I would have wanted to give her more time to talk.”
Sister Wu instantly thought of her own young lady again, who was also so sweet, and couldn’t help but shed another tear.
“Is Meng not well anymore?”
Mr. Big asked with a frown as he stepped through the courtyard door just in time to see her crying.
Sister Wu’s body stiffened for a moment and she hurriedly bowed, “Aunt.”
The eldest gentleman’s frown tightened, “I’m asking you, is Meng not well?”
Huo followed in behind her with a look of urgency.