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Chapter 667 Qin Huai's Childhood

Qin Huaiming knew that Ayu was teasing him on purpose, but seeing her winking and making faces, he found it funny.

Looking at the present, they already have a better life. He is now fourteen years old, and Ayu will be twelve this year (though she is still ten years old on the surface).

Looking back on those days, they truly seem like a distant memory.

No one expected that he could actually break the curse of certain death and fully recover his health.

healthy……

He knew better than anyone that it was Ayu who gave it to him.

Compared to Ayu, there's not much need to hide some of my childhood memories.

“I used to… not have a good life.” Qin Huai carefully chose his words before saying, “I was weak as a child, and my family often called doctors to come to our house, but my illness did not get better, and I even crawled out of the gates of death several times.”

He spoke casually, but Ayu was terrified: "Is it because you are too sick? But both Doctor Hu and Doctor Xue have examined you and they both said that you are fine, just born weak."

During his time in Hujia Village, Qin Huai's health improved compared to before. Ayu felt that he wasn't as lively as his other brothers, and sometimes she would ask Hu Xiaotong why Qin Huai didn't seem to be doing well.

Hu Xiaotong's medical skills were obviously not good, so he went to consult the doctor Hu who had returned home. The doctor Hu told him that what he had brought into the body at that time was not, strictly speaking, a problem.

Many children are born weak because their mothers don't provide enough nutrition. Many of these children don't survive, some die before the end of their first month, and others, even if they manage to raise them to seven or eight years old, still die because they are too weak to stand.

This disease is incurable in the countryside; it requires various expensive medicinal herbs to sustain life, and there's a high chance the person won't tolerate the tonics and might even die from them. Besides, who in the countryside could afford that kind of money?
Qin Huai recalled that time when he thought he was at his limit, coughing up blood every now and then, truly terminally ill and beyond the reach of medicine.

He had the doctor prescribe strong medicine for him, which would keep him from becoming bedridden, but would also hasten his death. "I suppose so," Qin Huai said. "You know, my maternal grandfather was the Duke of Yong. Just like in those storybooks, no matter how indifferent he was to worldly affairs, he would still make enemies. Therefore, being raised in the Duke of Yong's mansion, I would occasionally be affected."

The word "affected" sounds light, but in reality, Qin Huai often found poison in his food, or poisonous snakes and insects would suddenly appear in the courtyard. When he went out to see the doctor, he would either encounter a carriage overturning or a fight breaking out and affecting him.

At first, they didn't realize it was an assassination attempt until Chi Jia captured the assassin who came to kill them. Qin Huai went out alone and saw Madam Qin looking at the corpses on the ground with a blank expression.

At that time, Madam Qin's dress was stained with blood. In the dim light of the setting sun, she turned her head and looked at little Qin Huai.

Qin Huai shrank back, calling out fearfully, "Mother..."

"Don't call me mother." Madam Qin's face grew even colder as she coldly addressed the child, who was no more than two years old. "You are a child of the Qin family of Jiangnan, so don't act like this! If you are truly afraid, get back to your residence and never come out to harm others again in this lifetime. Do you know how many innocent people have been harmed because of your unauthorized departure!"

Little Qin Huai was so frightened that tears welled up in his eyes, but before they could fall, Madam Qin strode away, leaving Little Qin Huai staring blankly at her retreating figure.

He was genuinely scared, thinking his mother would hug him.

Just like any other mother.

Later, Chi Jia hurriedly came to pick him up and said, "Young master, it's cold, let's go back first."

Thinking of this, Qin Huai suddenly said, "Ayu, actually when I was little, I really wished I was a child from an ordinary family, even if I was born too weak and wouldn't live long."

(End of this chapter)