Anning glared at An Xin: "I know."
Anning knew she was being sched against as soon as she beca conscious.
She had never t the Marquis Mansion Dowager in the Nihility Space, nor did she have much mory of the Old Dowager, what’s more, she didn’t know what the Old Dowager’s wishes were.
Logically speaking, having fought battles half her life, achieving fa and fortune, and blessed with a loving spouse and a house full of children, Sun Anning should have no regrets.
Yet peculiarly, Anning found herself in the body of this Old Madam whose life one might call fulfilled.
She now didn’t know what to do.
She dared not act rashly for fear that she might go against the original body’s wishes with even a slight inadvertence.
"Ningning, what should we do?"
An Xin asked Anning.
"First, let’s recuperate before planning for the future."
Anning answered softly.
After that, she kept struggling to practice cultivation.
Sun Anning’s body was old and burdened with nurous hidden injuries, making cultivation extrely difficult.
Even with Anning’s superior cultivation techniques, it was tough to exert in such an old and weakened body.
Anning figured she needed to use so dicine to first treat the hidden injuries in her body.
Fortunately, her current identity was the most revered existence in this Marquis Mansion; what she wanted, basically no one would oppose.
Anning cultivated for several hours, and when she got up early, she called Ruyue to co in.
Ruyue, fearing that Anning would need soone during the night and also worried about her health, didn’t dare to leave. She slept in the outer room on the floor, and as soon as it was just dawn and heard Anning calling, she quickly got up and went in.
"Old Madam."
Anning smiled and gestured to Ruyue: "You go fetch so paper and pen."
Ruyue went out, and soon brought the four treasures of the study.
After grinding the ink, Anning wrote down so nas of dicinal herbs: "Go find the Old Master and have him send the dicine. If we don’t have them at ho, look for them outside."
Ruyue waited for Ruyu to co in before she took the prescription and left.
Anning called Ruyu over and asked her to prepare so food in the kitchen.
After having breakfast, Tang Dingguo had already prepared all the dicinal materials.
Anning instructed Ruyue to personally decoct the dicine into a thick soup, and also arranged for a bathtub and hot water, saying she wanted to take a bath.
As soon as she ntioned bathing, it scared all the servants in the house terribly.
So servant girls turned and ran to call the brothers Tang Dingguo.
The rest knelt down swiftly, filling the room.
"Old Madam, the weather is still very cold, and you have not yet recovered from your serious illness, you absolutely cannot take a bath."
The whole room cried and pleaded, their heads thumping loudly.
Tang Dingguo and Tang Baoguo dashed in with their clothes not properly worn.
Tang Baoguo even lost a shoe.
The brothers knelt down with a thud as soon as they entered and pleaded: "Mother, if there’s sothing lacking, just tell your sons, we won’t deny you anything, but you must not neglect your health, our father is already gone, we are in deep grief, if, if sothing happens to you, how can your sons go on living?"
The two brothers cried genuinely, n in their thirties with tears and snot streaming, it pained Anning to watch.
"Enough, I’m not even seriously affected yet and you’re howling as if it’s a funeral."
Anning, annoyed, patted the bed: "I’m not dead yet, stop crying, get up quickly."
The brothers were startled and hurriedly stood up, stamring.
Tang Dingguo leaned forward, "Mother, please bear with it for now; even if you want to bathe, you must wait until after you’re recovered..."
Anning glared at Tang Dingguo, "All of you, do you really want to control your old mother? Let tell you, from now on, you all have to listen to your old mother. If there’s any more reluctance, beware my cane will show no rcy."
Tang Dingguo, scared like a quail flapping its wings, said, "If it were anything else, your son would not say a word, but now..."
Anning, with frustration in her voice, said, "Am I soaking in a bath? I want to soak in a dicinal bath. When I was young, I once t a Taoist who gave a prescription for a dicinal bath, claiming that regular soaking would strengthen the body. I never tried it before, but for so reason, I thought of it yesterday and wanted to try it. My body is already like this, if I don’t try, it’s just a matter of a few months anyway. Trying it might even let live a few more years."
So that was it.
Tang Dingguo sighed in relief.
He thought Anning still harbored a death wish, wishing to wash herself well before dying cleanly.
But it turned out she wanted to take a dicinal bath.
"Then, mother, please take good care of yourself."
Tang Dingguo took a few steps back, then left with Tang Baoguo.
After they left, Anning asked the servant girl to prepare hot water and began the dicinal bath.
When she, assisted by the servant girl’s hand, stepped into the bathtub, it scalded her entire body, making her shiver, and she sat down. Not long after, the effects of the dicine penetrated her body, violently rejuvenating her aged fra.
Anning’s entire ridian system felt as if it were being torn apart, the pain nearly knocking her out.
Every piece of flesh and bone in her body felt as if it were being torn apart and then healed, only to be torn again. The pain was worse than death by a thousand cuts.
Anning gritted her teeth and endured.
This kind of pain, where every part of her body felt like it was being ripped apart, a pain that made her want to die every second, she had experienced it more than once, and was now used to it.
She didn’t utter a sound and stubbornly soaked for half a two-hour period.
When she got out of the bathtub, Anning seed reborn.
For the following seven days, Anning soaked in the dicinal bath daily.
Although Anning had said there was no need for formal duty, Tang Dingguo and his brother, fearing an accident, still ca daily to check on her.
When they saw Anning’s health improving day by day, her complexion growing rosier, and her vitality returning, they were assured, and began to think that the prescription was indeed effective. Just a few days of dicinal baths had made soone look so much younger and stronger.
Now middle-aged, Tang Dingguo and his brother sotis felt unable to cope and wondered if they should also try soaking.
Once the seven days were up, Tang Dingguo asked Anning, wanting to try that dicinal bath himself.
Fortunately, Anning had so dicine left and seeing Tang Dingguo and Tang Baoguo so interested, she agreed to prepare the dicine for them.
After preparing the dicine, Anning taught them how to cook the dicine and how to take the dicinal bath.
The brothers happily took the dicine and went ho.
That evening, Anning heard screams from afar.
The next day, when Tang Dingguo and Tang Baoguo ca again, they clearly looked less vibrant.
Tang Dingguo, embarrassed but trying to keep a smile, asked Anning, "Mother, did the dicinal bath also hurt you that much?"
Anning could tell just by looking at the brothers that they must have given up after soaking for only a short while last night.
"Cowards."
Anning scolded, "Even this old woman is better than you."
Tang Baoguo chuckled awkwardly, "Mother, is there a kind of dicine that doesn’t hurt?"
Anning slapped him, "Don’t be greedy. Do you think the dicine that improves your body is easy to co by, and that anyone can endure it? If you can’t endure hardship or pain, how can you expect to strengthen yourself?"
"It’s just that, son really can’t bear it, it’s too painful."
Tang Dingguo’s face was red, sowhat embarrassedly he said, "I really didn’t expect it to be so painful, nor did I expect mother to be so tough, enduring sothing even more painful than being slowly tortured."
"When I was on the battlefield, I was injured countless tis, each ti enduring by gritting my teeth. Your father too, once he even had his belly gashed open, yet he tightened his belt and continued to fight. That’s how he fought to give you this Marquis Mansion. If you brothers can’t even bear a little hardship, how can I rest assured?"
Anning sighed deeply, "You can’t endure it, and your sons are even worse, what a pity that such a good prescription is of no use in our family."
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