Chapter 1295 — A Painful Past
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"The headaches are real, but there is nothing wrong with your body." Wei Zhao explained: "A headache does not necessarily mean that something has gone wrong with the body; you can have headaches even when nothing is wrong! There are many triggers for headaches. For instance, if you run into trouble, or if something sorrowful happens to you, headaches will follow. A business going bankrupt, the loss of family or friends — all of these can bring on headaches as well."
"Then I..." Xu Shilan suddenly thought of something. She had once gone to see another famous doctor in Songshan City, and after a detailed examination his conclusion had been that she was not ill at all. And at the other hospitals too, nothing could be found wrong with her. Could it be that everything Wei Zhao said was true?
When that famous doctor had delivered his conclusion, Sister Wang had called him a charlatan; at the time Xu Shilan had said nothing, for although the man had reached a conclusion, he had been unable to cure her. But now Xu Shilan was rather inclined to believe Wei Zhao, because his medical skill was plainly greater than that man's — even somewhat greater than that of Zhao the Medicine King, whom she had met before.
So Xu Shilan was quite convinced by Wei Zhao's conclusion; she was merely a little shaken by it.
Hearing Wei Zhao's words, Sister Wang could not help frowning. She wanted to say something, but she had seen with her own eyes the medical skill Wei Zhao had displayed, so she swallowed her words, and in the end said nothing.
"But I have no troubles or pressures now, nothing to give me a headache..." Xu Shilan hesitated, then asked.
"I did not say now. Earlier I asked you when the headaches began, and you told me it was when you were very small. That means the thing happened when you were very small! At that time you met with something that gave you a headache — perhaps in your life, perhaps among family or friends — but that thing has to this day not been resolved, and so your headaches have continued all the way to now!" Wei Zhao said: "This is a kind of psychological suggestion, a knot in the heart, not a physical problem!"
"Ah!" Hearing Wei Zhao's analysis, Xu Shilan stared at him in astonishment and shock — not because his words were so very startling, but because they had struck exactly the secret hidden in her heart!
Wei Zhao was not wrong in the least. When she was small, something had indeed befallen her that had left her grief-stricken; every time she thought of it, Xu Shilan's head felt as if it would split apart, and so she could only keep from thinking of it.
Yet Xu Shilan had never before felt any necessary connection between that matter and her headaches. She had believed that her headaches were simply always there, and that recalling those sorrowful affairs merely triggered an attack — never once had she thought that those painful memories were in fact the root of her headaches!
At that moment Sister Wang was also looking at Wei Zhao in utter amazement. Earlier she had doubted Wei Zhao's claim that Xu Shilan was not ill, but now she did not doubt it in the slightest. Xu Shilan's painful past in childhood was no secret to Sister Wang, and Wei Zhao was an outsider, who could not possibly know these hidden things. The only possibility was that his diagnosis was entirely correct!
"Perhaps you are right... When I was small, I did meet with some sorrowful things. It is a knot in my heart, and to this day it has not been untied..." Xu Shilan sighed and said softly: "Would you be willing to hear it?"
"Tell me." Wei Zhao nodded.
There was no one else in the carriage at that moment. Today Xu Shilan was riding in the company's large business RV; the driver's cab was cut off from the rear compartment, so only Wei Zhao, Feng Xiaoxiao, Sister Wang and Feng Sanmang could hear her words — and Sister Wang and Feng Sanmang clearly knew of these matters; from their expressions Wei Zhao could be certain of it.