In the following days, Mr. Li visibly lost weight at an alarming rate, making Li Xianglu as anxious as ants on a hot pan. He stubbornly refused to eat, and any attempt to persuade him would only provoke his anger, causing the whole family to feel agitated.
It was March, and school was about to start in a few days, but Mr. Li showed no signs of improvement. Mr. Xun specially invited a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner to visit. After checking his pulse, the diagnosis was liver qi stagnation and a lack of appetite. Qin Shouren also visited twice, using a stethoscope and a sphygmomanometer to check everything. Only his blood pressure was a bit low; everything else seemed fine.
This situation deeply worried everyone. What exactly had happened? Privately, Li Xianglu and Qin Xi speculated. The phrase "shouldn't bear the Li surname but the Zhou surname" had crushed the old man. What on earth had happened?
