The medicine ball, smoothly sent down with the Spirit Spring Water, showed signs of stabilizing Tie Tou's pulse after a Moment had passed. Mo Yan then checked Tie Tou's pulse again and found it steadier. He let out a quiet sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat from his brow, and asked, "Aunt Wu, how did Brother Tie Tou end up like this?"
Upon hearing this, Wu's face was stricken with deep sorrow, and the tears she had just stopped flowed down once more. "It's my fault, all my fault. I shouldn't have hit him so hard, I shouldn't have forced him to break it off with that girl... It's all on me, all my fault..."
Through Aunt Wu's broken words, Mo Yan came to understand why Tie Tou had ended up in such a state. He was extremely frustrated with himself for not intervening earlier to resolve the conflict between mother and son, thinking that perhaps then today's events might have been avoided.
