Chapter 119 A Belated Judgment

The Ding family.

Dingxiang complained, her belly protruding.

“Even if I kindly tell the villagers how to treat diarrhea and don’t charge them a penny, they don’t believe me.”

Even Granny Huang, who used to dislike Lu Qingqing, has started saying good things about her.

"Father, what use would it be for me to learn all this stuff!"

Ding Hongshi was lost in thought and didn't hear him.

"Father, Father! I don't want to learn these things anymore!"

Frustrated, Dingxiang threw down the herbs in her hand.

Ding Hongshi then came to his senses.

"If you don't study, your children will eat coarse food and vegetables in the future, won't be able to afford tuition, paper and pens, and may even squander all the money in your hands after a single illness."

What will you and your daughter do then? Go beg for food?

Upon hearing this, Dingxiang immediately became dejected.

Helpless, he picked up the herbs again.

"It's all Lu Qingqing's fault. If it weren't for her, Dad would still be doing well as the village doctor, and we wouldn't have to worry at all."

"Yes, it's all her fault..."

Ding Hongshi smiled strangely: "If she's gone, in two or three years, when the county magistrate changes, the villagers will have no doctor to see and will have to come to me sooner or later."

Dingxiang's eyes lit up, and just as she was about to ask another question, she heard a stomping sound coming from outside.

"Ding Hongshi, get out here!"

Ding Hongshi's expression changed.

Someone saw us just now?

No, impossible. There are mountain peaks blocking the view, and everyone has their backs turned. No one can see them.

"Drag Ding Hongshi out here!"

The village head was directing two young men.

"What are you doing? Why are you dragging my father away!"

Dingxiang ran outside and saw many villagers gathered there, with Lu Qingqing's family standing in front, and...

The magistrate's son!

That person with their face covered must be that person!

A feeling of guilt kept welling up inside me.

However, things were more serious than Dingxiang had imagined.

Ding Hongshi looked at Lu Qingqing, who was standing properly in front of him, his lips trembling, but he was still trying to hold on.

He bet that no one would know he was the one who pushed the person!

But……

"Eight years ago, the one who pushed me into the river and almost drowned was you, Ding Hongshi!"

Lu Qingqing's words were earth-shattering.

"You're talking nonsense!" Ding Hongshi felt a chill creep up from the soles of his feet, as if his legs were standing in ice water.

Something he had been desperately trying to suppress seemed to be making an uncontrollable comeback.

Those distant memories, which he thought had long since rotted away into ashes and been blown away, were actually just hidden in the deepest corner.

In the dead of night, it would always inadvertently gnaw at his nerves.

It never put his mind at ease.

"Ding Hongshi, you didn't expect this, did you? Pushing me into the water again has reminded me of what happened eight years ago! Everything that happened!"

Under Lu Qingqing's icy gaze, Ding Hongshi's pupils dilated, as if he were nailed to the spot, and he lost all his strength in an instant.

In the end... in the end, he couldn't escape this belated judgment.

When I was eight years old, I went to the river to wash clothes for my mother and heard people talking.

It was Ding Hongshi and a man who worked in the government office and could help Ding Hongshi change his identity.

Ding Hongshi, whose original name was Ding Yuanwei.

He was from Heng'an County, Linzhou City, and worked as an apprentice in a medical clinic.

Dissatisfied with his master's favoritism, he took advantage of his master's absence and attempted to gain fame by treating the son of the local richest man. He performed surgery to remove the tumor, but unexpectedly caused the son's death.

Originally, the tumor could have been reduced gradually with medication, without the need for surgery.

To disregard human life for one's own selfish gain.

Knowing he couldn't escape the richest man's revenge, Ding Hongshi fled with his daughter, settling in Liuyun Village with a group of refugees.

"The government can find out the truth of these matters by sending someone to Linzhou City to investigate."

Lu Qingqing's memory was flawless, and Ding Hongshi had no way to refute it.

Ironically, fate had given him a chance, allowing Lu Qingqing to lose her memory.

Unexpectedly, his greed caused fate to take the opportunity away again.

No, it wasn't greed; it was Lu Qingqing's sudden change that made him uneasy.

It was the mockery and coldness in Lu Qingqing's eyes when she looked at him that sent chills down his spine.

She had stirred up those long-forgotten memories.

The villagers were all terrified and thankful that Ding Hongshi hadn't operated on them.

However, many of these cases were misdiagnosed!

It has also harmed many people.

Ding Hongshi seemed to deflate, limp and powerless.

"Lu Qingqing, you're really hard to kill..."

"The long arm of the law will eventually catch up with you! No matter how many years you run away, it won't help!" Lu Qingqing retorted coldly.

Xu Rui ordered in a stern voice: "Liu Lizheng, have him tied up and sent to prison. After the yamen verifies the situation, he will be executed in the autumn!"

Before the village head could arrange for people, Old Man Lu and Lu Yun had already rushed forward.

"No need for anyone else, my son and I will deliver it!"

Lu Yun grabbed Ding Hongshi's arm and snapped it with a "crack".

Ding Hongshi's arm was dislocated.

He gritted his teeth but didn't say a word.

She looked at Old Man Lu pleadingly, "Old Man Lu, I harmed your daughter, I did bad things, and I deserve to be punished, but my daughter knows nothing about it, and she's pregnant. Please don't blame her..."

"You think everyone is like you!"

Old Man Lu slapped Ding Hongshi across the face.

"I even brought gifts to thank you back then! How could you, you old geezer, accept them without a second thought!"

At that time, the child's mother was in poor health. She was a doctor and naturally understood her own body, so she wouldn't allow him to waste money on medicine anymore.

But how could he just stand by and watch her deteriorate day by day, waiting to die?

They went to find Ding Hongshi, the only doctor in the village, to discuss the matter.

Listen to him talk about what to eat to nourish the body and how to get a massage.

Even after his daughter's accident, he still pretended to be terrified and told her not to upset her further, lest she become mentally unstable and turn into a fool.

He delivered eggs to the old man several times, and even gave him two pounds of meat!

Knowing the truth now, I feel so humiliated!

"Second brother, let's go!"

As Lu Yun was holding Ding Hong hostage, he glanced at Lu Qingqing again.

"Brother." Lu Qingqing smiled at him, her eyes sparkling.

She had already called out once, but Lu Yun was too stunned to respond.

This time he agreed, grinning from ear to ear.

She did remember the past; calling him "little brother" sounded more comfortable, as if that was how she truly became his little sister.

The moment Lu Qingqing fell into the water and hit her head on a rock, a similar scene triggered her forgotten memories.

It turns out, she was the real Lu Qingqing.

She is a wandering spirit born in ancient times who traveled to the modern era.

During the eight years he was gone, he was possessed by another wandering soul.

Although that person was vulgar, lazy, and stupid, he caused trouble for the whole family for eight years.

But it was because of her that this body was able to survive and eventually meet its original owner.

Let's just call it an equivalent exchange.

She also doesn't plan to tell her family the truth.

Let them believe that they have been protecting their real daughter all these years.

Otherwise, knowing that she was adrift alone in another world, one can only imagine how painful it would be.

When Old Man Lu and Lu Yun tied up Ding Hong, they dragged him away, kicking and hitting him.

After thinking about these things, Lu Qingqing clearly felt a gaze from her left.

She looked over.

Why are you staring at me like that?

"I didn't see it."

See, you still won't admit it!

Believe it or not, she ripped off his hat!

"Lu Qingqing, please spare my father! I beg you!"

Dingxiang knelt down before Lu Qingqing, crying and kowtowing.

"I have no husband's family and no relatives left. Please spare my father. We'll leave this place and never come back, okay?"

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