The relatives brought by Erwa's uncle kept pulling people over and saying, "Erwa has to pay! My son has been beaten by him and he can't find a wife. The child's life is ruined. If you don't pay, don't even think about letting us go. This matter is not over!"
She scanned the courtyard house. She didn't think much of it at first, but the more she looked at it, the more interesting it became. The courtyard was so big and spacious. There were pomegranate trees in the yard, which symbolized fertility and good fortune. Even the bricks and tiles on the houses were something they had never seen in the countryside. This house must be worth a lot of money. If her son could live in a house like this, wouldn't he have to worry about not being able to find a wife?
Thinking of this, greed appeared in the old lady's eyes. She cried out, "No, is it enough to just pay the money? My son is a useless man now and can't find a wife. He has to take care of us old couple until the end of our lives and let us live here."
As soon as he heard this, Lin Minjun knew that this person was trying to get close to her, and that she was going to rely on Erwa, because he was just a little kid and was easy to bully and talk to.
"His aunt, how can you say that?" The uncle came up and said, "Just ask for some money, but how can you bring your family here? Erwa is still a child, you can't do that!"
"What else can we do? Look at my son's legs and then look at his head. How will he be able to find a wife in the future? He's so disfigured!" The old lady immediately yelled back.
Erwa's uncle tried to dissuade him, but that was all he said. He turned to Erwa and said, "Erwa, what are you going to do now? You can pay for it. Anyway, you broke his head."
"Where's your money? I remember that this house was rented by the government. They must have paid a lot of money, right? If you don't have money, give me the house deed and the land title, and I can lend it to you." As he said that, he was about to pull Erwa over.
Erwa of course disagreed and stared at him with anger in his eyes, "What compensation? If you hadn't tricked me and locked me up, how could I have hit him?"
"Kid, don't say such things. I'm your uncle, and your dad and I are brothers. How could I possibly lock you up?" The uncle quickly came over and covered Erwa's mouth.
At this time, Xia's wife and Xu's wife from the back house came out to see the excitement. The uncle covered Erwa with his hands and said with an apologetic smile, "Erwa is talking nonsense."
Erwa stepped on his uncle's shoes as hard as an angry, fur-ruffled kitten, making him grimace in pain.
His feet hurt, and his hands were weak. Erwa struggled hard to get away, his eyes almost spitting fire, "I didn't lie. You said you would take me back before the New Year. I got news about my brother, but it turned out to be a lie. As soon as I got there, you locked me up and asked me for the house and land deeds! I didn't lie! This person just wants to take my things!"
Erwa was angry and anxious, panting heavily, just like a beast that was pushed to the extreme, baring its fangs and claws, and raising its body of spikes to protect itself.
In his opinion, this is self-protection, but in the eyes of adults, the words of children have almost no weight.
Taking a look at the patient still lying on the door panel with his head wrapped in bandages, Lin Minjun knew that no one would listen to Erwa's words now and they would only cause trouble.
She walked over and pulled the angry Erwa over, put him behind her again, and kept patting his back to comfort him, signaling him to calm down first.
After Erwa calmed down a little, Lin Minjun began to implement her plan.
She cleared her throat and said loudly, "Forget about the compensation and retirement. I have a way to cure him now."
"Healed? He's already injured like this, can he still be healed?"
Suddenly, Erwa's uncle and aunt were dumbfounded, "How are you going to treat it?"
Lin Minjun thought for a moment, and then she smiled calmly, imitating Lu Deping, who had spent his whole life negotiating business. She said, "You all know that I'm from Yunnan. There are countless treasures in the deep mountains of Mengzi, and the most abundant are medicinal herbs. Have you heard of Gastrodia elata? Have you heard of Dendrobium officinale? Have you heard of Ganoderma lucidum? They are all treasures that can cure diseases. I have been following my fellow villagers into the mountains to collect herbs since I was a child, and I am familiar with the properties of the herbs. It just so happens that I brought a herb from Yunnan that can cure frostbite."
"What medicine?" The old lady was confused by what Lin Minjun said, so she asked according to her train of thought.
Lin Minjun pretended not to hear and deliberately changed the subject, "Don't worry about what medicine it is. It's good medicine anyway, and it's a special herb for treating frostbite."
She clenched her fists, her palms already sweating, but her face was serious as she made up a story, "There was a man near my house who drank alcohol and slept outside in the middle of winter. The doctor came to see him and said he had frostbite and couldn't survive. His parents went to someone else's house to ask for this herb, went home and boiled it into medicine for him to drink, and he was able to walk the next day. Isn't it amazing? I happened to have brought that herb over from Yunnan, so I'm going to boil the medicine now."
People today are still relatively simple and honest and would never think of being deceived. Even many years later, there are still people who believe that they can blow a hole in the Himalayas and create another Jiangnan on the Saishang.
Everyone listened in a daze as Lin Minjun described smallpox. They all believed it for a moment, but some people were still thinking, “is there such a good medicine?”
As Lin Minjun said this, she turned back to her room, took out the prepared Panax notoginseng from the package, found a clay pot, added some water and began to boil the medicine.
When putting water into the earthenware jar, the old lady finally reacted and ran over to stop Lin Minjun, "Hey, my son doesn't need you to boil medicine."
"What do you mean, don't you want your son to get better?" Lin Minjun frowned and asked deliberately, "Are you here to cheat me on purpose? No way, aren't you and Erwa distantly related? Can you sacrifice your son's health for a little money?"
The neighbors in the yard were watching and couldn't help but sigh when they heard this. It was true that doing business was a test of one's abilities. When Xiao Lin first came, he didn't know how to deal with people, but in just a few months, he could speak so fluently that it was simply astonishing.
Since it concerned her son's health, the mother couldn't refuse anymore, and the words were stuck in her throat.
Lin Minjun decocted the medicine, poured it into a bowl, and let it cool. She completed all these steps in one go and then took the bowl to the patient.
Because the sky was overcast at this time, everyone was afraid that it would rain or snow, so they carried the patient under the corridor.
Lin Minjun walked towards the Chao Shou Arcade while stirring the food with a spoon to cool it down. She said, "Don't be afraid, little brother. This medicine is very good for your body. You have frostbite, right? I promise that the medicine will cure you. You will definitely be able to walk around happily in the future. This herb is for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis."
Erwa had been following Lin Minjun while she was decocting the medicine. After hearing what she said was so miraculous, he couldn't help but whisper, "Sister, is your medicine really so miraculous?"
"No, it's nonsense." Lin Minjun whispered in Erwa's ear.
She only put in Panax notoginseng, which can indeed promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and dilate blood vessels. It is beneficial to the human body and has no harm.
But they don't know.
Lin Minjun carried the medicine all the way to the patient, and said, "Erwa and Goudan, don't just stand there, help your brother up, don't waste my medicine."
Goudan thought it was like playing house and quite interesting, so he came over to help, and the two kids lifted the patient up.
When the patient saw Lin Minjun's snow-white skin, two black braids hanging on her chest, curved eyebrows, and a gentle smile on her face, he was stunned for a moment, and without struggling, he opened his mouth in a daze and was fed a mouthful of medicine.
After he drank the whole sip, Lin Minjun said calmly, "By the way, I forgot to mention that although this medicine can treat frostbite, it has a side effect."
She paused and continued, "It's not a big problem, it's just that my mouth will be crooked, my eyes will be slanted, and my eyebrows will be at different heights."
The mouth is crooked and the eyes are slanted, how can that be tolerated?
The old lady was so frightened when she heard this that she rushed over and shouted, "How dare you poison my son!"
"How can this be poisoning? I'm treating the patient." Lin Minjun dodged lightly with the medicine bowl, fed him another mouthful, and comforted him, "Your son has frostbite and his legs are paralyzed. I can now cure his frostbite and make him stand up. Compared to this, a crooked mouth and slanted eyes are nothing. It's better than hemiplegia, right?"
"You! You!" The old lady screamed in anger, stomped her feet on the spot, pointed at Lin Minjun, but couldn't utter a word. She was so scared that she didn't know what to do!
Her son's hemiplegia was fake! He was not sick, but what would happen if he took medicine and his mouth and eyes became crooked?
At this time her son also reacted. Under the stunned gaze of everyone, he did a sit-up and sat up from the door panel. Then he rushed to the side and started vomiting. Afraid that he would not vomit completely, he jumped twice on the spot and pushed the vomit into his throat with force.
After emptying his stomach, the patient pointed at Lin Minjun and said with gritted teeth: "I didn't expect you to be so beautiful, but you have such a vicious mind. You want to paralyze me!"
Haha, the relationship has finally fallen out and the truth has been revealed.
"You say I'm cruel, but what are you and your son doing?" She asked coldly, "Didn't you pretend to be paralyzed to scare the child?"
The old lady and her son looked at each other and were both stunned.
Yes, now that he stands up, doesn’t that mean his legs are fine?
"You are really something, pretending to be sick to scare a child who is less than eleven years old." Lin Minjun exposed their plan with just one sentence.
"I, we, we are..." The old lady opened her mouth and was stunned for a long time without saying a word. She felt her face burning, as if it was on fire. It was so embarrassing.
Without waiting for them to explain themselves, Lin Minjun returned to the room and came out with a hospital examination form in her hand.
She slapped the old lady in her arms and said, "Look, you took the child away and then abused him intentionally, kidnapped the minor, and the child was skinny when he came back. Now you have the nerve to come and make trouble. Do you dare to tell me in front of the police?"
This old lady couldn't read, but just hearing these words scared her to death!