Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Awakening.
"Sister Zhi——!"
Linzhi was half asleep and half awake when she was awakened by the crying of a strange woman.
"Sister Zhi, Sister Zhi! You are such a cruel child—"
"Hurry up and open your eyes and look at your mother..."
"Without you, how are we going to live in the future——"
The sound was so close that it seemed to penetrate Linzhi's skull. She raised her hands to cover her ears, but then she realized her body was heavy and she couldn't move at all.
At this moment, a strange male voice was heard beside my ears: "Don't talk nonsense, Sister Zhi is blessed with a long life, and nothing will happen to her."
Lin Zhi gradually regained consciousness amidst sobs. As she regained control of her body, every breath caused pain in her throat. Her vocal cords were unable to produce a single sound, and saliva mixed with blood foam swirled in her mouth. The intense pain made Lin Zhi's vision go black, and she almost fainted.
What's wrong with her?
Linzhi tried hard to recall and suddenly realized that she should be dead?
Linzhi clearly remembered that he had won the chef competition in front of the national audience the night before, defeating his former rival fairly. However, he never expected to be attacked that night and stabbed several times.
At this moment, the male and female voices beside him became excited: "Doctor Hu, Doctor Hu, you are here? Please, please come and see Sister Zhi!"
"Doctor Hu, please." With a plop, the woman cried out, "You must save Zhijie'er! She's my only child..."
"Don't worry, my lady. I will try my best." As another steady and powerful voice sounded, Lin Zhi could feel her hand being lifted up and fingers landing on her wrist.
After a moment, the hands lifted her chin again. Although the other party's movements were gentle, Linzhi could still feel the tingling pain.
Lin Zhi endured the severe pain, struggled for a while, and barely opened her eyelids, only to meet several gazes that were either surprised or happy.
"Sister Zhi? Sister Zhi is awake!" The voice that had been lingering in her ears just now sounded again. The woman who had been wiping her tears with a handkerchief was ecstatic. She threw herself on the bed and touched Lin Zhi's cheek with trembling hands.
"Great...Great!" The man beside him babbled incoherently. After a while, he reached out and grabbed the old man beside him: "Doctor Hu, please take a look!"
The couple's cries came one after another, interspersed with the white-haired doctor's slightly hoarse responses.
Lin Zhi raised her head with great effort, and her eyes lit up as she finally saw the three people in front of her clearly: the strange woman who had thrown herself on her looked haggard, with a purple spot on her forehead and her eyes swollen like walnuts. When she looked up, she cried out again: "Sister Zhi——"
Lin Zhi was startled, her eyes swept across the woman's face. The woman in front of her had a shoulder-length bun with a golden hairpin with a ruyi cloud pattern inserted diagonally in the bun, looking very wealthy.
However, although the hairpin was rich and luxurious, the clothes the woman wore were plain. The jacket she wore outside was scallion white, with only some simple patterns embroidered on the edges. The inner clothes and skirt were both agarwood color.
Lin Zhi's eyes swept across the woman, then abruptly retracted. She stared at her blankly for a moment, then looked at the other two, and finally glanced around.
She, has traveled through time?
Almost at the moment the thought came to mind, along with a severe headache, countless unfamiliar memories flooded into Lin Zhi's mind.
Sometimes she is Lin Zhi, the chef who just won the title of Chef King, and sometimes she is Lin Zhi, the maid who comes with the third lady in the prefectural government.
Two completely different lives constantly intertwined and collided, and were engraved into Linzhi's brain.
She traveled through time.
Lin Zhi held her head in pain, her eyes wide open as she stared at the woman wiping away her tears—the mother in her memory. She struggled to squeeze out a sound: "...Mother?"
"Jijie'er? Don't scare me—you don't recognize me?" Lin's mother was frightened by Lin Zhi's reaction. Seeing her daughter's pale face, she was so anxious that tears fell. She reached out and grabbed the white-haired doctor: "Doctor Hu, Doctor Hu, please take a look at Jijie'er."
Doctor Hu pushed Lin's mother's hand away and calmly stepped forward. He took Lin Zhi's pulse and checked her reaction, finally concluding, "Sister, your time in prison was a little long. You're lucky to be alive."
"However, it was precisely because he had been hanging from the beam for too long that he damaged the meridians in his throat, causing his Qi and blood to become deficient, disturbing the clear space above, and nearly causing a loss of both Yin and Yang."
Yin and Yang are both out of balance, which is not a good word!
As soon as Doctor Hu finished speaking, Lin's mother was so shocked that she stopped crying and her eyes widened.
After a while, she howled and threw herself on Lin Zhi again. Lin's mother hugged Lin Zhi with one hand and slapped her thigh with the other hand, crying out in pain: "My son - my poor sister Zhi -"
"Jiao Niang, calm down." Father Lin also looked pained, but he was more rational and tried his best to pull his wife to him: "Doctor Hu was right about the danger. Our sister Zhi is fine, fine."
He held his wife's hands, then turned to look at the doctor: "Doctor Hu, is this right?"
"Yes, yes, yes—don't worry, madam." The white-haired doctor also realized that he had gone too far. He stroked his beard and explained, "My sister was blessed by heaven and her life was saved. However..."
"Just?" The couple looked horrified.
"Due to insufficient Qi and blood, and internal blood stasis, my sister may have lost some of her memories. More seriously, her personality may even change."
Doctor Hu thought about Zhi Jie'er's reaction just now and gave the couple a reminder first.
Upon hearing this, Lin Zhi breathed a sigh of relief.
In her previous life, she had no parents and lived in an orphanage until she was sixteen. Fortunately, she was soon taken in by a master who taught her cooking, which led to her future life.
But no matter how kind and gentle her master was, his behavior was very different from that of her previous incarnation and her parents. Linzhi felt uncomfortable thinking about her immediately imitating her previous incarnation in dealing with the couple before her.
Dr. Hu's words gave her the opportunity to change.
At the same time, the couple looked at each other, thinking that their daughter had hanged herself, so it was good that she could save her life, and it didn't matter if she lost her memory.
"If I could just forget about that..."
"..." Father Lin heard Mother Lin's mumbling and extended his elbow to bump her.
Mother Lin's expression changed slightly. She quickly glanced at Lin Zhi secretly. Seeing Lin Zhi's confused expression, she breathed a sigh of relief and quickly asked, "Sister Zhi, does your throat hurt? Are you hungry? Mom, bring me some rice soup..."
"Doctor Hu, please write a prescription for my sister." Father Lin affectionately took the doctor's hand and led him out.
After Doctor Hu wrote the prescription, he paid the medical fee first, then took out a pre-prepared purse from his sleeve and stuffed it directly into Doctor Hu's hand.
Doctor Hu was stunned for a moment, then he stuffed the purse back into Lin's father's hands. "What's the relationship between Lin Lang and me? Why are you being so polite? Don't worry, I know the trick."
Doctor Hu often went to the homes of officials to treat patients - but he did not treat the husbands, wives, or brothers and sisters, but only treated the servants. He knew that although the wealthy families looked glorious on the surface, they were actually full of conflicts and had their own difficulties in life.
In order to compete for a position close to the master, they would fight tooth and nail. But if they made a mistake or fell ill, they might be pushed to the sidelines.
not to mention--
Lin Lang's daughter hanged herself!
In the blink of an eye, several scripts he had read flashed through Doctor Hu's mind. If he hadn't felt a pulse that indicated pregnancy, the number of scripts would have tripled.
Doctor Hu thought about this and continued, "If anyone asks about your sister's condition, I will definitely say it's just a minor mistake. I will say that Zhi accidentally strangled her neck. I will never say..."
Doctor Hu hadn't finished speaking when he saw Father Lin shaking his head. "No, what I mean is—if anyone asks, please make it as serious as possible, Doctor Hu."
"well?"
"Please help me, Doctor Hu." Father Lin bowed and stuffed the purse into Doctor Hu's hand again.
"This..." Doctor Hu squeezed the thin purse and immediately realized that it contained Jiaozi. Jiaozi was worth at least one guan (one string of silver coins) per piece, which was a lot of money for a doctor like Doctor Hu, who was not well-known.
He nodded immediately and agreed.
It was not until Doctor Hu's figure turned the corner and disappeared that Father Lin withdrew his gaze with a worried look on his face and turned to the nearest pharmacy.
Soon, he hurried back home with a bag of herbs. As soon as he entered his house, Father Lin saw his wife carrying a tray into the inner room. The tray contained a bowl of fine and smooth rice soup.
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