Chapter 559 Scams
Upon hearing Lin Changning's words, the guards outside the carriage hesitated for a moment, then sheathed their swords and gave the man a look of disgust: "Come with me. The people in the carriage are all nobles. Watch your words, or you'll lose your head!"
After saying that, he drove his horse toward Lin Changning's carriage. The traveling physician, who had just had a knife to his neck, came to his senses in fear and followed the guard slowly forward. When he reached the carriage, he knelt down with a thud.
"This humble subject, You Baicao, pays his respects, Your Excellency!"
Lin Changning didn't open the carriage window wide, only leaving a crack, and looked out at the traveling doctor through the crack: "How did you know there was a seriously ill person in the carriage?"
Seeing that her chance to shine had come, You Baicao instantly put on an air of mystery, patted her worn-out clothes, stood up, and looked through the crack in the car window to see half of Lin Changning's face in the carriage, his brows and eyes cold and stern, exuding a chilling aura.
However, judging from his seemingly young age, You Baicao became more certain that Lin Changning was a member of some powerful or wealthy family.
He couldn't help but feel even more smug. These aloof young masters were the easiest to fool.
However, You Baicao did not intend to deceive people at the beginning. He stood up and respectfully bowed to Lin Changning in the carriage: "Reporting to my lord, when I was selling medicine, I happened to smell a persistent medicinal smell outside your carriage window. I smelled a few kinds of medicinal herbs that only sick people need. Then I just calculated with my fingers and became certain that there is a seriously ill person in the carriage!"
A hint of interest flashed in Lin Changning's eyes. Just as she was about to speak, You Baicao suddenly performed a set of spells in front of her with great fanfare, and in an instant, she took out a yellowish talisman from her bosom.
After taking it out, they stuck it directly onto their carriage. The moment the yellow talisman touched the carriage, it instantly ignited with a shallow flame. It burned on the carriage for about three or four seconds before suddenly going out, and half of the talisman fell to the ground.
The guard raised an eyebrow, and the next moment, his long sword was pressed against the itinerant doctor's neck once again.
With a knife pressed against his neck, You Baicao was naturally terrified that he would be killed at any moment. However, his good mental fortitude allowed him to still grit his teeth and say loudly: "The person carried in this carriage is emaciated and has lost his senses. His body has been possessed by evil spirits, and his yang energy is gradually being depleted. If the evil spirits take hold, even the most skilled doctor will find it difficult to save him!"
Lin Changning snorted coldly. Did he really think he was some kind of miracle doctor? He's just a fraud. This kind of minor trick might fool others, but it's clearly not enough to fool a modern person like her.
Lin Changning coldly looked out the car window: "Search the talismans on his body!"
"Yes, my lord!"
The guards obeyed, and two guards immediately pressed the man down next to the carriage, pulling out a stack of yellow talismans tightly wrapped in oiled paper from his pocket.
Lin Changning sighed, opened the car window a little, reached out, pinched the talisman, flicked it gently, blew on it, and the talisman in his hand reignited in flames.
The guards around them, including Yu'er in the carriage, all stared wide-eyed at Lin Changning.
Nobody said his lord knew any magic!
Lin Changning casually tossed aside the papers in his hand and coldly looked at You Baicao, who was being pressed to the ground: "What? Are you also going to say that I am possessed by evil spirits!"
Yu Baicao stared wide-eyed in disbelief as Lin Changning threw away a handful of talismans he had prepared with white phosphorus. The talismans spontaneously combusted without any wind.
But no one dared to say that Lin Changning was an evil spirit.
The guard hesitated for a moment, then asked, "My lord? When did you learn magic?"
Lin Changning gently shook his head: "It's not magic. He tampered with the talisman. Anyone who holds it will set it on fire."
Qi Rong looked at Lin Changning with a more inquisitive gaze: "How did Xiao Liu know that the talisman had been tampered with?"
Lin Changning met Qi Rong's gaze and hugged the curious Yue'er: "It's white phosphorus. When I was a child, there was an old Taoist priest at the entrance of the village. I saw him refine pills and often go to the graves to dig things at night. I was curious at the time, so I followed him. What the old Taoist priest said about the ghost fires in the burial mounds was actually white phosphorus. It would spontaneously combust if the temperature was slightly high. He would occasionally use that thing to refine pills."
Qi Rong didn't think much of it, nodded and smiled at Lin Changning: "I didn't expect Xiao Liu to be so knowledgeable, even a little bit about alchemy. What happened to that old Taoist priest later?"
Lin Changning shrugged: "There must have been a problem with the alchemy. He ate his own pills and died in the mass grave not long after."
Qi Rong: ...
After turning his head away with a complicated expression, Qi Rong looked at the nonchalant Lin Changning and asked, "Then? This person?"
Lin Changning lowered his eyes, pondering who this person belonged to. The next moment, he heard a man and a woman outside the convoy arguing that they wanted to see the divine doctor.
Lin Changning frowned: "Go outside and see what's going on?"
The guards obeyed the order, went out to inquire, and then brought back a pair of farmers carrying children.
The man and woman were crying and wailing, looking around for someone. They finally saw You Baicao being held down on the ground by Lin Changning's guards.
The woman suddenly rushed over, clutching her child, and knelt down, pleading, "Divine doctor, divine doctor, please save my child! Last night, after drinking the talisman water you gave me, my child's fever had clearly subsided, but this afternoon he suddenly started convulsing! Divine doctor, please save my child, please save my child!"
Yu Baicao, on the verge of tears, was still pinned to the ground. He knew nothing of magic; he had just overheard the young marquis in the carriage and knew that this man was not easily fooled.
At this point, I can barely take care of myself, so how can I care about others!
Lin Changning gave a wink to the guards outside the carriage, who quickly released the person and looked at the traveling physician.
Lin Changning tapped on the carriage wall, his voice like icy spring water, carrying a crisp chill, and said, "If you can cure this child, I can let you go."
"Yes, yes, sir."
You Baicao already knew that the people in the carriage were not easy to fool, so she naturally dared not cause any more trouble. She looked at the child in the woman's arms and reached out to take the child's pulse.
"The child is frightened. Buy some calming medicine when you get home and give it to him with warm water."
The woman hesitated for a moment, then looked at the itinerant doctor: "Oh, thank you, thank you, divine doctor. Do you still have that talisman from yesterday? I think it's quite effective for my child. Could you use it?"
Before he could finish speaking, Lin Changning coughed violently from inside the carriage: "Go and call the imperial physician in the back!"
The traveling doctor thought he had offended a powerful person again, and immediately knelt down on the ground.
Lin Changning's sudden voice startled the couple, and they instinctively knelt down along with the traveling doctor.
"My lord! It's just a child's convulsion! It has nothing to do with my talisman, my lord!!!"
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