As expected, human nature cannot withstand the test. The liar, who had originally stubbornly refused to speak, sighed and lowered his head in the face of such a series of persuasive questions: "I will turn myself in, you guys go report it to the police."
The next step is to wait for the yamen runners to come and arrest the criminal and escort him to the county yamen for interrogation according to the procedures.
During this period, the liar probably thought that since it was already like this, he might as well give up and admit everything.
It turned out that just as Su Qingluan expected, Liu Sheng's condition suddenly "took a turn for the worse" and it was not really a worsening of the condition, but rather the "doctor" had secretly made some moves.
That quack doctor was not completely a fraud. He was indeed quite skilled in treating injuries.
However, he felt that the injuries he treated for ordinary people, such as sprained ankles and twisted arms, were not difficult and complicated diseases, so the consultation fees were naturally limited.
One day, they met a fake Taoist priest who was a frequent swindler, and the two of them immediately teamed up to go to a wealthy family to commit fraud.
The specific method was that the fake doctor used the patients he had treated to give himself the title of "trauma expert", and then paid some money to let two beggars spread this title in the taverns in the downtown area.
The tavern happened to be opened near the rich man's house, so when the old man in the family sprained his ankle, he asked this "expert in trauma treatment" to see the doctor.
The fake doctor was very conscientious in examining the old man's leg, but he took the opportunity of taking his pulse to apply some medicine similar to Ma Fei San on the old man's wrist without leaving any trace.
Then, the doctor came every day to "take the patient's pulse" and treat the patient, saying that "the medicine needs to be changed every day."
After a few days, the old man's sprained ankle was almost healed, but he felt inexplicably weak in his arm and it was often numb. In the worst case, he didn't feel any pain even when his finger was pricked by a sharp object.
This is when the fake Taoist priest comes on the scene. He actually practiced in a Taoist temple for a while, otherwise his salutations and Bagua steps wouldn't be so standard. However, he was later expelled for violating the precepts, so he has been cheating people by "exorcising ghosts" for years.
The rich man was fooled by his use of the "blood talisman paper" and took out a large sum of money to "suppress evil spirits and exorcise ghosts."
Moreover, after the "exorcism", the fake doctor no longer came to "take the pulse", and the symptoms of numbness and weakness in the old man's hands naturally subsided slowly.
So the wealthy family promoted the fake Taoist priest as a "half-immortal" and a "celestial master", and even made the liar famous in the area for a while.
In this way, the two made a lot of money by doing this unorthodox method, but they also knew that performing the same "exorcism" too many times would easily arouse people's suspicion, so they could only claim that they were "traveling around" and cheating in different places.
This time, the two men thought that there would definitely not be many knowledgeable people in a remote place like Lefeng Town, so it would be easier to take action and they could "cheat for a while longer."
The Liu family was not originally on their "target customer" list.
The reason was simple: if they were going to rip off customers, they would naturally pick on the fattest sheep. As for the Liu family, who lived in a shabby clapboard house in a narrow alley, the two scammers thought there was no money to be made, so they initially didn't even look at them.
However, since helping the Su family deal with sewage, the Liu family gradually had some savings, and they were regular customers of the "Huichuntang" where only the rich and powerful could afford medical treatment. So these two scammers set their sights on the Liu family.
What's more, after the two of them "scouted the place", they found that although the family was penniless, the temperature suddenly dropped for a few days, and the demand for cheap and stomach-warming street snacks such as offal soup increased greatly, and the demand doubled!
The shortage of offal soup has led to a significant increase in the amount of raw materials that need to be processed. Unfortunately, Su Qingluan, the main cutter, has been busy with the fruit jam at the Xie Mansion.
There was no other way, Su Qingluan could only put all the extra work on Liu Yunniang.
When Su Qingluan said this to Yunniang, she felt incredibly guilty. This little girl was only fourteen or fifteen years old! In modern society, she's still a middle school student! How could I have been so cruel as to exploit her surplus labor value!
As a worker who once toiled hard to earn money for her own medicine, Su Qingluan put herself in his shoes and decided: Give overtime pay! Double the overtime pay!
So during this period, Yunniang's workload and wages doubled, and Su Qingluan even gave her an extra three taels of silver as a "hard work bonus", which made Liu Yunniang smile so much that her teeth were showing.
The salary was paid, but the medical fees of "Huichuntang", which was originally the most expensive, actually decreased - Liu Sheng's condition gradually improved, so the frequency of medical consultations naturally did not need to be as frequent as at the beginning.
It was also because of this that the Liu family saved more than ten taels of silver during this period. Considering the price level, which is only three taels of silver for a family of five to eat for a month, more than ten taels is a huge sum of money.
It was precisely because of the ten taels of silver saved that the two swindlers noticed the Liu family. Moreover, Liu Sheng's legs and lower back had some problems, which gave the fake doctor an opportunity to take advantage of him.
Then, the same scam was staged again, but the two scammers didn't expect that this time they would hit a wall.
After hearing the whole story, Su Qingluan couldn't help but sigh: these two thieves were targeted because the Liu family helped Su Qingluan, and they were caught red-handed because of Su Qingluan. One has to say, "God has his own way, and no one can escape it."
Not long after, Madam Xi led the officers to take the fake Taoist priest away, and of course, the fake doctor was also taken away.
Later, Su Qingluan learned from Liu Yunniang that the fake Taoist priest had indeed sold out the fake doctor completely based on the principle of "I would rather die than let my fellow Taoist die".
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