"Doctor Li! Your wife, Xia, is not dead. Do you still want to find them?" After quickly hearing Li Shi's story, Jiang Tangtang stood up from the oxcart and said loudly.
Her shout startled everyone present.
Li Shi looked at Jiang Tangtang with surprise and suspicion, "Who are you? How do you know about me?"
Jiang Tangtang continued to display her half-baked charlatan-like demeanor, "Of course it's calculated." She pretended to pinch her fingers a few times, "I can not only calculate your name and where you're from, but also where your wife and children are."
Then, under Li Shi's bewildered gaze, she recounted the story she had heard from the system.
The Lu family was completely stunned.
Jiang Tangtang was talking about things Li Shi encountered on his escape route. They were with her every day and had never heard any rumors about it.
Unless she was truly guided by a deity and gained divine insight, it's impossible for her to know these things.
Li Shi was still struggling, saying, "Where did you find out about me? Don't think that I'll let you off just because you spout some nonsense."
"Dr. Li, whether I truly know you or not, you'll find out in a few days if you just listen to me." Jiang Tangtang said unhurriedly, "If you help me heal my husband's injuries now, I can point you in the right direction and help you find your wife and children."
"Brother, don't listen to this witch!" A man with a face full of pustules next to Li Shi looked at the yellow ox in front of Jiang Tangtang and couldn't help but drool.
Damn it, these refugees are all incredibly poor; he hasn't had a proper meal in days. He's determined to eat this cow today, no matter what.
Jiang Tangtang wasn't in a hurry. She just looked at Li Shi calmly and said, "Dr. Li, are you really not going to take a gamble? Aren't you afraid you'll regret it for the rest of your life?"
Li Shi felt deep remorse when he realized that it was all because he hadn't listened to his wife's advice and had acted out of kindness by saving those refugees that his family had been ruined.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Let them go."
Even if there's only a sliver of hope, he doesn't want to give up. He doesn't want to live in self-blame and hatred every day and night from now on.
"Brother!" Several men around Li Shi protested, "You really believe this witch? There's chaos and war outside. Your sister-in-law is a weak woman with two children. How could she possibly survive?"
Those who prey on mutton outside love to target lone women and children. And now, more than two months have passed since their family was robbed by refugees, and their wife and children were kidnapped.
Even though Li Shi knew in his heart that he had already made the worst-case scenario plan, he couldn't bear to hear anyone mention it.
His eyes were bloodshot. "Old Nie, if you still want to follow me, listen to me. Put down your knife and step back. If you don't listen," he said, raising his already chipped woodcutter's knife. "Then let's fight."
"Are you crazy? You're going to turn against me over a few words from a vixen!" Old Man Nie angrily threw down the wooden stick in his hand, but ultimately did not fight with Li Shi.
The Lu family members finally relaxed.
Jiang Tangtang also felt a thin layer of sweat on her back.
Despite being a kind and benevolent doctor in the early stages, Li Shi completely turned to the dark side after being betrayed by the refugees he helped, who caused his family to be torn apart. Later in the book, he even became a major villain with a significant amount of screen time.
Before this, she wasn't even sure if she could persuade him in the end.
So, in that sense, she indirectly prevented a villain from turning evil, right? She secretly asked the system in her mind: "[Wouldn't this count as a good deed? Can I get a reward?]"
[This is not a main quest, so there are no rewards!] The system was quite annoyed with this host who kept asking for rewards.
"I'm here to give my husband a medical check-up." Li Shi hung the knife on his waist and walked towards Jiang Tangtang.
His face was gloomy, and he threatened in a cold voice, "You better not lie to me. I can save people, and I can kill them."
If he could find his wife and children, all would be well; if not, his cold gaze swept over Jiang Tangtang and the rest of the Lu family—he wouldn't let a single one of them escape.
Luo Taohua shivered and hid behind her husband in fear.
"Doctor Li, rest assured, everything I am saying now is due to divine guidance. Since the divine has instructed me, and your wife and children are still alive, they must still be in this world."
Jiang Tangtang appeared calm on the surface, but in reality, she was frantically calling out to the system in her mind: [I don't care about the reward, but I need to know the location of Li Da and his wife immediately!]
Li Shi gave Jiang Tangtang a sinister look and ordered, "Light a torch, I need to examine the patient's injuries."
Jiang Tangtang looked at the Lu family members: "Did you hear what the doctor said?"
"I'm coming right now." Old Man Lu and Madam Su were still in shock and hadn't come to their senses. It was Lu Shiwang who took out a flint and steel from his person, quickly broke off some dry branches from the roadside, and lit a fire.
Li Shi examined Lu Shiyan by the light of the fire, saying, "He has lost too much blood and has a blood clot in his head. It would be best to take medicine and do acupuncture to remove the blood clot."
After he finished speaking, everyone in the Lu family looked at him expectantly.
"I won't accept the consultation fee. Consider it payment in the form of this young lady pointing me in the right direction to find my wife and children. You'll have to figure out the medicine yourselves."
"What are we going to do?!" Su sat down on the ground, about to start wailing, but when she met the cold eyes of Li Shi and his group, she was frightened and stopped crying.
Seeing Jiang Tangtang standing to the side, she suddenly remembered something, stepped forward and grabbed Jiang Tangtang's hand, saying, "Third brother's wife, aren't you good at divination? Why don't you divine for me where the medicine is?"
Jiang Tangtang rolled her eyes. "I received divine guidance, but I'm not a god."
Su was embarrassed.
Jiang Tangtang couldn't be bothered with the Lu family, and she wasn't in the mood to see the beautiful doctor right now. She was looking for the system that was pretending to be dead. [Where's the promised reward? The male lead has already seen the doctor; he should have given me the reward by now!]
The reward is on the mountain. Please find the doctor and ask for the names of the herbs. Under the pretext of gathering herbs, go up the mountain to collect the reward.
"You want me to go hiking in the middle of the night?" Jiang Tangtang almost jumped up. "Are you out of your mind?! In the middle of the night, you want me to go up the mountain? Who knows if there are monsters in there? I'm not going, absolutely not! I don't care if you give me a reward or not. If you don't... if you don't give me one, I'll just lie down on the ground and starve to death. Let's see who you find to do the quest with then!"
system:【……】
I have never seen such a shameless host.
"Scared now? If you're scared, give me a reward," Jiang Tangtang reluctantly lowered her standards, "I just need bottled water and instant noodles."
【No!】The system replied indifferently, 【You should just lie down and starve or die of thirst! Once the host dies, I'll summon a new soul to do the mission.】
Jiang Tangtang waited for a while, and seeing that the system was as cold as iron and truly posed no threat, she could only tearfully compromise, "Can I have someone accompany me up the mountain?"
[Sure!] The system was unusually kind: [It will also mark the location of the medicine for you, so it won't be too hard to find.]
Jiang Tangtang, with a sour face, asked Li Shi, "Can fresh herbs be used instead of fresh ones to treat the medicine my husband needs?"
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