"So you came here specifically to bring me medicine... Thank you so much!" Shen Qingyu didn't insist on keeping them, and directly saw Shen Qingyao and Qi Zhouhua off, politely escorting them to the carriage parked at the village entrance before turning back.
The villagers watched and nodded in agreement: Although the two sisters had different fates, they were still quite harmonious.
Turning back from the village entrance, Shen Qingyu didn't forget to greet the group who were enjoying their meal: "Eat and drink well, everyone. Please forgive any shortcomings."
"Oh! Qingyu's started spouting fancy words now! She talks like the manager of Yuebinlou Restaurant!"
"Hahaha……"
Too!
The Shen Qingyu of the past would start criticizing anyone within three sentences; she never said anything nice.
Everyone's impression of Shen Qingyu was refreshed once again.
Shen Qingyu listened to the discussions, a smile on her face, but her eyes found their target and walked towards the main table.
Today is the day of the roof-raising ceremony. The elders of the clan, the village head, and others are seated at the main table, and Xiao Yunqi, the host, is also sitting at the main table.
"Yunqi, this is medicine my sister gave me..." Shen Qingyu had just picked up the medicine packet in her hand to hand it to Xiao Yunqi when the packet suddenly fell to the ground.
With a soft "poof," the paper package shattered, and the powder instantly scattered, creating a cloud of smoke.
Everyone was stunned for a moment.
"How could you be so careless?" Xiao Yunqi frowned.
Luckily, the powder didn't get on the food, otherwise, would everyone have eaten it or not?
Shen Qingyu was also shocked and distressed: "Oh dear, this is medicine my sister sent me! It's very precious! This..."
"It's alright, your sister has a kind heart. Just ask her to get you a new one," the village head comforted her.
Shen Qingyu shook her head firmly: "My sister doesn't owe me anything, how can I keep asking her to prepare medicine for me..."
Shen Qingyu's gaze fell on the two middle-aged men in long gowns sitting at the main table: "Second Uncle Shen, Fifth Uncle Shen, you are both doctors. Can you help me see if you can identify what kind of medicines these are? We can pay for the new ones ourselves."
"Yes, yes, Uncle Shen and Uncle Shen Wu just happened to be visiting Grandpa Shen in their hometown these days. They are both highly skilled doctors and practice medicine in the city! Just ask them to prescribe a new prescription for you!"
Others chimed in.
Since they were all from the same clan, Uncle Shen the Second and Uncle Shen the Fifth could not refuse, so they both got up to go and see.
Although the medicine is ground into powder, it is not complicated to distinguish the types of common medicinal materials; you can also smell and taste them.
The two doctors each picked up a little powder, smelled it, and after a moment, they looked at each other in surprise, then at Shen Qingyu.
Uncle Shen seemed a little incredulous. He carefully dipped his fingertip into the powder, tasted it on his tongue, and then spat it out.
Uncle Shen Wu also tried it, and the two looked at each other again, their expressions becoming serious.
The crowd was taken aback by the expressions of the two doctors, and they all sensed that something was amiss. They lowered their voices and watched intently.
Uncle Shen nodded, put down the powder, and asked Shen Qingyu, "Qingyu, have you been taking this powder before?"
Shen Qingyu nodded, a look of inexplicable pride on her face: "Yes, my sister found a doctor to prescribe it for me, saying it's for regulating the spleen and stomach."
Uncle Shen frowned and pressed, "Do you intend to boil it before drinking? Or how?"
"Just mix it with water and drink it along with the powder!" Shen Qingyu said, gesturing to the villagers sitting by the courtyard, "They all heard it just now, they drank it mixed with water."
The villagers standing by the courtyard wall nodded in agreement.
Upon hearing this, Uncle Shen the Second and Uncle Shen the Fifth both fell silent.
Those at the main table were all seasoned and shrewd; upon seeing this, they all became tense.
Xiao Yunqi hesitated before speaking, "Second Uncle, is there something wrong with this medicine?"
Uncle Shen hesitated for a long time before vaguely saying, "Since the medicine has already been spilled, why don't we just not take it?"
Shen Qingyu held up the tattered medicine packet she had picked up, looking puzzled: "There's still half a packet left, it's still edible."
Uncle Shen was straightforward and frowned, saying, "My second brother told you not to eat it for your own good! Why are you still so stubborn? This is medicine, and all medicine has some toxicity! If you don't understand, you should listen to advice! We're all from the same clan, would I harm you?"
This statement is almost blunt.
Everyone was shocked!
What does that mean?
Is this medicine poisonous?
This was given to me by Shen Qingyao!
Shen Qingyu seemed to be shocked, stammering in disbelief: "Fifth Uncle, I've been taking this medicine since I was fifteen or sixteen, for seven years! I only stopped for a while when I was pregnant. This much at once."
Giving a spoonful as a gesture, Shen Qingyu expressed disbelief: "If this were poisonous, wouldn't I be dead by now? I've just been too busy repairing the house for the past ten days or so and forgot to take my medicine!"
Liu Cuixi, who was standing next to her, suddenly seemed to realize something: "Didn't you say before that you lost a lot of weight because you hadn't taken any medicine for the past ten days? Even those pustules on your face are almost completely healed!"
Everyone was shocked once again!
Aunt Xiao, who lived next door to Shen Qingyu, suddenly said, "Qingyu, I remember that after you took this medicine, you started to rise like dough, eating more and more every day, and getting more and more pustules, right?"
Those who had lived in the village longer were lost in thought, and then a few people nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes! I started gaining weight seven years ago..."
Seven years ago, Qingyu was the most beautiful girl in our village!
"Back then, that face, that appearance...tsk tsk!" Some people said, with a mixture of regret and longing.
Uncle Shen Er extracted key information from it. He looked at Shen Qingyu suspiciously: "You mean, you've only been off your medicine for about ten days, and you've lost so much weight? And the pustules on your face have all healed?"
That's impossible!
If you take this medicine for a long time, there will be residual effects, and it may even make you increasingly obese and break out in acne, making it impossible to return to your previous physical condition.
They had all seen Shen Qingyu when she was overweight and had acne, but she was much better now.
How could she have recovered so much in just over ten days?
Uncle Shen Wu became suspicious after being reminded like this: "Have you eaten anything different in the past ten days or so?"
Shen Qingyu spread her hands blankly, then turned to look at Liu Cuixi: "No... I've been eating the same things as them these past few days?"
Shen Cuixi quickly nodded: "Yes, yes, we've been together all day, and we've eaten together. We really haven't eaten anything strange."
Uncle Shen the Second and Uncle Shen the Fifth exchanged a glance, both bewildered: This shouldn't be happening...
The meal for raising the roof beam ended amidst the various expressions on everyone's faces. Although Shen Qingyu expressed her belief that Shen Qingyao's medicine was fine, the village was only so big, and rumors still quietly spread.
Shen Qingyu was drugged by Shen Qingyao, which caused her to become obese and have pustules all over her face, all to steal Shen Qingyu's good marriage.
Only Shen Qingyu, that foolish woman, had her good marriage to the town's richest man's son stolen away, and was instead arranged to marry an ugly man with a dark forehead, yet she still wholeheartedly believed in Shen Qingyao.
She deserves to have such a hard life!
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