"Who are you? We don't allow outsiders to enter here." A group of thin young men blocked their way.
"We want to cross the river from here. Could you sell us a boat?" Su Qi stood up and said to one of the men who looked like the leader.
The man's eyebrows twitched, and he looked at Su Qi and the others, all dressed in warrior attire. Each of them held a weapon in their hands, and they suddenly became alert.
"We Jiangyao people don't have boats. You've found the wrong person. If you want to cross the river, please do it yourself." The man made a gesture, and many people gathered around with weapons in their hands.
"You should leave here. Otherwise, our people will not be easy to deal with."
Su Qi and Ying Yi looked at each other. The weapons in their hands were all sharp.
Unlike other villages deep in the mountains and forests, this village has contact with outsiders.
"You misunderstood. I want to discuss a business matter with your clan leader." Su Qi saw many people emerging from the surrounding trees, pointing bows and arrows at them.
"Humph. People outside are the most cunning. Our clan leader is not someone you can just visit casually. You'd better disappear right now. If outsiders hadn't come to our village, the clan leader's wife wouldn't have fallen ill."
"roll."
Someone shot an arrow, but it was knocked down by Ying Yi.
"Did anyone pass by here a few days ago? Did you give them a boat?" Su Qi asked coldly.
A man replied: "We didn't give them a boat, but someone is here to pick them up." He realized Su Qi's trick and glared at her angrily.
Su Qi's guess was confirmed. Now the fastest way is to travel by water.
"You said the patriarch's wife is sick. I'm a female doctor, can you let me take a look?"
"Who would believe that you are a female doctor?" An arrow shot over.
Ying Yi shot him down again, glaring coldly at the person who had shot the arrow. "Our wife is a famous female doctor in Yunzhou City. It's not like you don't interact with outsiders. You should know that two years ago, someone defeated the heir of the Ban family in the Yunzhou City Medical Competition."
"Hahaha, if she is a female doctor then I am a miracle doctor."
"If you don't leave, kill me." Someone on the tree gave the order.
Yingliu couldn't help but curse these blind people.
At this time, an old voice sounded. "Wait."
The old man, dressed in coarse cloth, was hunched over and holding a cane in his hand.
All his strength was almost on the crutch, and he looked at Su Qi with a pair of slightly yellow eyes.
The tip of his nose twitched a few times as he sniffed the air.
"Doctor Jiang, why are you here?" The group of people who pointed at Su Qi and the others immediately changed their expressions when they faced Doctor Jiang, and their voices became much softer.
Doctor Jiang smiled, and the wrinkles on his face were as numerous as weeds. "Madam, I heard you are a female doctor?"
"Yes."
"Can you take my pulse?" Doctor Jiang stretched out his arm, which was as thin as a dead tree.
Su Qi gently took his pulse and finally lowered her eyes. "Old man, you are seriously ill and I'm afraid you won't live to see autumn."
"Nonsense, Doctor Jiang is fine. How dare you curse him?"
"Nonsense, beat them to death."
The people present were filled with righteous indignation, and some of them raised their weapons and were about to start fighting.
Doctor Jiang reached out to stop them, looking at Su Qi with tears in his eyes. "Madam, I promise to give you a boat. But you have to agree to one request of mine."
Doctor Jiang looked at the Jiang Yao people, and finally waved to a boy about ten years old.
"I am the only doctor in our Jiangyao tribe, and this child has some talent. I hope Madam will accept him as your apprentice and let him return to the Jiangyao tribe in the future."
After Doctor Jiang finished speaking, he turned to the crowd and said, "I've known my condition for a long time. This lady is right. I am indeed terminally ill."
"Doctor Jiang."
Su Qi pondered for a moment and said, "Doctor Jiang, I don't practice medicine for a living. But I have a medical school, and he can study there. I can guarantee that in a few days a doctor will come to the Jiang Yao tribe to treat your people."
"The Jiangyao people are isolated from the outside world, so the doctors I send are rotated every year." Su Qi made a suggestion.
"Jiang Lu, go and invite the clan leader over. Our Jiangyao clan's distinguished guest has arrived." Doctor Jiang's hand, gripping the cane, trembled slightly as he looked at Su Qi again. "Madam, please treat our clan leader's wife."
"Don't worry, I will send someone to escort you to your destination. It won't delay you." After Doctor Jiang said this, Su Qi naturally agreed.
None of them are very good at swimming.
Su Qi himself is a landlubber, so it would be best if he had someone from the Jiang Yao tribe to escort him.
"Trouble."
Su Qi took out a bottle of medicine from her bag and handed it to Doctor Jiang. "This bottle of medicine can help people suffer less and live a year or two longer."
Led by Doctor Jiang and several young men, Su Qi went to the stilt house where the clan leader's wife lived.
The emaciated wife of the clan leader, with a distended belly, lay on a rattan chair in the stilt house. Her head was wrapped in a blue cloth scarf with white flowers, through which a strand of dry hair protruded.
Several people who were accompanying him followed and stared at Su Qi in disbelief.
Yingyi and Baizhi Yingzi also followed Su Qi up, and the three of them stared at each other with vigilance.
Doctor Jiang leaned over and whispered in the clan leader's wife's ear that a female doctor was coming to treat her.
The old woman's eyelids twitched, and she opened her eyes and looked at Su Qi. She smiled faintly, with only her four upper and lower front teeth showing. "You old woman are useless. Did those guys give you a hard time?"
Behind him, a young man from the Jiang Yao ethnic group forced a smile.
"Grandma Jiang, we didn't make things difficult for her."
Bai Zhi snorted in dissatisfaction and rolled her eyes. In return, the young man next to her sneered and secretly warned Bai Zhi: "Don't make trouble."
"Who's afraid of what's wrong with you? If you have the guts, let's fight one on one." Bai Zhi retorted unconvinced.
"Let's fight one on one. I'm not afraid of you." Without saying a word, the young man pulled Bai Zhi and jumped off the stilt house.
Su Qi didn't even raise his eyes. It was time for Bai Zhi to teach these guys a lesson.
The clan leader's wife was anxious.
"Why is Jiang Feng still picking on the girl? Call him up and apologize to her." The clan leader's wife hit the rattan chair hard with her hand.
Su Qi comforted her, "Madam, my maidservant is not the one who will suffer any loss. You never know who will get beaten."
"That's good. Jiang Feng deserves to be beaten."
The people at the scene looked at each other in confusion, thinking, are you happy when your grandson gets beaten?
After taking the old lady's pulse, Su Qi used silver needles to give her acupuncture. While doing so, she also taught Doctor Jiang how to treat the patriarch's wife.
"It only takes one course of treatment. The ascites in the abdomen will be drained away slowly."
Doctor Jiang was surprised and admired Su Qi even more. "Madam, how can you teach your medical skills to others casually?"
"Medical skills are meant to save lives. Wouldn't it be more beneficial to all living beings if everyone learned it?" Su Qi asked indifferently.
"I wonder where the lady is going?"
Su Qi paused and said, "A few days ago, a group of people kidnapped my husband. I want to go and rescue him."
Everyone present had a gloomy expression. They knew the boat carrying the chief's distinguished guests was theirs. It was said that the kidnappers had targeted the chief's guests' family members several times, even hiring assassins to kill them.
"It's a pity that your husband is not a good man." Someone sneered.
Su Qi turned around with a stern look on her face, "You are not qualified to judge whether my husband is a good person. You can listen to what the people in Yanling, Northwest and other places say."
"No one among the common people says anything bad about our master, but you, the fake ones, have the right to say that." The sword in Ying Yi's hand trembled slightly.
"Could it be General Gu Wang of the Gu family army?" A white-haired old man came up from the stilt house and asked excitedly.
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