As Lingyun stepped off the carriage, a loud burst of firecrackers rang out at the entrance of Fushengtang.
Hundreds of people held up banners and looked at Ling Yun excitedly.
"Dr. Ling, thank you so much for helping my friends with that problem!"
"Thank you, Dr. Ling, for saving my father's terminal illness!"
"Dr. Ling is truly a sage! My whole family thanks you and our ancestors for eighteen generations!"
"..."
Ling Yun smiled with satisfaction, clasped his hands in a fist and said:
"Saving lives is a doctor's duty, so there's no need for you to thank me!"
Immediately afterwards, the group hung the banner in the main hall of Fushengtang.
For the next six days, Lingyun barely slept, spending all his time seeing patients from morning till night.
In order to treat as many patients as possible in the limited time available, the staff at Fushengtang also worked through six nights in a row.
That day, Ling Yun was receiving medical treatment when a group of officials from the city lord's mansion entered Fushengtang, dispersed the queue, and shouted at Ling Yun:
"Someone in Lingyun reported to the authorities that you used your medical practice to swindle money, not only failing to cure illnesses but also charging exorbitant sums. Come with us!"
This statement immediately caused an uproar.
"Sir, you're not joking, are you? Ling Yun is a legendary doctor who has saved so many people from the brink of death. How could his medical skills be lacking!"
"That's right! Doctor Ling has been at Fushengtang these past few days, so busy he hasn't had time to leave his seat. How can you say he's swindling people!"
"It must be a misunderstanding, sir! Please don't wrong Doctor Ling!"
"..."
The officer said impatiently:
"It's no use telling me this. We're just following orders. If you say another word, we'll treat you as accomplices!"
Everyone immediately fell silent.
After speaking, the officer looked at Ling Yun and said in a deep voice:
"Come with us, or you will be executed in the street for resisting arrest!"
A Bao was about to attack when Ling Yun waved his hand to stop him.
"It's nothing~"
Ling Yun wanted to see who had framed him.
Then he looked towards the second floor. Logically, Ma Fusheng should have come downstairs, but there was no movement at all.
Ling Yun refused to believe that this matter was related to Ma Fusheng.
"Brother, you saved so many people, why are they slandering you!"
Ah Bao looked indignant.
The constable standing nearby pointed at Ah Bao and shouted:
"You're an accomplice, so you'll come with us too!"
As he spoke, the constables behind him were about to take Ling Yun and A Bao away.
Ling Yun said coldly:
"We can walk by ourselves!"
With that, the two followed the officials to the city lord's mansion.
Ma Fusheng, sitting on the second floor of Fushengtang, watched Ling Yun's departing figure with a face full of guilt.
"Sigh~ Doctor Ling, please don't blame me. My son's life is in Yang Xuan's hands. I have no choice but to cooperate!"
In the main hall of the city lord's mansion, the city lord, dressed in a red official robe, sat on the high seat, looking at Ling Yun and Xiao Ma with a stern expression.
The clerk standing nearby shouted sternly:
"Ling Yun! You have used your position as the chief physician of Fushengtang to amass wealth, while prescribing useless medicines to deceive patients. Do you know your crime?!"
"Nonsense!" Abao angrily pointed at the clerk and shouted.
“My elder brother has treated as many as 100,000 patients these days, working day and night without rest, and we have been charging Fushengtang's normal prices. Where is he profiting?”
This is slander!
Snap!
The city lord slammed his gavel down heavily and shouted:
"quiet!"
Then, the city lord looked coldly at Ling Yun and said in a deep voice:
"Would I have arrested you without evidence?"
Undeterred, Abao roared:
"Then produce your evidence!"
"Hmph!" The city lord snorted coldly and glanced at the clerk.
Immediately, the clerk shouted towards the outside of the hall:
"Bring witnesses to the court!"
Soon, a man was brought to the lobby by the police.
The man immediately pointed at Ling Yun, and said with tears streaming down his face:
"He's a quack doctor. City Lord, you must do me justice! I'm having problems in that area, so I went to Fushengtang to find Ling Yun. He charged me one hundred taels of silver and just gave me a random prescription."
After taking his medicine, I...I became completely impotent!
Ling Yun looked at the man, who was his first patient, the one whose friend had sexual dysfunction.
The man lowered his head, not daring to meet Ling Yun's gaze.
The onlookers outside the hall recognized the man and began to curse him angrily.
"Wang Defu, have you no shame? Yesterday you were bragging to me about having sex eight times in one night, and today you're slandering Doctor Ling. Have you lost your conscience?!"
Wang Defu looked arrogant; compared to the money Yang Xuan gave him, he didn't care about his conscience.
Abao was so angry that he wanted to slap Wang Defu to death.
Ling Yun stopped him.
He glared angrily at the advisor:
"How can you convict us based solely on his word?"
The advisor gave a light snort and stroked his mustache.
"There are witnesses too!"
Then, Zhang Mao was led to the lobby.
Zhang Mao is the father of the Zhang family boy that Ling Yun rescued from the clutches of the King of Hell.
He lowered his head, not daring to look at Ling Yun, and stammered:
"Before going to Fushengtang, Lingyun forced my son to drink some medicine powder, and then made our whole family go to Fushengtang to cooperate with him in a play."
That's how he got his reputation as a miracle doctor!
"You're talking nonsense! Your son was clearly dying back then. If it weren't for my brother, your son would be in line to be reincarnated right now!"
Ah Bao was furious. How could someone repay kindness with enmity?
Zhang Mao was so frightened that he hid behind the constable. He was unwilling to give false testimony, but Yang Xuan offered him too much.
Seeing the piles of silver, Zhang Mao felt no guilt at all.
Not only was A Bao furious, but the onlookers were also furious, most of whom had been saved by Ling Yun.
However, with the constables surrounding them with knives, they dared not act rashly.
Abao looked at Lingyun and asked, puzzled:
"Brother~ why aren't you angry at all?"
Ling Yun smiled slightly, "Abao, I'll teach myself a lesson today too!"
The advisor looked at Ling Yun, a slight smile playing on his lips, and reprimanded him:
"Ling Yun, do you plead guilty?!"
Ling Yun spoke calmly:
"I don't admit it! Why should I confess without proof?"
"They won't shed a tear until they see the coffin! Next witness!"
The clerk called out to the outside of the hall again.
A beautiful woman walked into the main hall, sobbing.
Ling Yun remembered this woman; she was the one who had previously claimed to be a stone woman.
The woman wiped away her tears with a handkerchief and sobbed as she recounted:
“Lord of the city, I went to Fushengtang for treatment the other day because I was feeling unwell. Lingyun saw that I was beautiful and deliberately made my illness sound like a terminal one.”
She even said that only by sleeping with him could she be cured.
In order to survive, I cured myself and slept with him.
After we slept together, he also took a thousand taels of silver from me.
Later I found out that I didn't have a terminal illness at all.
"Lord, you must do justice for this woman! Ling Yun is a lecherous scoundrel and a quack!"
This statement caused an uproar.
"This woman is a promiscuous slut; she's lying!"
"That's right, who in the entire Yuanling City doesn't know that this woman is unfaithful and seduces handsome men every day?"
The onlookers couldn't bear to watch any longer.
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