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"Looking for me?"
Bai Fenghua felt a little surprised and happy, but she still looked cold and unapproachable. She glanced at Lu Jue who was sitting in the wheelchair and said, "Huh, why are you looking for me?"
Lu Jue raised his head slightly. When he saw Bai Fenghua's expression, the smile in his eyes deepened, but it didn't look annoying.
"Because I know I was wrong, I came to you to apologize."
After saying this, he reached out and took out a box of snacks from the back of the wheelchair, and then took out a gold hairpin and several shop deeds from his sleeve.
"I saw your favorite pastry shop on my way here, so I bought you a box of pastries. The gold hairpin was left to me by my mother. She said that if I ever made a girl angry, I should give it to her. These land deeds are one-third of my property, and the remaining two-thirds are the betrothal gift for my future wife."
"Fenghuanghua, I know I hurt you deeply back then, so I don't ask you to accept these things to forgive me. I will use the time to slowly make up for the mistakes I made."
Bai Fenghua's mouth twitched slightly. She bit her lip and finally said lightly, "Come in. It's not nice to talk at the door. People who don't know me might think I'm bullying you who's in a wheelchair."
After she said that, she turned and went in.
The servant next to him immediately pushed Lu Jue in and followed Bai Fenghua.
......
"Doctor, please save my son!"
"Please save my son! He's so young, how could he be hopeless?"
Outside Qingrentang, a female voice was crying miserably, interrupting Shi Yanqing's teaching to Bai Yuancheng and He Sumu.
The three of them stood up almost at the same time and rushed towards the door.
However, Shi Yanqing arrived at the door first. She held the door frame with one hand and looked up to see a woman in dark purple cloth holding a child of about three or four years old in her arms, kneeling at the door of Xinglin Hall and crying loudly.
She cried and kowtowed heavily. The skin on her forehead was red, swollen and ulcerated, and blood stains were imprinted on the muddy ground.
"Auntie, what happened to her?" Shi Yanqing walked to the woman and asked the middle-aged woman who was watching the excitement outside the store.
"Ah, it's really pitiful. Her husband fell ill two years ago, and he came to Xinglin Hall to see Doctor Xu. He said he could be cured, but it would cost a lot of money. Doctor Xu was kind and said he would advance some of the money for the medicine and pay it back when the man recovered."
"Her husband, feeling he didn't need medicine, pushed himself to work despite his illness, and collapsed on the spot. The owner of the house felt it was bad luck, but he didn't take his anger out on the mother and son. Instead, he gave them two taels of silver to cover the cost of the banquet."
"If you ask me, Mr. Qian is kind-hearted. If they were in the Lin family, who knows what kind of suffering they would have to endure." One of the women interrupted.
Master Qian? Could he be Qian Yueshu's father?
Shi Yanqing thought to himself.
"Okay, let's stop talking about this nonsense." The woman who was talking to Shi Yanqing looked unhappy. She had finally managed to tell someone a piece of gossip, and it would be awkward to be interrupted.
"The temperature suddenly dropped a few days ago, and many people in this county have caught colds, and some have even died. This woman's son also got sick, and his body was terribly burned. When he was taken to Xinglin Hall to see a doctor, the doctor just shook his head and said there was no hope."
"Auntie, do you know which doctor treated her son?" Shi Yanqing asked.
The old lady nodded confidently: "I was in there at the time and saw Doctor Wang seeing the patient with my own eyes."
Wang Shangcai.
Shi Yanqing's eyebrows twitched, and for some reason, she felt a little uneasy.
"I've already told you your son is hopeless. No matter how much you kowtow and beg me, I can't cure him."
At this time, Wang Shangcai walked out of Xinglin Hall. He was slightly fat, with round eyes, and looked particularly happy.
But now he was frowning, with impatience in his eyes.
"Doctor Wang, I beg you, please save my Baoer." When the woman saw Wang Shangcai coming out, she immediately knelt down at his feet, grabbed his clothes and begged bitterly.
Wang Shangcai wanted to kick the woman away, but he accidentally saw Shi Yanqing standing outside the shop behind him looking at this side. He narrowed his eyes and an idea suddenly emerged in his mind.
He stretched out his hand and pointed to where Shi Yanqing was standing, with a smile on his face, as if he was really thinking about the woman: "Alas, my medical skills are not as good as Doctor Shi's. Doctor Shi is right here, why don't you go find her and let her treat your Bao'er."
Shi Yanqing: ...
She had felt that something was wrong with Wang Shangcai before, and after knowing that the Wang family was the power of the black witch, these feelings of abnormality had a reason.
The woman looked in the direction Wang Shangcai pointed, and when she saw Shi Yanqing standing under the eaves, a light of hope burst out in her eyes again.
"Doctor, save my baby."
"Please save my baby."
"You get up first," Shi Yanqing quickly supported the woman's shoulders to stop her from bowing.
"Get up first and let me take a good look at your Bao'er's condition first."
Hearing this, the woman paused and adjusted her posture, then handed the child named Baoer in her arms towards Shi Yanqing.
So that she could see Baoer's face clearly.
Shi Yanqing did see Baoer's face clearly. There was still a little bit of flesh on his small face, which made him look very cute.
But his whole face was burning red, which made people feel very pitiful.
When the women surrounding Shi Yanqing saw Baoer's appearance, they couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then looked at Baoer with eyes full of worry and pity.
Alas, the child is still so young, which makes them think of the young children at home.
The woman's eyes were filled with tears: "Doctor Shi."
Shi Yanqing was in a heavy mood. Just by looking at Baoer's face, she knew that the fever must have lasted for a long time, and Baoer might have lost consciousness now.
As she thought about it, she reached out to feel Baoer's Cun, Guan, and Chi parts, and then looked at Baoer's tongue coating.
"Follow me to Qingren Hall quickly, Baoer can still be saved!"
She finished speaking quickly and ran towards Qingrentang.
Bao'er could still be saved. It happened that she had not yet sent the snow mountain lotus to her senior brother. She picked a lotus leaf and used it as medicine, and fed it to Bao'er. His fever would soon subside.
An hour later, Baoer's fever gradually subsided after drinking the medicine.
The woman knelt on the ground happily, kowtowed to Shi Yanqing, and kept repeating the words "Buddha who saves me".
Shi Yanqing didn't expect the woman to do this at first, but she quickly reacted and reached out to help the woman who was kneeling on the ground.
"No need to kowtow. I can save Bao'er because his illness can still be cured. That's why I can save him. If he has a fever for another hour, I won't be able to save him even if you ask me to."
"You're lucky this time. If you get sick again, you must go to the clinic to see a doctor as soon as possible. If the doctor says he can't cure you, don't give up. You must find another doctor to see him. Just in case he can."
"Thank you, Doctor Shi. I'll remember it." The woman hugged Baoer and thanked him again and again.
In the evening, after Shi Yanqing and Dan Ye checked the account books, they closed the door of the pharmacy and planned to walk back.
When they were halfway there, a carriage stopped behind them.
Zhou Hanzhang half-opened the carriage curtain and stuck his head out. "Yanqing, why are you walking home today? Didn't Qingping come to pick you up? Come on up and sit down."
Shi Yanqing turned around with a smile on her face as she walked towards the carriage. "The wheel of that carriage is broken. Before I left this morning, I asked Qingping to take it directly to the carriage shop for repairs so that he wouldn't have to come to pick me up this afternoon."
As she spoke, she got into the carriage.
Zhou Hanzhang firmly grasped her arm and led her into the carriage.
After entering the carriage, Shi Yanqing looked up and saw an arm-high clerk beside Zhou Hanzhang. She was slightly surprised and asked, "Are you taking all this back with you?"
Zhou Hanzhang followed her gaze and fell on the document. He sighed and nodded heavily.
"The previous temperature drop caused too many people to catch a cold, and people in several nearby villages also died from it. Lu Tong counted that more than 40 people have lost their lives to the cold so far. I feel something is amiss and I'm afraid the Black Witch's people have tampered with it. So I specially found old documents and records to see how many people died from colds and other diseases each year to verify whether there is any strange reason."
"So many people?" Shi Yanqing frowned slightly. So many people died of colds, there was indeed something wrong.
She suddenly remembered the blood bag and asked hurriedly, "Han Zhang, do you know if the bodies of these people were well preserved and buried?"
At that time, Zhou Hanzhang only asked Lu Tong to count the number of deaths. Now when Shi Yanqing asked him this, he also remembered the blood bags and the dragon cave, and his expression instantly became solemn.
"Before, I asked the teacher and many others to go to the Dragon Cave to investigate. When the teacher came back, he said that he had destroyed most of the witchcraft in the Dragon Cave. I thought that was the end of it, so I forgot to tell you. Now that I think about it carefully, if there really was a black witch tampering with it this time, the bodies of those people might..."
"Ah, I'll let Shi'an investigate."
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Capital city.
Xiao Jiangyan looked at the documents on the desk that showed what she had investigated, and there was a hint of anger between her brows.
Si Xi stood beside him with his head lowered, quietly waiting for his master's instructions.
"Since Third Brother wants to take action during my birth, I don't need to think about brotherly love. This Third Brother is no longer my Third Brother. I should understand this clearly."
"Si Xi, have someone stop Lin Yun from entering the capital. Since she's Shi Yanqing's patient, she should be receiving treatment instead of appearing in the capital and reminding people of things they shouldn't be thinking about. Also, tell General Xiao that the deposed Crown Prince is planning a rebellion, and also tell him that Xiao Jiu will be back from Northern Xinjiang soon."
General Xiao Tian is Xiao Jiangyan's uncle. Before she came to the throne, the retired emperor sent Xiao Tian's son Xiao Jiu to garrison in the northern border.
You should know that before this, Xiao Tian had been stationed in the northern border, while his wife and children stayed in the capital.
But now the situation is completely reversed. He and his wife were left in the capital, and his son was sent to the northern border.
If you think about it carefully, the two of them, father and son, have never truly been reunited. So, in order for Xiao Jiu to return to the capital safely, Xiao Tian would never turn to the deposed crown prince and help him rebel.
Si Xi: "Yes, I will arrange it right away."
After Si Xi left, Xiao Jiangyan leaned back. She raised her hand and touched her bulging belly, and the domineering look between her brows was no longer there.
"Yuanxiao, maybe your father will be back soon."
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