Chapter 150: Sympathy for One's Kind
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Mao Ya didn't move when she saw Cui Qingyi and the other two come in. The little girl felt a little discouraged, thinking that if her aunt died, there seemed to be no point for her to live.
Yesterday at home, Konjac vowed that he would give some silver to send the man away, but the moment he saw Mao Ya, his heart softened, and he cursed the hateful manager of Donglin Trading Company over and over again in his heart.
Konjac walked over and took Maoya aside. The little girl stiffened her neck and didn't want to leave. Konjac could only whisper, "Do you still want your aunt to get better? If so, move aside and let the doctor see her."
Mao Ya's stiff neck softened and she moved to the side under Konjac's force.
Cui Qingyi followed behind Doctor Lu and helped to take Mao Leren's hand out. When her fingers touched the man's lonely wrist bones, she sighed. It is true that everyone in this world has their own difficulties.
Doctor Lu doesn't like to talk while he's seeing patients, and he doesn't like people talking next to him. If someone accidentally makes a little noise, he'll scold them unhappily.
Cui Qingyi and Konjac suffered greatly from this. Seeing him taking the patient's pulse with his eyes closed, they immediately closed their mouths and kept silent. The room was so quiet for a while that you could hear a pin drop.
Mao Ya was influenced by several people and almost forgot to breathe.
But today, for some reason, the old doctor made "tsk" and "sigh" sounds while taking Cui Qingyi's pulse, which made Cui Qingyi's heart beat fast.
After finally taking Cui Qingyi's pulse, the old doctor looked at her again and asked, "Who is this person to you?"
This look and this question made Cui Qingyi even more panicked. She just wanted to find a musician who was good at ventriloquism to perform shadow puppetry in the teahouse, but she didn't expect that she would have to take on a murder case before the teahouse was even built.
It's not that Cui Qingyi is cold-blooded. It's just that although she feels pity and regret for meeting someone by chance, she really can't have much emotion. When encountering such a thing, the first thing she thinks of is trouble.
"I asked the caravan to find this actress. Do you think her illness is serious?"
Cui Qingyi felt that she was asking a nonsense question. If the condition was not serious, why was the doctor sighing all the time?
Doctor Lu touched his beard and slowly took out a silver needle that was said to be a family heirloom from the medicine box. Before the other three people in the room could react, he inserted the needle into Mao Lin's finger. Cui Qingyi's finger twitched reflexively when she saw this.
Mao Lin had needles stuck in several of her fingers, and blood was dripping onto the ground along the silver needles. Cui Qingyi's mouth twitched nervously a few times, and she had to endure for several seconds before swallowing the swear words that were about to come out of her mouth.
This person is like a sick person. If you want to bleed, why don't you tell me in advance? If the blood drips on the floor, won't the waiter scold you? Aren't they the ones who will be scolded?
No one knew what was so magical about the doctor's silver needles, but as blood dripped from her fingertips, the abnormal blush on Mao Lin's face quickly improved, revealing her originally sallow complexion.
Doctor Lu stroked his beard again and raised an eyebrow at Cui Qingyi with pride. "It can be cured. Of course it can be cured. It's just that her illness has been delayed for too long and has a root cause. It's very troublesome to treat and it will cost a lot of money."
As he said this, he made a gesture towards Cui Qingyi asking for money.
Cui Qingyi took a deep breath and really wanted to remind Dr. Lu to pay attention to his image. After all, you are a highly respected doctor. How could you do such a clichéd thing?
But she knew that if she dared to say this, the old doctor would definitely have a lot of twisted excuses waiting for her.
When Mao Ya heard that it could be cured, her eyes lit up instantly.
Then he quickly broke free from Konjac's hand, knelt down at Cui Qingyi's feet with a plop, and chattered in a broken voice that made Cui Qingyi dizzy.
Mao Ya kowtowed almost mechanically. She was not her aunt, and she did not have that much backbone. At this moment, she just wanted her aunt to live well, and she knew that only the person in front of her could help them.
In the end, Cui Qingyi took Mao Lin and Mao Ya away from the inn.
When leaving the house, the inn waiter accompanied her cautiously. He turned around and went to the room where Mao Lin had stayed to do a thorough cleaning. When getting on the carriage, he could vaguely hear someone loudly saying, "Boil some mugwort water. It's no use just wiping the ceiling."
Cui Qingyi...haha, quite professional.
Cui Qingyi paid more than ten taels of silver to keep Mao Lin and the other two in Doctor Lu's clinic. Mao Ya tightly grabbed the corner of Mao Lin's clothes and wanted to beg Cui Qingyi again but she didn't dare to, for fear of annoying her.
Cui Qingyi looked at the two of them, one big and one small, and felt that it was a sin. Before leaving, she couldn't help but remind them, "There are people taking care of her in the clinic. You are only a little old. You should eat well, sleep well and grow up. Don't overwork yourself."
Perhaps it had been a long time since she had been so cared for by outsiders. Mao Ya's eyes were filled with tears and she whispered, "I'm ten years old this year. I'm not young anymore and can take good care of my aunt. Please don't look down on us."
Cui Qingyi... Damn, why are there so many sinful things in this world.
The ten-year-old girls in her school, even those from poor families, were all about 1.23 meters tall. Compared to this girl, she looked like leeks that had never been exposed to the sun in the field.
There was no other way, so Cui Qingyi turned around and went to find Doctor Lu again, and asked him to take Mao Ya's pulse and treat her if she needed treatment.
Doctor Lu weighed the silver in his hand and responded happily, not forgetting to taunt Cui Qingyi, "Even if you don't tell me, I will still see the girl. It will show that you are a good person and I have good medical ethics, okay?"
Cui Qingyi turned around and left without any hesitation. She decided to take back her previous words praising Old Man Lu as a doctor with great medical ethics.
After a busy morning, Cui Qingyi returned home and breathed a sigh of relief. She and Konjac looked at each other and smiled helplessly.
Konjac was also lying on a chair, looking at his own courtyard and sighing, "Miss, it's a good thing we left early, otherwise..."
Otherwise, even if Konjac didn't say anything, Cui Qingyi would understand.
Actors in this world don't have an easy life. Looking at Mao Lin's situation, they can roughly guess what she has been through. As two people who were once deeply involved in the inner house strife, they can't help but feel sympathy for her.
This is also the reason why Cui Qingyi did not have the heart to drive the two away in the end. She could almost imagine how Mao Lin escaped from the cannibalistic place and how he managed to reach Dongping County with one breath like grabbing a life-saving straw.
Cui Qingyi thought that since she was not being treated for free, she would let them work in her teahouse after she recovered until she paid back the money...
The peaceful days of the Cui family were turbulent again. The Qinqiang costumes made by Jinxiufang were almost finished, but the opera troupe that Cui Qingyi wanted to find was nowhere to be seen.
She had long forgotten about the Jiang family troupe, thinking that if things really didn't work out, she would have to put Qinqiang on hold for the time being. After all, storytelling and shadow puppetry could be performed right away.
Little did she know that the person she was thinking about was also thinking about her.
Jiang Bailing looked at the richly dressed senior sister in front of him, his face full of disappointment: "Senior sister, that's not what you said at the beginning. You said you would help our Jiang family come back."
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