Chapter 782 What if gods really exist?
Li San Niang and Qiu Xiang hurriedly ran to the gate of the drug rehabilitation center, where they saw a carriage parked beside the official road.
Li Erxiong stood with his mother, who was holding Luzhu'er, waiting by the side of the carriage. As soon as Li Sanniang and Qiuxiang came out, they heard Luzhu'er's clear, childlike voice calling out to them: "Mother! Mother! Zhu'er is here! Here I am!"
Looking at the lively and adorable Luzhuer with her smile, Li Sanniang felt a huge weight lifted from her heart.
She then took a closer look at the expressions of Li's mother and second brother. Although they were somewhat worried, they did not appear sad.
Thus, Li San Niang understood the situation and guessed that Li's mother and the others must have heard the rumors circulating in the streets and were overly worried, which was why they came looking for her.
Sure enough, when they got closer, Li San Niang picked up Lu Zhu'er, kissed her twice, and put her down to stand beside her. Then, Li Er Xiong stepped forward, preempting Li's mother, and whispered to Li San Niang, "Do you know anything about Doctor Huang?"
In just two or three days, probably at least a hundred of the 108 wards in Chang'an City are talking about this matter.
You know how these rumors are; in the blink of an eye, they can turn a perfectly normal matter into a tale of the strange and supernatural.
Brother Li looked worried, thinking about what had happened in Chang'an in the past few days, and he was really worried and scared.
The Li family was ultimately just a small, insignificant family. How could the Li family possibly get involved in a fight between the Imperial Medical Bureau and the Censorate?
"I was also involved in that matter (Li San Niang led the surgeons of the Imperial Medical Academy to learn dissection by looking at corpses). Although most of the rumors now are about that Doctor Huang, I have occasionally heard a few words about you."
I'm afraid it's just something those doctors deliberately spread because they're envious and jealous of you and our family.
I really didn't feel right, and after talking to my parents, neither of us had a clear answer.
My elder brother mostly knows military men; how would he know anything about what's happening in the imperial court?
Erlang is currently just a minor official in the Ministry of War, and I'm afraid we'll implicate him.
That's why my mother and I came to talk to you; otherwise, we definitely wouldn't be able to sleep well tonight.
Li San Niang nodded, gave Li Er Xiong and Li's mother a reassuring smile, then picked up Lu Zhu'er again, and led Li's mother and Li Er Xiong into the carriage.
Qiu Xiang was perceptive; she nodded to Li San Niang and said, "Don't worry, San Niang, I'll be guarding outside."
Once inside the carriage, Li Sanniang, holding Luzhu'er, said sternly, "Good Luzhu'er, what your mother, your grandmother, and your second uncle are about to say is a secret. You may listen, but you must not tell anyone."
Lu Zhu'er is already three and a half years old in real years, and five years old in traditional Chinese age reckoning. Li San Niang never thought that children don't understand anything. Of course, things that should be avoided with children should still be avoided.
But given the current situation, since Li's mother brought Dewdrop along, there's no need to leave Dewdrop behind.
Dewdrop was a well-behaved and obedient girl. She blinked her bright black eyes and looked at Li San Niang with great seriousness and respect, which was different from the perfunctory treatment that her family gave to children. She nodded and replied, "Mother, I know. I won't tell anyone else."
"My dear child!"
After stroking the dewdrop's head, Li San Niang told her mother and second brother the whole story of Doctor Huang's matter, and also told them the inside information she had obtained from Mr. Bu Ke.
"...Therefore, nothing should happen."
Most people look down on women and women, even if one of them is the most powerful person in the world. The officials in the court look at the emperor, not women.
Therefore, given my status, I'm most likely to be fine.
Besides, with such a sharp mind, Mr. Nobody would surely abandon me.
Mother and Second Brother, please don't worry about me. It's just that this matter shouldn't be told to too many people. After you and Second Brother take Luzhu home, we'll see how things go before telling our family.”
How could Li's mother and Li's second brother, who were so shrewd, not understand what Li San Niang had left unsaid?
Li's father, elder brother Li, elder sister-in-law Li, and even Li's eldest and second sons can be informed, but Li's second sister-in-law and the still young Li's third son do not need to know.
Brother Li frowned, thinking of his wife's temperament, and looked up at Sister Li, assuring her, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."
"Now that you say that, I feel relieved."
Staying in this outskirts of the capital, you're out of touch with the news. You have no idea that right now, because the Censorate wants to impeach Doctor Huang for digging up corpses, everyone in Chang'an, from scholars to commoners, is in an uproar.
Even the storytellers in teahouses talk about this.
Li San Niang took Li's mother's hand and explained in detail: "This time it was Doctor Huang who was in the wrong. Stealing someone else's body is a great disrespect to people, so it's not wrong for people to send him to the Jingzhao Prefecture prison."
Mother, don't worry. My second brother, Physician Sun, and I found unclaimed bodies at the mortuary. We offered respectful prayers before using them, and afterwards, we sewed them up, dressed them, found a good coffin, and carefully buried them. We even burned paper money and offered sacrifices to the deceased.
Li's mother wasn't averse to learning the secrets of the human body using other people's corpses, after all, she herself was a midwife. Midwives deliver babies, but not every midwife is born knowing how to deliver babies.
Every midwife must have delivered a baby for the first time before she started working as a midwife. With experience, she gradually became a well-known midwife in and around the neighborhood.
Therefore, Li's mother was quite open-minded about this matter. People can't be brought back to life; they are just a physical body. If they can use this body to exchange for medical skills and save more people, wouldn't that be a good thing?
There are quite a few believers in Buddhism and Taoism these days, and Li's mother herself is actually a believer who believes in a little bit of everything.
But at the same time, Li's mother was a woman who grew up in a war-torn border town. She had witnessed the horrors of war in the border town. At that time, the young Li's mother wondered, if gods really exist, why don't they appear to save the believers who were swept up in the war, displaced and even lost their close friends and relatives?
If it is said that people go to the underworld after death, and only by preserving their complete bodies can they have a chance to be reborn as humans again?
Those soldiers who fought for their country and people on the battlefield, missing limbs or broken arms, will never be able to be reborn as humans in their next life.
If those who have rendered meritorious service meet such an end, then the underworld is hardly a place of reason.
"Well, with your words, I feel much more at ease."
This time, it was Dewdrop who insisted on following me when she saw me go out. I thought you hadn't seen her for a while, so I brought her along."
Li San Niang chatted with Lu Zhu'er for a while longer, then Li Er Xiong urged her to hurry home by carriage, lest the weather change and it rain later and become inconvenient.
After seeing off Li's mother and the other two, Li San Niang stood by the official road, looking at the darkening sky, feeling a sense of impending storm.
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