Chapter 165 The Variation of Human Nature
After resting at home for seven days, Li Sanniang sent a message to the Alliance yesterday, deciding to go out to work tomorrow and resume her normal daily routine.
Li San Niang's previous injuries have almost healed. Although she still can't lift heavy objects, she can still go to work.
As for the possibility that the mastermind might still try to assassinate her, Li San Niang thought that she couldn't stay home forever just because of that possibility.
With Qiu Xiang now in the picture, Li San Niang believes that Mr. Bu Ke definitely has other people protecting her besides Qiu Xiang on the surface.
After all, even if we don't consider personal relationships, we can still talk about interests.
Mr. Bu Ke was still counting on Li San Niang to find the problems for him so that he could get the alcohol purification project done as soon as possible. For this reason, Mr. Bu Ke would absolutely not watch Li San Niang die.
Moreover, after carefully studying and practicing the poison manual these past few days, Li San Niang actually managed to concoct a new poison.
This practice was somewhat bloody; villagers caught live centipedes and brought them to the medicine cabinet, intending to sell them for some money.
While helping Li Erxiong deal with the live centipedes, Li Sanniang suddenly had a brilliant idea. She took a poison recipe from the manual written by Poison King, modified the main ingredient, removed one poisonous ingredient, and added two non-lethal ingredients. She experimented with different combinations and amounts, using the live chickens and rabbits sent by Li Ersao's family last time, and finally adjusted it to the most suitable ratio.
Of course, the half-dead chickens and rabbits couldn't be eaten, so Li Erxiong dug a pit in the backyard, burned them to ashes, and buried them.
The poison that Li San Niang has newly developed can incapacitate at least ten adults through skin contact with just a fingernail-sized amount.
Yes, it's like being drugged and losing the ability to move, but remaining conscious. You just can't move and don't feel pain.
Originally, Li San Niang wanted to make a poison that could kill instantly upon contact with blood. However, she later considered that she was a person without martial arts skills. If she wanted to have the same perfect opportunity as last time, find the best angle, risk injury, and with a bit of luck, stab the man in black with a knife, it would be really not easy.
Li San Niang didn't believe she would have such an opportunity again.
A wise man avoids dangerous situations; it's best to stay at a distance, or at a distance where you can take down the enemy.
Furthermore, do you think the main ingredient of a deadly poison that kills on sight is easy to find?
Various poisons are rare and hard to come by, just like top-quality life-saving medicines are also rare and hard to come by.
The cost is too high, it's rare to find such a project, and it's really difficult to accomplish.
In addition, Li San Niang ultimately believed that as a doctor, her duty was to treat and save lives, provided that she could ensure her own survival. She researched poisons to protect herself, not to make poisons for the sake of making poisons.
If one falls into such confusion, the fate of the Poison King serves as a cautionary tale.
That level of poison, capable of rendering a person incapacitated, is sufficient. Let's leave it at that.
Now all that remains is the issue of Li San Niang's journey to and from her shifts.
After all, Old Man Wang is still lying at home. Old Man Wang's situation is right in front of us. Before, when Brother Li went out to help Sister Li hire a driver, no one took the job.
The Li family lived quite far from the three pharmacies in Yongpingfang, and no one expected that someone would volunteer to be Li San Niang's coachman for morning and evening shifts.
The person who came to recommend themselves was someone they knew.
That day, Li San Niang passed the medical alliance's assessment. On her way home, a driver she often rode with brought a dark-skinned man and a little girl, about ten years old, who was running a high fever, to Li's house for treatment. Li San Niang kept them there for the night, prescribed medicine, and even gave them a few more doses of medicine before they left.
The person who recommended himself was Song Dalang, the dark-skinned man from that night.
Since receiving help from Li Sanniang, Song Dalang had been penniless and wanted to repay her kindness, but he never had the chance.
Song Dalang only had some strength and no skills. He could only earn a little money by carrying heavy loads for people in shops. Now, only Song Dalang and Song Xiaoniang were left in the Song family.
Two years ago, Old Lady Song fell ill, but she couldn't afford treatment and died.
Last year, Madam Song also fell ill, but couldn't afford treatment and died.
Song Dalang was terrified that night. If his last relative in the world, Song Xiaoniang, were to leave him, what would be the point of him living alone in this world?
Thanks to the advice of the old man who lived in the alley, Song Xiaoniang knocked on the door of the Li family's clinic in the middle of the night and was saved by Li Sanniang.
Although Song Dalang was illiterate and had never attended school, he understood the principle of gratitude.
From then on, he began to keep an eye on the Li family's news in the city, thinking that once he saved up some money, he would buy four gifts and take Song Xiaoniang to the Li family's door to express his gratitude.
As a result, a few days ago I heard the dirty talk circulating in the city about how Li San Niang managed to escape with her life by submitting to a villain.
Only then did Song Dalang realize that the benefactor of his family had encountered such a thing.
Later, I learned from an old man who lived in the same alley that Brother Li was looking for a driver to hire someone to take Li San Niang to the clinic for her shifts morning and evening. But all the drivers felt that they couldn't earn this money from the Li family; it was money to buy her life.
Old Wang is currently bedridden at home and unable to get up, so who would dare to take the risk of taking on this job?
Song Dalang dares!
Song Dalang went to the shopkeeper of the large-cartridge shop, paid the money, went home and took all the money in his house, and bought a discarded carriage from an old man's family in the same alley.
Back home, Song Dalang carefully washed the carriage and bought new ropes, which he planned to put on himself. After all, he was penniless after buying the carriage, and even the cheapest donkey cost at least ten taels of silver, not to mention a strong donkey.
Song Dalang lavishly burned firewood to take a bath, put on his most presentable clothes, and, with Song Xiaoniang by his side, tied a rope around himself and pulled Song Xiaoniang to the entrance of the Li family's medical clinic. He found Li Erxiong and told him that if Li Sanniang didn't mind, he would pull her cart.
“I’m not afraid of those bad guys. I’m strong. Li San Niangzi has done me a great favor. I’m willing to pull Li San Niangzi’s cart.”
Sitting on the carriage shaft, swinging her thin legs back and forth, Song Xiaoniang also had a good impression of the Li family. Seeing that Li Erxiong did not agree, she interjected, "My father is very strong." Seeing that Li Erxiong seemed not to believe her, Song Xiaoniang turned her head and looked back and forth, then pointed to the hitching post at the entrance of Old Zhou's shop next door and said to Song Dalang, "Father, go and pick up that stone lion and take it to the Li family doctor to take a look."
Song Dalang, being the only one of his own, was quite obedient to his mother.
Song Dalang carefully took the rope off his body, gently lowered it into the carriage, and watched as Song Xiaoniang jumped down and stood aside.
He then asked the onlookers what was going on and learned that it was Old Man Zhou's hitching post. He turned to Old Man Zhou, who had also come out to watch the commotion, and received a reply from Old Man Zhou: "Hero, go ahead and try. If you can really pull up this hitching post, I will respect you."
Having received permission, Song Dalang spat into his palm, rubbed his hands together a few times, and then walked to the hitching post that was two heads taller than an adult and had a lion-shaped carving on top. He bent down, wrapped his arms around the hitching post, and exerted force.
A crowd gradually gathered on the street. Rumors about Li San Niang encountering villains had been circulating in the neighborhood recently. However, since they all lived on the same street, and some of the older neighbors had watched Li San Niang grow up from a toddler, most of them did not believe that Li San Niang was the person in the rumors.
Therefore, although they mostly talk about it in private, they don't say anything in front of others.
But Song Dalang's appearance at the entrance of Li Family Medical Hall still attracted everyone's attention.
A whistle came from the crowd, followed by a man's voice jeering, "Hey, you black guy, push harder!"
This caused everyone around to burst into laughter, and the shy young wife blushed immediately.
Li San Niang was initially unaware of what was happening outside. It was only after the young shop assistant, Li Gui, entered the courtyard and informed Li San Niang, who was reading a medical book, that she ran out to see what was going on.
Just as Li San Niang came out, she stood on the threshold and strained her neck to see Song Da Lang pull up the hitching post that was taller than a person.
The gasps of shock from the crowd were naturally due to the astonishment that Song Dalang had actually managed to pull up the hitching post that was originally fixed in place.
A thought popped into Li San Niang's mind: Good heavens, if you shave your head and change your posture, you'll look just like Lu Zhishen uprooting the willow tree.
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