There's a place in the capital that specializes in selling strange and unusual things, and Qifei likes to go there to hunt for treasures whenever she has free time.
She first went to the blacksmith's shop to order something, and then called a carriage to go to the East Market.
Overall, getting around Beijing is quite convenient.
Even if you don't have a carriage at home, you can easily call one from a carriage rental shop.
Qifei has a car dealership she works with, and her current place of residence is rather small and not suitable for raising horses.
Renting a carriage is convenient and doesn't take much effort.
The carriage could only stop at the market entrance; it couldn't go any further inside.
The stalls in the East Market were set up one after another, and horse-drawn carriages were not allowed to enter.
Qifei alighted from the carriage and strolled into the market.
The stalls had all sorts of things on display, and Qifei stopped in front of one of them.
She immediately took a liking to a small fox statue.
The fox was sculpted so lifelike that she even suspected it wasn't carved in reference to her sister.
I realized I hadn't brought a gift for my sister yet, and I knew she would be very happy if I brought this back.
The stall owner, quick to notice, greeted her, "Madam, what would you like? The price is negotiable."
The East Market has countless stalls, and everyone is trying to attract customers.
Here, there are probably more sellers than buyers.
"How much is this wood carving?" Qi Fei picked up the little fox, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt that it resembled that sister.
The stall owner was a little disappointed, but thinking that even a mosquito bite is still a bite, he said, "Thirty coins."
These wood carvings aren't valuable; the valuable items are the other things on the stall.
Qifei didn't even mention the price, just threw thirty coins at the stall owner and casually tossed the fox wood carving into her storage bag.
Qifei was in a good mood after buying what she wanted as soon as she arrived.
After walking a few steps, I heard a burst of crying ahead, and a crowd was gathering around the source of the crying.
Although Qifei didn't want to join the crowd, there were too many people in the East Market, so she had no choice but to follow the crowd towards the center.
A woman, her hair disheveled, was kneeling in the crowd, holding a three- or four-year-old boy in her arms.
The boy's eyes were tightly closed, and his small face was deathly pale.
Qi Fei looked at the woman and felt that she looked familiar. When she heard the woman's voice, she suddenly realized that it was the woman who had caused trouble in her shop that day.
Since Shura said he would handle it, she hadn't asked about it. She only heard from the shop's customers that the woman had smashed up the shop that day, and the couple naturally had a big fight.
What happened afterward, Qifei didn't follow up.
Seeing the woman crying, he cried out, "Jun'er, Jun'er, wake up!"
I heard last time that the child was seriously ill, is he still not better?
Qi Fei frowned slightly; the child didn't look too good at the moment.
"Madam, you should take the child to the clinic immediately."
"Yes, this child doesn't look well."
The people around her were all talking at once, urging the woman to take her child to the clinic immediately.
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, the woman broke down in tears, saying, "I also want to send my child there, but we have no money. All the money has been spent by those heartless people who kicked us out."
My Jun'er, I'm so sorry.
Someone recognized the woman: "Isn't this the one who caught someone cheating at Wang's Grocery Store the other day?"
"Ah, I know. That man is a scoundrel. He kept a mistress on the side, and when she begged him, he used the money meant for the child's medical treatment to buy her jewelry."
"My God, is this even a man? He doesn't even want his own child?"
"That's why the rest of us find it disgusting."
It's heartbreaking to see someone so cruel to their own child.
Besides, the child is still so young.
Qi Fei sighed and walked up to the woman. "Come with me."
The woman looked up and saw Qifei with some surprise. Qifei was a little impatient. "Hurry up. If you don't want your child to die, come with me."
Upon hearing what Qifei said, the woman quickly got up, carrying her child and stumbling after Qifei.
Fortunately, there was a clinic near the East Market, and it wasn't too far away.
The doctor's expression changed drastically as soon as he took the pulse, and he said to the apprentice, "Quick, the gold needles."
The woman stood to the side, sobbing uncontrollably. Qi Fei glanced at her and said, "Silence. Don't disturb the doctor's acupuncture."
These words made the woman quickly cover her mouth, not daring to make a sound, but tears kept flowing.
The treatment took longer than Qifei had imagined, and the doctor was covered in sweat by the end of the acupuncture.
The doctor breathed a sigh of relief after the last needle was inserted, and the little boy next to him quickly handed him a towel.
"Doctor, how is the baby?" Qifei asked first, seeing the woman's heart filled with worry for the baby, who was like a hedgehog.
"Fortunately, it was delivered not too late. If it had been any later, even a miracle wouldn't have been able to save it."
The doctor shook his head. "But the child's illness has dragged on for too long. Even if he recovers now, he will need proper care and some expensive medicinal herbs."
What the doctor didn't say was that if the child wasn't properly cared for, he might become a walking pharmacy.
But those few words alone were enough to fill the woman with despair.
Precious medicinal herbs mean they cost a lot of money.
Some of the medicinal herbs are so expensive that money can't buy them. She has nothing now, so how can she treat her child's illness?
The woman sat blankly beside the child, her face expressionless, unsure of what to do.
"Okay, thank you, doctor." Qifei nodded slightly to the doctor. "How long will it take to remove this needle?"
"Wait for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, you can rest for a while, I'll come back later."
After speaking to the two men, the doctor went to the front.
There were many patients ahead of him, and he had already wasted a lot of time on the child, leaving a large backlog of patients outside.
After the doctor left, the room fell silent. Qi Fei paused for a moment, then looked at the woman and asked, "What do you plan to do next?"
The woman looked up blankly, wondering what to do.
She didn't know, all she knew was that the cost of the medicine would weigh her down.
She lowered her head and sobbed, "Jun'er, I'm sorry, I'm incompetent, and your father is no good either."
"I'll be your mother again in my next life."
The woman burst into tears, as if she wanted to cry out all her despair.
Qifei looked at the child lying on the bed. She had given birth to many children before, so even though there were no children in this world, she couldn't bear to see a child suffer.
"I'll pay for your child's medical treatment, but you have to sign a contract of servitude for me, and you'll have to work for me to repay me in the future."
The woman stopped crying and looked at Qifei in disbelief.
She never expected that Qifei would be willing to help her when she was at her most desperate.
She knelt down with a thud and kowtowed three times to Qifei, her forehead red and swollen. "I will never forget your great kindness, Madam."
Previously, Yunniang was ungrateful and offended the madam, yet the madam still saved my child.
From this day forward, I, Yunniang, belong to Madam in life and in death; I will do whatever Madam commands.
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