Taohua was so angry that her chest heaved: This old man is so despicable that he actually used such means to force the lady.
She looked at Gu Yunran sympathetically and reached out to hold her hand.
Gu Yunran's eyes finally opened. She supported her weak body and slowly sat up. She reached out and patted Taohua's hand, comforting her: "It's okay."
She looked at Mrs. Lu and said, "Mother, please get up quickly. It's not that I don't want to help, but I'm really too weak to get out of bed."
Madam Lu's eyes lit up, and she jumped up from the ground. She said, "It's okay, I'll have someone carry you there."
Taohua opened her mouth wide. She didn't expect Mrs. Lu to say such shameless words. She wanted to slap her in the face.
She looked at Gu Yunran and whispered, "Madam, just say the word and I'll throw this old hag out."
"Don't be impatient."
Gu Yunran patted Taohua's hand, then looked at the old lady and sighed, "Mother is so thoughtful."
"It's not that I can't go, but I have a request."
"You say..." Madam Lu breathed a sigh of relief, "As long as I can do it, I will naturally agree."
I thought that at this time, Gu Yunran just wanted Qingzhou to be nicer to her in the future.
"You have mortgaged my dowry, my shop, my farmland, and my mulberry trees. I want to redeem them. Mother, please prepare the money."
Madam Lu choked: "All the money has been spent, where can I get the money?"
Gu Yunran's face turned cold and he immediately lay down.
"I'm sorry, my daughter-in-law is feeling very unwell. Please go back, mother."
Taohua stepped forward, walked in front of Madam Lu, reached out to grab Madam Lu's collar, and carried Madam Lu out like throwing a chicken.
Madam Lu flapped her hands and yelled, "Gu Yunran, you unfilial daughter! Aren't you afraid of retribution for treating your mother-in-law like this?"
Gu Yunran sneered: Retribution?
If there is retribution, the first to be punished should be the Lu family.
"Lanhua, go open the door quickly and let the neighbors come and see how Gu Yunran bullies an old woman like me."
"Okay." Gu Yunran's voice came, "Don't worry about the smallpox infection being exposed and the Lu family being buried alive. Go ahead."
Lanhua was about to go, but when she heard Gu Yunran's words, she was startled and stopped abruptly.
Madam Lu was so frightened that her face turned pale.
She became frightened belatedly, and her eyes became even darker as she looked at Gu Yunran.
In the end, she had to compromise and asked someone to go to her private vault to get a lot of gold and silver jewelry for Gu Yunran. Gu Yunran asked her to go back and wait. Zhuye had already gone to ask Doctor Mu, who would be here soon.
Old Madam Lu was so angry that she vomited blood. She was tricked by Gu Yunran and her private treasury was emptied.
"Madam, the old lady has lost a lot of her private money in the past few years. Now that she has to cough up so much money all at once, I heard she was so angry that she vomited blood. It's really a relief!"
Taohua said as she sorted out the gold, silver and jewelry.
"These gold, silver and jewelry can only redeem my dowry." Gu Yunran supported himself on the bed with both hands and tried to sit up.
Taohua saw this and hurried over to help. She supported her body and helped her recover. She also took a soft cushion and placed it on Gu Yunran's back.
"Taohua, disinfect these gold, silver, and jewelry and send them to your brother later. Ask him to redeem them within two days. I need them urgently."
"good."
As the two were talking, footsteps were heard outside.
"lady."
Zhuye walked in, extending his hand and following an old man with gray hair.
The old man was wearing a white brocade robe and holding a medicine box in his hand. His face was a little thin, but his eyebrows and eyes looked quite charming.
He had a cold face and was serious.
"This should be Imperial Physician Mu, right?" Gu Yunran got off the bed and, with Taohua's support, tried to give him his luggage. "Your humble servant, Gu Yunran, greets Imperial Physician Mu."
Doctor Mu glared at Taohua, "What are you standing there for? Stop your master!"
He had a strange habit, which was that he hated it when patients were too weak to take care of themselves but still forced themselves to carry their luggage for him.
In front of his patients, he didn't care about etiquette at all.
The most important thing to him is to heal the patients.
"Madam, Doctor Mu has spoken. Please do not get out of bed."
Gu Yunran smiled and said, "Thank you, Doctor Mu, for your consideration!"
"Okay, let's stop talking nonsense and let me check you out." Doctor Mu put away the medicine box and came to Gu Yunran. He first took her pulse and then checked her cheeks and arms.
"Smallpox, indeed."
"But this virus has not been seen for many years. How could it suddenly appear?" Doctor Mu stroked his beard, looking puzzled.
The last time smallpox broke out was twenty years ago when the northern barbarians raided our border and raged in the border area for a while. At that time, he took a group of disciples from the Imperial Hospital to the border and controlled the smallpox.
Half of the 100,000-strong army was infected, but he took half a month to control the situation and reduce the death toll to the lowest level.
Only 1,221 people died.
It was also during that time that he accumulated a lot of experience.
Gu Yunran shook her head. "It's really strange. A child who had just come out of confinement was infected. That child is a distant relative of the Lu family. I heard that he used to live in Lujia Village in Qianshui Town."
"It's about two hundred miles from Shengjing."
Doctor Mu withdrew his hand, took out a pen and paper and wrote three prescriptions.
"Here are three prescriptions. For the first one, follow the recipe for the first three days and boil the herbs for consumption. For the next three days, follow the recipe for the second one."
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