She shouted angrily, "Let go of my hand! How can I properly treat him while you're pulling and tugging at me like this?"
The man seemed to realize that his behavior was a bit too extreme, and loosened his grip slightly, but still refused to let go completely, and kept muttering to himself.
"Dr. Shen, please, you must cure my brother! We'll do anything to save his life."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but glance back at his unconscious brother lying on the stretcher, his eyes filled with worry.
Seeing this, Shen Xiaoxiao took a deep breath, tried to calm herself down, and said, "Okay, I understand. Let go of him first, and I will do my best to save him."
Perhaps sensing Shen Xiaoxiao's unwavering determination, the man finally slowly released his grip on her arm.
After gaining her freedom, Shen Xiaoxiao immediately walked to the stretcher and reached out her right hand to take the man's pulse, but at that moment the village chief also rushed back.
"Little girl, don't let them see!" The village chief shouted hoarsely as he ran, his voice trembling from panting.
Upon hearing the village chief's shout, Shen Xiaoxiao's hand froze in mid-air. She turned to look at the village chief, who was rushing towards her from afar, her eyes filled with confusion.
Upon seeing this, the man standing opposite Shen Xiao became anxious. He rushed forward and reached out to grab Shen Xiao's arm, shouting urgently.
"Show this to my brother right now! If anything happens to him, I will never let you off the hook, and you will bear all the consequences!"
However, despite the man's coercion, Shen Xiaoxiao did not take his pulse as he wished.
Instead, she calmly looked the man lying on the stretcher up and down, and understood what was going on simply by observing the changes in his expression.
The man's younger brother had clearly been dead for some time. Moreover, from the man's initially malicious and scrutinizing gaze, and the village chief's vehement attempt to stop him, Shen Xiaoxiao was even more convinced that there must be more to the story.
Just then, the village chief finally ran up to them. He pulled Shen Xiaoxiao behind him to protect her, while glaring angrily at the menacing man.
He shouted, "I said she can't see it, and that means she can't see it!"
"What exactly does your Ma family want? Your younger brother died three days ago, and now you want to teach my little one a lesson? What are your true intentions?"
The village chief's eyes widened, and he roared with a face full of anger.
"Hmph, you old fool, don't spout nonsense! My brother is alive and well!" The man retorted fiercely, his face contorted with malice.
"Where am I talking nonsense? Just three days ago, I went to the hospital to pick up medicine because of unbearable back pain, and at that time your whole family was making a scene in the hospital, and even forced the doctor to pay a full three hundred yuan in compensation!"
"This is absolutely true, and you can't deny it!" The village chief argued firmly, showing no sign of backing down.
Upon hearing this, the man's eyes flickered for a moment, but quickly returned to their fierce expression: "Old man, stop cursing my brother! He's just feeling a little unwell, it's not as serious as you're making it out to be!"
He turned to Shen Xiaoxiao and said, "As a doctor, you must not listen to this old man's nonsense. Come over here quickly and take a look at my brother."
Faced with the man's coercion and threats, Shen Xiaoxiao firmly shook her head: "There's no need to look anymore. Your brother's face is as pale as paper, completely devoid of color."
"His belly was swollen, like that of a woman several months pregnant; even his face was swollen. All these signs indicated that he must have drowned."
“Look at the clearly visible lividity on his hands, and the sweltering heat of the day. Just like Grandpa Village Chief said, he’s been dead for at least three days.”
Seeing that he couldn't extort her, the man's eyes flashed with a vicious light. "You're a doctor, and my brother was already brought to your door. How could you refuse to see him? You're the murderer who killed my brother."
The village chief was filled with remorse and secretly blamed himself: Why was he so impulsive?
As an elderly man, he shouldn't have rushed here alone in such a reckless manner.
If more people had been brought along at the time, perhaps the situation wouldn't have escalated to this point where it's so difficult to manage.
The village chief was furious, his face flushed red, his chest heaving, and he glared at the other man, shouting angrily.
"What exactly are you people from Majia Village trying to do! This person has clearly been dead for three whole days, yet you still bring him here and ask others to treat him. Do you really think there's no one else in our Shenjia Village?"
The man didn't back down, staring intently at the village chief with a fierce glint in his eyes. He said menacingly, "Old man, stop your nonsense! I brought her here, and she, as a doctor, wouldn't even glance at her. She must take responsibility for this!"
After saying that, he suddenly reached out and pushed forward, causing the village chief to stagger back a few steps.
Immediately afterwards, he rushed forward and tried to grab Shen Xiaoxiao's hand, shouting filthyly, "Since you refuse to treat my brother and leave him lying there all alone, you have to compensate me."
"Hmph, obediently come back to Ma Family Village with me. From now on, you will be my Ma family's daughter-in-law! It just so happens that our child will be adopted by my deceased younger brother."
Despite the man's rude behavior, Shen Xiaoxiao remained calm and composed.
She quickly took out a slender silver needle from her personal space, her eyes fixed intently on the large hand that was gradually approaching.
Just as the man's hand was about to touch her, Shen Xiaoxiao raised the silver needle in her hand without hesitation and stabbed it into the man's painful acupoint with lightning speed.
In an instant, a bloodcurdling scream resounded through the sky.
The man's face was contorted in pain, his features almost squashed together, and he kept cursing, "You filthy woman!"
Despite the excruciating pain, his movements did not stop; instead, they became even more frantic. He cursed loudly as he lunged at Shen Xiaoxiao with even greater speed and force using his uninjured hand.
Shen Xiaoxiao's knowledge of the Five Animal Frolics was not for nothing; her dodges and weaving left and right gave him no chance to get close.
"You bitch, you dare to run? You two help me catch him. I'm taking her back today to have her have my baby!" the man roared angrily.
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