Meng Ruliu said angrily, "I'd rather not even bother hitting you, it would dirty my hands."
As a general, she didn't seek revenge on Zhao Rongzhang after returning to the capital. She'd heard that Zhao Rongzhang had long since disappeared and his whereabouts were unknown, and strangely, the Zhao family hadn't searched for him, so she let it go. She never expected to encounter him here.
Su Wan took out the penicillin and the disposable packaging bag for intravenous injection, and said to Zhao Rongzhang, "Young Master Zhao, come to the tree over there, I'll give you an IV drip."
Zhao Rongzhang was recognized by Meng Ruliu and felt extremely ashamed. Hearing that Su Wan would treat him, he suddenly found his strength and scrambled to follow Su Wan to the tree. He kowtowed several times and said, "This humble subject pays respects to Your Majesty the Empress. Long live Your Majesty!"
He recognized Meng Ruliu, and Su Wan called Meng Ruliu her sworn sister. Everyone in the Great Jin Dynasty knew that Meng Ruliu and Su Wan were sworn sisters. Even if he were stupid, he could guess that the person in front of him could only be the Empress.
"Don't make a fuss," Su Wan stopped him from continuing to kneel and worship. She first hung the IV bag on a tree branch and gave Zhao Rongzhang a penicillin skin test.
While waiting for the skin test results, Zhao Rongzhang wept several times, and finally knelt down again, saying, "This humble subject thanks Your Majesty the Empress for saving my life."
Meng Ruliu was somewhat displeased and said, "Sister-in-law, why did you save this kind of scumbag?"
Su Wan smiled and said, "He did make a mistake, but I think he should be given a chance to repent."
Zhao Rongzhang said with a mournful face, "General, look at me, I'm already in this state. My tongue is rotten, my legs are stiff, and my whole body is covered in rashes... Just treat me like a fart and let me go."
Meng Ruliu snorted and turned away from him.
After the skin test, Su Wan put Zhao Rongzhang on an intravenous drip.
“Young Master Zhao, your illness is already in its late stage,” she comforted Zhao Rongzhang. “Although penicillin is the most effective drug for treating this disease, it still takes at least twenty days of treatment to see a significant effect. You should be able to survive, but the damaged internal organs can no longer be restored.”
Zhao Rongzhang leaned against the tree and said, "I am already grateful to be alive, how could I dare to have any other thoughts?"
Su Wan asked, "Why don't your parents care about you?"
Zhao Rongzhang said with shame, "I... I was kicked out by them."
It turned out that after divorcing Su Yue'e, he used the money Su Heng and his wife compensated him to continue his medical treatment, which was quickly spent. Having no other option, he went to his parents and confessed his illness. Lord Zhao, concerned with his reputation and vain, considered this a disgrace to the family and kicked him out of the Zhao household.
He had no money for medical treatment and could only survive by begging. The villagers were too frightened to approach him when they saw that his body was covered in boils, and sometimes he wouldn't get a single bite of food all day. Later, he learned that there was a doctor named Su who treated people for free, so he risked his life and rushed over overnight, only to meet Su Wan outside the village entrance.
Su Wan said, "That's over ten thousand taels of silver! You gave it all to that swindler? If it could cure the disease, it should have worked by now."
Zhao Rongzhang was so ashamed that he couldn't lift his head. He said, "I dared not see a proper doctor. I only gave him money because that swindler claimed to cure all diseases..."
He did have his doubts along the way, feeling that it wasn't working, but the scammer said that if he persisted, it would be effective, so he believed him.
Su Wan asked, "What's this swindler's name, and where is he?"
Zhao Rongzhang gave his address and name, revealing that he was a monk who had left the monastic life, whose secular name was Jia Tuo, and who lived at the foot of Huishan Mountain, more than a hundred miles west of Shangjing.
Su Wan thought to herself, "Isn't Huishan the location of Tongchan Temple? And that person is a monk who has left the monastic life. What connection does he have with Master Huiming? I can take this opportunity to find out."
Hearing this from the side, Meng Ruliu said to Zhao Rongzhang, "How could you be so stupid? Since it's not working, why don't you go and get the money back?"
Zhao Rongzhang wished he could disappear into a crack in the ground. He said, "I took some men to ask him for it, but they were thrown out by his men. He has quite a few thugs among his men."
Meng Ruliu said disdainfully, "Useless, scumbag, really useless."
Zhao Rongzhang felt even more ashamed upon hearing this, and Su Wan kindly persuaded Meng Ruliu to stay.
It was already dawn when the IV drip finished. Su Wan returned to the village and found the village chief, asking him to arrange for Zhao Rongzhang to stay in their original courtyard. The village chief was grateful to Su Wan for curing the villager and readily agreed. Su Wan left behind penicillin and other treatment drugs, and instructed the village doctor to continue treating Zhao Rongzhang according to the protocol for infectious diseases.
Zhao Rongzhang was quite frightened when he saw the two about to leave. He knew that Su Wan and Meng Ruliu were traveling incognito from the capital and could not reveal their identities, so he asked, "Doctor Su, where are you going?"
Su Wan said, "I'm going to Huishan to find that swindler Jia Tuo."
Zhao Rongzhang is certainly hateful, but how can the swindler Jia Tuo, who exploited patients' desperation for treatment to swindle so much money, be allowed to remain in the Great Jin?
She not only wants to cure diseases, but also punish evil.
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