“The child was recently killed by a family in our village and was abandoned on the hill behind the village. I secretly picked him up. I was wrong, Doctor Su, please don’t send me to the authorities, I beg you,” Lady Lü pleaded, crying.
Su Ruojin glanced at the crowd of onlookers and said loudly, "If the people of Yanyang are truly unable to afford medical treatment or medicine due to financial difficulties, they should come to our Ren'ai Hall. If this is true, we will provide free treatment and medicine. But if anyone tries to extort money from our Ren'ai Hall, then she is an example. Yan Luo, hand her over to the authorities!"
"Yes, Miss!" This time, no matter how much Lady Lü cried and begged, Yan Luo directly dragged her to the government office.
"good!"
"Oh, that's wonderful!"
"Jirentang's free clinic only waives the consultation fee, not the cost of medicine, but Renaitang waives the cost of medicine. That's really amazing."
"Dr. Su is truly righteous!"
Upon hearing Su Ruojin's words, the onlookers all applauded.
In the end, Lady Lü was sentenced to thirty strokes of the cane, and after beating her, she was practically half dead.
When she returned to the village, her husband's family felt they couldn't bear the shame and divorced her.
Lady Lü never imagined that her momentary greed for a small fortune would ruin her entire life.
In court, Lady Lü confessed that Doctor Zhang from Miaorentang had paid her to do this, but for some reason, it was suppressed afterwards.
Yan Luo was furious and was about to confront Miao Rentang, but Su Ruojin stopped her, saying, "Yan Luo, don't be hasty. We don't need to do anything. Miao Rentang won't get anything out of this. Just wait and see."
If Lady Lü is capable of such a deceitful act for a small gain, she is certainly not a kind person, and she will not let this go so easily.
We'll see about Miaorentang.
After being flogged and divorced, Lady Lü fell ill before she could recover and confront Doctor Zhang. She died soon after.
Before her death, Lady Lü was still furious and told her brother the whole story, urging him to go and settle accounts with Doctor Zhang from Miaorentang.
After Lady Lü passed away, her brother carried her coffin and caused a scene at the entrance of Miaorentang Medical Clinic.
Doctor Zhang could have denied it, since Lady Lü was dead and there was no proof; no one could do anything about it.
Lu Niangzi's brother whispered in Doctor Zhang's ear, "Doctor Zhang, if you try to deny it, my sister says she'll haunt you even as a ghost, and she'll come to haunt you every night."
That very night, rumors of ghosts spreading through Dr. Zhang's house began to circulate. Dr. Zhang himself felt guilty and didn't want to make a big deal out of it, so he ended up paying a considerable sum of money to quell the matter.
After this incident, Dr. Zhang also came to hate Cai Fanzhou. It was Cai Fanzhou who came up with the idea, but when things went wrong, Cai Fanzhou didn't show up at all and completely absolved himself of any responsibility.
Cai Fanzhou had him perform this play during the free clinic at Jirentang so that Su Ruojin wouldn't suspect anything. The place where Lady Lü knelt was not far from Ren'ai Hall; everything was planned step by step.
Unexpectedly, Su Ruojin, that cunning fellow, didn't fall for the trap and didn't give them a chance to extort money from Ren'aitang.
If he hadn't bribed the county government, when Lady Lü implicated him, Doctor Zhang would have been affected as well. It's all Cai Fanzhou's fault for coming up with such a bad idea.
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At midnight, the auction results for the Fire Spirit Ginseng were announced, with a final transaction price of 10,500 taels.
Zhihua checked the code name and found that it was purchased by a wealthy businessman surnamed Lu.
Jirentang withdrew from the auction when the bid reached nine thousand taels.
The other party sent their butler to collect the Fire Spirit Ginseng. The exchange was straightforward: money was exchanged for goods, and the transaction was completed immediately.
Su Ruojin handed the silver notes to Zhihua: "Give them to the Tianyi Pavilion and use them for the disaster victims in Qingyang. Keep a record of it."
"Yes, Miss."
The purpose of keeping records is simply to prevent malicious individuals from engaging in underhanded tactics behind the scenes.
When Su Ruojin returned to her room, Xiaobao obediently slept on the innermost side of the bed, leaving the outermost spot on the bed for Su Ruojin.
Su Ruojin smiled, tucked the blanket around him, and lay down as well.
Just as she was about to fall asleep, Su Ruojin suddenly opened her eyes, holding three silver needles in her hand.
"Who goes there?!" Fengying's voice rang out, and the sounds of fighting came from outside the door.
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