Jirentang, isn't that the clinic of Doctor Cai?
Su Ruojin walked over and saw an older woman in the middle of the crowd helping a young woman.
The young woman's lower abdomen was protruding, clearly indicating that she was pregnant.
The young woman was bent over, clutching her abdomen, her face contorted. Despite the cold weather, large beads of sweat were still dripping from her forehead, and her tightly clenched lips were almost bleeding. Anyone could tell that she was enduring immense pain.
With tears streaming down her face, Aunt Tang cried out, "Doctor, please save my daughter-in-law! If anything happens to her or my unborn grandson, I, this old woman, will not live anymore."
Several young men from the clinic surrounded Aunt Tang and the woman. One of them said with a look of disgust, "Auntie, Doctor Ma said your daughter-in-law has miscarried and prescribed medicine to prevent miscarriage. You think it's too expensive. What can we do?"
"One dose of medicine costs ten taels of silver, and we need to buy ten doses. How can an old woman like me afford so much money?" A hint of despair appeared in Aunt Tang's eyes.
Her husband died young, and she lived with her son and daughter-in-law. But fate is unpredictable. Her son went hunting in the mountains and accidentally fell off a cliff, and he died.
With the family's breadwinner gone, Aunt Tang and her daughter-in-law had to make a living by selling embroidery, earning at most two or three hundred copper coins a month. Where would they get the money to buy such expensive pregnancy-preserving medicine?
"Mother...I...we...go." Xiao Cui gripped her mother-in-law's hand tightly, squeezing out these words with all her might.
"Xiaocui, you can't leave! What will happen to you and the baby in your belly if you leave?" Tang Da Niang's tears flowed freely. She knelt down at the entrance of Ji Ren Tang and kept kowtowing: "Doctor, please save my daughter-in-law and grandson! I'm begging you, I will repay your kindness by being your servant in my next life."
Seeing this, the onlookers started discussing it amongst themselves.
"This is so pitiful."
"A widow and her child, with her son already gone, if she can't even protect her daughter-in-law and grandson, I wouldn't be able to go on living either."
"Aren't the doctors at Jirentang supposed to be kind-hearted? How could they refuse to help someone in dire need?"
"They didn't just stand by and watch me die; they prescribed medicine, didn't they?"
"That prescription costs ten taels of silver per dose. Who can afford that?"
"They are all people with tragic fates."
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Aunt Tang continued to kowtow, while Xiao Cui, unable to stand steadily due to the pain without anyone to help her, staggered back a few steps and almost fell.
A girl in the crowd stepped forward and helped her up. Xiao Cui looked up at Su Ruojin and said weakly, "Thank you."
Su Ruojin took out a pill and handed it to Xiao Cui: "Take one, it will make you feel better."
Xiao Cui looked at Su Ruojin. The girl's expression was calm, but her eyes had a reassuring and trusting power. Without any suspicion, she took the pill and swallowed it directly.
Whether it was a placebo effect or the pill was truly effective, Xiao Cui felt much less pain shortly after taking the pill, and a hint of surprise arose in her heart.
Su Ruojin supported her and stood at the edge of the crowd.
Because Aunt Tang kowtowed too forcefully, blood began to seep from her forehead.
Someone in the crowd, unable to bear the sight any longer, shouted, "Save her!"
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