Yanluo was stunned.
Has Qinniang been arrested by the authorities?
What happened? She was just out looking for her daughter, how did she get involved with the government?
When Yingzi heard that her mother had been taken away, she started crying again, "Mother, Mother, Sister Yanluo, please save Mother!"
Yanluo hurriedly called over a maid from the mansion and asked her to tell her mistress. She then took Yingzi and followed the aunt to the government office.
Yanluo asked the aunt what was going on, and the aunt said she couldn't explain it in a short time, and that Yanluo would know when she got to the government office.
When Yanluo arrived at the government office, she heard muffled groans from inside, as well as the sound of being beaten with a cane.
Squeezing through the crowd, I saw that the one who had been beaten was Qin Niang.
Qin Niang had a piece of cloth stuffed in her mouth, her hair was disheveled, and with each blow of the paddle, the veins on her forehead bulged, and large drops of sweat dripped from her forehead onto the floor.
Besides the yamen runners, there was also an elderly man in his sixties standing in the courtroom, with a young apprentice carrying a medicine box beside him.
"Mother! Mother!" Yingzi cried and tried to rush forward when she saw her mother beaten like this.
Yingzi's cries drew everyone's attention.
Qin Niang also heard her daughter's voice and was startled. She tried to turn her head to see if she had misheard, but she was pressed down on the wooden stool and could not turn her head.
Yanluo pulled Yingzi aside and entrusted her to the care of the older woman from earlier.
Yan Luo was about to enter the government office when she was stopped by two bailiffs. "How can you barge into the courtroom like this?"
Having followed Su Ruojin for so many years, Yan Luo wouldn't be easily fooled.
"I am a relative of the woman being punished in the hall. I don't know what crime she committed that warrants this beating?"
“She spreads heresies and deceives the people; she deserves to be punished,” a constable replied.
Yanluo was taken aback. At most, she thought that Qinniang might have broken someone else's things in her haste while searching for her daughter, and then, unable to pay for them, she was taken to the authorities.
They should just come over and pay compensation to redeem the people themselves. How did it become spreading rumors and deceiving the public?
"How did she spread rumors and mislead the public?" Yan Luo calmed herself down and asked.
The cane continued to strike Qinniang relentlessly. Yanluo was extremely anxious, but in the courtroom, she couldn't get the bailiffs to stop.
"Hmph, how did she commit the crime?" The old man standing in the hall spoke up. "A pregnant woman was having a difficult labor, and she actually said that she could have a C-section. Isn't she just treating human life like a game by spreading such fallacies? If someone actually believed her and went for a C-section, wouldn't that be tantamount to disregarding human life? In my decades of medical practice, I have never heard of anyone surviving a C-section."
"May I ask who you are, sir?" Yan Luo asked the old man.
The old man snorted coldly without replying, turned around, put his hands behind his back, and seemed to disdain answering the question.
The young apprentice beside him stepped forward and said, "My master is the renowned physician Zhou from He'an Hall."
Andantang?
After Yanluo came to Yunqi, she didn't pay much attention to the clinics in Yuncheng. She could treat minor illnesses, and for serious illnesses, her mistress was there, so there was no need to care about other clinics.
"Is Doctor Zhou from He'antang very skilled?" Yan Luo looked bewildered; she truly didn't know.
The last person to be called a miracle doctor was sent to exile by the young lady, so Yanluo really couldn't feel any awe for these so-called miracle doctors.
The crowd erupted in uproar.
"There are actually people who don't know about the legendary doctor Zhou from He'antang."
"Judging from her accent, she doesn't sound like someone from Yuncheng."
"Even if you're not from Yuncheng, as long as you're from Yunqi, who doesn't know Doctor Zhou?"
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