Chapter 636: A Half-baked Doctor (3)
"There's no point in rushing this. I think you might as well just close the restaurant for a while and see how the situation develops in the future. This will prevent you from losing too much money and ending up losing all your family fortune if things get bad again." Mrs. Wang advised her husband.
"Is it so easy to close down a business? If it's closed for too long, even if you reopen it later, all the old customers will be gone!" Mr. Wang glared at Mrs. Wang and said angrily.
Mrs. Wang was also angry: "Then what do you want to do? Are you willing to continue driving and lose all the family property?"
The couple started arguing, but it did not affect Doctor Li's prescription at all. Li Shichu pretended not to hear their quarrel and helped Doctor Li prepare the herbs he brought according to the prescription.
Finally, the couple finished arguing, and Li Shichu and his apprentice prepared the medicine. Doctor Li said, "Take the medicine three times a day. Boil three bowls of water into one bowl. Drink it for three days and it will be enough."
Mrs. Wang said quickly, "Thank you, doctor."
After coming out of Wang's house, Li Shichu looked at the street and found that there were indeed fewer people. It was not as lively as before. There were almost no people setting up stalls, and even if there were a few people passing by, they were in a hurry.
When turning into an alley, Li Shichu suddenly heard the sound of a group of children fighting: "Hurry up and beat her up! Bai Xiaoya can steal money, she is a thief and she deserves to be beaten!"
"I...I didn't steal the money..." a panicked and weak little girl struggled to explain.
"It's you. You stole your aunt's money. I heard your aunt scolding you, you unlucky ghost!"
"Hit her quickly, or her mad brother will be here soon..."
"Hit her eyes. She's most afraid of going blind and becoming like her dead blind mother."
After Doctor Li walked in, he heard the vicious words these children said without realizing it. He was so angry that his beard stood up. He walked quickly to where the children were gathered and scolded them: "What are you doing? Can you hit people's eyes randomly? Whose children are you? You are so vicious..."
Seeing that it was an adult, the children were still a little unconvinced: "We'll beat her, what can you do to her, old man? She's a thief and everyone should beat her! Old man, if you don't leave, be careful and we will beat you too!"
Doctor Li was so angry that his face turned red: "You, you evil kids!"
Li Shichu looked around and saw another wooden stick as thick as an arm not far away. He picked it up, walked to the evil boys who were still attacking the little girl and pulling Doctor Li, and hit the nearest very arrogant evil boy hard, making a whistling sound. The wooden stick was hitting him along his clothes. If Li Shichu had deviated a little bit, he would have been the one to be beaten. The whistling sound would have proved how much strength she used and how painful it was.
The evil boy was immediately frightened by her and peed his pants. He was really frightened and peed his pants.
Li Shichu looked at him with disgust and asked him coldly: "Who do you want to beat up?"
When the other group saw how arrogant she was, they immediately stopped being so arrogant. These little bullies who only bullied the weak and feared the strong already knew who could be bullied and who could not be bullied. When they saw Li Shichu's ferocious look, they immediately became afraid.
Li Shichu pointed his stick at the bad boys one by one and said, "You, you, you... whoever is not afraid of death, come out and fight me!"
“No, no, I won’t fight anymore…” Several people turned pale with fear, and finally turned around and ran away, panicking as if there was a ghost chasing them.
The bully ran away, leaving only one victim. The little girl, whose face was bruised and swollen by a group of children, curled up in a corner, secretly raised her clear black and white eyes to look at Li Shichu, and when she saw her looking at her, she lowered her head in a hurry.
She was skinny, and her clothes were dirty and torn, with no color to be seen, making her look like a little beggar.
Doctor Li sighed, took out the snacks that the Wang family had just given him, handed them to the little girl, and said, "These are for you."
When the little girl saw the package of fragrant snacks, her eyes were filled with longing. She couldn't help swallowing her saliva, but she didn't dare to reach out to take it.
"Take it. It's for you. No money required." Doctor Li is always kind-hearted. He can't help but help the poor people when he sees them.
After several urgings from Doctor Li, the little girl finally mustered up the courage to take the snack and said in a voice so low that it was almost inaudible: "Thank you, thank you..."
Just as Doctor Li was about to leave, a voice called out from a distance: "Xiao Ya, Xiao Ya, where are you?"
The voice was getting closer and closer. When the little girl heard the shout, she immediately got up from the ground, her eyes lit up, and she responded in a low voice: "Brother, brother, I'm here..."
Soon, a boy of about twelve or thirteen appeared at the corner of the alley. He was also pale, thin, and ragged. When he saw the little girl, he rushed forward and looked her up and down. When he saw the wounds on her face, he gritted his teeth and asked, "Those people came to beat you again? I won't let them go..."
"Brother, I'm not in pain. Don't go find them. My aunt will be even more angry." The little girl pulled the boy's sleeve and persuaded him.
When Doctor Li saw the little girl's older brother coming, he took Li Shichu and quietly left.
After they walked away, he said to Li Shichu, "Did you see the miserable state of the brother and sister? This is the consequence of having no parents and no one to rely on."
Li Shichu said nonchalantly, "Didn't the little girl say she had an aunt?"
Doctor Li sneered and said, "It's better not to have such an aunt. The brother and sister's father has not been heard from since he went to the war, and their mother died of illness a year ago. Their property and land were occupied by their uncle's family. But they still abused the two children. They are really inhumane. Those children said that the little girl stole money. It was probably slandered by the aunt."
Li Shichu thought, that boy looks like a teenager, can't he be the head of his own family? If he wants to resist, there must be a way, right?
But Li Shichu thought of the little girl named Bai Xiaoya again. Maybe the boy couldn't resist because of his sister? After all, his sister was his weakness. It was possible that he didn't dare to be careless. If he was alone, he might be able to risk it. After all, those with bare feet are not afraid of those with shoes.
Li Shichu didn't take the siblings' affairs to heart. She followed Doctor Li to learn medicine every day, or she would secretly treat him. Of course, although it was "secretly", Doctor Li was a skilled doctor, so how could he not know that he ate and drank some medicinal food and tea? But he knew that Li Shichu didn't want to harm him, so he pretended not to know, but in his heart he was happy that his little apprentice had this thought.
A few months passed in the blink of an eye, and Doctor Li's health seemed to have reached the end of his life and he suddenly failed. Even though Li Shichu was mentally prepared, he still felt sad and reluctant.
(End of this chapter)
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