Suddenly, a wicked smile spread across Liu Shouyi's face as he clutched his wrist tightly.
"I finally see through your sinister intentions! You're definitely trying to extort money from me and the old man under the guise of medical treatment!"
"Unfortunately, you're all wrong. The old man is useless now, and you have no chance of getting anything out of him!" Liu Shouyi said, laughing with satisfaction at the end.
He seemed to have forgotten one thing: as his grandmother, Zhu had always been responsible for his daily life. If Zhu had no money, didn't that mean he also had no money to eat and drink well?
They are both wicked and stupid!
With a sigh in her heart, Mo Qianshang became even less inclined to get entangled with Liu Shouyi, yet she had no choice but to continue guiding him into the trap she had set.
"Liu Shouyi, you are judging a gentleman by your own petty standards."
“I just felt I hit you a little too hard today. Aunt Zhu is bedridden, and if anything happens to you, she will definitely come to me crying and demanding your return. No matter how powerful I am, I can’t just lay a hand on an old woman.”
"So no matter how bad your injuries are, Xiao Yao will treat you. And I will cover the cost of your medicine; I won't ask you for anything else."
Upon hearing this, Liu Shouyi's eyes widened in shock. He truly didn't understand what Mo Qianshang was trying to do.
Or is it really true, as she said, that she was worried the old man would cause her trouble, which is why Mo Qianshang's sun rose in the west today?
The various questions in his mind were giving Liu Shouyi a headache, so he gritted his teeth and agreed.
He wanted to see what this bitch was up to!
To his surprise, Ms. Yao treated him just like any other patient: taking his pulse, confirming his symptoms, and prescribing medication, without any inappropriate behavior whatsoever.
Even when treating the wound on his forehead, they didn't deliberately use force to cause him pain.
Everything seemed normal, but Liu Shouyi just felt uneasy and uncomfortable.
"Don't look at me like that. I'm only treating you so diligently because of Aunt Zhou." Little Yao had been enduring the nausea while treating him.
But Liu Shouyi insisted on maintaining a look of disgust, which made her, no matter how good-tempered, feel uncomfortable.
After exchanging glances with Mo Qianshang, and confirming that Liu Shouyi had completely let his guard down, Xiao Yao suddenly frowned and pursed her lips, looking very troubled.
"No, this isn't just an external injury; your internal organs are also severely damaged. You absolutely need to take medicine."
At this moment, Liu Shouyi had already put their intentions to harm him out of his mind. All he could think about was that he was seriously injured and needed to be well-fed and cared for. And it just so happened that Mo Qianshang had offered to have someone treat his illness today.
He was overjoyed, but on the surface he started to wail and act like a scoundrel.
"Mo Qianshang, you heartless woman! You actually beat me so badly! I don't care, you just said you wouldn't let me pay for your medical treatment, so from now on you'll have someone take care of all my daily needs!"
Knowing that Liu Shouyi would take advantage of her, Mo Qianshang smiled faintly, her tone revealing no dissatisfaction.
"I always keep my word. Little Yao, what kind of medicine does he need to take?"
"He and Aunt Zhu are truly a grandmother and grandson. The herbs I gave Aunt Zhu earlier were just right for his symptoms, except that he had to take more medicine than Aunt Zhu."
"But there's a specific order to taking the medicine. The first medicine must be taken first, otherwise the later medicines will hardly be effective." Little Yao said this in a very serious tone, leaving no room for criticism.
Liu Shouyi was still immersed in the joy of Mo Qianshang's promise to take care of him, completely unaware that a bowl of medicinal soup had been placed in the room at some point.
It wasn't until the medicinal soup was placed in front of him and its unpleasant smell assaulted his nostrils that he snapped back to his senses, but his hand still instinctively took the bowl of medicine.
"What kind of medicine did you just say this was? You have to promise me I won't be poisoned after I drink it, right?"
Before Mo Qianshang could reply, Liu Shouyi noticed that the temperature of the pill in his hand seemed a bit low, unlike freshly brewed medicine. He immediately realized what Xiao Yaoshi had just said.
The medicine he was to drink was the same one the old man drank; it was very likely the same medicine that had been brewed for the old man before…
He had secretly mixed poisonous herbs into the old man's herbs before, and hadn't cleaned them out completely. Maybe this bowl of soup was made from poisonous herbs!
Upon realizing this possibility, Liu Shouyi hurriedly threw the medicine aside, his face showing panic and guilt.
"This medicine is cold, I won't drink it. Go and brew me a hot one later!"
Having anticipated Liu Shouyi's refusal, Mo Qianshang stepped forward with a smile and pushed the medicine bowl towards Liu Shouyi.
"You don't know this, but Madam Yao told me before that this herb is special, and drinking the hot decoction is not as effective as drinking it cold."
"Also, you need to understand your grandmother's good intentions. This was originally her medicine, which she was reluctant to drink herself, but she gave it to you first. You should drink it quickly."
Hearing Mo Qianshang's urging, Liu Shouyi felt as if a soul-reaping messenger had come to claim his life. In a fit of anger, he simply pushed the medicine to the ground.
This action terrified Zhu Shi. While feeling sorry for the medicine, she was also annoyed that her grandson was so ungrateful. For the first time, she slapped Liu Shouyi's arm hard.
"My dear ancestor, these herbs were all painstakingly dug up from the mountain by Madam Yao and her daughter. How could you waste them like this? Apologize to them right now!"
Although the slap on his arm didn't hurt, it stirred up quite a tremor in Liu Shouyi's heart.
Staring at Zhu Shi in disbelief for a long while, Liu Shouyi then looked at Liu Xiaoyun, who was unusually well-behaved beside Zhu Shi, and then connected this with Mo Qianshang's various unusual behaviors today...
He suddenly realized that this group of people had such a wicked idea!
"Bah, you old hag! You always claim to be doing this for my own good, and I haven't even had the heart to kill you, yet you've actually cooperated with them to try and poison me with a poisonous herbal decoction!"
Having nearly been poisoned to death, Liu Shouyi, no longer bothering to hide it, roared at Zhu Shi in a fit of rage.
Zhu seemed not to understand the situation, her questioning gaze lingering between Liu Shouyi and the others around her before finally settling on the ground.
Seeing the old man staring at the disgusting brown medicine, Liu Shouyi had a momentary lapse of judgment, thinking that the old man was regretting that the medicine hadn't succeeded in killing him, which made him even angrier.
"Old man, to tell you the truth, I just wanted to mix poisonous herbs into your herbs, but I didn't intend to poison you to death."
"Regardless of what happened, that was a matter between my grandfather and me. Now that you've betrayed me and colluded with outsiders to try and poison me, you have no right to blame me!"
"If Aunt Zhu didn't know about this, would she be able to deal with you properly?" Mo Qianshang spoke up at a very inopportune time, her face no longer displaying a fake smile, but only endless coldness.
"What did you say? Impossible! If the old man didn't know, why would he blame me for not drinking the poisoned medicine?"
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