With the consultation fee settled, Ye Moxun began to treat the patient. He glanced at the servants in the room and said to Master Lian, "I am about to perform acupuncture on your son. No one is allowed to disturb him during this time."
After hesitating for a moment, Master Lian dismissed the servants, leaving only the three people in the room besides Lian Qin.
"Master Lian, please leave first, otherwise it will affect my acupuncture treatment. I need absolute quiet." Ye Moxun stood there without moving, waiting for Master Lian to leave.
Master Lian's expression was not good. He didn't trust the old Taoist priest and wanted to stay by his son's side, but it seemed that the old Taoist priest would not help unless he left. Master Lian snorted coldly and left with a flick of his sleeve.
"Even the old man got angry. That old man really puts on airs," Song Tantan said in a low voice.
Ye Moxun ignored her, opened the medicine box, took out a pack of silver needles, and began to perform acupuncture on Lian Qin. Soon, Lian Qin's head was covered with silver needles, and then his limbs were also pricked with many needles, making him look like a hedgehog.
“He’s asleep.” Song Tantan was quiet for a while, then started talking again after Ye Moxun finished his work.
"Yes, he needs to rest at this time and should not be stimulated." Although Lian Qin is now paralyzed and seems to have lost his mind, he is actually conscious and can sense everything that is happening around him.
Therefore, he needs to fall asleep before the acupuncture is administered; otherwise, he would probably be terrified to the point of wetting himself watching someone poke him with needles one by one.
"How long will it take to get better?" Song Tantan yawned boredly.
"Four-quarters of an hour."
"I'll take a nap, wake me up when it's time." Song Tantan lay down on the table next to her and fell asleep immediately.
Ye Moxun had a headache. "Don't sleep on your stomach, it's easy to have a stroke."
"Never mind, I'll just go out for a stroll." She sat up, walked to the window, opened it a crack, peeked out, and finding no one guarding the area, darted out the window.
They can't sit still for a moment; they're too carefree.
When it was almost half an hour, Song Tantan returned ahead of schedule. She had already toured the entire estate and found nothing except for the large number of servants.
After removing the silver needles, Ye Moxun called for Master Lian to come in, then wrote a prescription and handed it to him, "Decoct two doses every day, each dose twice, for five consecutive days. After five days, I will come again to give your son another acupuncture treatment. If the condition improves, the amount of medicine can be reduced accordingly, as can the acupuncture treatment."
Master Lian took the prescription with some skepticism. "According to the Taoist priest, how long will my son need to take the medicine and how many acupuncture treatments will it take for him to recover?"
Ye Moxun: "Your son did not receive the best treatment when he was poisoned, and it was delayed for a long time, missing the best time for treatment. Therefore, it will take at least half a year to recover. However, his body will also be damaged. If he wants to recover to his original state without any problems, it will take at least one or two years."
Therefore, charging him a thousand taels of silver is not considered extortion. No one else could save Lian Qin. In addition to acupuncture, he also needed to prescribe medicine to achieve the desired effect.
Seeing that Master Lian hesitated to speak, Ye Moxun calmly said, "I'll take two hundred taels as a deposit first, and the rest will be settled in installments. If your son doesn't improve, you don't have to pay." He was very fair and there was no deception involved.
Master Lian felt a little relieved. It seemed that the other party was still trustworthy. He couldn't possibly make this trip just for two hundred taels of silver, could he?
"Here is two hundred taels of silver, please accept it, Daoist Master." Master Lian had his steward bring over four silver ingots. Seeing that the young man beside the Daoist Master, Fei Fei, had taken the silver without making a sound, he simply said, "Daoist Master, where should I send someone to find you in five days? I wonder which inn in the city you should stay at?"
"I will come here to give your son acupuncture in five days. Even Master doesn't need to send anyone to look for him; they won't be able to find him anyway." After saying that, Ye Moxun led Song Tantan and walked quickly outside.
They returned in Master Lian's carriage. After entering the city gate, the two of them got off and walked among the crowd for a while before disappearing from sight. The servants of the Lian family couldn't keep up.
The servant sent to track the young man had also been lost, and the Taoist priest and the boy had also disappeared quickly. It seemed that the old Taoist priest was quite skilled, but why was he unwilling to let anyone know his whereabouts? He looked like a conman.
If it weren't for the fact that Lian Qin woke up an hour later, his eyes were more focused and no longer staring blankly, showing clear signs of improvement, proving that the old Taoist priest had indeed not lied to him, Master Lian would definitely send all his servants to search the entire city for the old Taoist priest's whereabouts, digging three feet into the ground to find him.
However, Master Lian still found the most famous doctor in Fengcheng to examine Lian Qin. This doctor had been invited to treat Lian Qin before, but he was helpless.
Seeing that Lian Qin had improved, although only his eyes had regained their spirit and he no longer looked like he had lost his soul, I was really surprised. "This person is truly skilled in medicine, at least in detoxification. It is a great blessing for your son that Master Lian was able to find such an expert. As long as we have more time and the expert comes a few more times, your son will definitely be able to get rid of the poison in his body."
Once the poison is neutralized and the body is properly recuperated, it can return to normal.
"In that case, I am relieved. It seems that I was being petty and suspicious of that Taoist priest. I am ashamed." Master Lian thanked the doctor and saw him off. His smile became more genuine, no longer a fake one.
He no longer sent anyone to investigate the old Taoist's whereabouts. Now he fully believed that the other party was a reclusive master who did not like others to know his whereabouts, so his behavior was quite strange, and it was no wonder that he appeared and disappeared like a ghost.
In fact, Ye Moxun and Song Tantan were just taking advantage of their speed. In the blink of an eye, they entered Song Tantan's pastry shop through the back door, then removed their disguises inside, changed back to their original appearances, swaggered out of the pastry shop, and then walked home openly.
The pastry shop has been handed over to Zhu Xiu and Zhao Si Niang, and the three women, including Zhong Xiao Hua, are in charge. They have also learned to make pastries from Xiao Tao, but the three of them mainly sell pastries and make very little of their own. They basically get their supplies from Xiao Tao and the others.
Song Tantan and Ye Moxun often disguised themselves to enter and exit, and then changed back to their original appearance. The three of them were already used to this, and when they saw the two of them come out of the inner room, they didn't even blink.
Since the two left in a hurry without saying goodbye, the three of them didn't disturb them. They waited until the two were far away before getting together to discuss it.
"Where did Tantan and Axun go again? They seemed to be in a hurry." Zhu Xiu asked eagerly.
Zhao Si Nian scratched his head. "Those people are all doing big things. How could we possibly guess? They must be doing something big."
Zhu Xiu pursed her lips, "Do you even need to tell me?"
Seeing Zhu Xiu looking over, Zhong Xiaohua smiled and said, "She probably just went out to play. Tan Tan loves to play, and A Xun spoils her, so it's no wonder they're playing together." The two of them are engaged, so A Xun has to indulge her even more.
After hearing this, Zhu Xiu turned around and went into the inner room, but found nothing, not even the props she had changed out of her disguise.
Song Tantan: I even put the medicine box in my spatial storage. You would never have guessed that, hehe.
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