Chapter 69 Double Happiness
Lu Qingqing and Sixi strolled around the horse market and were almost vomiting from the stench inside.
Moreover, there is no such thing as a Ferghana horse or a powerful horse that can travel thousands of miles in a single day!
At this point, Sixi's almost mythical fantasy about the horse was completely shattered.
Lu Qingqing knew this would happen.
If we had good horses, they would have been sent to the battlefield long ago; the ones here are only good for pulling carts.
But as long as the horse is healthy, that's fine.
I've heard that some horses are perfectly healthy in the hands of horse traders, but they get sick a few days after they get home.
Looking strong doesn't necessarily mean being good, and looking thin might mean having great endurance.
Lu Qingqing didn't know anything about horses, so she and Sixi looked around for a bit and then left.
“Auntie, you can ask Brother Mo Lang for help. He can drive a carriage and he must know a lot about horses,” Sixi said.
“That’s right, let him teach us how to drive a horse-drawn carriage first.”
Lu Qingqing was not very willing to associate with Fu Leng and Xu Rui, but Mo Lang was alright.
Mainly because he doesn't talk much and seems simple-minded, it's not tiring to be around him.
They went to the back gate of the county government office to explain their purpose, and the gatekeeper immediately ran in and called for Mo Lang.
Mo Lang drove out in his carriage.
Lu Qingqing let Sixi learn first, while she watched from the back carriage.
After circling the county government office a few times, Sixi was able to pull the rope by himself.
That feeling...
No one wants to return the car to Mo Lang.
"Alright, alright, it's my turn now!"
Lu Qingqing ran to the car.
Mo Lang jumped off the carriage with a "whoosh".
"inconvenient."
He ran away without looking back.
The car was just left there.
Lu Qingqing thought he was in a hurry to relieve himself, so she and Sixi waited patiently.
As he just mentioned, driving a horse-drawn carriage is not as simple as it seems.
How to stop, how to pull over, how to slow down, and how to give the commands.
Horses are more difficult to control than oxen or donkeys. If they are made uncomfortable, they can veer off course, fall into ditches, or run wildly, causing injury or death.
Moreover, they couldn't figure out the habits of the county government's horses, so they dared not move them recklessly.
The two, one big and one small, waited for a while until Fu Leng arrived.
"Hey! Miss Lu, I'll teach you how to drive a carriage!"
Lu Qingqing's face immediately turned cold: "Why did you come?"
"Because I'm ugly."
"..."
Very good, you have a good understanding of your own limitations.
Fortunately, the ugly Fu Leng was also a very professional teacher, and he and Mo Lang seemed to have been taught by the same master.
"Miss Lu wants to choose a horse? Then I have to praise our young master."
Our young master not only knows how to select horses, but also how to train them.
Do you know what horse training is?
It means training a low-grade horse to a medium-grade horse, and a medium-grade horse to a high-grade horse.
"Oh? Your young master is quite capable!"
I really didn't see that coming.
Lu Qingqing thought that a horse trainer should at least be tall and strong.
"Of course, our young master is loved by everyone and birds flock to him; he is incomparable to ordinary people."
A string of stinky farts.
"Then call your young master out and let us choose a horse."
“No, you said he needs to rest properly and can’t be exposed to the wind for the time being.”
"It's fine to go out occasionally."
"No. It's just picking a horse to pull a carriage; it's not worth our young master's effort."
Lu Qingqing said there was no point in talking to this idiot.
When they reached the second lap, facing the county government gate, they saw someone coming to report a crime.
I heard the man shouting all the way that the unscrupulous merchant had killed someone, and then begging the officials on duty to arrest him.
“The magistrate went to the irrigation canal and isn’t here. What’s going on?” Fu Leng said.
Then he called the officer on duty over to ask what was going on.
"Brother Fu, that person is a medicine apprentice at Huichun Medical Hall. He reported that the medicinal materials sold to them by Tianjia Shop were problematic, causing some people to get sick after taking the medicine they prepared."
The patient's family is causing a scene at the clinic!
"Whose shop is this?" Lu Qingqing asked, perking up.
"It's Tian's Shop. The one in the middle of West Third Street."
Oh, isn't that Tian Leshan's shop?
Lu Qingqing quickly put her mind to work.
The goods she supplied before should have been sold out long ago. The problematic medicinal materials must have been sent by Ding Hongshi!
But what if they frame her...
Fu Leng's expression was already grave: "Could it be... that Mo Lang sent it to the Tian family's shop?"
No way, no way? That guy can't be that unlucky, he only made money once.
Wasn't the medicinal herb supplied by Lu Qingqing?
He looked at Lu Qingqing.
Lu Qingqing said irritably, "When you were little, did you get caught in the rain and get a fever? Didn't your parents take you to the doctor for treatment?"
"What does this have to do with my childhood? I don't even know what my parents look like. I did get caught in the rain a lot when I was little, but nobody cared. If you survived it, you lived; if you didn't, you died."
Lu Qingqing: "..."
I never expected this guy to have such a tragic past.
An orphan without parents?
That's really not easy; it takes to grow up to be tall, strong, and healthy.
"I'm telling you, send someone to investigate this immediately. We must catch them before they destroy the evidence."
Lu Qingqing knew that Fu Leng still had a voice in the county government.
To avoid blaming her, we must act quickly.
"The goods in Tianjia Shop were purchased from Ding Hongshi. Send someone to Liuyun Village with a few doctors to investigate Ding Hongshi."
"Of course, the doctor at the clinic is also not without responsibility. He didn't even carefully inspect the medicines that were delivered. He was guilty of negligence."
Fu Leng was surprised.
Isn't Ding Hongshi the same country doctor he mistakenly identified back then?
Such poor medical skills, they can't even distinguish medicinal herbs?
So, when his daughter said that she mistakenly thought she had saved the young master's life, was it true or was she lying to evade responsibility?
Fu Leng added, "Aren't you a doctor? And from Liuyun Village at that? Let's go take a look together!"
"I'm not going."
"Why?"
"It's just identifying a medicinal herb; it's not worth my time."
Lu Qingqing returned to him what Fu Leng had just said.
Fu Leng finally understood.
Lu Qingqing can be very righteous at times, but she can also be very petty, especially towards him!
And I don't know if it's just my imagination, but sometimes when she looks at him, her eyes are sinister, as if she's plotting something.
Could it be that they're planning to poison him to death?
He went back to the yamen to consult Xu Rui.
Lu Qingqing and Sixi chuckled.
"Ding Hongshi is doomed!"
"In addition, Ning Xiuwen will be disliked by great Confucian scholars and will not be able to find a master. This is like a double blessing."
"Let's go, let's cut off a big pork knuckle to take home and celebrate!"
Lu Qingqing and Sixi cut up a large pork knuckle and went home. When they got to the village entrance, they saw Fu Leng leading two yamen runners, taking Ding Hongshi away.
Dingxiang cried out from behind.
Just because Fu Leng nodded to Lu Qingqing, Ding Xiang concluded that Lu Qingqing was behind it all.
"Lu Qingqing! Did you do something bad behind my back?!"
"I'm too lazy to scold you since you're pregnant!"
Did I ask your dad to gather herbs? Did I ask your dad to sell them in the city?
Did I secretly put fake medicinal herbs in your house?
They blame everything and everyone else, but never themselves for not having the skills to do the job.
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