Chapter 21 Kowtowing Eight Hundred Times
Lu Yun left the house in a daze.
"Second Brother Lu, my brother..." Lin Ye, who was squatting on the ground, suddenly jumped up.
"A ghost!" Lu Yun shouted.
Lin Ye immediately frantically tried to cover her face with the headscarf that had fallen off.
Lu Yun was slapped hard on the back by his father, making him wince in pain.
"I'm so sorry, Lin Ye, you just suddenly..."
"It's okay... I didn't scare you."
Lin Ye became a timid little quail again.
Actually, Lu Yun thought that she was quite enthusiastic when she was scolding the Lin family members.
At least over the years, he has been able to see Lin Ye's appearance clearly.
Although... it's quite scary.
"Second Brother Lu, my brother..."
"Your brother... he's sewed it up."
Sew it up?
Old Man Lu raised his hand again.
"It's really stitched up! Like sewing clothes, your brother... his intestines ruptured, but it's healed! He's not dead yet!"
However, the thread used wasn't for sewing clothes; it was the thin thread my younger sister made from mulberry bark yesterday.
So that's how it's used.
He thought it was used to bundle medicinal herbs.
Lu Yun felt a tightness in his chest and felt like vomiting again.
Seriously, intestines are disgusting.
Lin Zhuang has been given a second chance at life, so he has to kowtow to his little sister eight hundred times!
He was sewn up by his younger sister!
The Lu family's gate was not opened until the next day.
The villagers thought they were about to carry a coffin inside.
The most dedicated gossipmonger was Granny Liu.
She came over almost as soon as the door opened.
"The meat you've been stewing has been smelling especially good these past few days. Did your sister get so hungry that she stewed him?"
Everyone in the village knows that the Lu family eats meat every day.
But that was only for his greedy daughter; no one else could get a piece of it.
Lu Feng was speechless for a moment.
"Grandma Liu, you should go home quickly, your great-grandson will cry if he can't find you."
"Go back, go back, have you eaten yet?"
Lu Feng stopped talking to her, because there were several other people nearby who were listening intently!
Lin Zhuang is still asleep, and he won't reveal anything.
After carrying some firewood home, the Lu family closed the door again.
On the third day, Xiao Sixi carried a basket of wild grass into the Lu family's house.
When it came out, it jumped twice, as if it had taken a super tonic.
Someone grabbed him and asked him what was going on inside, but he slipped away like an eel.
On the fourth day, Lin Zhuang finally came out, carried out on a door panel.
Lin Ye covered her mouth and followed along, crying until she had no strength left.
Sobbing and whimpering.
"Oh dear... it's still gone. All this trouble for days, sigh..."
"If we had sent them to the city that day, they might have survived. They've managed to stay here for two or three days!"
"That's possible..."
"Xiao Ye, what are your plans? Have you ordered a coffin yet?"
"Aunt Ding..." came a hoarse voice.
Aunt Ding looked down.
She saw a man with a dark face and white lips staring at her with bulging eyes.
"Oh dear, the Three Immortal Maidens of Sanxiao, the Kitchen God! They've risen from the dead—"
Lin Zhuang is not dead.
The news spread throughout Liuyun Village in an instant.
The village head led his men to take a look and left some grain behind.
The neighbors all gave some money too.
The villagers are still harmonious in important matters.
Except for a few individuals.
The Ding family father and daughter were waiting for Lin Zhuang's funeral so they could take the opportunity to suppress Lu Qingqing.
Unexpectedly, this directly helped her become famous!
"That's impossible! How could Lu Qingqing save someone?" Ding Xiang couldn't understand it.
"It seems she does know something; the rescue of Baoshuan last time wasn't a coincidence," Ding Hongshi said.
He just couldn't understand why that girl hadn't shown it before.
He dared to say that Lin Zhuang's injury, apart from being stitched up by Dr. Pang in Ming'an County...
Suture technique!
Did Lu Qingqing use suturing?
Ding Hongshi laughed.
"Dad, what are you laughing at?"
"Just wait, Lin Zhuang will be dead in a few days!"
The suturing technique may seem simple, but it is actually extremely sophisticated.
Many doctors have been ruined by this, and no one will take that risk unless absolutely necessary.
It only prolongs life by a few days; in the end, the flesh will still rot, from the inside out...
Wasn't he... back then?
"Ning Xiuwen is going to the city to take the imperial examination soon, right? Go and urge him to make sure nothing goes wrong. If he fails, don't even think about becoming my son-in-law!"
"You have to pay me back every single penny, even if it's just my money!"
"Yes, Father, I'll go right away!"
Dingxiang believed that Ning Xiuwen would definitely pass the exam. His teacher thought highly of him, and his classmates also tried to curry favor with him.
He was also the most handsome man in the whole village.
If one passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, that would be even more glorious.
At that time, Lu Qingqing will regret it to the core.
Dingxiang felt jealous just thinking about Lu Qingqing's face.
They're both from the same village, so why is her skin so fair and delicate?
Luckily, she has a scar on her face, otherwise all the men would be mesmerized by her.
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Lu Qingqing saved Lin Zhuang, and the medicinal herbs were all bought with Lu family money.
The cost is five taels of silver.
Lu Qingqing also charged five taels for treatment.
That adds up to ten taels.
Lin Zhuang didn't have that much money at all, so he gave them an IOU.
He couldn't help but shed tears again.
He saved a life and only received ten taels of silver, and even let him pay on credit.
Over the years, he has spent nearly one hundred taels of silver to treat his sister's face!
But it all went down the drain!
He was wrong.
“Miss Lu... Qingqing, I apologize for what I did before.”
"Yesterday's events are like yesterday's death; let bygones be bygones."
Lu Qingqing checked the wound and then watched as Lin Ye applied medicine and bandaged it.
The steps were done well; you're a meticulous girl.
Lu Yun, who had come along, curled his lip and said sarcastically, "Shouldn't some people kowtow eight hundred times for their mistakes?"
Who said my sister was a troublemaker?
Lin Zhuang: "It's me... I'll kowtow when I'm better."
"Second brother, that's enough. I said I wouldn't bring up the past." Lu Qingqing was quite annoyed by having to explain those messy things from the past.
Lu Yun stopped talking about it.
To put it bluntly.
He and his older brother protected their younger sister, and Lin Zhuang also protected his younger sister; they were all the same kind of people.
"What's the use of kowtowing and making a sound? When you're better, you might as well chop firewood for my family for a month!"
Lu Yun took the opportunity to ask for some perks.
Ten taels of silver is too little! You're practically doing charity!
If it were an outside doctor, it would cost at least a hundred taels!
His family now burns more firewood because his younger sister is very clean and takes a bath every few days.
Lin Zhuang nodded quickly: "Okay, I'll cut it down for a year!"
Lu Yun felt extremely relieved.
"Miss Qingqing...you said before...that you could cure my little sister's face?"
"Look, however much money is needed, I will earn it all, no matter how much, and I beg you to cure me!"
If Lin Zhuang hadn't been strictly forbidden from getting out of bed, he probably would have knelt down to Lu Qingqing again.
Lin Ye stood to the side, her eyes brimming with tears.
Her face was a cancer in her heart, and also a source of heartache for her brother.
For so many years, it has weighed heavily on their hearts, like a boulder that they cannot move.
Especially since she'll be seventeen next year.
Because he was afraid that she would be paired with a bad person by the official media, her brother worked desperately to earn money all year.
"Brother, I'm not afraid anymore."
Whether you get better or not doesn't matter. As long as you live well, I won't be helpless and bullied. From now on, don't spend a single penny on me. You should think about yourself and get married.
Lin Zhuang's eyes dimmed, and he shook his head, "No, no..."
"One tael of silver."
What?
The brother and sister looked at Lu Qingqing together, their eyes initially blank, then suddenly delighted, and then filled with disbelief and trepidation.
I said, add another tael of silver and I'll fix your face.
If I'm not mistaken, the bee that stung you had collected poisonous nectar, which is why the toxin got into your face.
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