Chapter 13 Mother is a Doctor
Dingxiang turned around and was immediately filled with anger and disgust.
The visitor was the village's real freak.
Lin Zhuang's younger sister, Lin Ye.
When I was a child, I was stung by poisonous bees in the mountains, and my face was covered with black spots that looked like toad skin. It was disgusting!
She usually wears a headscarf to cover her face when she goes out.
Lu Qingqing and Dingxiang had both bullied her quite a bit.
He's always calling me "skinny."
"Lin Ye, are you out of your mind? How could you help Lu Qingqing lie? Are you scared of her? Don't worry, as long as you tell the truth, I'll protect you from now on!"
Lin Ye took a step back timidly.
With her head down, she repeated softly once more, "It was Lu Qingqing who saved me. I saw it with my own eyes from behind the tree."
"Lin Ye, think carefully before you speak. Your face still needs your uncle to treat it," Ding Hongshi warned in a low voice.
Lin Ye shrugged again, his thin body swaying like a bamboo pole in the wind.
She bent down and picked up a sticky mess.
“I’m not lying. This is the elm seed ball that almost choked Baoshuan to death. Lu Qingqing threw it out while swinging Baoshuan around. Doctor Ding only came over after it was thrown out.”
Her voice trembled, but she didn't stop speaking.
It was as if he had mustered up all his courage to say it all at once.
After she finished speaking, the room fell silent.
Then Baoshuan seemed to remember as well.
"When Uncle Ding came over, I was already able to breathe again..."
It really was Lu Qingqing who saved them!
To the astonishment of many, Mrs. Lin breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Ye was her cousin, and regardless of whether what she said was true or not, she knew that she didn't have to worry about Dr. Ding asking for medical fees!
"Did you hear that? Did you hear that? It was my sister who saved her!" Lu Yun shouted loudly, as if afraid that others wouldn't hear him.
"Some people are shameless and deliberately take credit for themselves."
Ding Hongshi's face was grim.
"It seems I misunderstood. I was in such a hurry to save the child that I didn't notice." He tried to smooth things over.
Dingxiang didn't believe it: "What does she know about saving people? She was probably bullying someone, and it was just a lucky accident!"
Damn it!
You're even more 'fierce' than Kublai Khan, you're really good at spouting nonsense!
"When you can't take credit, you try to smear me. Dr. Ding, don't be so narrow-minded and petty. There are other doctors in the world besides you, and the people of Liuyun Village don't need you to survive!"
That's nothing!
...
Ding Hongshi's face darkened even more after being repeatedly humiliated by a young girl.
He couldn't help but scold Dingxiang in annoyance.
At this moment, Old Man Lu said to the villagers who were watching, "My daughter just happened to know some simple ways to save people. It can't be considered medical skill. It was just a coincidence."
"Now that everything's alright, let's go home."
“Father…” Lu Yun wanted to say something, but was glared at by his father.
Lu Qingqing didn't care. As long as things were clarified, that was enough. As for other people's opinions of her, they couldn't be changed in one go.
Just as she was about to pick up the basket, Lu Yun had already carried it on his back.
"Thank you, Second Brother."
“What’s there to thank me for…” Lu Yun raised his head high.
For the first time, I didn't have to be subservient to the villagers because of this younger sister; instead, I felt a sense of pride and satisfaction.
Lu Qingqing smiled, glanced back at Lin Ye who was walking out of the crowd with his head down, and looked somewhat puzzled.
After all, the original owner really often bullied others, and once even forced them to kneel down and imitate a frog jumping.
She should hate Lu Qingqing, so why would she rather offend Ding Hongshi to help her?
"Lu Qingqing!" Dingxiang chased after her, her face full of resentment.
"what?"
"Lu Qingqing, once Ning Xiuwen passes the imperial examination and becomes a scholar, he will marry me. I will be a scholar's wife, and you will be arranged by the official matchmaker to marry a bald man whose wife has died!"
Lu Qingqing said that the original owner was a bully who preyed on the weak and feared the strong. She used to avoid Dingxiang and had hardly ever had any dealings with her.
Dingxiang bit her, it turns out it was all because of that bastard Ning Xiuwen!
But what does this have to do with her?
Didn't everyone already know that she and Ning Xiuwen had broken up?
"Oh, best wishes to you, may you soar to great heights."
Lu Qingqing's lazy attitude made Dingxiang even angrier.
“Lu Qingqing, Ning Xiuwen said that you were the one who acted shamelessly in the past, constantly pestering him. The loan he made was also because you were being presumptuous and forced him to pay you a debt of gratitude. He only accepted it because his mother was sick and he had no other choice…”
"Alright, alright, don't tell me all that. I'm busy. Is there anything else?"
Lu Qingqing realized that Ning Xiuwen's family had no money at all, and the five taels he returned to her were probably given by Dingxiang.
They've found another sucker.
Indeed, Ding Hongshi was the richest man in the village.
If you marry Dingxiang, you'll never have to worry about money again.
After all, bribing officials for exams requires a lot of money, and his widowed mother couldn't earn that much even if she worked day and night washing blankets, clothes, and feet.
"Lu Qingqing! I'm warning you, stay away from Ning Xiuwen from now on! He already said that a disfigured woman like you is very unlucky! I'm blessed with good fortune and will help him win the championship!"
Dingxiang tilted her head back, wanting to see Lu Qingqing's self-conscious expression.
Lu Qingqing nodded, nonchalantly: "I know, love is blind, and a big face is a big door. Well then, I wish you two, the fool and the dog, a long and happy life together."
"Oh, by the way, don't call yourself Lilac anymore, it doesn't suit you. Just call yourself Cluck-Cluck! It's so noisy!"
Lu Qingqing let her off the hook.
Lu Yun, who was eavesdropping, grinned. "Little sister is really awesome!"
Hmph, that pretty boy Ning Xiuwen can't even leave the house now, he can't even show his face if he wants to!
What a sunny day!
...
A soft laugh came from a carriage by the roadside.
"Turns out, a shrew's rant can be quite amusing."
“Young master, this is not a shrewish quarrel, but just two village girls bickering. You’ll understand once you come to the village a few more times.”
"It's okay to come here once in a while to relax, but you won't find any great people in this kind of place, so it's not a waste of time."
The coachman fell silent.
The young master wasn't in a good mood today because he didn't get the fabric he wanted.
*
After returning home, Lu Yun brought up the matter again.
They asked Old Man Lu why he didn't take the opportunity to tell the villagers that Lu Qingqing knew medicine, so that her reputation could be improved.
After all, doctors are very special and rare, and everyone has to look up to them.
Old Man Lu, however, had a serious expression, his face etched with deep wrinkles.
He called all three of his children to his side.
"Qingqing, your father has something to tell you."
"Father, please tell me."
"Qingqing, it's good that you know medicine, but you don't have a medical license. You can only treat your own family, but never meddle in other people's business outside. If something happens, you'll face legal trouble."
“Then I’ll just take the medical licensing exam,” Lu Qingqing said.
This is her profession, her belief, and she will never give it up, no matter where she goes.
“Qingqing, it is more difficult for women to practice medicine than for men. Even royal female doctors have a lower status than imperial physicians. In our Great Gan Kingdom, there are many female doctors, but very few have medical licenses. Your father does not want you to go down that path.”
Old Man Lu's tone was very low, and what was most strange was that he seemed to have experienced something, unlike what a carpenter from a mountain village would say.
Royal family? That's too far removed from them.
Of course, Lu Qingqing would not give up her medical career because of her father's words.
She asked, "Father, is my mother a female doctor?"
"You remembered?"
What are you thinking about?
Did the original owner forget something?
Lu Qingqing thought for a moment. In her earliest memories, there was no biological mother, only her aunt who had taken care of her for a period of time.
Seeing the gleam in Old Man Lu's eyes, she still shook her head.
"Sigh!" Old Man Lu sighed, his eyes filled with sadness.
“You were too young then, it’s okay if you don’t remember your mother.”
"There are some things that even your eldest brother doesn't know. Now that you're all grown up, your father will tell you."
"Your eldest and second eldest sons should remember that your mother was misdiagnosed, sued, and imprisoned, which led to her death from a chronic illness."
Lu Feng and Lu Yun nodded, their expressions sorrowful.
Of course they remember.
It was around that time that his family left the capital and came to his father's hometown, Liuyun Village.
Because they had to take care of their seriously ill mother and earn money to buy medicine, the whole family had no time to look after Lu Qingqing, which led to her falling into the river.
Lu Qingqing was rescued by her aunt, but she was so frightened that she couldn't remember anything. She didn't recognize her father or her two brothers, only her aunt.
There was no other way, so Dad gave his aunt money to take care of Lu Qingqing for a while.
After paying off the debt for her mother's medicine, Lu Qingqing found herself...
But they remembered that their mother was just an unlicensed healer, otherwise she wouldn't have been so easily framed.
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