Chapter 307

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Protagonist:

Song Miao

Doctor Lin ignored the other party's words, instead half-squatting on the ground to look at the old man's wound, asking: "Old man, is this injury a dull pain, a sharp pain, or a stabbing pain?"

At this time her four disciples had already followed over together, surrounding their master, each holding a thin wooden block, and also soft ink blocks, looking like they were just waiting for the old man to speak so they could record it, extremely solemn, not ordinary at all.

They originally all carried medicine boxes, and also because they deal with medicinal materials all day, their clothes and hair inevitably got stained with a whole body of medicine smell.

Seeing Tianyuantang's doctor diagnosing on the scene, a group of onlookers had already squeezed over, hearing the smell, seeing this manner, inexplicably, some people actually felt envy toward the person on the ground.

"Oh my, this old man, his luck is really good, to actually just happen to encounter such a powerful doctor going out! Four or five people giving him a diagnosis! Even the Emperor couldn't gather this many imperial physicians for one time, right??"

"How do you know he's a powerful doctor?"

"He's from Tianyuantang, how could he not be powerful! Besides, just look at her bringing this string of disciples, if she weren't powerful, would others be willing to follow?"

For a moment left and right all felt heartfelt sympathy.

What people fight over and snatch, is definitely good, eternal truth!

Someone else said: "Then you go get hit too? Taking advantage of the powerful doctor being here?"

The person who spoke before waved his hand repeatedly, spat, and scolded: "You're cursing me!"

Seeing Doctor Lin ask for a long while, the old man on the ground only hissed and inhaled, inhaling while wiping his nose with a handkerchief, and looking at his son and that woman beside him, not speaking, the rest of the idle men and women all became anxious.

"Hey, old man, you speak! You're making me anxious! This is Tianyuantang's doctor! Normally you can't even get a consultation!"

"The doctor's asking! Do you want a diagnosis or not!"

The woman on the ground glared at Doctor Lin, saying: "You say you're Tianyuantang's doctor, you're Tianyuantang's doctor?? You also just came out of that cart body, definitely siding with the cart driver, we don't trust you, if you ruin my father-in-law's treatment what then? There's Huichuntang up ahead! We want to go there for diagnosis!!"

These words weren't without reason.

Seeing the crowd's hearts unconsciously leaning toward this person, Doctor Lin then said: "You not trusting me isn't strange, only your father-in-law's appearance, if by chance bones are broken, and he refuses to let me look, then no diagnosis possible — leg bones secondary, look at him clutching his chest, unknown if breastbone injured, you have no door boards, no shelves, moving badly could worsen injury, another, if pierced viscera, even immortals hard to save..."

"If really need other doctor, better invite them over, or someone living nearby, borrow their own door board?"

She spoke so weighty, yet orderly and reasoned, extremely certain, behind her four disciples, seeing master speak, hands already recording swiftly, making all watching, none not respect added to respect, nowhere dared suspicion.

Not only onlookers, those two younger generation seeing old man's face white as paper, also each felt panic — not right? not right?? not just injured leg?

But old man's age indeed old, bones brittle, would not just now falling on ground one bad, pierce somewhere?

If really injured lungs, become even immortals hard save, later how good??

The woman asked repeatedly: "Whose house has door board??"

A moment whole scene quiet, people looking at each other.

That old man's son also didn't stop Wang Sanlang, busy one by one going forward to ask.

"Older Brother..."

"My house doesn't live here!! I'm just passing through!"

"Auntie! You..."

"I'm just a tea seller! Also passing through!! Passing through!!"

Just speaking, behind early someone shouted: "Doctor's here! Doctor's here — Huichuntang doctor's here!"

Indeed not long, a middle-aged doctor carrying a medicine box, separated crowd, walked in.

Those two younger generation no longer stopped, allowed that doctor forward.

Latter looked at wound, again incessantly asked.

At this time old man all returned.

"Leg can't move, bit by bit can't move — lift also lift not up."

"Hand also can't move, right hand, right hand can't move, very pain, very pain, don't move me, can't exert force!"

His nasal sound very heavy, official language spoken not very clear, faintly still carrying bit southern accent, while answering, from time to time still from nose issuing forceful breathing sound.

Doctor diagnosed a bit, finally said: "Leg broken, injury not light ah — patient how old?"

Son snatched answer: "My father sixty-nine!"

Doctor said: "This age, still broken leg, afraid later must constantly nurse, medicine also cannot stop."

Moment son fierce-looking looked toward Wang Sanlang, said: "Heard didn't you, you hit person, don't think run! Either pay money, or go see official — see official, you suffer beating not say, money same must pay, choose yourself!"

Wang Sanlang face ugly, said: "You cannot not speak reason — I saw person rush out, at that time just pulled reins, bit also didn't knock touch..."

One man one woman immediately stood up, went forward to pull Wang Sanlang.

Seeing here chaotic, just heard behind again someone shout: "Patrol Officer's here!! Quick make way, Patrol Officer's here!"

Two waves people all came fast bizarre.

One Patrol Officer leading two Patrol Soldiers, three people arrive, stern words severe color first ask matter, hearing have old man hit, injured leg, clutching chest, injury quite heavy, again hearing hit person not willing admit, immediately said: "You if not admit, must go yamen speak — this here many people watching, difficult still wrong you not?"

Early several people actively stood out, each agreeing.

"I saw he hit!"

【54> "Just his mule cart!"

"It's his Mule Cart!"

"Here yellow sand much, dust big, he didn't see clear, simply didn't come time pull mule!"

"I willing testify! Official lord, I willing testify!"

Five or six people accused him together, and even the old man's two children with their rosy lips and white teeth joined in, with the Patrol Officer helping as well. Wang Sanlang simply couldn't speak up; his eyes turned red with anxiety, the veins in his neck bulged, and several times he tried to speak but was cut off again.

That man instantly came forward, said: "I go shout person write evidence, you draw arrest, my father see doctor, eat medicine money, you all pay, another my father age although old, normally still work, future if have what pain, he this time received big suffering, you also must put silver money together give, don't think run!"

Just noisy, yet hear one person say: "I see old master's injury still has cure, you all wait wait."

Crowd all turned heads.

Doctor Lin was already holding a small gourd in one hand, extending it toward that old man's face.

That old man had been staring at Wang Sanlang and the others the whole time, and had made no guard against a wide-mouthed gourd suddenly appearing before him; he inhaled it in one breath, and instantly his nose itched unbearably, as if a current of Qi surged up from his abdomen to his chest cavity, passing through his nasal and oral orifices — "Ah—choo!" — he let out an earth-shaking sneeze.

Nasal mucus, saliva, and tears streamed down his face all at once; his whole body lunged forward from the sneeze's inertia, and to brace himself he shoved both hands hard against the ground, his originally flat legs unconsciously drawing up into a big "^" shape, and before he could react, "Ah-choo, ah-choo" — two more sneezes in quick succession.

At a time like this, a person's mind is almost entirely blank, capable only of the sneezing motion, and with mucus and tears covering the face, especially with snot about to enter the mouth, no one can help it.

The old man subconsciously used his hand to fiercely blow his nose, then flung it onto the ground.

When he raised his head again, he saw Doctor Lin once more bringing the wide-mouthed gourd in her hand toward his nostrils; truly furious, he couldn't help but curse: "You old hag! What are you doing?!"

While cursing, he violently swept his right hand, knocking the gourd from Doctor Lin's hand, while his left hand had already reached out, grabbing at Doctor Lin's headscarf — seemingly knowing his age left him lacking strength, he aimed for a weak point, looking exactly like a market rascal brawling.

With a "pa" sound, the gourd fell to the ground — it turned out extremely sturdy, not damaged in the least, instead rolling several times and landing at the onlookers' feet.

Wang Sanlang and the youngest disciple were closest; seeing the other party's actions, they had no time to think further and hurriedly stepped forward to intercept.

The injured old man sat on the ground, Doctor Lin half-bent at the waist; that young disciple was ultimately young in years, quick-witted but unable to turn the situation around, momentarily not knowing what to do; in the urgency a desperate idea struck, and he actually put his own head in front of his master's, ready for that old man to grab.

As for Wang Sanlang, he lowered his body, placing himself squarely between the two.

He couldn't check his momentum in time, and feared crashing into Doctor Lin and the young disciple, and feared bumping the injured old man and worsening his injuries; inevitably constrained, one misstep and he tumbled to the ground — to avoid crushing the old man, his whole body formed a "ji" shape like an earthworm walking or a cicada pupa, the topmost horizontal bar landing right across the old man's knees.

The old man almost instinctively pulled back his legs, shifted to the side, stood up, looking flustered, and blurted out several extremely foul curses.

Where was even a trace of the feeble appearance from just now.

After the old man finished cursing, at first he didn't notice anything wrong; only when he discovered that almost no one around him made a sound, especially his own son and daughter saying nothing, did he finally feel something inexplicable; he turned his head, and someone in the crowd suddenly shouted: "This old man... wasn't his leg broken?"

Yeah!

Wasn't the leg broken?

With a broken leg, how can he stand this steadily?

Moreover, by his own account just now, not only was his leg broken, but his hands were broken too!

But looking at him blowing his nose, flinging snot, grabbing hair — clearly both hands are perfectly agile, where's the break?

Hearing the crowd's questions, the old man also froze; he looked up and found almost everyone staring at him, clearly waiting for the show; so sitting back down wasn't right, continuing to stand wasn't right either; he dazed awkwardly for a while, then slowly sat back down on the ground.

By this time a passerby who had picked up Doctor Lin's gourd earlier brought it forward, very excited, asking: "Old Doctor, your gourd — what immortal medicine is this! Does it treat broken legs this effectively?!"

Doctor Lin said: "It's not some immortal pill, this also doesn't treat falls or scrapes — you can treat it too."

Speaking, she took out a handkerchief, handed it to the passerby opposite, then called over a patrol soldier, also giving him a soaking wet handkerchief, saying: "Wipe it once and it's cured!"

These words out, there were still those who didn't dare believe.

That old man by now had finally come to his senses, crying "aiyo, aiyo" again: "Just now it was better for a moment, now it hurts again — you come wipe it! Look at my wound, you wipe it better!"

The patrol soldier was still hesitating when a disciple had already leaned over, pressing the entire handkerchief directly onto the old man's bloody, mangled leg.

At the sight, the latter immediately let out a miserable scream.

But his wailing hadn't stopped when that disciple used the handkerchief to lightly wipe his foot once — the handkerchief lifted, the skin underneath still slightly red, but no longer bloody and mangled; a patch that had been extremely severe, practically showing bone, had even turned into ordinary intact skin; as for the old man's wound, it was almost as if the whole thing had "shifted," moving from the kneecap area down to the middle of the calf.

— The wound even moves house!

At this moment, who couldn't see that this old man was extorting.

Doctor Lin's voice was full and forceful, she opened her mouth and said: "This is a southern swindle, I saw it in my early years — his wound is made with medicine, water won't wash it off, it looks just like the real thing; to truly expose it, only oil can wipe it away, everyone be careful, don't fall for it in the future..."

A "hong" rose from the crowd, almost instantly exploding into uproar.

"Who could tell something like this!"

"Swindlers! Arrest them quick! Impossible to guard against!"

"Aiyo, I'd better hurry home and tell my Boss, tell him to be careful driving the cart, don't get extorted by swindlers like this!"

"What if you really get extorted? Just meeting one means not only paying money, but food, drink, shit, piss, and hiring someone to smooth things over — aiyo, a whole family could be dragged down!"

While everyone discussed heatedly, Wang Sanlang who had been watching closely discovered that old man on the ground, together with his "son and daughter" covering their faces, were already striding quickly toward the outside.

He hurriedly shouted: "Officers! Officers! These people are trying to extort me, arrest them quick!"

Hearing this, the three ran even faster, especially that old man, running with feet barely touching the ground, surprisingly two body lengths faster than the two young ones.

— However it had not the slightest effect; they were spontaneously blocked by the crowd early on, surrounded and about to be escorted to the patrol station.

And right at this moment, Master Lin's youngest disciple also hurriedly pointed at several people not far away and shouted: "They said they saw the mule cart hit someone, even said they knocked the person flying — clearly not a scratch touched them, aren't they also a bunch of bad people in cahoots??"

Those several people had already stepped forward earlier, originally prepared to testify for the old man, even saying they weren't afraid of going to the yamen; at this moment, pointed at by a little girl, every one of them panicked like rabbits, just short of ears perking up.

"The way I see it, he's just repeating what he learned, I didn't actually see anything!"

"I... I must have seen wrong!"

A passerby couldn't stand it and shouted: "Take that talk to the yamen!"

That patrol officer's face was also a bit ugly, but he had no choice but to step forward, intending to bind them.

Whether intentional or not, the several patrol officers and patrol soldiers making the arrests moved slowly, the witnesses spotted a gap and all dove out of the crowd, looking like they would escape; but at this moment the sky color was not early, dinner time had already passed, the streets were full of idle people who had already gathered around, hearing the whole story, just about to follow to the patrol station to continue watching the excitement, blocking the fleeing people right on the mark, and sending them back.

"Hey! Officer! Look, does this count as me doing a righteous brave deed!"

The one running in front was the old man at the street's end who sets up a stall writing letters and legal papers; at this moment he opened his mouth, two front teeth long gone, leaking air, incomparably proud as he claimed credit!

?? Thank you Qing Tang Niu Nan He and Book Friend two dear friends for each gifting me one immortal grass:)

? Thank you Book City Yan Huo Yu Zi You for gifting me one ray of Inspiration Light, one Small Gift, Wan Shi Xing_EB for gifting me four Small Gifts, I Love Nong Nong, Occasional Relax, Butterfly_cB three dear friends for gifting me one Small Gift each =3=

? Honestly seeing everyone's comments I'm a bit surprised, because I feel it's pretty obviously in the wrapping-up phase? So you guys didn't smell any ending vibe at all right QAQ

? But Food Friends don't worry too much, because after opening the shop it won't end immediately, the timeline will continue a bit further, extras will also have some ^_^