Chapter 109

Du Ruo naturally heard these sarcastic words.

However, she had serious business to attend to and didn't want to pay attention to that Auntie Lin, who was full of sour water, so she walked past that mother and daughter on her own, not even giving them a glance.

Auntie Lin was even angrier.

What was that? Was being a constable so amazing? When it came down to it, wasn't he just a lapdog under the county magistrate's feet, how could he be stronger than her own husband, the village head?

Du woman really thought of herself as an onion, not even putting people in her eyes.

"Jiang Li's wife, are you blind? Don't you know how to greet people when you see them?" Auntie Lin put her hands on her hips and shouted at Du Ruo's back.

Du Ruo paused in her steps.

Such trouble, some people were just born to be beaten.

She slowly turned around, moved the oil-paper umbrella in front of her, tilted her head, and revealed a weird smile at the two.

"Are you calling me?"

That eerie tone, plus the dense blisters on her face still oozing pus, made her look like a giant, ugly toad!

This scene had too much impact; Auntie Lin had no psychological preparation at all and was scared into retreating repeatedly; Lin Qingshuang also covered her little mouth with her hand, her face pale with fright.

The mother and daughter had expressions of having seen a ghost.

"Your face... what happened?" Auntie Lin swallowed and asked stiffly.

"Nothing." Du Ruo smiled and took two steps toward them. "It was like this when I woke up, maybe it's rotting."

Auntie Lin looked at her daughter, and Lin Qingshuang lowered her voice. "Mother, I heard that leprosy patients are like this, could she..."

Leprosy? That was an incurable disease, it killed people!

Auntie Lin's face changed drastically, and she hurriedly pulled her daughter back, staring at Du Ruo in fear. "You, don't come over here!"

Du Ruo blinked. "Huh? What did you say? I can't hear you."

The mother and daughter were scared out of their wits and turned to run.

Because Auntie Lin ran too fast, she accidentally tripped and fell, her knee hitting a stone, hurting until she was baring her teeth, but she didn't dare to stop, climbing up and continuing to run.

Watching the backs of the two fleeing in panic, Du Ruo rolled her eyes.

With that little courage, they dared to provoke her; she'd scare them to death!

Du Ruo turned and continued toward Doctor Gu's house.

Doctor Gu's house was currently in a state of gloom.

After coming back from the Bone Pavilion the night before last, Doctor Gu had developed a high fever, muttering about ghosts, which scared his wife, Little Song Shi, quite a bit.

His son Gu Fusheng was also shivering in his quilt, not even daring to go to the outhouse.

Gu Fusheng's wife, Zhu Niang, didn't know how to be afraid at all, holding a shoe sole and patting Gu Fusheng's quilt, giggling foolishly: "Hit the villain, hit the villain..."

When Du Ruo knocked on the door, Little Song Shi was feeding her husband calming soup.

Opening the courtyard door and seeing Du Ruo's appearance, Little Song Shi was startled. "Oh my, Jiang Li's wife, how did you get like this?"

Du Ruo put away her umbrella and smiled. "I don't know, I just came over to take a look."

Although Little Song Shi didn't know medicine, there was a doctor in the family, so she understood a little from being around him. Looking carefully, it didn't look like leprosy or smallpox, so she felt relieved and welcomed her in.

"You might have made a wasted trip, my husband hasn't been feeling well these two days, I'm afraid he can't write a prescription for you."

Why Doctor Gu wasn't feeling well, Du Ruo knew better than anyone.

Because she was the culprit.

On the surface, she put on a curious look and asked, "Oh? I heard Doctor Gu was invaded by evil objects, so he was delirious, is that true?"

Little Song Shi felt embarrassed and still nodded.

"That is the case, so he needs a few days to get better. You can come back then." It was no longer a secret that her husband had seen a ghost, so it didn't matter whether she admitted it or not.

Du Ruo showed an anxious look. "Then what should I do? My face is rotting like this, and I can't see anyone."

She rolled her eyes and came up with an idea. "I heard that people who are scared by ghosts only need to be scared once more and they'll be fine, shall we try?"

Scared once more? Little Song Shi looked at her suspiciously. "You mean..."

"Yes, that's what I mean." Du Ruo pointed to her face. "Although I'm not a ghost, I'm no different from a ghost looking like this now. Maybe Doctor Gu will be fine when he sees me?"

Little Song Shi hesitated for a moment.

What Du woman said also made some sense; anyway, it was like treating a dead horse as a living horse, at worst it wouldn't get better, and there was no loss.

"Okay, let's try." Little Song Shi led Du Ruo into the house and entered the main room.

Doctor Gu was leaning crookedly on the bed, his gaze dull, as if his soul had been lost.

Little Song Shi went over and nudged him, reminding him: "Husband, look who's here?"

Doctor Gu had no reaction at all.

Little Song Shi had no choice but to look at Du Ruo. Du Ruo smiled, walked to the bedside, pinched her throat, and started pretending to be a ghost. "I died so miserably... return my life..."

Doctor Gu's body shook, and he suddenly raised his head.

When he saw the woman standing in front of him, his eyes instantly widened more than copper bells, and he shrank toward the inside of the bed, shouting in panic: "Ghost, there's a ghost! The ghost is here!"

Little Song Shi hurriedly comforted him. "It's not a ghost, it's a person, it's Jiang Li's wife!"

Jiang Li's wife? Doctor Gu's gaze gradually cleared, and he looked Du Ruo up and down, carefully, and finally confirmed it.

Although she looked terrifying, she was indeed a person.

He breathed a sigh of relief. "It's you."

"Of course it's me." Du Ruo smiled. "Doctor Gu, are you feeling better now?"

Doctor Gu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his expression relaxing. "Much better."

Before, it was because of excessive fright, leading to phlegm obstructing his heart, and his soul being uneasy; he didn't expect that being scared by Du woman would actually wake him up.

*Hmph*, even so, he wouldn't forgive this ugly woman.

This ugly woman had caused his family to marry a fool, and had caused him to lose Jiang Cheng, that free errand boy, for no reason; he remembered all these grudges!

Doctor Gu slowly got off the bed and put on airs. "Jiang Li's wife, you came today, you want me to look at your face, right?"

Let me slaughter you properly!

"This face doesn't need to be looked at, anyway, even if it's cured, it's still an ugly monster." Du Ruo waved her hand, looking hopeless. "Actually, I came because I have something else I want to ask Doctor Gu for help with."

Oh? Doctor Gu was surprised; this woman had always been at odds with him, and her husband was a constable, so she knew many capable people; how could she need his help?

"Tell me about it."