Chapter 19: Where did this miracle doctor come from?

The person Song Shijie had found most annoying since he was a child was Lu Zhenting. Although the two grew up together, no matter where they went, as long as he was with Lu Zhenting, nothing good would ever happen.

When they were children, seeing two groups of ants fighting, Song Shijie hadn't figured out why the ant colonies were fighting, but Lu Zhenting had already destroyed the ant nest with a puddle of urine.

When they were a bit older, seeing two children on the side of the road fighting over a candied hawthorn, Song Shijie was preparing to be the judge, but Lu Zhenting simply ate the candied hawthorn, calling it "solving the root of the problem so they wouldn't fight anymore."

Finally, he followed his father to the frontier to fight in the war, and he thought he would finally have some peace, but Lu Zhenting sent people to deliver letters every day, asking him to donate military funds under various names! Otherwise, he would borrow money from him, and every time he opened his mouth, it was tens of thousands of taels of silver!

Did he really think he was a money bag!

Thinking of this, Song Shijie was furious. This time Lu Zhenting had returned to the capital and dared to come to him with a thick skin; it was just the right time to tell him to pay back the money!

Song Shijie changed his clothes and walked to the reception hall, where an eight-foot-tall man with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, wearing silver armor and looking dashing, was standing. Before he could ask for the money, the other party greeted him with a face full of joy. "Shijie! Long time no see! I heard that a miracle doctor has come to your place!"

"Miracle doctor? What miracle doctor?" Song Shijie was confused by his sudden question. "Where did this miracle doctor come from?"

"The miracle doctor!" Lu Zhenting patted him on the shoulder. If Song Shijie hadn't practiced martial arts for many years, he would definitely have been patted to the ground!

Lu Zhenting looked joyful, as happy as if he had obtained some new treasure. "I only received news when I returned to the mansion this evening that a miracle doctor had come to your place, so I rushed over without even eating dinner."

Suddenly, Lu Zhenting sniffed like a dog, smelling him. "Speaking of which, Shijie, why do you smell so bad?"

Speaking of the stench on his body, Song Shijie was even more annoyed. Every day, all he encountered were annoying people! He snorted coldly through his nose. "I just finished interrogating a pirate criminal. If there were a miracle doctor in my Dali Temple, I wouldn't have to worry about that pirate who took poison and committed suicide dying."

"Oh? Shijie, you truly have good methods, interrogating the pirate criminal until he had fecal incontinence?" Lu Zhenting praised. Song Shijie frowned at these words, but he was too lazy to explain, directly asking, "Who spread the rumor that there is a miracle doctor in the Dali Temple?"

"Naturally, someone spread the rumor," Lu Zhenting didn't reveal who spread the rumor, but directly asked Song Shijie for the miracle doctor. "Shijie, my mother's leg illness has not healed for many years, as you know. We have seen every medical clinic in the capital, and even people from the Imperial Hospital have come to see it, and none of them didn't shake their heads, saying this illness is difficult to treat."

Hearing Lu Zhenting mention his mother, Song Shijie nodded. Since he was a child, Lu Zhenting's mother had taken good care of him. After Lu Zhenting followed his father to the expedition, he would go to the Lu Mansion to visit Lu Zhenting's mother, Chen Laofuren, when he had time.

Therefore, he was clear about Chen Laofuren's leg ailment and also hoped that a miracle doctor could cure her leg illness.

Lu Zhenting continued, "Today I heard from my mansion physician that there is a miracle doctor who can bring an infant back from the dead. Moreover, the last time I had a stubborn abdominal pain, this miracle doctor didn't see me in person and didn't take my pulse, but knew the root cause of the stubborn illness and even prescribed a prescription for me, curing my abdominal pain."

Song Shijie found it strange. "There is such a strange person? Then why don't you hurry and ask her to go see the aunt?"

Lu Zhenting patted Song Shijie on the shoulder again. "Yes, that's why I rushed over to ask you for the person!"

"Oh? How come I don't know there is such a strange person here?" Song Shijie felt it was very strange. If there was such a miracle doctor in the Dali Temple, how could he not know?

"I heard that this miracle doctor was arrested by you and brought to the Dali Temple today; she was originally a concubine of the Pei Mansion." Just as Lu Zhenting finished this sentence, Song Shijie gasped, and an exclamation escaped his lips. "Her? How is that possible?!"

Lu Zhenting looked joyful. "It seems you know who it is. Hurry and take her to see my mother!"

Song Shijie waved his hand in refusal. "Go, go, go. She is just a prisoner of mine, not a miracle doctor. Besides, this woman is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Furthermore, I haven't even finished interrogating whether she is a spy from the Southern Frontier alien race!"

"Spy from the Southern Frontier alien race?" Lu Zhenting was puzzled. "The Southern Frontier was already incorporated into the imperial court's territory 7 years ago. Where would there be spies?"

"In any case, there is no miracle doctor here!" Song Shijie began to drive people out. "You hurry back!"

Lu Zhenting couldn't move, directly stating that he wouldn't return until he saw the miracle doctor. Song Shijie was just getting a headache about how to drive away this annoying ghost when a subordinate came to report that the pirate couldn't withstand the "torture" and had confessed everything.

"Good, good, good," Song Shijie said "good" three times in a row, too busy to dismiss Lu Zhenting. "I still have official business to attend to. You can do as you please."

Lu Zhenting didn't act like an outsider at all, directly saying, "Fine, then I'll go to the Dali Temple kitchen to see what food is left. If there isn't any, I'll ask your cook to stew a pig's trotter for me."

Song Shijie didn't answer. Anyway, it wasn't the first time Lu Zhenting had come to the Dali Temple to eat and drink for free. Right now, he was anxious to get the list of accomplices confessed by the pirate. If possible, he wanted to wipe out all the pirates lurking in the capital in one fell swoop.

Over the years, pirates had invaded the coast from time to time. The imperial court didn't know how much military funding had been allocated to the navy to wipe out the pirates, but the pirates' desire to destroy our dynasty had never ceased!

Besides the border customs areas, there was even a small force that had infiltrated the capital, ostensibly doing business, but secretly, no one knew what kind of business they were doing.

This pirate was only captured after great difficulty because Lu Zhenting had provided information in his last letter. If they could pull a whole line of clues from this pirate, they could wipe out all these infiltrating Yi people!

Not to mention the credit, at least the capital could be stable for a while!

Song Shijie thought as he walked into the prison. As soon as he stepped in, a pungent smell drove him out.

But business was important, so he could only cover his nose and mouth and brace himself to go in. The pirate was lying in a pool of filth, dying, still muttering a string of names. The officer was writing furiously, recording the list one by one.

Finally, after he got his hands on the list that carried a smell, he felt refreshed, and even the smell in the prison didn't feel so bad anymore.

After reading the list, he immediately ordered people to go to the surrounding areas where the pirates were active to keep watch, then returned to his room and fell asleep on the bed, even forgetting that there was still a Lu Zhenting in the Dali Temple.

A night passed, dawn arrived, and people were awakened by the crowing of roosters.

In the women's prison, the wet nurse Guo Shi, who was sleeping on a pile of straw while holding the child, lifted her eyelids in a half-awake state. She touched the child and was suddenly awakened. "Ah! Why is he so hot!"

Lin Jiaojiao was awakened by her exclamation. She reached out to touch Zhu Geer's forehead, then touched her own forehead, and immediately knew the child was sick: "Zhu Geer has a fever!" ===== CHAPTER 20 =====