Chapter 76. eting the Master
Translator: Storm in a Teacup
An Qingrong, serving long in the army, suddenly felt soone was gazing at himself. Though not malignant, this probe was really annoying. He frowned at An Rushuang’s hat, his eyes flickering with cold gleam.
“Did she know ?” An Qingrong wondered to himself.
An Rushuang stuck her tongue out and moved her eyes away in a hurry before turning to the girl beside him. The girl bit her lower lip in helplessness, her hand holding the whip turning slightly white.
The girl muttered painfully after a while, “My elder sister... My elder sister is dying. Please, please help her!”
She suddenly knelt down before them, regardless of the gossiping crowd..
It turned out the girl was a bully, who only yielded to the force but rejected a soft approach.
However... who was her elder sister?
An Rushuang rembered Madam ng, her brother’s wife, who looked similar to this girl clad in red. Upon hearing her ntioning her elder sister, An Rushuang couldn’t help but wonder if this girl had any relationship with Madam ng.
Still staying calm, the handso young man rely raised his eyelids before saying coldly, “No doctor here.”
Just as An Rushuang intended to say sothing, she noticed her brother’s frown. Did he et his will-be wife just here? An Rushuang thought, and decided to keep silent.
Unsurprisingly, her elder brother did whisper sothing to the handso young man before bypassing the stall and coming up to the girl kneeling on the ground. “I can help you if you have no money, but you must apologize to the beggar you hurt just then,” he said seriously, staring at the girl.
“I don’t need your money!”
With her face turning crimson with anger, she gritted her teeth and retorted, “I can apologize, but, but my elder sister must see the doctor first!”
The young man snorted before slamming the ladle into the pot. “You rely care about yourself! All the people here need treatnt. Your elder sister is not the only one who catches disease.”
Upon hearing his words, every one, nodding in admiration, couldn’t help being a little hostile to the girl.
She wiped her pretty face smudged by dirt before explaining in a lower voice, without the previous condescension, “We have sent for the doctors of the rcy Pharmacy, even those from the royal palace... but all in vain.”
She ground her teeth in slight tremble before raising her voice, “Only here! Only the doctor of the First Pharmacy can save her life! Since my mother passed away from the sa disease several years ago, I can’t bear to lose my elder sister any longer! Please help her, please!”
She kept kowtowing, her forehead gradually swelling.
Crossing his arms in front of his chest, the handso young man stared at her indifferently, as if it wasn’t a pretty girl kneeling before him but a common tree or a flower instead, totally unworthy of his compassion.
An Qingrong, seeming to be sympathetic to her suffering, turned to the young man several tis and whispered sothing. Too far to hear what he said, An Rushuang rely saw his lips moving.
The young man, after so period, caught a glimpse of An Qingrong and then the girl clad in red helplessly. Though relenting, he was still a little hesitant.
“Chuan Qiong, please lend a hand,” An Qingrong urged him.
Chuan Qiong murmured reluctantly, “It’s not up to . I should have asked Kong Qing to have an eye on you as I gave out the dicine! Always cause trouble for !”
Slightly curling up his lips, An Qingrong patted his lean shoulder before murmuring in a low voice, “This is the last ti, Chuan Qiong, I promise.”
Chuan Qiong glared at him before retorting, “You always said that!”
This handso young man was nad Chuan Qiong.
An Rushuang thought, searching for this na in her mory. Nope...
Since he seed to be her elder brother’s intimate friend, why had she never heard of his na before?
Though saying so, Chuan Qiong glanced at the girl in red before scoffing. “There is no use begging , because I know nothing about dicine.”
Totally stunned, the girl, glaring at him, shouted in anger, “What do you an?!”
Her tone was a mix of grievance and fury, seemingly quite complicated.
An Rushuang also caught a glimpse of Chuan Qiong. If he did know nothing about dicine, why would he...
Eh? It seed that he had never said he was a doctor. What a weird man.
Just as she expected, Chuan Qiong said calmly, “I an even you kneel here for the rest of your life, I still can’t save your elder sister. However...”
Slightly curling up his lips, he said with a glamorous smile, “I can help you for Brother Gu’s sake. There is soone inside the room who is able to save your elder sister’s life, as long as you can persuade her.”
With her eyes shimring with pleasant light, the girl in red answered, “Of course I can. I will give her everything she wants...”
Her frustration disappeared without a trace.
While An Rushuang still pondered on the two words the young man just ntioned----Brother Gu.
She turned to the man beside Chuan Qiong and looked at him up and down.
An Rushuang frowned. Was he not her elder brother? It was impossible that two persons would look that sa!
Since An Qingrong had arrived at the capital, why didn’t he return ho but visited here and changed his na?
In doubt, An Rushuang suddenly t her elder brother’s eyes. She, out of panic, took half a step back subconsciously. No! She shouted in her heart with regret.
Unsurprisingly, the so-called Brother Gu stared at An Rushuang in bewildernt before asking, “Do you know , Miss?”
Their relationship was far more than acquaintances, but An Rushuang didn’t want to tell the truth yet.
Using a fake na, he, of course, intended to hide his real identity.
Having made up a decision, An Rushuang approached Zhao Xiaotao before whispering, “In order to hide our identities, you can say...”
Though puzzled, Zhao Xiaotao still learned her lady’s intention.
“Miss?”
Zhao Xiaotao ca up in a hurry before answering, “My lady has never been here before, how can she know you? Be careful with what you say, in case you ruin my lady’s reputation. We ca here to et the master.”
et the master?
Let alone An Qingrong, even Chuan Qiong was stunned by Xiaotao’s words. Chuan Qiong chuckled after a while. “What a boisterous day. one is asking for a doctor while the other eting the master. There is neither doctor nor master here, only a young man selling dicine.”
Zhao Xiaotao presented the casket she got from An Rushuang to Chuan Qiong before saying in a low voice, “Have you heard about the legendary venerable doctor? This is the token we got from the descendant of the legendary doctor.”
Chuan Qiong turned to An Rushuang, his expression a little complicated. “We stop giving out dicine today. Please co here early tomorrow morning,” he drawled to the beggars while knocking the gong beside him.
Zhao Xiaotao whisper to An Rushuang, “The dicine distribution starts with the three knocks on the gong, and ends with one knock.”
An Rushuang nodded. Was he driving people away? She thought.
Just as she expected, all the beggars began to disperse at the gonging. They glared at the girl in red while complaining, but not daring to bla Chuan Qiong.
In about an hour, all the beggars asking for dicine were gone, except for Chuan Qiong, the mystic Mr. Gu, the girl in red, as well as An Rushuang and her maids.
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