Chapter 297: Chapter 296: Making Trouble Chapter 297: Chapter 296: Making Trouble The business at dicinal Hall was booming, as its fa spread, drawing an increasing number of patients seeking treatnt and prescriptions.
In contrast to the bustling dicinal Hall, Pinghe Hall diagonally across the street seed much quieter.
Especially on weekends, the line of people waiting at dicinal Hall stretched halfway down the street.
Ming Yao had hired two physicians to assist at dicinal Hall, and even with Su Lan consulting patients herself, they were overwheld.
Ming Yao took the opportunity to co and help when she had free ti.
Zhou Yanyan also ca back from school to assist with dispensing dicine.
While everyone was busy fulfilling their roles in a hectic but cheerful atmosphere, a commotion suddenly erupted outside.
“Everyone, co and look! Soone has died at dicinal Hall!”
Zhou Yanyan hurried outside.
She saw a middle-aged couple, pushing a cart to a stop in front of dicinal Hall.
There lay a person on the cart, their head covered with a thin cloth, apparently no longer breathing.
Zhou Yanyan’s brows furrowed tightly, “Sir, what are you saying exactly?”
“Where’s your person in charge? Call her out! I got dicine for my mother from dicinal Hall two days ago, and after taking two prescriptions, she died. I’ve heard your dicinal Hall has a divine doctor, but I see it’s all deception!”
Hearing that soone had died under dicinal Hall’s care, the people who were originally queued up for treatnt gathered around to see what was happening.
Facing the aggressive middle-aged man, Zhou Yanyan was sowhat at a loss. She quickly went back into dicinal Hall, “Mom, Sister Yao, there’s trouble outside!”
Ming Yao had just finished diagnosing a patient. She stood up and walked out of dicinal Hall with Su Lan.
The middle-aged man sat on the ground, wailing and howling, demanding dicinal Hall to compensate for his mother’s death.
Su Lan’s brows knitted together when she saw this scene.
“I rember this man. He ca with his gravely ill mother for treatnt. At that ti I took her pulse and indeed, she was at death’s doorstep. I told him to take her to a large hospital, but he said the hospital wouldn’t take her in, then he knelt down and begged to prescribe dicine for his mother.”
“I didn’t want to prescribe anything at the ti, because there was no saving his mother, but he kept begging , saying it was his birthday in a few days and he wanted his mother to stay for another couple of days…”
“In a mont of weakness, I prescribed two doses of life-sustaining dicine for him.”
Ming Yao frowned slightly, “Aunt Lan, you shouldn’t have been soft-hearted!”
Knowing that it was beyond hope, that man ca begging for dicine—clearly, he had an ulterior motive.
Ming Yao glanced over at Pinghe Hall diagonally opposite, where Madam Zhou and Doctor Zhang stood at the doorway looking on with schadenfreude.
It wouldn’t be surprising if this wailing middle-aged man was instigated by soone from Pinghe Hall.
Su Lan, having been out of touch with society for so many years, hadn’t expected people to be so malicious.
This middle-aged man was willing to use even his own mother for his gain—
The middle-aged man, noticing Su Lan and Ming Yao’s approach, flipped the white cloth over, “Your dicinal Hall has killed my mother, and if you don’t give an explanation today, my wife and I will stay here with my mother…”
Upon seeing the dead body, the onlookers took a step back in fright.
But people who knew the middle-aged man could not help but speak up, “Lei Dahai, your mother was already in critical condition and did not have much ti left. You can’t bla dicinal Hall for this, can you?”
Lei Dahai glared at the person who spoke, “Are you a shill for dicinal Hall? It’s true my mother was critically ill, but the hospital said she had a month or so to live. It’s because she took the dicine from dicinal Hall that she suddenly died!”
“dicinal Hall has killed soone and still wants to shirk responsibility?” Lei Dahai said, laying again on the body of the elder, his wailing tearing at the heartstrings.
Passersby who were unaware of the situation began muttering about dicinal Hall.
So in line for treatnt no longer dared to be seen at dicinal Hall and turned to head for Pinghe Hall opposite.
Madam Zhou smiled as she saw quite a few people coming to Pinghe Hall.
He glanced at Doctor Zhang, “Your idea isn’t bad!”
Because of what happened last ti, Doctor Zhang had almost lost his job.
Luckily, Madam Zhou was willing to give him one more chance to redeem himself by coming up with a solution.
That’s when he thought of this malicious plan. If successful, it could completely ruin the reputation of dicinal Hall!
Without the dicinal Hall, those seeking dical treatnt would naturally turn to Pinghe Hall!
Madam Zhou glanced over at the situation at dicinal Hall and sneered, “Let’s hope there won’t be any more surprises. This ti, we must strike decisively and shut down dicinal Hall for good!”
“Rest assured, Madam!”
Seeing that Su Lan and Ming Yao refused to give him an explanation, Lei Dahai beca even more agitated.
He started throwing the rotten eggs he brought from ho at the dicinal Hall’s signboard.
Then he took out the dicine and prescription he bought from dicinal Hall last ti, “Everyone, co and see. These are the prescription and dicine provided by dicinal Hall. My mother passed away after taking only two doses of it. Oh, my poor old mother, killed by these ignorant people!”
Lei Dahai grabbed a rotten egg and threw it at Su Lan and Ming Yao.
Ming Yao looked at him coldly, “Dare to throw one and see what happens.”
When Ming Yao was serious, her sharp edge was revealed, with a powerful aura around her, chilling and formidable.
For a mont, Lei Dahai was intimidated by Ming Yao’s aura.
Ming Yao walked up to the cart and checked the old person’s condition.
Then she picked up the dicine remnants and the prescription from the ground, “Didn’t the person who sent you tell you that the dicines in this prescription only serve to promote health and wouldn’t kill anyone?”
“Don’t try to be crafty. My mom died because of the dicine from dicinal Hall. You owe my mother’s life!”
The man lunged at Ming Yao, but the next second, Ming Yao kicked him away.
“Look, dicinal Hall killed my mother, and now they’re so arrogant as to kick —”
Ming Yao ignored the man and turned to the woman who had been silently crying on her knees. Her gaze fell on a string of beads on the woman’s wrist, and she grabbed her wrist, pulling her up from the ground.
Before the woman could react, Ming Yao dragged her into dicinal Hall.
“What are you doing, taking my wife inside?” Lei Dahai tried to follow, but Ming Yao told the security guard at the door of dicinal Hall, “Don’t let him in!”
Lei Dahai made an even bigger scene outside.
Ming Yao paid him no attention as she pulled the woman to the sofa to sit down.
She poured her a cup of warm water, “The bracelet was given by your daughter, wasn’t it?”
The bracelet looked like it was bought by a little girl for about ten yuan, made of strung-together beads.
The woman clutched the cup, her head hanging low without a word.
“I can tell that you and your husband are not on the sa side. He’s been slandering dicinal Hall constantly, but you haven’t said a word.”
Ming Yao’s voice was gentle, “Is it because he threatened you with your daughter?”
As soon as Ming Yao spoke, the woman’s head shot up, looking at Ming Yao in disbelief, “How… how did you know?”
“If he hadn’t threatened you with your daughter, you wouldn’t have co today, would you? You can tell about it—perhaps I can help you!”
Tears of restraint in the woman’s eyes fell into the cup.
“You can’t help , he has hidden my daughter away!”
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