Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

Chapter 1089 Jingzhou Xiaoyongning Earl

It was not until then that the stall owner realized that she seemed to have been cheated.

It was obvious that the doctor who sold the house and the clinic that prescribed the medicine had colluded with each other long ago!

"It's not enough that you cheated me out of two taels of money for the prescription, but you also cheated me out of the monthly medicine fee?"

She didn't understand how people could be so evil.

Money is a small matter, but what about her mother's health? It has been delayed for so long in vain!

"I'll go and reason with them!" She held back her tears and began to pack up her stall, cursing, "How heartless! My handkerchiefs and fans may be expensive, but I've never intended to hurt anyone. And they... don't take human life seriously at all!"

"If you go there rashly, I'm afraid you won't be able to reason with them." Li Shiyuan stated the cruel truth: "Doctors' medical skills vary greatly. This prescription can indeed clear away heat and quench thirst, but it's too old. After a while, it won't be of much use to the patient. You can only say that their medical skills are poor, but you have no evidence that they deceived you."

The stall owner paused, looking up with tears in his eyes. "But they said this was a recipe from Doctor Li in Tongan County! If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have spent two taels of silver on it! Isn't this... just a scam?"

Two taels of silver!

She had to work hard for half a year to save up money.

My mother's health has been damaged. How can she live like this?

Li Shiyuan looked at her quietly for a moment, then sighed softly, "Can anyone prove it for you? Besides you, who else has personally heard the other person say, 'This is the prescription given by Doctor Li'?"

He had seen many cases of people being deceived by using ordinary prescriptions during his travels.

The person who sold the son was extremely shrewd and would do things away from the eyes of others, not fearing at all that the patient would discover him.

There is also a medical clinic that prescribes medicine for patients.

The prescription was not written by the clinic. They are only responsible for dispensing the medicine. What responsibility can they have?

The stall owner looked at Li Shiyuan in disbelief. Li Shiyuan sighed and asked in a low voice, "How is your mother's health now? Is the effect of the medicine becoming less obvious after taking it?"

"Yes! Yes! Her condition is even getting worse. I thought the herbs weren't working, so I went to get some new medicine!" The stall owner came to his senses, suddenly stepped forward, and knelt down before Li Shiyuan. "Doctor! You're a miracle doctor. Please, please save my mother!"

Passersby immediately looked over.

Li Shiyuan immediately said, "No need to do that. Stand up and talk first."

"Okay, okay..." The stall owner was afraid that Li Shiyuan would leave if he didn't obey, so he stood up immediately.

Li Shiyuan asked, "Is your mother nearby?"

Dialectics requires observation, listening, questioning and palpation. He would not dare to prescribe medicine without seeing the patient in person.

"Yes! Yes!" the stall owner said immediately. "I live in the suburbs, very close, only an hour's walk! Will you come with me? I'm willing to pay your consultation fee! Just name it!"

"One hour... is that short?" Li Shiyuan looked embarrassed.

In another hour and a half, they would have to go back to the restaurant to pick someone up. There was simply not enough time to walk to the outskirts of the city and back.

The stall owner saw his dilemma and immediately looked around, pleading, "I'll go hire a carriage. It's fast. Can we go there in a carriage? I'll go hire it right away. Please don't leave, okay..."

Seeing her helpless look, Shen Zheng also softened her heart.

It can be said that it was wrong for her to deceive people by using the name of Tongan County, but it cannot be said that she deserved to be deceived by the fake doctor, nor can it be said that her filial piety was wrong.

"Hua Duo, have the driver bring the carriage over." Shen Zheng looked at the stall owner and asked, "Is your mother still able to ride in a carriage? If so, the doctor won't follow you. We'll wait for you on this street."

It's a coincidence.

When everyone came out of the restaurant to go shopping, they didn't want the rented carriage to follow them, but Fang Ziyan and Cui Jinyin insisted on "doing a lot of shopping", so they let the carriage follow them, just to carry their purchases.

"Yes, yes! I'll go get my mother." The stall owner wiped his eyes with his sleeve and said in a deep voice, "Sir, my name is Lin Xiaoman, thank you very much..."

She could tell that these people were either rich or noble, and that their willingness to help her was a blessing she had earned over several lifetimes.

"Don't say anything more." Shen Zheng pointed to the carriage road and said, "Go quickly and come back quickly. We are in a hurry and need to leave at twilight hour."

"Okay, okay, I'll go right away..." Lin Xiaoman climbed onto the carriage in a panic, without even glancing at her stall.

After the carriage left, Li Shiyuan asked Shen Zheng, "You asked her to bring the patient over because you were worried it would be unsafe for me to go?"

Shen Zheng smiled, brought a small stool from behind the stall, sat down, and said, "It's important to be cautious. First, I'm worried it might be unsafe, and second, I'm worried the carriage might be too bumpy and bad for your health."

She had seen how bumpy a carriage could be when in a hurry, not to mention that the location was on the outskirts of the city. Even the lunch she had just eaten might be shaken out.

"This girl doesn't even want her stall anymore. She's really filial." Yu Shizhang glanced at the items on the stall and said to Shen Zheng, "Shall we go shopping around?"

Shen Zheng paused and looked at the ink and brush stall beside her. "I'll take a break here. You guys go ahead."

Yu Shizhang hesitated for a moment, then looked at Xiang He and the others who were pretending to be passersby, and then nodded: "Okay, we won't go far, you can see it if you look up."

In fact, Linshui Street is not long, but there are many shops and vendors on the street, which makes it seem particularly lively.

After they left, Shen Zheng sat on the stool for a while, staring at the river in a daze.

It was not until the boatman paddled past that she came to her senses, stood up and walked towards the pen and ink stall nearby, and Huaduo immediately followed.

At the writing and ink stall, the stall owner had just stopped writing and handed the completed letter to the buyer, saying with a smile, "Forty cents, here you go."

"So expensive..." the buyer muttered as he took out the money. After he counted the forty copper coins three times, they finally reached the stall owner's hands.

The stall owner took the copper coins with a smile, counted them three times, and then looked up and asked Shen Zheng, "What do you want to write, young lady?"

Shen Zheng: "...can we write it ourselves?"

"Of course you can! But..." The stall owner flung open his folding fan, half covering his face, and said, "Miss, please take a look at my handwriting. Are you sure you don't want me to write it for you? Just give me an extra twenty cents for the ghostwriting fee... Well, to be honest, I'm nicknamed 'Little Yongning Earl of Jingzhou', hehe..."

As he said this, he gave Shen Zheng a look that said "you know".

"..."

Looking at the words on the fan, Shen Zheng also laughed.

He is also called "Little Earl of Yongning of Jingzhou". How shameless he is.

"No need, I can write it myself." Shen Zheng rejected his offer and said, "Two sheets of paper and an envelope, thank you."

"Alas..." the stall owner sighed helplessly, "Then I'll listen to the girl. She is so graceful that I fell in love with her at first sight..."

"Swish--" Huaduo's knife was unsheathed.