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Chapter 452: Chapter 455: The Truth Revealed_1
Qiao Laixi also hurriedly explained, "This doctor is from Deji Hall, and the Junior Shopkeeper of Deji Hall is close with Qiao Duo’er. They are colluding together, bullying my honest Qiao family!"
"Deji Hall is a century-old shop that never practices deceit. If there is even half a lie in what I’m saying, you can dismantle Deji Hall and I will have not a single word of complaint!"
The doctor spoke each word with conviction; he had always been upright and had never done anything unscrupulous.
He never expected to be slandered like this, and he would not accept it!
At this moment, someone emerged from the crowd.
"I am a passerby from the docks, with a bit of medical knowledge. If you all trust me, I can verify this matter for everyone."
Since the passerby had no vested interest in anyone, he was bound to be impartial, so nobody raised any objections.
Tan Zhenghong graciously invited the doctor inside and before long, the pulse had been properly diagnosed.
"My view is the same," the passerby said. "The Madam has long been suffering from malnutrition, compounded by overwork, causing toxins to spread throughout her body. If you all look carefully, you can still see the scars from toxin sores on the Madam’s face. It’s a good thing this came to light now; otherwise, once the Madam’s health improved, she would have been wrongly blamed."
"That ’toxin’ is heat toxin, caused by sun exposure in summer, manifesting as dark skin with toxin bumps all year round," added the doctor from Deji Hall.
Sun in the summer can be scorching, but to develop heat toxin is not a matter of one or two days, nor even one or two months.
Tan Zhenghong gratefully said, "Thank you both for clearing my wife’s name."
"Upright acts are our duty when we see injustice," replied the passerby.
"Don’t mention it. A healer must not lack compassion," said the doctor.
Both doctors were very modest.
"I won’t hide it from everyone," Tan Zhenghong continued, "my wife used to be mentally unsettled and not fully coherent. Once, after nearly drowning, she was guided by a Taoist priest who helped her regain her composure. It’s simply that my wife was a bit slow before, and her face used to break out with toxic sores, which is why she was sold for One Tael of Silver."
Tan Zhenghong offered this explanation, which he had thought up with great difficulty.
At this point, the truth was crystal clear.
The Qiao’s Family Members had abused Qiao Duo, causing her health to become exceedingly poor. Had she not met a good husband, she might well have died.
Yet the Qiao’s Family Members still had the audacity to come and try to snatch away the person and the shop, reaching the pinnacle of shamelessness!
Somebody in the crowd, filled with righteous indignation, looked at the Qiao’s Family Members and said, "You call others ungrateful, but it’s you who have hearts as black as coal, treating such a fine daughter so harshly that she’s barely recognizable as a person."
"It seems like pure greed to me, coveting the young couple’s shop, doesn’t it?"
"Really, what kind of people are you? How can you bear to see your daughter do well? Is she someone you picked up somewhere?"
...
The Qiao family members were surrounded in the middle, and could have drowned in spit.
The very people who had been so arrogant just moments before now looked as dejected as frostbitten eggplants, wishing they could bury their heads in the ground.
"You’re a lucky man, buying such a lovely wife for One Tael of Silver," someone said enviously looking at Tan Zhenghong.
He had always thought that marrying such a fairy-like girl would cost a fortune.
Another person immediately said, "Didn’t you hear the doctor mention she used to have poison sores on her face? Just for the bravery of taking her into his home, Heaven should bestow upon him good fortune."
If it were anyone else, they probably would have been frightened to madness.
He had seen people with poison sores; their faces densely covered with old and new bumps, some areas even pus-filled and oozing, causing onlookers to feel sick to their stomachs.
