NOVPUBChapter 71: Chapter 71: Settling Affairs
Chapter 71 -71: Settling Affairs
He hadn’t been gone two minutes before he turned back.
After just a few steps, he suddenly remembered that the old man might really take this seriously. If he didn’t bring the charlatan back, the old man might come himself soon.
It would be better for him to bring this so-called Divine Doctor back himself and let the old man see that this is clearly a case of a trickster emerging from a place of dire straits.
“Aren’t you a ‘Divine Doctor’? Just go and take a look then! People’s lives are at stake; are you really going to do nothing?” Qian Cheng’s attitude was truly infuriating.
Bai Xiao really wanted to spit in his face—what kind of attitude was that?
Zhao Dachuan then grabbed Bai Xiao, bowed his head and pleaded, “Bai Xiao, it’s my fault. For my sake, please go and check on the situation. After all, the old man is not young. If something happens to him, I wouldn’t be able to bear it. I apologize here; please, for the sake of mercy, take a look.”
He knew both his sons were at the factory, and under no circumstances today could they afford to make an enemy.
If Bai Xiao simply walked away, Zhao Dachuan’s family would suffer. 𝑛𝘰𝘷𝑝𝘶𝑏.𝑐𝘰𝘮
This time, Zhao Dachuan truly regretted everything deeply.
Upon hearing this, Aunt He Wang also understood that the person before her was not to be trifled with. People that brazen and rude generally had powerful backing. They were just ordinary folks and definitely couldn’t afford to provoke such a person. Angrily, she glared at Zhao Dachuan, “Xiao, it’s all your uncle’s fault for being so foolhardy. We shouldn’t have gotten involved in this. Please, for the sake of your sister and brother-in-law, help us out. I’m begging you here.”
Zhao Dachuan looked despondent, realizing that he had been glared at enough today to last a lifetime.
Bai Ju tugged at Bai Xiao’s sleeve, “Xiao, why not just help your aunt and uncle out?”
Although Uncle Zhao Dachuan was sometimes opportunistic, over the years, he had helped them quite a bit. Whenever they needed to borrow money or food, he never let them leave empty-handed. It’s known that they had relied on their aunt and uncle during hard times more than just a few times.
After all, they were family.
Bai Xiao patted his clothes, took a small acupuncture pack from the house—it was a small cloth bag he had brought along. The package of acupuncture needles that brother-in-law He Wang had bought yesterday was still with him, “Let’s go! Aunt, I’m doing this because of how you’ve looked after my sister and brother-in-law in the past. Otherwise, I definitely wouldn’t have bothered.”
Without further ado—as he really didn’t want to get involved—but since Aunt He Wang and her family were involved, he remembered the long private talks with his sister Bai Ju the night before. He knew well how she had been living these past years.
Without Aunt He Wang’s family’s support, not to mention getting two bucks a month, someone might have starved to death in this home.
Even if he technically received two bucks a month in his name for living expenses without spending a penny himself, it was his brother-in-law’s family who had helped him. However despicable the man seemed right now—
Bai Xiao was someone who knew the difference between gratitude and grievance. He would consider this repaying a favor today.
He hoped Aunt He Wang’s family would not regret this later, for he could only afford this favor once.
“Ai, ai! Aunt understands, we are the ones putting you in this difficult position. You are a good kid, doing this all for us. We understand, and we won’t let this kind of thing happen again,” Aunt He Wang said guiltily and somewhat uneasily, wondering if she had been too selfish. Their family had essentially imposed on him. If it weren’t for Bai Ju, they probably wouldn’t have had the clout to ask him to do these difficult things.
Qian Cheng scoffed, still pretending to be all proper, but a charlatan is a charlatan. Could someone become a ‘Divine Doctor’ at eighteen or nineteen without starting from their mother’s womb?
He walked out first.
Aunt He Wang pushed Zhao Dachuan, “Aren’t you going to accompany the kid quickly? You stirred up this mess; you should see it through.” She completely forgot that she was actually the instigator, having gleefully boasted about Bai Xiao’s medical expertise everywhere last night, which gave Zhao Dachuan such ideas in the first place.
Zhao Dachuan muttered twice, hurriedly leading Bai Xiao out and heading straight for Director Wei’s house.
Upon entering the gate, all eyes in the room immediately turned to Bai Xiao.
It was impossible not to know she was the so-called Divine Doctor, as only three people came in: Qian Cheng, Zhao Dachuan, and Bai Xiao herself.
So instinctively, everyone could tell she was the miraculous Divine Doctor Zhao Dachuan had mentioned.
“Dad, I’ve brought the person. Take a look, do you want her to see your son? I really think this is unreliable,” Qian Cheng whispered to the old man.
As soon as Wang Jianli saw Bai Xiao, his heart skipped a beat. He had harbored a glimmer of hope that perhaps in this remote and impoverished place, there really was a hidden master. After all, there were indeed some highly skilled practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine who were not after fame but dedicated to treating people and pursuing the noble path of healing.
But now, seeing Bai Xiao, he realized what his son-in-law meant.
No wonder, just seeing the girl’s age, his heart felt thoroughly chilled. An eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl, even if she had excellent medical skills, how skilled could she be?
He immediately hesitated whether to treat or not to treat.
In the room, Liu Huiru’s crying suddenly intensified, Wang Fang rushed out, lifting the curtain, with a distressed look, “Doctor, doctor, please come and check on my brother quickly, he seems to be failing to breathe.”
Five doctors immediately rushed back in.
Two minutes later, a doctor came out and asked for Wang Jianli’s opinion, as he was the old Wang’s own son, it was still up to the old man to decide.
“Old Wang, your son might not make it. Our suggestion is to administer a shot of cardiotonic now, it might prolong his life for about half an hour, tell the family to say their goodbyes soon. Otherwise…” the implication of the rest of the sentence was clear to everyone.
Wang Jianli’s complexion changed dramatically. Was there really no way to bring him back? Was he truly about to watch the elder bury the younger?
Bai Xiao walked to the entrance of the small room, glanced inside at the boy lying on the bed, his eyes tightly closed, dark bruises under his eyelids, and his breathing already very weak, looking like he might stop breathing at any moment.
“If you believe in me, I can treat him.” No matter what, she was already here, and there had been no misstep in attitude.
Having promised Zhao Dachuan and his wife, she was also repaying the kindness they had shown to her sister and brother-in-law.
But whether they wanted her to treat was up to them after all. In case they did not believe her, it wasn’t that she wouldn’t treat, but that the boy would have no chance.
Fire seemed to shoot from Qian Cheng’s eyes as he pointed at Bai Xiao and scolded, “At this critical moment, you’re still causing trouble here. Get out quickly, our family doesn’t need charlatans.”
Bai Xiao nodded calmly, shouldered her backpack, and left.
That was his fate, and no one else was to blame.
If fate decrees your life, no one can stop it.
