The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 983 - 962: Porcelain Bumping

Chapter 983: Chapter 962: Porcelain Bumping

Shopkeeper Zheng: ...

Doctor Ding, who had just finished treating a patient and rushed over, looked at the location of the three needles Manbao inserted and silently turned and walked away.

The man’s three brothers all turned back with faces full of shock and uncertainty, looking at their brother.

Shopkeeper Zheng composed his facial expression, cleared his throat lightly, and continued where Manbao left off. "Doctor Zhou Junior is right. Gentlemen, don’t be fooled by her young age; actually, her medical skills are quite good. She’s been holding consultations here for almost a month now and has cured quite a few patients."

The old patients in the hall nodded in agreement, chiming in, "Wasn’t Old Madam Dou’s granddaughter cured by Doctor Zhou Junior?"

"That’s right. Last time, the Chen Family’s grandson kept having diarrhea, and it was she who cured him."

"And our neighbor too, with a cold, took her medicine for two doses, sweated it out, and got better."

Shopkeeper Zheng was very pleased with the patients’ awareness and support, adding, "She has been studying medicine under our Jishi Hall’s Doctor Ji for a long time. Back in Yizhou City, she even studied under an imperial physician. Her medical skills are indeed excellent. Young man, if you don’t trust her, I can examine you. Come, you just told her, where are you feeling unwell?"

Man: ...

Under the insistent gaze of his three brothers, the man couldn’t resist and raised his right hand, "First, take out the needles in my hand. I feel like my whole hand is weak now."

"You can’t pull them out," Manbao said. "This is part of your treatment. By the way, do you feel numbness, pain, or lack of sensation in your right hand now?"

"Numb, and it has no strength."

Manbao asked further, "What about your head? Does it still hurt?"

The man subconsciously replied, "It doesn’t hurt."

"What about your feet, stomach, and back? Do they still hurt?"

The man took a moment to consider and responded, "They don’t hurt anymore."

Manbao clapped her hands in delight, "See? Didn’t I say this acupuncture method is effective? I pondered over this technique from the books for a long time before figuring it out. Your condition is treatable, so don’t worry."

Shopkeeper Zheng and Young Manager Zheng: ...

They could see clearly, but the onlookers, including the patient being treated, didn’t notice, staring in bewilderment. Not to mention the patients outside in the hall, even the man himself started to harbor some doubts and couldn’t help but believe Manbao.

Only his three brothers were completely baffled, weren’t they there to cause trouble?

How come it turned into a medical consultation?

Manbao, gathering her courage, walked up to the man, reached out to steady his right hand, and slowly brought it to the table, saying, "Don’t be scared. Come, sit down first. I’ll check your tongue coating and pulse again. Don’t worry, I’ve already looked. Your vital energy is quite strong, and you should be able to endure a bit of treatment."

Turning around and seeing Young Manager Zheng about to lower the curtain of the consultation booth, Manbao quickly said, "No need for that. I see he’s a bit nervous. He probably doesn’t like staying in closed spaces. So hang up the curtain; after all, he doesn’t need to undress, just some needling on his hands and feet. There’s nothing for a grown man to be afraid of."

Young Manager Zheng looked at his father and silently hung up the curtain.

Manbao manipulated the needles then added a few more to his right hand, asking, "Do you now feel a kind of soreness and swelling?"

The man found what she said to be true and became increasingly scared, nodding, "What disease do I have?"

Manbao sighed, "A very serious illness. Among the many cases I have seen, you are actually the first living case I’ve encountered. Rest assured, I will definitely try my best to cure you."

While she was speaking, another group of people came pouring into Jishi Hall. Several yamen runners, clad in official attire, pushed the patients aside and clamored, "What’s going on here? I heard there’s a doctor here who has made a patient’s condition worse. Who is it?"

Shopkeeper Zheng narrowed his eyes and immediately stepped forward to welcome them, smiling, "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, it’s all a misunderstanding. The patient had some incorrect perceptions of our doctor’s treatment methods, but it’s all been resolved now."

"Resolved? It doesn’t seem like it. It looks to me more like your pharmacy has made the situation worse."

The yamen runner pushed past Shopkeeper Zheng and entered Manbao’s consultation room, scanning the room before his gaze landed on the three young men standing and asked by lifting his chin, "What’s going on?"

Although they felt there were some discrepancies, the three young men still pointed at Manbao and cried out, "It’s her; she’s the one who made our brother worse."

The yamen runner then stepped forward and asked, "Did you cause this man’s condition to deteriorate?"

Manbao calmly shook her head, "No."

"No?" The yamen runner exclaimed, "You say it’s not you, and that’s that? Come with us to the yamen first. We can talk there."

After saying that, he shook the chains he was holding as if to take her, but Manbao reached out and pressed on a needle on the man’s right hand. He immediately screamed in pain, his forehead breaking out in sweat.

Manbao smiled and soothed him, "It’s okay, don’t be afraid. This is a normal pain. Do you feel much more alert now?"

The man nodded with tears in his eyes.

Shopkeeper Zheng also stepped forward to block the yamen runners, his face turning stern, "The officials have seen it themselves, our doctor is treating a patient, and the patient did not say our doctor made him worse."

"But the patient’s brothers..."

"These men did not accompany the patient here. They barged in later claiming to be the patient’s brothers," Young Manager Zheng interjected. "I actually suspect they are the patient’s enemies. Who else would not get their own brother a doctor, but instead drag their brother out? This happened inside the pharmacy."

"Who knows what shady dealings you have in your pharmacy..."

Shopkeeper Zheng said with a stern face, "What do you mean by that? Are you doubting Jishi Hall? Have you not seen how many years Jishi Hall has been in the capital? Come on, let’s go to the yamen and clarify this immediately."

Saying that, he grabbed hold of the young man who had spoken.

The yamen runners and the young men: ...

The leading yamen runner cleared his throat and said, "Shopkeeper Zheng, you’ve misunderstood. We didn’t mean anything by it. Of course, there’s no issue with Jishi Hall, but this doctor looks young, and it’s her patient who has gotten worse. We just came to ask her a few questions; it has nothing to do with Jishi Hall."

Shopkeeper Zheng said with a stern face, "She is a doctor of Jishi Hall, and the patient is also our patient at Jishi Hall. How can it have nothing to do with us?"

Seeing them arguing, Manbao stretched out her hand and twisted the needle on the patient’s hand, "I say, the patient is sitting right here. Are you officials not going to ask for his opinion?"

Everyone quieted down and looked down, then it hit them that the person involved, the patient, was right there in front of them.

The yamen runner cleared his throat again and asked, "You tell us, did she make your condition worse?"

Manbao withdrew her hand, and the man saw the needle begin to tremble. He felt a surge of qi bubbling to the surface, as if pushing against the needle like boiling water gurgling...

With a sorrowful face, he said, "No, she didn’t make it worse..."

Manbao smiled and spread her hands, "You see, it’s just a misunderstanding. Thank you for making the trip, but please leave now. I need to treat him."

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