The Female Supporting Role Shows Out

Chapter 143

Translator: thornling | Editor: thornling

Lin Dan used her golden needle technique to save the woman's life, then waved her hand and said: "You can lift her in now."

"Oh, good! Thank you, doctor, thank you, doctor!" The strong man hurriedly carried his wife into Xing Lin Spring and placed her on a cot in the outer hall.

Lin Dan quickly wrote two prescriptions and ordered the servants to brew them. She fed the woman each prescription two hours apart. In the evening, the woman had greatly recovered. She no longer had abdominal pain, no longer vomited blood, and regained control of her bowel movements. Her several daughters and sister-in-laws brought in hot water and clean clothes and helped her clean herself up. By the time she was lifted back out, she actually looked like a human again.

Some of the crowd had dispersed, while others remained outside craning their necks. If Physician Lin couldn't cure the illness either, the strong man would definitely start making a ruckus and then there will be another good show to watch.

Zheng Zhe sat at the entrance of Xuancao Hall, dazed, his eyes fixed on the opposite clinic. When he saw the woman, who had made herself presentable, he suddenly stood up, as if he had seen a ghost. Wu Xuancao, who had been silently waiting for the result as well, also showed an extremely astonished expression. She couldn't help but stagger forward two steps and step out of the shop door, but then was fixed at her present position and stopped moving. This was the second time she had seen the wonders of traditional Chinese medicine through Lin Dan.

The crowd made a huge commotion, followed by a steady stream of admiring exclamations. It had only been six or eight hours, but such a serious illness had already been cured? Although this Physician Lin was young, her medical skills were really not to be underestimated*!

*Wordplay here, the author used "xiao" (small) to say that Lin Dan was young, then "bu xiao" (not small) to describe her medical skills.

However, Lin Dan ignored the reactions and opinions of bystanders. She just held the woman's wrist and focused on checking the pulse, unhurriedly saying: "There is no longer any emergency. The external symptoms have been eliminated, but the internal symptoms are still there. You will need to take medicine every day and properly take care of yourself. Don't eat too much spicy, greasy, or coarse foods. Eat more light and soft foods. I will start by prescribing medicine for you to drink. Take it continuously for seven days, then return for further diagnosis."

"Yes, thank you, doctor, thank you, doctor!" The strong man and his wife knelt down in gratitude. Their children also knelt down in a big patch.

Lin Dan didn't help them up. She just turned sideways to avoid the bows. Then, she unhurriedly wrote down the prescription. Her manner was very flat; although she was saving people, she appeared to have a sense of detachment from the secular world, as if the life and death of other people were just a small plaything that she casually toyed with at her fingertips.

The strong man secretly glanced at her, his expression becoming more respectful, and even a sort of fear and trepidation arose. The fellow villagers he brought also calmed down. They became docile one-by-one, scared to even take too big a breath.

The shop was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, but Lin Dan didn't think anything of it. She wrapped the seven portions of medicine in oil paper and said slowly, "All right. You can go back now."

The strong man reached out to pick up the paper package, thanking her repeatedly. His wife, with the support of her children, bowed her knees deeply with an extremely grateful expression.

When she was misunderstood and even shoved aside by these people, Lin Dan was never angry. Naturally, now that they revered her as an immortal, she would also not be proud of herself. Her character was just like her name*. Her every move was indifferent, making people unable to get close to her at all. After dealing with this inconvenience, she picked up a medical text as usual and flipped through it seriously, exactly as she did in the past.