The Female Supporting Role Shows Out

Chapter 145

Translator: thornling | Editor: thornling

What happened in Xing Lin Spring had also been taken in by the medical practitioners and apprentices of Xuancao Hall. Everyone looked at each other in dismay, each with different expressions, but they could no longer look down on Lin Dan as they did before. It should be known that in order to cure that patient with intestinal ulcers, they personally watched Zheng Zhe and Wu Xuancao repeatedly formulate and reject operation plans. During the treatment process, they needed to open the abdominal cavity. This was already extremely difficult. Post-surgery nursing would require them to waste even more time and energy. As long as even a single part of the process went wrong, the patient might die, and the success rate was only forty or fifty percent.

To say something unpleasant – it was precisely because the patient's situation was hopeless and no cure existed that Zheng Zhe and Wu Xuancao would think of performing surgery. They were treating a dead horse as if it were alive and just trying their luck. This was commonly understood. The patient's family knew it, Zheng Zhe and Wu Xuancao knew it, the medical practitioners and apprentices of Xuancao Hall knew it, and even the patient himself knew it. Once you had this disease, other than trying your luck, what else could you do?

But now, this man who had been doomed to die was easily brought back to life by Lin Dan. The herbs she used were all worth very little. From start to finish, the treatment didn't cost more than five taels of silver. The patient was admitted in the morning and could go home in the afternoon; the recovery speed was extremely fast, making everyone who witnessed it dumbfounded.

With his family member supporting him, the patient repeatedly bowed to Lin Dan with a very grateful expression. As he paid the consultation fee, his elder brother fell into a daze for a moment, then quickly ran to the door of Xuancao Hall and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Return my deposit of fifty taels! When you wanted to perform surgery, in addition to the deposit, you also wanted to charge me another two hundred taels of silver. You even asked me to sign a contract that said that my brother was not guaranteed to be saved, making us take responsibility for life and death. But look, my brother was saved by little Physician Lin! From start to finish, it only took five taels of silver and eight hours."

He spat fiercely and his tone was very disdainful: "Bah, what "miracle doctor"? I think "quack doctor" is more like it! Charging me so much money but not even being able to guarantee that he'll live, then saying that treatment can't be done at the last minute and delaying my brother's illness for no reason! If it weren't for little Physician Lin's extraordinary medical skills and how quickly it took effect, my brother would have died today! From now on, our family will never come to Xuancao Hall for treatment ever again! Whoever comes is a fool!"

The apprentices and medical practitioners of Xuancao Hall had always attached great importance to protecting the shop's reputation. If anyone said a single sentence about how Xuancao Hall was no good, they would immediately rise to attack them. But this day, they actually started blushing and didn't dare to refute a word.

When the passers-by heard the man's words, they all showed astonished expressions and commented, "Oh my goodness*, from start to finish it would have costed two hundred fifty taels of silver** to treat one illness. Isn't this daylight robbery?"

*Literally, "my mother," a common swear word.

*"Two hundred fifty taels of silver" is also a way to call someone an idiot. An emperor experienced an attempt on his life so he set a one thousand tael bounty for the assassin to turn themselves in. Four different people turned themselves in, so the emperor bestowed each with two hundred fifty taels of silver, then executed them.

"Did you not hear him clearly? How much money it would have cost is the trivial part. The important thing is that they couldn't even guarantee that the patient will be cured at all. They even want you to sign a life and death contract to exempt them from taking responsibility! If that's how they really do things, then I would never have agreed to undergo treatment. I would have run much earlier. They're taking money to harm a life!"