Chapter 68: Doctor, Please Save Me!
At this time, the people behind all arrived at Lin Xin’s home entrance. Cui Shi chuckled as he got down from the horse carriage, “Stinky girl, tonight you have to make us a good meal, okay!”
Lin Xin rolled her eyes, “Why are you always thinking about eating! Today we have to go into the deep mountain, and we probably won’t come back very early in the evening, so we might miss dinner.”
“Hmm? Not coming back tonight?” Cui Shi was even happier, “That’s no problem. Nan Nan, I’ll help bring you. I’m not going back tonight either.”
Lin Xin was completely speechless. This is my home, and you’re saying you’re not going back so smoothly. You really don’t treat yourself as an outsider!
Seeing Cui Shi, Lin Laosan, who had been in painful despair, immediately looked like he had seen a savior. Without a word, he crawled up from the ground and pounced toward Cui Shi, shouting incoherently, “Doctor, save a life!”
Everyone was talking happily when suddenly someone pounced over. Zhou Qi, who was closest to Lin Laosan, kicked out and sent Lin Laosan tumbling to the ground before realizing who it was.
“What are you doing?” Because of Lin Xin, this group had no goodwill toward anyone from the Old Lin Family.
“Doctor, beg the doctor to save a life!” Lin Laosan scrambled up again. This time he didn’t dare pounce over and just sat on the ground pointing at Lin Zhi, wailing loudly, “Beg the doctor to save my daughter! She was first hit with a stick by Lin Xin, then she fell, and now her ears can’t hear, and she seems to have gone silly.”
Cui Shi recognized Lin Laosan. The woman who had miscarried and was near death last time was his daughter-in-law. He had spent a long time saving her life, but not only did that family not thank him, they also hurled filthy abuse at Lin Xin and her siblings for a while, angering him almost to the point of exploding on the spot. Even though he held back later, he had already decided that no matter what flowery words this family spouted in the future, he wouldn’t treat them.
He hadn’t expected to see their family again today, let alone that they wanted him to treat them.
He looked at the little girl sitting dazed on the ground, shook his head, and said, “Last time I told you, I won’t treat your family anymore. Go find another doctor quickly!”
“No no no, doctor, I beg you, save my daughter!” Lin Laosan wouldn’t let go of this chance. Seeing several tall and strong men blocking between him and the doctor, he turned his mind, quickly grabbed Lin Zhi’s arm, dragged her over, pushed her in front of Cui Shi, and said, “Doctor, I beg you. My daughter is not even ten years old yet. She can’t be ruined like this!”
This time he was crying sincerely. After all, Lin Duo was already ruined, and if Lin Zhi was ruined too, he would have no hope left.
Cui Shi carefully examined Lin Zhi’s injury, and anger surged in his heart. “You just said, how did her injury happen?”
“This······” Lin Laosan’s eyes darted around, and he stammered, “Lin Xin hit her with a stick, then she accidentally fell······ fell down, so······ that’s how it happened······”
Lin Zhi also knew this old doctor’s medical skill was very impressive. Her mother had been near death, but this old doctor saved her. If he could examine her, that would be great.
She still wasn’t very clear on what was wrong with her, but she knew her left ear hurt a lot inside, and half her head hurt along with it. Moreover, she found she couldn’t hear sounds clearly anymore.
“Doctor, save me, I beg you to save me.” Although Lin Xin was standing coldly beside her watching, the strong desire to get better overcame Lin Zhi’s fear of Lin Xin, and she still knelt toward Cui Shi, pleading.
“You this······” Although Cui Shi disliked the Lin Family people, he didn’t have much ill feeling toward Lin Zhi, especially with her so miserably kneeling in front of him begging for help.
Seeing Cui Shi softening, Lin Xin coldly snorted and said, “Old man, I remind you, you’re Nan Nan’s master now. If they come to my home again using the fact that you’ve saved them before, you won’t need to come anymore. I hate trouble, and I hate even more spineless softness.”
“Hey hey, you girl, why are you getting angry just like that! Last time I was wrong, I know, but I’m a doctor. How can I see death without saving?” Cui Shi muttered while looking at Lin Xin.
“In that case, my family’s Nan Nan won’t learn medicine anymore, so he won’t learn to be as spineless as you.” Lin Xin showed no sign of compromise.
“Lin Xin, how can you be like this? The doctor clearly wants to treat my family’s Lin Zhi. On what grounds do you stop him? How can your heart be so black!” Lin Laosan was itching with hatred upon hearing Lin Xin come to stop Cui Shi.
“On what grounds? Just because I don’t like the look of you all, just because you came to my home early in the morning to make trouble for no reason, just because you deafened your daughter’s ears. I’ll put it here today: if anyone from your family dares come to my home to make trouble again, I’ll beat them every time I see them. I absolutely won’t hold back again. If you don’t believe me, try it.” After speaking, she went inside the door and slammed it shut with a bang.
“Hey, look at this······” Cui Shi knew Lin Xin was angry, but he hadn’t expected her to shut him out so directly. This meant that if he really treated this little girl, she absolutely wouldn’t deal with him anymore in the future.
“Old Cui, it’s not that I have no sympathy, but this time I’m on Miss Lin’s side.” Ling Qing led the horse over from behind and said to Old Cui.
“Exactly, they only shamelessly seek you out because you don’t charge money. Haven’t you learned your lesson from last time?” Gao Yong added.
“This little girl got beaten like this by her dad today because they wanted to come make Miss Lin find you to continue treating her mother. Miss Lin refused, so they tried to extort money from Miss Lin. When they failed, the dad took it out on his daughter and beat her like this.” Meng Yichen pieced together Lin Xin’s attitude and the villagers’ discussions to understand the whole story.
“Old Cui, think about why you came here. Do you still dare to be blindly kind?” Zhou Qi stabbed the final knife into his heart.
“I······ I didn’t intend to treat her anyway!” Cui Shi weakly retorted. Seeing everyone’s “you’re just being stubborn” expressions, he threw up his hands and said, “Fine, I know I was wrong. I won’t be blindly kind next time. Happy now? Hurry up and get the door open. This old man is tired and needs to rest.”
“Okay, I’ll call at the door now.” Chu Yu gave Cui Shi a sideways glance with his eyes, walked to the door, raised his hand to knock, but as soon as his fingers touched the door, it opened.
Meng Yichen laughed, “Looks like Miss Lin knew long ago that we’re on her side, so she left the door for us!”
At his words, everyone except Cui Shi also laughed.
“Hmph!” Cui Shi huffed angrily and strode into the courtyard. Seeing this, Lin Zhi behind him cried out hoarsely again, “Doctor, I beg you to save me! My ears hurt so much, my head hurts so much, it hurts like I’m dying. Save me! As long as you agree to save me, even if you want me to be an ox or a horse, I’m willing. I beg you.”
