Chapter 46:
Finally, it was Luo Zhi’er’s turn.
She breathed a sigh of relief; finally, she could rest her feet!
She plopped her butt down on the wooden chair that Brother An’s Mother had just sat on…
Dragging this cumbersome body weighing several hundred pounds around for half the day was truly exhausting!
Who would have thought that as soon as her big butt settled, there was a “crack!” and she crashed to the ground along with the chair.
“Ouch!”
Luo Zhi’er was thrown into a daze, she rubbed her butt and looked at the wooden strips shattered into a pile on the ground, speechless, “Why isn’t this chair sturdy?”
Suddenly, the surroundings erupted in roaring laughter, Luo Zhi’er’s face flushed red, “What’s so funny? Have you never fallen before or what?”
“It’s their… their chair that’s not sturdy!!!”
“You fat woman, it’s clearly because you’re too heavy and sat the chair through, yet you blame their chair for not being sturdy, oh man, you’re making this old man’s stomach hurt from laughing!”
It was that old man who had already been seen earlier, clutching his belly, holding the medicinal herbs he had bought, winking as he spoke.
Luo Zhi’er struggled for a long time but couldn’t get up, “Hmph! You old man, your stomach hurts and you’re still mocking me… You’re everywhere, go home quickly after seeing the doctor and brew the medicine to drink! You!”
“Hehe! Look at you not liking to hear it, you fat lady, this old man reminds you, if you keep going like this, it won’t do, alright, come, I’ll help you up!”
He stretched out his old arm and with great effort pulled her up: “Ouch, my old bones are about to fall apart!”
Seeing her finally stand steady, he said again,
“Fat lady, take good care of seeing the doctor! See you next time, I’m off first!”
“Oh, old man, take care! Thank you!”
“Hey!”
After the old man finished speaking, he put his hands behind his back, hunched over, and walked away!
Luo Zhi’er knew she was fat, but she didn’t know the chair would collapse under her! It was really a bit embarrassing!
She looked up and scanned around, seeing the guys still surrounding her laughing, some had already dispersed and stood by Doctor Du’s table…
Doctor Du was expressionlessly observing her every move from earlier.
Luo Zhi’er didn’t know why being looked at by him made her heart feel a bit panicked.
“Hehe, Doctor Du, sorry, I didn’t do it on purpose, I accidentally sat the chair through, how much silver for the chair, I’ll compensate you later!”
Doctor Du didn’t say a word, just carefully looked her up and down.
“Don’t worry, I will definitely compensate!”
The old man slightly furrowed his brows, that gaze making her a bit embarrassed…
“Doctor Du? Doc… Doctor?”
Thinking of earlier, he had been watching her from afar, could he have some interest in her?
Hehe, what was she thinking?
“May I ask, where are you from? What’s your name? What illness do you want to see?”
Doctor Du spread out the paper and finally spoke!
“My name is Luo Zhi’er, from Zhao Li Village, mainly I want to see if there’s any way to lose weight! Hehe!”
She embarrassedly scratched the base of her ear!
“Mm… You do need to lose weight! Because, life is not long!”
“What?”
Luo Zhi’er was startled, no way, she knew she was fat and could get some cardiovascular issues, high blood pressure, diabetes and such…
But… life is not long?
“Doctor Du, you’re not joking, right? I feel like usually besides feeling tired, short of breath, often dizzy… Oh, and can’t help loving to eat things, otherwise no big problems!”
“Feeling these is right, put your hand out… on the pulse pillow!”
Luo Zhi’er placed her wrist on the small pillow on the table, Doctor Du extended three fingers to feel her pulse…
Luo Zhi’er saw that Doctor Du’s skin was very fair and clean, she thought it was translucently white…
A chill flashed in Doctor Du’s eyes, “At most, three more months, that will be your end!”
“What?”
Luo Zhi’er was momentarily frightened into panic, she had come all this way with great difficulty, this, this body was too useless, only three months?
“You are poisoned!”
“What? Impossible!”
This shattered her worldview even more, who poisoned her?
Doctor Du’s next words left her even more stunned…
“Do you often feel abdominal bloating, like there’s a worm wriggling up and down…”
“Seems like it!”
Doctor Du narrowed his eyes slightly,
“This poison of yours looks like it’s been accumulated in your body for many years, roughly since shortly after birth, you say you’re from Luojia Village?”
He looked at her doubtfully…
Strange, how could someone from remote Luojia Village be hit with such poison sect methods?
Would a woman like her have such enemies?
This Doctor Du was previously an imperial physician from the Imperial Academy of Medicine, just retired for ten or twenty years, occasionally comes out to practice medicine and see patients!
He had of course encountered such methods before, so when he first saw Luo Zhi’er, he felt something was wrong!
Sure enough, it was that thing! The thing that once made him terrified and avoid it!
“You… have been this fat since childhood?”
“Mm, that’s right!”
“That matches too, this poison makes you unable to stop eating things, as years pass, it slows your metabolism, makes you fatter, more clumsy, uglier!”
Luo Zhi’er kept nodding! “Right, Doctor Du, what you said is spot on!”
“It torments the poisoned person’s body and mind, then slowly dies from its poison!”
“Once the poison truly attacks, abdominal pain is excruciating, like ten thousand insects biting, splitting headache, like worms drilling in the head!”
Luo Zhi’er was stunned… Recalling if Luo Zhi’er had such experiences, couldn’t remember… Only that suffocating feeling in the water, the cold feeling in the water would make her feel better, splitting headache!
“Have you borne children?”
“…Yes, one daughter already five and a half years old!”
Mentioning Miaomiao, her heart warmed, easing her emotions, having been out for most of the day, she already missed her a bit!
“Hehe, count yourself lucky, you actually still had your period, bore children, and lived five more years after?”
“Back then… you must have suffered greatly, right?”
Luo Zhi’er wiped sweat, how could she have lived five years, the original body was already dead, she was Li Xi’er…
Suffered greatly, far more than that? No wonder Luo Zhi’er was neither hot nor cold toward Miaomiao, must have been truly tormented!
Turns out she didn’t drown, she died from poison!
Thinking of Luo Zhi’er’s background, she seemed to have been picked up by Old Man Luo from Mahuang Gully.
Then her exact background is unknown, could her experience be related to her background?
Who?
Ruthless enough to poison an infant?
Mahuang Gully? Even if no one picked her up then, Mahuang Gully is full of blood-sucking leeches, burrowing into an infant’s body to suck blood one by one.
That would also die, and die miserably…
What sinister poison that is!
