The Lady’s Sickly Husband
chapter-72

Chapter 72: A Strange Old Man Translator: Antonia

The crowd didn’t dare to say anything but only turned their eyes to Mo Qianxue.

Mo Qianxue stood up, looking right in the eye of this old Mr. Wang, “A patient shouldn’t be moved around once having a stroke, so I demanded they don’t move old madam. Now that the syndrome is mostly relieved, so of course you can move her now.”

“You young girl did first aid for old madam?” As a doctor, the first thing he should do was to diagnose for the patient instead of asking irrelevant question.

Mo Qianxue was dissatisfied with the old man’s medical ethics, so she didn’t pay attention to his meaningful eyes and turned around to tell nanny Liang who was holding old madam’s head.

“Nanny Liang, let them carry old madam onto the couch.”

A few servant girls came to help, and Mo Qianxue added, “Remember, don’t sleep on a pillow in the next a few days.”

The servants settled old madam to a right position, and old Mr. Wang dashed over to feel her pulse.

He was so fast that even Mo Qianxue who believed herself having a pair of sharp eyes didn’t see clear how he got there.

After the pulse-feeling diagnosis, Mr. Wang checked old madam’s eyelids, in total disbelief.

He suddenly looked up and rushed to Mo Qianxue, all smiles, “Girl! How did you do it? Share with me, hurry.”

Mo Qianxue trembled. What an unreasonable old man! The patient didn’t recover yet, and he didn’t do follow-up treatment, nor told the patient’s families her condition, nor made a prescription, but ask her so many questions, and with such a happy smile?

But stranger was that even though he acted so impolite, no one present dared to stand out and scold him.

Nanny Liang looked concerned but had no way to deal with this Mr. Wang, “Mr. Wang, how is old madam?”

“Rest assured. She is fine now. As long as I’m here, she will recover after a few days’ rest.”

“Really? Thank you so much! Thank you, Mr. Wang.”

“Why thank me? You should thank this girl. But for her proper treatment, even if I come, I can only safe old madam’s life, but anyway she would be half-paralyzed and couldn’t live long!”

“Thank you, Mrs. Ning…”

Nanny Liang didn’t finish when Mr. Wang cast out a prescription and a sentence, “Stop it! Take the medicine.” Then he pulled Mo Qianxue out of the room.

“Girl, tell me, tell me. How do you treat a stroke patient in such an instant? Even if I arrived in time, I also need to do a lot of things. It can’t be as effective as your method.”

“I feel dizzy!” She was dizzy but angry.

What a strange old man! What Mr. Wang is that? Why did nanny Liang so respect him?

He didn’t care the patient’s condition and pulled her like this. She was still in confusion and with a gust of wind, she was standing in the yard. Even she herself didn’t know how.

“Dizzy?”

Five fingers were placed on her waist, fast as electricity, when instantly, Mo Qianxue couldn’t help sticking out her tongue.

Rotating a circle in the air, she only felt a hand poking on her shoulders, patting on her abdomen, and after another 360-degree flipping, the hand poked and patted on her back.

Before she screamed out, she already stood intact on the ground, as she hadn’t moved at all.

Was this a dream?! Or a movie?!

She glanced around. Mama. There wasn’t steel wire!

However, when she landed again, she felt so relaxed.

“Little girl, you were lying! You weren’t dizzy at all. You’re in a great health. Just your authentic qi was sealed up, and I’ve helped you unlock it. Hurry and tell me, how did you treat her?”

Authentic qi? Unlock? What was that magic thing?

He came to conclusion so fast that she “wasn’t dizzy and in great health”? So what happened just now was a thorough physical check?

His eyes were X-rays?

Flip her around in the sky like a kite and he saw every organ within her body?

Wait! Thorough physical check? Was this the so-called uncourteous behavior in ancient time? This disrespectful old man… He was so irritating!

She was just about to jump up and vent her anger when she suddenly thought of the cold poison within Ning Shaoqing’s body.

Right. Generally speaking, only those with real talent would act so weird, unconventional and different from ordinary people.

This strange old man was a doctor! Probably he could really treat him.

She wasn’t angry anymore and laughed.

That smile was full of flattery and the gaze made old Mr. Wang shiver.

“Girl. Why are you laughing? What do you want? Just say it. Gold? Silver? Beauty medicine? Name it, and I can pay you with that.”

“It’s not difficult to get the treatment and its supporting theories, as long as you promise to help me treat one person.”

“Hem, I’m never threatened!” Hearing her words, the strange old man stopped smiling and walked away at once.

Mo Qianxue didn’t make a reaction and he had already left.

“Hey! Mr. Wang…”

Seeing the old man felt with a long face, she regretted a little, following and trying to catch up with him.

He wanted to learn the first aid out of the will of saving people. And it was available free online. She should be happy to share with others. Now she wanted to make a deal?

In addition, that treatment would be attained as long as he asked any of the people on the spot, and the supporting theories would also be deducted easily.

Though at an old age, the old man walked so fast like flying that when she reached the yard door, he was already out of sight.

Mo Qianxue turned back, frustrated.

Never mind. When she figured out his true identity, it would be late to apologize and seek for medical assistance.

When Mo Qianxue returned to the room, old madam Jian had been transferred to the inner room. In it, on the main chair sat Jian Qingyou, around who stood a bunch of servant girls and nannies, and on the ground kneeled two people.

One looked like a servant girl and the other wore pink clothes, looking similar to the girl Mo Qianxue had seen in the bamboo forest.

Jian Qingyou put on a stern face, and her coldness and seriousness was totally different from the gentle soft person she used to be.

It seemed that she was going to, on old madam’s behalf, deal with some domestic affairs. Just, was it proper for an unmarried girl like her to tackle such a filthy thing?

“You two, make confession.”

Mo Qianxue hesitated whether she should go in or out when a nanny came and led her to the inner room for tea.

In a short while, there were footsteps outside.

A frivolous male voice rang, “What’s the matter, my eldest younger sister?”

“Don’t you know? Look at who is kneeling there?”

“Isn’t she concubine Li?”

“…”

The conversation in the outer hall kept sending over. The woman said that she was forced while the man claimed he was seduced.

The final result, as could be predicted, was that the woman was beaten up and sold out immediately and then the man, Jian Qingyou’s illegal elder brother, who broke family rules, was grounded.

After handling with the pair of wild love birds, Jian Qingyou walked to the inner room, looking sorry.

“Don’t laugh at me, Qianxue. My father and mother went out to visit friends today, so I must deal with that.”

“It’s normal to see filthy things in a high-ranked mansion.” Seeing her sorrowful face, Mo Qianxue comforted Jian Qingyou, “it’s not your fault. Don’t think too much.”

Jian Qingyou looked up and fixed her eyes on Mo Qianxue, “Don’t you think I’m too merciless?”

Mo Qianxue only saw pity and sympathy from her eyes, replying seriously, “No. I know through the beating and selling, you’re trying to save her life.”

“Whether she could survive depends on herself.”

“Alas.” Why should women always bear the consequences of men’s fault.

Mo Qianxue felt depressed. She had witnessed the what had happened and was able to guess the whole story, feeling sorry for that concubine Li.

However, on a second thought, a fly wouldn’t bite a seamless egg. Maybe she deserved that.

Yet, what could a third person know about the real situation between the couple? She just hated it that the man was only grounded as punishment.

What an evil society!

Jian Qingyou sighed again, stood up to bow to Mo Qianxue, “I can’t appreciate more for saving my grandmother’s life. I don’t know what I can do to pay you back.”

Mo Qianxue quickly saluted back, saying, “Don’t say that to me. Your grandmother is also my grandmother. As a junior, it’s what I should do. Don’t thank me.”

“Right. From now one, my grandma is also yours. If you don’t mind, we’re sisters now.”

“I’m older than you, so just call me elder sis.”

“What sisters? That sounds too fake. We can call each other by the first name and keep the sisterhood in our hearts.”

“Right, keep in in our hearts…”

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When she got back to the Wang village, it was very late.

Jian mansion’s carriage took her all the way to her house. Getting off the carriage and thanking the driver, Mo Qianxue headed right for home.

The moment she got in the door, she smelt a rat.

A gust of cold air attacked…

Looking up, she found two men standing on each side of the yard door.

The two men were tall, handsome, and dressed in neatly-cut clothes, standing there holding swords. The bearing was even stronger than Azhao, the sidekick of the seventh young lord.

However, though the two men had a domineering air, their faces looked mentally cold, making others voluntarily tremble.

What was all this?

Mo Qianxue gazed from left to right, sure that she wasn’t in the wrong yard, so she pulled up her socks and made two steps forward, still a little scared, calling, “Sir, are you home? I’m back!” With strangers around, she felt shy to call his name.

“I’m Asan (Awu), nice to meet you lady!” The two walked near her and stood on one knee.

The two men acted and spoke uniformly, Mo Qianxue was taken aback and halted her steps.

What? Lady? She had been called boss Mo, little Mo, Mrs. Ning…but no one ever called her lady!

Were these two cold-faced door gods sure that they were addressing her?

It wasn’t early when the tofu workshop had been shut. Mo Qianxue glanced around and found only herself in the yard.

Were these two men normal and no psychoes? She reached out to point at herself, asking nervously, “Are you…calling me?”

Mo Qianxue was in confuse when out of the house walked a graceful figure accompanied by a cello-like voice.

“Of course.”

“What…what is going on?”

Asan and Awu weren’t as sophisticated as the shadow guard. No matter who this woman was, as long as she was recognized by their lord, then she was their lady.

Hearing Ning Shaoqing’s words, the two exchanged a look and requested, “Lady, please give us a job.”

“Ah?” Such two handsome well-dressed young men should have no way of living? Right. The two held swords. Though they might know a little martial arts, very likely they just pretended. It was indeed not easy to make a living nowadays. If they had no farmland or any craftsmanship, then it was really hard to support themselves!

Now she was in need of workers. Two more people meant only two pairs of chopsticks, and it’d be better to employ acquaintances than strangers.

Now, she didn’t have to collect beans, so Liu Laoshuan was assigned to safeguard the warehouses. The ox carriage was given to Wang Xiaolei who took she and Juniang to the restaurant every day.

However, though Wang Xiaolei was clever, he was no driver at all. On the way, he didn’t drive the carriage but pulled.

He walked all the way on the road, which was not only slow but also made Mo Qianxue sorry.

She pointed at one of the youths called Asan, asking, “Can you drive an ox carriage?”

“An ox carriage?” Asan turned numb. He knew how to ride a horse and how to drive a horse carriage, but he had never heard of an ox carriage, let alone knowing how to drive one.

“I can.” Awu took over the question. An ox was a stupid animal. How hard it could be? His lord let him drive a horse carriage, and he would do it; if his lord let him to drive an ox carriage, then he would just do it too. Under such circumstances, he must be able to even if in fact not.

“Okay, then you’ll hired.” Mo Qianxue was very happy at this smart young man, “As for you…”

Judging from the way Mo Qianxue looked at Asan, he thought that his lady was unhappy about his incapability and felt so anxious.

At a glimpse of the leaves on the ground of the yard, he came up to something, “I can do a lot of chores and cleaning the yard and others. I can.”

Ning Shaoqing couldn’t help twitching the corner of his lips.

The shadow guard burst into laughter hidden in the corner.

These two people usually put on a cold face and ignored everyone except for their lord. Now what? One became a driver of ox carriage while the other a small servant doing odds and ends.

Besides, these ‘great jobs’ were on their own request.

At the sight of these two tall men, Mo Qianuxe was a bit uneasy. She wanted to ask that if their talent might be wasted here because she wouldn’t pay them a high salary, but when she looked up at Ning Shaoqing’s complicated expression at them, which was quite sorrowful, the words stuck in her throat, unable to come out.

As Mo Qianxue turned silent, Awu got so anxious, “I can do everything, as long as you can hire me.”

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