Leng Ruo Li took the medicine and glanced at the medicine boxes. Her brows furrowed slightly. These two boxes of medicine were the common emergency medications frequently prescribed for patients with headaches and colds, not medications with special requirements.
She opened both boxes and examined them carefully. Each box was missing one pill. Her mother hadn't taken extra medication, so how could she have died from it?
"He Ziyi, go and call Chu Ming Xuan and Chu Miao Ling out," Leng Ruo Li suddenly said to He Ziyi.
"Yes, Wang Fei!"
He Ziyi heard this and hurried into the main hall of the An Ji Tang. In a short while, he brought out the Chu siblings.
"Wang Fei, what happened outside?" Chu Miao Ling asked curiously.
She had been attending to patients in the ward earlier, while Chu Ming Xuan had been busy in the hall seeing patients. Although they had heard some commotion at the entrance from inside, they were not clear about the specific situation outside.
"This elder brother here says that his mother passed away last night after taking medicine from our An Ji Tang."
Leng Ruo Li explained the matter simply.
"Impossible, Wang Fei. Can I see the medicine in your hand?"
Upon hearing this, Chu Ming Xuan replied with certainty.
Hearing this, Leng Ruo Li handed the two boxes of medicine in her hand to Chu Ming Xuan.
Chu Ming Xuan looked at the handwritten names on the two medicine boxes and knew that these were the medications he had prescribed.
"Wang Fei, these two boxes of medicine were prescribed by me. If I remember correctly, the person who took these two boxes of medicine was an elder aunt who came to our clinic for a headache."
After examining the medicine boxes, Chu Ming Xuan immediately stated the patient's condition.
As soon as he finished speaking, the farmer who wanted to cause trouble immediately pointed at Chu Ming Xuan and rebuked him, "Oh, so you are the doctor who caused my mother's death? You, you… compensate me for my mother's life."
As the farmer spoke, he raised his dagger and lunged at Chu Ming Xuan.
Unbeknownst to him, with a wave of Chu Ming Xuan's sleeve, he was sent flying two to three meters away.
"What a lunatic!"
Chu Ming Xuan glared at the farmer and rebuked him.
After being blown away, the farmer realized that no one in An Ji Tang was to be trifled with. He saw Chu Ming Xuan as a refined and clean-cut scholar, as frail as if any gust of wind could blow him away. Yet, he never expected such a frail person to know martial arts.
"Elder brother, without any evidence to prove that your mother died from the medicine from our clinic, you are making baseless accusations against our clinic's staff. We can report you to the yamen right now."
Leng Ruo Li was also getting angry.
"Then what evidence do you have to prove that my mother did not die from the medicine prescribed by your An Ji Tang?"
Unexpectedly, the farmer's mind was quite quick. He immediately retorted Leng Ruo Li's words.
"I do have evidence to prove that your mother did not die from my medicine. Now, please help me see if these two boxes of medicine in my hand are indeed missing two pills each?"
Saying this, Leng Ruo Li took back the two boxes of medicine from Chu Ming Xuan, raised her hands, and showed the medicine to everyone.
Immediately, everyone's gaze was drawn to Leng Ruo Li's hands.
"Wang Fei, we saw it. The two boxes of medicine in your hand are indeed missing one pill each," everyone replied in unison.
"Since everyone has seen it clearly, then elder brother (referring to the farmer), have you seen it clearly?" Leng Ruo Li deliberately looked at the troublemaking farmer and asked.
"Yes, a total of two pills are missing from these two medicine boxes."
The farmer, not knowing what Leng Ruo Li was up to, could only echo the crowd's sentiment.
"Since you have also seen it clearly, then I will personally try for everyone now to see if the medicine from our An Ji Tang will indeed cause death." 138 Reading Network
With that, Leng Ruo Li casually took one pill from each of the two boxes of medicine in her hand and then, under everyone's watchful eyes, ate the two pills.
As everyone watched Leng Ruo Li swallow the pills in her hand, they instantly held their breath, staring intently at Leng Ruo Li, afraid of missing even a single moment...
A quarter of an hour later, Leng Ruo Li smiled and said to the onlookers, "Did everyone see? I also ate two identical pills like this elder aunt, but I didn't die. What does this mean? This means that the medicine prescribed by our An Ji Tang clinic has no problems at all, so your mother's death has nothing to do with the medicine prescribed by our clinic."
As soon as Leng Ruo Li finished speaking, the surrounding crowd erupted in a clamor, the discussions as lively as a thousand waves crashing at once.
"I knew Wang Fei Leng's medicine was fine. A few days ago, my son had a fever, and he got better after taking two pills from An Ji Tang. You don't know how potent Wang Fei Leng's medicine is. My son had a persistent high fever, and even though various doctors prescribed different prescriptions, he didn't get better, and it cost a lot of money. Wang Fei Leng just gave my son a small pill to take, and within the time it takes an incense stick to burn, my son's fever subsided. When we went home, Wang Fei Leng even gave me two extra pills to take home as a preventative measure. But my son hasn't had a fever since then. Those two pills are also treasured by me."
"Exactly. I don't know why people can be so malicious. Wang Fei Leng is so kind and her medical skills are so good. Why would they want to harm her? What good does offending a divine doctor do for them?"
"Indeed, I suspect some people are deliberately framing Wang Fei Leng. Think about it, when we go to An Ji Tang for treatment, one, they don't charge a consultation fee. Have you ever seen any clinic in the capital that doesn't charge a consultation fee? Two, the medicine sold at An Ji Tang is cheaper than that sold at any other clinic in the capital, and its efficacy is even greater. We common folk naturally seek out places with affordable medicine and skilled doctors. Therefore, the clinic opened by Wang Fei Leng must be snatching the financial path of some people."
"Yes, yes, what you said makes a lot of sense."
In short, the common people watching offered various opinions, but this time, everyone stood on Leng Ruo Li's side.
"Wang Fei Leng, we believe your medicine is not the problem."
"We believe you were framed!"
"..."
At this moment, a group of fans who supported Leng Ruo Li emerged from the crowd.
Hearing everyone's words, Leng Ruo Li was deeply touched.
"Thank you for your concern and trust!" Leng Ruo Li raised her hands and cupped them in a gesture of respect towards the crowd.
Then, she continued, "Although this elder aunt's death is unrelated to our An Ji Tang, since this incident occurred at the entrance of our An Ji Tang, today I, Leng Ruo Li, will personally investigate the cause of this elder aunt's death."
After Leng Ruo Li finished speaking, the onlookers instantly applauded her, while only the farmer's expression changed.
"Uh, Wang Fei Leng, since my mother's death is unrelated to the medicine prescribed by your An Ji Tang, I will take my mother's body back and bury her properly now."
The farmer, looking embarrassed, said this to Leng Ruo Li.