Carrying the little lucky star, leading the villain on the road to exile

Chapter 300. Medical Consultation
Ming Peifeng was really afraid of something going wrong. If something happened to the Gu family, all his hard work these past few days would have been for nothing, and he might even be punished by his master. He led his men into the city overnight, but when they arrived at the city gate, they found it was tightly closed. They tried to plead with the yamen runners, but they were ignored. They could only wait outside the city gate for dawn.

With the wind and snow so heavy outside, he was afraid the person would really get frostbite, so he ordered people to gather a lot of firewood and then move the person next to the fire.

Finally, dawn broke, the city gates opened, and the family members were taken to the clinic, where they slowly woke up.

At this moment, they were not as desperate for water as before, but they all clutched their stomachs and began to occupy the outhouse of the clinic.

Ming Peifeng, "..."

The doctor at the clinic, "..."

"Tell me first, what symptoms do they have?"

Ming Peifeng told the doctor about the unusual behavior of the Gu family, which the doctor had never heard of before. "It's probably related to eating snow in such cold weather. It's normal for their stomach and intestines to be unable to handle so much snow and water."

"But why do they eat snow and drink so much water?"

Doctor, "I haven't taken their pulse yet, so I don't know what's going on. But in this situation, there's only one possibility: they ate something poisonous. Did they pick some mushrooms and eat them?"

From their accents, he knew they had just come from out of town. He also knew that there had been another group of exiled prisoners a few days ago, and these must be the same people.

These people are quite bold, daring to eat whatever they find here after only a short time. The most likely reason is that they are short of food and are haphazardly searching for food in the mountains, which explains why the whole family has the same symptom.

After a long day of fussing, the Gu family finally sat down, exhausted.

The lingering smell around them made Ming Peifeng want to hide outside the clinic.

The doctor remained calm and composed as he took their pulses and asked them many questions before clicking his tongue and saying, "You haven't eaten anything wrong, so you must have offended someone. I'm afraid someone poisoned you."

"Drugned?" The Gu family was stunned. They had eaten the food they had prepared themselves that day and had not been near anyone.

Gu Antong, however, asked, "We went to my third uncle's house. Could it be that he drugged us?"

Gu Baijiang glanced at him. "Impossible. We didn't get close to their people at all. Even if they drugged us, the effects couldn't be that fast."

The Gu brothers agreed. From the moment they entered Gu Kaiyuan's house until they came out, it was only a short time. During that time, Bai Suihe did not show up, and Gu Kaiyuan was busy fighting with those men in black, so he couldn't pay attention to them at all.

As for those servants, they were just laborers and had no extraordinary abilities.

“Then I have no way to diagnose the problem,” the doctor said, putting his things away. “However, I just took your pulses, and there are no toxins in your bodies right now, which may also be related to the disease in your family.”

Gu Kaiping panicked upon hearing this. If the Gu family had a hidden illness, wouldn't that mean their family line would end? "That's impossible. If it's a disease of our Gu family, then my wife and the others can't be like us."

The doctor agreed, saying, "Then I guessed wrong. You should go back and investigate to see if there's anything wrong with what you've been eating lately."

"You're a doctor, can't you even treat this little illness?" Gu Kaichen regained his strength and now just wanted to vent his emotions. From last night until now, all these experiences had almost driven him crazy.

"I am a doctor, that's true, but I'm not a god."

If you think my medical skills are lacking, you can go to another shop.

After thinking for a moment, he realized that since they had been questioned like this, it wouldn't be right not to charge them some money. "However, since you've been here and made my backyard stink so badly, I'll charge you ten taels of silver." Because of their presence, the patients who were supposed to come for treatment had all been scared away, so he didn't ask for much money.

Gu Kaichen said, "This place is a total rip-off! We didn't even take any medicine; you just took our pulse, and you're charging us so much money..."

The doctor stood up and moved away from them, now finding the smell rather pungent. He had forgotten to check the almanac before opening the door today. "It's alright if you don't give me money, just clean up the backyard for me right away."

The Gu family members felt nauseous at the memory of what had just happened in the backyard...

"Because of your arrival, no one dares to come in here for medical treatment. If we really want to calculate it, it can't be solved with just ten taels of silver."

Seeing that the Gu family was still arguing over such a trivial matter even at this point, Ming Peifeng really wanted to give up and ignore it, but thinking of his master, he could only grit his teeth and endure it. He took out a silver ingot from his pocket and said, "Doctor, thank you so much."

"But looking at them like this, do they need a prescription?"

The doctor accepted the money, then glanced at the Gu family again. "They're not without problems right now. I really don't know what prescription to give. Perhaps, as they said, my skills are lacking. You could try another clinic."

He's not the only one in this county; the fact that he's helping his fellow businessmen with their business shows how conscientious he is.

Gu Baijiang and the others also felt that they should change doctors. This doctor asked all sorts of questions but couldn't figure out why they were suffering so much. Staying here would just be a waste of time.

Touching her still slightly aching stomach, she said to Ming Peifeng, "Lord Ming, I still feel very uncomfortable in my abdomen. Should we go to another clinic?"

Even though you said that to the doctor's face, the doctor wasn't angry at all, and just smiled and said, "That's right, you should hurry up."

If we don't hurry to the next clinic, I'm afraid even the last trace of symptoms will be gone.

In fact, he had already figured out that these people must have offended someone and were being punished.

He was just a minor doctor, and didn't have that much skill.

Besides, this family has been suffering from diarrhea for so long, they've probably already cleared out the toxins.

Helpless, Ming Peifeng could only lead them to the next clinic.

But the county town is only so big. Patients who came here for treatment but failed had already taken the news with them. They had just approached the clinic when a young apprentice stopped them outside, saying, "The doctor is busy today. You'll have to go somewhere else for treatment."

Ming Peifeng saw that there were still so many people in the clinic, and that the young pharmacists were still there dispensing medicine.

"Isn't this a consultation in progress?"

"I'll stop seeing these patients after I've seen them all," the apprentice said, his sense of smell from the men making him even more convinced that they had to be kept out of the room today, or they would be the ones to suffer next.

"How can you open a shop and not do business?" Gu Kaiping felt his stomach churning again. He pushed aside the medicine boy and rushed inside, followed closely by the rest of the Gu family, whose stomachs were also about to give out.

With so many people, it was impossible to stop one apprentice. Moreover, these people had no shame. Even though we told them we wouldn't accept patients anymore, they acted as if they didn't understand.

(End of this chapter)