nucmednet Chapter 262 Blackmail
Chapter 262 Blackmail
Hearing this, Ru Yue and others did not dare to delay for a moment and hurried back to the clinic.
When they arrived, the scene before them was jaw-dropping.
There was a huge crowd of people in front of the clinic, a dark mass. People surrounded the door so tightly that no one could get in. Noisy discussions and sad cries were heard one after another.
To ensure Chu Ning's safety and ease of travel, Fengying meticulously disguised him for several days. Because of this, Ru Yue wasn't particularly concerned about his identity being discovered by those with ulterior motives. Upon returning to the clinic, Chu Ning quietly blended into the crowd, carefully listening and gathering information.
Ru Yue and Doctor Shen struggled to squeeze out a passage from the crowded crowd and returned to the clinic with difficulty.
An old woman lay on the floor of the clinic's lobby. Her body was gaunt and emaciated, swaying like a candle in the wind. Her hair, a mess of silver hair, lay disheveled and unkempt, making her look utterly miserable. Her eyes were tightly shut, making it difficult to tell whether she had fainted or was completely dead. Her face was a pale grey, lifeless, and even her chest remained motionless.
Anyone who saw this scene would probably think that the old woman had died.
Surrounding the old woman were several middle-aged men and women. Their tears streamed down their cheeks, their hearts pounding as they shouted, "Your clinic actually killed my old lady! You must give us an explanation today, no matter what, or we'll go to the government office and demand justice!"
The crowd gathered outside the clinic and were talking about it all at once.
"I heard that this clinic was opened by the disciple of a famous doctor. Logically, their medical skills should be quite advanced. How could such a thing as killing someone happen? It's unbelievable!"
"Have you ever seen that so-called miracle doctor here? To think that in this place, where the emperor lives, there are still such audacious people who dare to cheat and deceive people. It really shows that the world is going downhill and people's hearts are no longer as they used to be!"
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Everyone was talking about it, and their words were full of anger and dissatisfaction.
Ru Yue pushed through the crowd, coming straight to the wailing ones. Her cold gaze, like a cold star, swept across their faces one by one. Though they cried loudly, it was nothing more than thunder and rain. Far from any trace of genuine sorrow, their faces were filled with an unconcealable calculating intent.
Ru Yue's gaze rested on a burly, bearded man. She stared at him quietly, her eyes as calm as a bottomless lake, without a single ripple.
The large man, stared at by Ru Yue with such a calm gaze, felt a shudder in his heart for some reason. But he quickly suppressed his fear, thinking to himself, "Hmph, she's just a young girl, what's there to be afraid of?"
Thinking of this, he deliberately puffed out his chest, pretending to be extremely sad and angry, and howled again: "You are a bunch of unscrupulous people! You opened this black-hearted clinic, took our hard-earned money, and ended up killing my mother with your medicine! Give my mother back her life! Wuuuuuu... My poor mother!"
Ru Yue frowned tightly, thinking to herself that something was amiss with this situation. Looking at the way these people acted, they didn't seem like they were genuinely seeking justice. Instead, they looked more like scoundrels out to extort money.
Her eyebrows were raised, her beautiful eyes were wide, and her red lips parted as she uttered a crisp and sharp scolding, "Shut up! If you have something to say, just say it directly. What's the point of crying and making a fuss here?"
This angry shout was like a thunderclap that suddenly exploded in everyone's heart, and the scene that was originally as noisy as a vegetable market suddenly became silent.
Everyone was shocked by the sudden roar, and they stared at Ru Yue who was standing in the middle of the clinic in a daze.
Ru Yue stood tall and straight like a pine tree, graceful and elegant among the crowd, emanating an air of untouchable majesty. She glanced around with a piercing gaze and spoke clearly, "Our clinic has always operated in an honest and upright manner. If a patient's misfortune is truly caused by our fault, we will not shirk our responsibility. However, if anyone is deliberately seeking to cause trouble, there's no need to waste time arguing. We can all go to the government office together and ask the officials of Jingzhao Prefecture to come and make a fair judgment."
She spoke these words with such decisiveness and force that every word seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, striking hard on the hearts of everyone present.
For a moment, everyone was silent and no longer dared to act rashly.
Ru Yue pointed at the old woman still lying on the ground, then turned to look at Divine Doctor Shen beside her. With a serious expression, she said, "Master, could you please check on this old woman's current condition and see if there's any hope of saving her?"
Regardless of the final truth of this matter, human life is at stake, how can we treat it as a joke? This is absolutely not what a doctor should do! "
Just as Doctor Shen reached out his hand to feel the old woman's pulse, suddenly, the whole family started arguing like a pot of boiling water.
The bearded man rushed forward, opened his arms and stopped Divine Doctor Shen, shouting, "Don't touch my mother! You quacks have already killed my mother, and now you have the nerve to pretend to treat her. Are you trying to cover up the truth and shirk responsibility?"
Dr. Shen had dedicated his life to saving countless lives, curing illnesses and saving countless lives. Wherever he went, people treated him with great respect, begging him to help. This was the first time he had encountered such groundless accusations and suspicion.
Instantly, he felt a surge of rage surge through his head, his face instantly turning livid, his chest heaving violently with rage. He stared intently at the unreasonable bearded man before him, his lips trembling slightly as he was about to open his mouth to argue with him.
Seeing the situation was not good, Ru Yue hurried forward and gently patted Doctor Shen on the shoulder, saying softly, "Master, don't be angry. Your health is important." Then she turned around, staring at the bearded man with a sharp gaze, and asked righteously, "You came to my clinic without telling me why, refused to see me, and now you say we killed your mother. Are you deliberately coming here to blackmail me?"
Hearing this, the bearded man was obviously a little flustered and stammered in retort: "You...you...stop slandering me! I'm not blackmailing you!" However, his stumbling and incoherent words, as well as his flushed face and flickering eyes, all showed his inner guilt and nervousness.
Seeing this, everyone present began to whisper and point fingers. It was obvious that everyone thought that the bearded man was so angry because his lies were exposed by Ru Yue.
"That's right! When these people first stepped into the clinic, they didn't even have time to speak clearly before they started shouting that the clinic had killed people! They also refused to let the doctors take the patients' pulses and diagnose the illnesses. It seemed like they were really here to extort money."
"If this clinic really had accidentally killed someone, wouldn't they have rushed to the authorities to file a complaint? Why would they come here with such rage and rage?"
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Fengying pushed the bearded man aside, quickly making a small space so that Doctor Shen could take the patient's pulse and examine him more conveniently.
Manager Liao and Doctor Du also hurriedly squeezed through the crowd to the front and bowed respectfully to Ru Yue.
Doctor Du said, "Young Master, this old woman came to our clinic three days ago. I was the one who saw her then. She's old, with a weak spleen and stomach, and she's suffering from overwork. She's also suffering from Qi and blood deficiency. I wanted to prescribe Bazhen Decoction to help her recover, but this illness requires long-term medication. Considering her financial situation, I prescribed Xiaojianzhong Decoction instead."
At this point, Doctor Du handed the pulse chart to Ru Yue and added, "Even if this medicine can't completely cure her condition, it definitely won't kill her! I've been practicing medicine for so many years, so I'm pretty sure of this."
"You are talking nonsense! You are a bunch of unscrupulous quacks. You actually killed my mother and now you are trying to shirk responsibility! You are such heartless guys! I don't want to live anymore! Mom, my poor, miserable old mother!" The family members cried and screamed at the top of their lungs like crazy. The sound was deafening and made people frown.
They cried and screamed, stamping their feet and beating their chests, as if the whole world owed them something.
She was too lazy to pay attention to these unreasonable people, so she walked straight to Doctor Shen's side and raised her voice and said, "Master, what is the current condition of this old woman?"
Doctor Shen frowned tightly, his face filled with worry. He said indignantly, "Alas, the situation is really not optimistic, but fortunately the person is still alive."
As he spoke, he reached into his arms and carefully took out the silver needle that he treasured, ready to use acupuncture to save the old woman.
The bearded man suddenly rushed forward and forcefully pushed Doctor Shen away, shouting, "You are not allowed to give my mother acupuncture! Who knows if you want to take this opportunity to kill her!"
Seeing this scene, the clever Ru Yue instantly understood the trick.
She turned to look at the crowd huddled outside the door, then shouted to the shop assistant, "Would you please, kind-hearted neighbors, please run to the government office and tell them that someone is trying to kill us for money and is deliberately extorting us!"
Ru Yue's words were like a huge rock thrown into a calm lake, instantly stirring up thousands of waves.
The people who were originally whispering around suddenly exploded and started talking.
Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment, whispering to each other, "The people at this clinic actually had the guts to ask the authorities to come and investigate. It seems this matter is probably not as simple as this family said. Maybe they've been targeted by someone with ulterior motives and are here to extort money..."
"You bunch of quacks actually killed my mother! You must compensate me with a large sum of money! Otherwise, this matter will never be over!" The bearded man simply stopped pretending and sat down beside the dead old woman without a care. Then he acted like a complete scoundrel and extorted money.
His entire family blocked the door of the clinic and refused to let anyone inside go out to report to the police.
Ru Yue, who was standing aside, saw all of this and couldn't help but feel a strong sense of disgust in her heart.
Faced with these people's rogue behavior, she felt a chill rising from the bottom of her heart. However, after calming down, Ru Yue quickly realized that today's incident was probably not accidental, but was deliberately planned by someone.
She quickly pondered who could be behind this. She could only think of two possibilities: either jealousy among colleagues fueled this despicable act, or a former enemy seeking revenge. However, her clinic had only been open for a short time, so how could it have attracted so many enemies?
However, at this moment, finding the mastermind behind the incident was not the most pressing issue. The key point was that if they continued to delay like this, the old woman lying on the ground might not be able to be saved.
Thinking of this, Ru Yue's heart grew heavier. If the old woman was also in cahoots with those scoundrels, then even if she tragically died, it would be her own fault, a death not worth regretting. But if she was merely used as a tool by others, an innocent pawn in this conspiracy, then that would be truly pitiful and tragic!
"Make way, make way, the government is investigating a case, all outsiders please get out of the way!" With this sudden shouting, the crowd that was originally crowded together suddenly became agitated.
After looking at each other, people took the initiative to move to the sides, making a wide passage.
A majestic official in a fiery red robe strode forward, followed closely by several yamen runners. At the very back of the group, a handsome young man with an extraordinary demeanor followed. A closer look revealed that he was none other than the Prince of Yongning.
At this moment, the troublemaker's family heard that the government was coming, and their bodies trembled violently, as if they had been electrocuted, and they quickly jumped up from the ground. They wanted to repeat their old tricks and scream at the top of their lungs again, so that they could be the first to complain.
The man simply glanced at them with a cold, piercing gaze before shouting, "Shut up! Stop making such noise! All of you, hurry up and see if the old woman is still alive."
Seeing this, Ru Yue, who was standing nearby, hurriedly took a small step forward, bowed respectfully to the elder, and said, "Your Excellency, this old woman is still alive, but it is because of these unreasonable people who are interfering and preventing my master from rescuing her that the situation has become increasingly critical."
"In that case, let's focus on saving people first and put other things aside for now." The adult had a serious face, and his expression was as cold as a thousand-year-old ice. From beginning to end, he never showed the slightest smile to anyone present.
After receiving the order, Doctor Shen did not dare to neglect it and quickly took out a set of gleaming silver needles from the medicine box. He skillfully inserted each slender silver needle into several important acupuncture points on the old woman's body, gently flicking the needle end from time to time.
However, despite Doctor Shen's best efforts, the old woman still seemed to be in a deep sleep, with no response at all, and even the slightest tremor was undetectable.
Just when everyone thought that it was too late and there was no hope of saving the old woman, the family just breathed a sigh of relief. However, at this moment, the old woman suddenly let out a muffled cough, and then she suddenly opened her mouth and a mouthful of ink-black blood gushed out, splashing onto the ground, forming a shocking pool of blood.
Witnessing this sudden change, everyone present was frightened and turned pale. They realized with horror that the old woman had been poisoned!
The bearded man's eyes widened with fear, nearly popping out of their sockets. He stood there in a daze, his body as stiff as a statue. After a long moment, he seemed to come to his senses, as if waking from a dream.
He rushed forward, tightly grasped the old woman's withered and thin hands, and cried bitterly, "Mom, you finally woke up. You scared your son so much, wuwuwu..."
The old lady used the last bit of her strength to lift her heavy eyelids with great difficulty, and her gaze slowly shifted to the bearded man in front of her who was crying loudly.
Her eyes were filled with endless pain and sorrow, like the biting cold wind on a winter day, which made people feel pity. Moreover, in the depths of those eyes, there was also a subtle hint of disbelief.
The old woman struggled to pull her hand back from the bearded man's grasp, then, using the last bit of her strength, raised her arm and slapped the man hard in the face. With a crisp "slap" sound, the crisp and loud slap echoed throughout the room, and everyone present couldn't help but look sideways.
"You beast! How could you be so cruel to your own mother just for a few pieces of money!" The old lady cursed angrily while panting.
These words were like a sharp dagger, piercing the bearded man's heart, making him stunned for a moment, and he stood there in a daze.
As soon as she finished speaking, the old lady could no longer hold on, her head tilted, and she fainted again.
But it was just such a short sentence, how could the people around not understand the reason?
A group of troublemakers were taken to Jingzhao Prefecture by the officials. The Prince of Yongning County nodded slightly to Ru Yue and pulled the cold-faced man away from Huairen Medical Clinic.