In their daily lives, the Ning family helped villagers in the surrounding ten-mile radius with weddings, funerals, corpse handling, or rituals. Superstitions were still prevalent in the countryside.
However, nowadays, these acts were more like performing traditional customs.
Moreover, the Ning family was indeed the largest medical clan in the vicinity. Whenever anyone had any issues, they would immediately seek medical advice and treatment from the Ning family.
Whether it was complex diseases or minor ailments like colds and fevers, all were cured with timely treatment.
"It's been a few years since you've been back, do you find it unfamiliar?" the driver asked while driving.
"Yes," the冥医 replied, looking at the new houses on the mountainside. These were clearly three-story modern houses, with solar water heaters and antennas visible from afar, and their designs were different.
"Indeed. Recently, many people have returned with money and renovated their ancestral homes. My son also said he wants to build a big house for me. Look, it's over there!"
The driver patted himself and pointed to a place where the foundation was already laid.
It was indeed a large house. Judging by the foundation, it covered over a hundred square meters. Once completed, it would be a three-story modern house with a large courtyard outside.
This was something city dwellers could not even imagine.
Only in these rural self-built houses could one get such a property for hundreds of thousands of yuan easily.
"Yue Gong Shrine... Hey? Yue Gong Shrine!"
The driver suddenly exclaimed, "Yue Gong Shrine belongs to the Ning family. Are you from the Ning family?"
"Yes," the 冥医 replied.
"The Ning family is great. They are a prominent family. I've always wished I could be as wealthy as the Ning family." In his eyes, the Ning family was the wealthiest family he had ever encountered.
"The Ning family... isn't that big," the 冥医 said. "They are only significant here. Outside, they are not much."
"That's enough for me. I don't have any special aspirations. If I could be this wealthy in my lifetime, it would be enough. Then my child would have no worries about food and clothing, and my grandchildren wouldn't have to worry about spending money," the rickshaw driver lamented.
"That's true."
The 冥医 did not refute him. Indeed, the Ning family was a behemoth in this area.
"The Ning family members are all good people. We always go to them for any illnesses or pains, which is much more convenient than going to the town's health clinic, and it's cheaper too," the driver continued.
Meanwhile, Ye Chen was contemplating whether to erase the memories of Zhang Zhilan's family. On the other hand, Yuan Yan was enraged to the point of losing consciousness.
"No! I will not stand for this insult!"
For so many years, even when the Zhang family faced other prominent clans, she had never been so humiliated. How dare this Ye Chen, this sudden "phoenix man," flaunt his newfound status?! In the past, when he was part of the Zhang family, he was useless except for household chores. Now that he had become capable and arrogant, had he forgotten the kindness the Zhang family had shown him?!
Wasn't this an ungrateful wretch?!
This time, Zhang Zhilan, her sister, and her husband could not stop her.
She dug out an old phone number she had kept.
This number belonged to a master. When he left the number, he said that if the Zhang family ever encountered an unsolvable problem, they should call this number. He could help resolve it, no matter what the trouble was, even if it meant angering the leaders of the Dragon Kingdom.
She didn't know if the person who said this was boasting, but since the words had been spoken, she believed that the time had come for their Zhang family to make this call.