If it weren't for the fear that Granny Sun might die on the way and implicate Ling Mo Han, she would have dealt with Granny Sun long ago.
Now she had to waste such good medicine to save her life. What a waste of resources.
The physician looked at the porcelain bottle that Feng Jin threw into his hand and immediately felt his dignity severely insulted. In all his years of practicing medicine, he had never been so doubted.
"Where did you come from, woman, to speak such nonsense? This is about saving lives; it's not something you women can interfere with!"
"What a quack!" Feng Jin sneered, directly walking past the physician and applying the Condensing Dew Healing Balm to Granny Sun's wound.
"What are you doing? This is outrageous... outrageous! How can you, a woman, do such a thing? It goes against all moral principles and social order. This is utter chaos..."
The physician pointed at Feng Jin and began a stern lecture, wishing to pin the most severe accusations on Feng Jin.
"Shut up!" Feng Jin shouted angrily, directly inserting a silver needle into the physician's acupoint.
The air instantly fell silent. The physician's flailing, angry posture froze, his eyes wide as he watched Feng Jin do what he called an act against nature, yet he was helpless. httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět
After a flurry of activity, Feng Jin managed to stop the bleeding. She wrote a prescription on paper and handed it to a stunned palace maid standing by. "Take this prescription and fetch the medicine."
"Yes... yes..."
The palace maid snapped back to reality, nodding repeatedly. She took the prescription and hurried away.
Before leaving, Feng Jin didn't forget to remove the silver needle from the physician. "A quack like you isn't healing people; you're harming them!"
If it had been a moment later, Granny Sun would have been killed by this incompetent doctor. Feng Jin even suspected if he was a real physician or just an imposter.
"What did you say? How dare you slander me!" The physician's face turned crimson with embarrassment and rage as he pointed at Feng Jin.
"Slander? You, a quack like this, are not even worth being slandered. Spending another word with someone like you is a waste of my time."
Slander him? Was she out of her mind to slander him? Besides, was a quack like him even worth slandering?
Feng Jin truly admired his confidence. To be able to say such things without blushing was a real skill.
"You... you..." The physician was so angered by Feng Jin that he couldn't even speak coherently, pointing at her.
"What 'you'? Straighten your tongue before you speak to me!"
Feng Jin retorted unceremoniously, too lazy to argue with such a brainless person. She brushed past him and left.
"Only women and petty people are difficult to deal with!" The physician resentfully uttered, simultaneously receiving hateful glances from other women nearby.
"What are you looking at? You women are shameless. Do you even know what 'Three Obediences and Four Virtues' means? You insist on being like men, showing yourselves in public. It's disgraceful, truly disgraceful!"
Cai Qing glared at him fiercely. While he wasn't paying attention, she threw a pebble heavily at him.
"Ah..." The physician cried out in pain, clutching the spot where he was hit and looking around, "Who! Who... who hit me? Come out!"
No one paid him any mind, as if they hadn't heard him.
After a while, another pebble flew out from somewhere and hit the physician on the head.
"Ah! Who is it! If you have the guts to attack from hiding, have the guts to admit it!"
The physician clutched his injured shoulder, his features contorting in pain. He glared furiously at his surroundings, vowing to beat whoever he caught.
"Madam, he has angered the masses!" Cai Qing whispered in Feng Jin's ear. The second pebble wasn't thrown by her.
Someone who looked down on women like him deserved to be hit.
"It was only a matter of time before he got beaten."
Feng Jin was not surprised at all. If it were her, she would have given him a good beating too.
"I should have thrown another pebble. Just one isn't satisfying enough."
Cai Qing now regretted throwing only one pebble. She should have thrown a few more.
"One is enough. Throwing too many would arouse suspicion."
Feng Jin had seen Cai Qing throw the pebble. She also found the physician displeasing, so she didn't intervene, thinking it would teach him a lesson.
"Afterward, go check on Yu Rong. See how she is."
"Yes, Madam. I'll go now." Cai Qing nodded and left.
Upon returning to the room, Feng Jin glanced at Chu Qing. "Granny Sun didn't die, are you perhaps relieved?"
Hearing Feng Jin's words, Chu Qing's face turned as pale as paper. With a 'thump,' she immediately knelt before Feng Jin. "Madam, I am already your person. Naturally, I would not dwell on past matters. The reason I was worried about Granny Sun is because... because Granny Sun took good care of me before..."
"Is that so?" Feng Jin did not believe Chu Qing's words, her gaze falling on Chu Qing with suspicion. "I heard that Granny Sun was always strict and harsh with you palace maids. How could she have specially taken good care of you? Are you still not going to tell the truth?"
Chu Qing's heart was in turmoil, her fingers trembling slightly with fear. She lowered her head even further.
"Madam... Madam... What I said is true. I dare not deceive you..."
Granny Sun had indeed asked her to stay there as a spy, but she hadn't dared to leak even a sliver of information to Granny Sun.
Naturally, she didn't dare to tell the Madam about this either, fearing... fearing that the Madam would think she had ulterior motives if she found out.
She didn't want to lose the rare peaceful days she had. When she heard that Granny Sun had been attacked, a flicker of joy arose in her heart, thinking how wonderful it would be if Granny Sun died from the assassination. Then, no one would force her to do things, and she could continue to stay here.
"Chu Qing, you still refuse to tell me the truth. What exactly did Granny Sun want you to do?"
Feng Jin got straight to the point. She had known for a long time that Granny Sun had asked Chu Qing to stay there as a spy.
She also knew that Chu Qing had not passed any information to Granny Sun. This was why she was going to confront Chu Qing directly.
"Madam... you, you know everything?"
"I knew from the moment Granny Sun approached you. I also know that you haven't relayed any messages to Granny Sun."
If it weren't for this, she would have gotten rid of Chu Qing long ago.
"Madam, I didn't want to work for Granny Sun, so I never relayed any messages to her. But... but I also didn't dare to tell you about it, fearing that if I confessed, you... you..."