Chapter 570
Chapter 570
“Mother!” Jiang Yuanrang frowned. He had not expected Madame Jiang to deny it so vehemently.
But the fact remained that she had ruined Jun Mowen’s entire life.
“Rang'er, don’t listen to those lies people have been telling you. You are the biological son of your father and me.” Madame Jiang seemed to have forgotten that Jiang Yuanrang already knew he was not a Jiang, and spoke as though she had lost her mind.
Jiang Yuanrang frowned and glanced at Nanny Tang.
Nanny Tang did not know whether Madame Jiang was deliberately saying this or truly believed it.
“Madame Jiang, wake up. Your son died long ago—nineteen years ago. This child is nothing more than someone else’s son whom you stole.” Jun Mowen had naturally seen that Madame Jiang was no longer in her right mind.
But so what? Why should he let her remain lost in her fantasy world after she had destroyed his life?
He intended to bring her back to reality.
She had always known that her son had died long ago.
The outstanding young man standing before her was not her son, but someone else’s child. And now, his real parents had come looking for him.
“You’re lying! You’re trying to deceive me. My son is perfectly fine. This is my son.” Madame Jiang ignored Jun Mowen and kept repeating the same words.
“Old man, what’s wrong with her?” Jiang Yuanrang asked, looking at Jun Mowen in confusion.
“She’s merely indulging in self-deception,” Jun Mowen said mockingly.
“Madame, what’s happened to you?” Nanny Tang could also see that something was wrong with Madame Jiang and hurried over to soothe her.
“Nanny Tang, hurry and throw that wicked man out! He’s trying to take my Rang'er away. He’s a bad man!” Madame Jiang pointed at Jun Mowen and shouted.
“Eldest Young Master, perhaps you should ask him to leave for now,” Nanny Tang said.
“I’m merely a physician. I can tell at a glance whether your mistress has a problem or not.” Jun Mowen spoke before Jiang Yuanrang could respond.
Jun Mowen could naturally see that something was wrong with Madame Jiang. She truly had a problem.
However, with him there, that problem would no longer be a problem.
“Old man, she really is all right?” Jiang Yuanrang asked, still somewhat worried.
After all, this woman had raised him for nineteen years.
He could not bring himself to become an ungrateful person.
“What could possibly be wrong with her?” he thought. “It’s not as though she can still find a way to drug him.”
That was not something a person who was truly ill would do.
“Mother, don’t worry. Divine Physician Jun is very skilled,” Jiang Yuanrang said.
Then he hurriedly turned to Jun Mowen and said, “Divine Physician Jun, please examine my mother and see what’s wrong with her.”
“Eldest Young Master, this man resents you. After Madam ruined his medical practice back then, how could he possibly examine her properly? You should hurry and call another physician for her,” Nanny Tang said anxiously from the side.
“That works too. I’ll go out and find a physician for Mother right now.” Jiang Yuanrang finished speaking and was about to pull Jun Mowen outside.
After all, she was no longer thinking clearly. There was no point in saying anything to her when she could not understand it.
“Why are you in such a hurry? It’s only a matter of giving her one injection,” Jun Mowen said unhappily.
He had not yet reclaimed his justice. How could he leave just like that?
Wouldn’t that be letting her off too easily?
“Then what do you want to do?” Jiang Yuanrang glanced at Madame Jiang before looking back at Jun Mowen.
The grievances between the two of them ran too deep. For the moment, he had no idea how to resolve them.
“Why don’t you have her compensate you with some money?” Jiang Yuanrang suggested softly after thinking it over.
“Do you think I’m the sort of person who lacks money?” Jun Mowen felt that Jiang Yuanrang was insulting him.
What he lacked was nothing more than justice.
“Then have her apologize to you?” Jiang Yuanrang asked again.
“I won’t apologize! I did nothing wrong. He was a quack to begin with. My Rang'er is alive and well—he didn’t die at all. He’s a quack who couldn’t even diagnose such a minor problem correctly.” The moment Jiang Yuanrang finished speaking, Madame Jiang pointed at Jun Mowen’s nose and shouted indignantly.
“How about this? I have a pill here called the Truth Pill. Anyone who tells a lie after taking it will suffer ruptured bowels and die.” Jun Mowen took a pill from his robes and described it in the most astonishing terms.
“All you have to do is swallow this pill, and you will never be able to lie again.” Jun Mowen stared at the pill in his hand, his eyes gleaming with sly amusement.
He knew very well that even if Madame Jiang returned his medical shop, it would not change anything.
He did not believe that such a vicious woman would stop lying. This pill would make her spend the rest of her life in constant fear.
For someone like Madame Jiang, that would surely be worse than death.
“Don’t eat that pill!” Madame Jiang said in terror.
“Either I report you to the authorities and have the county magistrate arrest you, or you swallow this poison. From now on, if you tell even one lie, your bowels will rupture and you will die. Choose for yourself!” Jun Mowen said, refusing to yield in the slightest.
“I don’t want to go to prison! I don’t want to eat poison!” Madame Jiang kept repeating those two sentences.
“Mother, although the poison sounds frightening, as long as you tell the truth from now on, it shouldn’t hurt you,” Jiang Yuanrang advised cautiously.
He had no idea when this old man had started making poisons.
The poison sounded terrifying enough. If such a thing really existed, then Lan Nuo would never have to fear evildoers again.
“I don’t want it! I’m not eating it!” Madame Jiang shook her head without hesitation.
“That isn’t up to you. This is your punishment for ruining my entire life back then!” After saying this, Jun Mowen walked up to Madame Jiang and, without giving her a chance to resist, stuffed the pill into her mouth.
“No… no…” Madame Jiang struggled and tried to spit it out, but no matter how hard she clawed at her throat, she could not get the pill back out.
“Stop wasting your effort. The pills I make dissolve the moment they enter the mouth. From now on, you will be punished whenever you lie.” Jun Mowen smugly clapped his hands, then took a step back.
“Give me the antidote! Hand over the antidote!” Madame Jiang rushed in front of Jun Mowen and held out her hand.
“I haven’t had time to make one yet.” After saying that, Jun Mowen turned and left the Jiang residence.
“Wait…” Jiang Yuanrang had been about to chase after Jun Mowen and ask whether the poison truly had no antidote.
“There’s no justice! There’s no justice in this world! That vicious man came to my home and poisoned me. How am I supposed to go on living?” The thought of having swallowed poison plunged Madame Jiang into despair. She sat to one side, shouting and wailing.
“Mother, my biological parents and younger sister have already arrived in Lu City. I was planning to invite them to dinner at the Haoke Lai Restaurant tonight. Why don’t you come along? They also said they wanted to thank you properly.” Seeing Madame Jiang’s distress, Jiang Yuanrang hurriedly changed the subject.
“Rang'er, you haven’t had a meal with me in so long.” Madame Jiang’s eyes immediately reddened as she looked at Jiang Yuanrang, thinking about her plan.
“Mother, I really do have something to attend to tonight. Why don’t you come with me? That way, we can still count it as having dinner together.”
“Can I bring Yue'er?” Madame Jiang asked through clenched teeth.