Chapter 815 - 816: She Is Confident
For these three days, Nianyang stopped worrying about anything else, confident that the shock brought by her herbal soap three days later would make them see her in a new light.
So afterwards, she took some time off to participate in a monthly exam at school, and then continued to help out at Tongxin Hall.
A good shop doesn’t fear a lack of customers. Although Tongxin Hall’s business wasn’t exactly booming, it was already far better than the desolate situation at Divine Doctor Hall.
As the two TCM clinics stood across from each other on the same street, it’s often said that without comparison, there’s no harm.
Without competition, there’s no pressure. The owner and his wife at Divine Doctor Hall watched Tongxin Hall bustling with customers daily while theirs remained cold and quiet, worrying to the point of having sores on their lips.
"Dear, if this continues, we won’t be able to pay our workers’ wages this month. What are we going to do?"
The owner’s wife, Wang Xiu, said anxiously, staring angrily at Tongxin Hall with people constantly coming and going. It should have been theirs, but that damned girl snatched it away, forcing them to buy the shop opposite at a high price.
But people are always restless over what they can’t have. From the start, they had their eyes on Tongxin Hall, so even though their shop wasn’t bad, they were still dissatisfied.
Merchants running a business pay attention to Feng Shui and prosperity.
Not getting what they initially wanted made them think the poor business was because it disrupted their luck.
So, Wang Xiu and her husband truly resented Nianyang.
"Let’s call our daughter Ming Yue and have her return ahead of schedule. With her here, our shop won’t fail."
Owner Zhang Cheng took a drag of his cigarette and sighed, saying it wasn’t easy for the couple to save up money just to open this TCM clinic, mostly borrowing from family and friends. If it fails, they could face ruin.
Their daughter Zhang Mingyue also happened to study TCM and went abroad for further education, with skills surpassing theirs. Now that Tongxin Hall is thriving, perhaps only their daughter returning could turn the tide.
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And so a busy morning at Tongxin Hall passed, and just as it was time for lunch, a group of people suddenly barged in.
Leading them was a disheveled, haggard woman, her face pale as death. Behind her was a man who seemed to be her husband, carrying on his back a young boy barely hanging on to life.
The moment she entered, the woman cried out for help, "Doctor, doctor, please save my son."
Nianyang went over, "Lady, don’t worry. What’s wrong with your son?"
The woman looked at Nianyang like she was grabbing onto a lifeline,
"You’re a doctor, aren’t you? My son was working at the mine and accidentally stepped into a poisoned trap, both his legs were poisoned. My husband and I took him to the hospital, but they wouldn’t admit him, saying it couldn’t be cured. I know there’s a Divine Doctor here who treated an important person, so I came to seek help. Please, doctor, you must save my son..."
Nianyang walked to the woman’s husband’s side and saw the boy who had delicate features, now poisoned to the point of having a dark purple face, his limp legs even more severely swollen and purplish.
This involuntarily reminded Nianyang of Li Tingyan’s original leg ailment, which was also due to a trap poison in the water.
But this boy’s leg poison was clearly much worse than Li Tingyan’s, and it was apparent he couldn’t endure for more than two hours...
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