It seems that Ah Yan's mother is very ill, Ah Yan has not come back for four or five days, this time she hurried back to ask Mrs. to give her a few more days, Mrs. directly sent a doctor to see, but Ah Yan seemed to be very embarrassed. I don't know what's going on, but my gut tells me that Ah Yan is hiding something.

"Ah Yan, I will try my best to help you if you have any difficulties, besides, everyone hopes that your mother can get better soon, even if you stay at home and take care of her for a long time after she gets better, I can still send you silver taels." Madame was a little anxious.

"Yes, Ah Yan, just say what you have, what is your mother's illness?"

Ah Yan looked very embarrassed, hesitated for a while before saying, "My mother, she ...... She's giving birth. ”

"What? Your father is not ......" I was about to say something, Ah Yan said, "My mother was persecuted...... There was a man who climbed over the wall in the middle of the night and entered the house, but he didn't steal anything, but he ...... his mother."

"Why don't you say it after so long? How dangerous it is to leave your mother alone at home, your mother is not young anymore, in case there is any accident...... "I am also anxious."

"I ...... My mother won't let me say it, she's afraid of being embarrassed. ”

"Don't say it, now call a midwife to your house!" Madame said.

"Will you deliver babies when you meet the stars? I...... I think you know how to heal, so I think you can ...... too."

"I've never done this kind of thing, so let's find a special midwife!"

Madame said to me, "There is a midwife in the clinic where you often go, but I don't know if she is there today, so you can go and see her." ”

I went straight to the hospital and asked the midwife if she was there, and the man said, "Girl, you came just in time, the midwife just came today, and she hasn't been there for a long time." ”

"Hurry up, let her come out, someone is going to give birth."

The midwife was a kind old woman, and when she heard my words in the carriage, she kept nagging me, saying why I didn't prepare earlier, because it would be easy to die...... I said it had nothing to do with me, but the old woman said that since I knew about it, it had something to do with me. It seems that even an old woman with a kind appearance has a side that is not kind. But no matter how you say it, people are also trying to save their lives, whether it's adults or babies, I have nothing to complain about when I am scolded.

Finally arrived at Ah Yan's house, it was not a stumbling one, after all, Mrs. had given Ah Yan a lot of money over the years, and it was still appropriate to subsidize some belongings. Ah Yan and her mother were lying on the bed, humming in pain, her belly was not big, and she didn't look like she was about to give birth.

"Ah Yan, you are troublesome Madame again." The woman coughed, Ah Yan looked embarrassed, and said, "I don't want to trouble Mrs. ...... them."

"It has nothing to do with Ah Yan, I insist on helping." The lady said, calling the midwife, and said, "Look, is it about to give birth?" ”

The midwife touched the woman's belly, frowned, and asked Ah Yan, "How long have you been pregnant?" ”

"A few months...... I didn't count the days. ”

"How does it hurt? I think ......" The midwife stopped talking, and the lady looked at her and asked, "What's the matter?" If it's a matter of money, I can give enough. ”

The midwife shook her head and said, "If only the money problem would be solved, but I have never delivered babies for money. ”

"What's that?"

"Your mother was drugged and not pregnant at all."

"What?!"

I approached my aunt, took her hand, and took her pulse. My aunt's pulse was intermittent, she kept shouting that her stomach hurt, and I reached out to touch my stomach, but I was pulled by the midwife. "What are you doing? Don't move, it's a disease, not a pregnancy. ”

"She knows some medical skills, let her see it." Madame said.

"Auntie, it may hurt a little, you bear with it."

The aunt nodded, I pressed her stomach, and with the aunt's scream, a picture suddenly flashed in my mind, and the midwife pushed me away angrily, and I sat on the ground all of a sudden, stunned.

"What are you doing?! She's in pain like this, and you're going to make her suffer! The midwife scolded angrily.

"Your mother was fed a split liver." I stood up trembling and said.

"What's that?" Ah Yan asked.

"A highly poisonous poison that will not die immediately after eating, but will split the liver in the stomach little by little until it completely ruptures and crumbles into slag."

"Who will poison it? Mother! Is it the one who violated you?! Ah Yan cried.

"I don't know...... When will I die? ”

"According to the current situation, if it is fast, there is only one month left, and if it is slow, there is only three months left."

Before I finished speaking, Ah Yan was already crying and said, "Mother! I can't afford to lose you! I'm the only one with my mother! ”

Although the midwife has always been very dissatisfied with my mixed behavior, she also knows that this is drugged, not pregnant, but this is suspicious, since Ah Yan said that the aunt was forced, that means that the aunt also thought that she was pregnant, why did she become drugged?

"Ah Yan, don't worry, I'll pay to find the best doctor I can find to treat your mother." Madame said.

I wanted to tell my wife the truth, but I couldn't say it in front of Ah Yan, so I had to call softly, "Madam, can you come out for a while?" ”

This was the first time I had called Madame out to speak, but I knew Madame wouldn't care.

"What's wrong? What's not to say? ”

I looked into the room and whispered, "Madam, this disease cannot be cured. I've seen several people who died because of this, and I have asked for a doctor, and I have found all kinds of doctors, some of them cheated money and left, some of them just resigned after a glance, and some of them were treated well but still couldn't be recovered. After all, this is poison, and this is not a disease at all. ”

"Is there no antidote?"

"Madam, the most powerful poison on the rivers and lakes has the word 'powder' in its name, this split liver powder is highly toxic, simple to make, and not easy to be found after being drugged, so many people use it. As for the antidote, only some of the poisons have an antidote, and as far as I know, there is no antidote for splitting the liver. ”

"What then? Can you only watch her mother die? ”

"Madam, I understand that Ah Yan only has this one relative, and what she wants to see must be that her mother is living a peaceful life, not suddenly being drugged. But a moral person would not give such a poison to an innocent person, and I really can't imagine why Ah Yan and her mother were drugged. ”

"Can you find out?"

"Then it depends on whether her mother tells the truth. Over the years, I've seen several killers fed this drug, dying painfully and slowly, and no one can stop them. ”

When we returned to the house, Madame sighed and asked, "Sister, who have you seen in the past few months?" What has been done? Did you notice something wrong? ”

The aunt lowered her eyes and said, "No, I was indeed forced by a thief at the time, but he left when he was done, and he didn't have time to take medicine." ”

"Who else have you seen?"

"No, I've always lived alone, maybe I was drugged when I went out, and I didn't know it."

"Maybe you've inadvertently offended someone, and you don't know it." I said.

"My mother usually relies on the silver taels given to me by my wife to buy vegetables or something, my mother is not in good health, and she usually has no contact with others, and there are even no neighbors in this neighborhood, so my mother has no chance to meet anyone at all."

It's really strange like this, my aunt doesn't usually interact with people, and I haven't seen anyone except for being forced once, what the hell is going on? If it was for money and murder, it would be impossible to give her such a chronic poison, and besides, there is no shortage of money, and we have no way of knowing the purpose of that person.

"There is a miracle doctor far away from the capital, but it takes two or three days to go back and forth, and I am afraid that I will ......" The midwife said without saying anything, I said: "I'll go to find it, where is it?" ”

"Daimyofu, that person's surname is Zheng, unknown, as long as you go and ask, someone will take you to him, you just say that the midwife of Wanminji in the capital invited him to come, go and come back quickly!"

I borrowed a fast horse from the Tsunefu and galloped to the Daimyo's Mansion. Madame, fearing that I would not be enough, gave me a great deal of silver, and even a silver ticket, but I took only the money and hurried away, pondering the matter as I went.

It's a pity that I can't figure out any of it, no matter who drugged it, I couldn't find any purpose or benefit, and I even imagined that the murderer was drugged because he wanted to marry Ah Yan but his aunt didn't agree...... But who will haunt Ah Yan?

For me, today's rush is just to relive the past, not to mention that it has only been a few days since Jingshi came here, and in the past, in order to hunt down and kill a person, the killer would even go through several months of running days, and the hardships along the way are hard to describe.

When I arrived near the Daimyo's Mansion, I casually found a medical center, and saw an old man sitting at a small table napping outside the medical hall, so I stepped forward and asked, "Old man, where is Doctor Zheng?" ”

The old man in front of me looked at me sleepily and asked, "Who called you here?" ”

"The midwife of the capital Wanminji."

"Okay, let's go." The old man stood up and said, "I'll lead a good horse." I stopped him: "How far is Doctor Zheng still there?" ”

"In front of you."

I realized that this old man was Doctor Zheng, and after waiting for a while, the old man brought a horse from the back of the medical hall and said, "Go on the road!" ”

On the way back, I was glad that my wife gave me so much silver, because this old man was very particular about eating and drinking, and the coarse tea and light rice I ate to save money were simply garbage in the eyes of this old man. Passing by the inn, he must drink the best wine in it, and ask for a few side dishes and some meat. I asked for the cheapest flatbread, and he gave me a disgusted look, shook his head, and then nibbled on the big stick bone in his hand.

"You said that you, at a young age, don't you know how to enjoy happiness." Doctor Zheng said.

"I have always worked hard, and I have no blessing."

"I don't think so, you look at your face, the first half of your life is a hard life, and the second half of your life is a blessed life, but you have to know the right person."

"I'm a maid in Changfu, and I don't know a few people."

"Hey, don't say it's so dead, how do you know you'll always be a maid?"

I didn't speak, I didn't want to say much. After all, I don't know this person, in case he is not a Zheng Divine Doctor at all, but a fake, if I leak something, then I won't invite trouble.

"Girl, are you from some house?"

Fragments flashed before my eyes. "I'm an orphan."

"What's your name?"

"Meet the stars."

"Yufu, aren't you from Yufu?"

"Could it be that everyone with the surname Chang is a person from Changfu?"

The old man stopped talking, as if he was thinking about something.

"Have you finished eating? After eating, let's leave, you can go back and eat again, and you can't afford to delay when you are sick. ”

I wiped my hands, walked out of the inn, patted the rest of the broken silver on my chest, and mounted my horse.