chapter 33

Wu Dahu noticed that Song Qinghan was about to say something, he tried to interrupt stretching out to help wipe the tears on Song Qinghan’s face and delivering him a big smile, saying, “Don’t worry about me. This is my choice. I would choose to take all the risk rather than witnessing you being arrested by them. It isn’t the worst situation right away. They probably would release me in few days!”

After that, the yamen runners came up right away and held tight the hands of Wu Dahu, showing no mercy to both of them. And then they sent him out under escort.

They left, leaving Song Qinghan standing there, holding his belly and collapsing in having sobs and moans, a heartbroken one. He looked at the county magistrate and the femina male aside with grudge and hatred, and then left without saying anything.

The two, who were bearing the real guilty right here, both subconsciously avoided the direct eyesight contact with Song Qinghan. They should be the real criminals, they were the ones who should be accused of slandering. But they wouldn’t be, guilty but free.

After Song Qinghan left the courtroom, the county magistrate sighed with a relief, and then he stood up heading to the side room.

In the side room, it was Wang Huailing sat on the chair, tasting the newest brand tea with overflowing fragrance. He saw the county magistrate coming inside, and then he complaint, “Damn it! This plan has failed, we have to conceive another plan.”

The county magistrate sat down right on the main seat in the room, and then he slapped on the table being livid with an unprepossessing, twisted face, saying, “Come on! No more bullshit and no more trick now. He is just next to nothing without his husband and being pregnant. How can we be a bad ass to a someone weak?”

Wang Huailing loosened his hand holding the tea cup, the cup fell clicking with the table. How the cup clicked seemed to be inner shout of him, amplifying the grievance and grudge long haunting in his mind.

“Tricks? If it wasn’t him, me, YOUR SON, wouldn’t have been kicked out from the Lin Family, and now I am just a shamelessly abandoned and pathetic worm! I am shameful, and of course you should be, either. I will be regret if I don’t try my best to take revenge.”

Looking at his beloved son being fulfilled with grudge and grievance, the county magistrate clenched his fists, saying, “So are you going to ignore my situation just as to take your revenge? What if someone unmask this case, how am I supposed to deal with it?”

Wang Huailing stuck into a dead silence for a moment, and then he picked up the cup again, confirming, “No one’s gonna unmask that case, that bitch is just an orphan without love. He got no one behind him. Otherwise, he wouldn’t use his husband for the shield.”

Mentioning Wu Dahu, Wang Huailing delivered a big smile with an ironic meaning, taking a sip of the tea, and saying, “How foolish the man is. Well, there’s no more shield for that pity shit.”

Noticing that Wang Huailing was still nursing a hatred, the county magistrate shook his head helplessly waving his sleeves and leaving the room.

At the same time, Song Qinghan, the poor and lonely one, was wandering on the street without destination. He was just like a walking dead, lingering himself and heading to nowhere.

As he walked and walked, for a certain moment he took a pause and raised his head noticing a familiar plaque. All of a sudden, he got his eyes red-rimmed and then walked into the shop.

The waiter inside recognized him at the first glance, at the moment he was about to shout Song Qinghan’s name, he was stunned by the gloomy look of him, and then tried to approached asking, “Sir, what… what happened?”

Song Qinghan looked around in a look of nervousness.

“Is Doctor Luo here? I got a trouble myself, a big one, and I am here for him!”

The waiter took a glance on the belly of Song Qinghan, and he thought Song Qinghan just got a physical problems. So he guided him without hesitation to the inner room, saying, “Please, this way, Doctor Luo is inside diagnosing others.”

Song Qinghan couldn’t wait but rushed inside. At the moment he saw Doctor Luo in front, he kneed himself in a rather hard way.

Doctor Luo stood up all of a sudden in an astonishment, and then got close to pick Song Qinghan up, asking urgently, “What happened? Are you feeling bad physically?”

Song Qinghan shook his head and swallowed toughly, whimpering, “Doctor Luo, you gotta save my husband! He was slandered as a murder, and was locked up in jail!”

Doctor Luo frowned seriously while picking him up on the seat, consoling, “It’s rather cold on the ground. Get up first, and let’s talk about it.”

After Song Qinghan was seated on the chair, Doctor Luo then asked in details, “Slandered by who? And for what?”

Song Qinghan told him every detail from what he’d known, head to toe. Doctor showed a great amazement after hearing his statement, asking incredibly, “How can the County Magistrate Wang make such an unfair judgement?”

He came to a hesitation for a moment, and then tried to make things out, trying to confirm what he had just heard, “Are you pretty sure that you did not pick up the wrong fruits? Maybe you’d messed your mind up while picking so many all at once?”

Song Qinghan pursed his lips and shook his head, stating in details, “Definitely sure! I devoted myself into medicine, that’s the only thing I would describe it is my expert field. I know exactly something in mouth should be carefully picked up. Otherwise, something bad will happen. In that case, when I apply to sort the illicium verum out, I would definitely spend more time on screening them. That’s no way for me to ignore any poisonous objects inside.”

Seeing the serious countenance showing on Song Qinghan’s face, Doctor Luo knew that he wasn’t lying. He came to a silence for a moment, and then continued to ask, “So have you had some arguments or contradictions with the County Magistrate Wang directly or indirectly?”

“Definitely not! We never meet with the County Magistrate Wa…”

Something seemed to occur to Song Qinghan when he mentioned the surname “Wang”, then he asked urgently, “What’s the relation between the County Magistrate Wang and Wang Huailing?”

Doctor Luo stared at Song Qinghan in an astonishment, saying, “Wang Huailing is the youngest son of the County Magistrate Wang. He once married a childe in Lin Family, but I heard that not long ago he was abandoned by Childe Lin.”

Hearing that, Song Qinghan clenched his fists, sneering, and saying with a coldness, “Well, then it must be the tricks of Wang Huailing. Lin Dafu announced their divorce just in front of me. He must have blamed me for everything causing his tragedy. He wants to set me up through his father. I just feel for Dahu, how can he take all the risks himself…”

Song Qinghan got his eyes red-rimmed again while mentioning Wu Dahu, he couldn’t continued to speak.

Doctor Luo was shocked by what had just happened to them. He never expected that Song Qinghan got such a root to both the Wang Family and Lin Family.

Song Qinghan rubbed his face and raised his head up to look at Doctor Luo, pleading sincerely, “That’s all what happened, please, Doctor Luo, do you have any idea to get my husband out of the jail?”

Doctor Luo came to another hesitation, but just sighed a bit, saying helplessly, “Well, you know, folks gain no power to compete with the officials. Although I got a higher official rank than the County Magistrate Wang before, I am just a everyman now in mediocrity. Anyway, I will give it a try to negotiate with County Magistrate Wang for you. Let’s see if there’s still a leeway to go.”

Song Qinghan cried in gratitude, saying, “Thank you a lot, Doctor Luo. Receiving drips of water when in need, and we shall return the kindness with a spring after Dahu is released.”

Seeing the eagerness in his eyes, Doctor Luo answered directly, “Well, maybe I should go visit him right away, you just stay here and wait for the news. I will get you informed.”

Song Qinghan wanted to follow up but in the thought that he probably would mess up everything, he only had to nod and respond, “OK, I will just stay here and wait for you!”

Doctor Luo rushed over to the court. When he arrived at the court, every yamen runner could recognize him as a famous miracle doctor in the Huichun Shop, all of them greeted in a rather fine attitude. And then one of them spoke, “What brings Miracle Doctor Luo here today? Are you coming here for the treatment?”

By coincidence, the county magistrate just came out from the court at the moment, his face was lit up when he saw Doctor Luo’s figure out there. He rushed over with a big smile, saying, “It’s a great honor to have you here, Doctor Luo! Come inside!”

In his welcoming invitation, Doctor Luo walked in while nodding and following him inside, right at the moment he was conceiving how to mention the affair, the county magistrate spoke at first, “Doctor Luo, I think you must have already known what happened today, right?”

“Well, just a little bit.”

Doctor Luo didn’t get the certain point of what the county magistrate had just said, he just answered ambiguously.

The county magistrate then came to a sigh, with a trace of sorrow lingering on his eyebrows, saying sadly, “In fact, since my son was abandoned by Childe Lin, he has gotten a weird temper, and shown no interest on everything. What’s haunting him is that he has to take revenge. I know there must be something perilous in his mentality. So Doctor Luo, do you have any treatment or medicine for that? Or something at least can alleviate the pain in his mind.”

Doctor Luo gave more credence to Song Qinghan since he caught the word “Revenge”. He then frowned himself, saying, “That’s the reason he set Wu Dahu up?”

He subconsciously took a step back and lowered his eyelids with nervousness. Nothing occurred to him all of a sudden, but then he asked, “Did Song Qinghan find you for help? Does he regard you as a redeemer?”

Doctor Luo pulled his own hands on his back, answering, “I am nothing out of redeemer, I just don’t want to witness you, the county magistrate, going astray. Think about your future.”

“Are you threatening me? And are you gonna to unmask everything?” the county magistrate sneered and said.

Noticing that he was misunderstood, Doctor Luo frowned seriously, explaining, “I am really giving some advice of kindness. Think it twice before acting, if you release Wu Dahu, I promise you that they will surely shut their mouth up and leak nothing of it.”

The county magistrate didn’t even believe a word of Doctor Luo since he got himself into a panic of the matter of everything being exposed. He got his face sullen, saying, “Aha, you’ve been long flattered by the reputation of a ‘Miracle Doctor’, so do you think you are omnipotent now? I warn you, if you dare to step in. I’m going to shut the Huichun Shop tomorrow. Moreover, Doctor Luo, you’re quite old now. Well, it’s normal for you to make a wrong diagnose for one or two patients, but how will their family members react? That’s not easy, huh?”

Doctor Luo got himself a wide opened eyes, he said incredibly, “Are you threatening me?”

The breach of this matter seemed to be crack all of a sudden, the county magistrate finally took off his guise, sneering, “Yes I am. What can you do? You’re just a useless mediocrity. What do you think you can rival against the officials?”

After that, he seemed to be tired of facing Doctor Luo, then leaf waving his sleeves. He said a last word to Doctor Luo, “You think about it.”

Doctor Luo furrowed, sighed softly and walked out in frustration.

The yamen runners outside the court saw Doctor Luo coming out in a sorrow face, they didn’t dare to ask the reason. After he left, they started chirping.

“What’s wrong with Doctor Luo? Maybe the county magistrate got an terminal illness?“

“Nah! I don’t think so. Probably the county magistrate asked Doctor Luo to have diagnosis on his youngest son.”

“Oh, will his son make himself a suicide? Although he keeps his smile on face every moment, well, I mean, that’s the creepiest smile I’ve ever seen.”

“Stop chirping over his mentality. If you got yourself kicked out by someone you love, you will be the same look as him. But anyway, Young Master got no child since his marriage. That’s a pity for him.”

“…”

In the other side, Song Qinghan pulled up the curtain when he noticed Doctor Luo coming back in a long distance, he rushed over and asked excitedly, “Doctor Luo, how’s it going?”

Doctor Luo sighed seriously, shaking his head and answering, “He threatened me that he would shut the Huichun Shop, and he won’t allow me to step in.”

Hearing this, Song Qinghan seemed to have been hit by a hammer right on his head. He fell down on the chair, whimpering, “What should we do… Who else can save Dahu…”