kvmb Chapter 504 How can one be disrespectful to an immortal?
Chapter 504 How can one be disrespectful to an immortal?
The Zhou and Liang families, who were arguing fiercely, immediately turned their attention to Lu Yangyang.
Manager Zhou's mother sat down on the ground, slapped her thigh, and started crying.
"Oh God, my poor unborn grandson has been murdered like this! God, open your eyes and look! My poor grandson! Our Zhou family has only had one son for three generations!"
"Mother, Mother, it's all because your son is incompetent. I failed to obtain the elixir, which caused the deaths of Qiu Niang and the child. Waaah..." Manager Zhou rushed forward, embraced his mother, and wept bitterly.
The mother and son burst into tears.
Manager Zhou's father glared angrily at Lu Yangyang, but seemed afraid of Lu Yangyang's status and dared not question her.
Meanwhile, the Liang family members were also wiping away tears. The father and son both looked completely helpless. However, although Liang's mother had red eyes, she possessed a shrewd and capable air. She stepped forward and curtsied to Lu Yangyang.
"Honorable sir, we are just uncouth folks who don't know the proper etiquette and have offended you. Please forgive us. Everyone in the government office says you are a skilled doctor. May I ask if my daughter... is there any hope for her?"
As Liang's mother spoke, she wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, her hand clenching it tightly, her hands trembling slightly.
Just as Lu Yangyang was about to speak, the Zhou family members started wailing again. Zhou's mother slapped her thigh and cried, "Where is there any hope? Everyone in Yuzhou City knows that doctors are all liars. How long has it been since Yuzhou City has had a doctor? Only the blessings of the Immortal Shangqing can protect everyone. If we could just get the elixir, my grandson could have survived! My poor grandson!"
Lu Yangyang glanced at her, too lazy to pay attention. She had seen too many of these unreasonable and shrewish women from the streets, and reasoning with them was a waste of time.
Lu Yangyang beckoned to one of the guards watching over them and asked, "What's going on?"
The constable also looked distressed: "Miss Lu, you don't know, these two families are really making a scene. They've been arguing for almost an hour, each sticking to their own version of events. The Zhou family insists that only the elixir can save her life, while the Liang family blames the Zhou family for not informing their own family when their daughter gave birth, saying they have ulterior motives. The yamen officials are so busy today that they don't even have time to sit still. The magistrate hasn't had time to settle this case either. Chief Xu is busy counting the people he brought back from the Immortal Temple today and can't take care of them. He said he'll come back and deal with them after you save that young lady."
Lu Yangyang roughly understood.
She glanced at the two families. Besides them, there was also a Taoist priest who had been forced to stay there. He stood alone and helpless in the corner, as if afraid that the quarrel between the two families would affect him.
Lu Yangyang first looked at Liang's mother and said to her, "Your daughter is fine."
Liang's mother was stunned for a moment, then became excited. She clasped her hands together and bowed fourteen times, then hurriedly knelt down before Lu Yangyang: "Thank you for your great kindness, thank you for your great kindness!"
Lu Yangyang bent down and pulled her up, while the Zhou family members were stunned.
But soon, Zhou's mother hurriedly asked, "What about my grandson? Is he alright?"
Lu Yangyang stared at them, and saw a hint of confusion flash across Manager Zhou's face. He lowered his head and remained silent.
Lu Yangyang didn't reply to her. Instead, she looked at the people present and said, "The Immortal Temple has been shut down. The elixirs refined by the Immortal Temple are poisonous pills. The government has already spread this news today. You all know now, right?"
Shopkeeper Zhou shook his head in a daze and said urgently, "No, no, it's impossible. The elixir is for saving people, how could it harm them? In our area, someone was seriously ill and only recovered after taking the elixir. Offending an immortal will result in divine punishment. How could you be disrespectful to an immortal?"
"Really?" Lu Yangyang clapped his hands and called a constable to whisper something in his ear.
The constable went out quickly and returned shortly with a box.
Lu Yangyang opened the box, revealing it full of red pills. "Since you believe in elixirs so much, I'll let you eat as many as you want now. Are you willing to eat?"
A hint of greed flashed in Zhou's mother's eyes, and she couldn't resist stepping forward, but was pulled back by Manager Zhou.
Shopkeeper Zhou immediately knelt on the ground: "Honorable sir, please forgive us. We are just ordinary people, how dare we casually consume such a precious elixir?"
“I brought it all over for you to eat for free, but you wouldn’t eat it. Instead, you insisted on making your wife, who was having a difficult childbirth, eat it. Why is that? Did you know it was poisonous, but you still wanted her to eat it?” Lu Yangyang asked him.
Shopkeeper Zhou shook his head frantically: "No, no, I... I did it to save her. Only the elixir can save her life. If you don't believe me, go ask around. Everyone knows that only the elixir can save her life. I'm willing to spend all my family's wealth just to save her. Otherwise, why would I take out all my family's savings just to get her an elixir?"
“There are no doctors in Yuzhou City. Your wife is having a difficult childbirth and is already exhausted. Instead of finding a midwife for her, you drag her around the streets begging for help. You say you're doing this to save her?” Lu Yangyang scoffed. “That’s really interesting. This is the first time I’ve ever heard of saving someone like this.”
Upon hearing Lu Yangyang's words, Liang's mother immediately chimed in, "What you say is true. Go out and ask around, which family acts like your Zhou family? My daughter gave birth, and you didn't even bother to inform our family. Where was the midwife? I brought this up with you two months ago, and even asked my acquaintance, Granny Liu, to come over. But just a few days before, you claimed you'd paid for a more famous midwife, and we haven't even seen her. We, her family, shouldn't interfere in our daughter's affairs, but how you treat my daughter! She's having a difficult labor, and you're dragging her to the streets to seek elixirs of immortality—are you trying to kill her? What are you really up to? This is utterly outrageous!"
Upon hearing this, Zhou's mother immediately retorted, "Which woman gives birth without any problems? But your daughter is incompetent and had a difficult childbirth! We exhausted our family fortune, and my son ran around begging for elixirs to save her life, and yet you all blame us! What about my grandson? Let me tell you, if anything happens to my grandson, you can take this girl back yourselves. We don't want her. Your daughter is incompetent, but my son can find someone capable to give birth to for him!"
"You old hag, you..." Liang's mother was so angry that she was about to scratch Zhou's mother's face, but was stopped by the yamen runners.
"This is a sacred place; no violence is allowed!" the bailiff shouted.
Lu Yangyang looked at the Zhou family mother and son and asked, "So you mean that you only want a grandson and not a daughter-in-law? If something happens to the grandson after he is born, or if he is not a grandson, you don't want him either? Is that what you mean? Can I understand that you think your daughter-in-law can't give birth to a grandson, so you are deliberately dragging things out to kill her so that your son can find another wife? Or have you already found another wife and are just waiting to kill your daughter-in-law?"