Chapter 1608: Siege, Death
Chapter 1608: Chapter 1608: Siege, Death
"Housekeeper Liu, Manager Lu’s illness is indeed strange. I wouldn’t dare to report it lightly. Do you think we should send a doctor over to check it out?" Xu Da said to Housekeeper Lei Liu.
Housekeeper Lei Liu belongs to the Lei Family Trading Team Mansion, a person with little authority, mainly managing servants and odd jobs. However, he could meet Grand Steward Lei and even Old Madam Gao.
After hearing this, he felt the matter was somewhat unusual: "Wait here, I’ll go see the Grand Steward and ask him to send a doctor."
"Ah, thank you, Housekeeper Liu." Xu Da felt pleased, waiting with Xu San and Brother Lu at the courtyard.
minutes later, Housekeeper Liu directly brought over a doctor in his thirties: "This is Doctor Zhang. Accompany him to treat Manager Lu."
Dr. Fang is highly skilled in medicine but is too busy to treat Manager Lu. Being able to get Doctor Zhang was due to Manager Lu’s strange illness.
"Thank you, Housekeeper Liu, thank you, Doctor Zhang!" Brother Lu expressed his gratitude with a bow and couldn’t wait to lead Doctor Zhang away.
Housekeeper Liu said: "No need to rush, there’s a mule cart prepared for you at the back door."
Brother Lu felt overjoyed and left through the back door with Xu Da, boarding the Lei Family Trading Team’s mule cart, heading home quickly: "Doctor Zhang, my Second Uncle is in the house, please have a look."
"The doctor is here!" Ms. Lu had cried until her eyes were swollen, leading her two sons to greet Doctor Zhang and then explained Manager Lu’s condition.
Doctor Zhang frowned and asked: "Coughing blood? Was he beaten, sustaining internal injuries?"
Ms. Lu shook her head: "No, no one beat him. He’s very afraid of dying, so he never dares to offend powerful people. Just the other day, he went to the government office to gather news and got scared by the incident of slashing the field thief and Rong people’s spies."
She cried again: "Doctor, you must save him... He’s the pillar of our family!"
Doctor Zhang nodded, carrying his medical kit, and went inside to check on Manager Lu. Seeing him, he was startled... Manager Lu’s upper abdomen had enlarged significantly, obviously due to internal injuries, causing constant internal bleeding.
Doctor Zhang checked Manager Lu’s pulse and found it was very weak. When he pressed on the bulging upper abdomen, blood immediately gushed from Manager Lu’s mouth. He shook his head towards Ms. Lu: "It’s too late, the injuries are too severe, prepare for the afterlife."
"What? God almighty, no, doctor, save my husband, he can’t die!" Ms. Lu sat on the ground and wailed, but Doctor Zhang had no means, the bleeding was severe internally, how could he save him?
Brother Lu felt sad hearing this but asked: "Doctor Zhang, how did my Second Uncle get this illness? He just went out the other day, was fine when he returned, but felt uncomfortable the next night, and before dawn today, it turned like this. You have to find out the cause of the illness, it can’t be so unclear."
After hearing it, Doctor Zhang nodded appreciatively: "You seem young but quite clever."
Ms. Lu got furious and shouted at them: "Why are you still talking, hurry up and save my husband!"
Doctor Zhang frowned at the sound, but without getting angry, meticulously carried out an examination to find the cause, but discovered nothing.
"... It indeed seems like symptoms after being beaten, rupture of internal organs, resulting in uncontrollable hemorrhage, yet there are no bruises from being beaten on his body, truly odd."
If there was any external injury, it was only two sesame-sized red spots on Manager Lu’s wrist, other than that, no injuries were discovered.
"Then how did my husband end up like this?" Ms. Lu questioned persistently: "Quickly acupuncture him to save him!"
Doctor Zhang wanted to say, in such conditions, acupuncture would be futile unless the abdomen was sliced open, releasing the blood inside, and then suturing the injured internal organs, otherwise, any acupuncture would be pointless.
Yet if a person’s abdomen were to be sliced open, survival would be impossible.
Ultimately, Doctor Zhang still spent more than 15 minutes performing a round of acupuncture on Manager Lu and prescribed a hemostatic remedy for him, telling Brother Lu: "You come with me to the Lei Family’s Trading Team Mansion to get the medicine."
"Ah." Brother Lu followed him, but before he could return with the medicine, Manager Lu passed away.
Ms. Lu was overwhelmed with grief, wailing aloud, blaming Brother Lu for Manager Lu’s death: "It’s all that jinx’s fault for inviting a quack doctor, causing your father’s death! That jinx must pay with his life!"
Her two sons were petrified and dared not speak.
Zhong Hou’s family heard and said: "Boss Lady, Doctor Zhang is a doctor of the Lei Family Trading Team, how could he be a quack?"
"Bah, you family of scoundrels think I don’t know what you’re up to? You wish to have your Luo Hua marry that jinx to seize the Lu Family’s property, dream on!" Ms. Lu pointed at Luo Hua: "You little bitch, relying on your looks to allure the master, just wait, I’ll sell you to a brothel soon, have you be a prostitute!"
Luo Hua was stunned, she had never tried to allure Brother Lu, cried: "Boss Lady, please calm down, the slave hasn’t."
Ms. Lu: "Bah, if you haven’t, there would be ghosts!"
When Brother Lu returned with Xu San, they witnessed Ms. Lu’s madness.
Upon learning of Manager Lu’s death, Brother Lu cried: "Aunt misunderstood, Luo Hua and I have no private affairs, my Uncle is already arranging a marriage for me with a girl from my Aunt’s family."
Ms. Lu, hearing this, flew into a rage, pointing at Brother Lu, cursing: "Ah, I knew since early you were an ungrateful wretch, scheming behind our backs, having your Aunt find a marriage for you... you wicked thing, I’ll report to the officials now to arrest you, accuse you of murdering your Second Uncle!"
Bam, Xu San kicked the door of the Lu Family’s main hall, cursed: "Enough, you poisonous woman, Manager Lu clearly died of illness, how could you falsely accuse Brother Lu? Do you want to destroy Brother Lu so that you can capture the first branch’s property?!"
Ms. Lu, having her intentions exposed, froze for a moment, then started bawling wildly: "Oh, dear husband, wake up and see, just when you’re gone, your good nephew brings outsiders to bully us, the widows and orphans!"
Xu San laughed, pointing at Manager Lu’s eldest son: "Your son is already sixteen, taller than Brother Lu by two heads, who’s bullying whom?!"
He warned: "Ms. Lu, I advise you to prepare and shroud Manager Lu carefully, handle the funeral, if you continue falsely accusing Brother Lu, I’ll have my big brother bring the Lei Family’s Trading Team over to beat your two sons to death!"
Ms. Lu cherished her two sons the most, hearing this, immediately stopped crying, glaring bitterly at Xu San: "You dare!"
Xu San sneered: "Ha, what wouldn’t I dare? Not only would I, even the Lei Family’s Trading Team dares to beat your sons to death. You’ve accused Doctor Zhang from the Lei Family’s Trading Team of killing Manager Lu, do you think the Lei Family’s Trading Team will tolerate such slander?"
Ms. Lu, hearing this, finally dared not act up, sat on the ground crying for over 15 minutes, then pointed at Brother Lu: "You get inside, prepare your Second Uncle’s body!"
Though Manager Lu had not treated Brother Lu well, having abruptly lost a relative, Brother Lu obediently went inside to shroud Manager Lu’s body.
Xu San couldn’t stand aside, following in to help.
While busy, suddenly felt a tingle in his hand, he rolled up his sleeve, discovered he had two additional red spots on his hand.