Chapter 127: Chapter 127 Conspiracy Together_1 Chapter 127: Chapter 127 Conspiracy Together_1 Li Guihua saw through her husband’s thoughts. She might be brash on the outside, but she was strictly controlled by Zhao Er Gou and dared not say anything in his presence. Yet, she held a grudge against Lin Yue in her heart, silently cursing Lin Yue as a vixen. If they really became involved, she worried about her own position and felt that she needed to think of a plan to secure it.
Lin Yue was unaware that so many people were scheming against her. At that moment, she was racking her brains to figure out how to earn more silver. That morning, Doctor Zheng had brought her good news when he came to check Zhao Erhu’s pulse; he mentioned that the son of the Medicine Aristocratic Family from the Capital City, who was known as the Divine Doctor, would be arriving in Xin’an City in a month.
The medical skills of the Jiang Family had been passed down for generations, with almost every generation serving as Imperial Physicians in the palace. By the time it reached the current generation’s Divine Doctor, he was already the sixth in line. From a young age, he had been passionate about studying medicine and had already surpassed his predecessors at a young age, earning the title of Divine Doctor. However, his aspirations differed from his ancestors; instead of serving as an Imperial Physician, he wished to travel the north and south of the Jiangnan region, investigating various complex and rare diseases, hoping to achieve further breakthroughs in medical science.
There was a rule when it came to the Divine Doctor treating patients: for any complex and incurable diseases, he charged no fee. However, for all other cases, no matter who sought his treatment, they were required to present a hundred taels of silver as the consultation fee in advance.
For Doctor Zheng, illnesses like Zhao Erhu’s were difficult to treat, but for the Divine Doctor, they were nothing challenging as he had already treated many such cases. Therefore, this rule was unavoidable. If Lin Yue wanted the Divine Doctor to treat Zhao Erhu, she would need to prepare at least a hundred taels of silver. But Lin Yue was actually pleased; although the hundred taels were compulsory, it indirectly indicated that there was a great chance of Zhao Erhu’s recovery.
The thought of Zhao Erhu waking up filled Lin Yue with both excitement and joy. Without a man in the house, everything was difficult to manage. Not to mention the heavy and coarse work that Zhao Erhu never used to spare her from, which had now fallen onto her shoulders. Even though the children were sensible and tried to help, there was only so much they could do. In the past couple of days, she noticed more people loitering around the courtyard, peeping and poking around with unknown intentions. Lin Yue didn’t have any solutions; all she could do was to keep the doors shut tightly, keeping the ill-intending gazes out. If Zhao Erhu were well, those people wouldn’t dare have any designs on their household and would be too busy avoiding them.
Now, the most important thing was to save up silver. A hundred taels of silver was an astronomical sum that a peasant family like theirs might never even see in their lifetime. Even though Lin Yue was more capable than the average person at earning money, a hundred taels of silver was not easy to come by. Fortunately, there was still more than a month left to prepare.
Looking at the embroidery in her hands, the quad-paneled screen, the third piece was almost finished. Once the fourth piece was complete, she could take it to the Embroidery Store to sell. According to the Embroidery Store’s Manager, these four pieces of embroidery could sell for at least fifty or sixty taels of silver—and that was a conservative estimate on Lin Yue’s part. In addition, she would make three or four taels of silver from selling food at the market each month. During this time, she could also complete two more pieces of embroidery. Allowing her to gather not only the required hundred taels but possibly even more. With that in mind, Lin Yue felt reassured.
Over at the old residence of the Zhao Family, the Wei Family had sent Zhao Jingen and his wife, Zhao Dahuo, away, and sat down with her sons to plot in secrecy, discussing how to deal with Lin Yue. Their life had not been good these days. What hit Wei the hardest was the failed job opportunity that her eldest son Zhao Quan had schemed—the loss of not just the job, but the twenty taels of silver they had invested was irretrievable, proving Zhao Erhu’s previous claim right; they really had lost both the wife and the soldiers.