If it weren't for the worry that Granny Sun would die on the road and implicate Ling Mo Han, she would have already dealt with Granny Sun.
Now she had to waste such good medicine to save her life, which was a waste of resources.
Seeing the porcelain bottle Feng Jin threw at him, the physician felt his pride deeply insulted. In all his years of practice, he had never been doubted like this.
"Where did you come from, woman, to speak such nonsense? This is about saving lives, not something for you women to interfere with!"
"What a quack!" Feng Jin scoffed, directly walking past the physician and applying the Ning Lu Duan Xu Gao to Granny Sun's wound.
"What are you doing? This is utter madness... madness! How can you, a woman, do such a thing? It's against all moral principles and ethics. This is truly chaotic..."
The physician pointed at Feng Jin and lectured her sternly, wishing he could pin the most severe accusations on her.
"Be quiet!" Feng Jin shouted angrily and swiftly inserted a silver needle into the physician's acupoint.
The air instantly fell silent. The physician's flailing posture was frozen in place. He stared wide-eyed at Feng Jin doing what he deemed against moral principles, yet he was helpless.
After a flurry of activity, Feng Jin managed to stop the bleeding. She wrote a prescription on paper and handed it to a stunned palace maid standing nearby, "Take this prescription and get the medicine."
"Yes... yes..."
The palace maid snapped back to attention, replying repeatedly. She took the prescription and hurried away.
As Feng Jin left, she didn't forget to remove the silver needle from the physician, "A quack like you isn't saving lives, but harming them!"
If it had been a moment longer, Granny Sun would have been killed by this quack. Feng Jin even doubted if he was a real physician, or perhaps an imposter.
"What did you say? How dare you slander me!" The physician's face instantly turned red with anger, and he pointed at Feng Jin in a furious rage.
"Slander? For a quack like you, is it even worth being slandered? Talking to someone like you is a waste of time."
Slander him? She must be out of her mind to slander him. Besides, was a quack like him even worth slandering?
Feng Jin truly admired his confidence. To be able to say such things without batting an eyelid was a real skill.
"You... you..." The physician was so angered by Feng Jin that he could barely speak clearly, pointing at her.
"You what? Straighten your tongue before you speak to me!"
Feng Jin retorted impolitely, too lazy to bother with such a brainless person. She brushed past him and left.
"Only women and petty men are difficult to deal with!" The physician angrily uttered these words, receiving hateful glances from other women in unison.
"What are you looking at? You women are shameless. Don't you know what 'three obediences and four virtues' mean? You have to come out and show your faces like men. It's disgraceful, truly disgraceful!"
Cai Qing shot him a fierce glare and, seizing his inattention, hurled a pebble heavily at him.
"Ah..." The physician cried out in pain, clutching the spot where he was hit, and looked around, "Who! Who... who hit me? Come out and show yourself..."
No one paid him any mind, as if they hadn't heard him.
After a while, another pebble flew from somewhere, hitting the physician directly on the head.
"Ah! Who is it! If you have the guts to attack from the shadows, you should have the guts to admit it!"
The physician, his hands covering his injured shoulder, his features contorted with pain, glared around. If he could catch the culprit, he would give them a good beating.
"Young Madam, he's incited the wrath of the masses!" Cai Qing whispered into Feng Jin's ear. The second pebble wasn't thrown by her.
Someone like him who looked down on women deserved to be hit.
"It was only a matter of time before he got beaten."
Feng Jin was not surprised at all by the physician being beaten. If it were her, she would have also given him a good beating.
"If only I had thrown another pebble. Just one is not enough to vent my anger."
Cai Qing now regretted throwing too few pebbles. She should have thrown a few more.
"One is enough. Throwing too many would arouse suspicion."
Feng Jin had seen Cai Qing throw the pebble. She was also annoyed by the physician, so she hadn't intervened, thinking it would teach him a lesson.
"Go and check on Yu Rong later."
"Yes, Young Madam, this servant will go now." Cai Qing nodded in agreement and left immediately.
Upon returning to the room, Feng Jin glanced at Chu Qing, "Granny Sun didn't die, are you a little glad?"
Hearing Feng Jin's words, Chu Qing's face instantly turned as pale as paper. With a 'thump,' she knelt before Feng Jin, "Young Madam, this servant is already your person, and naturally, I won't dwell on the past. The reason this servant was worried about Granny Sun was because... because Granny Sun used to take good care of this servant..."
"Is that so?" Feng Jin didn't believe Chu Qing's words and looked at her doubtfully, "I heard that Granny Sun was always strict and harsh with you palace maids. How could she have taken special care of you? Are you still not going to tell the truth?"
Chu Qing's heart was in turmoil. Her fingers trembled slightly with fear, and her head bowed even lower.
"This servant... this servant... speaks the truth, and dares not deceive Young Madam..."
Granny Sun had indeed asked her to stay and act as a mole, but she hadn't dared to leak even a shred of information to Granny Sun.
Naturally, she also didn't dare to inform the Young Madam of this matter. She worried... worried that the Young Madam would think she had ulterior motives upon learning of it.
She didn't want to lose the rare peace she had found. When she learned of Granny Sun's assassination attempt, a flicker of joy arose in her heart, thinking how wonderful it would be if Granny Sun died from the assassination, then no one would continue to force her to do things, and she could stay here.
"Chu Qing, you still refuse to tell me the truth. What exactly did Granny Sun want you to do?"
Feng Jin asked directly, as she had known all along that Granny Sun had asked Chu Qing to stay as a mole.
She also knew that Chu Qing had not passed any information to Granny Sun, which was why she was absolutely going to confront Chu Qing.
"Young Madam... you, you know everything?"
"I knew from the moment Granny Sun approached you. And I also know that you haven't passed any information to Granny Sun."
If it weren't for this, she would have already gotten rid of Chu Qing.
"Young Madam, this servant did not want to work for Granny Sun, so I never passed any information to her. But... but, this servant also did not dare to tell you about this matter. This servant worried that if I spoke of it, you... you..."