Ch 33: Taking Advantage

In less than half an hour, Qin Yun woke Chen Yanhong and her group.

Liu Ergou had swallowed a bellyful of water from the ditch, finally regaining his ability to speak.

He immediately jumped out, pointing at Qin Yun and saying:

“Yesterday you gave us the wrong medicine, almost killing us. You must take responsibility for this, and you must compensate us…”

“Slap!”

Before he could finish, Chen Yanhong slapped him hard across the left side of his face.

Almost knocking him to the ground.

“Sis… Sister-in-law, why did you hit me?”

Liu Ergou clutched his swollen left cheek, looking at Chen Yanhong with grievance.

He was Chen Yanhong’s capable underling; why would she slap him?

“Fool!”

Chen Yanhong scolded in a low voice.

Almost all the villagers gathered outside the courtyard gate, clearly seeing the whole thing.

Liu Ergou was actually trying to use this incident to frame Qin Yun; wasn’t this slapping his own face?

Seeing her lover slapped, Zhou Cuie still hadn’t come to her senses, so she quickly stepped forward and whispered beside Liu Ergou:

“The villagers outside already understand the whole thing, so don’t say anything more.”

Liu Ergou finally came to his senses.

“Yunzi, this is all Liu Ergou’s fault. They acted without authorization, secretly collecting a large basket of herbs, making them into herbal paste, and deceiving me into believing it was from you. They applied it to me, and if you hadn’t returned in time, they would have almost killed me.”

Since Liu Ergou had volunteered to step forward, Chen Yanhong pushed all the responsibility onto him.

Liu Ergou was extremely depressed, but dared not retort.

Chen Yanhong continued with a smiling face, “Yunzi, for the remaining forty-eight treatments, Auntie will never be deceived by them again. You will personally apply the medicine to us.”

“Aunt Yanhong, you are women. How can I apply medicine to you? Aunt Yumei and Sister Chunmei should apply the medicine to you. Every time you receive the treatment, you must pay them one dollar for their hard work,” Qin Yun corrected.

“One dollar isn’t much, but Chunmei’s application method is not skillful, it hurts terribly, and Yumei alone can’t manage it. It’s best if you also help us.”

“As for the difference between men and women, Auntie won’t mind too much.”

Chen Yanhong said, puffing out her chest and blinking her eyes.

The suggestive implication was easy for any man to understand.

To cure her condition as quickly as possible, even if it meant letting Qin Yun take advantage, Chen Yanhong wouldn’t mind.

Li Chunmei and Chen Yumei looked at her with disdain.

But she didn’t care at all, still smiling charmingly at Qin Yun.

Qin Yun blushed and quickly said: “Aunt Yanhong, the most important part of your condition is in the leg pits. How can I touch your leg pits?”

His shy look made Chen Yanhong giggle.

She was very experienced in dealing with this kind of shy young man.

“Yunzi, you are a doctor. The proverb says that doctors don’t see gender… From tonight onwards, for the remaining forty-eight treatments, Auntie will wait for you in your room to apply the medicine.”

After speaking, Chen Yanhong picked up the green garment she had taken off, twisting her curvaceous waist and hips, and was about to walk towards Qin Yun’s room.

Qin Yun quickly reached out to stop her.

“Aunt Yanhong, I can’t apply the medicine to you. Let Sister Chunmei and Aunt Yumei help you.”

This condition was highly contagious; Qin Yun absolutely couldn’t let her enter the house.

He wasn’t even willing to let them stay in the courtyard.

“Your family has the most spacious courtyard in the village, and the ground is cemented. Let’s arrange the treatment location in your house from now on.”

“Also, because you used herbs you collected yourselves, the condition worsened. One treatment course is not enough; at least two treatment courses are needed, each with forty-nine treatments.”

“It’s very late. My mother and Xiaoyu need to sleep. Let’s end it here for today. Everyone, go back!”

Qin Yun finished everything in one breath, opening the courtyard gate wide to urge Chen Yanhong and the others to leave quickly.

His mother and Xiaoyu had been frightened all night; he absolutely couldn’t let these people cause a commotion here again.

Chen Yanhong was very angry.

She had offered herself, but Qin Yun didn’t want her and was even preparing to drive her away.

In all these years, this was the first time she had been refused by a man.

What angered her even more was that the treatment had become two treatment courses.

Each treatment was so painful that her underwear was soaked.

Thinking about having to endure the pain for another ninety-odd times, her legs trembled involuntarily.

Zhou Cuie and the others were also scared pale.

“Qin Yun, are you deliberately trying to swindle us, wanting to earn an extra treatment course’s fee?” Liu Ergou asked angrily.

“Do you see the three-wheeled motorcycle outside? I just bought it. If I can afford a three-wheeled motorcycle, how could I swindle you for that little fee?” Qin Yun pointed to the motorcycle outside the courtyard.

Liu Ergou and the others were astonished.

Qin Yun could actually afford a motorcycle, and a three-wheeled one at that?

Everyone in the village knew that the more wheels, the higher the price.

Where did this poor boy get so much money?

“Aunt Yanhong, this is the transfer agreement for the fifty mu of land. Please sign it and leave your fingerprint.”

Qin Yun had Youcheng Construction Company help him prepare this agreement.

Liu Dabiao and Chen Yanhong were untrustworthy people. Only by signing the transfer agreement could he feel at ease.

Chen Yanhong’s face looked awful when she saw the transfer agreement.

She really didn’t want Qin Yun to obtain the fifty mu of wasteland so easily.

Once she signed the agreement, their schemes wouldn’t work.

But if she didn’t sign, Qin Yun would definitely not treat them anymore.

With no choice, she could only glare at Qin Yun resentfully and sign the agreement.

“Auntie Cuie, when Xiaoyu was first brought to our village, you received her. At that time, did the woman who brought Xiaoyu give you anything else?”

Putting away the transfer agreement, Qin Yun looked towards Zhou Cuie, asking about something that had been on his mind.

“No… no, nothing at all.” Zhou Cuie’s gaze flickered, and she shook her head repeatedly.

“I’ll go see Xiaoyu’s mother in a few days. If I find out you’re lying, I won’t treat your condition,” Qin Yun’s eyes also flickered slightly, telling a small lie.

Zhou Cuie was immediately panicked.

Those blisters had already grown to her chest.

If Qin Yun didn’t treat her, the blisters would definitely grow to her face. If that happened, she would be disfigured, and who would want her then?

“Auntie… Auntie remembers, the woman also brought a bank card, saying that there was 100,000 inside, as Xiaoyu’s support payment.”

Zhou Cuie kept giving Chen Yanhong meaningful glances, but Chen Yanhong ignored her. With a hardened heart, she revealed everything.

“Why didn’t you give the bank card to my mother then?” Qin Yun’s face instantly darkened.

If his mother had received that 100,000, she and Xiaoyu wouldn’t have suffered for four years.

“Yunzi, I’m not to blame for this. It’s Xiaoyu’s mother’s fault,” Zhou Cuie hurriedly said.

“She kindly brought 100,000, how can you blame her?”

“Your mother is illiterate and doesn’t know how to withdraw money from the bank. At that time, we were going to help her withdraw the money and give it to her. However, the bank card was frozen, and not a single cent could be withdrawn…Yanhong, Ergou, and Dazhu can all testify to this.”

“Frozen?”

Qin Yun glared at Chen Yanhong.

“What Cuie said is true. The bank card is still at my house. I’ll bring it to you tomorrow,” Chen Yanhong said with a smiling face.

It was just a frozen, useless card; giving it back to Qin Yun didn’t matter.

“Go get it now. I want it now.” Qin Yun didn’t believe these people would kindly help his mother withdraw the money.

If the money in the card could be withdrawn, it would have long been swallowed by Liu Dabiao.

“Okay, okay, Auntie will go get it right away.”

Seeing Qin Yun’s anger, Chen Yanhong immediately had Liu Dazhu ride the motorcycle to her house to retrieve the card.

Soon, the bank card was in Qin Yun’s hands.

Besides the bank card, there was also a note with Xiaoyu’s time of birth.

The handwriting on the note was neat and elegant.

At a glance, it was obviously written by a woman.

Moreover, it was definitely written by the beautiful woman who gave birth to Xiaoyu.

With this bank card, Qin Yun had hope of finding information about that woman…

Everyone inside and outside the courtyard had left, leaving only Chen Yumei and Li Chunmei.

“Aunt Yumei, I will deliver mountain spring water for crushing herbs every day. You must use the mountain spring water I deliver to crush the herbs.

As for applying the medicine, you and Sister Chunmei will do it together. You two can split the payment for your hard work equally.”

Chen Yumei suddenly realized that the most crucial element of the medicine was the mountain spring water.

No wonder Liu Ergou and the others collected the same herbs but had no effect.

“You provide the most important mountain spring water; you should take the larger share of the payment,” Chen Yumei said.

Chen Yanhong and the others’ payment amounted to over a thousand dollars, which was a large sum for them.

Li Chunmei had the same meaning.

Qin Yun couldn’t explain the True Qi in the mountain spring water, so he could only nod and say:

“Let’s split the payment equally among the three of us.”

“How can it be equally divided? You should take the larger share.”

“You two have to crush the herbs and apply the medicine, while I only provide the mountain spring water. Getting an equal share is already a huge advantage for me.”

“The prescription is yours, and the mountain spring water is yours. How can we take advantage of you? We are taking advantage of you.”

“No, no, no, it’s me taking advantage of you two.”

“Ahem!”

Li Chunmei lightly coughed twice, with a mischievous look in her eyes, interrupting the two:

“Yunzi, Aunt Yumei and I are women. Do you really want to take advantage of two women at the same time?”

“I, I didn’t mean that.” Qin Yun blushed.

Chen Yumei also came to her senses, realizing that her previous words were inappropriate.

Blushing, she quickly corrected: “We will split the payment for applying the medicine equally among the three of us. That’s settled.”

After speaking, she picked up her herbal basket, twisted her curvaceous waist and hips, and quickly left.

Li Chunmei was known in the village as a “widow-maker”. As soon as Chen Yumei left, she didn’t dare stay any longer, afraid of bringing bad luck to Qin Yun.

Without even saying goodbye, she also turned and hurried away.

Qin Yun scratched his head, unable to understand why the two women, who were just enthusiastic, suddenly changed their faces and left.

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