Genshin Impact: I, who only wanted to play badly, have become famous
Chapter 16: The Green Bag Chapter (1)
The funeral was over in the late evening and the people of Qingce Village had already returned to their homes.
In the thatched house, apart from the old man's children, sitting around a large round table were all people from the "Wangsheng Hall" and "Bubu Lu", plus one more person, Ye Luo.
The old man's daughter poured tea for everyone in turn, then turned and went into the kitchen.
The old man's son was also ready to answer the questions raised by Ye Luo.
Ye Luo said bluntly: "So, before your mother passed away, she did meet two merchants selling health products."
The old man's son nodded with a broken heart, "That day, my sister and I went to Chenyu Valley to sell vegetables. Originally, we took turns going there, and one of us had to stay at home to look after our mother."
"That day, because there were so many vegetables, we thought we could take more away so we could earn more money and buy more medicinal herbs for my mother."
"We came back quite late that night and found that my mother had not taken her medicine. Instead, she was holding a bottle of so-called health supplements and looked quite happy."
"My sister was very careful and noticed that the amount of medicine at home was wrong. She knew that my mother must not have taken the medicine that day, so she immediately went to boil some medicine so that my mother could take it quickly."
"But my mother insisted that she had met a kind man who sold her a magical medicine that could prolong her life and cure all diseases at a low price. With this bottle of medicine, she would never have to spend money on other medicines again."
"I checked the box where I hid my money at home and found that 50,000 Mora were missing."
"At that time, I had roughly guessed that my mother had been deceived, and wanted to find the two people she mentioned selling medicine, but I couldn't find them anymore."
"That night, my mother got very angry with us, saying that we didn't know how to be frugal. She said that after she bought this medicine, she wouldn't have to spend money on medicine for the next year. It could cure any disease and extend her life."
"My sister and I tried to persuade her, but she refused to take normal medications. She also scolded us for not wanting to make her life better and for not letting her take those health supplements. We just wanted to piss her off to death."
At this point, the old man's son pounded the table indignantly and groaned heavily, as if he was lamenting his own powerlessness and hating the two liars' eloquence.
The old woman's daughter came in with tears in her eyes and continued to answer with a sob: "We tried every way to persuade our mother to take the medicine, but she stubbornly believed that the bottle of medicine in her hand was the magic pill that could save her. She refused to take any other medicine, saying that she was afraid that it would affect the efficacy of the health product."
"Before she died, my mother was already very weak and her face looked particularly bad. We knelt down and begged her to take normal medicine, but we didn't expect..."
The old man's son comforted his emotionally broken sister and spoke the last few words.
"Mother was lying on the bed, almost unable to move. We two knelt on the ground and begged her to take the medicine, but she tried her best to knock over the medicine in our hands, took out the health products, and stuffed them into her own mouth."
"While stuffing the medicine into her mouth, she kept shouting, 'Godly doctor, save me, Godly doctor, save me'... We tried to stop her, but she pushed it away desperately until she died, with her mouth still full of those health products..."
Everyone lowered their heads in regret. Zhongli and Hu Tao comforted the old man's children respectively. They insisted on finishing their stories, but they could no longer control their emotions and were filled with grief and tears.
Ye Luo closed his eyes and frowned, his chest heaving, his fists clenched tightly, and his whole body was shaking.
In his eyes, this was a health product scam with obvious flaws. As soon as he saw it, he knew without even thinking about it that the person selling the medicine was a liar.
But in the eyes of this old woman, she would rather not believe her children and the doctor's advice, and chose to believe this fake medicine.
Ye Luo's emotions were very complicated. He was sad that the old man died because of being deceived; he was also angry that the two scammers killed people for the sake of deception; however, he was somewhat helpless about the old man's ignorance...
He turned his head to look at Bai Zhu and found that Bai Zhu also had his eyes closed and his brows furrowed. Although he was sitting very upright, his hand holding the teacup was shaking with anger.
After seeing this scene, Ye Luo could conclude that Bai Zhu must have the same idea as him...
"I'll go out for some fresh air..." Bai Zhu gently put down the teacup and walked out of the room alone.
Under everyone's gaze, Ye Luo also stood up: "I'll go out and take a look, you guys continue chatting..."
Hu Tao swore to the old man's children: "Don't worry, we will not sit idly by. Even if we have to search the entire Liyue, we will catch these two bastards who harmed people!"
The old man's children thanked him painfully: "Thank you all for your help. If you can catch those two people, my mother will die with peace of mind..."
Ye Luo walked out of the house, climbed over a big slope, and saw Bai Zhu sitting under a tree on the other side of the slope.
Ye Luo chuckled: "Mr. Bai, it's rare to see you lose your composure..."
Bai Zhu also smiled bitterly: "I anticipated that I might lose my composure, so I ran out early, but I didn't expect that you would find me anyway."
Ye Luo looked at him: "You are a doctor, and you are always kind-hearted, so I can understand your feelings... She was your patient when she was alive, so you must be feeling very bad..."
Bai Zhu lowered his head and sighed softly: "Ye Luo, you said that physical illness can be cured with medicine, but what medicine can be used to cure the disease of ignorance?"
Ye Luo was clearly stunned for a moment. Bai Zhu said softly, "When I first met this old woman, I could sense her strong desire to survive. She lost her husband when she was young and raised her two children alone. Her children were weak and sickly since childhood, and she also spent a lot of money on medicine."
"Old people miss their children the most. Even though they are so old, they still treat them as children."
"When I first met the old woman, she said something that I still remember to this day. She said, 'Doctor, I can't die. My children can't be left without anyone to take care of them. If I die, what will happen to them...'"
"But by that time, the old man's children already had a large vegetable garden and had been making money independently for a long time by selling fruits and vegetables."
Ye Luo grew up in an orphanage, without a father or mother. He may not be able to deeply understand what kind of love parents have for their children.
So I can only answer this with one sentence: "Some parents really love their children, so they worry about everything and are worried about everything..."
Bai Zhu thought for a moment and said, "I think she was desperate and tried all kinds of treatments. She probably wanted to save Mora for her hard-working children. She thought that using just one bottle of medicine would solve the problem once and for all, so that her children wouldn't have to work hard to earn money to buy medicine because of her."
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