Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 366 Apply what you learn

After hearing this, Song Ying wanted to throw a tea bowl on his head. He had never seen anyone so shameless. He dragged others to take the blame for him and even paid money on their behalf one by one, as if he was doing a great favor to the guy.

After thinking for a while, she asked, "I wonder if your friend feels guilty when he finds out that he misunderstood you and accidentally hurt Yan Xing?"

Shopkeeper Qi was stunned. She had insisted before that it was his idea to hire someone, so why was she now willing to go along with him and admit that it was the clerk's idea to hire someone?

"Of course I feel guilty."

"Although he was doing this for the Lord, he did make a mistake, and he should be punished. Shopkeeper Qi helped him pay four strings of silver, so he should also apologize and compensate Yan Xing with one string of silver. Is our request not excessive?"

Shopkeeper Qi froze. It turned out that the doctor was waiting for him here. A doctor who didn't care about curing diseases and saving lives but was obsessed with money all day long was really not worthy of being a doctor!

"I paid for him. It's his apology. This one kan of money is still..."

Before he could finish, Song Ying added, "He was so happy to give 800 coins to the shopkeeper to vent his anger. I think the shopkeeper Qi has a rich family background and won't care about this 1 string of coins, right?"

Shopkeeper Qi choked, "This..."

"He made a mistake but he doesn't want to pay any money. I guess he's not really sorry and won't learn his lesson. Why don't you report it to the police?"

"...Okay, let him pay 1 string of money as well!" Shopkeeper Qi agreed with gritted teeth, and comforted himself that it was 5 strings of money in total, which was definitely better than going to the county government office.

Shopkeeper Qi said with a painful look on his face that he would get someone to send the money over right away, and then he left. The three thugs took the medicine, paid for it and the consultation fee, and also left.

There were only a few people left in the clinic. Luo Yanxing asked hurriedly, "Why did you suddenly change your mind? Didn't we agree to report to the police and let everyone know that we are not easy to mess with?"

"Because you cursed, and we can gain more benefits by doing so."

"What does this have to do with me swearing?"

At that moment, Song Ying told her what he had just said to Yuan Qing and Shen Jing, and everyone was stunned.

Swearing is against the law, how can there be such an outrageous law?

Doctor Ma sighed and said, "This is why I stopped you from going to the county government office. It's a very complicated place. Common people like us don't understand the laws, and we might have violated one. In the past, someone went to file a complaint, but because he argued too loudly, he was charged with the crime of roaring in court, and was beaten to death before he could finish his complaint."

Song Ying and the other two took a breath at the same time, and Song Ying said, "There must be something fishy going on here."

"Do I need to tell you that?" Doctor Ma rolled his eyes at her. "Some people were beaten with dozens of sticks and nothing happened, but that person died after being beaten with a stick. Even a fool can see that there is something wrong.

Why do you think Manager Qi is willing to compromise with you kids? Is he really reluctant to part with the six strings of cash?"

Song Ying and the others fell silent. They had already paid 5 strings of cash, and 1 string more would be nothing to Shopkeeper Qi. A shopkeeper who had run a shop for so many years in East Street, where rich people lived, was also afraid to go to the government office. What a world this was.

Song Ying felt very heavy in his heart. He glimpsed Yuan Qing standing beside him and said, "Yuan Qing, when you become an official in the future, you must not follow their example and make us ordinary people afraid to enter the government office when we have problems."

Before Yuan Qing could speak, Shen Jing said, "That won't do. You're harming him."

Song Ying had a face full of question marks.

"The Master said, 'When I hear lawsuits, I am just like everyone else. I must make sure there are no lawsuits. The fewer lawsuits there are, the more honest the people are and the better the officials are. If there are many lawsuits in the places that Brother Yuan governs in the future, doesn't it mean that he is not governing properly, which has led to the decline of people's morals and the emergence of many unruly people? What will happen to Brother Yuan's achievements?"

"That's not the case!" Song Ying now suspected very much that the government office made the common people afraid to go there easily just for the so-called political achievements.

It's obvious that all of these officials studied hard and passed the exams to get in, but how come they become so absurd once they become officials? The previous Magistrate Hu rated Sister Xiaohua as a chaste heroine and commended her parents who sold her to a brothel, but I didn't expect that they did a lot of other absurd things!

"I promise you." Yuan Qing nodded solemnly, and then said: "The performance evaluation is not limited to this one. If this aspect is low, just work hard in other aspects."

"Right! Only those who are incompetent would think of using these crooked methods to get things done!" Song Ying encouraged him, "You are so smart, you will definitely not rely on these despicable means to accumulate political achievements!"

Shen Jing also joked: "With Brother Yuan's talent, there is no way he would go to work as a county official. He must be working in a noble place like the Hanlin Academy. We are worrying too much."

"Brother Shen, don't joke. There are thousands of scholars in Daqian. I am just a person from a small county. How can I compare with..."

Song Ying rolled his eyes and interrupted: "Okay, stop complimenting each other, you two are so jealous."

Everyone laughed and the depressing atmosphere in the room dissipated.

After Yuan Qing and Shen Jing said goodbye and left, Doctor Ma looked at Song Ying.

Song Ying pursed his lips and said, "I will go and kneel in front of the Medicine King's portrait."

Her expression and tone clearly showed that she still didn't think she was wrong, which made Doctor Ma very angry. Later, when Manager Qi brought the money, he didn't even let her go out to check.

After kneeling for an entire afternoon, Song Ying walked with a limp when he returned home in the evening. Everyone he met on the way asked him about his condition with concern, which made Song Ying blush.

Fortunately, I felt much better as I walked, and by the time I arrived at Shen's house, it was almost unnoticeable.

Song Ying secretly rejoiced and didn't want to go back to the courtyard, but Doctor Lin saw something was wrong and asked, "What's wrong with your leg?"

Still not able to escape the master's eyes, Song Ying sighed and told everything that happened today. Finally, he said: "I still think I am not wrong. They were the ones who beat Yan Xing first. We are all children and cannot beat them at all. How can we coax them into confessing without giving them medicine? And I calculated the dosage, so it won't cause any problem."

"What if some of them are weak and a little bit of asarum can cause death?"

Song Ying was a little scared, but he got angry when he thought of the three hooligans, so he said angrily: "That means they are doomed to die, they deserve to die!"

Doctor Lin chuckled, "Your uncle is indeed a rather old-fashioned person, but you chose to drug them to trick them into confessing, which was not a thorough consideration. If you had found a reason to stay in the restaurant and watch them drink, even if something went wrong, you could have remedied it in time. Wouldn't it be better to do so?"

What this means is...

Song Ying's eyes lit up, "Master, do you agree that I should drug them?"

Doctor Lin nodded. "Whether you study medicine or something else, it's all for a better life. You're a doctor, and when you encounter bad guys, you can punish them with your expertise. Doesn't this show that you can put your knowledge into practice?"