"What did we do? Ha! We did nothing! It was this two brats who maligned and slandered us, spouting nonsense about us being frauds and swindlers!"
Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.A woman"s light and airy yet arrogant voice sounded out from behind Fan Zhu Xia and turning around to look at the source, she saw a young lady of around fourteen or fifteen years of age with delicate features in pale green robes coming out of the medicinal hall.
"Now this lady"s people has been beaten under your orders, who gives you the right? This lady"s people has been handling the affairs and treating patients in my family"s Jade Herb Medicine Hall for years and this is the first time this has happened!"
Staring at her without getting up from the ground, Fan Zhu Xia acted as if she didn"t hear a word of the complaints that the young lady uttered and just repeated her question as her eyes stared at the indignat girl with a cold penetrating gaze.
"This young miss asked; what did you do? Are you going to answer or not?"
The moment Fan Zhu Xia spoke, the whole atmosphere got heavier and tenser. The young lady in pale green robes couldn"t help but feel a s.h.i.+ver run down her spine as she endured Fan Zhu Xia"s cold, intimidating stare which made her lost her composure and stutter in nervousness as a seed of fear manifested inside her.
"W-We did n-nothing wrong! We provided treatment, what"s wrong about that?! I-It"s those two kids who made trouble for my family"s medicine hall!" the young girl loudly explained with an expression of looking extremely aggrieved as if she was about to cry at any moment.
Seeing her this way, Fan Zhu Xia couldn"t help but believe what the young lady was saying but still she eyed the girl suspiciously until the poor young lady couldn"t take it anymore and burst into tears.
"What?! Still don"t believe this lady? This lady already told the truth but you still want to bully me... boo hoo boo hoo..." the young girl sobbed out as her tears fell like precious crystals, making everyone who looked at her feel a sense of pity and protectiveness to the fairer s.e.x.
A touch of exasperation flitted in Fan Zhu Xia"s eyes as she snappily said, "Who is bullying who?! This miss asked what you did to this child because this miss wants to know what treatment your medicine hall gave this little girl for her to end up this way!"
Hearing Fan Zhu Xia"s response, the young lady was momentarily stunned into silence as she stared wide-eyed at Fan Zhu Xia before glancing at the little girl in her arms.
Once her eyes landed on the little girl, the young lady"s eyes widened in alarm and her feeling of being wronged was quickly forgotten as she rushed to the Fan Zhu Xia"s side before she noticed the young boy"s unconscious form.
"What happened to them?!" the young lady exclaimed with eyes filled worry and alarm.
Hearing this, a vein almost burst out on Fan Zhu Xia"s head due to extreme annoyance and exasperation with the young lady in front of her.
"Your medicine hall happened to them! If this young miss" carriage didn"t happen to take this path an get blocked, this two children would have been beaten to death!"
"What?! We wouldn"t-"
"What wouldn"t?! If this miss didn"t order her servants to stop that man from your medicine hall from using a bamboo stick to hit this boy, he would"ve been dead!"
Disbelief first filled her face before anger slowly set in. At first everyone thought that the young lady will flip out on Fan Zhu Xia but then to everyone"s surprise, the young lady whirled around and stomped her way to where Min Sheng and Chun Hua where standing before angrily slapping the man in restrained in Min Sheng"s hands.
Seeing her actions, Fan Zhu Xia gave a subtle nod and right after that, Min Sheng releases the man who staggered down to fall on his knees and stepped back while Chun Hua made her way to Fan Zhu Xia.
"Chun Hua, monitor that boy"s condition, tell me if there is any changes."
"Yes miss."
Seeing her quickly comply, Fan Zhu Xia waived her wrist and a silk pouch appeared in her hands which she placed beside her before unfolding it and rolling it open to reveal a set of needles made out of precious ore called Pure Spirits Silver which is a type of metal that can only be found in extreme environments, regardless whether it is extreme cold or extreme heat. This ore has absolutely no impurities and has a property of helping stabilize the body and preventing and impurities or harmful substances to spread even more which is why this is the perfect material for a doctor"s tools, especially accupuncture needles.
To the crowd, they were only shocked that the set of accupuncture needles were so many and of varying lengths and sizes, while some with fast eyes were amazed to cound a total of three hundred sixty-one needles in total, while others with sharper observation skills could tell that the material used to make the needles were of quite the special origin yet they weren"t able to determine what it was which is completely understandable since Pure Spirits Silver is quite scarce and rarely seen in public.
The needles which were like silvery crystals which glimmered with a faint blue sheen as Fan Zhu Xia enveloped the needles with her qi were gently yet swiftly stabbed into the little girl"s body, easily piercing through her clothes.
The swiftness of her movements brought a gasp to some of the onlookers, as each needle was placed with movements that were as fluid and natural like moving clouds and flowing water.
Each needle that were placed glittered slightly and as one after another was added, the pained expression on the little girl"s face was slowly eased and although her pale complexion stayed, her lips no longer had the purplish blue hue it had before but rather just appeared as if she was as white as a sheet, with no hints of rosiness or blood underneath her skin could be found.
While Fan Zhu Xia was performing accupuncture to stabilize the condition of the little girl, the young lady dressed in pale green robes was standing before the man who was previously raging and beating the two children.
"You dog! Who gave you the right to hit children?! Is this what my family taught you to do?! Why, this lady should just beat you to death to save my family from sc.u.m like you losing us face!"
"Young Miss please have mercy! This servant can explain!"
"Explain? Explain?! How under heaven"s name can you explain what you just did to that poor boy?!" the young lady raged as she sent a kick towards the kneeling man who immediately fell before scrambling up and kowtowing to the young lady.
"It wasn"t this servant"s fault! That boy wouldn"t stop hurling out abuses and screaming that we poisoned the little girl instead of treating her in spite of me telling him to stop speaking nonsense!"
"So you decided to hit him?! Watch how this miss. .h.i.t you!" the young lady burst out before kicking the man harder this time, sending the man sprawling down the ground, surprising even Fan Zhu Xia who had glanced over after she heard what the man said as she finished her acupucture treatment on the little girl.
"Young Lady, you heard what your servant said about the boy complaining that they maltreated this little girl, why don"t you stop kicking the man and find out which one of your doctors provided treatment?" Fan Zhu Xia said in a soft yet firm tone that brooked no argument.
Seemingly s.p.a.cing out for a moment, the young lady stared blankly at Fan Zhu Xia before she nodded like a bird pecking seeds on the ground.
"En!"
Now acting as if a subordinate with more bandit-like tendencies, the young lady threateningly made her way to the man she just kicked down and questioned him with both hands on her hips as she stared at him with eyes shooting fire.
The sight of her made Fan Zhu Xia not know if she should laugh or cry. Before, that young lady first acted spoiled and arrogant, then pitiful like a wronged delicate flower and now like a female tyrannical bandit as she mercilessly threw question after question at the man who she was continously kicking, albeit not as strong as earlier but enough to still cause pain as the man tried to pitifully answer.
While this was happening, neither the young lady nor Fan Zhu Xia knew that two groups of people had arrived at the scene, one group was called by a concerned onlooker while the other was called by the attendant from the medicine hall that had slipped away earlier.