Exile after Divorce? Empty the Scumbag Husband First!-Chapter 152 - 150: You... You Really Are Heartless
Moreover, they took advantage of the large crowd to repeatedly collect the herbal remedy, causing some genuine citizens to miss out, and even Shaoxi and the others couldn’t cook it all in time.
As they were waiting for another pot, one of them grew impatient and started to complain.
"I say, since you at Renji Hall are so kind to cook herbal remedies for us, why can’t you prepare more? You think this little bit can satisfy anyone? Such negligence is making us wait for so long!"
"If you can’t afford this charitable act, don’t pretend to be so virtuous!"
As soon as these words were said, some others chimed in agreement from the back.
Ruan Mian squinted slightly, just about to step forward when suddenly a few people burst out from the crowd, clutching their stomachs and causing a commotion.
"You... you are too heartless, everyone, this herbal remedy is unclean, it seems they used some inferior ingredients, because us brothers have not long eaten it, and oh the pain in our stomachs is unbearable!!"
They howled and rolled on the ground without a care for their image.
This immediately caused the people to stop and watch the commotion.
Those who genuinely wanted to collect the herbal remedy were dissuaded by their words.
"Is there really a problem with this herbal remedy?"
"Nonsense, there’s no such thing as a free lunch; if there was no problem, why would she freely cook so much for us!! It’s just a malicious scheme for her store opening!"
"Oh, oh, this is going to be the death of me." At this moment, Mr. Ruan, who was sitting inside diagnosing patients, hurriedly came out, instinctively wanting to treat these people.
But Ruan Mian stopped him.
She walked up to those few people, facing the crowd, and calmly spoke.
"I have distributed this herbal remedy to so many people, how come only you say there’s a problem?"
One of them fiercely pointed at her, saying: "You... there is an issue with these remedies, everyone’s body is different, maybe the poisoning time is different! We..."
"Who knows what else you ate along with my herbal remedy that wasn’t clean!"
Ruan Mian noticed a passerby with a gong in the crowd and immediately borrowed his gong with a bang!
Then she took out her bulging purse of money and tossed it onto the herbal remedy table.
"Today I will place these hundred taels of silver here, anyone who can prove these stomachaches are caused by my herbal remedy, I will compensate them with this silver."
Then she looked at those complaining of stomachaches and said.
"Naturally, whoever claims there’s a problem with the remedy should provide evidence. With just your mouths, what credibility is there? Government offices do not decide cases solely based on verbal accusations."
Among the crowd, Vice Minister Dong stepped forward and voiced loudly.
"I also ate this herbal remedy, and why don’t I have a problem? You few vagrants trying to extort here, is it because you find it easy to bully a female store owner?!"
"Providing free diagnoses and herbal remedies is an act of kindness that benefits many, and you’re up to no good, trying to prevent us from seeing a doctor?!"
As soon as he said this, those still waiting for a free clinic flew into a rage.
They began to physically confront those vagrants.
Vice Minister Dong even pointed at them threateningly: "None of you think about leaving, I have already reported to the authorities, this matter..."
Upon hearing the report to the authorities, before Vice Minister Dong could finish, they jumped up and ran far away, stumbling all the while, fearing they might be too slow.
Auntie, hands on her hips, chased them off with a few curses.
"You group of bastards, just knowing they rob from beggars is enough to disgust me; now they dare to extort from me?! I think..."
"Aunt, what did you just say? They even robbed from beggars?"
"Isn’t it true, I’ve encountered these vagrants many times, no morals."
Seeing this, Ruan Mian hatched a plan.
They want to harm my shop; why should they escape so easily? An eye for an eye, nature won’t spare anyone.
While she was considering this, Vice Minister Dong came into the house, Xie Huai’an followed.
Auntie was warmly hospitable to this Mr. Xie, as who wouldn’t love a graceful young gentleman?
"Why has Mr. Xie come as well?"
Vice Minister Dong feared Mr. Xie would be embarrassed to speak, so he spoke up himself.
"Mr. Xie figured Miss Ruan needed help, so he pulled me along to ’labor’, Auntie, just give your orders!"
Hearing this, Auntie looked meaningfully at Ruan Mian.
Nevertheless, Ruan Mian didn’t think too deeply, after a casual greeting with Xie Huai’an and the others, she entered the shop, personally prepared some medicine and ground it into powder.
Then she looked for a few of the shop’s servants, handing them the powdered medicine and some silver.
After quietly instructing them, the servants’ eyes shone with excitement as they hurried off to complete the task.
Auntie moved forward suspiciously: "Mianmian, what did you just give him?"
Ruan Mian gave a calm smile: "Nothing much, just a little something to teach them a lesson. Those troublemakers falsely claimed to have stomachaches from eating our herbal remedy, so I’ll let them truly experience a stomachache!"
This suited Auntie perfectly!
She gave a thumbs up, just waiting for the amusing scene to unfold.
Sure enough, not long after, someone outside shouted, asking to see a doctor.
"You... your herbal remedy really is an issue, my stomach really hurts, really hurts! Quick, give me the antidote!"
A whole six people, in pain, rolling on the ground at Renji Hall.
Others seeing it was the same bunch again, scolded them.
"Why won’t you lot stay away?! Can’t you see the government officers aren’t here so you stubbornly continue to disrupt our free clinic?!"
"Everyone, I recognize these people; they idle day by day, robbing women and children, not even sparing beggars’ food!"
"They clearly don’t want us to get the herbal remedy, quickly drive them away!"
With these words, the people who had been angry for a long time grabbed nearby items, stones, sticks, chopsticks, sacks, giving them a good trashing.
Forcefully driving them far away.
Auntie looked extremely pleased: "Mianmian, what kind of medicine did you slip them?"
"Didn’t Auntie see their soaking wet pants? It’s not life-threatening, just leaves them running to the toilet for a few days."
"Hahaha, well done! Such despicable characters deserve to suffer!"
With the matter resolved, more people came to collect herbal remedies, and even more lined up for the free clinic.
Mr. Ruan couldn’t handle it alone, so Ruan Mian had to join the ranks of doctors, acting as a healer.
Who knows how long they remained busy until at last, the people at the door dwindled, and the herbal remedy was long gone.
Taking a rare break, Ruan Mian prepared some apple juice for them.
As she handed it to Xie Huai’an, she suddenly noticed him sitting on the doorstep, watching a family of three in the distance, without even blinking.
