Chapter 551: Miss Ran

Some with a limp would wear shoes of uneven heights, making it less obvious to outsiders. The two senior doctors were worried about this, which led them to ask Qi Kangping to walk without shoes.

Qi Kangping is an honest man. Even though it had been a quarter of an hour, when he heard this, he took off his shoes anyway, and obediently walked in circles in the courtyard like a mill donkey.

Seeing this, Gu Jinli and the others were quite angered.

Gu Daya, who had been a servant, found this scene particularly grating. She immediately told Qi Kangping, "Brother Ping, stop. Put on your shoes. You’re not a servant; why should you do as they say?"

Gu Jinli looked at the two senior doctors and said, "Elders, has my cousin sold himself to you? If he hasn’t, what right do you have to order him around?"

Then, she turned to Doctor Xiao, "Doctor Xiao, as we had previously agreed, we came to Qingshan Medical Hall. We will take our leave now."

After listening, Qi Kangming dragged Qi Kangping away.

Doctor Xiao and the two senior doctors panicked and quickly said, "Hey, wait a moment; you’re misunderstanding. We didn’t mean any disrespect. We just wanted to see if this young man’s leg has healed."

Qi Kangming replied, "You could have explained your intentions first before checking if my brother’s leg is truly healed. Who would ask a person to take off their shoes and walk in circles upon entering? We are human, not monkeys, to be made fun of by you."

When he said this, he deliberately raised his voice toward the main room, clear in his intention to let the person hiding inside hear.

Inside the main room, Miss Ran of the Ran Family, clutching her right leg, said to Nanny Chu by her side, "Nanny, go apologize for us. Indeed, we were in the wrong first. Although the Qi Family has been servants before, they are now of good register. We are the ones asking for assistance, so we must be polite and not so rude."

Nanny Chu was also somewhat angered that the people outside had not handled things properly and had offended the Qi Family, "Yes, I will go out and apologize to the Qi Family right now."

Nanny Chu opened the door and walked out, with the maid closing the door behind her.

Nanny Chu descended the steps, glanced at the Ran Family’s housekeeper with a cold look that sent a shiver down the housekeeper’s spine, who quickly approached, trying to appease her with a flattering smile, "Nanny, why have you come out? You really should be accompanying the miss. This trivial matter – I can handle it."

Nanny Chu sneered, "If it’s up to you, the miss’s leg could be lame for life."

She ignored the Ran Family housekeeper and bowed to Third Grandpa and the others, saying, "Old brother, we truly are sorry. We were too hasty and didn’t handle the situation well. We hope your family won’t take offense."

Then she pleaded with Third Grandpa, "Old brother, could I ask your family to stay so the doctors can properly examine your young one’s leg as a favor to us?"

With her earnest words and actions, Nanny Chu had managed to soothe the anger of Gu Daya and the others.

Third Grandpa asked, "Does someone in your family have a lame leg?"

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have scrutinized Brother Ping’s leg with such caution, clearly fearing it was in bad shape.

The Ran Family’s housekeeper thought with a smirk: Indeed, someone is lame.

With tears welling in her eyes, Nanny Chu choked up, "Old brother, you’re right. Indeed, there is a young master in our family who hurt his leg."

The lame person was Eldest Miss Ran, and with her mother passed away and her stepmother treating her poorly, they surely wished her leg to remain lame for life.

Nanny Chu was the companion of Miss Ran’s late mother and had been trying to find ways to cure her limp ever since. When she learned of a young man with a healed limp, she immediately sought permission from Old Madam Ran to bring Miss Ran to Qingshan Medical Hall.

If they confirmed that the method of breaking and resetting the bone could cure a limp, then they would let the doctors treat Miss Ran’s leg with this method.

Nanny Chu begged, "It’s a matter regarding the young master’s entire life; we hope the old brother can help us."

After hearing this, Third Grandpa looked at Gu Daya and asked, "Daya, what do you think we should do?"

Gu Daya was not an unreasonable person; she had gotten angry before because she felt that the family was not taking Brother Ping’s condition seriously. Now that she learned the reason, recalling how she too was so worried that she could neither eat nor sleep when Brother Ping’s leg had just been injured, she nodded in agreement: "Helping others like this is naturally something our family is happy to do."

Nanny Chu was very pleased, and Doctor Xiao, along with the two other doctors, were so happy that they took Qi Kangping to the side room to examine his injured leg.

Doctor Fang carefully felt along Qi Kangping’s small injured leg bone and after a full quarter of an hour, said, "Not bad, not bad, it feels just like a bone that has never been injured."

Doctor Chu was born and raised by the Chu Family, a doctor trained by them. Upon hearing this, he immediately came over and felt Qi Kangping’s leg bone even longer, fully the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, before happily exclaiming, "Indeed, it feels just like a bone that has never been injured."

He walked out of the side room and, standing in the corridor, said to Nanny Chu, "Nanny, there’s hope. The young man from the Qi Family’s leg bone is just like it had never been injured. The method is effective."

Upon hearing this, Nanny Chu almost shed tears and hurried back to report to Miss Ran.

Miss Ran, upon hearing that Qi Kangping’s crippled leg was truly healed, was so thrilled she said to Nanny Chu, "Nanny, there’s no time to lose. Have Doctor Xiao and the others come in. I’ll break my leg now and have it set right away."

Nanny Chu burst into tears upon hearing this, "Miss, breaking bones is a terrible ordeal, how can you bear such pain?"

Miss Ran said, "I would rather endure the pain of bone-breaking than to let certain people gloat over me for the rest of my life."

Wasn’t her stepmother hoping she would be crippled for life to destroy her prospects? Then she must make her legs better and have the last laugh.

She consoled Nanny Chu, "Nanny, don’t be sad. The pain is worth the eventual gain."

After listening, Nanny Chu could only nod, "This servant will go and make arrangements."

No noble family wanted to marry a cripple, and the Miss hoped to have a good future; her legs must be healed properly.

Nanny Chu came to the courtyard again and said to Doctor Xiao, "Please make arrangements for treating our young Lady’s legs immediately."

Doctor Xiao knew the Ran Family was in a hurry and immediately summoned his apprentice to prepare the medicines and tools for breaking and setting bones.

Finally, looking at Gu Jinli, he said, "Gu Family’s daughter, the idea of breaking and resetting the leg was yours, and you understand the pharmacology, why don’t you go in and take a look at the injury on Miss Ran’s leg... Although the injured parts are similar, everyone’s injury is different, and some people are not suitable for breaking and resetting bones again."

Nanny Chu, upon hearing this, felt a chill and hastily said to Gu Jinli, "Please, Miss, come in and help examine our young Lady’s injury."

Gu Jinli said, "I’ll take a look, but I won’t be responsible. If the leg doesn’t heal in the end, don’t blame me."

Nanny Chu replied, "Rest assured, Miss, we won’t blame you."

After listening, Gu Jinli followed Nanny Chu inside and examined Miss Ran’s leg.

However...

"There’s a problem with this leg."

Everyone listened and thought to themselves, of course, there’s a problem, otherwise, why seek treatment?

"Doctor Xiao, give me a small knife for cutting flesh." Gu Jinli asked Doctor Xiao for a knife, made a cut on Miss Ran’s injured leg, and used a teacup to collect her blood.

Miss Ran, in pain, had her eyes turning red. Nanny Chu was heartbroken and somewhat dissatisfied, asked Gu Jinli, "Miss Gu, Doctor Xiao asked you to check the bones in her leg, what are you doing letting blood?"

Gu Jinli looked up at Nanny Chu, her smile warm, "If the poison blood isn’t drained, your Miss, after having her leg broken and set and then treated with antiseptic medicine, will develop a high fever tonight, and within three days she could die of severe fever."