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Chapter 114 Miracle Doctor
The inn where Lu Qing and Zhu Yu rested was the largest in this small county town, but out of concern for the noise that would disturb the other guests, it was not located on the busiest street. However, the road in front of the door was quite wide.

The four of them saw from a distance that there was a long queue outside the inn. There were so many people that the originally spacious road seemed to be half blocked. Most of the people in the queue had pale faces and were wearing tattered clothes. They kept sticking their heads out of the queue from time to time, looking very anxious.

If they weren't holding bowls and alms bowls in their hands, at first glance one would have thought this was a porridge factory that provided porridge to the hungry.

At first, Fu Lu was frightened by the scene and even worried whether it was safe to stay here. After going in to ask, he found out that those people were not here to stay in the hotel, nor were they here to make trouble, but were queuing up to see a distinguished guest who lived here.

"Could it be that some kind-hearted person is using your inn to make a donation?" Fu Wen asked curiously.

The shopkeeper shook his head and explained, "My dear guests, you may not know that this person is not here to make a donation.

He was a wandering miracle doctor who passed by here and stayed in the inn for about ten days.

This miracle doctor was extremely good. On the first day he moved in, he happened to meet a man outside who was on his last breath. The man was carried out from another clinic, but the doctors there refused to treat him for fear that failing to cure him would affect their reputation.

When the miracle doctor saw this, he told them to carry the man to the roadside under the shade of a tree. Then he took the man's pulse, took a pill and asked the man's family to dissolve it in water and drink it first, and then wrote out a prescription.

Isn't it amazing? That person just drank one dose of medicine and passed out!"

Fu Wen looked at Lu Qing, but Lu Qing didn't say anything.

Zhu Yu was also quite surprised after hearing this. He didn't expect that outside of the capital, in a relatively remote place like Lizhou, there would be someone with such superb medical skills: "Could it be that this person wants to stay in your county and open a clinic?

Why didn't he rent a shop outside, but instead opened a clinic in your inn?"

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "You are joking, my dear guest. If that miraculous doctor really wants to see patients in my shop, it means that he respects us and we will be honored to do so!

The miracle doctor originally said that he would stay for a few days and then leave, and would treat patients with difficult and complicated diseases as he pleased. Unexpectedly, there were so many people seeking treatment from him that the miracle doctor could not leave even if he wanted to.

Every day, there is a line of people outside our inn starting from before dawn and they don’t leave until late at night.

So, even if the miracle doctor wanted to leave, he couldn't. He kept putting it off and stayed for so many days."

"Does it cost a lot of money to see him?" Zhu Yu became even more curious.

"No, no, this miracle doctor is amazing. If he wants to treat someone, no matter how serious the illness is, he will treat them. If they have money, just leave them some money for a drink. If they don't have money, he won't take a penny.

But if the doctor feels that the person is not destined to be with him, he will ignore him completely. Even if the other person comes with a gold ingot, he will not even raise his eyelids and will directly ask the boy in our store to help drive the person out!

We all said that this was the behavior of a living god!

For an inn in a small place like ours, it’s an eye-opener to meet such a guest once in a lifetime!” After saying this, the shopkeeper was afraid that the four of them would be suspicious, so he added: “Don’t worry, my dear guests. This miracle doctor said that he doesn’t treat epidemic diseases, but only rare and serious illnesses. So no matter who goes upstairs to see him or who queues up outside, there is definitely no one who is carrying the plague.

If you are worried about being disturbed, I can help you arrange to rest in a room farther away. I guarantee you will be fine."

"Then thank you very much." Lu Qing nodded to the shopkeeper and took out some silver and placed it on the counter. "We are indeed afraid of the noise. Please be flexible and don't let these people guard the store day and night."

The shopkeeper quickly put the silver away and said, "Okay, don't worry, sir. Otherwise, we wouldn't let outsiders disturb the divine doctor's rest in the dead of night. At the latest, we will lock the door at the second watch and not let outsiders in again."

Lu Qing was satisfied with this. The shopkeeper quickly called the waiter to help lead the way and took the four people to the upper room on the east side of the second floor to rest. It was opposite to the upper room on the west side where the miracle doctor lived and was the farthest away.

When I got upstairs, I found that the east side was indeed quiet and not noisy at all.

Before Zhu Yu went into the room to put her things away, she looked curiously at the west corridor for a while. After she entered the room and put her things away, Lu Qing came to find her. The four of them went outside to find a restaurant that looked pretty good and ordered a few signature dishes.

When traveling, traveling is tiring. Whenever Lu Qing stops at a place to rest, he will take Zhu Yu out to find a good restaurant and have a comfortable meal. He will never fool around.

When the four people were eating in the restaurant, they heard people around them chatting. It seemed that the topic all revolved around the miracle doctor in the inn. Many people were curious about who this person was and why even the oldest and most experienced doctors in the best clinic in the county could not cure the disease, but could be easily cured by this miracle doctor.

Some people were also discussing how to catch the eye of the miracle doctor so that he would be willing to take a look at them.

As for what you want to see, it varies.

Some people have been studying the books of sages diligently, but they still can't get the point. They always feel that their brains are not working, and want to ask for the secret recipe from miracle doctors.

Some of them are anxious because their wives and concubines cannot give birth to a boy. They want to pay a large sum of money to the miracle doctor to ask for a secret recipe that can help them give birth to a big fat son.

After listening to this and that, Zhu Yu finally understood. It turned out that in the past ten days, there were very few people who really had any rare or serious illnesses and really needed a miracle doctor to bring them back to life.

Some of those who line up at the door every day think they are very sick, or pretend to be sick, just to see the miracle doctor who brings people back to life on the street.

Most of them are from poor families. Although it is not a big deal to go to the clinic to see a doctor and get medicine, they still want to try their luck. Maybe they can catch the eye of a miracle doctor and get free treatment. In this way, they can save the money on medical treatment and medicine, and the miracle doctor will definitely be better than the doctor in the county.

So in recent days, despite the long queues outside, it seems that there are actually very few people who can be cured by the miracle doctor.

But this did not dampen the enthusiasm of these people outside. Instead, they became more persistent and wanted to continue trying their luck.

(End of this chapter)