Sweet Garden Sands

Chapter 461 Please Sir 3
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Master, I wonder who else is in your family? " Ge Yunzhang asked again.

Qinqin Ling sighed softly, with almost inaudible helplessness in his tone: "My family is just me and my wife, and a son and a daughter."

"Master Ling, your hometown is suffering from a famine, and it is a blessing that your family can still be together. Why are you still sighing?" Ge Yunzhang asked puzzled.

Everyone knows that a famine is a matter of life. How many people died of starvation, died of illness on the way to flee the famine, or lost their lives in other accidents. If they survived, it is the blessing of heaven. If you are still alive, then you should be happy, why do you still have a sad face?

I saw Ling Qinxian sighed again, and said: "Mr. Ge, to be honest, our family came here from begging all the way from our hometown. I haven't found a job since I came here. Our family of four has been living in the city. In a dilapidated temple in the east, the three meals are not enough, plus various reasons, my daughter-in-law has already fallen ill, and we have no money to hire a doctor for her, now... now I don't know how long I can last?"

It is said that men do not shed tears lightly, Ling Qinxian couldn't help wiping the corners of his eyes when he mentioned his seriously ill daughter-in-law, and said: "I'm sorry, I made Mr. Ge laugh."

Ge Yunzhang looked at Ling Qinxian quietly, and told him intuitively that Ling Qinxian didn't seem to be lying.

Ling Qinxian paused, and continued: "I saw that my daughter-in-law was about to die, and I was also anxious, so I wondered if I couldn't find a long-term job, and I could do a part-time job, and see if I could earn a few copper coins and hire a doctor to come to the ruins. I went to show my daughter-in-law a look at the temple, but I walked around the town several times, but they kicked me out as soon as they heard that I was a foreigner. Later, I wandered around the street, but I didn't expect to hear someone asking for a wife , I didn’t find out yesterday, but today I found out that it is Mr. Ge who wants to invite your wife, so I... I came here.”

After Ling Qinxian finished speaking, he looked at Ge Yunzhang eagerly, his eyes were full of pleading, but he was a scholar, he was thin-skinned and wanted to save face, and he was embarrassed to say something after saying it once.

But thinking about his seriously ill daughter-in-law, Ling Qinxian finally said again: "Ge Gongzi, look...can you give me this chance?"

Ge Yunzhang pursed his lips and stood up: "Don't talk about this, take me to see your wife first."

"Mr. Ge, this is..." Ling Qinxian also stood up and looked at Ge Yunzhang inexplicably.

Ge Yunzhang curled his lips and said, "Master Ling, I forgot to tell you that I am a doctor."

"Mr. Ge, are you a doctor?!" Ling Qinxian's eyes lit up, and he grabbed Ge Yunzhang's hand excitedly.

Ge Yunzhang smiled and nodded.

"That's great, that's great!" Ling Qinxian wept with joy, ignoring any etiquette, and eagerly dragged Ge Yunzhang downstairs.

"Master Ling, please wait a moment, I want to get the medicine box." Upon reaching the first floor, Ge Yunzhang stopped in his tracks.

"Oh, yes, yes, the medicine box is where the doctor eats." Ling Qinxian nodded happily, this is really a coincidence, now the wife is saved!

Ge Yunzhang took the medicine box, and took the carriage of the restaurant with Ling Qinxian to the ruined temple in the east of the city.

This is a dilapidated ruined temple, the outer wall has collapsed so much that even the door can't be found.

"Mr. Ge, this way." Ling Qinqian brought Ge Yunzhang inside.

As soon as he entered the temple, Ge Yunzhang saw a dozen or twenty people sleeping on the ground inside.

When those people saw Ling Qinxian coming in with a neatly dressed and elegant strange man, they all got up from the ground.

At this time, a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl and a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boy came forward and called out to Ling Qinxian, "Father."

"Folks, don't panic. This is Mr. Ge. He is here to treat my wife." Ling Qinxian comforted everyone, and then asked his children: "How is your mother?"

Ling Ruoman's eyes turned red when he heard his father's question, and he covered his mouth and began to cry.

Ling Guangzhi also shook his head, choked up and said: "Father, mother... I am afraid that mother will die."

As soon as Ling Qinxian heard what his son and daughter said, he rushed towards the figure lying in the corner of the room: "The child's mother——"

Ge Yunzhang pursed his lips, and walked behind Ling Qinxian.

"Master Ling, please don't be sad, just let me see." Ge Yunzhang squatted down as he spoke, and saw a thin old woman with a yellow complexion lying on a pile of haystacks.

When Ling Qinxian heard Ge Yunzhang's voice, he remembered him, and hurriedly moved away, letting Ge Yunzhang feel his wife's pulse.

"Ge Gongzi, how is it? Is there still a chance to be saved?" Ling Qinxian asked uneasily.

Ling Ruoman and Ling Guangzhi also looked at Ge Yunzhang anxiously.

Ge Yunzhang withdrew his hand, frowned and asked, "Master Ling, has your wife not eaten for a long time?"

Ling Qinxian didn't answer, but looked at her children.

Ling Ruoman and Ling Guangzhi were taken aback at the same time.

Ling Guangzhi thought for a while and said, "Doctor, my mother has been in a coma for two days. Before I passed out, I ordered a bowl of gruel from a family..."

Ling Guangzhi said and looked at his sister: "Xiaoman, did you give your mother some porridge?"

Ling Guangzhi only heard his father tell the villagers that Ge Yunzhang was a doctor, but he didn't know how his father found Ge Yunzhang.

"Yes, but mother just took a sip and said she couldn't drink it, she asked me to drink it..." Ling Ruoman suddenly stopped as if thinking of something in the middle of her sentence: "Mother... mother is reluctant to drink that porridge!"

Ling Ruoman started to cry again as she spoke. It turned out that her mother said she couldn't drink the porridge because she wanted to let her drink it. How could she be so stupid?
Ling Guangzhi also choked up and blamed himself: "Every time my father and I want something, my mother always says that I am not hungry. In fact, it is to let us eat more. Why didn't we think of it?!"

"I think Mrs. Ling is also hungry, not sick."

Hearing what the brothers and sisters said, Ge Yunzhang also secretly sighed, wondering if his mother would have risked her life for him back then?Perhaps this is the mother's nature!

"Then... is there still salvation?" Ling Qinxian was both sad and happy when he heard that his daughter-in-law was so hungry.

The sad thing is that as a man, he has no ability to feed his wife and children; the happy thing is that my daughter-in-law is hungry, not a serious illness, and maybe she can be saved.

"If it's a day later, I'm afraid I won't be able to save him." Ge Yunzhang said.

"Ge Gongzi, do you mean that my daughter-in-law can still be saved?" Ling Qinxian asked overjoyed.

"Yes, Master Ling," Ge Yunzhang hooked his lips, took out an ingot of silver from his pocket, and handed it to Ling Qinxian. He scanned the ruined temple before saying, "Master Ling, go buy some rice now." When you come back, make rice soup and feed it to Madam Ling, and you can buy some food for these folks with the rest of the money, and after Madam Ling wakes up, you can go to the restaurant to find me."

(End of this chapter)