Chapter 842 — Young Master Bing Is Brilliant: "He Fell Ill from Offending Wei Zhao? What Does That Mean? Could His Sickness Have Been Inflicted by Wei Zhao?" Yao Wang Brooded Over Wei Zhao, Ever Convinced That in Medical Skill, If He Claimed Second Place in the Secular World, None Would Dare Claim First!
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Before this, he had believed Wei Zhao enjoyed Guan Xuewen's aid, and thus had swiftly returned to normal, and he had assumed the school poisoning had been undone by Guan Xuewen as well, so he was keen to match himself against Guan Xuewen! But after the affair of Li Dilei, Yao Wang realized things were not as he had imagined. Wei Zhao was the hidden master of medicine behind the scenes. All of this had been Wei Zhao's doing!
"That much is uncertain, but the circumstances then were downright eerie..." Li Cihua said, recounting what had happened at the time, frightening even himself as he spoke: "They say in a single instant, the ailments of that old trash-picking woman were shifted onto Zhen Yingjun... Strange enough to hear, and who knows whether it is true or false, rumor or fact..."
"The old woman's ailments were shifted onto Zhen Yingjun in an instant?" Yao Wang listened to Li Cihua with some disbelief: "You mean to say that old woman originally suffered the aftereffects of hemiplegia, and her crooked mouth and lame leg were suddenly transferred onto Zhen Yingjun? Is that it?"
"So the story goes!" Li Cihua nodded.
"By all reason, that is impossible." Yao Wang pondered a moment and said: "Yet with consummate medical skill, it can indeed be done, only it is not a transfer, but first curing the old woman of her afflictions, then creating those same afflictions in Zhen Yingjun! One is curing illness, the other is making illness. It looks like a transfer, but that is only a layman's understanding..."
"Hiss..." Li Cihua drew in a sharp breath of cold air: "In so short a time, Wei Zhao could cure one person and afflict another?"
"That, I too can do!" Yao Wang snorted, saying with some arrogance: "I, Yao Wang, am best not at curing men, but at harming them. Such trifling tricks are to me nothing more than lifting a hand!"
"I see. I thought there was something truly sinister about it, but hearing Yao Wang explain, the real cause turns out to be just that!" Li Cihua nodded and said: "Forget it, then, let us speak of him no more! Young Master Bing, about the orphanage demolition..."
"Wait, set the orphanage matter aside for now. I have thought of a far better way to make money!" Zhao Qibing waved his hand. When he had heard that Zhen Dazhou put up a million yuan to treat Zhen Yingjun, he had begun brewing this plan: "Treating illness looks quite profitable these days? I see that Doctor Guan treats a man, and people thank him profusely and reward him richly. Why do we not open a healing business ourselves? Those rich men are every one of them wealthy, and nothing matters more than life itself. We can treat them for money!"
"Hmm... Young Master Bing is brilliant!" Hearing Young Master Bing's words, Li Cihua thought it indeed a money-making scheme, only wondering whether Yao Wang would cooperate? So he turned to look at Yao Wang.
"The Patriarch sent me to assist Young Master Bing. Whatever Young Master Bing says, I, Yao Wang, shall do." Yao Wang did not mind. Whatever he did served the Zhao Family, so to him it made no difference. Only he felt the price a trifle low. With his skill, was curing an illness worth only a million yuan? So he suggested tactfully: "Young Master Bing, this fee for treatment might suitably be raised a little..."
"Of course! If I earn a million at a time, when will I ever earn enough?" Zhao Qibing cackled, saying with some malice: "Is Yao Wang not best at harming men? Then this is easily managed. We treat him and charge him a million yuan, but we do not cure him fully. We shift his trouble elsewhere and make him keep coming back to us for treatment. In this way, will wealth not roll in unceasingly? Of course, our tampering must be done invisibly, so they cannot see through it!"
"Brilliant, truly brilliant!" Li Cihua said admiringly: "Young Master Bing, you are the one with brains. Such a wicked trick, thought up in a moment. It never even crossed my mind!"