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Having said all this, Jin Shiwen, with a frown of incomprehension, continued, "There’s another thing that I heard from Jin Shihyou.

It seems that Jin Lingling isn’t getting along with that Maternal Aunt Lin in the mansion; she’s always causing trouble for the aunt.

Fortunately, Maternal Aunt Lin has already fallen out of favor; otherwise, my uncle certainly wouldn’t allow his daughter-in-law to bully his Little Concubine. "

After listening to Jin Shiwen say all this, Lin Yuan couldn’t help but let out a cold laugh. That Jin Lingling had gone to extremes just as she expected, likely having learned that it was Lin Siyu who had caused the miscarriage of her child.

However, to Lin Yuan’s surprise, after Jin Lingling found out about the affair between Li Chengzhi and Lin Siyu, she hadn’t blown the whistle on the matter.

As the three of them were talking, the door of the elegant room was suddenly thrust open from the outside. Xiao Linshuang, with wide eyes, ran into the room shouting, "Ah! Sister, save me! Master Lao Fan has gone senile; he’s trying to kill someone!"

Pff!

Lin Yuan and Xia Zheng hadn’t even started laughing when Lao Fan, with a voice like a cracked gong, chased after her, shouting, "You little rascal! Don’t run! Let’s see how I deal with you!"

Even ’little wolf cub’ was replaced with ’little rascal,’ indicating that this time Lao Fan was truly angry.

"Big sister!"

Just as Lao Fan, brandishing a pair of chopsticks, was about to catch up to her, Xiao Linshuang suddenly pounced into Lin Yuan’s embrace, grabbed her head with both hands, and kept still.

Lao Fan was also stopped by Xia Zheng with a shout, "Hey, are you trying to kill someone with a pair of chopsticks? I think you better not be a doctor and go wander the Martial World instead!"

Stopped by Xia Zheng, Lao Fan became even more furious, puffing his cheeks and glaring, "You little rascal, get out of the way! If I don’t teach this little girl a lesson today, then I’m not a true Zhen!"

"How are you going to teach her a lesson with chopsticks? Invite her to a delicious meal?" Xia Zheng couldn’t help but tease.

Lao Fan was taken aback for a moment, looked at the chopsticks in his hand, and his face instantly turned red. His beard twitched as he stammered, "How come, how come it’s chopsticks, isn’t it supposed to be a ruler?"

Pff!

Jin Shiwen, who was watching, covered her mouth and laughed. It turned out that in his haste, the old gentleman mistook the chopsticks for a ruler! But these two items are too different!

Lin Yuan, however, looked at him amusingly and chided, "This is truly the nature of a food lover, managing to mistake a ruler for chopsticks!"

"Hehe, Master, you really are getting old and dizzy. Later, I’ll prepare a medicine for you to treat your eyes properly!

" Xiao Linshuang’s little head popped out of Lin Yuan’s embrace and, with a pair of mischievous big eyes, she made a face at Lao Fan, infuriating him enough to throw the chopsticks in his hand.

"Alright, alright, stop messing around. What exactly happened?" Lin Yuan pulled Xiao Linshuang out of her embrace and asked sternly, "What happened! Did you do something bad again?"

Even though Lao Fan had a childlike personality and always joked around with Xiao Linshuang, playing various pranks, Lin Yuan could tell that this time he was genuinely angry, and very much so at that.

Xiao Linshuang must have provoked him.

Xiao Linshuang pouted, feeling wronged, stood up, and hung her head in silence.

If this had been a usual time, Lin Yuan would certainly have softened at such a gesture, but this time she wasn’t going to let it go so easily; even at a glance, it was evident that Xiao Linshuang was at fault.

Lao Fan also sat down in frustration, and Xia Zheng poured him a cup of hot tea. He took it and swallowed it in one gulp without even blowing on it, making Jin Shiwen shrink his neck continuously, feeling the pain on Lao Fan’s behalf.

"Why don’t you two talk? What in the world happened?" Xia Zheng sat down, glanced at one and then the other, but no one spoke, and his headache started to set in.

In the end, it was Xiao Linshuang who, with her little nose wrinkled and her mouth pouting, began to speak in a whining voice, "Today, Master took me to see a patient.

It was the first time I was treating someone.

I was so excited, but then, but then when I was writing the prescription, Master, he scolded me. "

"Did you prescribe the wrong medicine?" Lin Yuan asked. If the prescription was wrong, no wonder Lao Fan was angry.

Xiao Linshuang shook her head: "How could I? I have memorized the medical texts so well that I couldn’t have gotten the medication wrong!"

"Then what happened?"

Lin Yuan and Xia Zheng’s questioning looks prompted Xiao Linshuang to pout again and remain silent.

The two of them were getting extremely anxious.

Lao Fan’s beard twitched, and he harrumphed, "Can’t even bring yourself to say it, can you? Fine, I’ll say it for you!"

After another snort, Lao Fan took out a piece of paper from his bosom and slapped it onto the table, "Take a look for yourselves, this is the prescription she wrote!"

Lin Yuan and Xia Zheng looked at each other, picked up the piece of paper, and observed it. They didn’t understand the prescriptions, but they did recognize the writing, and they couldn’t see anything wrong.

It was Jin Shiwen, who had craned his neck to look, who suddenly snickered, "Oh my, this handwriting is really terrible, worse than even mine. If my sister saw this, she would definitely smack your palms!"

Xiao Linshuang gave him a feeble glare but, unusually, didn’t retort.

Lin Yuan understood then. It was the disdain for her poor handwriting!

Xia Zheng raised an eyebrow, "The handwriting, well, it really isn’t great. But it’s better than your big sister’s. Ouch!"

Without changing her expression, Lin Yuan removed her hand from Xia Zheng’s arm and pushed Xiao Linshuang out the door, "You heard it for yourself, with handwriting this bad, spanking is in order. Big sister can’t discipline you, so you’d better go to your master."

"Big sister," Xiao Linshuang called out pitifully, but she received no sympathy from Lin Yuan and reluctantly stiffened her resolve before moseying over to Lao Fan, "Master."

Lao Fan gave her a dismissive glance. By this time, his anger had abated by half, and he didn’t feel like spanking her palms anymore.

He said earnestly, "Girl, remember, whether we doctors are learned or not, we must first write well.

It is our signboard, our face! Moreover, write one wrong character, and it can cause the medicine picker to make a mistake.

That is a matter of life and death and cannot be taken lightly. Did you get that?"

Xiao Linshuang nodded vigorously and replied loudly, "Yes, Master, I’ve got it."

Lin Yuan suddenly remembered the prescriptions written by the doctors she had seen in the past, which looked like cryptic symbols, indecipherable to anyone.

But Lao Fan’s words made perfect sense, and it seemed she too should practice her handwriting in the future—this was a matter of vital importance linked to one’s face!

Da Qiangzi’s issue had settled down for a while, and there were days of peace, but suddenly one day, the Lin family received a letter: the thief had been caught.