Chapter 457 - Chapter 457: Chapter 457: Mother Zuo’s Appreciation (Extra chapter for the Dragon and Phoenix combo) (1/2)

Chapter 457: Chapter 457: Mother Zuo’s Appreciation (Extra chapter for the Dragon and Phoenix combo)

“After that, I took some emergency measures, but my medical skills are just so-so, and the old woman’s body is really weak. Out of necessity, I found a carriage and sent her to the small town.”

Zhang Peng’s footsteps unconsciously became larger.

Liu Sisi hurriedly stepped forward to keep up: “It’s my fault too. Constable Zuo was helping my sister find her child, but unexpectedly, his old mother was actually starving at home. I didn’t take care of her properly.”

“How can you blame yourself? He didn’t ask us to help take care of her either. No one could have foreseen this.”

Zhang Peng shook his head and casually asked, “By the way, where is Ye Lei? Why isn’t he here?”

Liu Sisi hadn’t come back to her senses from her chaotic thoughts, and when she heard that, she quickly raised her head: “Oh, he didn’t see you coming back, so he went back to Upper Village.”

The clinic was just diagonally across the street, so they arrived very quickly.

At the moment the clinic door was ajar, Zhang Peng took Liu Sisi and gently pulled open a door panel, then stepped over the threshold.

As soon as they entered, they saw the medicine pageboy fanning the stove fire to boil medicine, and inside the partition, there was a constantly swaying candle shadow.

Without any hesitation, Liu Sisi followed Zhang Peng’s footsteps and stepped into the small partition.

As expected, Mother Zuo was lying crookedly at the head of the bed, her face pale and her expression extremely unwell.

When Dr. He saw the two of them enter, he quickly waved them over and then led them outside.

“Dr. He, how is Mother Zuo’s condition now?”

Upon seeing him, Liu Sisi hurriedly approached and asked.

Dr. He looked up at Liu Sisi and sighed heavily.

“It’s fortunate that she was brought in on time. If this woman had delayed another day, I’m afraid there would be no hope for her. But luckily, you previously used the ginseng slice to keep her alive; it seems she wasn’t meant to die just yet! By the way, she isn’t your relative, is she?”

He still remembered her mother-in-law’s demeanor vividly and couldn’t imagine her looking like this.

As Liu Sisi hesitated to explain who Mother Zuo was, Zhang Peng quickly spoke up.

“Oh! This is the mother of one of our colleagues at the governmental office. His family is poor, and this time he happened to be on an official trip, so…”

Liu Sisi quickly added, “To be precise, he is actually helping to find my poor nephew who was sold by his own father. So, if his mother has an accident, I can’t help but feel…”

Mother Zuo slowly woke up from her drowsiness and slowly opened her eyes.

Her vision was blurry, and everything in front of her was hazy. Her memory slowly returned, and she hurriedly raised her head, trying hard to make out her surroundings.

She heard Liu Sisi’s clear voice outside.

Her voice was so familiar that it put Mother Zuo’s mind at ease for a moment.

It’s this woman again!

How could she forget her? It was the food she left that allowed her to persevere until now.

“Ah! – That’s how it is!”

Dr. He nodded in understanding.

“Since she is the mother of Third Son Di’s colleague and is helping with your family affairs, you cannot escape responsibility for this. With her condition, she will need to take some expensive medicinal materials long-term to regain her health. You’d better be prepared.”

Dr. He said this because he was considering the money issue.

These expensive medicines couldn’t be solved with a few copper coins, and the main concern was that this money would be spent on outsiders.