Transmigrated as A Farm Girl Making Her Family Rich

This wasn't entirely out of kindness, but for fear that if grandmother's illness became too severe, it would be mother who would suffer. She might have to be fed three meals a day and have someone take care of her toileting needs.

As a daughter-in-law, if mother was not filial, she would be blamed by others.

She still wanted to take the whole family to the Capital, but someone was holding them back—that absolutely wouldn't do.

An hour later, Ye Shiqi opened the door to find her parents standing outside, the maid holding medicinal soup in her hands.

She glanced outside the door but saw no trace of grandfather.

"My little girl, how is your grandmother?"

Hongji looked at his daughter eagerly, fearing he would hear the bad news he didn't want to hear.

Ye Shiqi smelled the medicine in the maid's hands; it addressed the symptoms, though it was just ordinary herbal medicine with little effect. Still, it could cover up any actions she might take.

"Father, grandmother is much better. Let the maid give her the medicine," Shiqi said.

Hongji immediately instructed the maid to feed the medicine to the elderly mother. Upon entering, he saw that his mother's complexion seemed much improved; the mouth that always drooled and frothed now seemed to have stopped.

The mouth was still askew, but as long as her life was saved, he felt his daughter had done her utmost. After all, the child was a little girl who had never formally apprenticed and learned the craft.

She had only read a bit of the Medical Book, and the old doctor in the village was helpless.

Mrs. Li also saw that the condition of her mother-in-law had improved a lot, and she breathed a sigh of relief. Although this mother-in-law was not kind to her, she did not wish for her to just pass away.

Ye Shiqi left the room and then glanced at Aunt Lai's room but did not take any initiative to help this woman.

Ever since this woman entered their household, she had been endlessly bullying mother and daughter and causing all sorts of trouble.

Remembering how malicious the woman in the book was, perhaps this was a form of retribution—let her be, as she wasn't a doctor anyway.

Ye Shiqi surveyed the courtyard, with no sign of where grandfather had gone. Aunt Lai's condition on the other side did not seem good; there might be heavy bleeding.

Ye Shiqi returned to her room without intending to use her medical skills or the Space Spiritual Spring to save such a malicious person.

It might be that her grandmother had been medicated, likely a common deed of Aunt Lai; Aunt Lai had given such a strong drug to her own aunt, an act that was intended to kill.

Ye Shiqi didn't think she was too heartless for not giving her grandmother water from the spring. She still wanted to test out her own abilities.

This was her first practice of medicine since her studies; usually, when someone in the family had a minor fever, she would just give them some water from the spring to drink.

Ye Shiqi returned to her room, where her four elder sisters were in the room they shared, all embroidering. Seeing her enter, each of them looked up.

It wasn't that her elder sisters lacked filial piety, but that grandmother was too scheming. It wasn't that her sisters lacked compassion, but Aunt Lai, who would bully them whenever the opportunity arose.

For the past two or three years, she had been whispering into grandfather's ear, convincing him to hand over the management of the estate to her.

Ever since Aunt Lai entered the household, she had been making big and small troubles everywhere—how could they possibly have sympathy for such a wicked woman?

Not going out of their way to harm others was already very kind.

Ye Shiqi told her sisters that their grandmother should be fine now, but as for Aunt Lai, it was hard to say.

The Fang Family's house fell silent, and everyone felt a bit uncomfortable. Although both the grandmother and Aunt Lai were not good people, they were still their family members.

Taking pleasure in others' misfortune was something they could not express, nor did it fit their upbringing.

An hour later, a doctor arrived under the guidance of workers, accompanied by Hongji's father who also alighted from the carriage.

Seeing him, it seemed like he was in a drunken state.

Hongji, hearing the commotion, also came out of his room and, seeing his father's drunken state, could only ask the doctor to attend to Aunt Lai.

As a man and a father, he could not enter, and with the room reeking of blood, he had to let the doctor go in alone.

Mrs. Li had already come out from her mother-in-law's room and followed the doctor into Aunt Lai's sickroom, where she was sleeping.

The doctor examined Aunt Lai, then administered a few needles and had brought medicine along, knowing that he could not find those medicines here.

He took out the medicine that needed to be used, wrote down a prescription, and told Mrs. Li how to use the medicine.

"Doctor, how is the patient?"

The doctor shook his head, "She has lost too much blood, being alive is already fortunate."

Then the doctor left, and Hongji's father also asked him about Aunt Lai's condition. He had come to a realization—after all, Aunt Lai was still young and could recover to bear children.