bookrandom Chapter 905: Become famous again
Chapter 905: Become famous again
"I am Li Chengzong, and I want to thank you for saving my son's life."
"I, Li Zhang, would like to thank you, sir!"
"Please get up quickly."
Captain Li and others who had just arrived were also amazed: "I never thought that the Lord could bring the dead back to life."
Lu Cheng immediately waved his hands: "I don't have the ability to bring the dead back to life, but this child has not completely died. A newborn baby, just out of the womb, needs a process of adaptation to the outside world. Only by crying out loud and opening the heart and lungs can it spit out the amniotic fluid and breathe like a normal person.
Just now, I saw the midwife in the government office shouting that she was innocent, but her expression and movements revealed tension and despair. Her right hand had more birthmarks than her left hand, so I guessed that the midwife wanted to smother the baby. If it was the first time the midwife killed someone, she might not have killed the baby completely in a hurry.
That's why I came here to check if the baby still had a chance of survival. Fortunately, the baby was not completely suffocated and was still breathing, so it was possible to save it. It's not that I have the power to bring the dead back to life, I can only say that it was God's blessing. "
Lu Cheng briefly explained the situation in a few words, and the yamen runners suddenly understood what was going on. However, they still admired Lu Cheng's keen insight and decisive execution.
Mr. Li and his concubine didn't care about all this and just kept thanking Lu Cheng.
While Lu Cheng was helping the baby breathe, he wrapped the baby up again and said, "This child has just been born and has held his breath for such a long time. This may cause some damage to his brain and he needs further treatment and conditioning. I will write a prescription later and ask Mr. Li to get the medicine according to the prescription. I will treat the baby myself."
"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!"
The concubine was also holding her child at this time, her face full of heartache and love.
Lu Cheng gave a few more instructions before he spoke: "Mr. Li, do you know that midwife? Does she have any grudge against you?"
Li Chengzong quickly shook his head and said, "Your Excellency, my family is not prosperous. I usually do business by doing good to others. I just hope to do good deeds and accumulate virtues so that I can be blessed by God and have children. How could I have any grudge against a midwife?"
Lu Cheng glanced at the baby boy again and continued to ask, "How many wives and concubines, and how many children does Mr. Li have at home?"
"Sir, I originally had one wife and six concubines. My first wife, Ms. Liu, and my second concubine, Ms. Wang, each gave birth to a daughter for me. The remaining one is Ms. Zhang, who just gave birth to a son for me. The other concubines have no children. My first wife, Ms. Liu, died of illness a year ago.
After Zhang became pregnant, I made a promise at home that if she gave birth to a son for me, I would make her my legal wife..."
At this point, Mr. Li also understood: "Could it be that my concubines bribed the midwife and wanted to murder this child so that my Li family would be extinct?"
"Call your concubines over here and we'll know the answer."
"Yes."
Mr. Li immediately walked out of the room and asked someone to call his concubines.
Lu Cheng also brought Captain Li and a group of constables and runners to the yard outside to wait.
Soon, a cry of surprise was heard from not far away: "The third concubine hanged herself!"
Then, Li Yuanwai led his men back to the backyard and bowed to Lu Cheng. "Master Lu, my concubine Wu just hanged herself. Her personal maid also confessed that Wu had seen the midwife a day ago. It seems that Wu was jealous and bribed the midwife to murder my newborn child."
Lu Cheng nodded slightly: "Wait until we return to the government office and interrogate the midwife to confirm that everything is correct before we can close the case."
"Thank you, sir. Uncle Zheng, go and give you the generous gift I prepared for you."
Lu Cheng waved his hand: "No need to do that, I have to go back to the yamen to investigate the case, so I won't stay any longer."
After saying that, Lu Cheng took Captain Li and a group of yamen runners and rushed outside.
Mr. Li bowed again and did not stand up for a long time.
Not long after, Lu Cheng returned to the yamen and interrogated the midwife immediately.
At this time, the midwife did not know that the baby had been saved, and she did not know that Mr. Li's concubine, Wu, had hanged herself.
Lu Cheng just asked a few simple questions and tricked her with words, and the midwife confessed everything.
Midwife Liu has a son who is idle on weekdays. Recently, he has become addicted to gambling and has owed a lot of gambling debts. He has stolen all the money in the family and has been hiding recently.
In order to pay off the debt for her son, midwife Liu happened to meet Wu who asked her for help with 100 taels of silver. If the concubine Zhang gave birth to a son, she would suffocate her to death, which almost resulted in a murder.
The whole case was not complicated. After finding out what happened, Lu Cheng immediately submitted the interrogation process to the governor of Shuntian Prefecture.
The prefect also pronounced the verdict in court and had the midwife Liu thrown into prison to be executed on a later date.
In less than an hour, the case was completely solved, and Lu Cheng's position as the magistrate of Shuntian Prefecture was immediately secured.
At the same time, the story of the top scholar's superb medical skills in saving the baby and his keen insight in identifying the real culprit quickly spread in Kyoto.
In the evening, inside the Hall of Mental Cultivation in the Forbidden City.
After reading the latest news sent back by the Jinyiwei, Emperor Changtai casually handed the information to Dai Quan who was standing beside him: "Banban, you can also take a look. Our number one scholar is really not simple."
Dai Quan was also a little surprised after reading the intelligence in his hand: "Lu Xiuzhuan should have just arrived at the Shuntian Prefecture government office today, right? He solved a case and saved a baby. It's really amazing."
"Let the Royal Guards send someone to keep an eye on him. I'm a little curious, what other abilities does our number one scholar have that I don't know about?"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Okay, let's go down."
At the same time, in the backyard of Rongguo Mansion.
Lin Daiyu was gathering with Xue Baochai, Shi Xiangyun and the three sisters of the Jia family, drinking tea and reciting poems, when Zijuan ran in from outside: "Miss, Miss, the son-in-law is amazing."
"Don't panic, tell me what's going on."
"Miss, today my son-in-law went to Shuntian Prefecture to take up the post of magistrate, assisting the Shuntian prefect in investigating cases. As soon as he arrived at the yamen, he encountered a murder case..."
Zijuan was also an eloquent person, and she quickly recounted the story that was being told outside.
Although Lu Cheng explained on the spot that the baby was only "faking death" and still had a breath, people outside believed that the top scholar was the god of literature who had the power to "bring the dead back to life". They spread the story by word of mouth and exaggerated it, making Lu Cheng seem even more miraculous.
When the girls heard such legendary stories and thought of the novels written by Lu Cheng, they admired him even more.
On the other side, when Lu Cheng returned home from the yamen, as soon as he arrived at the door, he saw Mr. Li waiting at the door with several servants, pulling two horse-drawn carriages.
One carriage was filled with silks and satins, and the other carriage was loaded with a lot of precious medicinal materials and a thousand taels of gold.
"Master Lu, I am so glad to see you back. You saved my son's life and allowed my Li family to continue its lineage. I will not be able to sleep or eat peacefully if I cannot repay you. I hope you will accept the thank you gift!"
"You don't have to do this. This is just a simple task. I saved her not for money, but I couldn't bear to see the child die just after he was born."
"Sir, it may be just a small favor for you. But my family has only one son for three generations. If I lose this child, I am afraid that the family line will be cut off. If I don't repay you, wouldn't I be an ungrateful person?"
"Well, since you insist on doing this, I will accept a few pieces of cloth, and you can take the rest back."
"grown ups……"
"No need to say more, I'm tired after a day, it's time to rest."
"Then I won't bother you anymore."