Then, I'll write you another schedule for your daily routines, like eating and sleeping. Adjust your lifestyle according to what I write.

"With the medication list, if it works, you should see results within a month."

"If there are obvious results after a month, your sister-in-law can come to my place in person. I'll take you to see the old Chinese medicine doctor who handles this kind of case for a consultation."

"If it doesn't work, sister-in-law, you can stop taking the medicine anytime. Dare you give it a try?" she asked.

The daughter-in-law thought about it seriously and said, "There's nothing to be afraid of. These past few years, the medicine I've been taking is just this and that."

My seven aunts and eight cousins are all brainstorming ideas for me. I'm not afraid to eat another set, haha...

Yang Ruqing quickly shook her head, interrupting her.

“No, no, no. If you take the medicine I give you, stop all those other single-herb remedies altogether.”

“For the next month, just focus on taking this medicine, okay?” she asked again.

The daughter-in-law nodded heartily, "Deal!"

Yang Ruqing also smiled, "Okay, then it's settled. It's getting late now, let's sleep first and I'll write a schedule for you tomorrow during the day."

"Okay, okay!"

The blanket was a bit thin. The young stepmother, like a kind elder sister, tucked in Yang Ruqing's blankets and then the two of them went to sleep.

Halfway through the night, I was half-asleep when I suddenly heard a strange noise coming from outside.

Yang Ruqing and the village head's daughter-in-law immediately woke up.

"What's going on at this late hour?" Li Zheng's wife rubbed her eyes and asked.

Yang Ruqing also looked bewildered.

"Let me go take a look," she said, quickly and skillfully putting on her clothes and shoes.

During this process, the voices of Li Zheng and Zuo Junmo came from outside, interspersed with the voices of unfamiliar men.

Yang Ruqing and the wife of the village head came into the main hall and immediately saw the village head, Zu Junmo, and Luo Fengtang.

Li Zheng was talking to a man. Yang Ruqing had an impression of him. Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate! ?

He was a fisherman who hung out with the drunkard. Before, Zuo Junmo had given this man one hundred copper coins to keep an eye on the drunkard tonight.

That is, he was the guard.

When the drunkard is sober tomorrow, we will have a good talk.

At that time, the man took the money and patted his chest, assuring him he would definitely take good care of it.

What is this man doing here in the middle of the night? Why didn't he stay on the sampan?

Could it be that the drunkard got away?

Thinking about this, Yang Ruqing hurried forward and came to Luo Fengtang and Zuo Junmo.

“What’s going on here?” she asked.

Zuo Junmo and Luo Fengtang were asking questions in the listening room, it seemed they weren't quite sure.

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Hearing Yang Ruqing's question, Luo Fengtang said: "Not quite yet, wait a moment,"

Soon, the conversation between Li Zheng and the man stopped. Li Zheng's face turned pale, he pointed at the man's nose.

"You promised, how come you're not keeping your word?"

Now that things have come to this, you better tell me what you're going to do about it!

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The fisherman trembled, his face pale with fear, standing there, his legs shaking.

He turned around and said to Zuo Junmo and Luofengtang, "Two big brothers, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. It's my fault that I caused trouble! I should be punished!"

He raised his hand and slapped himself in the face.

He probably worries that if he doesn't slap himself, someone else will. So it's better to do it himself.

At least know the difference between light and heavy.

Luofeng Tang frowned: "Stop messing around, just say it, what's the matter!"

The fisherman wept and cried, "Drunkard, drunkard, drunkard, he is dead!"

“Ah?”

Everyone gasped.

“What?” Behind him, at the entrance of Xi Wu’s house, the drunken woman didn't know when she had stood at the doorway, just in time to hear this.

"What did you say? The drunk died? How come? How could he die? He was fine this afternoon..."

The woman staggered over and grabbed the fisherman's arm, breathlessly demanding answers.

The fisherman said, "Sister-in-law, I'm really sorry. I just turned around and went to the riverbank to relieve myself."

“Before I went to the bathroom, he was still snoring. When I came back after finishing, he was completely quiet...”

"Huh? How could this be? Ah..."

The woman's hands drooped, her vision darkened, her knees buckled, and her whole body collapsed.

Yang Ruqing was quick-eyed and fast-handed, stepping forward to help her up.

The daughter-in-law also hurried over and helped to support her.

The drunken daughter-in-law was held by the two on either side, she turned her head and pleaded with Yang Ruqing: "Miss Yang, please, please, take me to the sampan, I want to see the drunkard!"

“Come on, let’s go together!”

Yang Ruqing said.

Everyone rushed to the riverbank together.

At this time, a lantern hung outside the fisherman's boat where the drunkard was. The fishermen and their wives on the other boats by the shore were all startled.

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Everyone stood on the shore, pointing at the fishing boat, but no one dared to go aboard where the drunkard was.

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...Until this point, as soon as a single person arrived here, the fishermen there all gathered around.

The crowd was chattering and buzzing with a cacophony of noise.

Li Zheng and Luo Fengtang exchanged glances with Zuo Junmo. Luo Fengtang kept a composed expression and said, "Let's go in and have a look."

Then, he took the lead and boarded the small boat. Left Junmo and the village head followed closely behind.

At last, the drunken woman of the family was helped by Yang Ruqing and the wife of the headman, stumbling and bewildered as she hurried towards the sampan.

Luò Fēng Táng took down the wind lamp hanging outside the awning boat and bent over to enter the cabin.

Others behind him also followed closely.

The air in the hold was thick with the stench of alcohol and sour vomit.

The drunkard was bound tightly with ropes and lay sprawled on the deck, his eyes wide open like glass balls.

This reminded everyone of the plump fish they caught from the water. When the fishermen hit them with a hammer,

The fathead fish's eyes were the same, rolling white, with threadlike blood vessels crisscrossing each other, weaving a crimson spiderweb.

His face was ashen, his mouth, nose, and a large area on his neck and chest were all covered in filth.

Luo Fengtang handed the paper lantern in his hand to the village head beside him, then bent down and observed the drunkard in front of him.

He got drunk, then vomited. What he vomited blocked his nose and mouth, causing him to suffocate.

After inspecting it, Luo Fengtang immediately reached a conclusion.

Left Junmo also followed over and observed for a while, nodding his head.

"Well, I agree with Feng Tang's assessment. The drunkard must have choked to death, unable to breathe." he said.

Li Zheng said, "I sent someone to invite the village doctor from the neighboring village. When he was young, he worked as a coroner at the county office."

Zuo Junmo nodded, and Luo Fengtang also stood up and stood aside.