"Grandma, you don't..." Ah Jiu's words trailed off.
The cunning old men, led by the hall master, all entered the examination room.
They naturally wanted to witness it firsthand. If this girl had cured the patient, he would claim it was his fart that did it, wouldn't he? That way, he could deceive everyone here.
It's over. Being surrounded and monitored, even if Ah Jiu wanted to use her spiritual spring water instead of her grandmother's farts, she had no opportunity.
Looking at Madam Wang again, she sat leisurely on a chair and glanced at the patient lying on the examination bed.
"You brats, keep your eyes wide open and watch," Madam Wang snorted.
Brat?
The insulting words used in the past two days had not been repeated. The hall master suppressed a surge of anger, almost spitting blood.
No matter what, he had to see the result to have leverage against this old woman and the Hua Lan Medical Hall.
Ah Jiu's heart raced, and she stood beside her grandmother, staring intently.
Seeing her raise her hand and hover it above the patient's abdomen, at a palm's height, Ah Jiu then saw a fist-sized ball of blue gas appear in her grandmother's palm.
This was spiritual energy. Ah Jiu remembered her grandmother saying the other day that her eyes were not ordinary and could see spiritual energy.
Ah Jiu instinctively looked at everyone present. They showed no reaction, as if they couldn't see it at all.
"Putting on a mere show."
"Tch, I thought it was some miraculous elixir."
"Little old lady, are you using some kind of witchcraft? Didn't you say you'd use farts?"
Just as the words fell, *poot!*
Madam Wang actually let out a fart.
Ah Jiu suddenly looked at her grandmother's stool. A stream of blue gas indeed gathered around her backside without dispersing.
Instantly, several people instinctively pinched their noses.
Even the hall master, who usually maintained a dignified and authoritative demeanor, subconsciously covered his nose.
Ah Jiu's pupils suddenly lit up: "It smells so good!"
"What?" The hall master frowned and looked at Ah Jiu. Had this young girl gone mad at such a tender age?
But after sniffing his nose carefully, it was true. A peculiar fragrance permeated the examination room.
"What is this scent?"
Even the elders behind him smelled it.
Then, the villagers outside the Hua Lan Medical Hall's door erupted in a frenzy, searching everywhere: "Where is this fragrance coming from?"
"I don't know, it smells like flowers."
"This place is barren, how can there be flower fragrance?"
Even Liu Cai'er in the adjacent examination room smelled it. The scent was refreshing and comforting, making her feel as if she had slept soundly in a field of flowers after a deep breath.
Madam Wang was not idle either. She glanced at the hall master and the others, then scooped up some air from her backside and slapped it into the patient's nostril, covering it.
"Huh?" Several people instinctively took a few steps back. Was this person feeding farts to the patient?
After about three breaths, he finally released his hand.
The moment his hand was released, it was as if the person who was almost suffocating suddenly received fresh air into their body. After a deep exhale, the person's chest rose and fell, and their eyes, when they opened, had a glint of light.
"Wow!" Ah Jiu couldn't help but exclaim.
"Hmm? This works too?"
The hall master's brows knitted so tightly they threatened to stand up. Yet, he couldn't deny that the patient's spirits had indeed improved considerably.
Why were the people at Hua Lan Medical Hall all so strange?
"You unlicked, unseasoned youngsters, are you watching closely now?" Madam Wang brushed down her front and stood up, as if afraid her already tattered and patched clothes would wrinkle.
This time, the hall master instinctively moved aside as she walked out of the examination room.
"Hall Master, this... this is too incredible."
"Yes, Hall Master, this is sorcery. I've never heard of farts being used to treat illnesses."
The hall master's face turned a mix of green and red, as if he hadn't heard the surrounding people. He squinted, watching the old woman, with her hands behind her back, walk with a swagger into the backyard.
Ah Jiu let out a sigh of relief. "Oh, right, Hall Master, you need to pay the consultation fee. Of course, it's also my fault for being a careless girl and forgetting to inform you in advance."
"Ah?" The hall master's gaze snapped back, his facial muscles almost contorting as he looked at Ah Jiu.