After seeing off the villagers who had come to watch, Li Yue Shu conducted a more detailed examination of Mother Mo.
Mother Mo was taking medicine from the space; the claim of two taels of silver per dose was just to deceive Yang Shi.
However, Mother Mo had indeed been frightened, and coupled with the fact that this body was already severely depleted, her condition was truly not good.
Even if Li Yue Shu did not hesitate to let Mother Mo live in the space permanently, the issue of her lungs could not be delayed any longer.
But the blood test results sent by the county magistrate last time were unsuccessful, and there had been no new news since. She wondered if Mother Mo could wait.
No, she couldn't just wait passively like this.
Li Yue Shu was contemplating a countermeasure, unaware that Shen Wei was crouching in a corner, flipping through Shen Tan's notes on pharmacology.
...
That night, all was quiet.
Everyone had fallen asleep, but Shen Wei, who had already been in bed, suddenly opened his eyes.
He glanced at Li Yue Shu, who was breathing deeply, then quietly got out of bed and left the room.
In the pitch-black night, only the faint moonlight offered a dim visibility.
Yet, in this environment where one couldn't see their hand in front of their face, Shen Wei seemed completely unhindered. His figure moved rapidly towards the Shen family's residence.
For some reason, he had been having strange dreams lately. He didn't recognize anyone in his dreams, yet he could clearly remember their faces.
Many times, he would subconsciously know certain things.
For example, when moving in the dark, his subconscious knew how to conceal his presence and footsteps, blending perfectly with his surroundings.
Upon reaching the Shen family's home, Shen Wei agilely scaled the wall without making a sound.
He searched around and, confirming the location of Mother Shen's room, directly stole a packet of powder from his person and lightly sprinkled it in various corners of the room.
He always sprinkled a small amount, so even if it were discovered, it would only be mistaken for dust. But he sprinkled it in many places.
After a full round, the entire large packet of powder was used up.
Soon, Shen Wei left the Shen family's home as quietly as he had arrived, without making a single sound throughout the entire process.
But what he didn't expect was that when he happily returned home, he ran into Li Yue Shu coming out of the room.
Shen Wei's heart instinctively fluttered, and he ran up to her proactively, "Wife, why are you up?"
Li Yue Shu pulled him to look him over, and seeing that he was intact, she breathed a sigh of relief. "Where did you go?"
She woke up in the middle of the night to find Shen Wei missing, which had completely scared away her sleepiness.
Shen Wei blinked innocently and patted his stomach, "I ate too much at night and had a stomachache. I went to relieve myself."
Upon hearing this, Li Yue Shu suddenly released his hand. "Did you wash your hands?"
Ever since she had witnessed Shen Wei covered in mud from rolling around with A Yu, making him difficult to clean, she had begun to strictly teach the two of them about hygiene. It had now become an ingrained habit.
Shen Wei looked bewildered, "I... don't think I did."
Li Yue Shu waved her hand, "Go to the kitchen and wash your hands before coming back to bed."
Shen Wei was almost always obedient to Li Yue Shu's words, so he immediately trotted off to the kitchen.
...
The night passed without incident.
Li Yue Shu, as usual, after finishing her work at the Heng De Pharmacy and bringing everyone home, began to have the children study on their own while Aunt Liu helped her grind herbs.
She suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, Yue Shu, do you know what happened at the Shen family's place?"
Li Yue Shu shook her head, looking puzzled. "What happened?"
Aunt Liu sighed, whether in melancholy or sympathy, she didn't know. "Ai, I don't know what happened. Your mother-in-law woke up, and her room was crawling with snakes. She was even bitten a few times. Fortunately, those snakes were not venomous."
"Today, the village chief took more than half the men in the village to help, even your Uncle Liu was called. They worked for an hour before they managed to clear out the snakes."
"Snakes at this time of year rarely come out of their holes. There's no reason for them to go into your mother-in-law's room on their own."
When she said the last sentence, Aunt Liu deliberately lowered her voice.
Li Yue Shu understood the meaning behind her words.
Yesterday, she had fallen out with the Shen family, and that night Mother Shen encountered such a bizarre incident. Naturally, people would suspect her.
But this matter was indeed not done by her, so she was not worried about being questioned.
However, she was curious, who was the infinitely kind little angel who did this? They really did a great job!
Not far away, Shen Tan happened to overhear their conversation and was surprised.
Yesterday, he returned from the pharmacy, and Shen Wei took his notes and asked him what the snake-luring medicine recorded on it looked like. That night, the Shen family was attacked by snakes.
Could it be such a coincidence?
Shen Tan subconsciously looked up and saw Shen Wei, who was currently moving medicinal herbs, suddenly sneeze. The item in his hand slipped and landed squarely on his instep.
"Ah!"
Shen Wei cried out in pain and sat down on the ground, clutching his foot.
Hearing the sound, Li Yue Shu immediately dropped what she was holding and ran over. "What's wrong? Are you injured?"
Shen Wei pouted, his handsome eyes welling up with tears. "Wife, my foot hurts..."
Li Yue Shu looked at the rolling jar on the ground and breathed a sigh of relief.
He was wailing so pitifully; she had thought he had stepped on a knife.
Just as Li Yue Shu was about to comfort him, Shen Wei suddenly stretched out his foot. "Wife, blow on it, and it won't hurt anymore."
Li Yue Shu clenched her fists. "..."
"Forgive the ignorant child their mistakes. Don't bother with a fool!"
Li Yue Shu soothed herself internally and then said a few comforting words to Shen Wei. The person who had been in so much pain and about to cry immediately broke into a smile.
Shen Tan, who had witnessed the entire scene: "..."
He must have been overthinking it. This was probably just a coincidence.
Shen Tan shook his head, discarded these jumbled thoughts, and continued with his work.
...
Li Yue Shu finished the matters of the pharmacy as quickly as possible, planning to take a day off during the academy's recess.
However, besides the pharmacy, she also had to constantly monitor Mother Mo's condition.
After the disturbance caused by the Shen family last time, Mother Mo, who had finally been able to get out of bed and walk, was now back in bed.
Li Yue Shu knew that Mother Mo in the original book did not survive, but she was unsure of the exact time.
Looking at her current condition, she probably wouldn't last long.
It seemed she needed to find an opportunity to have a good talk with Mo Lian.
"Cough, cough, cough!"
A bout of coughing suddenly interrupted Li Yue Shu's thoughts. She saw that Mother Mo, who had been asleep, had coughed awake.
Li Yue Shu quickly helped her to catch her breath.
After coughing for a while, Mother Mo finally managed to stop, panting from exhaustion.
She looked up at Li Yue Shu, her face full of apology. "Madam has been tired enough lately. You don't need to keep watching me. I'm fine."
Li Yue Shu poured her a cup of water. "I am a doctor. Who would know better than me if you are alright?"
After drinking the warm water, Mother Mo felt the stinging pain in her chest ease considerably.
She smiled at Li Yue Shu, her gentle features seemingly untouched by the torment of illness.
"Madam, just tell me honestly, how much time do I have left?"
Li Yue Shu's lips turned downwards. "If you can relax, cooperate with my treatment, perhaps you can still help Ah Lian find a wife."
Mother Mo knew she was trying to comfort her. Just as she was about to say something else, Li Yue Shu suddenly pressed her hand.