Ye An suddenly felt guilty. "No, no... the doctor saved my life. This is just my token of appreciation..."
"I don't want to hear excuses," Qin Lily interrupted. "Just tell me what you need."
Ye An rubbed his nose, realizing he couldn't hide anything from her, and immediately started flattering her. "Well, there is something. Doctor, do you remember the illness I had last time? You figured out immediately where I had been and that I had been possessed by a demonic flower. Actually, there was someone else who went with me that day who also contracted a strange illness..."
Ye An explained that on the day he ventured into the forest, many people were with him, but only he and a young master from the Zhang family contracted strange illnesses.
"The Zhang kid's illness is different from mine. He's extremely afraid of light, his fingernails and toenails have turned purple, which is very frightening. He often goes into fits of madness, and several servants who were scratched by his nails died... and turned into mummies."
Upon hearing this, Qin Lumin's expression grew serious. "How can there be such a strange illness?"
"Purple-black nails?" Qin Lily narrowed her eyes. "Where is he now?"
Ye An became even more embarrassed. "In... in the Qin family clinic..."
Qin Lily: "Huh?"
Ye An quickly explained, "I told them that you cured my illness, but when they heard that you looked very young... they thought that I actually got treated by the Qin family clinic first, and it was just a coincidence that I met you afterward. So they believe it was the Qin family clinic that cured me. That's why they went to the Qin family clinic..."
In the end, it all boiled down to a lack of confidence in Qin Lily's medical skills.
Qin Lily looked too young, and Ye An hadn't believed in her abilities at first either.
He also knew Qin Lily was a girl. When she had decided to come down the mountain to open her clinic, Ye An had seen her disguised appearance.
If he hadn't witnessed her medical skills firsthand, Ye An wouldn't have believed she was a doctor either.
No wonder everyone went to the Qin Family Clinic.
The Qin Family's Divine Doctor was not only famous in Tang City but also well-known in other cities. Naturally, people coming from afar would seek out the famous doctor.
Ye An was worried that Qin Lily would be angry and carefully said, "Doctor, if the Qin Family Clinic really can't cure him, please don't let him die..."
After all, the young master of the Zhang family was a childhood friend, and Ye An didn't want anything to happen to him.
Qin Lumin said in a serious tone, "Chen'er, this illness is too strange. You're still young. If you're not confident, it's better not to treat it, to avoid..."
To avoid being looked down upon.
Some people are like that; if you fail to cure an illness even once, they will completely dismiss you.
Qin Lumin didn't want to see that happen.
"Don't worry, brother." Qin Lily smiled sweetly at him. "I know what I'm doing."
She grabbed Ye An and said to Qin Lumin, "Brother, help me sort and store the medicinal herbs. I need to talk to Ye Shao about something!"
Without waiting for Qin Lumin to respond, she led Ye An out of the clinic.
Qin Lumin: "..."
He sighed slowly, wondering whose temperament she had inherited.
Outside the clinic.
Ye An anxiously stared at the clinic across from them. "Doctor, you're not thinking of stealing my brother from Qin Shen's clinic, are you?"
"What's going on in that head of yours?" Qin Lily knocked him on the head and snorted coldly. "Do I look like the kind of barbarian who would steal patients from someone else's clinic?"
Ye An rubbed his head, thinking to himself that she was more than just barbaric—she was downright terrifying.
He still couldn't forget the scene of her stabbing him in the stomach; it was brutal enough to make his legs go weak.
Qin Lily, however, was completely unaware of this. "With my medical skills, people come begging me for treatment. Do I need to steal patients? Your so-called Zhang family brother will eventually come to me for help."
"Yes, yes, yes, who can match your miraculous hands!" Ye An flattered her obsequiously.
"Cut the crap," Qin Lily said. "Where is that forest you went to last time? Take me there."
Qin Lily was very interested in that forest.
Based on Ye An's description, that Zhang family boy was most likely possessed by a ghost. Otherwise, he wouldn't fear light so much, nor would his touch turn people into dried corpses.
It was evident that a ghost had possessed that Zhang family boy, using his body as a medium to suck the essence and blood from humans.
A forest that could possess both a ghost and a demon flower... now that was intriguing.
A sinister smile spread across Qin Lily's face.
Ye An was shocked. "What? Go again? Doctor! I-I don't dare... I'm really afraid of dying..."
Qin Lily said impatiently, "With me here, what are you afraid of? Stop talking nonsense and lead the way."
Succumbing to Qin Lily's domineering attitude, Ye An had no choice but to lead the way, albeit reluctantly.
They left the city, which was surrounded by several mountains. Qingyun Temple was on one of these mountains, and the place Ye An was taking her to was on the mountain adjacent to Qingyun Temple.
Though he had only been there once, Ye An had a good memory and led Qin Lily towards the forest, eventually arriving at a deep, bottomless cave.
Ye An's legs trembled as he weakly said, "H-here... we went into this cave last time..."