The happenings at the Fan Mansion were unknown to Lu Tong.
Early in the morning, just after Renxin Medical Hall opened its doors, a customer arrived at the shop.
He was a middle-aged man with a scholar's square scarf on his head, dressed in an old, washed-out cloth Zhiduo, with shoes covered in mud, giving the appearance of an impoverished scholar.
The scholar looked panicked and pale, seemingly out of breath as if he had run all the way here.
Yin Zheng was sweeping at the doorway, and upon noticing this put down her broom to ask, "Sir, are you here to buy medicine?"
Lu Tong glanced at the man and recognized something familiar about his features before she could speak. The scholar had already hurried inside, reaching across the counter to grab Lu Tong's sleeve and pleading desperately, "Doctor, my mother suddenly fell sick, she has been unable to eat since yesterday, and now she can't even speak. I beg of you to show mercy and save my mother's life!"
