Chapter 772 - 463: A Dangerous Place Becomes a Treasure Land

Chapter 772: Chapter 463: A Dangerous Place Becomes a Treasure Land

"Ms. Zhang, if you’re in some kind of trouble, please tell me. If there’s anything I can do to help, I will..." Qin Muqing said.

Hearing this, Ms. Zhang, the lunch box vendor, stopped hesitating and told Qin Muqing about the predicament she was in.

"Miss Qin, my husband... after drinking last night, he got into an argument with someone. They started fighting, and he accidentally injured the other person severely."

"What?" Qin Muqing gasped. "Your husband severely injured someone? Is... is the other person still alive?"

"He’s alive, but he’s barely breathing. If he doesn’t get treatment immediately, he definitely won’t make it through the night," Ms. Zhang said, describing the victim’s condition.

"If he’s that badly hurt, why haven’t you gotten a physician to treat him right away? If that man dies, it’ll be all over for your husband," Qin Muqing said anxiously.

"..." A bitter expression appeared on Ms. Zhang’s face. "I want a physician to treat him right away, too.

But ordinary treatment methods won’t work on his injuries anymore. He needs a physician who has awakened a Healing Superpower to save him.

And hiring a physician with a Healing Superpower isn’t cheap.

You know my family’s situation. We don’t have much in savings. Even if I pull out everything we have, I’m still quite a bit short on the treatment fee.

So, I... I came here to ask you for a favor, Miss Qin. To borrow some money from you so I can cover the cost..."

After listening to Ms. Zhang, Qin Muqing breathed a small sigh of relief. ’In her view, any problem that money could solve wasn’t a real problem.’

"How much more do you need for the fee?" Qin Muqing asked.

"I’m still short sixty Silver Coins," Ms. Zhang said.

"That much?" The words slipped out of Qin Muqing’s mouth reflexively when she heard the amount was sixty Silver Coins.

’If she hadn’t run away from home, if she were still a young lady of a great house, sixty Silver Coins would have been a drop in the bucket. That amount of money couldn’t even buy the cheapest piece of jewelry in her collection.’

’But times had changed. She wasn’t some young lady anymore; she was a maid hired to look after someone else’s house.’

’Her employer was a good man and paid her a monthly wage of five thousand Copper Coins, which was only five Silver Coins.’

’Lending out sixty Silver Coins was like lending out her entire year’s salary.’

"Miss Qin, I know it’s a lot of money, but I have no one else to turn to. I could only come to you.

Please, I’m begging you, lend me the money! I’ll find a way to pay you back as soon as I can..."

Ms. Zhang mistakenly thought that after hearing she needed to borrow such a large sum, Qin Muqing was having second thoughts and wouldn’t lend her the money. In a panic, she began to beg as she knelt before Qin Muqing.

Although Qin Muqing was no longer a young lady and had little money to her name, she was still very kind-hearted. Her reflexive outburst had just been out of surprise; she had already decided she would lend Ms. Zhang the money.

Seeing Ms. Zhang kneeling and begging her incessantly, she quickly stepped forward and pulled her up.

"Hey, Ms. Zhang, what are you doing? I never said I wouldn’t lend you the money..." After pulling Ms. Zhang up from the ground, Qin Muqing reassured her, "Wait here for a moment. I’ll go get the money for you."

With that, she hurried toward the villa. A moment later, she was in her bedroom on the second floor.

When Lin Li hired Qin Muqing to look after the house, he had left her a sum of money for daily living expenses. Qin Muqing kept this money hidden in the wardrobe in her bedroom.

CLICK.

Qin Muqing opened the wardrobe and took out a money pouch from its deepest corner. She emptied all the cash from the pouch and counted it.

’Sixty Silver Coins and two hundred thirty-three Copper Coins.’

After counting all her cash, Qin Muqing took the sixty Silver Coins and left the bedroom.

At the main gate of the villa, Ms. Zhang waited with an anxious expression.

When she saw the plain-looking yet gracefully-figured Qin Muqing walk out of the villa, her gaze immediately fell on the stack of cash in her hand. Her anxious heart instantly felt a great deal of relief.

"Here... This is sixty Silver Coins. You should count it." Qin Muqing walked up to Ms. Zhang and handed her the stack of cash.

"Thank you, thank you, Miss Qin." Ms. Zhang quickly counted the cash. It was exactly sixty Silver Coins. She stuffed the money into her pocket and thanked Qin Muqing gratefully.

"Don’t thank me. Hurry up and go to the clinic to pay the treatment fee.

If you waste any more time and the injured man dies because his wounds went untreated, it’ll be all over for your husband," Qin Muqing reminded her.

"Yes, you’re right. I’ll go pay the fee at the clinic right now," Ms. Zhang said. Then she turned, opened the large iron gate, and ran off.

’Sigh... I’d heard Ms. Zhang say her husband often caused trouble when he drank. I just figured it was nothing serious. I never imagined he’d do something as awful as beating someone to the brink of death.’

’Those decadent young masters in the Capital City would sometimes ride their horses recklessly after drinking and end up seriously injuring common folk.’