Volume 1, Chapter 59: Under the guise of medical treatment, you've come to devour my body

"A strange illness?" Liu Shulan was completely stunned!

"As the saying goes, isolated yin cannot grow, and solitary yang cannot be born, which is why heaven and earth are paired with yin and yang! Our bodies also rely on the harmony of yin and yang.

Widow Liu, the yin fire in your body has been unable to be released for a long time, causing it to gather and settle in your lower abdomen. That is why you are experiencing such unbearable lower abdominal pain, and when it flares up, it hurts so much that you can barely stand up."

Fan Tong spoke with such absolute conviction that Liu Shulan was frightened out of her wits.

Clamping her legs tightly together and desperately enduring the pain in her lower abdomen, she asked weakly,

"Village Doctor Fan, please you must cure my strange illness! I don't want to die this young!"

Upon hearing this, Fan Tong was overjoyed. The fish was about to take the bait. He put on a deep, solemn expression and said,

"This is as simple as it is difficult. The trick is to release the gathered yin fire from your lower abdomen to achieve a balance of yin and yang, and your strange illness will naturally cure itself.

I can take on some hardship and do those things between a man and a woman with you, drawing out the yin fire for you and passing my yang energy into your body. Then your illness will be cured without costing you money or effort.

Afterwards, you don't even need to thank me too much, because a doctor has a parent's heart, and healing the sick is simply my duty.

However, if you are unwilling, even if you don't die from the illness, you will be tortured to death by the pain!"

"Do those things between a man and a woman?" Liu Shulan shot Fan Tong a sideways glare, feeling a mixture of fury and annoyance.

She was not a fool; how could she not tell that this village doctor, Fan Tong, was beating around the bush to say that she was lonely and craving a man, which was why she had contracted this strange illness of excessive yin fire?

On the surface, he put on the hypocritical posture of a righteous gentleman, but underneath, he had the shifty, rat-eyed look of a villain, trying to use the pretext of medical treatment to take advantage of her body!

Liu Shulan was just about to curse Fan Tong for being shameless, but the moment she opened her mouth, the abdominal pain suddenly intensified.

The pain felt as though the sharp tip of a knife was being ruthlessly driven into her bones, causing her unimaginable agony. She immediately curled up on the bed, writhing a few times before folding into the shape of a tiny shrimp.

Seeing Liu Shulan in this state, Fan Tong's heart began to pound with anxiety. He was only a quack with a superficial understanding of medicine; he hadn't diagnosed Liu Shulan's true condition at all and had simply wanted to take advantage of her.

If something went wrong with Liu Shulan right here in front of him, he would definitely have to bear the responsibility.

"Let me use my hands instead; that can temporarily relieve it too." Fan Tong was dead set on having his way with Liu Shulan. He reached his hands out toward her trousers.

Liu Shulan desperately wanted to jump up and slap Fan Tong across the face, but the slightest movement only intensified the pain in her lower abdomen. Overwhelmed by despair, she bit her lower lip with her teeth, tears beginning to well up in her eyes.

The excruciating pain threw her mental state into complete chaos. On one hand, she hoped Fan Tong would stop this beastly behavior right then and there; on the other hand, she wished what he said was true, and that letting him do it to her just once would make the pain stop.

Liu Shulan was an attractive widow, and there were plenty of men inside and outside the village who coveted her body. Ever since her husband died, no matter how hard life had been, she had never let those men succeed. Yet she couldn't fend off the endless gossip that comes with being a widow living alone. Despite guarding her chastity fiercely, rumors about her sharing bed sheets with numerous men were still flying everywhere.

Several times, she had wanted to end it all once and for all!

As if completely blind to her torment, Fan Tong sped up his hand movements, reaching toward her trousers. Her face full of utter humiliation, she could only squeeze her eyes shut in pain.

Crack—

Suddenly, a loud crash rang out, giving both Fan Tong and Liu Shulan a violent start.

Instinctively turning their heads, they caught sight of the bedroom door being kicked wide open, followed by a young man with a build as sturdy as an ox striding into the room.

"Stop right there!" Lin Xiaoxu roared at Fan Tong. If he hadn't happened to walk past just then, Widow Liu would probably have already been violated by Fan Tong.

"Xiaoxu, save me..." Widow Liu finally broke down, bursting into loud sobs. If she could, she would have loved nothing more than to throw herself instantly into Lin Xiaoxu's embrace.

"You damn fool, what on earth do you think you're doing? Don't you know I'm treating your sister-in-law here?"

Upon seeing someone barge into the room, Fan Tong's face had drained of color, wearing the guilty expression of a thief caught in the act. He quickly pulled back his hands and turned around with a pounding heart.

However, when he saw clearly that the newcomer was none other than Lin Xiaoxu, the notoriously simple-minded fool of Taoyuan Village, the tension in his chest vanished. A cold sneer flashed across his face; this village idiot could be dismissed with a couple of words, and there was no fear of him running around spreading rumors.

Widow Liu, did you really think you could get away today?

Lin Xiaoxu strode quickly over to Liu Shulan and took her pulse.

The moment his fingers touched her cun-guan pulse point, her condition was immediately transmitted directly into Lin Xiaoxu's mind.

"Sister-in-law, don't be afraid. You only have a severe urinary tract infection; it's not an incurable disease, nor is it some strange illness," Lin Xiaoxu comforted Liu Shulan.

A urinary tract infection is a urinary pathway infection caused by various bacteria, and this condition is predominantly found in women.

A woman's urethra is straight and short, making it easy for bacteria to ascend to the bladder and cause an infection. Furthermore, the external urethral orifice in women is very close to the vaginal opening and the anus, making it susceptible to contamination by bacteria from feces and vaginal secretions. Consequently, the rate of women suffering from this condition is several times higher than that of men.

Many women are afraid others will mistakenly think they have been promiscuous when they contract this illness, so they are more or less secretive and avoid medical treatment. This is precisely how quacks and malicious individuals manage to exploit them.

Urinary tract infections are almost always accompanied by painful urination. There is a saying circulating in medicine: urinary pain is not a disease, but when it hurts, it really feels like killing you!

That sensation is like boiling water flowing through the urethra, or like chili water leaking out from inside the body. Sometimes you feel the urge to urinate, but nothing comes out.

Yet, unable to resist the intense urgency, you are forced to endure that indescribable pain while slowly squeezing out a few drops.

Yet within minutes, the feeling of the bladder being stretched to the point of explosion returns, forcing you right back to the toilet to endure the pain and squeeze out a few more drops.

And the cycle repeats endlessly!

Meanwhile, Fan Tong had been racking his brain for a way to chase Lin Xiaoxu, the fool, away so he could continue with his wicked plans. But hearing Lin Xiaoxu describe Liu Shulan's condition with such authoritative precision, sounding precisely like a professional doctor,

Fan Tong flew into an immediate rage, straining his neck and shouting at the top of his lungs:

"What kind of mischief are you stirring up here, you good-for-nothing fool who doesn't even know what one plus one equals?

Let me tell you, your sister-in-law has contracted a fatal strange illness, not some urinary tract infection like you just claimed!

If you know what's good for you, get lost and crawl back! Otherwise, when I lose my temper, I won't care about your sister-in-law anymore and let her suffer a painful death right on this wooden bed.

And then I'll make sure to tell all the villagers in Taoyuan Village so they know that you, Lin Xiaoxu, are the one who murdered Liu Shulan!"