Aaron naturally took the Lin family's affairs very seriously.
After careful consideration, he prescribed medicine and gave them instructions.
The Lin family paid the consultation fee with profuse thanks. Aaron gave them neither a discount nor a free visit, treating them like ordinary patients. At most, because they were neighbors, he gave them an extra smile—that was all.
Before several months had passed, good news came from the Lin family: the daughter-in-law was pregnant. They even specially brought over a basket of red eggs.
Aaron accepted them after a few polite words, privately thinking that either Old Master Lin had not returned for the past few years, or that he simply had his own specialty. When it came to having children, he truly had no good solution.
Otherwise, it would never have fallen to Aaron to intervene.
Ten months later, Lin Jing's wife suffered a postpartum hemorrhage. Once again, Aaron braved the wind and rain to make a house call through the night, dragging her back from death's door.
From then on, the Lin family was endlessly grateful to Aaron, moved to tears. Every day before dawn, they had Lin Jing personally deliver breakfast to the apothecary—and they never accepted payment!
This day.
The Lin family was holding a hundred-day banquet for the baby and had specially invited Aaron.
But Aaron had a guilty conscience. To prevent Lin Tuizhi from returning to visit his great-grandchild and the two of them coming face-to-face, he politely declined, claiming he had urgent business and was temporarily leaving Mu'en City.
He did indeed have urgent business.
'The Azure Cloud Chamber of Commerce has run into trouble...'
'Well, that makes sense... I can't lock in my subordinates' loyalty, and over these past ten years I've been holed up in Mu'en City, with no time