TFWYH – Chapter 24 Teach Him Martial Arts

“Sell what? If Madam wants it, just slice off a pound.”

Having seen her take down such a massive snake, the shopkeeper had plenty of patience with Tang Wan and was even beginning to look forward to more surprises from her.

After the payment was settled, Tang Wan cut off a pound of snake meat.

The three of them left Drunken Immortal Tavern. Tang Wan took out ten taels of silver and handed them to Li Wu. “Thanks for your help!”

“No, no, it was nothing. No need to be so polite!”

“Take it.”

Li Wu didn’t want to take it and pulled his son over. “Just teach him martial arts—that’s good enough. We don’t want the money!”

“I’ll teach him. Take it.” Tang Wan stuffed the silver ingot firmly into his hand.

Once he heard her agree, Li Wu didn’t insist anymore. “Then I’ll be counting on you to take care of my dumb kid.”

Tang Wan: “Mm. Do as Ling Sheng said. Come find me in seven days.”

“Alright!” Li Wu nodded, agreeing without hesitation.

Li Dashan stood there totally confused, still unaware that his father had just sold him out.

Tang Wan didn’t return home with the Li family. After parting ways, she headed to the Jimin Clinic.

When Doctor Li saw her, he quickly put down his work and came to greet her. “Wan-niang, you’re finally here! Yesterday, you said you could cure your husband’s leg. Is it true? You really know how to perform surgery?”

Very few people knew surgical techniques. Even in the Imperial Medical Bureau, only the head physician might know them.

Some military doctors in the army did too, but those were rare!

He had watched Tang Wan grow up and had never heard she knew medicine.

What happened yesterday left him restless all night—he couldn’t sleep from curiosity!

If he hadn’t seen her bring that elderly man back from the brink of death with his own eyes, he never would’ve followed along with her nonsense.

He even asked Tang Wan, “If you know surgery, why don’t you just operate on your husband directly? Why use my name?”

Tang Wan had looked very helpless then and said her husband didn’t trust her.

Well, fair enough!

That reason was pretty convincing—after all, even he wouldn’t have trusted her!

“Mm, I came specifically to talk about that,” Tang Wan nodded.

Hearing that, Doctor Li immediately invited her in.

Tang Wan pulled out a small paper packet and handed it to him. “Calming incense. Light it during the surgery.”

Doctor Li opened the packet and was about to sniff it when Tang Wan stopped him. “It’s strong—you’ll faint!”

Doctor Li’s eye twitched.

That powerful? Are you sure it’s calming incense and not knockout powder?

“Who did you learn medicine from?” Doctor Li still couldn’t relax.

After all, she was going to treat someone under his name. If something went wrong, his reputation would be ruined!

Tang Wan wasn’t good with words, but she wasn’t stupid. Noticing Doctor Li’s hesitation, she put on a completely serious face and lied through her teeth: “A traveling doctor. Just trust me!”

Doctor Li: I really don’t want to trust you.

But he was also dying to see the legendary surgery with his own eyes!

In the end, Doctor Li gritted his teeth and agreed.

Anyway, it was Tang Wan’s husband. If she wasn’t afraid, why should he be?

Let’s do it!

Tang Wan let out a breath of relief. She also picked up some medicine for Ling Yu before leaving the clinic.

Ling Yu’s leg wasn’t hard to treat—it would recover gradually after the surgery.

What she needed to do now was nourish his body.

The Ling family had lived tough lives, and all of them looked malnourished. Ling Yu might look tall and slim, but he barely had any flesh on his bones.

She didn’t want to leave him with any lingering side effects!

After leaving the clinic, Tang Wan wandered the streets for a while, buying some sesame candy for little Ling Chen and fifteen meat buns.

Finally, she walked into a blacksmith shop.

Inside, a muscular man in his forties, with bulging arm muscles, came out to greet her.