Chapter 23: The night a strange Doctor came.

With her plans laid out she donned the mask and the cloak she was given by grandpa Wú and snuck out of her home under the cover of night using Shadowless steps.

It didn't take her long to reach the meeting place designated via the contact.

Suddenly a luxury car pulled up. The driver exited and with a polite bow, beckoned Qin Qianyu and had her take a seat in the back.

The ride towards the destination was quiet, the driver however kept taking glances at the fox mask wearing woman in his backseat through the rear view mirror.

Qin Qianyu noticed this and flashed the driver a quizzical smile before she asked,

"Something wrong?"

She asked nonchalantly. The driver looked as if he were about to ask something of her but he held back.

He had been strictly told to be accomodating and to treat the person he had been sent to pick up with the utmost respect.

Qin Qianyu just shrugged her shoulders and waited till she got to where they were going.

34 minutes after being picked up, Qin Qianyu saw her surroundings had changed to a more suburban part of the city.

It was a place that had ground level storied mansions and large courtyard homes, there were no apartments to be seen anywhere around here.

This area boast the most expensive residential part of the city.

Many influential people lived here, the Mayor, members of upper society, the upper echelons from long standing families.

They all mostly lived here.

Soon the car pulls into the driveway of a large property. When Qin Qianyu saw the home, she noted how it was on par with the courtyard behind Wú Dang studio.

The driver led Qin Qianyu through the home to where the patient was.

The pair entered the a large room, inside were several people, she noticed right away that they were mostly staff for the home owners.

Qin Qianyu cast a glance and frowned when she noticed two people sitting in worry.

She had met these people before at the police station. They were the father, daughter pair.

Mr Lu Li and Lu Mingxi.

"Father! Big sister needs to go to a proper hospital, even if Uncle Jing says his hospital can't do anything for her, Jing hospital isn't the only one in the country. Why don't we . . "

Lu Mingxi didn't get to finish her sentence she interrupted herself when Qin Qianyu entered the room.

"Father? You got my sister a performer to help her!? You can't be serious? You seriously want to pay this charlatan to make my sister laugh her pain and affliction away!? Father! Let's just go to normal hospital!"

" . . . "

Qin Qianyu said nothing she couldn't help but think about how this girl had pushed her into the path of a moving vehicle a little over a month ago now.

Her thoughts only came back to the present after she heard Father Lu speak.

"Lady Phantom Fox, please forgive the child, she is still young and is only worried for her sister's wellbeing."

"Xi'er, what are you waiting for!? Quickly apologise to the Doctor!"

"Father! Why should I!? I'm only speaking the truth!?"

He had told her earlier that an important guest was arriving and for her to behave properly.

Now his youngest is being too wilful and acting out too much.

Father Lu was beside himself, he had heard from a reliable source that the Fox cured the Commander of Azure Dragon Team, after paying a large sum he was then able to contact her for the sake of his daughter.

Qin Qianyu interrupted the arguing pair,

"No need, plus, I wouldn't accept anything so disingenuous. But, since she likes the truth so much, then let her see it with her own eyes."

"Hmph! Fine we'll all see,"

Qin Qianyu didn't want to spend any energy on this prissy, self deluded angst teen. She was only here to do a job and get paid.

She could only hope that any further clients wouldn't be so troublesome.

With that said Qin Qianyu along with Father Lu and Lu Mingxi entered the room of the patient.

Just by looking at the state of the woman, Qin Qianyu could tell that she was poisoned, but with what kind of poison, she'd have to inspect deeper.

10 minutes later Qin Qianyu had finished her diagnosis of Lu Mingyu. A frown formed on her face it looked like there were a mixture of problems going on within the woman's body.

"Do you have test records from the hospital?"

"Yes, right here, Doctor what's wrong with my daughter?"

"Have you taken her to see any other doctors or hospitals?

"No I haven't. I took her Jing Hospital but they said nothing was wrong with her so I brought her home. Then she ended up in this state."

Lu Li said, anxiety filled his voice. Then he frowned and was about to ask something but was beaten to it by his youngest daughter,

"Do you suspect Jing hospital!? I don't believe it! Only charlatans like you would use tricks!"

Qin Qianyu only smirked before responding,

"If you can have a connection to any of the staff at Jing hospital, why can't any of the people who poisoned your sister!?"

Qin Qianyu rolled her eyes and retorted back to Lu Mingxi while pointing at Lu Mingyu before continuing,

"I'm no investigator, nor am I a police officer or any type of law enforcer, but, what I do know is medicine. Wether the medicine is modern or ancient, science never lies, but, people do."

"So you could be lying too?"

"That's stupid of you to think so, and would be stupid of me to do since I haven't been paid yet."

Qin Qianyu added and said no more as she looked over the files the family had on them.

She took a pen and circled a few suspicious readings.

"Take this to another doctor in a different city, preferably one that has no affiliation with Jing hospital and ask about it, oh, if possible have a talk with her boyfriend or past partners."

"She doesn't have anyone though, she did have a boyfriend before but . . "

Father Lu paused mid speech and could be seen clenching his fist in anger.

"Alright then this makes it more suspicious then as these numbers indicate a large raise in ovarian levels that don't coincide with her monthly cycle."

"Meaning?"

"If she's not sexually active, then it's probably ghb or a similar date drug that has stimulated these numbers."

"You would usually see numbers like this from couples using medication to conceive a child. So thinking about nefarious actions they could have tried to tie Miss Lu down with a child to control and manipulate her. But, the drug used seemed to carry some drawbacks and hidden side effects."

"If the drugs have come from a bad batch then poisoning could take place."

Father Lu was beside himself listening to Qin Qianyu.

While Qin Qianyu took a couple of vials of blood from Lu Mingyu, another thought came to Qin Qianyu at that point,

"Hmm, what if whoever cooked this batch is someone from the hospital and has been using her as a test subject? In order for this person not to get caught then they could easily make changes to her test results."

She pushed that thought to the side for the time being, looked to Father Lu and added,

"You must also consider the fact that this may not even be related to Miss Lu herself, but the Lu family as a whole or more likely . . You. They could be using Miss Lu as a tool for a certain reason to get to you or something they want."

"Anyway take these samples and ask for a comprehensive examination and particularly ask for them to check the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin, and to also do Gram staining. After doing so and getting the results ask them to compare the two reports."

"If there's someone helping the poisoner by manipulating the data and test results at Jing hospital you'll know then."

At that point, Qin Qianyu then wrote out the two things to also target while testing the bloods and also wrote out a prescription for Lu Mingyu.

"Have Miss Lu take this as prescribed, it will help flush her system of all residual drugs and poison still in her body."

"Thank you Lady Fox, you have my most sincere gratitude."

"Mhm, there's no need, I'm getting paid to do this. Oh right, don't tell anyone you have those samples in hand, the less others know about it the better off for you, especially if there's an insider helping your daughter's attacker."

"Anything else I should do?"

"Yes, several, firstly, take those vials of blood and have the tests done as soon as possible, once the results are in, if it's as I suspect then you'll have plenty of time to proceed with legal action and you may catch the culprit before they discard any or, all evidence that could be used against them."

"Secondly take this pill."

Qin Qianyu gave over a single pill and had Father Lu take it there and then.

She did it for two reasons, one, because as a single father trying his best to raise his two daughters. What had happened to Lu Mingyu had clearly taken its toll on him.

This reminded her of her own father so she subconsciously formed a soft spot for the man.

The other reason was that he'll act as a walking billboard promoting her skills and medicine.

"This is . . "

"Just take it, it's safe and good for you. I promise that you'll see the effects instantly."

He did as Qin Qianyu say and shortly after taking the medicine he felt all his fatigue and tiredness melt away.

"I feel invigorated! This is amazing. Lady Fox! Do you have more?"

"I don't have any for sale right now, and what I gave you was from my personal stock which is running low. But I can take preorders if you're interested."

Lu Mingxi watched aghast and thought as her father took the pill without question.

"Why does she sound like a market Aunty enticing a patron to buy corn and taro when they only want melon?"

Father Lu interrupted his daughters thoughts as he stated firmly,

"Yes, I'm very interested."

"The medicine is very expensive hence the preorders."

Qin Qianyu spoke and marked the pills at an astonishing 1 million per pill, 5 pills per bottle and with a maximum of 2 bottles to purchase for preorders.

Qin Qianyu stated that each person can only buy a limited amount per year and will only be given to a select few.

She called them the 5 form pill, it was a revised version of the 7 form pill recipe she used to make her restarts pill.

She managed to isolate the elements in the pill that gave men the viagra effect after taking three or more pills.

She could make more but she's all by herself, and her plate is packed full.

"I have to study for SIC Competition and then there's my regular school work, as well as my training with grandpa Wú. There's also my self directed learning of apothecary and needle work that I still need to put into practice."

She looked around the luxurious room and sighed internally,

"It takes money to make money. Maybe I'm going about this all wrong? Should I go out and seek business advice? No! I can't do that, it probably takes even more money. Ah, damn it all! Well I wanted to keep myself busy, I guess this is what I get."

Qin Qianyu looked back at Father Lu and continued,

"There's a wait list so. I'll let you know when You're order is ready. It shouldn't be longer than a week at most, well depending on my schedule that is."

"That's fine, for Yu'ers sake, as long as I have them for her that's all that I care about."

"Well if it's for her then sorry no can do, it's not good to mix medicines. Her prescription is tailored to treat her current ailment, if you give these pills to her also, then it's the same as putting diesel into an petroleum based car thinking it'll go faster. It'll do nothing but damage the insides."

" . . . "

Father Lu nodded and asked if there was anything else he needed to do.

"Yes! lastly, you can leave now, I'll be doing needle work on your daughter it wouldn't be polite to see her in any state of undress at her age. Your youngest daughter can stay though."

Father Lu nodded to Qin Qianyu and shortly after receiving reassurance from his youngest daughter he left the room.