Chapter 24: Unexpected gain.

Qin Qianyu watched as Father Lu took his leave. When the door closed she felt the atmosphere inside the room change.

Qin Qianyu could sense and see the undisguised hatred and anxiety in Lu Mingxi's eyes.

"Do you hate me?"

Qin Qianyu turned to Lu Mingxi and asked nonchalantly. Lu Mingxi glared at the masked woman and said nothing but nodded resolutely in response.

"Why? We don't know each other, have we met before?"

"Not you personally, I've met your kind before though, if that counts for anything."

"My kind? And what is my kind?"

"Showman! People who'll sing and dance for coin but never deliver, just like you."

"Oh really? Then don't blink, since it's a show you're looking for."

Qin Qianyu kept her eyes on Lu Mingxi and she still glared daggers at her unblinkingly.

Qin Qianyu smirked then used shadowless steps and moved to Lu Mingyu's side in an instant.

Lu Mingxi fell to the floor in shock. Her eyes went wide and her body trembled.

She couldn't comprehend what just happened before her very eyes. She absolutely couldn't believe what she just saw.

"Ghost! . . You're a ghost! . . . No! I get it now?"

Lu Mingxi exclaimed excitedly. Qin Qianyu saw the look on Lu Mingxi's face, she had seen it before on Han Xiaoting. Lu Mingxi's flushed red face became a picture of shock and awe.

Lu Mingxi quickly adjusted herself emotionally and slammed herself down on her knees,

"Huh!?"

Qin Qianyu became shocked as she watch the girl kowtow after which she started to speak calmly and firmly,

"I know why you're called the Phantom Fox! Haha you're the real deal! The way you moved just now! I thought you were a ghost but now I know why you're called the Phantom Fox Doctor. Mighty phantom please save my sister, I'll even kowtow 10,000 steps in apology and forgiveness down the city's Main Street. Please I beg of you! Don't let her suffer the same as our mother, I beg you."

Qin Qianyu looked at the girl on the floor,

"Well who knew? Although she's not a good hearted person towards others, to her family she would actually go this far."

Qin Qianyu then thought back to the time Murong Meimei made that "you know you're poor" post and how Lu Mingxi stepped out and even named herself and provided evidence of Meimei targeting her with malicious intentions.

"She speaks and acts before thinking things through, only dealing with the core problems later, so it turns out she's one of those types of people."

This change in Lu Mingxi made Qin Qianyu think about and pick out keywords from Lu Mingxi. Words like "Your Kind", "Performer", "our mother" and "charlatan".

Soon a picture started to form in Qin Qianyu's mind.

"Seems like her mother was seen by another TCM doctor and things didn't go according to expectations. Well I can't comment seeing that I don't know the full details."

Qin Qianyu thought to herself. She looked at the teen on the floor in a blubbering mess.

She sighed then flashed next to the teen and picked her off the floor and sat her in a chair.

Qin Qianyu then pushed a few points on the girls body. This scared her at first but then it calmed Lu Mingxi down plenty.

"Take this and behave, I still have work to do."

Lu Mingxi nodded and did as she was told. Her impression and faith in Qin Qianyu grew even more positive after taking the same pill as her father had done earlier.

"This is magical! . . Tha . . Thank you Big Sister Phantom Fox. I truly am sorry for everything, it's . . It's just I've met so many liars lately and it's driving me insane."

Qin Qianyu pursed her lips and responded in kind,

"Not thinking things through properly shouldn't be used as an excuse. What if the person who did this said something like that regarding your sister? Would you accept it? Could you accept that they did this to her because of coming into contact and unfortunately meeting a group of certain people?"

I . . Uh . . I understand. Still I'm sorry,"

Qin Qianyu shook her head and got ready to treat Lu Mingyu. After diagnosing Lu Mingyu she noted another problem.

To fix this, there was a certain technique inside the Phoenix Cries, Dragons Roar manual that would be perfect to use and she had since been looking for an opportunity to implement it.

Qin Qianyu removed Lu Mingyu's pyjama top and rolled her on to her stomach. She felt the girls back muscle and found them too stiff and knotted.

She started off with a massage and started manipulating her muscles. They soon went from firm and stiff to limp and soft.

She then took out her pouch and pulled out several needles. She started on the lower region targeting the kidneys.

Qin Qianyu added three needles to each kidney and started manipulating the tips turning each one slowly in turn.

Qin Qianyu could see Lu Mingxi stirring in the corner of her eye, this fidgeting of wanting to ask her a question, but didn't, in order to allow Qin Qianyu to fully concentrate on treating her sister amused her some.

Qin Qianyu turned her head towards Lu Mingxi,

"Do you know what the main job of a kidney is?"

Qin Qianyu asked. Lu Mingxi was slightly startled. She hurriedly nodded and added,

"It's the body's filtering system."

"Mhm, at the moment, the poison has stopped the kidney from functioning to its full potential which also caused the muscle stiffness and knots in her back."

"Even the muscles? So that massage wasn't just to make the needles penetrate without obstruction?"

"Mhm, date drugs and aphrodisiacs carry a stimulus that affects nerves which are the "highways" that the brain uses to inform everything on what to do, even muscles."

The needles themselves weren't hitting the organ itself, but, rather certain nerves that link up to the kidney.

What she was doing was stopping the nerves sending a specific set of instructions to the kidney, basically stopping them from receiving false orders due to the poison.

40 minutes of manipulation later Qin Qianyu pulled out the needles and smiled brightly when she saw that Lu Mingyu's complexion had improved dramatically.

Lu Mingxi saw this change also and became a blubbering mess again.

"Alright settle down, this is just the beginning, there's one more treatment to do. Help me dress you sister first."

"But didn't just say you have to do one more treatment?"

"Yes, but who said it's for your sister?"

"Huh!?"

Qin Qianyu and Lu Mingxi dressed Lu Mingyu and laid her back down. She looked more healthy and on the mend.

Lu Mingxi looked to Qin Qianyu puzzled and asked sheepishly,

"Big Sister Phantom Fox, is there something wrong with me?"

"Mhm, Tell me, during your monthly cycle do you find that it's mostly irregular and extremely heavy and that the contractions no matter how small are extremely painful and that no matter how hot the weather, blanket, air conditioner or other, is, you still feel cold to the point to freezing?"

When Lu Mingxi heard this the teen blushed from having her most intimate part discussed like this even if it were with another woman.

Yet, Lu Mingxi still nodded in response to the questioning.

"You and your sister suffer from the same type of affliction, and if I'm right then your mother most probably suffered the same thing as the two of you."

" . . . "

"I've treated your sister already while dealing with the poison, all that's left is you now."

The treatment for Lu Mingxi was quick and painless. She suspected that this was also the main culprit responsible for all of Lu Mingxi's constant mood swings and also her abhorrent behaviour.

"Alright I'm done now, go call your father in oh and one more thing, do think things through before making accusations in the future. The last thing you want to do is wrong an innocent person. It's fine to be concerned and worry for loved ones, but if you attack the wrong person how are you any better? Change this way of thinking of yours before it's too late."

Qin Qianyu left those parting words to Lu Mingxi.

She actually felt shocked and fully ashamed because it was like the Fox knew all about her past misdeeds.

Lu Mingxi nodded solemnly and went out to fetch her anxious father.

"Your daughter will wake up in about an hours time, she'll mostly be hungry but don't feed her anything heavy like meats. Porridge and soups will do for at least three days. After that she can eat normally. You'll have to question her also on how she could have ingested the drugs that way when you make the report you'll have something to go by."

"Thank you, thank you so much, you have no idea how thankful I am."

"You're only getting what you're paying for. As long as you pay what you feel the treatment is worth then we're fine."

"I also have a friend that's not as spritely as he was before could you possibly see him?"

"As long as he's fine with the conditions I've set then, then I don't see why not. I have a free spot the day after tomorrow, so do the blood tests and have him come met me here and I'll look at the test report also."

"No problem, actually, I heard you also healed the commander of the Azure Dragon Team and this brother of mine that you'll meet with has a small connection to them and to me learning about you which was why I didn't doubt you."

Hearing this, a surprised Qin Qianyu found herself subconsciously thinking about the handsome wolf.

A picture of his sharp chin and defined jaw line along with his slim lips and nose, his dazzling eyes that matched his eyebrows well, all of that framed perfectly with his short hair, and olive skin flashed in her mind.

These were all the details she remembered from the "compensation" Xiaoling sent her.

She didn't know a stupid smile had formed on her lips before a certain phrase slapped her back to reality,

"Let's both stay single for life! But it's okay to look now and then right Master!?"

She pushed the image of the handsome wolf to another space in her mind to recover and "look at" at a later time.

She bade her farewell to the Lu household and the driver took Qin Qianyu back to where he had picked her up from.

"Excuse me,"

"Mhm?"

"Thank you very much for helping Lady Lu,"

The driver bowed politely to Qin Qianyu. She waved him off,

"No need, it's what I was paid to do, if I couldn't even do that how could I even make any more money? People would stop coming for me and I may have to take your job!"

"Still, thank you very much. Please take care. I'll take my leave now."

"Mhm,"

The driver looked up and just as his eyes landed on Qin Qianyu, she vanished from in front of him like a real phantom.

"G . . Gh . . Ghost!"

The driver fell to the ground and stammered uncontrollably. He constantly flung his head left, right, front and back as he stumbled to the drivers side of the car.

He sat in the car and immediately locked the doors before starting the engine and racing back towards the Lu mansion wordlessly.

Qin Qianyu watched this from her spot and giggled as she flashed away back to her home.

After getting back to her room, she packed her things away and washed up with a damp towel before heading to bed.

As she lay there she pulled out her phone and looked at her Phantom Fox account.

She got three other requests for diagnosis and possible treatments. She sent them replies with her availability and her conditions as long as they abide then she's all in otherwise they could see someone else.

Just before she was about to log off and head to sleep she noticed that her account balance made some changes.

"I've actually made 20 million in just a single night!?"

It seemed that Lu Li made three payments. One of 10 million and two 5 million payments.

"So one is for the pills, the other two must be for treatment. Wait! Did he pay for both of his daughters?"

She thought about it and nodded to herself.

"Well I'll find out in two days."

Now that she had made an unexpected gain from helping out the two Lu daughters then she wasn't going to complain.

She only said for them to pay what they had thought of her treatment. At most she was thinking a hundred thousand yuan at most as her main money maker would be the 5 form pills she revised and recreated.

Before heading to bed she made an order for herbs and other ingredients to be used in the making of the 5 form pills to replace the ones she'll give to Lu Li and sell to any others that he tells.

She actually had 20 odd bottles on hand, they were the surplus of her own stock that she had put aside for selling.

After that was done she went to sleep ending her long day on a high.