I was sold when I opened my eyes! My sick and disabled husband comforts me every night after he wake

Cui's temper flared instantly. She put one hand on her hip, pointed at Lan Zhi with the other, and began to shout.

"I'm being punished by heaven? Ling Lanzhi, put your hands on your conscience. Without me, you would have been eaten by wolves long ago. How could you still be alive now? And now you're cursing me? You're a heartless wretch."

As she spoke, she saw someone walking by nearby, so she quickly waved her arms and raised her voice to shout.

“Everyone, come and see. Ling Lanzhi is a goddess doctor now. She’s rich, but she’s actually ungrateful. My daughter and I came to see her out of kindness, but she wouldn’t even let us in the door. You all come and judge this.”

Cui was quite adept at being unreasonable and argumentative.

As more and more people gathered to watch the spectacle, Ling Lanhua pretended to be kind and urged them on:

"Big sister, you should quickly agree to Mother's request and give her the money. Anyway, you earn a lot every day, so a few hundred taels won't make a difference."

These seemingly well-intentioned words only made Lan Zhi angrier.

She immediately snorted coldly.

“How much silver I earn is my business. Ever since I was sold to the Mo family, I have had no connection with the Ling family. Why should I give you silver? I have lived in your Ling family for seventeen years. In those seventeen years, have I ever had a full meal? Have I ever slept well? My life in your family was worse than that of the pigs in your pigsty. How dare you ask me for silver? Why should I give it to you?”

Cui, pounding her chest in protest, shouted at her loudly and self-righteously.

"Just because I've raised you for seventeen years for free, and you've eaten my family's food for seventeen years, you have to give me money."

As she spoke, she saw more and more people gathering around her, and suddenly she sat down on the ground with a thud, then slapped her thighs and began to wail loudly.

"Oh, you heartless bastard! Now that you're living a good life, you don't care about us anymore. You're such an ingrate, such a heartless ingrate!"

Is she doing well?

What's so good about her?

She just runs a clinic, selling medicine to patients. Some patients don't have money, so she only charges a token amount for the medicine. How did she suddenly become a rich person in Cui's eyes?

These onlookers, eager for a good show, surrounded Cui and began pointing and whispering about Lan Zhi.

"This girl's character is really terrible; she's so indifferent even to those who raised her."

"That's right, I told you long ago that this girl's medical skills are all a lie. She can only fool those out-of-towners!"

"No matter what, she can't just abandon her adoptive mother. Look at them, they're dressed like beggars. How can she be so heartless?"

"..."

The whispers of the crowd reached Lan Zhi's ears, leaving her feeling both amused and exasperated.

Strangely enough, in the month or so since her clinic opened, she hasn't seen a single patient from her village.

Lan Zhi knew that these people didn't trust her at all. When they were sick, they would rather go to the city to find a doctor than come to her for treatment.

They even coordinated their statements, claiming that Lan Zhi's medical skills were only for deceiving outsiders, and that locals like themselves wouldn't fall for her tricks.

They felt that they knew Lan Zhi's background; she would never treat anyone, and any talk of divine healing was just a lie.

Lan Zhi didn't care about this. Whether she lived in her past life or this life, she understood one principle.

The people around you are the ones who least want you to do well, because they can't stand seeing you doing better than them, which is why they wantonly slander you.

She had been living in this village for almost three months and still couldn't figure out what she had done wrong. Apart from Xiangxiu and Nie Yuan, no one seemed to care about her well-being.

Since that's the case, she doesn't need to save face for these people today.

Thinking of this, she put her hands on her hips, looked at the crowd waiting to watch the spectacle, and loudly reminded them,

"Everyone, if any of you feel sorry for the Cui mother and daughter, you can take them home and raise them. Don't act like saints in front of me. Also, you have no right to judge my medical skills. My title of Goddess Doctor didn't come for nothing. My money is earned, not blown away. Since I married Mo Ning, I have decided that my surname is Lan and my given name is Zhi. I have no relation to the Ling family. From now on, I am called Lan Zhi. I am Mo Ning's wife. I have nothing to do with the Ling family. I would rather use my money to take care of poor patients than spend a single penny on heartless people."

As she turned away, she suddenly remembered her older brother, Ling Jiawei.

He would be very sad if he knew she said those words!

Ling Lanhua pointed at her and cursed angrily.

"You're so heartless. My older brother treats you the best. Don't you have anything to do with him either?"

With her back to Ling Lanhua, she smiled freely, a slight curve to her lips.

How could her older brother have nothing to do with her? He was once the best person in the world to her; he was her benefactor.

However, she didn't want to explain to these people; it was unnecessary and pointless.

She resolutely went back into the house. When Cui saw this, she got up to open the door, but as soon as her hand touched the door, she suddenly screamed "Ah!"

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

Ling Lanhua was about to step forward to ask when she was stopped.

"hot……"

Upon hearing this word, Ling Lanhua raised her hand and touched the door, only to have her hand instantly spring back.

"Mom, this isn't soup, it's cold, very cold."

Thinking she had misjudged, Cui quickly reached out and touched it again, then withdrew her hand, turning to glare at Ling Lanhua.

"It's so hot, look how red my hands are from the burn."

Ling Lanhua refused to accept this and touched the door again, finally reiterating firmly,

"Your hands are so cold, Mom, what's wrong?"

Everyone was completely baffled by the mother and daughter's words. One of the bolder people tentatively touched the front door of Lan Zhi's house, then looked at his hand in surprise.

"This door is perfectly normal; it's neither hot nor cold."

Upon hearing this, several more people ran over to touch the gate, and it was confirmed that the gate was no different from usual.

Cui didn't believe it and touched it again. As a result, she still felt that the door was hot to the touch, as hot as a furnace.

But when Linglan Hua touched the door, it was ice-cold.

"This door is clearly cold, how come you can't touch it? Are your hands all useless?"

Cui, however, rubbed her hands, which were scalded red, in protest.

"Are you stupid or what? It's June, it's scorching hot, how could this door be cold? It's clearly very hot, touch it again if you don't believe me."

Seeing the strange behavior of the mother and daughter, someone in the crowd suddenly spoke up.

"So these two are crazy. Let's go home quickly. I heard that crazy people beat people when they have an episode."

Upon hearing this, the crowd suddenly scattered, while Cui Shi, still unconvinced, pointed at them and angrily cursed.

"You're the crazy ones, everyone in Kangzhuang Village is crazy, a bunch of lunatics."

As she spoke, she pointed to the large gate.

"Lanhua, open the door. I want to go in and ask her if she's going to give me the money or not."

Ling Lanhua shook her head vigorously in fright.

"Mom, this door is too cold. If my hand touches it, it will freeze into ice. I dare not touch it."

Madam Cui glared at her, annoyed.

"How can it be cold in June? How can you lie so blatantly, child?"

Orchid pouted angrily and tentatively tried to open the gate again. Suddenly, she saw a figure flash by in the yard. Looking over, she saw a woman dressed in white, with big eyes, a long tongue, and baring her teeth and claws, walking towards her while shouting incessantly.

"Give me back my life! I died unjustly! Give me back my life!"