Chapter 2: Golden Finger

  Transtor: Krukist

  Despair!

  My heart aches...

  For a moment, I really couldn't figure out what this sudden puter that appeared in my sea of sciousness could do. The key was that it was stu a frozen s. If it were a normal puter, I could perhaps use it as a calcutor and bee a math whiz iianyang ti.

  The spiritual energy in the Heavenly Sun ti is far dehan that of my previous Earth vilge. People here live longer and have higher IQs. But even with high intellige wouldn't surpass the capabilities of a puter from my past life. In every field, there are exceptional talents, and if I could be the best in mathematics across the ti, I shouldn't have to worry about a fortable life iure.

  Or, even if I didn't bee a math genius, as long as it could be used normally, I could py games to pass the time when I was bored, which would still be putting it to good use.

  But the problem was that this puter was frozen, and my attempts to cli it didn’t yield any response.

  Normally, I could just unplug it, but where would I find a power sour my sea of sciousness...

  Life is unfair!

  It must be because I didn't help an old dy cross the street in my previous life, which led to insuffit cultivation. I even peeked at the neighbor's... bathing, leaving a mark on my destiny.

  That's why...

  "Help!"

  Just as Lin Yu , a woman suddenly ran past him like the wind, cradling a swaddled bundle in her arms, entering the hall.

  Lin Yu felt a fragrant st wafting up to his nose, and he regained his posure.

  Li Chaohua was still there. She had just seen Lin Yu dazed and thought he was weighing his options, not knowing that he never inteo sell Ganoderma Hall.

  The pride of a time traveler!

  “Pharmacist, please save me! My child is dying, please help it!”

  The woman in the hall was around twenty, wearing a colorful silk dress, looking panicked as she hurriedly searched around. She was out of breath, having rushed in, and a thin yer of sweat glistened on her forehead.

  Lin Yu raised an eyebrow; this young woman was quite oblivious. How could she not see a living person standing right at the entrance? Did people in the Heavenly Sun ti also have the same notion as ih Vilge where a doctor's age aramount? Was it a must for physis, especially traditional ese medie practitioners, to be elderly, otherwise, they’d be ignored?

  “Miss, I ’t help,” Lin Yu walked into the hall and said sincerely.

  “Wh-why?” The woman’s face immediately darkened in despair. This was already the sixth shop she had visited, and all had turned her away.

  It wasn’t that she didn’t have money; wearing colorful silk in Heavenly Cloud City was a symbol of wealth.

  And it wasn’t because the swaddled bundle tained a difficult-to-treat human, but rather...

  “I’m an inpetent doctor.” Lin Yu maintained a siitude, without an ounce of shame.

  “Ah?”

  The woman was momentarily stunned, doubting whether she had misheard. She had seen many pharmacists, but it was the first time meeting one who actively admitted to being inpetent and seemed perfectly unashamed about it. What a thick-skinned person!

  Plop...

  The moment, the woma on the ground, looking up with tears in her eyes, “Sir, please save my child! It really 't go on like this. If it dies, I ’t...”

  As she spoke, she opehe swaddled bundle, and Lin Yu was somewhat dazed, his expression frozen.

  Ihe swaddled b was not a human but... a cat!

  This cat was pletely snow-white, plump and round, looking auspicious and prosperous. But at the moment, its eyes were closed, appearing listless and obviously unwell.

  From his experience ba Earth, this cat resembled one of Persian lineage.

  Lin Yu gnced once more at the woman on the ground, secretly scolding. Whether in his previous life oh or the current Heavenly Sun ti, wealthy young women all shared a on folly—treating their pets like children.

  He wouldn’t dare treat a human; the medical is in this world were frightening, and medical disputes were even scarier.

  But treating a cat? That should be pusible, right? Even if he couldn’t cure it, he wouldn’t make it worse, would he?

  After all, he was a fairly trained pharmacist.

  “Put it on the examination table beside us.” Lin Yu collected himself and instructed.

  “Thank you, thank you, pharmacist!” The young woman quickly stood up, a look of gratitude on her face as she carried the cat to the examination table.

  The examination table was simple, just a wooden board, but it had worn smooth over the years, polished by many people who sought medical help.

  Standing at the door, Li Chaohua, upon seeing Lin Yu actually treating a cat, immediately yelled as if her tail had been stepped on, “No! You 't treat that cat!”

  The Lin family had a long-standing rule that female members, whether daughters or daughters-in-w, were strictly forbidden from entering the front hall of Ganoderma Hall. In other words, it atriarchal traditioablished by the aors, who believed that women would bring misfortuo the shop.

  Li Chaohua had never set foot in the front hall before, but now she dashed in recklessly without a care.

  Lin Yu, having crossed over from Earth, had long discarded patriarchal views, but seeing Li Chaohua’s excited expression, he had just reached out to examihe cat when he paused, frowning at her, “Ganoderma Hall is still part of our family for now; whether I treat it or not is none of your !”

  “You’re being foolish!” Li Chaohua cried, filled with anguish and indignation. Since she po take anoderma Hall, she couldn’t bear to watch it be ruined by Lin Yu.

  She didn’t bother to expin further, turning to the young woman in the colorful silk dress, speaking in a colder tone, “Miss, judging by your attire, you must be from the Soutwestern Marquis’s residehe beloved pet of Miss Nan, a precious blue bamboo cat worth a fortune, is probably this very one. Miss Nan has been away hunting with the royal family retly, and you were responsible for g for this cat. Due to ylige appears to have e down with some illness. If it dies, you’ll certainly be punished by Miss Nan wheurns. I’m afraid yoing to face grave sequences here in Heavenly Cloud City.”

  Lin Yu had a poor impression of Li Chaohua and thus did not believe anything she said and looked down on her from the bottom of his heart. However, as soon as she finished speaking, the young woman in the colorful dress turned pale, her eyes dropping, no longer daring to meet Lin Yu’s gaze. Her hands tightly clutched her dress, clearly realizing the truth in Li Chaohua’s words.

  Li Chaohua wasn’t trying to help Lin Yu; she was worried he would end up killing Miss Nan’s pet, which could implicate Ganoderma Hall. If that happened, Ganoderma Hall might be shut down by the Soutwestern Marquis’s estate, which would jeopardize her acquisition pns.

  “Please, please…” The woman’s voice dropped, knowing the truth was id bare. She remained hesitant and still looking down, pleading, “If the treasure dies, I will definitely be punished by my mistress. I truly have been g for it; I don’t know why it suddenly got sick this m. Wuwu…”

  As she spoke, her voice choked, tears casg down her cheeks.

  “Begging won’t help!” Before Lin Yu could speak up, Li Chaohua coldly interjected, “We at Ganoderma Hall won’t take this risk. I advise you, no pharma Heavenly Cloud City would gamble their future over a mere cat. You should seek your own fortune.”

  “You should leave now.” Lin Yu finally spoke up at this moment.

  Li Chaohua had spoken nothing but truth. Having heard that, the young woman alshat further pleading would be futile, so she prepared to pick up the examination table's blue bamboo cat to leave, feeling despo and aggrieved, trembling in fear at the thought of seeing it dead when her mistress returned.

  “I didn’t mean for you to leave.”

  Lin Yu then spoke again, his gaze steady as he looked at Li Chaohua, “What I meant was…”

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