Invincible Little School Doctor

Chapter 1440: Chapter 1440: Are You Hu Zhong? (Update 5)

Ye Haochuan settled Su Zehao, Liu Sheng, and others in the inn and gave them proper medical care. After confirming there were no aftereffects, he instructed Guan Ling to take good care of them and left the room himself.

As for Fan Qingyin, she eagerly started studying the ancient books she had recently inherited in the inn.

With some free time, Ye Haochuan remembered his phone was still ”dead,” so he inquired with the Shop Assistant and went to have it repaired.

This broken phone was really a troublesome matter. Otherwise, Guan Ling and the others wouldn’t have suffered so much because they couldn’t contact him earlier.

Walking several hundred meters along an ancient road outside the inn, Ye Haochuan suddenly saw a large residence. Above the main gate, a plaque hung with the words ”Hu Mansion.”

”Hu Family?” Ye Haochuan’s mind shifted, and he suddenly remembered something.

The white-haired old man who almost got him killed back then had asked him to deliver something to the Hu Family, hadn’t he? He wondered if this Hu Family was the same one.

At this thought, Ye Haochuan decided to deliver the Blood Pill and the letter first. It was just delivering something; it wouldn’t take much time.

After knocking on the door, an old man soon came to open it. The old man was only at the Foundation Establishment Stage, presumably a steward-like figure.

”Excuse me, um...” Ye Haochuan momentarily forgot the name on the letter and had to glance at it again before speaking, ”Does Hu Zhong live here?”

”Are you referring to Young Master Zhong? Are you a friend of his?” The old man, upon hearing Ye Haochuan’s intention, surprisingly showed a hint of joy on his face.

”Sort of!” Ye Haochuan was a bit embarrassed; he had never met Hu Zhong, just delivering the letter as instructed by the old man. He wasn’t sure if they counted as friends, ”Is he in?”

The old man smiled and said, ”He’s here, he’s here, please come in!”

What? Just got in so easily? I thought I’d have to go through something like an interrogation!

Ye Haochuan was quite surprised; the old man seemed completely unwary, not afraid he might have ulterior motives.

”Could it be that I’ve stayed in the Secular World too long? Thinking too complicatedly? Or maybe the law and order in this Zhenyuan Realm are so good that there’s no such thing as a conman?” Ye Haochuan pondered complex thoughts as he quickly followed the old man inside.

The courtyard of the Hu Mansion was large. Opposite the main gate was a tall pavilion. Bypassing the pavilion led to a majestic hall.

Before getting close, Ye Haochuan heard people inside the hall arguing about something.

”...Second Uncle, my father’s illness is getting worse; please quickly find a Medicinal Cultivator to help!”

This was a young man’s voice. Ye Haochuan felt he had heard this voice somewhere before, but couldn’t recall right away.

A middle-aged woman seemed to respond sharply, ”Cure? With what? Your father’s illness is incurable—who can cure it?”

”Even if it’s incurable, there’s hope for treatment. How will you know it’s untreatable if you don’t try?” The young man retorted unwillingly.

”Try? Do you have the money to try? Do you know how many Spirit Crystals it costs to hire a Medicinal Cultivator? A couple more attempts, and our Hu Family’s modest estate will be squandered!” The middle-aged woman snorted.

The young man seemed enraged by these words and shouted loudly, ”My father is, after all, the Patriarch of the Hu Family. What’s wrong with using some Spirit Crystals to cure him?”

”Patriarch of the Hu Family? That was in the past. Now the Patriarch of the Hu Family is your Second Uncle!”

After the middle-aged woman spoke, a middle-aged man’s voice was heard from inside: ”Zhong’er, your Second Aunt is right. Your father’s illness baffles even Elder Cheng; who can save him?”

”Second Uncle, my father is your own brother, and you’d really be so heartless to watch him die?” The young man pleaded expectantly.

”Zhong’er, it’s not that Second Uncle doesn’t want to help. As the Patriarch of the Hu Family, I must consider the entire Hu Family!”

”Fine, very well!” The young man smiled bitterly, ”You’ll treat my father like this; let’s see how you’ll explain when Grandpa returns!”

With that, he stormed out of the hall. With acute hearing, Ye Haochuan clearly heard the middle-aged man and woman inside the hall let out cold laughs.

”Could it be that they’ve already found out about the old man’s death?” Ye Haochuan was puzzled.

When the old man died, he was the only one present, and there was no corpse left. Aside from him, who else could have sent the news back so quickly?

While pondering this, the young man from the hall suddenly burst out and bumped directly into Ye Haochuan.

”Who are you? Can’t you see...” The young man, clearly quite upset, flared up upon being bumped, but stopped short when he saw Ye Haochuan’s face.

”Brother Ye, what brings you here?”

”I’m here to deliver something!” Ye Haochuan’s face showed some oddity, and he smiled, ”But Brother Gao, you...”

Ye Haochuan hadn’t expected the young man rushing out of the hall to be Gao Zhong. No wonder he found the voice familiar—it was someone he knew.

Gao Zhong’s face showed a hint of embarrassment as he said, ”To be honest, Brother Ye, I was young and reckless before and liked to venture everywhere. For convenience, I adopted my mother’s surname and took the alias Gao Zhong. My real name is Hu Zhong, and I am indeed from this Hu Family.”

”You are Hu Zhong?” Now it was Ye Haochuan’s turn to be surprised.

The letter and Blood Pill in his hand were meant for Hu Zhong. He hadn’t expected they’d already met.

If he had known earlier that Gao Zhong was Hu Zhong, he’d have saved himself a trip today.

Fortunately, it wasn’t much trouble. Remembering his purpose, Ye Haochuan said, ”I’m here this time to deliver something...”

Before he could finish, a short, fat, ugly woman shouted angrily from the hall entrance, ”Who are you? Who let you in?”

Ye Haochuan heard the voice and recognized it as the middle-aged woman who had just been berating Hu Zhong in the hall; he wasn’t inclined to pay her any mind.

But the old man beside him hurriedly bowed and said, ”Second Madam, this is Young Master Zhong’s friend, I...”

”Second Madam? Deng Jiu, what do you mean?” The short, fat, ugly woman’s face twitched with anger.

This short, fat woman was Hu Zhong’s Second Aunt, named Niuzhi, and she was as domineering as her surname suggested.

The old man, trembling in his legs, quickly responded, ”Not Second Madam, but Madam. This old servant is confused; please forgive me, Madam!”

”You know you’re confused?” Niuzhi snorted coldly and pointed at Hu Zhong, ”Don’t you know this brat’s true nature? His so-called friend is nothing more than a drinking buddy!

He’s only here for our Hu Family’s money. This wastrel may not understand, but how can you, at your age, also not understand? Don’t you hurry and kick them out, Madam?”

Damn, did this old hag just eat shit? Why is her mouth so foul?

Ye Haochuan was angrily upset. He had come with goodwill to deliver something, only to be accused of being a scheming drinking buddy after the Hu Family’s wealth.

This aunt might be able to tolerate it, but Aunt Flo absolutely cannot!