Ch. 11 Part 1

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Lin Yu'an went straight to doctor Xia's medicine shop after reaching the town on foot. He made a schedule to come check up on his patient every two days, and today was the day, after he left the patient previously. Doctor Xia who was by the counter waiting for him hurried to Lin Yu'an when he saw him walked into the medicine shop " doctor Lin is here, this old man was looking forward to see you since you said you'd come today. " doctor Xia said excitedly. Lin Yu'an saluted " ah yes, i came to see my patient" Lin Yu'an said politely, he wasn't the type who enjoyed unnecessary small talks. " great! great! that man is awake, he's friends are in there with him. " doctor Xia informed.

He noticed a strange looking thing on Lin Yu'an's back when he patted his back, Lin Yu'an followed his sights when he saw his face looked over. " it's a bag.... my wife made it for me for the convenience of carrying my working tools around" Lin Yu'an explain without having to ask. On his shoulder back was a backpack which uses a rope instead of zipper he bought from the system mall for the convenience of carrying things around, he felt that the woven basket was no good for him. Lin Yu'an bought a less capacious bag which was easy to be made in this era and wouldn't be considered eye catchy.

Doctor Xia nodded in understanding and looked at the bag enviously " aiya~ doctor Lin is both talented and have such a caring wife too" he said full of jealousy. Ye Xuan who was behind the counter shook his head when he saw his master that way, Lin Yu'an just let out a low cough and said nothing more. " I'll go see the patient now" Lin Yu'an informed not wanting to waste time, " little Xuan bring me a clean cup of water and also a clean bowl of water." he said to Ye Xuan without looking back as he walked away with doctor Xia. Actually Ye Xuan was no younger than him, infact Ye Xuan was at the same age as his body now. But to Lin Yu'an he sees Ye Xuan to be a kid since his soul was many years older than Ye Xuan, he took a liking to Ye Xuan's character taking him in like a member in his circle.

" doctor Lin! " Edward Olive stretched out his hand when Lin Yu'an walked into the room with doctor Xia. Lin took it and shook before he let go, the translator also saluted and Lin Yu'an nodded as his response. " he was awake not long ago, but he went back to sleep from the pain" Edward Olive said when Lin Yu'an approached the sleeping man on the small bed. " en, i brought him something to relief his pain" Lin Yu'an said to Edward Olive who sighed a relief, he felt very sad seeing his captain in so much pain. So hearing Lin Yu'an's words was like taking a heavy burden off his chest, Edward Olive decided to leave the room with the translator since the room wasn't big enough.

And they didn't want to disturb Lin Yu'an's work, Lin Yu'an pulled the only table in the room and placed his backpack on it and untied the rope. Ye Xuan walked in with the things he was asked to bring, Lin Yu'an washed his hands carefully in the bowl of water before going on to put the gloves on his hands and had doctor Xia take hold of the cup of water. Doctor Xia watched him curiously as he took out the things from his backpack and placed them carefully on the table, even though doctor couldn't tell what they were he was fascinated nevertheless. He did remember Lin Yu'an tell him that there were his working tools so he was surprised to see what great tools was used by Lin Yu'an, he had a lot of questions to ask about the things Lin Yu'an took out but seeing that he was getting ready to work doctor Xia put away his curiosity first and watch him work rather.

Lin Yu'an hang the stethoscope around his neck and took the medical penlight, he bent slightly and raised the lid of the patient eye as he flashed the penlight in the eye. The patient groaned uncomfortable with sweat beads formed on his forehead with a few strands of his short black hair sticking on his face, he squinted his eyes from the irritation from the flash of the penlight. He grunted and shook his head trying to save himself from the irritation he felt but Lin Yu'an help down his head lightly with little strength and prevented him from moving around, feeling his movements stopped the man's eyes battle as he slowly opened them in dazed and confused, Lin Yu'an proceed on to check the other eye and the man blink a few times feeling the irritation again. Doctor Xia looked at the penlight in Lin Yu'an's hand with no words to describe his shock.

" how are you feeling today" Lin Yu'an straightened himself up and asked. " hm, uncomfortable and in pain." the man answered truthfully " you must be doctor Lin, I've heard about you from Olive thank you for saving me." the man said and grunted trying to sit up but Lin Yu'an pressed him down slightly on the shoulder. " you shouldn't move around, the wound will Open if you make excessive movements." the man nod from his words and laid back down obediently. Lin Yu'an took out a small porcelain bottle from his backpack with a card tied around the bottle neck and writings scribble on the card. " doctor Xia please help me feed him the medicine" he called to doctor Xia who hurried to stand beside him.

Lin Yu'an opened the lid of the bottle " stretch out your hand, it's a painkiller to help relief the pain" the man nodded and did as he was told, Lin Yu'an poured out two pills from the porcelain into his hand, doctor Xia fed him the water and the man swallowed the pills with difficulty. Lin Yuan proceeded to check his vitals and all, after he was done he changed the man's wound dressing using Western medicines. " hm... doctor Lin what is that? it's feels comfortable and the medicines i swallowed, i can't feel the pain" the man hummed comfortable and asked Lin Yu'an who was writing reports of his condition in the journal. " doctor Lin knows how to hold the pen?" he added again. Lin Yu'an stopped for a moment and continued on scribbling in the journal.

" i got it by chance from one of your people" Lin Yu'an answered his second question whiles still focused on writing. The man nodded in understanding " never seen this type before, it looks better than the ones in my cargo i bought to sell." the man said with his sights still on the pen. " you're a merchant?" Lin Yu'an decisively changed the topic. " yeah, i have my own fleets of three cargo ships" the man answered which made Lin Yu'an glaced at him from the corner of his eye. " your name?" Lin Yu'an asked him " Butch, Abraham Butch." Lin Yu'an nodded and scribbled it down " Mr. Abraham Butch, would you like to sign yourself or Mr. Edward?" "I'll sign it" Lin Yu'an took the journal closer to him along with a paper with writings on it and passed him the pen " here and here" he pointed to where the signature was needed and Abraham Butch signed on both the journal and the paper without asking any questions, Lin Yu'an folded the paper nicely and put it into an envelope he had already prepared.

He light up a red candle and dripped the melted wax on the envelope before pressing it with the seal he bought from the system mall. He could've saved himself of all this trouble by using a modern envelope but Lin Yu'an didn't want everything he used to be different from that of this era lest he calls for attention to himself. He cleaned the tools he used with a clean white cloth wetted with a sterilizing solution and pack up his things back into the backpack nicely. He stood straight beside the bed and crossed his hands over his chest " doctor Xia please can you leave us alone... I'll like to say a few things to the patient alone." Lin Yu'an said to doctor Xia in their language, doctor Xia excused himself.

" so tell me Mr. Abraham, how did you get such a big cut? " he asked in a serious tone. Abraham Butch squinted his eyes to glace at him " you don't have to tell me if you don't want to say... i asked because as the doctor who saved you I don't want to get involved in any messy things. Since that cut was made cleanly to leave you with no chance of survival." Lin Yu'an stated when he noticed Abraham Butch's feeling uncomfortable. And another reason he asked that question was because he suddenly had an idea but before bringing forth his idea, he had to make sure the other person didn't have any messy problems. " it was made by a member of my fleet.... he was a close friend to both Olive and i actually. But he betrayed us in the last minute, hm i guess he already had the thought of betraying us in mind and was waiting for us to get to the capital. But something happened and we had to change routes to a county not far from here, he got flustered and made his move." Abraham Butch said with irony. " where is he now?" Lin Yu'an asked again but this time.

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