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Gu Jiao's house visit today was to a three-courtyard compound located in the east of the capital. The head of the family was a Juren who worked at a nearby academy as a teacher. His wife's family had a little fortune, so his family was also quite well-off.
This time, the patient was their eldest son who was twenty years of age. He had just passed the exam to become a Xiucai this year and his family was overjoyed. Unfortunately, he contracted a serious illness a few days ago.
They sent him to the nearby medical hall for treatment, but they were turned away, saying that it was a pox disease and that he should get treatment at home.
The medical hall prescribed medicine for him, but he didn't get better after taking it for a few days. Then the father heard from a student in the academy that Miraculous Hands Hall had excellent medical skills. As a last resort, they invited a physician from there to treat his son.
Unexpectedly, the one who came was a medical woman.
The couple was disappointed.
Gu Jiao had been practicing medicine for so long, and she had long been accustomed to this kind of gaze. There was no female physician in the State of Zhao, and the status of a medical woman was low. Such facts were not something she could easily change by saving a few accidents.
Anyway, she didn't aspire to be some great person.
Gu Jiao entered the house.
Since the other party was already here, the couple thought they might as well let her proceed on the treatment..
The Xiucai's mental state wasn’t very good. He was a little panicked and agitated as he lay on the bed. Judging from his symptoms: fever, headache, and red spots… It did look like a pox disease.
But after careful diagnosis, Gu Jiao found that it wasn't.
"It's an allergic rash." Gu Jiao diagnosed.
This was a severe allergic reaction. For him to survive to this day really wasn’t easy. A lot of severe allergic reactions like this could lead to shock or suffocation. She could only say that this Xiucai's life was really tenacious.
Gu Jiao took a few loratadine tablets from her medicine chest and put them in a porcelain bottle before handing it to the couple, "Let him consume one tablet a day. Swallow it with warm water. Later, after he had consumed all of it, visit the medical hall for further diagnosis."
"That, that’s it?" The Madame looked at the medicine bottle in her hand and opened her mouth in disbelief, "But they said it was a pox disease."
Gu Jiao explained, "He has a mild cold and allergic rash. At first glance, it is indeed similar to a pox disease, but it actually isn't. You two don't have to worry too much. However, allergic reaction isn’t a minor illness, and it can be fatal at any time if it becomes serious. He’s lucky this time, but he has to be more careful in the future. What did he touch before he became like this?"
"He..." The Madame recalled carefully, saying, "He ate a peach that day, and in the afternoon he began to complain that he felt sick all over. I didn't pay much attention to it, only thinking that the peach fuzz stuck to him, so I asked him to take a bath. He seemed to get better after that, but then it got worse the next day."
Gu Jiao didn’t have any allergen test strips for the time being, so she could only try to keep the patient away from peaches, "Don't let him touch peaches again in the future."
"Ah, yes, yes." The Madame answered.
She was obviously just a young medical woman, but why were her words inexplicably convincing?
In any case, no other physician could cure his son, so they might as well try this young medical woman’s method first.
The Madame went into the room to give her son the medicine.
Little San received the treatment fee. A house visit cost two taels of silver, and the medicine cost one tael of silver.
This place was at the foot of the Son of Heaven(Emperor), and this was already considered a very conscientious charge.
Gu Jiao went out of the residence carrying her back basket and got into the carriage.
After collecting the treatment fee, Little San sat on the outer seat of the carriage and asked Gu Jiao, "Gu girl, are we going back?"
Gu Jiao nodded, "En, let’s go back."
There was nothing else for her to do.
"Oh, alright then!" Little San grabbed the whip and drove the carriage away slowly.
The wheels of the carriage hadn’t been rolling for a long time when suddenly, several men came galloping on horseback. Their speed was extremely fast, and they didn't care about the pedestrians in the street.
One after another, people rushed to avoid them, but there was still an old man who couldn’t get away in time. His things were knocked over and fell to the ground with him.
The culprit, however, didn’t look back as he arrogantly galloped away.
The old man fell to the side of the road and failed to get up for a long time.
This incident naturally caused a lot of sighs.
A young man who wasn’t from the capital spoke, asking the man beside him who came to watch the hustle and bustle, "Friend, isn't this place at the foot of the Son of Heaven? How dare anyone ride a horse here like that?"
The man said, "You didn’t hear the news, did you? Can't you recognize the clothes they are wearing?"
The young man replied, "It's too fast for me to see."
The man looked at the galloping backs of several men in the distance and said, "Those men are from the Supreme Commander Estate."
"Supreme Commander Estate?" The young man frowned. Apparently, he had not been in the capital for a long time and wasn’t clear about the situation in the capital.
The man patiently explained, "He used to be the Fast Cavalry Great General of Hushan Camp, but just a few days ago, he was conferred the title of National Supreme Commander of the military. Those people are from the Supreme Commander Estate."
The young man curiously asked, "How could they be so arrogant though?"
The man hurriedly gestured at him to keep silent, "Shh, you can't say that nonsense here. They must have urgent matters to attend to, otherwise they wouldn't act like this."
What urgent matter? They almost killed someone in the street.
Everyone knew that this was just an excuse as no one had the courage to expose the truth in public. After all, the Fast Cavalry Great General surnamed Tang was a trusted confidant of Empress Dowager Zhuang. When Empress Dowager Zhuang returned from the temporary imperial residence, the first thing she did was to promote him to a National Supreme Commander, grandly taking away the military power in Marquis Xuanping's hands.
"Sister, the people of the Tang Estate have gone too far!" In a teahouse on the street, a girl in purple said to another girl in Taoist nun robes across from her. She continued, "This is not the first time they took advantage of power to bully others! Earlier in Willow Lane, I saw a servant of the Tang Estate beating up a citizen, saying that the other party owed some money to the Tang Estate. Even if that’s the case, that doesn’t mean they could wantonly beat up people!"
The young Taoist nun didn't speak and just quietly took a sip of tea.
The girl in purple leaned over the table and moved closer to her, then whispered, "Sister, tell me… Is that rumor true?"
The young Taoist nun cast a glance at her, "What rumor?"
The girl in purple: "That... Supreme Commander Tang is the illegitimate child of the Empress Dowager."
The young Taoist nun looked at her coldly, "You don’t want your life anymore, do you?"
The girl in purple stuck out her tongue, feeling a little intimidated by her sister, but she still emboldened herself and said, "I heard that the Empress Dowager almost married Imperial Concubine Dowager Jing’s daughter, Princess Ning’an, to him."
The young Taoist nun pressed her sister back to her seat, looked at the noisy street and said, "Zijuan, go help that old man and buy all his tea leaves."
"Yes!" The servant girl on the side answered with a bow. She was about to go downstairs when she heard the young Taoist nun speak again, "Nevermind, there’s no need. Someone has already gone."
The servant girl and the girl in purple simultaneously turned their gazes at the old man who had fallen down on the streets, where they saw a girl in dark clothes walking through the crowd, coming to him and helping him up.
"Ah, sister! It’s her!" The girl in purple recognized Gu Jiao. "The one who received the Zhuang……Zhuangyuan’s flower hairpin!"
No, the top three Jinshi’s flower hairpins!
“Why is she here?”
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