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After returning to the medical hall, Gu Jiao handed the Thousand-Year-Old Lingzhi to Shopkeeper Wang and said, "Sell this."
The Thousand-Year-Old Lingzhi was undoubtedly a good item, but since no one in her family needed it, it was better to sell it at a good price.
Gu Jiao occasionally brought some strange and rare medicines for Shopkeeper Wang to sell, so he had gotten used to it.
"What's this now?" He opened the box and was nearly startled enough to knock it over. "This, this is such a large Lingzhi! Where did it come from? This must be a Thousand-Year-Old Lingzhi!"
To be honest, Lingzhi mushrooms could not grow for a thousand years. Even finding a Lingzhi mushroom that was ten years old was quite rare. Most of the Lingzhi mushrooms that were claimed to be a thousand years old in the market were usually just over a hundred years old, and they were extremely rare.
Gu Jiao said, "It was given to me by someone. Remember to sell it at a good price."
"Oh!"
How could he not sell it at a good price? Didn't he see how old this Lingzhi was?
Hehe, spreading the news about acquiring a Thousand-Year-Old Lingzhi would bring more attention to the Miraculous Hands Hall in the capital!
Gu Jiao didn't need to worry about the business matters. She planned to change her clothes and head to the underground arena.
She was originally supposed to go yesterday afternoon, but something came up, so she rescheduled it for today.
Just as she turned around to walk towards her small courtyard, she suddenly heard an anxious male voice from behind, "Physician Gu! Physician Gu!"
Gu Jiao stopped and turned around.
It was the patient she had removed stitches for yesterday, the scholar surnamed Xu.
"Is there something wrong with your wound?" Gu Jiao asked, looking at him.
The scholar ran in a hurry, gasping for breath. It took him a while before he could catch his breath and said, "Physician Gu... How can you go back on your word like that?"
Gu Jiao pointed at herself in confusion, "Me... go back on my word?"
The scholar said indignantly, "Yes... you promised me... to go and treat my classmate's mother... for her lung... illness. Why didn't you go?"
Gu Jiao said, "I went, but she didn't have tuberculosis."
The scholar complained, "You're making things up... I asked my classmate today... and there hasn't been a physician at their home..."
Gu Jiao shrugged, "But I did go."
The scholar, seeing that she didn't seem to be lying, was slightly taken aback, "Which house did you go to?"
Gu Jiao recalled, "Following your instructions, I walked straight ahead and went to the first house behind the orange tree."
"When did I mention an orange tree? I clearly said a peach tree..." The scholar's expression also froze, "I meant a peach tree..."
He slapped his forehead!
He had given her the wrong directions!
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Physician Gu, I’ll pay the consultation fee again. Please come with me once more! Aunt Sun's condition is really severe..."
Gu Jiao looked at the sky. There was still time, so she accompanied him to Zhuque Street, found the right residence, and examined the patient's condition.
Indeed, it was tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis wasn't incurable in her hands, but it required a long period of treatment, large doses of medication, and the medicine was expensive.
The scholar said he would take full responsibility and asked Gu Jiao to make sure the patient was cured.
Gu Jiao took out four types of medicine for treating tuberculosis from her medicine chest, put them into small porcelain bottles she carried, and wrote down the instructions and dosages. "I will come for a follow-up visit in seven days."
Aunt Sun shed tears of gratitude, "Thank you, young miss."
"Don't thank me. If you want to thank someone, thank Scholar Xu." When Gu Jiao said this, she clearly felt a curious figure near the door.
However, when Gu Jiao walked out, the figure disappeared.
Gu Jiao raised an eyebrow.
For his classmate, eh?
More like, for his classmate’s younger sister, right?
As Gu Jiao left the Sun Residence, she took off her facemask and put it in a special cloth bag. As she walked, she thought since she had gone to the wrong place yesterday, then who was the lady she had treated?
Meanwhile, Princess Xinyang and Yu Jin's group had also returned to Zhuque Street.
Princess Xinyang had her own princess mansion in the capital, but everyone understood that she would never live in that place of sorrow again.
Because Long Yi had given the Thousand-Year-Old Lingzhi to someone else, Princess Xinyang had to instruct Yu Jin to pick another gift to send to the Crown Princess.
Princess Xinyang called a young servant girl forward to attend to her.
The servant girl poured tea for Princess Xinyang, but as soon as she opened the cup cover, she exclaimed in surprise, "Huh? Why is there something inside the cup?"
"What?" Princess Xinyang asked.
The servant girl brought the teacup over, and a strong floral fragrance wafted out. In an instant, the entire room was filled with the scent of flowers.
Princess Xinyang looked at the brown pills in the teacup, her expression thoughtful.
"Yu Jin."
"Princess."
"Go to the East Palace..."
An hour later, Yu Jin appeared in the warm pavilion of the East Palace.
The Crown Princess personally received her, "Lady Yu Jin, why have you come?"
Yu Jin politely replied, "Princess instructed me to bring some specialties from Mount Fengdu for Crown Princess."
The Crown Princess smiled gently, "Aunt is considerate."
Yu Jin said, "In addition, I have another request for the Crown Princess."
The Crown Princess hurriedly said, "Please, Lady Yu Jin, go ahead."
Yu Jin smiled apologetically and said, "When I was tidying up the room earlier, I accidentally mixed up the Hundred Flowers Pill given by the Crown Princess and the Skin-Nourishing Pill given by the Empress. I don't know which one is the Hundred Flowers Pill and which one is the Skin-Nourishing Pill."
The Crown Princess smiled, "I recognize them. Did you bring the medicine?"
Yu Jin handed a porcelain bottle to the Crown Princess.
The Crown Princess had someone bring clean dishes and poured the medicine from the porcelain bottle into them. There were three types of medicine, one white pill and two brown pills of the same size.
The Crown Princess didn't even glance at the white pill. She simply picked out the Hundred Flowers Pill one by one.
The Crown Princess smiled as she put the Hundred Flowers Pill into the porcelain bottle and handed it to Yu Jin.
Yu Jin took the porcelain bottle and calmly took out a piece of cloth strip, "By the way, have you seen the words written on this note, Crown Princess?"
"I haven't seen it. Who wrote it?" She replied.
It's so ugly, she thought to herself.
Yu Jin returned to the residence on Zhuque Street to report to Princess Xinyang.
Princess Xinyang looked at the note on the table, the white pill, and the Hundred Flowers Pill in the porcelain bottle. If she still couldn't figure out that someone had tampered with the medicine, that would be unreasonable.
Moreover, judging from Long Yi's reaction in the imperial garden, the person who tampered with the medicine was most likely the daughter of Marquis Ding'an Estate.
Long Yi hadn't disobeyed her orders; he had simply given the gift of gratitude to the right person.
But there were still many doubts about this matter.
Long Yi couldn't have not noticed the person, but instead of stopping her from entering, he allowed her to change her medicine.
That was one point.
The second point was, for what reason the person had secretly replaced her medicine? Was it to harm her? But those white pills clearly had very effective medicinal effects.
Was it to help her? But they were not related, so why would she help her?
Lastly, she clearly helped her, yet today in the pavilion, she pretended not to know her.
What was this? Was it to get her attention?
Furthermore, not many people knew that she lived on Zhuque Street. The Crown Princess was able to come here because she had sent Yu Jin to the palace to report to the Emperor and had coincidentally encountered the Crown Princess.
But how could the daughter of Marquis Ding'an Estate have the ability to find this place?
Princess Xinyang wasn’t like Princess Ning'an, protected under the wings of the Empress Dowager and the Emperor. She had experienced countless storms and hidden currents, and she had even lost her only child.
She wouldn't easily trust anyone, nor would she underestimate anyone's intentions.
She looked at the moon outside the window, tapping lightly on the table with her fingertips. With each tap, the night seemed to grow quieter.
Suddenly, her fingertips stopped, and she spoke in a cold voice, "Bring that girl to me."
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