Patients waiting to see a doctor at Jishi Hall saw Manbao and those who ca often greeted her, "Has Doctor Zhou Junior returned to see patients?"
Manbao greeted them as she passed by, "No, it will be so more ti."
Manbao had been incarcerated, a matter so people knew about, but many more did not.
Since the incident took place during the Empress Dowager’s birthday celebrations, almost all the officials and their families in the capital had heard about it. Jishi Hall was, of course, aware, but the common folk still had no idea.
Manbao was no longer sitting at the clinic, and the reason given by Jishi Hall was that sothing had happened in her family, so she wouldn’t be coming for now.
Regardless, the Zhou Family’s restaurant was still open as usual. In Wulang’s words, since they couldn’t control the situation, why not take the opportunity to earn more money?
If it really ca down to it, one could always bail soone out with money.
And being imprisoned wasn’t sothing nice to talk about, so the Zhou family kept silent about it. Old Madam Liu also felt that it wasn’t yet ti to make use of public sentint, so she said nothing as well.
Manbao, greeting people along the way, arrived at the counter where Young Manager Zheng was dispensing dicine and asked, "What are you here to buy now?"
This morning, she had bought a lot of dicine and said that she probably wouldn’t be back for ten days or half a month, yet here she was again within a few hours.
Manbao said, "I’m here to buy so dicinal ointnts and pills."
Manbao pulled over the paper and pen on the counter, wrote down the nas of two ointnts, and the na of a dicinal pill and passed them over.
After dispensing dicine to others, Young Manager Zheng looked at the prescriptions she wrote and frowned, "The hemorrhage and pain relief ointnt is one thing, but why do you want these kinds of pills?"
Manbao didn’t hide the truth, "It’s for a female prisoner. She’s having difficulties in jail."
"dicine shouldn’t be taken recklessly, should it?"
"She’s going to be executed in autumn."
Young Manager Zheng imdiately fell silent and pondered, "It might be possible, but the store is out of such pills."
Seeing Manbao’s widening eyes, he said, "Don’t look at like that. These pills are rarely used. People usually take decoctions for contraception. Who would think about taking pills? Moreover, those pills were not originally ant to delay nstruation; you’re taking an unconventional route."
"So what should I do?"
Young Manager Zheng picked up the pen and quickly wrote a prescription, saying nonchalantly, "You make it yourself. Haven’t you learned from Doctor Ji how to make pills?"
"I haven’t quite mastered it, and I haven’t learned how to make this particular pill."
Young Manager Zheng said, "That doesn’t matter. Go to my father; he’s the best at making pills. Usually, he’s the only one in the shop who can make these pills. Here, this is the prescription. Do you need to gather the ingredients for you?"
As the two were talking, the sound of a horse’s neighing ca from the entrance. Hearing it, Young Manager Zheng felt sothing was wrong and imdiately put down his pen, ca out from behind the counter, and hurried to et whoever it was.
But before he even reached the entrance, soone burst in and grabbed him, calling out, "Where’s the doctor, where’s the doctor—"
Young Manager Zheng, accustod to such situations, calmly reassured, "Please don’t panic, madam. Where is the patient, what’s the condition, and what kind of doctor is needed?"
"My wife is having difficulty giving birth; she can’t deliver the child and is waiting at ho. Please summon a doctor to co with , and quickly."
Young Manager Zheng imdiately knocked on Doctor Tao’s door. Doctor Tao cald the patients in the consultation room and ca out to see the young lady in a state of anxious perspiration. He looked at their family’s carriage and slightly frowned, "Is it the Yue family from Pine Nut Alley?"
"Yes, yes, doctor, please co with quickly." The young lady grabbed Doctor Tao, urging him to leave.
Doctor Tao took a few steps with her, then hesitated and stopped, "I’ve been to your house, but your grandmother wouldn’t even allow a fetal examination. Will she let into the birthing room?"
The young woman’s face was deathly pale, her entire body trembling. Doctor Tao looked at her and sighed, "Instead of fetching , you’d be better off seeking the help of Midwife Zhao from the east of the city. She’s even more capable than I am."
"But, Doctor, Midwife Zhao has gone to Lord Zhang’s residence. Their eldest lady is also giving birth today. Doctor, please, save my wife, please hurry and save my wife."
Doctor Tao hesitated only montarily before glancing at his dicine boy, who imdiately turned to shoulder the dicine chest. Doctor Tao sighed and said, "I’ll go with you, but let make it clear—if I’m sent away, it will be your wife’s fate..."
Hearing this, the other patients understood the situation. An old granny couldn’t help but say, "Young lady, your old lady at ho is difficult to deal with. Why don’t you ask a female doctor to co?"
The young woman sat on the ground crying, "Where can I find a female doctor?"
The patients at Jishi Hall dispersed, revealing Bai Shan and Manbao, who had been standing behind with folded hands, watching the commotion alongside them.
Doctor Tao also turned his head to look at Manbao and Bai Shan, standing there with folded hands. His eyes lit up, "When did Doctor Zhou Junior arrive?"
Manbao smiled awkwardly and waved her hand, greeting, "Hello, everyone."
She lowered her gaze and locked eyes with the young woman who had collapsed on the ground. Both were taken aback. Manbao blinked, "I feel like I’ve seen you sowhere before."
Bai Shan nodded solemnly, "I also feel like I’ve seen you sowhere."
The young woman said blankly, "I also find the lady very familiar."
She turned her head to look at Bai Shan, her face streaked with tears, "Young Master also seems familiar."
The three looked at each other in confusion. Then, the young woman seed to rember sothing, her eyes sparkling. She almost lunged forward, grabbing Manbao’s sleeve with her eyes wide open, "I rember now, Miss Man, you are Miss Man!"
Manbao nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, so who are you?"
"Miss Man, I am Qiuyue, I am Qiuyue! My miss is the Second Miss from County Magistrate Fu’s household!"
Manbao’s eyes suddenly widened, "Second Sister Fu!"
Anxious, Qiuyue asked, "Are you the miraculous young doctor?"
Manbao nodded.
Qiuyue imdiately pulled her along, "Hurry, hurry, let’s go save the young miss!"
Manbao followed her, and Doctor Tao ca to his senses, calling out urgently, "Wait, wait, take so ergency dicine."
Manbao, regaining her composure, imdiately grabbed Young Manager Zheng, "Bring a bottle of that life-saving dicine from the shop."
Young Manager Zheng, "...There isn’t a bottle, there’s only one pill left."
"Bring it, bring it quickly!"
Young Manager Zheng was pained to part with it, but still turned and ran to the back to fetch a spell-charm. Doctor Tao also took out the ergency dicine for difficult childbirth from the counter for Manbao, whispering, "I’ve been to that Yue family. It’s not an easy place to deal with. Do you want to accompany you?"
Although Manbao had assisted in childbirth for her elder sister once, she wasn’t very experienced in this field. Hearing Doctor Tao’s offer, she imdiately nodded, "If they don’t want you inside, then I will be inside, and you wait outside."
Doctor Tao nodded.
Shao erged from sowhere, took the dicine chest from Manbao’s hand and the ergency dicine pack from Doctor Tao, politely ushering Manbao and Bai Shan into the carriage first. Then she turned and joined Doctor Tao as they headed for the Yue family’s carriage.
Qiuyue, utterly confused, sat alongside Manbao.
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