Chapter 47: Chapter 26 Changsheng Edition Monk Tang
Gu Changsheng, upon hearing this, felt completely frazzled!
“Oh dear, she’s really just like Monk Tang—rely went out to get so herbs and ended up with trouble!”
Fuming with anger, Gu Changsheng cursed, “What the hell, life doesn’t need to be this calamitous!”
Her rage manifested in action; she dashed forward like an arrow and in a blink arrived at the door, hands on hips, glaring at Xiao Cui in the courtyard, she bellowed, “Xiao Cui, you’ve dolled up like this yet I still get into trouble, if you don’t provide with a reasonable explanation, Madam will reshape you into Zhu Bajie!”
On their way to the location, Xiao Cui’s ostentatious face had attracted no small asure of trouble, and now, despite being dressed so ordinarily, the sa was happening, which truly infuriated Gu Changsheng!
Walking to the back yard, Xiao Cui, utterly bewildered, faced the incensed lady who had erged in the front courtyard; upon understanding her words, she hesitated before speaking up softly while holding the dicine bag, “My lady, they are looking for you, not .”
The lady was terrifying, and she was innocent.
Gu Changsheng’s jaw dropped to the ground, and it took her quite a while before she incredulously pointed to herself, “Looking for ?”
But that can’t be right, she thought; she is so ordinary, and having just arrived in Liuzhou without stepping outside, she couldn’t possibly attract trouble! And the only Peach Blossom she rallied had already left.
Could it be she stirred trouble on the road to the dical hall when she entered Liuzhou?
Oh, dear mother! Could this be a sequence of blossoming Peach Blossoms? Gu Changsheng suddenly got excited; her furious deanor lted into coquettishness, and with a flirtatious flick of her hair, she said, “Could it be that a handso man has taken a fancy to ? Xiao Cui, co, lead to see.”
Xiao Cui looked horrified at her mistress’s antics and quickly grabbed the dicine bag with one hand while gesturing with the other, explaining, “My lady, no, it’s not what you’re thinking, not a handso… man, but Doctor Hu from the Hu Family dical Hall at the end of the street; he’s the one looking for you.”
When Xiao Cui ntioned a handso man, she hesitated slightly, the mistress’s words were really…
Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng was stunned and then imdiately roared, “What’s with that expression if it’s not a handso man? Are you playing for a fool?”
Xiao Cui touched her face, wondering about her own expression just now; she hadn’t shown the wrong emotion, had she?
Seeing Xiao Cui’s reaction, Gu Changsheng knew she had misunderstood. Xiao Cui’s hesitation and reluctance when she said “it’s you” was probably due to being scared by her, not the shyness Gu Changsheng had assud.
Feeling chagrined, she withdrew her hand; so much for that posturing—she had thought as much, with her miserable luck, how could she be flourishing with Peach Blossoms? Sure enough, before the Peach Blossom even budded, it was spoiled!
“What do people from Hu Family dical Hall want?” She had barely settled in when another practitioner ca knocking—what was this situation?
“Madam, you best dismiss him. I will explain everything,” said Uncle Song excitedly from his bed upon overhearing the commotion.
Gu Changsheng paused, sensing sothing was up.
Without a handso man to attend to, she couldn’t be bothered, so she waved Han Qiu over, “Han Qiu, you go. Tell him that I’ve just arrived ho and need to freshen up before I can receive visitors. Ask him to return another day.”
Han Qiu complied and headed towards the main hall of the dical hall.
Gu Changsheng then instructed Xiao Cui to prepare the dicine and cook lunch before returning to her room. It was ti to remove the needles.
Gu Changsheng’s acupuncture skills were highly honed, and unless a very specific point demanded the patient’s feedback for needle placent, she could sense the depth and remove the needles effortlessly.
After collecting the needles, she ticulously cleaned the silver needles with a clean cloth and carefully placed them back in the needle bag tied around her waist.
These silver needles and those surgical knives were the only items she had brought with her.
After making sure everything was in order, Gu Changsheng turned and inquired how Uncle Song felt; he responded in detail.
Gu Changsheng nodded with satisfaction. The ancients, never having undergone acupuncture, had acutely sensitive acupoints, making the effects particularly pronounced.
This was akin to soone who had never taken antibiotics suddenly using them with remarkable results, as their body had no resistance. Acupuncture worked similarly; although it was largely unaffected, the first treatnt would almost always yield an ideal outco.
Han Qiu was efficient; no sooner had Gu Changsheng inquired than she returned to report that Doctor Hu had left, but ntioned he would visit again soon.
After Han Qiu’s report, Gu Changsheng turned to Uncle Song, who had composed himself, signaling with her eyes for him to explain.
Without hesitation, Uncle Song clearly explained the cause and effect.
It turned out that the Hu Family dical Hall had also been a Liuzhou dical family for generations. Before Gu Changsheng’s grandfather’s ti, Hu Family dical Hall and Gu Family dical Hall had kept to their own, never encroaching on each other. However, this balance was disrupted during the generation of Gu Changsheng’s grandfather. Hu Family dical Hall had a talented descendant, Hu Bingzhi, and Gu Family dical Hall had Gu Changsheng’s grandfather, Gu Chengyi. From their nas alone, it was destined that these two would engage in fierce competition. They competed from childhood into adulthood, and ultimately, Gu Changsheng’s grandfather was the first to receive a summons from the Court, awarded the title of Imperial Physician, and called to serve at the Imperial dical Bureau. However, Gu Chengyi was diligently compiling dical texts at the ti, recording all the prescriptions he had learned, encountered, and used throughout his life into volus. Citing the unfinished dical texts that could not yet benefit the dical community as a reason, he politely declined the summons from the Court.
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