Chapter 202 Meeting the Grand Master

After noon, there was no one in the shop.

Du Changqing took Acheng home and said that there was a leak in the house a few days ago, so he hired a craftsman to repair the roof today and come back to the hospital tomorrow.

Miao Liangfang was not there either. Half an hour ago, a three-year-old child at the entrance of the temple suddenly suffered from abdominal pain. He hurriedly went to see a doctor with a medical box on his back and did not know when he would come back.

In the late summer afternoon, the sun was not as bright as before, but it was still oppressively hot. There was not a single pedestrian on West Street. The wild cats lying under the pergola refused to move. Occasionally, a gust of wind blew by, bringing a bit of coolness.

Yin Zheng looked outside the door: "It's very hot, girl. I'll go ahead and buy two cups of sweet syrup to drink."

Lu Yan said: "Okay."

The long street was clean, and not many people came at this time. Lu Zhuo sat at the table in the back room, casually flipping through the medical books Ji Xun had brought. It was a leisurely summer day, and his eyelids gradually became sleepy.

There was movement outside the door, and a shadow was cast over her. She thought it was Yin Zheng coming back from buying sweet syrup. When she looked up, she saw an old man with white beard and hair walking outside the door.

The old man was dressed simply, wearing a purple robe and a cane, with white sideburns and beard. It was not convenient for him to move around. He was holding a square silk handkerchief in his hand. As soon as he entered the door, he started to cough quietly.

Lu Zhu stood up, walked out of the medicine cabinet, and helped the old man sit down at the table.

"Doctor," the old man stopped coughing and looked at her and said, "I've been feeling dizzy and tired lately. I've been awake at night, tired and sweaty. Could you please check it out, doctor."

As he spoke, he stretched out an old, wrinkled hand like bark and placed it on the soft cushion in front of Lu Zong.

Lu Zhuo stretched out his hand to take his pulse.

The shop was quiet, and after a moment, she retracted her hand.

"Because of the dampness, the head feels like a wrap. The dampness and heat are not released, and the pulse is difficult to fill."

She stood up and said, "Thinking too much will damage the spleen and stomach. If the spleen is not healthy, the energy and blood will be depleted. Clear yang will not be generated, turbid yin will not fall, and the muscles of the limbs will not be nourished, so the mind will be dizzy and the whole body will be weak."

"It's not a problem. Just prescribe a few prescriptions to nourish the mind, calm the mind, and strengthen the spleen and reduce dampness." Lu Zhu walked to the medicine cabinet, picked up the pen and paper on the table and wrote down the prescription, "Mr., should you take the medicine here or elsewhere?" ?”

"here."

Lu Ye nodded and saw that the old man was coughing again, so he picked up the teapot on the table, poured a bowl of thirst-quenching medicinal tea and handed it to him.

The old man took the tea bowl tremblingly and said thank you.

Lu Zhuo turned around again and went to the medicine cabinet to continue grabbing medicine.

Holding the tea bowl, the old man looked up and looked around the medical center. His eyes paused when he passed by the golden banner on the wall. Finally, he raised his eyes to look at the person standing in front of the medicine cabinet.

The woman lowered her head and opened the medicine drawer, grabbing the medicinal materials according to the prescription.

She did it very seriously, not paying attention to the sight behind her. She held the wooden plaque containing the medicine firmly with one hand and moved quickly and deftly.

"Everyone says that Dr. Lu from Renxin Medical Center on West Street has good medical skills. When I saw him today, I didn't expect him to be so young." He suddenly said.

Lu Tong paused and said, "Mr., you are overly praised."

"I heard that Doctor Lu is not from Shengjing."

Lu Yan closed the medicine drawer, took the medicine to the medicine cabinet and tied it carefully, "I grew up in southern Jiangsu."

The old man nodded and chatted as if he were having a normal conversation, "Doctor Lu is a native of southern Jiangsu?"

"Forget it."

"Why do you say 'forget'?"

Lu Yan wrapped the medicinal materials, returned to the table with two large packages of medicine, and put them down in front of the other party.

"I am an orphan. I was adopted since I was a child. I don't know who my parents are or where they are from. Therefore, I don't know if I can be considered a Sunan native. It's just that I have grown up in Southern Jiangsu for as long as I can remember."

The old man was a little surprised, and looked at her with a hint of pity, "It's so pitiful. So, when you were about five or six years old, you were already in Southern Jiangsu."

Lu Zhuo nodded: "She should be three or four years old, maybe younger."

"Three or four years old..."

The old man pondered for a moment and then smiled, "It was about thirteen or fourteen years ago. Speaking of which, I also went to Sunan once, thirteen or four years ago."

"Southern Jiangsu is located in the south, which is different from Shengjing. I still remember that in front of the moat in southern Jiangsu, there was a stone bridge covered with Buddha statues. Was it the Sleeping Buddha or Manjushri Bodhisattva carved on it..."

"I'm old and can't remember clearly. Since Dr. Lu grew up in southern Jiangsu, can you tell me what kind of Buddha is carved on the stone bridge?"

Lu Zhuo raised his eyes.

The old man in front of her looked at her kindly.

The plum tree blocked most of the daylight outside the door. In the darkness, she could see clearly that the old man's eyes seemed to have a faint white shadow, looking muddy and gray. He looked at her with a kind expression, quietly waiting for her answer.

Thirteen or four years ago...

At that time, she was only four years old.

"I don't really remember."

After a moment of silence, Lu Yan said, "I'm not interested in Buddha statues."

The old man narrowed his eyes slightly and stretched out his hand to twist the beads on his wrist, one after another.

The next moment, Lu Chen's voice sounded.

"Besides, there was no stone bridge on the moat back then."

The movement of twisting the beads paused.

"Because there was no bridge, my elders specifically told me not to play by the river when I was young. Later, because too many children fell into the water, the government ordered it to be renovated, but that was only five or six years ago."

Lu Yan looked at the person in front of him with doubts in his eyes: "Old sir, did you remember the wrong time?"

The other party remained silent, with a slight smile on his lips, still looking at her critically.

Lu Chen looked calm.

After a moment, he smiled again, and his eyes when he looked at Lu Chen became gentler, "So, Doctor Lu has lived in southern Jiangsu for many years, why did he suddenly come to Shengjing?"

"My master is from Shengjing," Lu Yu said. "After she passed away, I no longer had any relatives in southern Jiangsu. My master's only wish before his death was to return to his hometown, and I also inherited his legacy."

"Then why do you think of entering Hanlin Medical Hospital?"

"My medical skills seem to be a bit disadvantaged if I only work in West Street." She smiled, as if joking, "Among the medical officers in the Medical Officer's Hospital, some of them are even inferior to me in medical skills."

The old man laughed.

He shook his head: "Others say that Medical Officer Lu is dull and quiet, but I think Medical Officer Lu is very interesting, not as boring as the rumors."

Lu Zhuo looked at him: "I feel that the Grand Master is as kind and kind as rumored."

As soon as these words came out, the old man's smile faltered.

He looked at Lu Chen.

"When did you recognize it?"

He had obviously changed into simple ge clothes, and the carriage did not stop in front of the door, and he did not even bring a guard.

"I just saw it when I took my pulse."

"oh?"

"The elderly man in Shengjing has a weak pulse. Although his pulse is not strong enough, he seems to have been nourished by precious medicinal materials for many years. The patients on West Street are all poor and ordinary people. They are accustomed to toil and hard work. They are tired and sleepless. They won’t come to the medical clinic specifically for treatment, it’s not necessary for them.”

"Although your Excellency wears ordinary clothes, you don't change your noble body. The difference between noble and humble can be seen at a glance."

She smiled slightly: "What's more, I just met Ambassador Cui early this morning."

"That's it, Medical Officer Lu Hui Xinlanzhi."

"Your Excellency, you are so complimentary."

Qi Qing nodded and coughed a few more times: "In that case, do you know the purpose of my visit today?"

"If you say you don't know, it seems too false." Lu Yuan said calmly: "When Cui Yuan envoy came in the morning, he had told the lower officials everything. Qi Gongzi's old illness relapsed, Cui Yuan envoy stole my prescription, but I didn’t know the right medicine, and I made mistakes in a hurry. Now I can’t fix the hole, so I think of me.”

She spoke clearly and clearly, and Qi Qing's eyes moved slightly.

The little medical girl has a humble status, but she does not shy away from the Qi family's position in it. Is she arrogant or confident?

"Cui Min wants you to treat a disease?"

"Yes, I refused."

"Why?"

"Cui Yuanshi has no real talent and knowledge. He has been trying to gain fame and reputation by relying on other people's things for many years. Why should I be a stepping stone for such a villain? Although the official is from an ordinary background, he also has a strong heart. But even if Mao Yu is there, he will not fly. . With medical skills, you can shine wherever you go.”

The woman sat at the table, her calm tone tinged with anger.

Qi Qing twisted the Buddhist beads in his hand.

She was very young, only seventeen years old now. When she said this, he thought of Hua Ying, who was about the same age as Hua Ying. Children of this age are naive and impulsive, and it is easy for them to be unaware of the heights of the world.

But Hua Ying is the daughter of the Qi family. No matter how arrogant she is, she has the backing of the Qi family. And the person in front of me is just an ordinary orphan...

If she was as arrogant and brainless as she appeared, Pei Yunying and Ji Xun would not fall in love with her, nor would Cui Min, who had been stable for many years, seek urgent medical attention.

If you're not trying to be smart, you're just acting.

Qi Qing sighed.

"But my son is now seriously ill, and Cui Min cannot cure him. If, as Medical Officer Lu said, only Medical Officer Lu in Shengjing can save my son, what will it take for Medical Officer Lu to be willing to treat my son?"

Lu Chen pursed his lips and said nothing.

He smiled, and his tone was kind as if he was in trouble: "I know that Yutai and you have had issues in the past, and I have taught him a lesson about Huangmaogang... When he recovers, I will ask Yutai to apologize to you in person, yes I did not know how to educate my son, so I got into this disaster. I hope Medical Officer Lu will understand my love for my son and give Yutai a chance."

"Whatever Medical Officer Lu wants, I agree to it."

The high-ranking Grand Master personally came to the West Street Medical Center, where civilians were mixed, and spoke humbly and kindly to an ordinary medical officer, which was enough to show his dignity.

If you hold it any longer, it will look like you don’t know how to appreciate it.

Lu Yan looked at him and was silent for a moment before speaking.

"The doctor at Renxin Medical Center is named Miao Liangfang. He was the former deputy director of Hanlin Medical Hospital."

"Eleven years ago, Cui Min framed Vice President Miao and drove Miao Liangfang out of the hospital. He took the book "Miao's Liangfang" written by him as his own and renamed it "Cui's Pharmacology".

She said: "For more than ten years, Miao Liangfang was depressed, drinking heavily, suffering from unwarranted infamy, and living in a state of confusion. Until he came to Renxin Medical Center."

"The Grand Master is a prudent official and has a bright career. I would like to use the name of the Grand Master to clear Vice-President Miao's name, make the events of that year public to the public, and let the villain Cui Min suffer the consequences."

After the words fell, Qi Qing's eyebrows moved slightly.

He asked: "Are you negotiating terms with me?"

He asked her to make conditions, including gold and silver, which was already very polite to her.

She actually wanted to use Cui Min as a condition.

Really ignorant and fearless.

Lu Zhuo lowered his eyebrows: "I don't dare, but Cui Min is a person who will retaliate. If I go back, I may be framed and slandered by Cui Min one day, and end up like Miao Liangfang. Cui Min is safe for one day, and I will be punished by him." I don't dare to go back to the Medical Officer's Hospital for a day. Unless Cui Min leaves, I would rather stay in West Street and never go back to the Medical Officer's Hospital."

Never go back to the hospital.

Such innocent words, but the kind face of the old man in front of him suddenly turned cold.

This is a threat.

If he doesn't punish Cui Min, she refuses to treat Qi Yutai.

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

Lu Yan raised his head, his voice neither humble nor arrogant.

"If a device is to be useful, it must be of equal value to the noble and the humble. To your lord, there is no difference between Cui Min and a lower official. Instead of using a quack doctor who only knows how to steal other people's prescriptions and has no real knowledge, it would be better to use a better person, isn't it? ?"

Qi Qing looked at her quietly.

The sun was rising in the afternoon, and thick clouds gradually drifted in the distance, and the bright streets were suddenly filled with haze.

After a long silence, he laughed.

"Medical Officer Lu is so brave."

Qi Qing stared at Lu Chen, his tone full of appreciation: "I have a daughter who is as old as you. If she is as smart as you, I will be relieved."

Lu Chen just said he didn't dare.

He nodded: "It's good that you insist on justice. Cui Yuan has been in the medical official hospital for many years. If what you say is true, Cui Min really stole people's prescriptions. Anyone who breaks the law and neglects them will be punished even if they are close, and I will return it." You must be fair and make what happened back then known to the public.”

He stood up, holding on to the cane, intending to leave.

Lu Yan stopped him: "Sir, you forgot the medicine bag."

"No."

Qi Qing smiled and said: "Heart disease still needs heart medicine. Once Medical Officer Lu understands my heart disease, I think the symptoms will be cured without medicine."

After saying this, he no longer looked at Lu Huan, but slowly walked out of the shop and disappeared little by little under the plum tree.

Until Qi Qing's back was no longer visible in front of the door, the smile on Lu Chen's face suddenly disappeared and he looked coldly at the tea bowl on the table.

In the tea bowl, the light brown tea soup is clear and calm without any ripples.

Qi Qing never took a sip from sitting down to leaving.

Be extremely cautious.

She lowered her eyes and released the clenched fists hidden in her sleeves.

The palms of my hands were covered in sweat.

…

On the carriage, Qi Qing closed his eyes slightly.

In summer, the bronze bull in Taishi Mansion is often placed with ice cubes, which makes it cool and comfortable. There is no cover from the sun on West Street. Even though Renxin Medical Center is not hot due to the shadow of the branches in front of the door, staying in that narrow medicine shop is still different from the past.

The butler held the silk handkerchief and gently wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Sir, what Lu Zhuo said is true or false."

"lie."

"how……"

Qi Qing still closed his eyes and said calmly: "There is no way she is here for Miao Liang's prescription."

As Lu Yan said, it was an accident that Cui Min stole the prescription, and because of this accidental flaw, she used it as a condition for dealing with the Qi family, all just to vent her anger on Miao Liangfang.

But if he was just venting his anger for Miao Liangfang, why would he offend the Taishi Mansion so much.

If a person gives more than he asks for, there must be something wrong with him.

The housekeeper was confused: "But before that, it was indeed impossible for her to know about the young master's condition."

Qi Qing was silent.

This is what he doesn't understand.

It is impossible for Lu Zhen to start planning in the spring test.

"Master," the housekeeper said, "No matter what she wants, now that the young master is ill, there is nothing Cui Min can do. This medical woman claims to be able to cure it, but her behavior is suspicious. I don't know whether it is true or not. Are you really going to let her cure it?" Master, do you want to treat the disease?"

"rule."

Qi Qing twisted the beads and said, "Cui Min is no longer useful and can be discarded. The same is true for Yutai. It is better to give it a try."

The butler's heart trembled and he stopped talking.

The beads were warm and moist. Qi Qing looked at them quietly, but the image of the woman just now when she faced him calmly appeared in front of his eyes.

Regardless of whether he was smart or not, Cui Min, who had already become the envoy of the academy, could not achieve this level of calmness and calmness.

Lu Yan was actually right, she was more useful than Cui Min.

It's a pity that she was born into an ordinary person. If she were the daughter of the Qi family...

My surname is Lu.

The surname is Lu...

After twisting the beads with his hand, Qi Qing suddenly opened his eyes and asked, "What was the name of the good woman who died in Fengle Tower earlier?"

"My name is Lu Rou."

"Lu Rou, Lu Zhuo..."

Qi Qing's eyes changed slightly.

"My lord, do you suspect that she is from the Lu family in Changwu County?" The housekeeper was puzzled, "But Liangfu's family is from Changwu County, and Lu Shun is from southern Jiangsu."

Qi Qing frowned.

Lu Chen is indeed from southern Sunan.

He had also doubted the origin of this woman, but just after testing her in the drug store, she had dispelled his doubts and she was indeed from southern Sunan.

What's more, the people sent to Changwu County came back and said that the Lu family in Changwu County did not have any other relatives. The only distant relatives, Liu Kun's family, also died crazy and had left Shengjing long ago.

However, being too seamless is inherently weird. Rather than evidence, he believed more in his intuition that he had lived for decades. This intuition had helped him avoid disasters in the past many years, and the Qi family was still precariously safe in the world.

"Send someone to Sunan again."

"Ask Sunan Medical Clinic if there is a medical woman named Lu Chen." He said.

…

Night falls.

In Cui Mansion, Cui Min sat on the ground in front of the bookshelf.

The ground is full of medical books and pharmacology, and the ground is full of messes. In the mess, Cui Min sat on the floor, selflessly rummaging through the piles of medical books in front of him, his eyes bloodshot.

After he returned home during the day, he locked himself in his study, neither eating nor drinking water, and read through medical books like crazy.

Both his wife and his son had come to persuade him several times, but he ignored them and kept busy. Others said he was crazy, but Cui Min himself knew clearly——

There is no time.

He was running out of time.

The Grand Master's Mansion asked him to restore Qi Yutai's consciousness before the ceremony. It was very urgent, and Lu Zhuo was even more terrible. She would replace him at any time.

It is always easy for genius to replace mediocrity. Everything he had worked hard for many years was vulnerable in the eyes of the other party. Cui Min could not accept this fact.

He rummaged wildly and murmured: "I can do it, I can also make a recipe..."

He is the envoy of the hospital. He has been the envoy for so many years. He has read all the medical records and medical records of the hospital. He also relied on his true talents and knowledge to get into the red list of the spring examination. It is impossible to compare with a young medical woman from an ordinary background. but.

He will definitely be able to cure Qi Yutai, just a little more time will be enough...

There was a faint noise outside the door, accompanied by screams, and then, with a "bang", the door of the study was kicked open mercilessly.

Cui Min turned his head suddenly.

The heavy wooden door fell down in Cui Min's horrified eyes.

A team of red-clothed officials rushed in. The leading official took a look at the embarrassed and haggard man on the ground, and his tone was as cold as ice.

"Cui Min, the director of the Imperial Academy of Medical Officers, someone accused you of stealing the medical prescriptions of your subordinates for your own use, slandering and framing your colleagues-"

"No-"

Before he could finish his observation, Cui Min jumped up and interrupted him.

It seemed that the thing he had been afraid of had finally happened. The long period of sleeplessness had made him on the verge of collapse. The last string in his brain broke, and he jumped up, pushed the official in front of him and wanted to run out.

The next moment, he felt a sharp pain in his back, and he was kicked to the ground and could not get up again.

The severe pain made him dissipate his previous rage in an instant, and he suddenly became much more sober.

The officials rushed into the house and quickly searched in the study. All the medical books were swept to the ground, and the vases he carefully collected were smashed to pieces.

A boot stepped on his face, and Cui Min's face was pressed to the ground. He suddenly looked at the mess in the house. As he looked, he realized that time was blurred. He seemed to have returned to the day when Miao Liangfang had an accident more than ten years ago. People from Concubine Yan's palace rushed into the medical officer's courtyard and pushed Miao Liangfang, who was sorting medical records in the medical record library, to the ground. In a hurry, someone stepped on Miao Liangfang's leg bone, causing Miao Liangfang to scream in pain. This scream seemed to please the officials. They deliberately ground on his calf and listened to his painful screams.

At that time, Miao Liangfang was also being held down like this, with his face pressed to the ground. As if he had noticed his gaze, he tried to turn his head to look at Cui Min standing at the door, his eyes full of disbelief.

The young Cui Min watched coldly as his former best friend was trampled on the ground, his eyes red, like a fish on a felt board, at the mercy of others.

Just like him now.