Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 23: Chapter 14 No Silver, Payment in Flesh

Gu Changsheng felt she had never been this kindhearted in her two lifetimes, saving a man was one thing, but the key point was this man had no money!

It seemed she had been busy for nothing!

Well, that wouldn’t do, so she searched this person again, finding only a tattered robe, a white jade hairpin, and a bronze token inscribed with symbols that made no sense.

Where was the purse? The silver?

She looked disdainfully at the man on the bed who had regained a bit of his strength, deliberately ignoring his handsome face, “I say, brave warrior, do you not carry silver when you go out?”

“I don’t need to carry it.” The man in the bed coldly replied, not even giving her a glance.

Alright then! You’re the boss, but it’s been two or three days, and still no one has come to pay the bill?

“Brave warrior, let’s speak plainly, it’s only natural for a Doctor to charge a consultation fee. I treated you, which costs ten thousand taels, saved your life, that’s another ten thousand taels at a discount, dealt with the people tracking you, another ten thousand taels for distress, and made a promise on your behalf, another ten thousand taels for compensation. That’s a total of forty thousand taels, hand it over!” Gu Changsheng stretched out her hand confidently demanding money.

The man on the bed finally moved his brow, turned his head, looking at the white jade hairpin and bronze token in her hand, then back at her furiously persistent face, his tone unchanged, still icy, “No money!”

What! Gu Changsheng couldn’t accept it, hands on hips, shouting, “No money? You speak so righteously about not having money, do your parents know about this? You think you’re so great because you don’t have money? If you have no money, what about my forty thousand taels? Or are you planning to repay with your body?”

“Impossible!” The man’s face went dark, a spark of anger in his stern eyes.

“Ah, even if you want to repay with your body, you’d have to ask if I, your old lady, am willing to accept it!”

Saying that, she scornfully looked him over, “Big deal if you’re handsome, so you can get away with owing debts? In this world, silver rules everything, no way are you owing me money!”

“My name is Zhou Mu.” The man in the bed coldly shot back, still staring at her.

“I don’t care if you’re Zhou Mu, Wang Mu, or Li Mu, dare to owe your old lady money, you’re just scum. Listen well, if you can’t pay up the silver, watch your old lady throw you into the little servant house to hang a card and serve customers.” Gu Changsheng glanced at the handsome man on the bed, anger not abating, at least this decent skin of his could be worth some money!

“Vulgar and indecent!” A woman, yet aware of the little servant house, really, the man darkened his face, what a weirdo he had encountered!

“I’m vulgar and indecent? At least you pretend to be classy, just a pity you have no silver! Tell you, stop putting on airs with me, on my turf, you’re either a dragon that coils for me, a tiger that curls up for me, you have no rights to strut around.” Saying this, she didn’t even glance at him and turned to leave.

“My lady, what’s wrong? Another quarrel?” Xiao Cui put down her needlework, stepped forward, and straightened the clothes that had been messed up from changing his bandages, every time her lady had gone to change his bandages these past few days, she came out fuming.

“Don’t mention it, just a worthless man, dared to call me vulgar when he has no money. If it weren’t for his injuries, I’d definitely catch him and give him a beating, teach him what ‘vulgar’ means!” Gu Changsheng bit angrily into a plum, “I offered him a chance to repay with his body as a favor, and he had the nerve to refuse, such ingratitude.”

Now it was Xiao Cui’s turn to darken her face, my lady, is this really okay?

“My lady, you and he, don’t match…” Xiao Cui spoke hesitantly, the man looked good, but his background was unknown and under such circumstances, definitely not a good match.

“Me and him? Xiao Cui, have you lost your mind? We’re not just incompatible; our zodiac signs clash!” Gu Changsheng scoffed, “I was just saying, you took it seriously, just thinking about it makes me angry, he even had the nerve to refuse, why, what about me doesn’t match him?”

Xiao Cui suddenly looked up, her lady’s words were so contradictory…

“Really, your old lady here, in the prime of her twenty-one years, and still getting rejected, once his wounds heal, I’ll beat him up to vent my frustration.”

Han Qiu entered just to hear this, glanced at the two children next to her pretending to have heard nothing and burying their heads in books, wasn’t the lady afraid of corrupting these two kids? Helplessly, he twitched his lips and dutifully came forward to report, “My lady, there are soldiers searching both inside and outside the city, they’ll be here at the inn soon.”

Gu Changsheng propped her chin and squinted, “I was wondering why the last few days were so quiet, seems like they’ve picked up the scent and are coming for us, let’s go check it out, don’t want to get Hu Buer into trouble, Xiao Cui, pack up, we need to get ready to flee.”