Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 59: Chapter 32 The Old Woman Sells the Place

The prescription was ready, and Gu Changsheng comfortably sipped his tea.

This could be considered the opening, at least the day wasn’t wasted, at least she had to make some gains…

A moment later, Gu Changsheng went to fetch the needles. Old Lady Lau first got out of bed with uncertainty, then stomped her feet hard on the ground twice as if unsure, then stomped again twice…

“This, this, my legs don’t hurt so much anymore, and this knee is still feeling warm, what’s going on?”

Gu Changsheng glanced at her, wasn’t this a rhetorical question? What do you think is happening, of course, it’s the reaction after the acupuncture!

“Madam, Madam, do you really possess medical skills? Truly possess medical skills?” Old Lady Lau, having realized, grabbed Gu Changsheng’s sleeve and asked nervously.

“As you see.” Gu Changsheng shrugged his shoulders, the obvious had to be asked again and again.

“Then, can I still be cured?” Old Lady Lau asked nervously again, this leg problem was affecting her ability to work, and she had a great-grandson too…

Gu Changsheng examined her thoroughly again, then lifted his head to ask, “Does Grandma often wash clothes?”

“Yes, yes, Old Lady Lau here makes a living by washing clothes for others, how did you know, Madam?”

Gu Changsheng raised his hand and pointed at her hemp skirt hem, which still had the ashes from washing clothes, “Grandma, you should avoid contact with water from now on. If you want to completely cure your rheumatism, you must pay attention to this.”

“But if I don’t wash clothes for others, how can I make Silver Coins? My little grandson will have to starve with me.” saying this, Old Lady Lau lifted her sleeve to cover her face, and started to cry softly.

Gu Changsheng, feeling helpless, grabbed the two prescriptions on the diagnosis table, and leaned over to whisper various instructions in Old Lady Lau’s ear.

Old Lady Lau first looked puzzled, then her eyes lit up, looking at Gu Changsheng in disbelief, “Did Madam really say that?”

Gu Changsheng, indifferent, pointed outside the door, “Why don’t you try it and see.”

Old Lady Lau hesitated, then looked at Gu Changsheng again before grabbing the prescription as if clutching onto hope and walking towards the door, her legs moving much more agilely than when she had arrived.

Seeing that Old Lady Lau had even forgotten to say thanks, Gu Changsheng pursed his lips and shouted, “Uncle Song, close the door!”

Uncle Song promptly stepped forward and shut the two door panels.

As soon as the door panels were secured, Gu Changsheng rushed over in a sprint, taking up a position with the broadest view at the door hole, widening his eyes with intent as he looked outside, excitedly whispering to the three stunned people behind him, “Hurry up, there’s a hole in this door panel, each person get a spot, there’s a good show to watch outside.”

Although the three felt it was not graceful for Madam to be squatting at the door like a thief, their curiosity prevailed, and Han Qiu only hesitated a moment before joining, leaning on the door hole.

Outside of the Capital City in the Zhou Dynasty, towns did not impose a curfew, only the city gate operated on a schedule.

Now that it was mid-summer and despite the late Shichen, the sun had just set and the sky was no longer as bright as at midday, the street was still bustling with people coming and going.

At that moment, Old Lady Lau, who had just left the Medical Hall, was surrounded by a crowd, with people chattering around her.

“The Madam inside who treated you, has she given you a prescription?” someone asked first.

Old Lady Lau nodded her head, looking slightly afraid as she observed the crowd around her, recognizing two people, who seemed to be Doctor Hu from Hu Family Medical Hall and Doctor Zhou from Zhou’s Medical Center.

“The prescription, let me see it.” Hu Yihai was not so polite to an old woman, reaching out to grab the paper tightly held in Old Lady Lau’s hand.

She was just Old Lady Lau from East Street who washed clothes for others, he had heard of her.

And in her hand, was undoubtedly a prescription!

Old Lady Lau stepped back in fear, clutching the prescription tightly, and looked back at the tightly shut door of the Medical hall, wondering if what Madam had said was true.

This crowd of people looked so menacing, eyeing her as if she were a chunk of meat, causing her old heart to thump uncontrollably.

What exactly do all these doctors want?

“Old Lady Lau, did Gu Family Medical Hall only give you the prescription, and not prepare the medicine?” Seeing her like this, Hu Yihai dared not be rash, exchanging glances with the crowd, he asked.

It was not wise to forcibly snatch it; messing up the prescription would be troublesome!

Gu Family Medical Hall had no money to buy medicinal ingredients, even if they saw a patient and issued a prescription, they couldn’t actually provide medicine.

“Old Lady Lau, give me the prescription, and I will fetch your medicine from my Medical Hall, how about that?” Hu Yihai still extended his hand, enticingly twisting his mustache, “I won’t charge you for the medicine.”