Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 341: Chapter 216: The Hardest Grace to Accept Is from a Beautiful Woman Chapter 341: Chapter 216: The Hardest Grace to Accept Is from a Beautiful Woman Due to the free clinic, Gu Changsheng got up unusually early the next morning, but as soon as he stepped out of his bedroom, he was met with an incredibly aggrieved and handsome face.

Zhou Mu was still dressed in his dark brocade purple clothes, standing with his arms folded across his chest, leaning against the carved railing near the doorway of Gu Changsheng’s bedroom. His sexy lips were tightly pursed as he stared unblinkingly at Gu Changsheng, who was just exiting the door.

This reaction made Gu Changsheng pause, and he quickly looked down at his clothes to make sure nothing was amiss.

Assured that his clothes were in proper order, Gu Changsheng couldn’t help but let out a long sigh of relief.

“What’s the matter? The sun hasn’t even risen, and you’re blocking my doorway for what?” Gu Changsheng’s brows arched slightly as he leaned on the door, looking at the handsome, resentful man in front of him.

Zhou Mu heard him, snorted almost inaudibly, but didn’t answer.

“Today is my first day opening the clinic for patients, we can’t have any mischief. Speak if you have something to say. I cannot become the intestinal worm in your stomach, so I can’t guess what you’re thinking with all the twists and turns in your mind!” Gu Changsheng shrugged helplessly.

He really hadn’t done anything so outrageously wrong to provoke this man, had he? Why then, did he have this look of deep-seated resentment as if some grave injustice had been done to him, appearing at his door before dawn?

“Hey! Evildoer, you’ve got to speak up. Staring at me like that, you’re making my skin crawl.” As Gu Changsheng spoke, he rubbed his arms.

Being stared at so unwaveringly by an attractive man was truly awkward.

However, Zhou Mu obviously made up his mind not to answer.

No matter what Gu Changsheng asked, the man simply would not open his mouth, just watching her!

As Gu Changsheng walked, he followed, his eyes never leaving her for a moment.

“Godfather! What on earth is going on today?” Gu Changsheng sighed to the sky, clearly defeated by the persistent Zhou Mu.

Suddenly, Gu Changsheng turned around and glared at Zhou Mu then shouted, “Kun Nu, go tie up Yuan Bao and bring him to me!”

So you think silence is golden, huh? If I can’t get answers from you, can’t I start with someone close to you?

“As you command!” Kun Nu, who was assigned to protect Gu Changsheng, was extremely obedient and immediately responded.

“No need to tie me up! No need to tie me up! I’m coming myself!” A voice hurriedly called from afar, atop the wall. Yuan Bao’s plump body was struggling to climb over the wall.

Gu Changsheng watched with her eyes twitching, then looked back at Zhou Mu resentfully and turned to point at Yuan Bao, shouting, “Are the doors there just for decoration? You’re such a big lump and yet you keep climbing up and down, you’re not tired?”

Yuan Bao looked aggrieved from atop the wall, “The wall was just built too high, harder to climb than before…”

Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng was at a loss for words and waved her hand dismissively, “Kun Nu, go pluck him down for me, don’t let him damage my wall.

Kun Nu, lurking in the shadows, responded, and in the blink of an eye, Yuan Bao was thrown over the wall.

Once Yuan Bao steadied himself, he ran quickly toward the corridor where they were, his face showing even more grievance than Zhou Mu’s.

“My lord, you’re being unfair. How could you abandon Yuan Bao and run off by yourself? What should I do if Miss Huo catches me?” Yuan Bao looked at Zhou Mu with pitiful eyes and complained in a low voice.

Zhou Mu just glanced at him and then deliberately looked away, firmly refusing to respond.

Once Gu Changsheng heard this, she had a rough idea of what was going on. She immediately pulled Yuan Bao aside to talk in secret, whispering, “Yuan Bao, what exactly is happening? What earth-shattering, ghost-weeping deed did that Miss Huo commit? Your lord has been blocking my door since early this morning and nearly made me blush from his gaze!”

Upon hearing this, Yuan Bao sighed twice and said in a lower voice, “Lady Changsheng, you don’t know, no sooner had my lord and I returned to the mansion yesterday than we were caught red-handed by Miss Huo. Oh, my dear mother, Miss Huo is no ordinary woman. She clung to my lord, dredging up all the trivial grievances from our childhood and didn’t stop there. When she recounted yesterday’s events, she turned into a woman of tears.”

Gu Changsheng’s eyebrows lifted slightly as she struggled to keep the smile from her lips.

In her heart, she admonished herself, one must be kind-hearted, cannot feel schadenfreude! Absolutely no schadenfreude!

“It is often said that women are made of water, but Yuan Bao didn’t believe it at first. Miss Huo truly opened my eyes though; she clung to my lord and cried from the Mao hour straight through to the second watch of the night, wailing for three whole Shichen Chinese Time without a break. Her tears almost drowned my lord!” Yuan Bao said, wiping his forehead as if still frightened, “It was terrifying, indeed terrifying. She’s not made of water, but a lake! How much tears must she have to be able to cry for hours on end like that…”

“Pfft!” Gu Changsheng couldn’t help but burst out laughing when she heard this, and she quickly turned back to see Zhou Mu’s face darken. She promptly covered her mouth with her hand.

Tender affection combined with a tearful onslaught, Miss Huo really is something else!

Look how scared the master and servant were, running off before dawn, tsk tsk…

“The hardest thing to return is a beauty’s favor, the ancients sure didn’t lie to me…” After several attempts to hold back, Gu Changsheng still couldn’t help voicing his thoughts.

This trick could only be pulled off by a beauty like Miss Huo, if you switched her with Gu Changsheng, he certainly couldn’t do it, let alone do it, just the thought alone is terrifying!

She cried for three Shichen? Damn, does she want to cry from winter to summer or what?

“Alright, you two stay at my residence for now to take shelter and calm your spirits. I have a free clinic today, so hurry up and join me for a meal in the dining hall. After eating, I need to go see patients,” Gu Changsheng glanced at Zhou Mu’s unpleased face, reached out to grab his sleeve, and pulled him toward the dining hall.

Zhou Mu lowered his gaze to look at the small hand on his sleeve, then turned his hand to hold it in his palm.

“You, a Great General War King who has won hundreds of battles, to be frightened by a girl to this state, if this were to spread, wouldn’t it make people laugh their heads off?” Gu Changsheng, feeling the warmth from his hand, couldn’t help but tease.

Zhou Mu huffed coldly, “This king was only considering the kindness she has shown by serving diligently for four years; I couldn’t bear to embarrass her!”

“Diligent servitude for four years?” Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s phoenix eyes narrowed, and a flash of light passed through them.

Seeing this, Yuan Bao at his side muttered a “not good” to himself, quickly stepped forward to explain, “Let me clarify, no one is clearer about this than Yuan Bao. Lady Changsheng, Miss Huo indeed did serve at my lord’s side for four years. This matter originated from His Highness Prince Bao, who took my lord back to Fulu Palace to raise him and, fearing that my lord would be bored, he took away the reader from Princess Ling Yun, which was Miss Huo, to accompany my lord. By coincidence, from the time Miss Huo was born, Consort Zheng had decided to betroth her as my lord’s wife, so she stayed. From when my lord was a little over two years old until he was six and was sent out of the palace to apprentice, it totaled to no more than four years! At that time, both were just children, absolutely nothing happened!”

Gu Changsheng watched Yuan Bao nervously explain while repeatedly waving his hands, shrugged indifferently, “So it seems, evildoer, that you and Miss Shuixian really could be considered childhood friends, innocent of the world’s ways…

“Lady Changsheng, please don’t misunderstand, my lord has no other feelings for her. My lord’s affection for you is as clear as day and night!” Upon hearing this, Yuan Bao hastily explained.

“Alright, alright, who doesn’t have a past or memories? I’m not so idle as to dwell on this. However, to see you two so easily frightened by tears, that’s indeed a bit unmanly!” Gu Changsheng tugged Zhou Mu, “Let’s go, it’s time to eat. After the meal, there’s more work to be done. Uncle Song said that the poor lining up outside for the free clinic formed a street-long queue since last night.”

Zhou Mu nodded and followed with a step.

They finished breakfast quickly, and left Zhou Mu to teach the little bun martial training. At the beginning of the Chen hour, Gu Changsheng, having tidied up, commanded Uncle Song to open the eight large doors of the medical hall.

The moment the doors were swung open, a roaring cheer came from the crowded people outside.

Gu Changsheng saw the ragged assembly of patients outside and glanced at his own richly decorated clothes, his heart couldn’t help but ache.

A true gentleman worries not about scarcity but about inequality, but which era has truly achieved even distribution of wealth and poverty?

Just like now, I am wealthy and need not worry about food and clothes, but these countless commoners cannot afford medical treatment, only waiting for the day of my charity clinic.

“Uncle Song, instruct those two young lads below to dispense medicines according to the prescriptions at no cost, making sure not to shortchange the amounts!” Gu Changsheng sat behind the consulting desk and ordered with a solemn voice.

“Yes,” Uncle Song responded.

“Let’s begin!” At the fall of Gu Changsheng’s word, an elderly woman who was at the front of the line stepped forward and sat down at the consulting desk.

Gu Changsheng carefully took her pulse, asked about her condition, wrote the prescription while giving the elderly woman instructions for care.

The prescription, as expected, first reached Hu Yihai’s hands, who copied it before instructing to prepare the medicine.

The elderly woman, holding the ample amount of medicine in her hands, knelt on one side and kept thanking them nonstop.

“Old auntie, hurry back to boil the medicine, there are still many people waiting to see the doctor,” Uncle Song helped her up and walked her towards the door.

“Thank you, Medicine God Lady Changsheng, thank you, Medicine God Lady Changsheng!” The old woman kept her grateful expression until she was out the door, kneeling down to kowtow three times before leaving.

Those who came after for treatment did the same, not lingering within the medical hall to avoid delaying Lady Changsheng’s consultation time, only leaving after giving their thanks.

“Miss, this vile woman really knows how to put on airs. Look at these lowly commoners with no sense of better, they practically idolize her like an immortal,” Ru Yu stood aside, watching the grateful poor coming and going, and spoke with a depressed expression.

“They’re just pandering for fame and praise, she’s nothing more than a Medicine Lady after all, a woman exposing herself with no sense of propriety, righteousness, or shame!” Huo Shuixian, who wore a plain colored damask skirt and a light veil hat today, seeing this scene, was filled with jealousy and disdain, “She’s just doing it for the silver, right? Come on, let’s go inside!”