Chapter 347: Chapter 134: First Entry into the dical Officer Institute_2
Ascending the grand entrance, the vermilion naplate on top read "Hanlin dical Institute" in bold characters. Within the institute’s grounds, there was a main hall with five chambers, with the south hall to the left of the main hall serving as the dical Officer’s Office. Beyond that, at the rear of the dical temple, statues of Fu Xi and Shennong were enshrined. It was said that beyond the dicinal groves, there was also a dicine storehouse.
A short and plump Director of dicine stood in front of the main hall, flipping through the roster in his hands, while two other dical Officers stood by his side holding official seals, craning their necks in anticipation of Lu Tong and the rest of the group’s entrance.
The female official stepped into the main hall and greeted the Director of dicine with a bow, "Sir, everyone has arrived."
The Director of dicine squinted his eyes skeptically and glanced over the crowd. Handing over the roster to a dical Officer beside him, he turned and walked into the hall, saying, "Start taking nas."
The newly appointed Imperial dical Officers lined up one by one to present their identity docunts to the Officer in charge of registration. When it was Lu Tong’s turn, as she handed over her docunt, the ticulously dressed dical Officer with each facial hair neatly in place looked at her with a strange expression, squinting as if unbelieving, and carefully compared Lu Tong’s na with the na on the roster several tis.
Lin Danqing, who was behind Lu Tong, grew impatient and asked, "Sir, is there a problem?"
"No, no problem," Chang Jin snapped back to reality and beckoned Lu Tong, "Go ahead and enter."
Lu Tong did as told and entered, while Chang Jin raised his hand and ticked off Lu Tong’s na on the roster, still unable to hide his astonishnt inside.
Is this the sa Lu Tong who ranked first in the Verification Case Study? Why doesn’t she match the image I had in mind at all?
He had assud that since Lu Tong had managed to cause a rift between the young master of the Dong Family and his mother, she must behave loosely and excessively charming or have a sinister presence, looking almost ghostly—after all, it was highly likely she had spent so ti under the tutelage of a Judicial Investigator.
What well-born child would study corpse examinations for no reason?
Curious, Chang Jin had stayed up all night just to see with his own eyes what this fabled extraordinary woman truly looked like. But upon seeing her, she appeared entirely different from what he had imagined.
She was very young, with a natural and elegant beauty, her brows and eyes clean and lucid, without a hint of frivolousness in her deanor. Instead, there was a faint scholarly air about her, quite fitting for the calm and soothing temperant of a Healer.
This was totally incongruous with her wild handwriting!
Indeed, appearances can be deceiving. Thinking this, Chang Jin placed Lu Tong’s docunt in a bamboo basket on the side.
The registration process ended quickly. All twenty new dical Officers were present and accounted for. Next, it was ti to assign the new officers their respective dical departnts and residential institutes.
The newly joined dical Officers at the Hanlin dical Institute who had just entered were not yet able to directly attend to patients and were referred to as "dical Practitioners." They had to be examined by the dical Officer Institute for a period of ti, gradually filling vacancies as it was confird they were well-versed in dical theories, before they could officially serve.
The Imperial dical Doctors would assign the dical Officers to different departntal halls based on their areas of expertise demonstrated in the spring examination papers.
The dical Officers stood respectfully in the hall, anticipative of being assigned to a specialty departnt that they were competent in.
The Director of dicine ca out from inside, holding a long scroll and began to announce the assignnts in a slow and deliberate tone—
"Cao Huai, major and minor formula departnts, Yiqing Room in the south hall—"
"Zhao Qing, ophthalmology and oral dicine departnts, Shangshan Room in the south hall—"
"Chen Ming, acupuncture departnt..."
"Li Tong..."
"..."
"Lin Danqing, gynecology departnt, west Shou Room in the north hall—"
Lin Danqing who stood behind Lu Tong heaved a sigh of relief; her specialty was indeed gynecology, and attending to noblewon’s health was certainly sufficient for her. Delighted to have received her preferred assignnt, she then glanced at Lu Tong beside her. Lin Danqing hoped inwardly that Lu Tong would be assigned to the gynecology departnt as well, for it would be pleasant to have each other’s company.
However, as na after na was called, the Director of dicine still hadn’t ntioned Lu Tong. Lin Danqing grew increasingly anxious when she noticed Lu Tong exhibiting a calm deanor, as if she wasn’t particularly concerned about the outco.
"Lu Tong—"
The Director of dicine suddenly called out Lu Tong’s na.
Lin Danqing’s heart skipped a beat, and she tugged quietly at Lu Tong’s sleeve, signaling for her to listen carefully.
"Lu Tong, the Southern Pharmacy."
Upon hearing this, not only Lin Danqing, but also the other dical Officers—or rather, the dical Practitioners—in the hall were taken aback.
The Southern Pharmacy was not associated with any dical departnt; it was where the dical Officer Institute sorted dicinal materials to supply and sell to the Imperial Apothecary. Sending the top-ranked dical Officer from the Imperial dical Bureau’s spring examination to the Southern Pharmacy was like squandering a valuable resource. In practice, such work was usually done by Pharmacists, and was ordinarily not a task for dical Officers.
Among the dical Practitioners present that day, each had their own specialty departnts, yet only Lu Tong was assigned to the Southern Pharmacy.
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