194: Chapter 193: Find Doctor Zhou 194: Chapter 193: Find Doctor Zhou Dawn had just broken when Gu Youyou left the house, for she feared the strange visitor from last night would block her path early this morning.
According to Qin Changlin, Doctor Zhou should have returned last night.
Although she had never t Doctor Zhou, Qin Changlin had already arranged for Gu Youyou to be placed under Doctor Zhou as a female disciple, which would provide her with an official status when she would eventually consult at Jisheng Hall.
Gu Youyou’s dical skills may not have been inferior to Doctor Zhou’s, yet she was very willing to beco his disciple because Doctor Zhou was a true man of dical ethics.
With his dical skills, he could have opened his own clinic in a much larger city by now, but he chose to stay in the small Qingshui Town to ensure that the local people had access to dical care.
With ti to spare, Gu Youyou first went to a breakfast shop selling wontons and had a bowl before heading over.
Qin Changlin had ntioned the day before that Doctor Zhou might return very late after several exhausting days and might not get up early, so she could co a bit later.
But Gu Youyou still arrived too early.
The attendant in the clinic had just opened the doors, and was wiping the clinic’s signboard at the entrance.
The boy was rely in his early teens – employing child labor was indeed sothing only people from the ancient tis would undertake.
Seeing Gu Youyou, the boy hurried over, “Sister Youyou is here early.
Qin Shixiong is currently washing up in the back hall, and will co out in a mont.”
As she followed him in through the main door, Gu Youyou laughed, “Early to bed and early to rise makes for a healthy life.
Besides, I’m not that early.
If I were in a farming household, I’d have to start working on the fields much earlier.”
The attendant repeatedly agreed, then added, “Indeed, indeed, it’s the busiest ti of the year for farrs with the autumn harvest.
With the scorching sun during the day, they can only work from dawn to dusk.
Otherwise, they might suffer from heatstroke, fall ill, and have to spend money on dical treatnt.”
Gu Youyou took a seat on a chair, raised her eyebrows, and asked, “You seem to understand quite a bit about the life of a farr; are you from a village?”
Upon hearing this, the attendant froze, then started to fidget uncomfortably, prompting Gu Youyou to frown in wonder.
There’s nothing shaful about being from a village, yet his mannerisms suggested that he felt his background was sothing to be hidden.
Just then, Qin Changlin erged from the backyard.
Upon hearing the conversation, he shook his head with a smile, “Yuancheng, go back outside to wipe the signboard.”
Relieved as if a huge burden were lifted, Yuancheng hurriedly scuttled away in a flurry.
Gu Youyou was puzzled, and Qin Changlin offered an explanation with a smile, “This Yuancheng, originally a farr from Shishu Village.
His family was poor and, unfortunately, they had many children.
Just his parents alone had ten.
Together with the other four houses, it’s said they had over thirty children.
Even a well-off household would struggle to support such a large number of children, let alone one as poor as his.
Later on, the daughters who were too young to work in the fields, those around three to five years old, were sold by the family.
They sold several, but there were still too many children.
Eventually, his parents began contacting human traffickers to sell their sons.
That year Yuancheng was only five.
He couldn’t do much work in the fields, and when a human trafficker ca by, his parents sold him.
Do you know what for?”
Lowering his voice on his last words, Qin Changlin teased with a suspenseful tone.
Gu Youyou rolled her eyes, “What else can a five-year-old boy be sold for?
To the palace to beco a eunuch.”
Qin Changlin gasped with pretended surprise, staring at Gu Youyou, “How did you know?”
Gu Youyou: “…” How did I know?
Isn’t that how it’s always portrayed in TV dramas?
Such an old cliché.
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