Chapter 78: Chapter 77: Junior Brother, You’re So Good to Me
The road home.
Seems not very peaceful.
"Master, is someone following us?" Mr. Xie, after all, is a skilled practitioner in the Bone Forging Realm, and he could detect the tail following behind the carriage.
If it were an ordinary coachman, that might not be the case.
"Don’t worry about it, just head back." Lin Miao instructed, after tonight, he was under more scrutiny, wanting to keep a low profile and continue biding his time was no longer possible.
"Got it." Mr. Xie agreed, driving the carriage swiftly and steadily along the street.
"Junior brother, did I cause you trouble today?" Inside the carriage, Sun Youwei nestled in Lin Miao’s embrace, slightly raised her head, and asked with a whisper like orchids.
She was now accustomed to such intimate contact. After all, she had already determined her belonging, anything more reserved would be pretentious.
Besides, the embrace of her junior brother was indeed very warm and gave a strong sense of security.
"No, you did very well." Lin Miao comforted her, if Sun Youwei hadn’t appeared today, the subsequent events would not have occurred.
However, he had no intention of blaming Sun Youwei, for in this world, how can one avoid all conflicts?
Thinking of avoidance today, and again tomorrow, staying detached when matters do not concern oneself, living like that would result in having no friends.
He also looked unfavorably upon the Ye Family, not only having inappropriate thoughts about his senior sister but also forcing someone to agree to a marriage alliance at their birthday banquet.
Such conduct is truly disdainful.
He didn’t have a deep relationship with the Xu Family either, but Mr. Xu was considered a decent elder, at least his attitude towards patients was worthy of an accomplished healer. He was willing to interact and even build a friendship with such a person.
As for the Xu Family, he made a clear distinction in his mind, Xu An was Xu An, and even Xu Qixi was separate from the Xu Family.
Returning home to Xiuyue Square.
It was already the end of the Hai hour.
"Old Xie, can you do counter-surveillance, check the origin of the tail." Lin Miao instructed Mr. Xie.
"You really know how to use people." Mr. Xie muttered, there was no choice, as the Lin Family’s steward, if he didn’t do this task, who would?
"Senior sister, I’ll take you back to rest." Lin Miao escorted Sun Youwei back to her room before returning to his study.
He replayed the events of the birthday banquet tonight, especially everyone’s words, in his mind.
Even though the matters of the Ye and Xu families didn’t concern him, he was dragged into it, so he naturally needed to be prepared.
Currently, he was already considered a "probationary" physician. According to the rules set by the court, these probationary physicians needed to find a medical hall for their internship.
And ordinary medical halls wouldn’t suffice; it had to be one with at least a junior physician.
Only a medical hall with junior physicians was qualified to accept "probationary" physicians for internships. After completing a year of internship and reaching a certain number of consultations, followed by assessments, they could be considered official physicians.
By then, they could either continue to practice at the internship medical hall or open their own practice, both were possible.
Under normal circumstances, one with a clear lineage doesn’t need to consider this, only those who want to break away from their original lineage might consider developing externally.
This actually formed a rather closed academic hierarchy.
But it wasn’t absolute, after all, medicine has developed over the years, with various branches and transmissions, some fragmented into countless sects.
Every change of dynasty would drive a break from the old order. Although the field of medicine was relatively stable, medical practitioners weren’t living in a vacuum and were greatly influenced by politics.
Like the current Da Li Dynasty, the court was dominated by the Hedong Confucian School (a branch of Mr. Zhong’s heritage), but in reality, there were many medical schools such as the Alchemy School (Alchemy), the Warm Disease School, the Injury and Illness School (Sima Sheng), the Scripture School (Le), and so on.
The late Sun Simiao should belong to a branch of the Scripture School, but as to which branch exactly, no one knows now.
Sun Simiao never mentioned his master to Lin Miao or Sun Youwei, whether he was avoiding something or for other reasons, anyway, he was now an orphan without roots.
And there were quite a few people like him.
If he didn’t intend to join any medical hall, there was another path he could take, albeit a much harder one.
But for Lin Miao, it was definitely much freer.
What he wanted was freedom!
If he joined a medical hall, no matter how favorable the conditions, there would still be many constraints. He didn’t want to depend on anyone.
He decided not to join any medical hall and to apply for the court’s temporary "consultation" qualification to serve at a Convenient Medical Diagnosis Point for a year!
And Xiuyue Square had such a Convenient Medical Diagnosis Point, which had long been without a visiting "physician".
Because no one was willing to serve at these Convenient Medical Diagnosis Points, the Benefit People Pharmacy didn’t have enough physicians and doctors either, so in places with a medical hall, they wouldn’t generally assign a convenient consultation physician.
This service was temporarily undertaken by nearby medical halls. The Benefit People Pharmacy would purchase services, such as a certain number of convenient consultations per year.
Holding a prescription from the Benefit People Pharmacy’s convenient consultation allowed for discounted medicine purchases. Indeed, there were benefits involved, but these discounts had limits on quantity and type.
It was somewhat like low-income insurance, but it wasn’t specifically targeted at any individual. Even when purchasing medical hall services, these prescriptions had spending limits.
If Lin Miao applied for this "convenient consultation
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