Chapter 803: 374 Abuse the Scum (first update) Chapter 803: 374 Abuse the Scum (first update) Gu Jiao played chess with the old beggar for a while and then left, of course, she didn’t forget to take her earned gold ingot and “working fee”.
However, she did have a bit of conscience; she left the copper coins and scraps of silver for the old man.
It was still early in the day, so Gu Jiao went to the Hanlin Academy. She originally planned to wait for Xiao Liulang to finish his duties, but after asking the academy’s Kong Mu, she found out Xiao Liulang had gone to the countryside again.
This ti, it wasn’t to a distant place but within the Capital City, and he would be back by night.
“Thank you,” Gu Jiao said politely and then turned to leave the Hanlin Academy.
Today, Xiao Jingspace was going to play at Xu Zhuzhu’s house; he had given notice in the morning, so she didn’t need to pick him up from Guozijian. The Xu Family would send him back to the dical Hall in the evening.
Gu Jiao decided to go directly to the dical Hall.
What even Gu Jiao hadn’t anticipated was that on her way back to the dical Hall, she would encounter so hooligans.
Gu Jiao humd in wonder—it was still far from the New Year, were they starting to do business so early?
There were six hooligans in total, dressed like bandits or refugees from their attire, but all of them were sturdy and wielded knives and swords with a certain air, suggesting they did have so martial arts skills.
The n were masked with cloths, staring at her nacingly.
After thinking for a mont, Gu Jiao asked, “Robbery?”
Given her current dignified appearance, it surely was not molestation, right? But one couldn’t be sure, as so n who hadn’t eaten at for a long ti wouldn’t care about the niceties.
Sigh.
Gu Jiao was not interested.
Gu Jiao turned around and walked away, too lazy to fight.
“Stop right there!”
The leader of the hooligans shouted fiercely.
The result of Gu Jiao stopping was that she beat up the hooligans until their noses and faces were swollen, and they cried for their fathers and mothers.
Gu Jiao didn’t bother to report it to the officials; given their miserable condition, it wouldn’t be long before they would attract the nearby officers, so there was no need for her to take action.
Gu Jiao dusted off her wide sleeves and walked back to the dical Hall.
The reason she chose to walk was not that she had too much ti on her hands, nor was it because she was too stingy to hire a carriage; she simply wanted to observe the shops along the street.
On her way back to the dical Hall, she didn’t encounter any more trouble.
“Little Gu! You’re back!”
It was the second in command.
The dical Hall’s business had improved a lot, and the orders from the dicine factory had increased. In addition to making their own branded wound dicine, they also made so qi-enhancing and blood-replenishing pills.
The second owner was so busy he was going bald, and it was rare for him to bump into Gu Jiao.
“Uncle Hu,” Gu Jiao greeted him, “What’s the happy occasion today?”
The second owner smiled mysteriously, “Let show you sothing!”
“What?” Gu Jiao asked.
“This!” The second owner took out a glittering invitation from his bosom, “It wasn’t easy to get this. Our Miao Shou Hall is newly established and didn’t initially qualify to attend such an assembly, but who made so aweso!”
Gu Jiao still didn’t quite understand.
So the second owner explained to her, and finally, Gu Jiao understood that it was a networking event organized by the Capital City’s comrcial association. Though Miao Shou Hall was a dical clinic, it wasn’t a welfare institution of the governnt and was eligible to join the comrcial association.
In the association, one could seek more developnt opportunities and business partners, with a distinction between formal and informal mbers.
The second owner indeed expended great effort to secure an invitation to the association’s eting, which was scheduled for the next month.
He didn’t expect to beco an official mber of the association imdiately; after all, Huichun Hall had also attended for several years before joining the ranks of the association.
“The first ti is to learn, the second to get familiar, we’re mainly going to broaden our horizons this ti. What do you think?” the second owner asked.
“Fine,” Gu Jiao had no objections; she fully trusted the second owner with business matters.
It has to be said, this feeling of being trusted is quite nice.
The second owner laughed, “Then I’ll go make arrangents, and you rember to keep these days free!”
“Mmm,” Gu Jiao nodded in agreent.
“Alright, you go on with your work, oh my!” The second owner all of a sudden scread looking at Gu Jiao’s sleeve, “You’re injured!”
His shout was so loud that the entire Grand Hall heard it, including Eunuch Wei who had just gotten off his carriage.
“What’s happened? Who’s hurt? Is Miss Gu injured?” Eunuch Wei hurried inside, jogging all the way to Gu Jiao’s side.
Gu Jiao lifted the sleeve the second owner was looking at, which indeed had a few drops of blood on it. However, she wasn’t injured; it must have been the blood of the hooligans that she had accidentally rubbed onto her clothes.
“It’s not mine,” Gu Jiao said.
“Then what’s this blood about?” Eunuch Wei, pointing at her sleeve, asked worriedly.
Gu Jiao let out an “oh”: “I ran into a few hooligans just now and gave them a lesson.”
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