Chapter 248: Chapter 106: Spring Exam Quota_3
Yin Zheng pondered for a mont, "Are you worried about the girl being enchanted by Lord Pei, Shopkeeper Du, is that why you’re reacting this way? Are you enamored with our girl and feeling jealous?"
"Cough cough cough—"
Du Changqing nearly choked on a lon seed husk, and only after so struggle managed to spit it out, he retorted angrily, "How could that be possible?"
"Then why do you get so upset every ti Lord Pei is ntioned?"
"If we don’t stop him, and he sweet-talks Doctor Lu into the Pei Family’s mansion?" Du Changqing said irritably, "Once a woman marries, she loses her freedom. Especially in a bureaucratic household like theirs."
"If Doctor Lu really ends up with soone surnad Pei, would he still let her co out to attend to my hall? My dical hall has finally started to see progress, and in a few more years, I could afford to buy property south of the city. He wants to lure Doctor Lu, he’s scraping off my silver. Depriving soone of their wealth is akin to killing their parents; facing the man who murdered my ’parents,’ could I possibly show a kind face?"
Yin Zheng had not expected Shopkeeper Du’s thoughts to be so uniquely original; she was montarily speechless before finally saying, "I see, I underestimated you, Shopkeeper Du."
Du Changqing shoved the lon seeds into his pocket, "I’ve told you before, watch less of that romantic stuff, think bigger."
He lifted the felt curtain and sighed, "Doctor Lu, this golden phoenix, can’t be taken away by so ssy trifle. She should just stay in our broken-down nest and continue to gild our nest with her presence!"
Yin Zheng: "..."
He strode off, his figure proud and unrestrained. Yin Zheng pursed her lips, and looking at his retreating back, her gaze filled with a hint of sympathy, she whispered softly, "That remains to be seen."
...
While Du Changqing was still thinking about keeping Lu Tong as the treasure of Renxin dical Hall for a long ti, Young Master Dong, having received Lu Tong’s request, visited the dical establishnt that very afternoon.
The dical envoy of the establishnt had been lying on the bed these past few days, drafting the list of commoner doctors for the Imperial dical Bureau’s spring exams, and when the Minister of Imperial Treasury’s young son unexpectedly arrived, he imdiately dropped the brazier he was holding and rushed barefooted to welco the visitor.
Surrounded by a group of people, Dong Lin entered the establishnt, and once the door was closed, he repeated his reasons for coming. The dical envoy in charge imdiately slapped his chest and said confidently, "Such a trivial matter, why bother Young Master Dong running a trip here, just sending soone to say the word would have sufficed." He then leaned closer to the roster submitted by various dical halls and queried with curiosity, "The person Young Master Dong speaks of is... is..."
"It’s Doctor Lu Lu Tong from Renxin dical Hall."
At this, the dical envoy had an epiphany, his gaze towards Dong Lin suddenly changed, "Ah, it’s that Doctor Lu!"
Renxin dical Hall had gained so fa in the Shengjing dical circles in the past six months, but not because the previously obscure female doctor from out of town had produced two new redies. Instead, it was because Lou Si from the established pharmacy, after accepting silver to make Renxin dical Hall suffer, ended up embarrassingly chased away by the Dong Family’s bodyguards who ca to support, spreading the incident swiftly among the dical community.
The insignificant Renxin dical Hall unexpectedly had the backing of the Minister of Imperial Treasury.
The dical establishnt had originally been skeptical about these rumors, but now with the young scion of the Dong Family personally interceding for this Doctor Lu, it seed the rumors were indeed true.
The dical envoy silently added a mark next to the little dical hall on West Street in his mind, while outwardly he assured, "Young Master Dong, rest assured, the establishnt here fails to fill the quota for recomnded doctors for the spring exams every year. With your word, on the contrary, you’ve solved an urgent need for us. I’ll draft her na right away; there will be no delay for Doctor Lu’s spring exam this year."
Dong Lin expressed his gratitude with a smile, listened to a series of the dical envoy’s flattering remarks, and then departed.
After he left, the attendant by the dical envoy’s side asked, "Sir, what’s so special about that Doctor Lu that Young Master Dong would personally appeal for her?"
Although she had treated Dong Lin, she was essentially just an ordinary commoner; it wouldn’t be worth it for the son of the Minister of Imperial Treasury to go out of his way like this. Dong Lin’s actions clearly indicated great concern for the matter.
The dical envoy snorted, "Who knows?"
He tucked his hands into his sleeves, "Find an opportunity to ntion this to Lady Dong."
"Eh? Why should you tell Lady Dong?"
The dical envoy rapped the attendant on the head, shaking his head as he walked away.
"Silly boy, we don’t help for nothing."
Outside, the servant helped Dong Lin into the carriage. The chill wind was biting, freezing the hands and feet, Dong Lin sneezed, and the servant hurriedly handed him a hand warr.
As the carriage turned a corner and gradually moved away from the long street, the servant couldn’t help but speak up, "Young Master, are you really going to help Doctor Lu enter the palace?"
Why would their Young Master personally suffer for the sake of a spring exam candidate?
Dong Lin, with a smile on his face, clutched the hand warr, its slightly burning warmth reminding him of the small patch of skin that Lu Tong’s fingers had touched back in the dical hall, just as hot.
His mind elsewhere, he said, "It’s just letting her participate in the spring exam; it’s not certain she’ll be able to pass the inspection and enter the palace."
Over the years, apart from the Imperial dical Bureau’s students, how many of the old doctors recomnded by the establishnt have passed? Granted, those old doctors are not diocre in dicine, but the inspection and practicing dicine are sotis two different things, and besides, Lu Tong is still so young.
Dong Lin was clear in his heart that even if he let Lu Tong take the spring exam, the outco would most probably be disappointing.
Yet, such an action could win him the good graces of the beautiful damsel.
In truth, he had always cared more about Lu Tong’s detachnt than his mother’s opposition. But today was different; she had taken the initiative to care about his health, and he had run about for her wish. Dong Lin believed he could discern a softening in Lu Tong’s attitude towards him—perhaps, for Doctor Lu, he wasn’t completely without sentint.
The servant asked, "What if Doctor Lu doesn’t pass the spring exam?"
"Even better."
The servant was taken aback.
The carriage jolted over the cobblestones, Dong Lin looked down and tightened his grip on the hand warr that almost slipped away, a trace of a smile flashing in his eyes.
"Then I’ll directly propose a match, and welco her into the Dong Family’s doors."
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