With a "woof," the good news spread far and wide.

It's nothing more than something that could be conveyed to the whole family in a single sentence, but the way it's communicated in this way adds a unique kind of fun.

The next morning

Old Lady Yun went to the Fan family to discuss with Old Lady Fan what festive items to prepare for the villagers. Yun Ling followed along, as she wanted to ask Bing Niang to prepare the list for the brothel madam.

After the Lantern Festival this year, Bingniang and her team started working on the inventory of briefs. Apart from the orders for one or two pairs, there was still a lot of inventory left, so all they needed to do was embroider a design on them.

“Sister Ling, this time it won’t take half a month to get this order out.”

"I trust my aunt, but there are still 340 pairs of plus-size briefs left. It will take about a month to process them all."

Bingniang stopped what she was doing, looked up at Yunling,

"Another size larger? Are these for men?"

"Exactly, this makes it even more difficult. I was thinking of giving Auntie ten coins per piece, but I don't know if she can even do it?"

Although the price of cotton fabric has dropped recently, for plus-size orders, there will still be more fabric wasted, so the total amount remains the same.

Moreover, if you give ten coins per item, your profit margin will be thinner. But in business, you can't make a clean profit on everything. If you lose money on one thing, you can make it back on another. So you don't lose anything, and that's how it is.

“Of course we can do it, but for now I’ll just use my husband’s size for the extra-large size. Come get a sample tomorrow and we’ll see if it works. If it does, we can continue.”

"OK."

After Yunling agreed, she turned around, but there was no sign of Grandma Yun or Grandma Fan.

The two had just discussed it and realized that talking wouldn't get them anywhere, so they decided to go to those people's homes to see what they actually needed and come up with an idea.

Yunling shrugged and walked home, thinking about going to the city with Yunchu.

Yun Chu was already dressed in the new clothes Zhang had dressed her in, and her face was full of smiles. After getting ready, Yun Ruoxia borrowed a donkey cart from the village chief, and the three of them took the mushrooms and went to the city together.

Yunling and Yunchu chose to get off at Ren'an Hall. Yun Ruoxia told them to be careful before driving the donkey cart toward Shengfu Restaurant.

As Yun Chu approached Ren'an Hall, she felt inexplicably nervous. Her hands and feet trembled uncontrollably, and even her speech became slurred.

"Lingniang, I...I...I'm scared."

"What are you afraid of, sister? We've been to Ren'an Hall often before, haven't we?"

Yun Chu grabbed Yun Ling's arm, trying to calm her wildly beating heart.

“I used to come here often, but…but…now…it’s different.”

"Don't worry, sister. We can just treat it like we're picking herbs to sell on a regular basis. If anything happens, I'll still be there for you. I might get angry if I do."

Yun Chu chuckled twice, took a few deep breaths, and felt much lighter before walking into Ren'an Hall.

There were quite a few people coming to Ren'an Hall for medical treatment today, especially five or six people queuing up to see Dr. Zhong. Two people, including Shen Changliu, who was sitting next to Dr. Zhong, also wanted to see him. Pei Lin was picking up medicine in front of the large medicine cabinet at the back, looking unusually serious.

Yun Chu and Yun Ling sat on a stool to the side, waiting for Elder Zhong to call them when he had a free moment.

However, as she waited, Yun Chu's nervousness gradually subsided, but at the same time, the excitement from last night slowly disappeared.

She watched the people in Ren'an Hall bustling about, as if it didn't matter whether she was there or not. What was a great thing for their family was now just a trivial matter to them.

Yun Chu suddenly felt that the new clothes she was wearing were very irritating. She wanted to take them off so that she could properly cover up her self-esteem and not expose it to outsiders.

Sitting next to Yun Chu, Yun Ling suddenly sensed that Yun Chu's mood was a bit off. She wanted to comfort her, but thinking that if she was feeling down, she wouldn't want others nagging and saying irrelevant things, she stopped trying to persuade her and quietly stayed by her side.

After about an hour, Shen Changliu stopped what he was doing and came over to say:

"Gentlemen, Elder Zhong invites you to come with me."

Yun Chu's calmed-down mood immediately became tense again. She was afraid that she would be rejected by Elder Zhong, or even that she would be considered unsuitable to be a female doctor. Many bad thoughts popped into her mind, and she even wanted to grab Yun Ling and run away.

Upon seeing Yun Chu's pale lips, Shen Changliu slowed his pace and deliberately took a long detour before reaching the place where Elder Zhong was resting.

"Master, the person has arrived."

"Come in."

Shen Changliu pushed the door open. Yun Chu lowered her head in fear, while Yun Ling looked at the old man in front of her with an open and generous expression.

Looking at his head of black hair interspersed with white hair, his face was smooth and firm, with a rosy glow, and not a single wrinkle could be seen. He truly had a very good complexion.

Old Zhong put down his teacup and carefully compared the two young girls in front of him. He immediately ruled out Yun Ling, who was wearing old clothes, and then looked at Yun Chu, who was slightly shy. He thought that this was the young lady that Shen Chang had left for him to introduce.

"Greetings, Elder Zhong. Have you encountered any difficult cases recently?"

"You're good at using connections and ties, why don't you teach your older sister to be a little bolder?"

When Yun first heard Old Zhong mention her, she rushed forward to greet him.

"Good morning, Professor Zhong."

"So you're the young apprentice Master Yu took in?"

"That's right. When you heard that I wanted to meet with Professor Zhong, you asked me to give your regards to Professor Zhong."

Old Zhong nodded, his expression not changing much, and only asked:

Why do you want to study medicine?

Yun Chu swallowed hard, and after a moment, replied:

“My grandmother was a midwife. I’ve seen her deliver women who had difficult births. The women were weak after giving birth, but the family refused to treat them because the doctor was a man. I thought to myself, if I knew medicine, maybe I could change this situation.”

"Do you think you have any special abilities? Why do you think you can study medicine?"

Yun Chu pinched her palm, many thoughts flashing through her mind, but in the end she only blurted out:

"If men can learn it, why can't women? Everyone has a brain, hands, and feet; there's not much difference between them."

Old Zhong nodded again, narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked further:

"How well are you studying medical books? How well do you recognize medicinal herbs?"

"I've read most of the medical books, and I can recognize some of the herbs."

Old Zhong clapped his hands and said, "Alright, I'll test you now."