Yan An heard a sound behind him, turned around with a cold smile, and went up to the fourth floor.

"That bitch actually managed to get to the fourth floor of Linglong Pavilion!" Liu Ruyan looked at the servant who was leading the way for her, her eyes flashing with hatred.

“Ruyan, don’t talk nonsense. What if Doctor Luo hears this and refuses to treat you?” Madam Zhang warned her daughter. Ever since Liu Ruyan’s face was injured, her temper has become increasingly violent.

"So what? I am the legitimate daughter of Minister Liu, and the future Empress. It is already an honor for her to be allowed to treat my illness. How dare she refuse to treat my face?"

Yan An was no ordinary person; she overheard the entire conversation in the stairwell.

"Hmph, the mother of a nation, not even that good-looking, but she thinks so highly of herself." Yan An scoffed.

"Dr. Luo, you have been waiting for a long time. I am the wife of Minister Liu Youlin, and this is my daughter, the Minister's legitimate daughter. Today, I have specially invited Dr. Luo to treat my daughter's illness." In her heart, Madam Zhang looked down on the so-called divine doctor, who was nothing more than a poor pedant.

"Hmm... it won't take long. Madam Liu, just pay a little more for the consultation fee, one thousand taels."

"What? You bitch, have you ever seen a thousand taels of silver? A thousand taels of silver could buy so many of your worthless lives." Liu Ruyan glared angrily, her venomous and hateful gaze seeming to want to devour Yan An.

"Ru Yan, don't be rude! Quickly apologize to Doctor Luo. My daughter is straightforward and speaks without thinking. Doctor Luo, please don't take offense." At this moment, he still needed the person in front of him to heal Ru Yan's face, so he couldn't offend him easily and couldn't help but scold her sternly.

“Mother, she’s talking nonsense and asking for an exorbitant price,” Liu Ruyan said aggrievedly.

"Apologize!"

"Sorry." Reluctantly, yet arrogantly.

"Straightforward and outspoken, well said! This is a veiled way of saying that her daughter is right."

"It's alright. The purpose of practicing medicine is to heal the sick and save lives. How can I argue with a dog barking? The consultation fee is two thousand taels." Yan An smiled sadly and lightly.

"You... Doctor Luo, you only charged the Qi family five hundred taels of silver for saving the life of Prime Minister Qi's daughter before. Now you're asking for two thousand taels just to treat my daughter's face. Isn't that a bit excessive?" Zhang felt more and more that this man was a scoundrel from the streets.

"Miss Liu said in the stairwell that she is going to become the mother of the nation. I wonder if the current emperor knows this? Is all this money less important to the Liu family than Miss Liu herself? Or is it that the Liu family has more than one daughter, and that someone else can also become the mother of the nation?"

Yan An's tone was somewhat unfriendly, and a hint of anger flashed in his eyes, which surprised Zhang Shi. How could a mere teenager frighten her so much?

"Dr. Luo, we have offended you greatly just now. Please let us treat you. Ru Yan, please remove your veil."

Zhang put aside her earlier arrogance, fearing that the divine physician Luo might raise the price again in anger. After all, the thousand taels she had was something she had begged her husband for. If he couldn't cure her, she and Ru Yan would likely face dire consequences when they returned. She would probably have to ask her husband for the remaining thousand taels when they got back.

Yan An glanced at Liu Ruyan's face, which was already festering with sores, exactly as Bai Su had described.

"I need to use a knife to remove the rotten flesh and then stitch up the wound, because the wound has been delayed for too long, and Miss Liu may lose her beauty in the future."

How could I not cure Yan An? I could even make Liu Ruyan's skin even more beautiful. But they just scolded me like that. If I were to cure her, wouldn't that be foolish? It's not something Yan An could do.

"What? You quack doctor? Everyone calls you a miracle doctor. I'm even paying two thousand taels of silver, and you actually say I'll be disfigured?"

"Ruyan! Doctor Luo, Ruyan absolutely cannot be disfigured! Please think of another way."

"Even rats have skin, but people have no manners. If a person has no manners, what is the point of living? It doesn't matter if Miss Liu's head is empty, the key is not to let it get wet. I am only here today because of Linglong Pavilion. The door is over there, please come, Madam Liu and Miss Liu."

*Smack!* Liu Ruyan was stunned when she was slapped; this was the first time her mother had ever hit her.

"Dr. Luo, please forgive my rudeness and don't hold it against Ru Yan. I'll let you vent your anger by slapping me just now."

Yan An was the first person to say that he could be cured, and they couldn't afford to offend him. If Liu Youlin made that concubine his official wife, the mother and daughter would be finished.

"Hmph... Miss Liu, with your sharp tongue, surely you haven't noticed that your face is poisoned? Miss Liu, have you recently noticed that you sometimes lean when you walk, or that your gait is unsteady?"

"How did you know?" She has indeed been unsteady on her feet lately, and sometimes even needs someone to help her.

"Miss Liu, the poison has entered your brain. If you don't get treatment soon, your life will be in danger. Miss Liu will have to say goodbye to this nation's mother forever."

Yan An pointed at Liu Ruyan's head and said, "Yes, you're mentally ill."

"I'll treat it, I'll treat it." So what if I'm disfigured? I'll find the best doctors in the world to remove this scar; it will be a piece of cake. But if I lose my life, everything will be lost.

"I previously purchased a bottle of beauty cream from Linglong Pavilion. Could it be of any use to my injury?" Liu Ruyan's attitude softened slightly, since only the person in front of her could save her life.

"It works. My beauty cream is effective for all kinds of skin problems, but as I said before, Miss Liu's injury has been delayed for too long. It's impossible to restore her to her previous appearance. Would Miss Liu like another bottle?"

The beauty cream that Yan An auctioned last time was just the right product to heal Liu Ruyan's face. If she wants to use it again, she'll have to buy it again.

"Yes, yes, yes!"

“Alright, I’ll pay first for treating patients. Miss Liu’s beauty cream was 600 taels at the last auction, plus the antidote pill is 1,000 taels, making a total of 3,600 taels. Since Miss Liu and I are old acquaintances, how about 3,500 taels?”

"You! You! Okay, Dr. Luo, please wait a moment, I'll go get the money right away." Zhang was also struggling to maintain her composure at this moment, her expression somewhat distorted.

"Madam Liu, I only need the silver notes! I hope Madam Liu will return soon!"

a long time……

"Dr. Luo, here is a silver note for three thousand five hundred taels of silver. Please take a look." Zhang's heart was breaking as if she were being stabbed with a knife. This was money she had raised by selling eight or nine tenths of her dowry.

Yan An put away the silver notes, Bai Su opened the medicine box and handed over a scalpel. Yan An took an antidote pill and fed it to Liu Ruyan, then began to clean her wound with the scalpel.

"Ah!" Liu Ruyan cried out in pain.

"What are you doing? You scared me! If I let my hand slip and made a few mistakes because of your yelling, who's to blame?" Actually, Yan An did it on purpose. She had anesthetic but didn't use it; she was just playing around...

"Dr. Luo, look how badly Ru Yan is in pain! Do you have any pain relief remedies? I'll buy them!" Zhang Shi felt the pain was unbearable just from seeing how Yan An was acting. She had sold her dowry and still had 140 taels left, which she thought would be enough to buy the pain relief medicine.