“You’re still young and inexperienced…” Liu Yingying smiled and gently poked Xiaoxue’s forehead with her finger, explaining.

"If my title of County Lady were placed in a local area, even in front of the Prefect of Ningzhou, I would have some confidence in my words."

"But where is this? This is the capital city. There are dukes, nobles, princesses, and county princesses everywhere. Even a princess or county princess has a higher title than me."

"Even if I have made some contributions, so what? I have no connections and come from the countryside, so I still can't catch the eye of those high-ranking and wealthy families."

"Moreover, apart from General Weiyuan, no one knows that I have come to the capital."

"Oh, I see..." Xiaoxue nodded thoughtfully.

What she didn't know was that Liu Yingying actually hoped no one would know she had come to the capital.

Otherwise, if she makes a big fuss about it, it will inevitably expose the purpose of her trip to the capital, and then she will probably have to go through another round of trouble.

Since it was getting late, they did not immediately go to the Dali Temple to find Shen Shangxu, their close friend.

Instead, they found an inn to stay in first, as prices in the capital were indeed higher than in other places.

A room that costs only thirty coins a night in Jinling City costs sixty coins here. I imagine buying a room here would be even more expensive…

The next morning, Liu Yingying and the other two arrived at the gate of Dali Temple.

She turned around and instructed Xue Ye and Xiao Xue, "You two wait outside for now. I'll go in and give Lord Shen's letter to Lord Gu, then I'll come out!"

Liu Yingying's plan was excellent. Once the letter was delivered, the Dali Temple would handle the rest impartially.

Since this is her first time in the capital, she will definitely take Xue Ye and Xiao Xue to have a good time for a few days before heading back home.

However, when Liu Yingying told the guards at the Dali Temple that she was looking for Gu Tao, the Vice Minister of the Dali Temple, she was met with a disdainful look.

"What's your name? Where are you from? What business do you have with Lord Gu?"

This attitude made Liu Yingying feel a surge of anger, but she held back because she was the one who needed their help.

He directly pulled out the imperial edict conferring upon him the title of Lady of Ning'an County.

"I am Liu Yingying, the Lady of Ning'an County, from Furong County, Ningzhou Prefecture. Please tell Lord Gu that I am here to see him about Shen Shangxu, Lord Shen's matter."

After saying that, he slipped another tael of silver into the yamen runner's hand, and the runner's expression softened slightly.

"Just wait!" he said, then turned and went inside the Dali Temple gate.

After a while, the constable came out again. Liu Yingying eagerly stepped forward and heard him say coldly.

"Lord Gu is not at the Dali Temple. Please come another day!"

Liu Yingying couldn't help but feel disappointed, and asked again, "Then may I ask if Lord Gu will come tomorrow?"

The constable shook his head. "I don't know!"

Liu Yingying's expression was somewhat unpleasant. "Then could you please tell me where Lord Gu lives? If that's not possible, I can go to the Gu residence to find him!"

The constable said impatiently, "Do you think the capital is your home, where you can go wherever you want? Do you think you, a lowly woman from the countryside, can just see Lord Gu whenever you want?"

Liu Yingying frowned slightly, knowing that it would be a waste of breath to say anything more, and turned to leave.

Xue Ye said in a deep voice, "How about we wait until tonight and I sneak into the Dali Temple to take a look?"

"No!" Liu Yingying immediately stopped her, glancing around before lowering her voice and saying, "Don't make any rash moves!"

The Dali Temple is a vital area in the capital region; how could it be entered at will?

Besides, even if Xue Ye could break in, he wouldn't know that Lord Gu.

Moreover, Liu Yingying had another question in her mind: the yamen runner's attitude was very strange.

It seems... it seems like they're deliberately trying to stop her from going to see Gu Tao...

Why did the yamen runners do this?

Liu Yingying walked along the bustling street, her mind preoccupied with the matter.

It wouldn't be surprising if the yamen runners of the Dali Temple in the capital were a bit arrogant and rude; perhaps she was overthinking it.

Just then, a commotion suddenly broke out ahead.

When Liu Yingying came to her senses, she saw a sedan chair with an orange-red roof parked by the roadside not far away, with the sedan chair bearers and accompanying servants looking extremely anxious.

"Master, master, what's wrong...are you alright?"

However, no matter how the servants called out, the old man inside the sedan chair, who had already fallen into a coma, kept his eyes closed, his face was purple, and cold sweat was seeping from his forehead.

It quickly attracted a crowd of onlookers.

Some people whispered among themselves, "Whose elder is this? He's in such poor health, and they're just letting him out like this. This is bad. There's no clinic on this street, and they don't have a doctor with them. I'm afraid he's probably in grave danger."

At this moment, the elderly servant was almost crying out in desperation, looking at the crowd for help: "Does anyone here know medicine? Could you please save my master?"

Upon hearing this, everyone took a step back in unison.

The old man looked like an official. Even if some of them had some knowledge of the arts, the patient's chances of survival were clearly slim.

If the treatment actually causes something bad to happen, I will suffer an undeserved disaster.

So it's better to avoid trouble!

Seeing the old man inside the sedan chair begin to breathe more and more rapidly, the middle-aged servant hurriedly knelt on the ground with a thud, "Master..."

He couldn't think of any other way to save his master except by crying and screaming.

Just then, a woman's clear voice rang out from the crowd.

"Excuse me, please move aside!"

Liu Yingying squeezed out from the crowd and her gaze fell on the old man inside the sedan chair, who looked pained.

He immediately realized something was wrong!

Judging from this condition, it appears to be a sudden acute heart attack!

If I had arrived any later, this person would probably be on their way to the underworld.

“Miss, you…” The servant stepped in front of her, his eyes filled with doubt.

Time was of the essence, so Liu Yingying looked at the servant seriously and said, "I am a doctor. If you don't want your master to pass away, let me go and take a look!"

“This…” The middle-aged servant was clearly in a dilemma.

In this world, there are only women who act as midwives and nannies, but there is not a single female doctor who sits in a clinic.

Just then, the old man inside the sedan chair suddenly grabbed his clothes at his chest with one hand, cried out again, and the veins on his hand stood out.

Knowing there was no other choice, the middle-aged servant clasped his hands in a fist salute to Liu Yingying, "Then we'll have to trouble you, young lady. If you can truly revive my master, our Pei family will certainly repay you handsomely!"

No sooner had Liu Yingying's hand touched the old man's pulse than a pink sedan chair pulled up abruptly behind them, and a maidservant shouted sternly, "Stop right now!"

The crowd turned to look back, and saw a young girl in a pale yellow Shu brocade butterfly dress hurriedly stepping out of the sedan chair and rudely slapping Liu Yingying's hand away.

"Don't touch my third grandfather!"

"Who is this girl?" asked the onlookers.