Tang Lianfeng chuckled: "Girl, don't you know this?"
Lu Anning tried hard to suppress his inner excitement and continued to ask: "What else do you know about her?"
Tang Lianfeng raised his eyebrows: "You seem quite interested in her."
Looking at this face, Tang Lianfeng lowered his eyes, as if he remembered something, but was not quite sure.
"I once met Doctor An. At the time, her medical skills were incredibly popular in Kyoto, and appointments were hard to come by. She specialized in treating difficult and complicated illnesses. You might not have imagined that at only eighteen years old, her reputation almost surpassed your father's. It was also around that time that your father decided to go into business."
Relying on his familiarity with medicinal herbs, Gu Zhiwei made the Gu Group bigger and stronger in just a few years after entering the business world. With An Li's help, countless people only recognized the Gu family's medicinal herbs.
"But later, for unknown reasons, your father's apprentice sister left the Gu family and soon disappeared from Kyoto. So many people were left without medical help that your father had no choice but to resume his practice. At that time, he had just married your mother. From then on, your father took care of both, and many people sought his help. Your second brother learned his medical skills from your father since he was a child. Didn't you know that?"
Lu Anning was stunned. He didn't expect such a thing to happen.
"After so many years, the legendary Doctor An has faded from everyone's memory. Only people of my generation might still remember her. However, your father loved to do charitable work in the medical field, and now more people remember your father's name. Many even say that he is the reincarnation of Hua Tuo. Now, your second brother has continued his good reputation."
Listening to Tang Lianfeng's talk about the past, Lu Anning seemed to be lost in thought.
If the timeline of Tang Lianfeng's story is overlapped with that of Lu Yunxi's story, some things will become clearer.
An Li had also grown up in the Gu family, learning medicine with her father, but she had suddenly vanished at the height of her profession. If she was right, she hadn't vanished, but had been trapped by her father in that burned-out building.
At that time, my father happened to marry Ji Yan home.
You don't want to break your promise to the Ji family, but you don't want to give up your childhood sweetheart?
"Childhood sweethearts, so they should have a pretty good relationship, right?"
Tang Lianfeng chuckled, "To be honest, at first, we all thought that Doctor An would become the mistress of the Gu family. After all, she was your grandfather's most proud disciple at the time. However, that year, your old man from the Gu family suddenly fell ill and passed away not long after. After that, An Li also left the Gu family and set up her own business."
At that time, there were many speculations about An Li and Gu Zhiwei, and in the end no one knew what the truth was.
"A strange disease?"
Tang Lianfeng muttered to himself, "It's strange! Your Gu family has been practicing medicine for generations, and every generation has lived a long life, with the old man being especially strong. Who would have thought that illness would strike like a devastating blow, and he'd never get up again? I've heard rumors before that An Li had ulterior motives and was trying to steal the old man's medical secrets, but your father saw through her plan and forced her to leave the Gu family."
The Gu family's secret technique that is not passed on to others?
Lu Anning frowned. She had never heard the Gu family mention these past events.
"Since it's a secret technique that can't be passed on to others, that means, right now, only my father or my second brother knows it?"
"I don't know about that. After the old man died, I haven't seen your Gu family's needlework since then."
Lu Anning chatted with Tang Lianfeng for a long time before she realized how little she knew about the Gu family. She had been so focused on the Gu family's business that she had forgotten to trace its roots.
If she really wanted to know the truth of what happened back then, she would probably have to find out everything about the Gu family back then so that the whole puzzle could be put together.
Unfortunately, she had no chance to get close to Butler Zhou. She thought that no one knew her father's past better than Zhou De.
Tang Lianfeng asked curiously, "You're asking these questions, aren't you planning to change your career and become a doctor?"
Lu Anning came back to his senses and laughed.
“Is it too late for me to learn now?”
She waved her hands repeatedly, saying that medical skills are mysterious and Chinese medicine is even more profound and unfathomable. Not everyone can learn it.
"Uncle, thank you for telling me this."
"If you want to investigate, I can help you. Actually, I'm also quite curious. What do you think about the sudden death of the old man of the Gu family? Could it be..."
Tang Jingyuan stopped talking here, and chuckled, stopping in time. They were all smart people, and the rest was up to Lu Anning to figure out.
Lu Anning nodded slightly and immediately understood what Tang Lianfeng meant.
However, after so many years, if there is a hidden story, it would be difficult to find out. The only person who knows is probably Butler Zhou.
After saying that, Tang Jingyuan stood up and left. Lu Anning personally escorted him to the door. They both understood each other tacitly.
Coincidentally, before Tang Lianfeng had time to leave, Professor An's car had already stopped behind him.
The professor's intellectual attire could not conceal her innate temperament, and even Tang Lianfeng took a second look at her.
"Professor, why did you come here in person?"
The other party smiled faintly: "I just happened to be passing by and thought of coming to see you."
She shifted her gaze to the left and landed on Tang Lianfeng: "I hope I didn't disturb you!"
"How could it be! This is the second master of the Tang family, Jing Yuan's uncle, and he is about to leave."
The professor suddenly understood and nodded slightly to Tang Lianfeng. The two of them exchanged a few simple greetings. Tang Lianfeng was about to leave, and Lu Anning took the opportunity to invite the professor upstairs.
In the car, Tang Lianfeng looked at the receding figure through the window. His eyes narrowed and the more he looked, the more he felt that this figure seemed familiar.
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