Yu Jiao and Yu Qizhe stayed in Yong'an Lane for lunch. They had a leisurely lunch. Yu Ruhai and Yu Jinshu did not come. Yu Jiao did not know that Yu Qizhe had pissed off the old man. She just thought that Yu Ruhai was angry because he had refuted Yu Jinshu's question, which was why he did not come for lunch.
After lunch, the two returned to Wanfu Bridge. After getting off the carriage, Yu Jiao realized that they were not going directly home. Instead, Yu Qizhe took her to the clinic at Wanfu Bridge.
The shop had been renovated and decorated, and the medicine cabinets had been packed and put away. When the two of them entered, someone came to ask when the clinic would open for consultation. Yu Qizhe stood quietly aside, looking at Yu Jiao with a smile, waiting for her answer.
Yu Jiao thought that she had to go back to her parents' home in two days, so she had to wait until they returned. She also had to find a pharmacist to buy some herbs, so she replied, "Five days later."
She found out that this person was a servant. She glanced at Yu Jiao and whispered, "I heard that the doctor in this clinic is a female doctor. May I ask if she can treat women's diseases?"
"I watched it." Yu Jiao replied.
"Excuse me for a moment." The maid avoided Yu Qizhe and lowered her voice, "Are you the female doctor who sees patients here? I am a maid from Wanchun Tower. I wonder if you are willing to come to see patients in Wanchun Tower?"
Yu Jiao glanced at the woman and roughly guessed that Wanchunlou was a brothel. She said, "It's not convenient for me to go out for consultations. Patients can come to see me at home."
The maid seemed a little surprised. She looked at Yu Jiao and smiled, "It's good that you are willing to see me."
The girls in their building look glamorous, but when they go out to see patients, the doctors avoid them. They can only ask some ring doctors with poor medical skills to come to their homes. They spend a lot of money on consultations, but the diseases are never cured.
Even if there are doctors willing to see patients, they will go to the building quietly to avoid being seen and are not very willing to let the girls in the building come to see patients.
The young lady she served had been feeling unwell recently and had begged her to go out and find a doctor. The maid had seen people moving in and out a few days ago as if they were planning to open a clinic, so she asked the waiter about it. The waiter said that the doctor on duty was a female, so she took notice.
"I will bring my sister here when your clinic opens. You must see her." The maid emphasized again, feeling a little worried.
Yu Jiao agreed, "Since we are practicing medicine, we must see patients if they come to see us."
The maid felt much more at ease after hearing these words and left with a smile.
Turning around, she saw Yu Qizhe still standing there waiting for her. With a smile on her face, Yu Jiao walked up to him and said, "Just now that person said she was from Wanchunlou. If I accept the consultation from Wanchunlou, will it be bad for your reputation?"
Yu Qizhe held her hand and said, "It's okay. You can do whatever you want."
Yu Jiao pursed her lips and smiled, then followed Yu Qizhe into the shop.
A worker who was cleaning stopped what he was doing and said to the others, "The boss is here."
"Greetings, Master and Madam." Several people saluted smartly.
Yu Qizhe and Yu Jiao said, "Liu Zi found these people from the children's shop. They are quite capable. Two of them can read and write. They can look at the prescription and prescribe the medicine."
Yu Jiao looked at these people carefully and saw that two of them were of sturdy build and looked like security guards. She guessed that they were deliberately arranged there because they were afraid that someone would cause trouble. Seeing that Yu Qizhe had arranged even the servants so well, Yu Jiao felt quite comforted.
Yu Qizhe said, "Madam is the attending doctor here and the only owner of this clinic. From now on, I will follow your instructions."
Several people had known about it beforehand, so they didn't feel anything strange after hearing it and responded in unison.
Yu Jiao nodded slightly to several people and asked them to do their own things. She followed Yu Qizhe to look around the clinic. There was a door curtain on the left side of the counter. Behind the curtain was a room for Yu Jiao to rest. There was a tea table inside. After seeing this, Yu Jiao proposed some suggestions for improvements. She turned the room into a simple clinic, and wrote a list of things that needed to be purchased, and gave it to Bai Lu to buy.
After staying in the clinic for two hours, Yu Jiao and Yu Qizhe returned to the house. When they arrived at the door, someone came to greet them hurriedly. He seemed to be an official from the Dali Temple. The man whispered a few words to Yu Qizhe, and Yu Jiao saw that Yu Qizhe's face became serious.
"Go back to the backyard and rest first." Yu Qizhe helped Yu Jiao get off the carriage and said to her in a gentle voice, "I have some official business to discuss in the study."
Yu Jiao nodded and went back to the backyard.
It seemed like something important. Yu Qizhe went out and asked someone to tell Yu Jiao that he was going to the palace. He would try to come back in the evening to have dinner with Yu Jiao. If he couldn't come back, he would ask Yu Jiao to eat first.
At night, the maids came to ask if they wanted to prepare the meal. Yu Jiao looked at the sky and asked Jianjia to tell the maids to wait a little longer. She sat under the lamp with the medical book, but she could not concentrate on reading it and put it aside. When she was at Liu's house, Yaoyu and Taoge'er would go to their room all day long, so she was used to the hustle and bustle. Now, in such a big house, she was the only one there except for the maids, so she couldn't help feeling a little deserted.
Jianjia seemed to have seen something and said, "The emperor values our son-in-law so much that he even summoned him for his wedding. This is a good thing. If you feel bored, you can invite a troupe to your home tomorrow, send more invitations, and interact with the ladies. It will be lively and relieve your boredom. Our son-in-law is a new noble, and there are many people who want to please him and interact with him."
Yu Jiao shook her head. She didn't like the social interactions among the women in the royal harem, not to mention that such interactions involved her own man, who would talk to her in a way that flattered the powerful and bullied the weak.
"Then would the young lady like to meet the managers in the shops?" Jianjia continued, "There are more than ten shops in the mansion for dowry and the shops for the son-in-law's betrothal gifts. The managers are waiting for the young lady to summon them, and the account books are ready."
"So much?" Yu Jiao had not carefully looked at the list of betrothal gifts and dowry. In this imperial city where every inch of land is worth a lot of money, owning ten shops would mean that she would never have to worry about food and drink in the future, right?
Seeing her smacking her lips, Jianjia smiled and said, "Knowing that the young lady likes to do business, the eldest master specially arranged this."
"Then let's meet tomorrow." Yu Jiao also wanted to know what kind of business those ten shops were doing.
The two talked for a while and heard footsteps outside the door. Yu Jiao couldn't help but look up and saw that it was Bai Lu who came back. She originally thought it was Yu Qizhe.
Bai Lu said, "The things that the young lady asked me to buy have been decided and will be sent to the clinic tomorrow."
Yu Jiao nodded and asked her to sit down and have some tea.
But then Bai Lu said, "I just saw the son-in-law coming to the yard."
Yu Jiao heard this and said to Jian Jia, "Tell the kitchen to set the table."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yu Qizhe walked in. He was wearing a crimson official robe and looked quite dusty, as if he was in a hurry to come back.
"Are you getting impatient?" Yu Qizhe walked to Yu Jiao, with an apologetic look on his face, "If I come back late in the future, you don't have to wait for me. This is the time when you are growing up, don't starve yourself."
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