Chapter 866 There are always people more capable than you, and heavens beyond heavens!
Zhou Aweng was peacefully eating his breakfast in the private room when a knock came at the door.
The old servant beside Zhou Aweng stepped forward and opened the door, and a boy of about thirteen or fourteen years old walked in.
Although the young man was dressed simply and with patches on his clothes, his clothes were clean, and his features were bright; he looked like a fine young man.
The young man stopped three steps away from the table, bowed to Old Man Zhou, and when Old Man Zhou looked at him, he bowed slightly and said, "Master, I looked carefully from outside, and the officials in their robes have already entered through the side door."
The female physician whom the employer specifically instructed me to see also went in together.
There are probably seventy or eighty people queuing up at the side door, which is specifically for doctors.
"Don't worry, boss. Ah Gui went to queue up before dawn today. I just checked before I came up. Ah Gui is eighth in line. The first person in front of him is the shop assistant from Zhang's silk shop, and the second person is Liu's..."
There are certainly shrewd people like Zhou Aweng; the queue outside Chongwen Hall now stretches all the way to the end of the street.
When the Tang family of more than ten people arrived on this street and saw that it was crowded with people everywhere, Tang Mingxing couldn't help but sigh, "I thought we were early."
Look, look at this line! It stretches all the way to the end of the street. There are so many people!
"Fortunately, fortunately we are doctors, so we can enter through that side door."
If I were to queue with these people, I'd probably be staying up all night and just standing there in line.
It took the Tang family and Chen Yanfu and her group of more than a dozen people more than fifteen minutes to squeeze out of the queue and head towards the side entrance of Chongwen Hall.
Thanks to the good planning of the Imperial Medical Bureau, although this side gate is not as big as the main gate, it is not small either.
Yesterday, only one waiter and four soldiers were arranged to guard the gate for inspection. Today, the Tang family waited for about 15 minutes before they arrived and found that there were two inspection points, guarded by two waiters and eight soldiers.
After the group finished their inspection, Chen Yanfu and Tang Mingyue exchanged a few words, nodded to Tang Mingguang and the others, and then hurried towards the side hall at the back of the inner hall.
As soon as Chen Yanfu entered, a servant came over and led her to find Li Sanniang.
"Sister Afu, you've come at the right time. Please take a look at this process for me. Is there anything that needs to be changed?"
Busy times always fly by the fastest. As Li Sanniang compared the arrangements for today's physician exchange meeting item by item in the side hall, she couldn't help but feel nervous as she listened to the increasingly loud noises coming from the inner hall ahead.
Chen Yanfu looked at Li Sanniang's tightly furrowed brows and couldn't help but reach out to smooth them.
Why should Third Sister worry today?
Our obstetrics and gynecology department's presentation won't be on stage for at least two more days. Today's event is for the acupuncture department. I think Physician Ning specially invited Jiang Jiawulang, so he must have made thorough preparations."
Li San Niang sighed: "Alas, everything is difficult at the beginning. If we don't get off to a good start today, how will things be when it's our turn to take the stage in the maternity ward?"
I was also thinking of taking this opportunity to show these renowned doctors from all over the country how skilled female doctors are, so that when they go home, they can let their own daughters go out and work.
Chen Yanfu understood what Li Sanniang meant. She reached out and took Li Sanniang's wrist again, looking at her gently and whispering, "Sanniang, Sanniang, listen to me. Don't worry. What you said yesterday has aroused a lot of imagination. They are all looking forward to your appearance."
Just like you said before, controversy is what attracts attention, makes people remember, and helps us achieve our goals, right?
My dear Mingyue, and my brothers from our hometown, all take your words from yesterday very seriously, so you can rest assured.
No matter how worried Li San Niang was, the time had come, and the drums and gongs had to be sounded.
Naturally, it was Wang Shuzheng who first went on stage to speak, and then solemnly introduced Jiang Xing, the grandson of Physician Jiang, who served as the head of the Imperial Medical Bureau for the longest time during the reign of Emperor Gaozong. Finally, Jiang Xing was invited to come on stage.
Jiang Xing's reputation naturally couldn't compare to that of his ancestor when he was alive. After all, Jiang Xing had once risked his life for Emperor Gaozong, and in the end, he managed to retire from the Imperial Medical Bureau and return home safely.
You should know that in the palace, it is expected that if someone is cured, the doctor will be punished. If the doctor is not cured, the doctor will be punished with a salary reduction or demotion, or even lose his life.
Jiang Shuzheng not only held the position of Director of the Imperial Medical Bureau, but also gained the favor of Emperor Gaozong due to his outstanding acupuncture skills. He was the longest-serving Director of the Imperial Medical Bureau during Gaozong's reign.
Jiang Wulang is the fifth grandson of Jiang Shuzheng and the most skilled inheritor of Jiang Shuzheng's golden needle technique in the Jiang family.
It took Wang Shuzheng a lot of effort to invite Jiang Wulang to participate in this medical exchange meeting and to have him give a demonstration on stage.
After Jiang Wulang bowed to everyone on the high platform, he stood still. Ning Yizheng, who had come up on the platform with him, stood aside and said loudly, "Everyone, there must be doctors among you who practice acupuncture, and there must also be people who suffer from headaches."
Now, to demonstrate Dr. Jiang's acupuncture techniques, please welcome five doctors and five patients to the stage!
Anyone interested may signal to the waiters in the aisle.
No sooner had Ning Yizheng finished speaking than the inner hall erupted in a commotion.
"This, this... this is how it starts?"
"I never expected that they would invite Jiang Wulang!"
“Hey, brother, who is this Jiang Wulang? I’ve never heard of him in Chang’an.”
"Brother, could you please elaborate and clear up my doubts?"
Having received such praise, the man was naturally happy to tell others in detail about Jiang Wulang's background.
The fact that Ning Yizheng said he needed people suffering from headaches to come on stage to demonstrate excited the entire audience of ordinary people.
Old Man Zhou sat with his old servant in the seventeenth row facing the high platform. Although he was old, Old Man Zhou's eyesight was no different from that of his youth.
Hearing clearly what Physician Ning said, Zhou Aweng then had an idea.
In his early years, Zhou Aweng was a merchant and suffered a lot. Among the hardships he endured was this headache, which could be fatal when it flared up.
The old man, Zhou, was in so much pain that he lay motionless on his bed, wishing he could smash his head with a hammer.
When Zhou Aweng heard that he was looking for a patient with headaches, he thought about how much money he had spent on treating headaches in the past, and how he had consulted many doctors, including the most famous doctors in Chang'an. He had also tried a lot of herbal medicine and acupuncture.
But over the years, at most it just means the attacks are less frequent; it's still not cured.
Now, as Zhou Aweng listened to the physician below talking about Jiang Wulang's family background on the stage, he was very interested: "This is a family that has treated the emperor in the palace. Their family's golden needle technique must be more powerful than that of ordinary people, right?"
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