"These are all local specialties. Since you're new here, I've also asked the kitchen to prepare a few northern dishes, in case you're not used to them," Huo Danlan said, then instructed the Huo family's servants to serve food to Zhao Shu and Sun Yun.
Zhao Shu was full after eating half of the delicious food, but Sun Yun was still eating. Unlike Zhao Shu, she savored the food slowly rather than eating it, so she ate more slowly.
After waiting outside for a while, Physician Peng grew impatient and shouted, "Princess, Princess, let me in! You've delayed my important business of finding you. You'll be sorry! Get out of my way!"
However, the servants of the Huo family remained dutiful and did not allow the anxious Physician Peng to enter.
Upon hearing this, Zhao Shu asked Huo Danlan, who was standing next to her, "What is Elder Peng doing here?"
"A friend of Dr. Lou learned that Dr. Lou had come to Guanzhou and passed through this place, so he came to the mansion to catch up with Dr. Lou. Physician Peng also knew Dr. Lou's friend, so Physician Peng came over early this morning." After saying this, Huo Danlan got up, intending to go out and comfort Physician Peng.
Zhao Shu hurriedly got up as well, "Doctor Peng called for me, there must be something he needs to say, I'll go out and see."
Huo Danlan did not stop them. Both of them covered their faces with veils and left Xiyan Courtyard.
Upon exiting the courtyard, they saw Physician Peng holding a package, anxiously confronting the Huo family servants. Seeing Zhao Shu emerge, he exclaimed with delight, "Princess, Princess! Old Lou said this thing can cure illnesses! How exactly? I've never heard of it curing illnesses before!" He wasn't questioning Zhao Shu, but simply out of pure curiosity—a profound curiosity. Fortunately, those attending to her were all trusted confidants, ensuring no one would relay Physician Peng's words.
Along the way, Physician Peng and Doctor Lou discussed medical techniques and became so familiar with each other that they addressed each other as Old Lou and Old Peng.
Zhao Shu glanced at the bag of seaweed and other things he was holding and understood immediately. Huo Danlan had just mentioned that the Huo family members who went to the coast to search for medicine had returned.
“These things are good for your health and can also cure diseases, but the effect is slow and requires gradual conditioning. If conditioned properly, the patient can recover in six months to a year.” She originally wanted to say that these seafood products are rich in iodine and can cure goiter caused by iodine deficiency, but then she thought that if Huo Danlan were to eat these things in the future, others could speculate about her condition, which would be inappropriate, so she gave up on the idea.
As soon as she finished speaking, an elderly man, about the same age as Physician Peng, hurriedly ran over from the corridor. However, he looked much more serious than Physician Peng.
He ran breathlessly to the side of Physician Peng, took a couple of breaths, bowed, and said, "Old Peng, I told you the young lady was busy, but you insisted on coming." Then he said apologetically to Huo Danlan, "Please forgive me, young lady, that's just how Physician Peng is. I can't do anything about it; I can't outrun him."
Physician Peng didn't think he had done anything wrong. After hearing Doctor Lou's words, he glared at her and said, "I came to see our princess, not to see Miss Huo from the Huo family." He glared at Doctor Lou several times, then approached Zhao Shu like a playful old man. "Hehe, princess, there is a medicine shop in the Huo residence. Let me show you."
Old Physician Peng was quite old and felt it would be embarrassing to ask Zhao Shu for advice. He was initially reluctant, but he couldn't resist the temptation. So, after thinking it over, he came up with the idea that he could only avoid blushing by adopting the demeanor of a playful old man.
Zhao Shu was also quite anxious. If Huo Danlan could be cured as soon as possible, she could be at ease sooner. So she temporarily put aside the matter of the Crown Prince, took Xiao Guozi, Sheng Xia, Luoluo and others to Huo Danlan's medicine house with her.
The medicine shed in the Huo residence was set up temporarily, and many things were brand new. The medicinal herbs planted in the medicinal field were also newly transplanted. Not to mention the dried medicinal herbs in the yard, it had everything you could need, comparable to a pharmacy.
That's how it is when Huo Danlan is being treated; outsiders have no way of knowing what illness she has.
This place was originally in charge of Dr. Lou, but he couldn't get a word in edgewise. When he was with Physician Peng, he still maintained the demeanor of a physician from the Imperial Hospital, but he changed his attitude as soon as he met Zhao Shu, leaving him dumbfounded.
If it weren't for Huo Baichuan and Huo Danlan's unusually good attitude towards Zhao Shu, he wouldn't have even allowed Zhao Shu to step into the medicine shop.
“Princess, I’ve seen the prescription that Green Ivy brought last time. All the medicinal herbs are here. Where is Green Ivy?” He glanced behind Zhao Shu a few times, then beckoned, “Come here, just take whatever I point to, and we’ll take it back to the palace.”
Dr. Lou exhaled heavily through his nostrils; this was the old scoundrel's true intention!
He could hardly believe his ears. Did they think the Huo family's things were just picked up from the ground? Picking them up required effort, and they were just taking them for free! He immediately said in an unfriendly tone, "Old Peng, isn't this inappropriate?" His tone was sinister and full of threat.
Old Physician Peng glared at him again, puffed out his beard, and said with great self-righteousness, "When Young Master Huo saw me just now, he said that the medicinal herbs in the mansion could be taken at will. But you, you chattered on like a gossipy old woman."
"You!" Doctor Lou was so angry that he was speechless. How could he not have known that this Peng guy was so quick-witted!
Chu Chun and the others smiled when they heard this, thinking that Old Doctor Peng was really cute. Not only could he make shampoo, but he could also embarrass people.
Green Ivy wanted to take more, and even showed off to Dr. Lou, with that smug look of "you can't stand me but you can't do anything about it," which made Zhao Shu laugh.
"I've heard that the princess is quite knowledgeable in medicine. It seems that this is true?" A white-haired, white-bearded old man with white eyebrows slowly walked out from behind the group. Judging from his appearance, he was about seventy or eighty years old. In Dayong, living to seventy or eighty years old is an absolute longevity.
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