"Can you promise me one thing?"
She lifted her head from his embrace: "What is it?"
"It doesn't matter if Yinyin hasn't completely fallen for me yet..."
Shen Qiyin raised her eyebrows, thinking to herself how magnanimous he was.
Xiao Yan immediately followed up with, "But you can't fall in love with someone else!"
"You must not, like you were in the palace just now, only see others and not me at all!"
Shen Qiyin: "..." He's so stingy.
Upon returning to the Shen family home, Shen Qiyin alighted from the carriage alone and immediately spotted Shen Cang pacing anxiously inside the gate.
The latter also saw her and immediately ran up to greet her: "Yin'er!"
"Oh, you're finally back! What did His Majesty summon you to the palace for?"
"Father, it's best not to ask."
“…Oh, okay, okay, I won’t ask.” Shen Cang suddenly realized, fearing that he might say something wrong and it would affect him, so he dared not say another word.
But he couldn't help but wonder, although he didn't know why His Majesty had summoned her, she had returned unharmed, so he assumed she had passed the test smoothly. Did His Majesty not reward her with anything?
Of course, the reward was given.
Before returning to the Shen family, Shen Qiyin had already placed the box of golden melon seeds elsewhere.
Just as they reached the fork in the road and Shen Qiyin was about to return to Haitang Courtyard, Shen Cang suddenly called out to her, "Yin'er, Father has something to discuss with you."
I disagree.
Shen Cang was both angry and amused: "I haven't even said what it is yet!"
Despite her lack of conviction, Shen Qiyin said, "Oh, I feel I can't agree to that."
"Alright, stop joking around with your father so disrespectfully." Shen Cang pretended to be magnanimous: "Your grandmother is also worried about what will happen when you go to the palace. Let's go to Zhuijin Hall to talk, and then ask your Aunt Wan to cook some of your favorite dishes. We can eat and chat at the same time."
"I'm relieved that my father can swallow this."
Something about this doesn't sound right at all.
Shen Cang frowned and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
"After such a big thing happened to my fourth sister, I thought Father would be exhausted and unable to eat, but seeing you full of energy, eating and laughing, I know I was worrying too much."
Upon hearing this, Shen Cang wore an expression as if he had stepped in poop.
However, he couldn't tell whether Shen Qiyin said those words out of filial piety or to deliberately upset him.
After all, what she said didn't sound like anything nice.
But her expression clearly showed "concern".
Thinking back to how outspoken she had been before, Shen Cang stopped worrying about it.
The father and daughter went to Zhuijintang. Madam Shen's spirits were not as good as before, and she had lost weight. She looked much older than before.
Seeing Shen Qiyin return safely, her heart, which had been in her throat, finally settled down.
Otherwise, they would worry that she had offended some important person, and that her whole family would be implicated.
The three generations of the family had all taken their seats, leaving only Jiang Wan busy with chores.
Shen Cang took a sip of tea and said, "I've been thinking about going out to find a job these past few days, but everything is difficult at the beginning. It would be better to go back to my old profession."
"Therefore, I thought, why don't I go and practice medicine at Guangrentang?"
"Firstly, it can earn money to supplement the family income, and secondly, it can help ease your burden."
Madam Shen was naturally delighted that her eldest son had finally started earning money.
But Shen Qiyin found it laughable.
She asked Shen Cang, "Did Father tell me about this to ask for my opinion or simply to inform me?"
"...You should go and tell your senior and junior brothers. This is also beneficial to you, and I think they won't refuse."
"Father is overthinking it. Although Guangrentang is not comparable to the Imperial Medical Academy, it does not accept just anyone."
"What kind of talk is that!" Feeling embarrassed that his abilities had been questioned, Shen Cang retorted, "Is my medical skill insufficient to treat ordinary people?"
"The lives of ordinary people matter too. What did they do to deserve this?"
"you……"
"Don't worry about it. Knowing my senior brother's personality, he would never let you practice medicine at Guangrentang. If you really want to practice medicine and make money, you might as well set up your own stall outside."
"What?!"
He was a former imperial physician in the Imperial Medical Academy, and she actually told him to set up a stall outside like those idle doctors.
If his former colleagues saw this, they would laugh at him to death!
Madam Shen didn't care about saving face; she just felt that if she set up a stall to practice medicine, people would look down on her medical skills and wouldn't dare to seek her treatment.
If that's the case, where will they make money?
So he said, "You're young, but you haven't thought things through. Your father is a respectable person, and it's hard to guarantee that he won't be laughed at for setting up a stall to treat patients."
"Really?" Shen Qiyin said with a look of sudden realization, "Then why don't you use the money to open a clinic for your father?"
Upon hearing that a clinic was opening, Shen Cang's eyes lit up instantly.
Madam Shen, however, reacted as if facing a formidable enemy: "Where would I get the money!"
“You may not have any cash, but there are still so many trinkets and ornaments in this room.” As she spoke, Shen Qiyin’s gaze suddenly fell on Old Madam Shen’s head: “And all those jewels and ornaments on your head, if you dressed up a little less, you could have enough to support Father’s clinic.”
"You're such a smooth talker, why don't you suggest using the money His Majesty gave you to open a clinic?"
"Because I don't think he'd be laughed at for setting up a stall to treat patients."
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