Madam Lin composed herself, slowly got up and walked to the bedside, took out a wooden box containing a crystal-clear white jade hairpin.
Madam Lin handed the hairpin to Su Ruojin: "Opening a clinic requires a lot of money. Xiaojin, you can sell this hairpin and get some money."
Su Ruojin knew that this white jade hairpin was a piece of jewelry that Old Madam Lin had always treasured. Even when it was very difficult to raise Lin Zhengshan, she never took it out to pawn. It was of great significance to Old Madam Lin, so how could she take it?
“Grandmother, please keep the hairpin safe. I’ve saved a lot of money from selling herbs over the years, enough to open a clinic.” Su Ruojin quickly put the hairpin back in the box.
Despite Madam Lin's insistence, Su Ruojin advised, "Grandmother, do you remember when I dug up a century-old ginseng and sold it for several hundred taels of silver? That's enough to open a clinic. Keep this hairpin for now, and I'll come to you for it if I really need the money, okay?"
After thinking for a moment, Madam Lin withdrew her hand: "Alright, alright, Grandmother knows you are capable. I will keep this hairpin for now and give it to you as part of your dowry when you get married."
Getting married?
Su Ruojin smiled but remained silent; she had never considered getting married since being reborn.
After leaving Madam Lin's courtyard, Su Ruojin arrived at Yuelai Inn and took Brother Zhang's oxcart back to Mu'an Village.
On the other side, Cai Fanzhou and Lin Wanqing sat in Juxianlou all day without seeing the Regent.
The consultation competition has a process where registered doctors will diagnose and treat some patients, and only those who diagnose correctly can advance to the next round of the competition.
Given Cai Fanzhou's reputation, he naturally didn't need to go through the first round of screening. As soon as he arrived at Juxianlou, someone respectfully led him to a private room to rest and wait for him to examine the young prince.
Cai Fanzhou waited all day, but he didn't see the Regent, or even Mu Jingshan, the Ghost Doctor's disciple.
Mu Jingshan had indeed come; he came to check on behalf of Xiao Yanchu, but he only glanced at the screening results before leaving after learning that the young prince was missing.
Lin Wanqing was also getting impatient, but she couldn't show it on her face. She could only suppress her irritation and obediently sit to the side, occasionally refilling Cai Fanzhou's tea.
Lin Wanqing had just been found by the Lin family and was already of marriageable age. It was obviously too late for her to start learning music, chess, calligraphy and painting again at this time. No matter how hard she tried, she could not compare with the noble ladies from other families who had been learning since childhood.
After much deliberation, Madam Lin devised a new approach: she arranged for her to become an apprentice of the renowned physician Cai and learn medical skills.
In the Great Chu Kingdom, female physicians were already rare. If one's daughter possessed extraordinary medical skills, she would surely be highly regarded by those aristocratic families.
Even if Wanqing isn't proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, so what? Just say that she has spent her time studying medicine since she was a child, and no one will say anything more.
Moreover, as a disciple of the renowned physician Cai, he would naturally command higher regard wherever he went.
Lin Wanqing naturally wouldn't refuse Madam Lin's arrangement. As a nurse from the 21st century, even if she wasn't a doctor, she felt that her medical knowledge far surpassed that of all the doctors in the Great Chu Kingdom. Learning the medical skills of this era was child's play.
Lin Wanqing had no doubt about this. She believed that once she studied with Cai Fanzhou for a period of time, with her medical skills, Cai Fanzhou would definitely have to call her master.
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