"That's five thousand taels of gold! We can't afford to turn down money. I heard that even the Imperial Hospital can't diagnose the young master's illness."
When Su Ruojin mentioned intractable diseases, her almond-shaped eyes sparkled. Challenging the world's most difficult-to-treat diseases was one of her hobbies.
"Tch, what skills could those useless people from the Imperial Medical Academy possibly have? If I'm not mistaken, the Regent is after the Sage of Medicine." Ye Xunzhi looked at Su Ruojin with a half-smile: "Do you think anyone would believe that a young girl like you is the Sage of Medicine?"
"Believe it or not, as long as it can cure the disease, that's enough. Why bother with these fancy titles?" Su Ruojin said indifferently.
The title of "Medical Sage" was merely something she inadvertently earned while traveling and treating patients.
"Go if you want to, just don't embarrass me."
"Master, have you figured out an antidote for the poison I made last time?" Su Ruojin asked with a faint smile, her watering motion still in progress.
"What's the rush? I'm just a little bit away from making the antidote. You wait, I'll make it right now." Ye Zhixun's face stiffened, and he angrily flung his hand away, heading into the medicine room to study the antidote.
Su Ruojin smiled slightly.
Ten years have passed.
She had been in this world for ten years, and since she couldn't go back, she decided to stay.
In her previous life, Su Ruojin was the head of an ancient medical family in the 28th century. During an interstellar rescue mission, a meteorite struck her spaceship, and when she woke up, she had become a five-year-old girl.
After searching for various ways to confirm that she could not return, Su Ruojin gave up and settled down to live in the Great Chu Kingdom, a dynasty that had never existed in history.
When she was five years old, she ran away from the Lin family to look for herbs. On the mountain, she met Ye Xunzhi, who was bending over and looking for something. She went up to him and said, "Are you here to take a dump?"
Ye Xunzhi was so angry he wanted to hit someone, but when he saw the little girl's basket full of the rare herbs he was looking for, he was completely stunned.
It's strange enough that a five-year-old girl would appear in this desolate wilderness, but how could she find so many rare herbs?
After confirming that the girl had found all the herbs herself, Ye Xunzhi immediately pulled her aside and offered to take her as his apprentice.
Poison Doctor Ye Xunzhi was a famous physician in the Great Chu Kingdom. It was said that his medical skills could bring the dead back to life and heal flesh and bones.
However, he has an eccentric personality and will only treat those he deems worthy. Each treatment he performs costs thousands of taels of gold, and many powerful and wealthy families have sought him out but have been unable to find him.
Countless people wanted to become his disciples, but they couldn't even find where the Poison Doctor was.
Ye Xunzhi thought that after the little girl learned his name, she would be so excited that she would kneel down and call him master.
The little girl glanced at him and said disdainfully, "You can't even cure the pollen poison from the decaying leaves that you're suffering from. What right do you have to take me as your disciple?"
Ye Xunzhi was stunned on the spot.
The withered leaf is a rare flower that grows in icy lands, blooming only once every fifty years. Its petals can be used in medicine to treat heart ailments.
However, its pollen is poisonous. While contact with it may not cause pain, it will cause permanent infertility.
Ye Xunzhi was very careful when picking the flowers, but he still got some pollen on the leaves.
Ye Xunzhi was nearing sixty and had never married, so the poison had virtually no effect on him.
But out of a doctor's curiosity, he tried to detoxify the pollen poisoning from decaying leaves, but he was unsuccessful.
He never imagined that a five-year-old girl could spot the fact that he had been poisoned in such a subtle way.
He asked, somewhat incredulously, "You can solve it?"
"What's so difficult about that?" the little girl said, then turned and left.
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