The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 356 - 366: I’ve Been Learning My Skills for a Long Time

Chapter 356: Chapter 366: I’ve Been Learning My Skills for a Long Time

He spoke with some difficulty, "This female doctor said that my illness does not require medication, just drinking more water will cure it."

"What?" The crowd began to stir, their gazes shifting toward Gu Youyou with strange expressions.

"Hey! Thought we’d found a good doctor, turns out she’s a fraud."

"Exactly, who gets cured without medicine? If water could heal, why would anyone open a medical clinic? Patients would just stay home and drink water."

In the tea house opposite, several elders sipped their tea and chuckled.

"Thought we had a formidable competitor here, but it’s just a naive little girl. Water can cure, huh, you should drink more."

Another person laughed loudly, saying, "I’m not sick, you drink more!"

All these voices reached Gu Youyou’s ears, yet she merely smiled faintly and said nothing.

At dusk, Jisheng Hall closed its doors, and Gu Youyou seemed quite pleased, whereas Banxia had a look of worry on her face.

She wanted to say something, but remembering she was just a little helper, she didn’t say a word. Instead, she went to the backyard to boil water with a heavy sigh.

Jin Zijin also wore a grave expression, seeing as Jisheng Hall had only one patient on their opening day. They didn’t charge them and even after treatment, the patient dismissed them that way, resulting in no one coming for free consultations anymore.

A few days prior, Gu Youyou had brought home a sign in secrecy, calling it their winning trump card. She showed it to no one, and it turned out to be nothing but a sign offering free medical consultations, which greatly disappointed him.

Using the allure of ’free’ is good, but free doesn’t necessarily mean valuable.

Free advantages in other tangible things might be fine, like if it were free steamed buns, many would happily come to try. But free medical consultation? Who would joke with their own health?

"Youyou!" Jin Zijin didn’t really want to discourage her and struggled for a long time before finding some gentle words to comfort her: "I know you have excellent medical skills, but it is indeed hard for a woman to practice medicine. I still have some personal savings; we aren’t short on silver. Perhaps we should close the clinic."

Gu Youyou wasn’t upset upon hearing this; she just smiled lightly and said, "How can I abandon my undertaking halfway? Now that Jisheng Hall has opened, I will not disgrace its name and will continue to operate it."

Continue to operate? But if no one seeks treatment, how can it remain open?

"Those from the Marquis Residence are waiting to see you fail, you really are..."

"I know they want to see me make a fool of myself, but I can prove with my ability that they won’t see that happen. The illnesses other doctors can cure, I can cure; the illnesses they can’t, I can also cure. What I rely on is nothing but my own skill, the result of many years of study. I cannot let these abilities go to waste, otherwise my masters would know and curse me to death."

Jin Zijin was taken aback by Gu Youyou’s determination and also noticed the other things she had said – many years of study, masters.

"Your medical skills and handwriting... weren’t acquired overnight, were they?"

"Indeed!" Gu Youyou made no attempt to conceal it, saying, "I’ve told you the story of the ’Yellow Millet Dream’ before, I wonder how much of it you believed?"

Jin Zijin said nothing, fixing his gaze on her intently.

Gu Youyou smiled faintly, "Even if you do not believe a single word, what has happened to me can only be explained this way."

Recalling the past, her tone became somewhat melancholic, "I began practicing that handwriting at the age of six, and achieved some proficiency at fifteen. It wasn’t that I was too slow, mainly because there was so much I had to learn, and the time I could spend on handwriting was limited. As for medicine, I’ve been exposed to traditional Chinese medicine since I can remember – it’s my family heritage. I formally started learning Western medicine at eighteen, studying far away for four years."

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